Baby Potatoes Curry...

When I went for veggie shopping, I spotted small and cute baby potatoes. I knew what I can prepare, so it went straight to my bag.

Clean the potatoes and pressure cook it with 2 whistles, with a pinch of salt, turmeric and oil. We can either peel the potatoes either before or after it cooked

Ingredients:

2 tbspn oil

1 tspn jeera

1 tspn garam masala

1 tspn salt

Blend the below Ingredients:

1 bunch pudina leaves

1/2 bunch coriander leaves

3-4 green chillies

1 md sized onion

1 tbspn ginger garlic paste

Take a kadai, add oil and once it's hot add jeera. Once they crackle, add potatoes and saute them. Add the blended mixture, salt and garam masala and allow it to cook for 10 to 15 mins, in low flame.

Enjoy eating with chapathi or poori.

Matar Paneer..

Deciding on what curry / palya to make with chapati is always a tension.....

With lots of paneer at home, I decided to experiment paneer curry. Just paneer, was a no no...any other vegetable along with paneer, was a big yes...that's where I had my hands of fresh peas..

Ingredients:

1 md cup fresh peas
5-6 cubes paneer, sauted in oil
1 small cup fresh cream
1 tbspn salt
2 tbspn oil
chopped coriander for garnishing

Blend the below ingredients to a fine paste:
1 md sized onion
1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
2 md sized tomatoes
3 green chillies
1/4 tspn turmeric
5-6 cashewnuts

Take a kadai, add oil and once it's hot, add the blended mixture and also add fresh peas and salt. Bring it to a boil and then add the paneer. Mix it completely with the curry. Turn of the flame, add fresh cream, mix slowly. Garnish with chopped coriander

Serve hot with hot chapatis or pooris.

Khara/ Spicy pongal for Sankranthi...

This is generally prepared during Sankranthi.

Ingredients:

1 md cup rice
1 md cup hesar bele
1 md cup avarekallu
1 tbspn jeera
1 tbspn pepper
5 tbspn ghee
1 tbspn salt
1/2 md cup grated coconut
few curry leaves
1 tspn turmuric
5-6 strands of chopped coriander

Wash and pressure cook rice, hesar bele, avare kallu with little jeera and pepper along with turmeric. Now take a kadai, add ghee. Once the ghee melts add jeera, pepper, salt, grated coconut and curry leaves. Add cooked ingredients and mix it thoroughly. Garnish it with coriander and serve hot.

Sweet Pongal for Sankranthi...

I had cooked this for my first Makara Sankranthi festival after marriage and I'm posting the recipes now. Maybe it's too early for the new Sankranthi... 

Spicy and Sweet Pongal is very common for this festival.

Sweet Pongal recipe follows:

 Ingredients:

1 md cup rice

1 md cup hesar bele

4 md cup grated jaggery

cashew, almonds, raisins for garnishing (as desired) 

5 tbspn ghee

3 elachi crushed

3 cloves crushed

2 md cup water

Wash and pressure cook rice and hesar bele together along with 1 elachi and 1 clove. 

Take a kadai and add ghee. Once the ghee melts, add dry fruits and crushed elachi and clove. Now add grated jaggery and also water. Once the jaggery is completely melted, add the cooked rice and hesar bele. 

Mix it throughly and enjoy eating it hot or cold.

Noodles..........

After fried rice, the next day, I cooked noodles.

Ingredients:

Boil water and few drops of oil it it. Now add noodles to it and ensure that the noodles is completely cooked. Now transfer the cooked noodles into cold water for few mins and transfer it to a colander so that excess water is drained out.

Ingredients:

3 tbspn olive oil
1/2 tbspn butter
1 small carrot chopped
2-3 stem of spring onion chopped
2-3 sticks of French beans chopped
1 cup cabbage chopped
1 tspn soya sauce
1 tspn vinegar
1 tspn salt
1 tspn white pepper
1/2 tspn ginger garlic paste

Take a kadai and once it's hot add olive oil. Add ginger garlic paste and all the vegetables. Saute them thoroughly. The vegetables should be crunchy and not completely cooked. Add soya sauce, vinegar, salt and white pepper, keep sautéing while we add noodles to it.

 Enjoy eating it hot...

Fry the Rice....It's Fried Rice...

Cooking our regular cultural dishes at times is boring....I keep trying other cultural recipes as well. This time I wanted to cook fried rice and that was oked by my husband...It''s not that I take his permission each day...but when I want to cook something different either for lunch or dinner, it's better to ask, else I have to cook something else once again.

Ingredients:

1 md cup regular rice cooked and spread across.

3 tbspn olive oil

1/2 tbspn butter

1 small carrot chopped 

3 tbspn fresh peas

2-3 stem of spring onion chopped

2-3 sticks of French beans chopped

1 cup cabbage chopped

1 tspn soya sauce

1 tspn vinegar

1 tspn salt

1 tspn white pepper

1/2 tspn ginger garlic paste

Take a kadai and once it's hot add olive oil. Add ginger garlic paste and all the vegetables. Saute them thoroughly. The vegetables should be crunchy and not completely cooked. Add soya sauce, vinegar, salt and white pepper, keep sautéing while we add rice to it.

 Enjoy eating it hot....