2010-08-09T12:01:00.000-07:00
Bhature
This recipe for bhature is so simple and never messes up:) Every time Ive made it me and my husband will have to eat less....otherwise it wont be enough for guests.
INGREDIENTS:
All purpose flour (maida): 2 cups
Semolina (Sooji): 1 cups
baking soda: 1 pinch
curd
METHOD:
Combine maida, sooji and baking soda with curd. Let the dough rest for 3-4 hours. This will make enough bhaturas for 4 people. |
2010-08-04T10:05:00.000-07:00
Methi parantha
There are lot of variations of methi parantha, I also make it differently every time :)
INGREDIENTS:
wheat flour: 3 cups
Methi: 1 cup (frozen or fresh cleaned, washed and chopped)
Besan (optional): 1 cup
Jeera(optional): 1/2 teaspoon
Ajwain (optional): 1/2 teaspoon
Dhania powder: 1.5 teaspoon.
Chili powder to taste
Salt to taste
METHOD:
Combine all the above ingredients and make soft dough. Roll out thin paranthas and cook them with little oil. |
2010-07-30T13:30:00.000-07:00
Spinach sabji
My friend Gayatri got this sabji for lunch to work. We also make it but had forgotten about it somehow. What I like most about it is the crispy texture spinach gets coz its cooked open.
INGREDIENTS:
Spinach: 1 Baby spinach box from Costco(You can use a lot of spinach, since it will shrink a lot).
Onion: 1 big onion.
Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Dhania powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Chilli powder to taste.
Salt to taste.
METHOD:
Take oil in a kadhai. Add the chopped onion once the oil is hot. Cook till onion is golden brown. Add dry masalas (turmeric, dhania, chilli powder). Immediately add chopped spinach and salt and cook it open over medium or lower flame till spinach is well cooked (15-20 min). |
2010-07-28T12:51:00.000-07:00
Bharwa Karela
 INGREDIENTS:
Karele: 11 in number.
Onion: 3 large onions.
Garlic(optional): 14 cloves, fry and grind.
Saunf: 2 tablespoon.
Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon.
Dhania powder: 3 teaspoon.
Amchur powder: 4 teaspoons
Chiili powder: as per taste.
Salt as per taste.
METHOD:
Peel karelas, make a slit lenght wise and add little salt inside them. Keep in sun for 4-5 hrs or microwave for 2-3 min. Then boil them in pressure cooker for 1/2 whistle (As soon as the pressure is made switch off the gas). After cooling squeeze each one of them between your hands so that all the water is drained and take out the seeds from inside.
Grind all the masalas (Onion, Garlic, saunf, dhania powder, amchur powder, chilli powder) and fry it in little oil till golden brown (15-20 min).
When masala is cool, stuff it in karelas and tie them with thread. Fry them in little oil on sim flame till golden brown. When they are cool cut the thread out.
I know its too much of work, so I try to make it in bulk or I use same masala with chopped karela. But believe me the taste of bharwa karela is worth all the hard work :) |
2010-07-27T22:42:00.000-07:00
Bharwa Karele......... coming soon :)
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2010-07-27T22:31:00.000-07:00
Kathal (JackFruit) sabji
INGREDIENTS:
Oil: 3 teaspoon
Onion: 1 large onion
Kathal: 1 bag frozen (defrosted) or medium size (boiled for 1 whistle)
Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Dhania powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Amchur powder: 2-3 teaspoon
Chilli powder: 2 teaspoon
Salt to taste
METHOD:
Take oil in kadhai, add onion. When it becomes golden brown add all masalas except amchur powder, and immediately add kathal. Cover and cook till kathal is cooked. Add amchur powder in the end. |
2010-06-25T21:34:00.000-07:00
Gobi baingan aalo sukhi sabji
Ingredients:
Potato - 3 medium(cut into desired sizes)
Cauli - 10 florets
aubergine(baingan) - 8 small
tomatoes - 1.5 medium
tadka - mustardseeds,fennal(saunf),carromseeds(ajwain),
onion seeds(kalongi),fenugreekseeds(methi)
red chilli - 2 whole(as per taste)
bayleaf - 1
turmeric - 1/4 teaspoon
salt to taste
corriander leaves chopped
Preparation:
Heat oil in kadai(wok),put 1 tea spoon of tadka,red chilli and bay leaf. put potatoes and stir it for 2-3 mins add cauli florets ,little turmeric and salt to it stir it for 3-4 mins and then add baingan.....when it is about to done add tomatoes and stir it untill the tomatoes mix to the veggie..finally add corriander leaves and serve with hot chapati or naan or sattu parantha |
2010-06-15T12:39:00.000-07:00
Thepla
 Ingredients:
Wheat flour: 2 cups
Oil: 2 tea spoons
Curd: 1 cup
Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Chilli powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Method:
Mix all the above ingredients into a dough. You can sprinkle some water if the curd is not enough. Not make thin rotis out of this dough and cook them with little oil on both sides like parantas.
They will come out very soft and do not go bad for longer time, so you can cook and store them. |
2010-06-08T14:00:00.000-07:00
Tip of the day :)
If an egg is boiled for 7 min, its yolk will get a bright yellow color(rather than pale yellow) and it will not be watery(like half boiled) at all....also it will be nutritionally healthy than a hard boiled egg. |
2010-06-01T12:38:00.000-07:00
Pineapple cake
 This is a very beautiful and yummy cake. My husband's colleague got this cake to office for a potluck. He came home and described the cake so nicely that....that I got the recipe and tried it..I got this recipe from food network website, but i split the ingredients to half(that's why the measurements of ingredients sound weird), since the reviews said that it was too much batter for one cake.
INGREDIENTS:
1.5 cups All purpose flour
1.125 cups Sugar
1.5 cups butter, 1/4 cup melted butter.
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
0.125 teaspoon salt
0.625 cups buttermilk
0.75 cups brown sugar
1 can pineapple with juice (well drained)
Reserve 2 table spoons juice for frosting.
Chopped pecans for garnish.
Pineapple butter cream frosting:
1/2 cup butter softened.
2 table spoon pineapple juice reserved.
3.5 cups confectionery sugar.
Beat above ingredients in a large bowl till well combined.
METHOD:
Preheat oven at 350F.
Spray the pan with cooking spray and sprinkle some flour.
In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add eggs at a time. Now add vanilla essence.
In a small bowl take flour+ baking powder+ salt
Add flour mix into egg mix, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and end with flour.
Now comes the fun part:) Spread brown sugar in the cake pan. Pour melted butter (1/4 cup) over the brown sugar evenly. Arrange pineapple slices over the brown sugar.
Pour batter on top of it and bake for 40-45 min.
After baking cool the cake for 10 min, and invert the cake onto a base.
Frost the side with Pineapple butter cream frosting and press chopped pecans on sides. |
