Aloo Paratha

I experimented aloo paratha for the first time. First paratha was a disaster but the second, third had turned out so well that I very much surprised, ofcourse taste was good too. Krish has liked it.

Ingredients :

1.Aloo - 2, medium sized, Boiled,peeled and smashed
2.Green chillies – 2,finely chopped
3.Onion - 1 finely chopped
4.Cilantro – ½ bunch
5.Salt – as per taste
6.chilly powder – as per taste
7.garam masal – ½ tsp
8.oil – 1tbsp
9.2 cups of wheat flour



How to prepare the aloo stuff

To the smashed potatoes add ½ tsp salt,1/2 tsp chilly powder and ½ tbsp garam masala. Mix it properly.



How to make Parathas

1. Take oil in pan and fry green chillies and onions till they turn golden brown
2. Add Aloo mixture to it and mix it properly
3. Add chopped cilantro and fry for 5- 6 min and keep it aside to cool
4. Mix water and wheat flour with salt and knead to make a smooth dough
5. Keep it for ½ hour
6. Make small ball out of dough and place the aloo stuff in the center.
7. Draw the edges towards the center to cover the mixture
8. Press the resulting dough gently and dust it with flour
9. Make it as a roti and place it on a preheated pan
10.After few min reveres the side of paratha after golden brown patches appear on
first side
11.Sprinkle some oil and then flip again
12.Cook till it is properly done
13.Hot Paratha is served with curd or chutneys

Aloo n Peas Pulao / Veg Pulao

A small celebration has been made at Home for the New Year Eve .Just me, K and Aashu. She just woke up few mins before the New Year and we cut the cake and rest of the time spent watching T.V. Though we were alone we had our own part of fun.On 1st of Jan I thought of doing something special at home rather than going out for lunch. Well so the Menu goes …….
- Aloo n Peas Pulao with Tomato raitha.
- Chole with puri.

Krish liked Pulao so much that he ended up licking his fingers…lol

What we need

- 2 cups of rice
- 2 big potatos cut into cubes
- 1/12 cups of peas
- Garam masala includes the spices ..6 cloves, 1 sp shah jeera, 1 bay leaf , 1
long
- cinnamon broken into pieces
- 1 sp of ginger garlic paste
- 2 tbsp of oil/ghee
- 4 green chilies
- Salt to taste
- 3 cups of water


Aloo and Peas Pulao

How to prepare

1. Wash the rice and add 3 cups of water to it.
2. Heat oil in a pan on low flame
3. Add all the spices (cloves,jeera,bay leaf,cinnamon) ad stir for 1min
4. Next add ginger garlic paste and stir for 30seconds.
5. cut the green chilies vertically and add to the mixture and stir it
6. Add potatoes, peas and stir fry for few minutes.
7. Add Rice with 3 cups of water to the mixture along with salt
8. Mix the ingridients properly and pressure cook it, till you get 2 whistles
9. Remove the lid and mix the mixture
10.serve hot with raitha

Vegetable Fried Rice

Fried rice is one of the dishes I always wanted to make. But I never took the initiative to learn the recipe. For the past few days I was very busy, tired and exhausted with Aashrita, did not get time to eat or cook properly. After a long time, thought of making fried rice. It took us only 30-35mins and it tasted amazingly beautiful with different colored vegetables and ummm……sooooooo delicious.You want to taste some? Its very easy to prepare. What you need is good mood and passion to eat.

Ingridients :

- ½ cup carrots chopped finely
- ½ cup beans chopped finely
- ½ cup peas
- 1 cup spring onions chopped
- 1 sp soya sauce
- 1 sp pepper
- 1 sp chilly sauce
- 1sp tomato sauce
- 4 cups of rice
- Salt to taste
- 2tbs oil
- ½ sp ajinomoto
- 1sp gingergarlic paste



Method

Cook the rice.(1 cup of rice 2 cups of water) Spread the rice on a plate, allow it to cool. Add little oil to it and mix it well so that each grain separate from each other. Another method is, keep the cooked rice in refrigerator for 1 hr.


Vegetable Fried Rice

1. Heat oil in a pan
2. Add ginger garlic paste fry till light brown
3. Add all the vegetables, put the harder vegetables first followd by the lighter
ones ( first carrots,peas,beans,spring onions)
4. Add salt, ajinomoto, pepper, 1sp chilly,tomatosauce,soya sauce to the mixture
and stir fry on low flame for 5mins
5. Add rice to the mixure amd mix it properly
6. Vegetable fried rice is ready
7. serve hot

Beetroot Halwa

For the past few days I have been very busy looking after Aashu. So its quite sometime I prepared any new dish. The occasion called for when K’s Aunt and Uncle dropped by for three days. I was quite apprehensive whether they will like my cooking. They were our first guests after marriage and after moving into our new house. There were fresh Beetroots in the refrigerator. I thought why not prepare Beetroot Halwa. It turned out to be very yum yum and delicious. This is Ammas receipe.
Beetroot is disliked by most of the people because of its color but it is good source of iron and other nutrients.It has vitamins A,B AND C.

What do we need

•3 cups of grated beetroot

•3 tbsp of ghee

•Cashew nuts(10-15)

•Raisins(10-15)

•1 cup sugar

•½ sp Cardamom(Ilaichi) powder


Beetroot Halwa

How to prepare

1.Take 1 tbs of ghee in a pan and fry Cashew nuts and Raisins separately and keep
them aside
2.Add 2 tbsp of ghee in a pan, maintain low flame
3.After 30seconds, add grated Beetroot to it, stir for 5 mins .
4.add 3 cups of water (milk is the best option instead of water) and keep the lid
for 10-15 mins, stir occasionally so that it doesn’t stick to the pan
5.Continue this process till beetroot becomes soft
6.Add 1 cup of sugar, Cardamom powder to it and stir it for 5mins.
7.Add raisins and cashews to it
8.Finally garnish it with the remaining cashews and raisins
9.Delicious beetroot halwa is ready to be served !

Carrot curry

we can be eat carrots in a variety of ways. The simplest way is raw as carrots are perfectly digestible without requiring cooking. Alternatively they may be chopped and boiled, fried or steamed, and cooked in soups and stews.Carrots contain beta-carotene, a carotenoid pigment found in bright orange fruits and vegetables.I t is rich in vitamin A. Vitamin A plays a major role in eyesight by preventing night blindness and helping with the maintenance of a healthy, clear cornea (outer membrane of the eye).
Carrots are loved by most-of-them. Carrot curry is very easy to prepare. The only hard work you need to put is to grate it. K & me love this dish so I often prepare this.Do you know something, to everybodys surprise i learnt this receipe from "K"

Ingredients

• Grated carrots 3 cups

• Green chilies 4

• 2 tbsp of oil

• Salt to taste

• Lemon juice 3 spoons

• Few coriander leaves


Procedure

1.Peel carrots and grate them

2.Take oil in a pan

3.Add mustard and pinch of hing(hing is optional), fry it till it splutters

4.Add chopped green chilies slit vertically to the oil

5.Next Add grated carrot along with salt

6.Stir for 5 minutes on a low flame till the carrot becomes little soft

7.Remove the curry from the flame and now add lemon juice to it.

8.Finally sprinkle few coriander leaves on it.

It goes best with Rice and even eat it as snack in the evening


Carrot Curry

Note : We have to add the lemon juice to the curry when it is removed from the flame

Happy and a Wonderful New Year 2009

Another year just passed by so fast.This New year we planned to stay at home and enjoy.Its chilling outside and we decided to celebrate at home.Krishna and I decorated a little bit with balloons and colored ribbons which turned to be hmmm not bad at all. We planned to have some music but since Aashrita was fast asleep we dropped the plan and stuck to the T.V. We got a Black Forest cake Yummmyyy.Naku chala istam Black Forest and Butter scotch. Had dinner at 9.30pm and Aashrita to the surprise gotup and joined us to celebrate. At the tick of 12.00 I and krishna greeted each other with new year wishes and ofcourse Aashu got lot of kisses from me. Aashu and I cut the cake and took few snaps.well Inti nuchi amma and attayya deggara nunchi calls vachai so wish chesi, finally at 1.00 ki padukunnamu.
Konni snaps upload chesanu so see it and enojoy!!!!!!!!!!!! bye for now

Onion Rice

Yet to be prepared

Night Out at Corner House

Today we suddenly decided to go out and have Masala Dosa which is my favourite.I and krishna had Dosa at Corner House(Dosa and chats special) at Marthahalli.Yummy!!! Dosa was delicious.Aashrita was enjoying in her stroller, kicking her legs and making funny sounds.I had Hot chocolate fudge after having dosa.It is so cold outside,but still ate icecream.We enjoyed a lot and I wore new kurthi bought at Cosmos Mall.

Dum Aloo Preparation

Ingredients

• Baby potatoes 10

• 4 tomatoes (medium)

• 3 onions (medium)

• 2 spoons garam masala powder

• 1 spoon of ginger garlic paste

• 3 table spoons of oil

• Salt(according to taste)

• Pepper(according to taste)

• Coriander leaves ½ bunch


Dum Aloo
Procedure

1. Make paste of tomatoes and onion separately

2. Take 2 table spoons of oil in the pan, add onion paste

3. Fry the above mixture till onion paste is golen brown

4. Next add ginger garlic paste and fry for few minutes.

5. Next add tomato paste and stir it for few minutes.

6. Add salt and pepper according to the taste

7. Boil the potatoes and make holes to the boiled potatoes on all sides with a fork

8. Add potatoes to the mixture and stir it for few minutes and finally add garam
masala powder

9. Sprinkle with finely chopped coriander leaves

10.Serve it with hot rotis

Pudina Rice

Mint leaves( in Hindi pudina) is dark green leaves with pleasant flavour. Mint is grown all over the world. It comes in many varieties such as spearmint, peppermint etc, each with distinct flavour.It has an important place in Indian cuisine. It is used in variety of dishes like fruit salads, vegetable salads, salad dressings, soups, desserts, juices rasam, Sambar, biryanis ,chutneys etc.
when i was working in college i had this friend name sirisha. she is very good cook.She makes excellent rice dishes. She told me this receipe. Hey Thanks sirisha.


Ingredients:

• Cooked Rice 4 cups

• 1 bunch of Pudina leaves

• 4 green chillies (add more/less acc to taste)

• Garam Masala 1spoon

• Ginger garlic paste 1 spoon

• Onions 2 medium or 1 big

• Oil 2 table spoons


Pudina Rice

Procedure

1. Make a paste of pudina leaves and green chilies and keep it a side.

2. Heat oil in a pan, then add finely chopped onions, fry until golden brown

3. Add ginger garlic paste and then add grinded pudina & chilli paste.

4. Fry the above paste for few minutes and then finally add salt and garam masala.

5. Add the above paste to the cooked rice, mix it well.

6. Serve it with raitha

Sprouts

• 1 cup of (100 gms) of sprouts
• 1 Onion
• 3 Green chilies
• 1 Tomato
• Lemon
• Coriander leaves

Procedure
Finely chop onions and tomatoes

1. Take oil (1/2 tsp) in a pan
2. Season it with mustard and a pinch of hing
3. When mustard starts to crackle add sprouts to the oil
4. Add little bit of salt to the mixture
5. Stir it for 5 minutes on low flame

Serve it in a bowl with Onions, tomatoes and coriander

Now a spicy yummy sprouts snack is ready to eat.
A very easy and healthy food for a quick and tasty snack.