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Healthy food

(198)Tomato ketchup

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Red Tomatoes.
  • 1 tbsp. Oil.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 6 whole Clove.
  • 6 whole Black pepper.
  • 1 Onion( optional).
  • 3 Garlic pods (optional).
  • 1½ tsp. Salt.
  • 3 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. Red chilli powder.

Method

  1. Wash and cut each tomatoes into roughly 8 parts.
  2. Peel onion, wash and cut into roughly 8 parts.
  3. Cut Garlic pods into 2-4 parts.
  4. Heat oil in nonstick sauce pan.
  5. Soute Clove, Cinnamon stick and pepper corns for 30 seconds and add onion pieces, garlic and tomato pieces.
  6. Cook for 15 minutes on slow flame.
  7. Switch off the flame and once whole content has cooled down, grind into fine puree.
  8. Strain the puree and again heat to reduce water to get saucy consistency .Stir continuously otherwise it will stick to bottom of the pan.
  9. Store into air tight jar for 3-4 weeks in refrigerator.
  10. And if you want to store more, make cubes and store these cubes in deep freezer for 3-4 months.
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Healthy food

(156)Vegetable Handvo

Ingredients

  • ½ cup chopped Sweet Corn.
  • ½ cup chopped Carrot.
  • ½ cup chopped Bottle guard.
  • ½ cup finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • 1 tbsp. Ginger paste.
  • 1 tbsp green chilli paste ( optional).
  • 1 tbsp. Garlic paste (optional).
  • 1 cup Bengal gram dal.
  • 1 cup Moong dal.
  • 1 cup Udad dal.
  • 2 cup Rice flour.
  • 1 cup Suji.
  • 1 cup curd.
  • 1 pkt. Eno.
  • 4 tbsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
  • 4 tbsp. Red chilli powder.
  • 1 tbsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ½ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 4 tbsp. white sesame seeds.
  • Tempering ingredients Sesame oil, Mustard seeds, White Sesame seeds.

Method

  1. In big vessel mix all dal and wash thoroughly for 2 times.
  2. Soak all dals for 8-10 hours
  3. Grind dal in to coarse batter.
  4. In dal batter mix rice flour and suji
  5. Keep aside 10-12 hours for fermentation.
  6. In vegetable chopper, fine chop all veges.
  7. Add all green and dry spices, curd, eno and coriander leaves.
  8. Mix thoroughly and adjust the consistency by adding water. Taste the batter before any further process.
  9. Heat 2 tbsp.oil in nonstick frying pan . Add mustard seeds and wait for crackling sound for adding sesame seeds.
  10. Pour 3 cup of Handvo batter and cook on slow flame for 10 minutes. Hold handle of frying pan tightly and give gentle jerk to pan . If whole cake of Handvo separate from sides of the pan then slightly lift and see underneath, If golden brown layer is formed. If yes then swich off the flame and allow to set for 10 minutes else cook again for 5 more minutes.
  11. After 10 minutes flip the layer , add 1 tbsp oil at the periphery and cook for 10 minutes on slow flame.
  12. Repeat the cooking process till batter last.
  13. Enjoy your hot , spicy Handvo with Green chutney, Red chutney, Schezwan sauce and glass of masala buttermilk ( chass).
Finely chopped vegetables
Cooked layer separate from frying pan
How to flip Handvo
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Healthy food

(133)Amla Pickle

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Amla.
  • ½ kg sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. salt.
  • 1 tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 1 tbsp. chili powder.
  • ½ tsp. Asafoetida powder.

Method

  1. Wash, wipe and pressure cook amla, keeping it in a strainer, upto two whistles.
  2. When cooker cool down, take out strainer from the cooker and remove seed from each amla and cut it into small pieces.
  3. In big thick bottom sauce pan or in pressure cooker itself( must be steel cooker) mix amla pieces with sugar.
  4. Stir continuously on fast flame for 10 minutes and after that add salt, asafoetida powder, chili powder and turmeric powder and again cook for 1 more minute.
  5. Amla pickle is ready. Switch off the flame and keep aside.
  6. Bottle it in a glass jar once it cool down completely.
  7. Enjoy amla pickle with roti, bhakri, khakhra, paratha, bread, handavo, muthia, dhokla, patra pakoda, vada, chila or as you wish.

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(111) Garlic chutney

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Garlic pods.
  • 1 cup Desiccated coconut powder
  • ½ cup Sesame seeds
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tsp. Red chili powder.

Method

  1. Peel garlic pods.
  2. Dry roast Sesame seeds.Keep aside to cool down.
  3. when completely cool , grind sesame seeds into coarse powder. keep aside.
  4. Grind garlic pods, salt and red chili powder into fine paste.
  5. In big plate , mix garlic paste, sesame seeds coarse powder and coconut powder with hand.
  6. Garlic dry chutney is ready.
  7. Enjoy with your food .
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Pickle

(80) Gol keri Athanu

Mango Jaggery Pickle

Ingredients

  • Gol keri sambhar masala readymade 250 gms.(1 cup)
  • 1 kg.raw mango.
  • 250 gms. kharek.
  • Finely chopped jaggery 4 cups.
  • ½ cup sugar.

Method

  1. Buy readymade golkeri sambhar masala,raw mangoes and Kharek.
  2. Wash mangoes and cut into small pieces without peeling. Keep the seeds aside . You can use for making mango jam later on.
  3. Cut Kharek into small pieces with the help of beetal nut cutter.
  4. Mix 1 tbsp. salt and ½ tsp. turmeric powder with mango pieces. Keep aside for 24 hrs.
  5. After 24 hrs. remove mango pieces from turmeric salt water . Dry mango pieces under fan for 1 hr.
  6. Add pieces into turmeric salt water and keep aside for 1 hr.
  7. After one hour.
  8. Remove kharekh from turmeric salt water.
  9. In big kadai or sauce pan mix gol keri sambhar with mango pieces and kharekh pieces.
  10. Add jaggery and sugar in it. Give nice stir and keep aside for 24 hrs.
  11. Next day again mix thoroughly .
  12. Store in clean,dry,air tight glass jar after jaggery and sugar dissolves completely.
  13. Enjoy with thepla,puri,roti, paratha or as you like.
Golkeri sambhar with Kashmiri chili powder
Mango pieces mix with salt and turmeric powder.
Kharek
Jaggery and sugar.
Jaggery mix with mango and kharek
Bottled Gol keri