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( 33) Khichadi

serves 2, 150 -200 gms.each

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup Rice(chawal preferably Parimal also known as Patna rice)
  • ¼ cup Moong dal (Mung beans)  (split green which contains more fibre or yellow which is easy to digest).
  • ¼ cup Masoor dal( split red lentils).
  • 2 tbsp. Tur dal (split pegion pea) .
  • 3 ½ cups water.

Tips:

Requirements of water varies by types of vessels you use to cook khichadi

  • 4 cups water if khichadi in direct pressure cooker .
  • 3½ cups if khichadi in steel pot  in cooker.
  • 4½ cups water if khichadi in sauce pan or kadhai.

Dry masala:

  • 2½ tsp.salt
  • 1 tsp.turmeric pd.
  • 1 tsp.black pepper pd.
  • or
  • 1 tsp. red chilli pd.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp.ghee.
  • 1/2 tsp. mustard(rai)
  • 2 cloves.
  • 1/2 inch cinnamon stick.Asafoetida (hing).
  • ⅛ tsp.Asafoetida (hing).

Method:

  1. In one big steel pot mix all dals and rice .Wash and drain  3 times  with water .
  2. Add 6 &1/2 cups water and all dry ingredients.
  3. Side by side heat tempering vessel and add ghee. Once ghee melts,add mustard seeds and wait for crackling sound. Add cloves , asafoetida and cinnamon . Pour this mixture in khichadi pot. Stir the mixture in pot .
  4. Place this pot in pressure cooker. Cover the pot with lid and close pressure cooker. Pressure  cook upto 4 whistles.
  5. Open cooker after  pressure releases and serves hot and pour 1 tsp. ghee per  plate. khichadi with Soup,tameta nu shak, papad and pickle.
  6. Serve hot khichadi with Soup,tameta nu shak, papad and pickle.

This is a simple type of khichadi which is healthy and yummy too but you can make more rich and spicy by adding different ingredients like onion and garlic and mixing some vegetables.

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(31) Tomato Soup.

Serves 4, 150 ml each

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium size tomatoes.
  • 4 Drumsticks 3 inches each.
  • 1 Carrot 6 inches long.
  • 500 ml Water.
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. black pepper powder.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp.Butter or Ghee.
  • 1 tsp. Jeera.
  • ½ inch cinnamon stick.
  • 2 Cloves

Method:

  1. Pressure cook all vegetables in 200 ml water. Add salt, sugar and black pepper. Cook upto 3 whistles.
  2. After pressure release, open the cooker and cool the things completely.
  3. Scrape pulp from drumstick with the help of spoon and discard skins.
  4. Blend all the vegetables in blender and strain with the help of strainer. Add water to to make required quantity.
  5. Boil soup for 5 mins. Side by side heat tempering vessel on slow flame and add butter . Once butter melt add cumin. After crackling sound add cinnamon and clove. Pour this tempered mixture in soup and boil for 1 more min. Serves hot.
  6. Serve your soup with handavo,khichadi biryani or as you want. Serve with love and smile
  7. You can also have during sickness .As drumsticks contains all nine essential amino acids, tomatoes are rich in fibers, lycopene, minerals and vitamins B and C and carrots are rich in minerals and vitamins A, D, E and K.

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(30) Handavo

Spicy cake

Ingredients:

Batter

500 gms handava batter{ 100 gms rice (chawal),50 gms. white urad(udad dal),50 gms. lentil( tur dal), 50 gms chickpeas (channa dal) soak and make coarse batter}.

Keep aside this batter upto 6-8 hrs. for fermentation

or

In market you will get ready made Idli-dosa batter .Same you can use to make handavo. Only after adding ½ cup suji.which will give crispiness to upper and lower layer of handava.

Masala:

4 tb sp. sugar,2 tsp chilli pd,3tsp.cumincoriander pd. 1/2 tsp haldi,4 tbsp.curd ½ inch grated ginger,2 green chilli paste.1 tsp soda ,3 tsp. salt.

Tempering ingredients for mixing with batter:

1/2 tsp rai ( mustard seeds),2 pinch of hing (Asafoetida),one tbsp.oil.

Tempering ingredients for pouring batter in pan.

2 tbsp.oil, ¼ tsp.mustard(rai) seeds, ½ tsp.sesame seeds and ½ tsp.sesame seeds for sprinkling over batter

Method

(1) In fermented handva batter add all masalas. Mix thoroughly. Sprinkle soda powder on batter

(2) Preheat tempering vessel ,add oil and rai and wait for crackling sound then add hing.

(3) Pour mixture over handwa batter and then mix thoroughly.

(4) Heat kadhai(pan) with oil and add mustard seeds . After crackling sound add sesame seeds and half of the batter.

(5) Cover the pan with lid .Cook the handavo until the upper surface look cooked or pierce knife which comes out clean and bottom surface turns light brown.

(6) Flip gently and again cook on slow flame upto 4-5 mins. or turns light brown.

Remaining half batter, repeat same process for making handvo.

7) Enjoy your handavo with sweet chutney,green chutney and vegetables soup.

8) You can also add boiled vegetables like green peas and sweet corns and / or grated vegetables like bottle guard zucchini , carrots .It will enhance the taste as well as nutrition.

Handavo in kadhai
Handavo in frying pan

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(23) Fajeto

Mango Soup

Serves 4 person 175 ml each

Ingredients

  • 400 ml water.
  • 6 mango’s seeds and skins remaining after extraction of pulp ( Aam ras )
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp.Sugar.
  • 1/2 inch grated ginger.
  • 2 green chillies halved lengthwise and reseeded.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 1/2 tsp. Cumin (jeera).
  • 2 Cloves (lavang).
  • 1/2 inch Cinnamon ( dalchini).
  • 8-10 curry leaves.
  • 1 tbsp. Freshly chopped coriander leaves.
  • 1 tbsp.ghee.

Method:

(1) In one big bowl take 400 ml. Water

(2) Squeeze and wash thoroughly skins and seeds of Mangoes in this water and drain it. Let 2 of the seeds remain inside for enhancing the sour taste.( Skins can be put to good use by transferring it to compost bin. And seeds can be Sun dried for further use in the making mouth freshner.

(3) Add to this salt, sugar, grated ginger and green chilli.

(4) Boil on slow flame for 5 mins.

(5) Side by side put tadka pan after adding ghee. as soon as ghee melts add jeera wait for crackling sound . Cloves, Cinnamon and curry leaves and finely chopped coriander leaves in it.Boil for 5 more mins. and mango soup is ready.

(6) Enjoy this soup with rice, chillas, biryani, pulao or as you want. you will like both type hot as well as cold. Cold mango soup is a refreshing drink in hot summer days.

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(17) Green Chutney

Ingredients

  • 5 cups washed,finely chopped coriander.
  • 5 green chillies. If you want more spicy then add more chillies.
  • 1cup washed mint leaves
  • 2tbsp.bhuna channa dal( roasted gram) or khara singdana ( roasted salty peanuts) if you want to use with farali dish.
  • 3 tbsp. lemon juice.
  • Salt to taste.
  • 1 tsp. sugar.

Method:

1)In a mixture jar grind bhuna chana dal and keep aside.

2) In jar add all ingredients except bhuna chana dal pd. and make a smooth paste by adding 100 ml. chilled water.

3) Now mix bhuna chana pd. and again churn the paste one more time.

4) Green chutney is ready,taste it once and now fill pop up ice tray with chutney. Freeze it for 8-10 hrs.

5) Unmould chutney cubes and keep it in air tight container and again freeze it.

6) Use these chutney cubes by defrosting whenever you needed

7) Enjoy you green chutney in sandwiches,vada,pakoda,with main course etc.

8) Please be quick during unmoulding .

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(50)Coconut Cubes

Ingredients

1 Coconut( Shreefal)

Method:

1) Buy good quality coconut with coconut water

2) Remove coconut from its hard outer shell.

3) Chopped coconut into dice size.

4)Grind these coconut pcs.with 100 ml. of water into coarse paste

5) Fill this coarse paste in ice tray and freezed it for 8- 10 hrs.

6) After 10 hrs. unmould coconut cubes and keep in air tight container .Keep this container in freezer .

7) whenever you want to use coconut either in curry or for making idli-dosa’s chutney or as hair food remove from the freezer and use.

8)Please be quick while unmoulding cubes and filling container with cubes.

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(01) Wheat Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Nowadays there is a revolution in the culinary industry that people bake bread not only with wheat but with other grains also. We get many different types of bread in the market .

Bread without yeast, without oven,in kadhai

Ingredients:

  • 200 gms Wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp.Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. Oregano.
  • 1½ tsp. Baking powder.
  • ½ tsp. Baking soda.
  • ¾ cup Butter milk( 5 tsp.curd+¾ cup water).
  • 1 tsp. Sesame seeds.
  • 2 tsp.oil
  • Oil for greasing bread vessel.

Method

Start pre heating kadhai

1 In one big mixing bowl mix all dry ingredients.

2 Slowly slowly add buttermilk and mix flour.

3 Add oil and mix it.

4 No hard mixing ,mix with fingers.

5 Pour mixture in greased bread vessel.

6 Pat mixture with greased fingers.

7 Sprinkle Sesame seeds.

8 Place bread vessel on stand in preheated kadhai.

9 Bake bread for 30 mins on slow flame and check by piercing knife .If clean knife then bread is cooked otherwise 5-10 mins.more on flame .

10 Turn off flame , apply ghee or butter on bread with brush or spoon .

11 Unmould bread after it cools.

12 Serve  your yummy healthy bread with milk or cutlets or batata vada or Kandabhaji. Serve with love and smile.

wheat bread

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