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.

आंबे डाळ / Mango-chana daal

This is a traditional Maharashtrian recipe prepared during 'चैत्र मास' that is Summer :)Mango is a summer (seasonal) fruit and so is a keen ingredient in this recipe.

Women in Maharashtra arrange for a get together called as 'हळदि कुंकू ' means they perform Godess Gauri puja at home and then invite married women at home for a religious function.There are 2 main dishes served for this function. Ambe daal ( amba means mango in Marathi and daal is known to all :)

Traditionally it is accompanied with sweet and sour पन्हे a cool raw mango drink/Sharbat.

Which will be my next recipe.

Preparation time : 20 Minutes

Ingredients:

200gm split bengal gram/chana dal

1/2 cup shredded raw mango

3-4 green chillies

4 T spoon oil,mustard seeds,asfoetida powder,turmeric powder

salt to taste

half tsp sugar

finely chopped coriander leaves.

procedure:

1. Soak Chana daal in water for 5-6 hours.
2. Drain water totally.
3. Grind chana daal, green chillies together in a mixer. Grind it coarsely. In between coarse and fine. Not too coarse not too fine.
4. Peel raw mango and grate it. Add this shraded mango in ground daal.
5. Heat up oil in a small iron wok/kadhai.
6. Once oil is hot, put asafoetida powder, mustard seeds.
7. When mustard seeds crackle, put turmeric.
8. Turn off the heat and put this Tempering on ground chana daal.
9. Add sugar.
10. Mix well.
11. Add salt just before you serve this daal otherwise it may leave water.
12. Garnigh with chooped coriander leaves and serve.

Spicy Carrot Salad ( गाजराची कोशिंबीर )

Cooking Time: 15 min

Ingredients:

1. 3- 4 Carrots
2. Salt taste
3. Coriander leaves finely cut
4. LemonCumin seeds
5. Mustard seeds
6. Curly leaves
7. 2-3 Green chillies ( as per the taste)
8. Grated coconut half cup
9. Asafoetida

Procedure:

1. Grate the carrots .
2. Add grated coconut, finely chopped coriander leaves, pinch of sugar in it.
3. Add Lemon juice ( about half lemon or till tastes Little sour )
4. Add salt to taste.

फोडणी /Tadka:

1. Heat the oil in Iron wok.
2. Put mustard seeds
3. Put Asafoetida then cumin seeds , then curry leaves.
4. Put this tadka over the above mixture.