Maharashtrian Masale Bhat

Easy to make, tasty,little spicy, less time for cooking..and like that .. this is a rice recipe in a marathi way :) Masala used is a garam masala generally used in marathi cooking, but you can use any garam masala of famous/favourite brand :)

Preparation Time : 10 Minutes

Cooking time: 5 Minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup rice

2 cups water

2 Medium sized potatoes chopped in cubes

2 onions finely chopped

chopped cilantro for garnishing

lemon juice to taste

salt to taste

cumin seeds,mustard seeds,oil, 1 or 2 bay leaf for tampering

Turmeric powder
Garam masala(Black masala)/काला मसाला

Ground nuts

Jaggery to taste

Grated coconut for garnishing

Procedure:

1. Wash the rice and remove all water and keep the it aside in a bowl for around 15 minutes.
2. Keep pressure cooker pan on stove, pour 2 tbsp oil and heat the oil.
3. Once oil is hot, put mustard seeds then cumin seeds,bay leaf.
4. Put chopped potatoes,onion.
5. Stir well.
6. Put turmeric.
7. Put 1 or 1 1/2 tbsp garam masala. Stir well.
8. Put ground nuts. And stir well.
9. Put rice now and saute well for around 5-6 minutes.
10. Pour water , put salt,jaggery as per taste. stir well
11. Cook for around 3 whistles.
12. Once the cooker is cooled down, serve hot after garnishing it with grated coconut and hopped cilantro.Squeeze lemon to add little sour taste to it before serving.
13. You can fry/roast urid papad to serve with it :)

Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!

Hope you liked it ....

Chana Chor Garam

Reason behind the label "Mix and Serve" is, there is no recipe as such for this category :) all the ingredients would be readily available.. and we have to mix all as per our taste and serve it :) . .

Today i am giving a tea time snack .. which many of us must have had outside ..as a street chat .. "chana chor garam" :)

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 0 :)

Ingredients:

Onion finely chopped

coriander leaves finely chopped

Tomato finely chopped

Carrot grated( optional)

"Catch chat masala"

red chili powder if required

Puffed rice (Churmure) chiwada(mixture)

"Haldiram Chana Chor garam" pack

lemon juice if required for taste.

Procedure:

1. Mix chana chor, chiwada in a mixing bowl.
2. Mix chopped onion, tomato, lemon juice as per taste.
3. Sprinkle the chat powder, and if required red chili powder.( Taste the mixture and decide).
4. Garnish with chopped cilantro and grated carrot.( Carrot i added just to give a healthy touch to it..otherwise i wouldn't prefer carrot in chaat :)

Note: We can garnish raw grated beetroot also as an added healthy ingredient.

RJR Roti

I was wondering what to call this roti as we dont have any particular name for this roti :) as we tried it from our own imagination.

The 3 letters signify Rice-Jowar-Raagi. It has these 3 flours :)

A very simple but i feel a healthy recipe.

Ingredients:

Rice flour:Raagi flour:Jowar flour in 1:1:1 proportion

onion finely chopped

green chillies as per taste

cumin seeds

Lots of coriander leaves finely chopped

Dill leaves finely chopped ( optional as many ppl dont like it )

salt to taste

water

oil

Procedure:

1. Add all the flours,chopped onion,chopped coriander,chopped green chillies,salt,cumin seeds,chopped dill leaves.
2. Mix well.
3. Add enough water to make dough.
4. The consistency should be like dough of "thalipeeth" , "akki roti".
5. Apply oil to tava.
6. Take little quanity of the dough and flatten it on tava to make a round shaped thin roti.

1. Sprinkle oil from the sides after 3-4 minutes of roasting.
2. If the underside is done,flip the roti, and roast the other side as well.
3. Serve hot hot with groundnut chutney.( I like it even with tomato sauce).
   

Jowar gives strength, raagi gives calcium,rice gives carbohydrates, dill is known for good digestion, relief from insomnia,oral care. Dill has been in use in culinary and in medicines since ages.