Sambhar Masala

Sambhar Masala

Preparing sambhar masala at home is very easy. It enhances the taste of sambhar and gives good aroma.

• Ingredients
• Gram lentil (channa dal)
• Split black gram (urad dal)
• Pigeon pea lentil (toor dal)
• fenugreek seeds (methi)
• Mustard seeds (rai)
• Black pepper
• Cumin seeds (jeera)
• Curry leaves
• Coriander seeds
• Red chili
• Asafoetida
• Grated coconut

Roast all ingredient  on low flame. Keep stirring on the time of roasting

Mustard seeds

Cumin

Fenugreek

After roasting all ingredients, let them cool down for sometime.

After cooling, you can mix all ingredient and grind well.

sambhar masala

 Store in air tight container and use whenever you require.

You can freeze it as well for longer freshness up to six months.

Creamy Mango Shake

Creamy Mango Shake

Mango is the king of all fruits.Who doesn't like mangoes ?  It's a very tasty and  good source of energy major contents being vitamin A,C and D.

 

Recipe Type: beverages

Ingredients

2 medium sized peeled Mangoes

4 tsp sugar, Jaggery or Honey

1/4 tsp Cardamom  powder

2 glass or 400 ml full cream milk

Saffron /jaffran/kesar

Prep time 5 minutes

Steps:-

• Cut mangoes in small piece then add mango pieces, sugar, half cup cream milk,Cardamom  powder and pinch of saffron to the blender jar.

• Make nice smooth paste, then add milk and blend till it gets consistency.

• Now your nice Creamy Mango Shake is ready to serve.

• Pour in glass and garnish with Saffron. If u like, then add chopped nuts like cashew, almond and pistachio.

Enjoy Mango Shake in summers and refresh yourself  with healthy drink!! 

Banana Paratha

Banana Paratha

Ingredients

For Banana Masala Stuffing

4 row banana 

1 Green chilli

1/4 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp Red chilli powder

Salt to taste

chopped coriander

lemon juice according to taste

For whole wheat dough
2 cups whole wheat flour

½ tsp salt
water as required for kneading

Step by step direction

• In one bowl, add flour, salt and water as required. Mix it well for smooth and soft dough. Keep aside for half an hour to rest.

• Make a medium ball dough,roll  it. Dust with some flour and roll it in a circular manner. Place the banana stuffing in the center.

• Join all the edges of roti and cover all masala with roll out roti and make a ball. 

• Dust flour on the surface and roll out the filled ball very care fully. Make stuff paratha as size of chapati.

• Heat tava or nonstick pan, place rolled banana paratha. The griddle should be hot when you place paratha, then cook on low flame so that it's cooked properly.

• Flip the paratha and cook on medium flame.

• Spread ghee or oil on the paratha. Then flip again for shallow fry and press in circular manner.

• Cook till  the paratha have brownish color, crisp

Now your banana  paratha is ready to eat. serve it hot with curd and green chutney :)

Banana Spinach Tiki

Banana Spinach Tiki

Banana Spinach Tikki

Ingredients

4 raw banana

1 bunch of Spinach

1 cup roasted gram flour/besan

2 chopped green chilli

1 tsp red chilli powder

1/4 tsp turmeric powder/haldi

a pinch of asafoetida/hing

2 tbs chopped coriander

1/2 tsp ajvain and sofe

Step by step direction :- 

• Cut raw banana's in 3 to 4 pieces each and boil them,after they are bioled let it cool down and then peel the banana.

• Then mesh banana pieces.

• Rinse the spinach leaves in water and drain the water. 

• Blanche Spinach leaves : boil Spinach leaves in hot water for 2-3 minutes.Drain the water and keep the spinach leaves in cold water

•  By this  the spinach will not loose it's greenness.Then drain the water and squeeze out any left out water from spinach and chop it.

• Dry roast gram flour in a pan till its color gets brown and smells good.

• Mix well all spinach,banana and  roasted gram flour.

• Add all the spices and mix it well. If you like garam masala, you can add that too. 

• If there's  moisture in the spinach,you can apply some oil to your palms when shaping the tiki.

• Heat the non stick pan and add few drops of oil.Shallow fry all the tikis in pan till they become crispy and brown.

Serve it with green chutney and curd :)

Loki ka Halwa

Loki Halwa or Bottle gourd halwa

Loki / Bottle gourd Halwa is as good as carrot halwa and tastes great!! 

It is very easy to prepare and  high in nutrition.

Ingredients

1 big bowl grated Bottle gourd or Loki
1 liter Milk
1/2 cup sugar
A pinch of cardamom powder
Dry fruits for garnishing (cashew, almond, pistachio)

Steps to prepare :- 

• First, peel the Loki and grate it.

• Then hit the pan or kadai and add ghee.

• Add the grated Loki in the pan and fry it on high flame in the pan for 5 minutes.

• Cook it on high flame till the loki is fried and then add milk and stir it till it boils and then cook it on low flame.

• Keep stirring till milk reduces and gets think consistency like khoya.

• Then add sugar, sugar will melt  so keep stirring. 

• When water reduces and halwa get desired consistency then add cardamom powder and dry fruits as per your desire.

Your Loki Halwa is ready to eat, serve it hot :)

Green Dal Chilla

Green Dal Chilla

 

It's a snack or breakfast time dish which is very simple to prepare and extremely healthy.

Recipe  Break fast or Snacks
Prep time 5 mints
Cook time 5 mints

Ingredients

For Chilla

3/4 cup green gram or moong dal
1/4 cup split yellow gram
2-3 green chilly
a pinch of asafoetida or hing
Salt to taste

For filling

100 grm crumbled paneer
1 fine chopped bell papper
2 medium size chopped tomato
2 tbsp chopped coriander
chat masala or black pepper powder(as per taste)

Step by step directions to prepare green dal chilla :-

First of all we can wash green gram (moong dal) and split yellow dal.Then you can mix both and soak in enough water for at least  for 4- 5 hours till it become little soft.

After that grind soaked dals with green chilli and make batter same as dosa or idli consistency.

Add asafoetida/hing  and salt to taste and mix well.

Heat the non stick pan or iron griddle/tava. Apply little ghee or oil on the griddle but if you are using non stick pan, no need to apply ghee or oil.Take one round spoonful of batter, pour on the pan and quickly spread in one direction in a circular manner.

Apply little bit of  ghee or oil if you want to enhance the taste.Cook on low flame till it gets at nice brown color.

Then flip the chilla and let it cook on low flame for a minute or so and flip again.

Spread some chopped capsicum and tomato on the chilla and wait till they cook, then apply panner, coriender, chat masala and black pepper.

Cover the chilla with the other half and cook for 30 second.Serve Green dal chilla with green coconut or green chutney.

Green Cococnut Chutney

Green Coconut Chutney

The coconut chutney can be served with all south Indian dishes like idli, dosa, vada, appam, puddu etc.

Now coming straight to ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

For chutney

1 cup fresh grated coconut

2 tbsp rosted chana dal

1 green chilli/hari mirch

Some mint and coriander leaves

Salt to taste

1 tsp Lemon juice or 2 tbsp curd (as per taste)

roasted chana dal

Tempering
1/2 tsp ghee

1/2 mustered seeds

1/2 cumin seeds

5-6 curry leaves

A pinch of asafoetida or hing

Steps to make coconut chutney :

• For chutney add coconut, mint and coriander leaves, chopped green chilly ,roasted chana dal and curd or lemon juice whichever you like the most.
• Add salt to taste and water as  needed to grind all the ingredients.

For Tempering

• Heat ghee/oil in a wok or  small pan.
• Add mustered seeds and let it crackle then add cumin seed wait till becomes golden brown.
• Then add curry leaves and at last add pinch of hing/asafoetida.
• Quickly pour the tempering in the chutney and cover chutney pan with lid for 5 minutes.

Now coconut chutney is ready to be serverd :)