Beans Salad / फरसबी ची कोशिंबीर

This is a Traditional Maharashtrian dish...a healthy yet tasty side dish to accompany rice and daal :)


Ingredients: 
Beans
Ground nuts powder( roasted ground nuts powdered)
Fresh grated coconut
chopped Green chillies
Salt to taste
Little bit Sugar 
Lemon juice
Pinch of soda (Bi-bicarbonate)
Mustard seeds,Cumin seeds,Asafoetida


Procedure:

1. Remove the threads from the sides of the pods and chop them well.
2. Pour 1-2 Tsp oil in pan. Heat it well. Add cumin seeds,mustard seeds and Asafoetida. Add chopped Beans pods and stir well. ( see Note)
3. Add pinch of soda. And stir well. Sprinkle little water with hands.Just sprinkle, don't add water.
4. Cook well on medium flame of stove. Giving continuous stir so that it doesn't burn at the bottom of the pan.  This way of cooking makes the pods crispy :)
5. Add finely chopped green chillies  or rather coarse chili paste.
6. Add salt.
7. Once it is cooked well. Switch off the gas and keep it aside.
8. Once it is cooled properly, add sugar,fresh grated coconut, groundnut powder and lemon juice. Mix well and it is ready.

Note: Instead of cooking the chopped pods in pan, cook them in pressure cooker.

         Put chopped pods in a bowl and without pouring water in the bowl, pressure cook    

         them.

Mutter Paneer Made Easy!!!

Ingredients:

Paneer chopped in cubes

Onion finely chopped

Green peas

Tomato sauce (hot and sweet tomato chilli sauce)

Chilli paste

Cinnamon ( whole or shop bought Cinnamon powder)

Cloves

Salt

Ginger paste or grated ginger

(Garlic paste optional. I didn't use it)  

Coriander leaves or salad cress for garnishing

Mustard seeds,cumin seeds,turmeric for tempering.

Procedure:

1. Heat oil in a pan.Add mustard seeds,cumin seeds,turmeric. Add cinnamon,cloves. ( If you don't have whole cinnamon,sprinkle some Cinnamon powder )
2. Add chopped onion and stir well. Once onion is well cooked add Tomato sauce.
3. Stir well.
4. Add red chilli paste and give a good stir.
5. Add Green peas and stir well.Let it cook well for 2-5 minutes.
6. Add cubed Paneer and toss the pan in order to apply gravy to paneer cubes properly. I said toss instead stir is because that wouldn't disturb shape of soft paneer :)
7. Add salt to taste.Mix well.
8. Garnish with chopped coriander or salad cress.

An easy way to enjoy delicacy like Mutter-Paneer :) 

Moong-Tuwar Daal tadka

I had prepared this for a potluck party at friend's home and people did like it :) One of my friends had asked me to post this recipe on Blog, so I am :) very very easy easy and according to us very tasty as well...you try and let me know ;)

Thank you friend!!

Ingredients:


1:1 yellow split moong daal and Tuwar daal.
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Red chilli powder to taste
Turmeric powder
Grated ginger
Coriander seeds powder,Cumin seeds powder
Curry leaves,Mustard seeds,Cumin seeds,Asafoetida ( all these for seasoning)
Chopped coriander for garnishing


Procedure:

1. Pressure cook both the lentils together till soft. ( Generally 3 whistles or 4)
2. In a wok or kadhai add 1-2 Tsp oil ( or as per your quantity of daal) and heat it. Once heated,add mustard seeds,Asafoetida,curry leaves,turmeric powder. Add grated ginger and stir well.
3. Optional: at this point you can chopped onion and/or chopped tomatoes as well I am posting the simplest version here.
4. Add well mixed , cooked daal into this. Sauté for 2 minutes. 
5. Add little water to adjust your required consistency for daal.
6. Mix well, let the daal come to boil. ( Parallely,on the other flame keep another kadhai and heat 2-3 Tsp oil.)
7. Add salt,sugar.
8. Once well cooked, add Coriander powder,cumin seeds powder. Mix well in order to remove any lumps of these powder.
9. Switch off the gas flame.
10. On the top of the daal spread Red chilli powder(to taste). Add cumin seeds to heated oil ( kept in other kadhai) . Once they splutter add this Tadaka on the top of red chilli powder. Immediately cover the kadhai with a lid. This helps retaining the aroma of the Tadaka on the daal.
11. Before serving, remove the lid, mix daal well and serve.

Mixed Flour Paratha - Dhapate

This is a quick kind of recipe you can prepare when you have absolutely no vegetables in fridge and still want to eat stomach filling stuff and yet tasty,spicy.
Only thing you need in home is flours. Hope you all try this recipe....Enjoy !!

Ingredients:
1 Cup Jowar flour
1/2 cup Wheat flour
1/4 cup Gram flour (Besan)
2 Tsp Rice flour
1 Tsp Carom seeds ( ओवा , अज्वैन )
2-3 small Garlic cloves crushed
2 Tsp Sesame seeds or more ( Seeds will appear nice on the parathas also adds up Calcium to our food )
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander leaves ( optional)
Red chilli powder to taste
1/2 Tsp Turmeric powder ( or as per your test of how much yellow color)
1/2 Tsp sugar ( optional)

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl, add all the flours,salt,turmeric powder,red chilli powder,crushed garlic ( you can crush them on kitchen platform no need to have paste),Carom seeds,sesame seeds,coriander leaves,sugar.
2. Mix well with hands. So that salt,turmeric,red chilli powder,garlic gets applied to flours properly.
3. Taste the mixture and add the required ingredients as per your taste accordingly.
4. Add lukewarm water slowly. Be very careful and avoid putting excess water. Knead the flour well. The way you will need for Jowar roti; pushing Dough back and forth :)
5. The consistency should be little tight but not so much tight that you can not roll the parathas well.
6. Because of the Jowar flour it might be little difficult while rolling. So dust little bit of Jowar flour on the surface where you are going to roll. Take enough amount of dough and roll into a medium thick paratha.
7. Make sure paratha is easily being able to lift otherwise it may get broken ( due to Jowar flour in the Dough).
8. Once ready, transfer it to heated Tava. Once, one side is roasted well,sprinkle little oil from the side. Flip the paratha. Roast the other side well.

Serve hot with tangy pickle, Ghee, Butter, nice salad to go along with.

Note: These parathas even tastes good when they are cold or prepared earlier night. have them cold with Ghee. Yummy they taste :)

Semolina Veg Roti - Rava Vegetable Roti

After a long long time since I posted anything on my blog ..feeling really nice to write something today...


So why not to start with a healthy recipe ...
This is a real easy recipe which includes only chopping of vegetables and mix them...that is it! 
Hope you all enjoy this and try at home..


Eat healthy stay healthy!

Ingredients:


Fine semolina
Finely Chopped Onion
Grated carrots
Finely chopped Dill leaves
Chopped green chillies
Chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
oil

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl,  take fine semolina as much as required by you depending on how many Rotis you want to prepare.
2. Add chopped onion,chopped Dill leaves,green chillies,coriander leaves and grated carrot.
3. Add salt to taste. DO NOT ADD WATER AS OF NOW.
4. Mix all the ingredients well in the bowl.
5. You can see the watery texture due to added vegetables.
6. So, add  water slowly seeing the consistency. 
7. Consistency of the dough should be medium tight; just easy enough to apply the roti on Tava properly.
8. Apply 1 Tsp oil on Tava, spread well.
9. Take enough dough and apply roti on tava with your palm and fingers.
10. Cover tava with lid and keep the gas flame on medium.
11. Once you see the top side dry, flip the roti, leave some oil from the side and roast this second side well.
12. Serve hot with tangy lemon pickle or coconut chutney or any favourate sauce.

Note: You can skip Dill leaves if you dont like it.