Groundnut coconut chutney

Ingredients

• ½ cup Coconut
• ½ cup Groundnut
• 3 or 4 Dry red chillies
• ½  tbspn Tamarind juice
• Salt
• 1 tbspn Oil
• ¼ tbspn Mustard
• Few Curry leaves
• Few Urad dal
• Few Chana dal

Method

• Heat the pan and fry groundnut for about 5 mins allow it to cool.
• Blend chopped coconut, groundnut, red chillies, tamarind & salt in mixer along with some water.
• Heat a pan add oil.
• Add mustard and wait until it crackles add Urad dal, chana dal and then add curry leaves.
• Add this tempered oil, dal and curry leaves over the prepared chutney.
• Add some more water if required based on the consistency you need.
• Serve the chutney along with idly, dosa, etc.

Black Gram/Urad dal vada

Ingredients

• 2 cups Urad dal
• 2 to 3 Green chillies
• 1 cup Onion
  Small piece Ginger
• Few Curry leaves
• ¼ cup Coriander leaves
• 10 Pepper
• Salt
• 5 to 6 cups Oil

Method

• Soak Urad dal for about 6 to 8 hours or overnight.
• Grind it with smashed ginger. Please do not add water to the paste while or after grinding.
• Add salt to taste.
• Add finely chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, coriander leaves and pepper and mix it well.
• Heat the pan and add oil.
• Once the oil is heated well take some quantity of wada mix and deep fry both the sides of the vada.
• Serve with some chutney or sambar.
  
  

Paneer Paratha recipe

Ingredients

• Wheat powder/Atta 3 cups
• Paneer 2 cups
• Onion 1
• Green chillies 3 to 4
• Salt
• Ghee 2 to 3 tbspn
• Oil

Method

• Mix atta with grated paneer, finely chopped onion, green chillies & salt.
• Keep adding water simultaneously and make dough out of it.
• Add ghee to the mixed dough and keep it aside for about ½ hour for gluten formation (protein).
• Take a ball out of the dough.
• Roll the dough to thick paratha in circular shape.
• Heat the roti tawa add some oil.
• Place the rolled paratha on the tawa until fried thoroughly.
• Turn the other side of the paratha and add some oil.
• Once both the side of paratha is fried serve it with some curds, butter, your favorite chutney or pickle.

Carrot Halwa/Gajjar Halwa with Mawa recipe

Ingredients

• 4 Carrot
• 1 cup Sugar
• 2 to 3 tbspnGhee
• 50g Mawa/ Khoya (Mava or Mawa is milk solids, usually formed after a very long (6-8 hours) slow cooking of milk.
• ½ cup Milk

Method

• Peel the carrot & grate Carrot it.
• Heat the pan & add some ghee.
• Add the grated carrot and fry for 5 mins.
• Add milk, Mawa and sugar keep stirring the mix until the milk gets condensed.
• Refrigerate the halwa for about an hour and serve.

Onion tomato kurma recipe

Ingredients

• 2 Onions
• 2 Tomatoes
• A pinch Turmeric
• Salt
• 4 tbspn Oil
• ½ tbspn Mustard
• ½ cup Coconut
• ½ tbspn Red chillie powder
• ½ tbspn Coriander powder

 Method

•  Chop Onions, tomatoes.
•  Heat the pan, add oil, add mustard and wait until it crackles.
• Add chopped onions and fry until it turns golden brown.
• Add chopped & tomatoes.
• Add Red chillie powder & coriander powder  to it and fry it for sometime.
• Add some water and salt as per taste.
• Let it boil for 10 mins.
• Blend coconut with little water in mixer and add to the mix.
• Kurma is ready to serve & can be served with idlies, dosas, cooked rice, chapattis etc.,

Mushroom masala recipe

Ingredients

• Mushroom 100gm
• Mawa 25gm (Khoya/Mava or Mawa is milk solids, usually formed after a very long (6-8 hours) slow cooking of milk)
• Onion - 1
• Tomato - 1
• Oil 2 tbspn
• Garam masala ½ tbspn
• Red chillie powder 1 tbspn
• Coriander powder 1 tbspn
• Salt

Method

• Boil Mushroom in cooker for about 5 mins(2 whistles).
• Heat a pan add 2 tbspn of oil.
• Add finely chopped onion until turned golden color and then add tomatoes.
• Add Garam masala. Fry the mixture for about 2 mins.
• Add mushroom and 2 cups of water.
• Add red chillie powder and coriander powder.
• Add Salt to taste.
• Finally add Mawa.
• Garnish with some coriander leaves.
• Mushroom masala is ready to serve.

Lemon rice recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups Rice
• 4 tbspn Lemon juice
• 3Red chillies
• Few Curry leaves
• 1 tbspn Urad dal
• 1 tbspn Chana dal
• ½ cup Oil
• ½ tbspn Turmeric
• 4 cups Water
• 1 tbspn Salt

 Method

• Boil rice with water in cooker for 5 to 7mins.
• Spread the boiled rice on a plate and allow it to cool thoroughly. Add salt, lemon juice and turmeric powder to it.
• Heat the pan, add Urad dal, chana dal, curry leaves & Red chillies to it.
• Add the cooked rice and keep stirring for about 7 to 10 mins.
• Serve lemon rice with potato or brinjal sabji.

Sambar powder

Ingredients

• 1 kg Redchillies
• 1 kg Coriander seeds
• 1 cup Turdal
• 1 cup Rice
• 50g Cumin seed/Jeera
• 50g Pepper

Method

• Fry Cumin seed and pepper and grind it im mixer/blender.
• Grind red chillies & Coriander seeds.
• Grind Turdal & rice.
• Mix them together.
• Sambar powder is ready.

Potato/Aaloo Paratha recipe

Ingredients

• 3 cups Wheat powder/Aatta
• 2 Potato
• ½ cup Onion
• 3 to 4 Green chillies
• Salt
• 2 to 3 tbspn Ghee
• Oil

Method

• Boil potato in cooker and mash them.
• Mix atta with mashed potatoes, green chillies & salt.
• Keep adding water simultaneously and make dough out of it.
• Add ghee to the mixed dough and keep it aside for about ½ hour for gluten formation (protein).
• Take a ball out of the dough.
• Roll the dough to thick paratha in circular shape.
• Heat the roti tawa add some oil.
• Place the rolled paratha on the tawa until fried thoroughly.
• Turn the other side of the paratha and add some oil.
• Once both the side of paratha is fried serve it with some curds or butter.

Moong dal/Green gram dal Kheer

Ingredients

• 2 cups Moong dal/Green gram dal
• ¼ cup Coconut
• 2 Cardamoms /Elaichi
• 1 cup Milk
• ½ cup Jaggery
• 2 tbspn Ghee

Method

• Boil Moong dal in cooker for 7 mins (3 to 4 whistles).
• Later mash the dal.
• Heat a pan and add 2 tbspn of ghee add mashed moong dal, Jaggery, grated coconut, blended cardamom, milk.
• Boil the kheer for 5 to 10mins in low flame.
• Keep stirring the mix.
• Moong dal kheer is ready to serve.
  
  

Puttanu dal coconut chutney (South Indian)

Ingredients

• ½ cup Coconut
• ½ cup Puttanu dal
• 3 or 4 Green chillies (or) Dry red chillies
• Salt
• 1 tbspn Oil
• ¼ tbspn Mustard
• Few Curry leaves
  ¼ tbspn Urad dal
• ¼ tbspn Chana dal

 Method

• Blend chopped coconut, puttanu dal, green chillies & salt in mixer along with some water.
• Heat the pan add oil.
• Add mustard and wait until it crackles and then add Urad dal, chana dal & curry leaves.
• Add this tempered oil, dal and curry leaves over the prepared chutney.
• Add some more water if required based on the consistency you need.
• Serve the chutney along with idly, dosa, bajjiya etc.