Saturday 30 July 2016

Chapathi

Ingredients:
Wheat flour-2Cup
Ghee -1Tea spoon
Salt -1/4 Tea spoon
Water -1Cup (warm water or water at room temp.)

How to prepare:
1.First take a big bowl,mix wheat flour,Salt and ghee.
2.Then add 1/2 cup of water and mix it well.
3.Now add remaining water little by little & make a soft dough .(knead for 10mins)
4.Now close the bowl with a dry cloth & keep it aside for 20mins.
5.Make a small balls using the dough, take a
Small  ball  ,dust the surface with wheat flour,use a rolling pin to make a flat round chapathi.
6.Once it's done,heat the tava ,add little ghee or oil & fry the chapathi both sides.
7.You can eat Chapathi with any veg or nonveg curry.


Tuesday 26 July 2016

Chana coconut gravy

Ingredients:
Black chana -1/2 cup
Onion- 1 medium sized
Tomato- medium sized
Curry leaves-15-20
Urid daal- 1/4 Tea spoon
Mustard-1/4Tea spoon
Ginger- 1inch
Garlic - 3 cloves
Chilli powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Pepper powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Garam masala - 1/2 Tea spoon
Coriander powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Cumin powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Turmeric- 1/4 Tea spoon
Chana masala-1 Tea spoon
Salt- as per taste
Oil- 2Table spoon
Water
Grated coconut-1/2cup(grind it with water and make a smooth paste)

How to prepare:
1.First wash black chana & soak overnigt. Next day you cook black chana in pressure cooker . (Wait for 3 whistles)
2.Take deep bottomed pan and add oil , mustard, urid daal , curry leaves  ,sauté .
3.Then add onion ,ginger ,garlic and sauté it till onion turns golden brown.
4. Now add tomato and all the spices powder and sauté it.(for few mins)
5.Put cooked chana to the above mixture & add little water and stir.
6.Cook for few mins (5 mins) ,now add coconut paste and mix well. Add water accordingly.
7.Now adjust salt and chilli powder accordingly.
8.Chana coconut gravy  is ready to taste.




Banana rasayana

Preparation time -10mins
Serves-2
Ingredients:
Banana-3 medium sized
Jaggery -1/2cup(or you can use sugar too)
Grated coconut -1/2cup
Cardamom powder-1/4tea spoon
Cashew nuts-10
Dry grapes-10(optional)

How to prepare:
1.Cut banana in to very small pieces & keep it aside.
2.Grind the coconut with water and using a strainer squeeze the coconut milk, then add jaggery to coconut milk and stirr it well.
3.Add cardamom powder and mix.
4.Now add chopped banana and mix well.
5.Finally add cashewnuts and dry grapes to it.
6.Tasty banana rasayana is ready to serve.





Wednesday 20 July 2016

Cucumber gravy

Ingredients:
Cucumber-200gm(skin peeled and chopped in to small pieces)
Onion- 1 medium sized
Tomato- 1small
Curry leaves-15-20
Urid daal- 1/4 Tea spoon
Mustard-1/4Tea spoon
Ginger- 1inch
Garlic - 3 cloves
Chilli powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Pepper powder- 1/2 Tea spoon
Garam masala - 1/2 Tea spoon
Cumin - 1/4Tea spoon
Turmeric- 1/4 Tea spoon
Salt- as per taste
Oil- 2Table spoon
Coconut Grated- 1cup
Water

How to prepare:
1. Take deep bottomed pan and add oil , mustard, urid daal , curry leaves cumin seeds ,sauté .
2.Then add onion ,ginger ,garlic and sauté it till onion turns golden brown.
3. Now add tomato and all the spices powder and sauté it.
4.Grind the coconut in to a smooth paste, add this coconut paste to above mixture.
6.Add 2 cups of water and stir it.
7.Take a vessel and cook the cucumber for 10-15mins in water, after its cooked  add cucumber to above mixture.
8.Add salt  & cook until gravy becomes little thick.


Tuesday 19 July 2016

Bread cheese sandwich

Bread -2 slices
Cheese slice -1
Ghee -1/4 Tea spoon

How to prepare :
1.Take a pan ,add little ghee put the bread slice,then place a cheese slice and keep one more bread slice above this fry it both sides.
2.Bread sandwich is ready to taste.


Monday 18 July 2016

Chicken sukka

Ingredients:

1/2 kg chicken

2 large onions (chopped)

1 tomatoe (chopped)

Garlic -3cloves

Ginger -2inch

1 tsp coriander powder

1 tsp cumin powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1/2 tsp red chilli powder

1 tsp garam masala powder

2 Tbsp oil

Salt to taste

Water

1/4 cup grated coconut

Chopped coriander

How to Prepare:

1.Heat oil in a pan add  onion ,garlic & ginger sauté  till golden brown.

2.Add tomato, saute it & then add coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt.

3.Add chicken pieces into the pan . mix it well.

4.Add 1/2 cup of water and stir. close the lid.

5. keep medium flame , check whether chicken is cooked.add 1/4 cup of grated coconut and mix well.

6.Finally add chopped coriander leaves. (Turnoff the flame)
(Adjust salt as per taste)

7.Chikken sukka ready to taste.


Saturday 16 July 2016

Cabbage mutter Bazi

Preparation time -15mins
Cooking time-20mins

Ingredients:
Cabbage-200gm
Green peas-1/2cup (you can use frozen or fresh)
Green chilli-3 (depends on how spicy it is)
Turmeric-Pinch of it
Salt -as per taste
Onion -1 small
Chana daal-1/4 Tea spoon
Water

How to prepare:
1.First cut and wash the cabbage,keep
it aside.
2.Take a pan,add little oil ,when it gets heated up,add chana daal fry it for a min.
3.Add green chilli and onion saute it for a 2mins.
4.Now add cabbage and cook for 10min by adding 1/4 up of water then add mutter (frozen green peas) and then add little turmeric powder and salt as per taste.
5.Mix the above ingredients ,cook  until cabbage and mutter is cooked.
6.Cabbage mutter bazi is ready.

Chicken biriyani

Ingredients :
Basmathi rice -1cup
Chicken-1/2kg
Onion -2 medium sized
Tomato-1 big sized
Bay leaf-2
Cinnamon stick -1 inch
Cloves-4
Green Cardamom -2
Salt as per taste.
Ghee -2 Table spoon
Ginger and garlic paste -1Table spoon
Ginger-sliced
Green chilli -3 long sliced
Turmeric powder -1/4 Tea spoon
Red chilli powder -1 Tea spoon
Coriander powder1 Tea spoon
Cardamom powder -1/4 Tea spoon
Coriander leaves
Pudina leaves
Egg-3 (optional)
Water

How to prepare:
1.First wash the rice and soak for 20mins.
2.Take a deep bottomed pan,add ghee ,when it gets heated up add bay leaf, Clove, cinnamon stick,pepper corns and cardamom saute it for a min.
3.Now add onions, fry untill it turns golden brown.
4. Add tomatoes & saute it .Cook for 3 mins, now add ginger -garlic paste and green chilli ,now add chilli powder, turmeric powder,coriander powder.
4.Add salt  ,coriander & pudina leaves ,cook till tomatoe becomes soft.then add washed medium sized chicken pieces to it & cook for ten mins.
5.Now cook soaked  rice by adding 2 cups of hot water in a separate vessel.
6.Cook for 15 mins.check whether  rice is cooked ,if yes turn off the flame
7.Now add this cooked rice to pan containing tomato paste,again put some coriander leaves , Pudina leaves and mix it well.put cardamom powder ,sliced ginger & boiled egg .cover the vessel with aluminium foil and steam it for 10-15mins in very low flame by keeping big pan under this vessel.
Till steam comes out .
8.Chicken biriyani is ready.