Ingredients
brinjals – 1/2 kgs
onions - 2 to 3 sliced
tomato - 1 sliced
coriander leaves few
ginger & garlic paste - 1 sp dhania powder - 1/2 sp
chilly powder - 1/2 sp
jeera powder - 1/2 sp
pepper powder - 1/2 sp
salt according to taste
Method
In the above ingredients except the brinjals fry all the items in oil & grind to a
smooth paste
Slit the brinjal into 4 & stuff the masala paste inside the brinjals.
Soak a lemon size tamarind in water & extract the juice .
Grind 4 tomatoes separately together & keep aside.
Now add 5 to 6 spoon of oil in a cooker & then put mustard seeds &
Also add curry leaves,then whole pepper & add the stuffed brinjals
Fry till the oil leaves out from the brinjal.
Now add the tomato paste & stir for 2 mins & also add the tamarind juice,
coriander leaves & salt is correct if not add little salt & chilly powder
accordingly
Leave 1 stream in the cooker. )
Brinjal baingan is ready this will be good to eat with plain rice or chapattis , roti
Oct 5, 2008
Brinjal In Oil
Labels: Brinjal
Oct 4, 2008
Manchurian Dosa
Ingredients
2/1150 gms urad dal (black gram)
500 gms rice
10 gms methi (fenugreek) seeds
50 gms chana dal (bengal gram)
250 gms carrots
150 gms beans
100 gms green peas
5-6 green chilies, chopped
150 gms spring
(green) onions
chopped
50 gms oil
3-4 garlic cloves
finely chopped
a small piece of ginger
finely chopped
2 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp chili sauce
1/4tsp ajinomoto
2 tsp corn flour
few coriander leaves
chopped
salt to taste
Method
Soak urad dal, rice, methi seeds, chana dal in water for 1-2 hours. Drain the water and grind to a smooth paste. Keep aside for 6-8 hours until it gets fermented.
Cut the carrots, and beans into small pieces and boil until they are tender along with green peas. Drain the water and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the chopped green chilies, ginger and garlic pieces. Also add boiled carrots, beans, green peas, soya sauce, ajinomoto, chili sauce, little water and cook for a while.
Mix little water to the corn flour and mix well. Add this to the above carrots mixture and mix well. Sprinkle green onions and coriander leaves and remove from heat. The manchurian curry is ready.
Heat non-stick dosa pan and rub the pan with wet cloth. Now make dosas from the above
dosa batter. Add the curry on the top and spread throughout the dosa. Sprinkle little oil,roll the dosa and remove. Repeat for the remaining dosas.
Oct 3, 2008
Bread Dosa
Ingredients
Bread slices - 3 or 4
Dosa Batter - 1 cup
Green Chillies - 2
Onions - 1 finely chopped (optional)
Coriander Leaves
Oil - for dosa preparation
Method
Mix onions and finely chopped green chillies and coriander leaves to the dosa
batter.
Heat the tawa, when hot smear with oil.
Dip the bread slices in the dosa batter and place it on the tawa.
Smear some oil around the bread slice.
Cook till it is golden brown on both sides.
Serve hot with Sauce or Ketchup
Oct 2, 2008
Bhindi Split Fry
Ingredients
1/2 lb. bhendi (okhra) cut in 2" pieces
red onions sliced long
4 tbsp. tomato puree
3 tbsp. white sesame seeds
1/2 tsp. sounf
7-8 curry leaves
1 tbsp. red chilli powder
1 tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. each of dhanya & jeera powder
salt to taste
3 tble sp. cooking oil
1/2 cup butter milk
Method
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a kadai.
Cut the Bhindi in to four slits without breaking the bhindi.
Mix all the above ingredients together to make a filling stuff for Bhindi.
Add a small quantity of each mixture of filling in each Bhindi and fry it in oil till it becomes
stiff and the Bhindi colour turns almost fried. 15 pieces of bhindi.
This recipe is preferable to be eaten as a snack sort of watching T.V or listening to Music.
You can also eat it along with rice.
Labels: Bhindi, Main Course
Oct 1, 2008
Appam Batter
Ingredients
1-1/2 cups raw rice
1-1/2 cups parboiled rice
2-3 tbsp. urad dal.
1 cup coconut milk
1/2 tsp. soda bicarb
1 tsp salt
Method
Soak for 4 hours in water, wash well
Grind to a fine thick paste, keep overnight.
Morning add coconut milk, soda bicarb, and salt
Beat well.
The batter for Appam is ready
Apply a little oil on a non-stick or heavy griddle.
Pour a ladleful of batter on hot griddle.
Hold handle and rotate and tilt griddle quickly such that its full base is covered with batter.
Do not spread with spoon. A thin dosalike pancake must be the result.
Labels: Basic