Jeera Rice with Chole Curry

Ingredients for Jeera Rice :

• Normal Rice / Basmathi Rice – 1 cup
• Salt
• Ghee – 1 spoon
• Bay leaf  – 1
• Cinnamon
• Cumin Seeds/ Jeera – 1 cup
• Tadka ( How to prepare Tadka (పోపు) )

Ingredients for Chole Curry :

• Chick Peas – 250 grams
• Onions – chopped
• Tomatoes – 2
• Green Chillis
• Salt
• Turmeric powder
• Chilli powder
• bay leaf
• Tadka ( How to prepare Tadka (పోపు) )
• Oil
• Ginger Garlic paste
• Garam Masala Powder

Procedure for Jeera Rice :

• Wash Rice and keep it aside.
• take a pan and add ghee and hear for a minute and add the spices mixture and jeera seeds.
• When jeera becomes slightly brown, add the rice to it.
• for 1 cup rice, add 2 cups water and salt and pressure cook for 20 minutes.
• you can garnish with fried curry leaves or chopped onions.

Procedure for Chole Curry :

• Soak chickpeas overnight and mix salt and cook in pressure cooker for 20 minutes so that they become soft.
• make tomato puree in a mixer grinder and keep it aside.
• take a pan and add oil and prepare tadka ( How to prepare Tadka (పోపు) )
• now add chopped onions and 2 spoons of ginger garlic paste and saute till they become golden brown.
• now add tomato puree, 2 spoons of garam masala and salt  to the above liquid mixture.
• now add the cooked chickpeas and add little water for gravy.
• add salt, if you need more salt.
• cook on low flame for 5-10minutes.
• yummy chole curry is ready 🙂

Jeera Rice can be had with the just prepared chole curry 🙂

 

 

Aloo Matar Gravy

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Ingredients :

• Potatoes
• Matar ( Green Peas )
• Garam masala
• Ginger garlic paste
• Salt
• Chilly powder
• Chat masala
• Chopped Onions
• Chopped tomatoes
• Tadka ( How to prepare Tadka (పోపు) )
• Lemon juice

Procedure:

• Pressure cook the potatoes and peel off the skin and then cut into pieces.
• boil green peas until they become soft and keep aside.
• Take a kadai and pour oil. add cut onions and saute them, until they become golden brown.
• now add tadka, salt and ginger garlic paste to it.
• now add tomato puree to the above mixture and mix well.
• add little cashew nut paste, if you want thick gravy.
• add little water, potato pieces and green peas to the gravy and cook on low flame for 5-10minutes.
• garnish with coriander leaves and yummy aloo matar curry is ready 🙂

Curry Leaves Pakoda

Ingredients:

• Curry leaves with stem
• besan – 1/2 cup
• red chilli powder – 1 spoon
• coriander powder
• cumin seeds
• salt
• water
• oil

Procedure:

• wash and dry the curry leaves.
• take a bowl and mix besan, water chilli powder, coriander powder.
• and enough water and mix the batter well.
• put oil in the pan and let it pre-heat.
• now dip the curry leaves stems in the batter and fry in oil.
• remove excess oil on fried sticks using tissue paper.
• tasty curry leaves pakoda is ready 🙂
• this can be had with tomato sauce.

 

Beetroot halwa

Ingredients :

• Beetroot – grated
• Sugar – as required
• Milk – 1 or 2 cups
• Elaichi powder
• Almonds, Cashews – split pieces
• Ghee

Procedure :

• Wash and peel beetroot and then grate it.
• heat ghee in a kadai and roast almonds, cashew pieces and keep aside.
• in the same ghee kadai, add grated beetroot, some more ghee and roast for some time.
• now add the milk and cook beetroots until they become soft.
• and add elaichi powder, a spoon ful ghee and cook for few minutes.
• Garnish with cashews and almonds, and serve hot.
• yummy Beetroot halwa is ready 🙂

Pesarattu / Green Gram Dosa

Ingredients :

• Green Gram – 1 cup
• Rice – 2 spoonful
• Onions – chopped
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Tadka
• Salt

Procedure:

• Soak green gram and rice for 6 hours and then grind them to a paste.
• grind onions, green chillis, ginger and add this to green gram paste and mix well.
• take a tawa and pour oil and let it pre-heat.
• pour the green gram batter like dosa and add chopped onions, little tadka on top.
• yummy protein rich green gram dosa/ pesarattu is ready 🙂
• This can be had with ginger chutney or coconut chutney.

Spring Onion Rasam

Ingredients :

• Spring Onions
• Rasam powder
• onions chopped
• tomato – 1
• curry leaves
• green chillis
• Ginger
• garlic
• little tamarind
• salt
• Tadka

Procedure :

• In a pan, heat oil and add curry leaves, green chillies, chopped ginger & garlic and add tadka.
• add onions now, and roast till they become golden brown.
• now add tomato and let them break even completely.
• now add rasam powder, little tamarind, salt and chopped spring onions.
• add enough water for rasam and saute for 5 minutes.
• yummy spring onion rasam ( soup ) is ready 🙂

Mushroom Lajawab

Ingredients :

• Mushrooms – 250 grams
• Corn flour
• lemon
• salt
• chilli powder
• turmeric
• oil
• soya sauce
• coriander

Procedure :

• wash and cut mushrooms and add corn flour, lemon, salt, chilli powder, turmeric and let them marinate for sometime.
• then fry the mushroom pieces in oil.
• add soya sauce and coriander for garnishing.
• yummy mushroom lajawab ( manchuria ) is ready 🙂

Carrot Sooji Halwa

Ingredients:

• Semolina
• Carrot grated
• sugar – 1 small bowl
• Ghee – 1/2 bowl
• Elaichi
• Cashew pieces
• Almond Pieces
• water

Procedure:

• add ghee to a pan and saute sooji ( semolina ) till it becomes golden brown.
• now add grated carrots and saute for sometime.
• add sugar and water and let them cook for sometime.
• now add cashew, almonds, raisins and elaichi.
• cook till it becomes semi solid paste.
• yummy carrot sooji Halwa is ready 🙂

Chilli Chicken

Ingredients :

• Chicken boneless – 500 grams
• Oil
• Onions
• Tadka
• Soya sauce
• tomato sauce
• chilli sauce
• ginger garlic paste
• corn flour
• maida
• salt

Procedure :

• mix ginger garlic paste,corn flour,salt in little water.
• wash chicken pieces and let them marinate in above mixture.
• after that, shallow fry the chicken pieces and keep aside.
• take a pan and add oil, ginger garlic paste, onions, tadka and saute for 5 minutes.
• and soya sauce, tomato sauce, chilli sauce to it and salt and saute for sometime.
• reduce the heat and add the chicken pieces now and stir.
• serve hot with any rice item like fried rice, biryani etc 🙂

 

Ladies Finger Masala ( Bhindi Masala )

Ingredients :

• Ladies Finger – 500 grams
• Bengal Gram – 50 grams
• Black Gram – 25 grams
• Dry Coconut powder
• groundnuts – 25 grams
• Red chilli
• jeera
• Oil
• Salt
• Tadka

Procedure :

• fry bengal gram, black gram and keep aside.
• then take the fried bengal gram, fried black gram, dry coconut, jeera,Salt, ground nut, red chilli and make into a powder using mixer grinder.
• then make slits on the ladies finger, and stuff this powder in them.
• prepare tadka.
• now take oil in a pan and fry these ladies fingers.
• yummy methi Ladies finger is ready 🙂

Note : Same process can be followed for Brinjals as well. 🙂 for this, use purple colored brinjals.