Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Beet-Dill-Onion-Jowar-ragi Roti ( Thalipeeth)

Healthy Healthy Healthy!!!!   nothing much to say about this but Healthy....do try ..very easy, just mix and put :)


Ingredients:
1 medium sized Onion finely chopped
12-15 twigs of Dill leaves finely chopped
1 small Beet root  grated
Around 1.5 cup Jowar Flour 
Half Cup ragi flour ( Nachani )
2 Tsp rice flour
Salt


procedure:

  1. Once you have all the vegetables chopped/grated,  in the same pan add all the flours into it.
  2. Add salt.
  3. Slowly add slight lukewarm water to this mixture to prepare Dough. Dough shouldn't be loose or Lumps like. It should be well bonded ( because Jowar flour makes it difficult to knead.) So knead well into a proper Dough. ( Thalipeeth / Akki Roti kind of dough )
  4. Pour 1 Tsp oil on a Tava and spread well. 
  5. take some part off the dough and start making a Roti on tava by pressing the dough on tava with your fingers. ( if you see the picture)
  6. Pour little bit of Oil around and cover the tava and roast on medium flame till roasted well.
  7. Roast the second side as well.
Serve with Butter or any powdered Chutney.
because of all iron containing ingredients this is surely a health way of eating. Also, easier since everything together :) no need to prepare separate chapati and sabji :)

Cabbage Sabji / Indian Style Cabbage side dish

This is a simplest recipe of eating Cabbage and no Masala at all :) tasty and healthy.
I have tried exactly mom style....but of course mom's cooking..no one can beat isn't it?


Ingredients
Vertically chopped Cabbage
Turmeric
Yellow split moong daal
Salt to taste
Sugar 1/2 Tsp
Cumin seeds, mustard seeds
Green chillies chopped
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves finely chopped
Oil


Procedure:

  1. Soak  3-4 Tsp Moong daal in water before you start chopping Cabbage. ( Approximately 3-4 Tsp for around 2 cups of chopped cabbage but take it as per your taste )
  2. Chop cabbage.
  3. keep oil in a pan to heat up. Once heated add mustard seeds,cumin seeds.
  4. Once they splutter, add chopped green chillies, curry leaves. Add turmeric.
  5. Add chopped Cabbage.
  6. Stir well.
  7. Cover the pan and cook it on MEDIUM flame for around 5 min. Take care by stirring in between to avoid cabbage getting stuck at the bottom of the pan.
  8. Remove the lid and stir well again. Repeat step 7.
  9. Just check if cabbage is half cooked.
  10. Add soaked Moong daal now. And mix well.
  11. Add salt, Sugar. Mix and stir.
  12. Close the lid and cover the pan again and let it cook for another 5-7 min or less but till well cooked.
  13. Once cooked well, add chopped Cilantro.
  14. Serve hot with freshly made chapatis.
Enjoy!!!!

Aloo Methi Paratha / Potato- Fenugreek Indian Paratha




It  became my favourite paratha now :)  Tried first time, very easy, just like Aloo Paratha but healthier.  :) and equally tasty tasty :)  Yummy.........


Ingredients: 
1 Big Boiled and mashed potato
1 cup Finely chopped Fenugreek ( Methi ) leaves.
Salt to taste
1/2 - 1 Tsp Amchoor powder
1/2 Tsp Turmeric
Sugar 1/2 Tsp
Chopped green chillies
Chopped coriander leaves
2 Tsp Coriander powder
Wheat flour for Dough


Procedure:
  1. Prepare Dough and keep aside.
  2. Add all the ingredients above ( except Wheat flour obviously ;)  and mix well. Keep the stuffing ready.
  3. Role small sized poories off the dough.
  4. Just like Aloo paratha, put the little stuffing inside this poori and close it into ball.
  5. Role gently into a Paratha and roast on hot Tava. Roast both the sides.
Serve them hot with Yoghurt, pickle and nice salad, Butter............
Enjoy!!!!!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dates Burfy / Khajoor Burfy

Nothing to talk about this sweet. Just do it! :)




Ingredients: 


Around 245 gm De seeded dates

Dry fruits : Almonds, Pistachio  - 50 gm together and  crushed coarsely.

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

1 tsp poppy seeds - dry roasted 

2 Tsp Ghee


Procedure:

  1. Put these de seeded dates in Mixer and crush them.
  2. Heat up 2-3 Tsp Ghee in a pan.  Add crushed Dry fruits and stir for 2-3 minutes.
  3. Add the crushed Dates to this pan. Stir for maximum 2 minutes on a medium flame of stove. (If you smell of a roasted Dates, immediately switch off the gas).
  4. Let the mixture cool down now for 5 min.
  5. Add Cardamom powder to the mixture.
  6. Apply little ghee on your palms and knead the mixture well to get a smooth texture without lumps. 
  7. Make a cylindrical shaped roles out of this mixture. As shown in the second image.
  8. Wrap the roles in aluminium foil like chocolates. And it should be tightly wrapped.
  9. Keep the roles in fridge for 4-5 hours.
  10. Take out the roles and cut it into round shaped Burfy.

#sugarfree #dates #almonds #pistachio #healthysweets

Groundnut Chutney



Created a new Label " Instead of wasting". It is quite a job to "not to waste" food isn't it?  
Well ,even I try to avoid wasting food, and so coming up with this recipe. My mum suggested this, hope you will like it.


Ingredients:


Groundnuts which are in too much quantity in Mixtures / Namkeen / Farsan / any Savoury snack you buy outside
Cumin seeds powder
Red chilli powder
Salt
Little bit of sugar


Procedure:

  1. Whenever you eat these Mixture / Namkeen / Sev / Farsan  you will find lots of groundnuts. Generally many people will just keep them aside and while washing the bowl we will throw them. Instead, keep putting them every time in your mortal and pestle. Just keep on collecting them in M&P. 
  2. Just when they are 1-2 Tsp kind of quantity we will make chutney.
  3. To M&P  add little cumin seeds powder, salt,red chilli powder,sugar and crush all the ingredients to give us a fine powder. 
  4. You can add Garlic to it while crushing. It is optional.
  5. I think I generally do it once a week or in 2 weeks. 
  6. Ready!!!!!!!   Serve in the same day meal as a side dish.
Hope you will try it :)