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Healthy food

(160)Palak Kofta Curry

Spinach Kofta Curry

Ingredients

  • 1½ bunch of Spinach.( Approx.300 gms)
  • ¼ cup beat curd.
  • Onion gravy Ingredients
  • 2 tbsp.Oil
  • 4 medium size onion.
  • ½ inch Ginger piece.
  • 3 Cloves.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 1 Green Cardamom.
  • 1 Black Cardamom.
  • 4 whole black pepper.
  • 2 Garlic pods.
  • Tempering Ingredients
  • 2 Bay leaves.
  • 8-10 Curry leaves.
  • 1 Whole red chilli.
  • 1 tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • Ingredients for Kofta
  • ½ bunch finely chopped Spinach.(100 gms.)
  • ¾ cup wheat coarse flour.
  • 2 tbsp. Chickpea flour ( besan).
  • 1 tsp. red chilli powder.
  • ½ tsp. Cumin Coriander powder.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ⅛ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 2 tsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp. Oil.
  • Oil for frying.
  • Garnishing.
  • ¼ cup finely chopped coriander leaves.

Method

  1. Wash Spinach leaves thoroughly and finely chopped ½ bunch of Spinach for kofta
  2. Marinate finely chopped Spinach with salt and sugar and keep aside.
  3. Blanch remaining Spinach and keep aside.
  4. Cut onions for gravy.
  5. Heat oil in nonstick pan and soute all dry ingredients and then add onion wedges, garlic pods and ginger .Soute till onion becomes translucent.
  6. Make a paste once it is cool down and keep aside.
  7. Make a puree of blanched spinach and keep aside.
  8. In marinated spinach mix wheat flour, besan and all spices.
  9. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly and make a kofta batter.
  10. Heat oil for kofta frying.
  11. Half fry all kofta and keep aside.
  12. Heat oil in nonstick pan and add Cumin seeds. After crackling sound add Asafoetida powder, bay leaves, curry leaves, red chilli. Quickly stir and add onion gravy . Soute till oil separates. Add curd and Spinach puree. Give quick stir for 2-3 times and then add 1 cup water.
  13. Once gravy starts boiling add all kofta , close the lid and cook in slow flame for 5 minutes.
  14. Switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.
  15. Taste the dish before serving. Serve hot Spinach kofta Curry with paratha, kulcha, nan, roti, bhakri , rice or as you wish.
Washed spinach.
Spinach kofta batter
Onion gravy
Blanched spinach
Spinach puree with curd.
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Healthy food

(159)Nawabi Paneer

Paneer in white gravey

Ingredients

  • 500 gms. Malai Paneer.
  • 4 medium size onion.
  • ½ inch Ginger piece.
  • 1 whole green chilli.
  • 2 Garlic pods.
  • 2 bay leaves.
  • 20-25 Cashew nuts.
  • 2 tbsp. Poppy seeds (Khus khus).
  • 2 Green cardamom.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 2 – 4 whole black pepper.
  • 1½ tsp. Salt.
  • 3 tbsp. Oil.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • ½ tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • 2 tbsp. beat Curd.
  • 2 tbsp. Cream.
  • 1 cup water.
  • 2 tbsp. finely chopped coriander leaves.

Method

  1. Cut malai paneer block into 1 inch cubes and keep aside.
  2. Chop onions into big pieces.
  3. Heat 2 tbsp. oil in nonstick pan. Add Cumin seeds. Wait for crackling sound and add Asafoetida powder, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Bay leaves, Black pepper, Green chilli, Pieces of Ginger and last Garlic. Soute all spices for 2 minutes and then add Cashew nuts and poopy seeds and salt. Soute till Cashew nuts turns crispy. Now add Onion pieces.
  4. Soute onions till translucent.
  5. Cool completely before grinding into paste.
  6. Heat remaining 1 tbsp. of oil and soute white colour paste till it separate oil.
  7. Add beat Curd and Cream and give quick stir.
  8. Add paneer cubes and water.
  9. Close the lid and cook till gravy starts boiling.
  10. Taste the dish before serving. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with Paratha, Nan, Kulcha, Fulka roti, Bhakhri or as you wish.
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Pickle

(154)Amla Gunda nu Athanu

Indian Gooseberry and Gumberry Pickle

Ingredients

Method

  1. Wash and wipe Amla and Gunda.
  2. Cut each amla in to lengthwise wedges and keep aside.
  3. Cut each Gunda into 4 and remove seeds and keep aside.
  4. If we measure after cutting Amla and Gunda whole content is 7 cups.
  5. In big vessel , mix amla, gunda and athana no sambhar . Also mix seeds of gunda.
  6. As mucilaginous pulp of fruit, which remains stick with seeds, having medicinal value and when pickle will season in a week time whole mucilaginous pulp will mix with pickle.
  7. Store in air tight glass jar at room temperature. After tightly fill jar with pickle, pour extra oil on the top and make sure that layer of the oil is above the pickle layer but if you are storing pickle in refrigerator then no need to add extra oil.
  8. Enjoy pickle with any of your favourite food but it taste best with steamed rice, khichadi or with plain Roti, Paratha, Bhakhri and Rotla.
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Healthy food

(140)Kobi Dadam Dana ni Salad

Ingredients

  • 250 gms Cabbage (Kobi)
  • 1 medium size Pomogranate. (Dadam)
  • 1 tbsp. finely chopped coriander leaves
  • 1 tsp. lemon juice.
  • 1 tsp. Chaat masala.
  • 1 finely chopped green chilli( optional)

Method

  1. Shred washed cabbage with potato slicer.
  2. Remove seeds from Pomogranate and keep aside.
  3. Finely chop washed coriander and green chilli .
  4. In mixing bowl mix shredded cabbage with seeds of Pomogranate. Add coriander and green chilli, lemon juice and chat masala
  5. Cabbage Pomogranate Salad is ready to serve.
  6. Serve with fulka roti, bhakhri, puri, kulcha, thepla, khakhra or as you wish.
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Pickle

(81) Keri Gunda Athanu

Mango and Gumberry pickle

Ingredients

Method

  1. Wash keri and cut into 1 cm. small pieces.
  2. Add 2 tbsp. salt and 1 tsp.turmeric powder . Marinate this for 24 hrs.
  3. After 24 hrs. remove keri pieces in strainer. You can use this strained salt turmeric water in pickle like khati gurmar,dara, kerda,lila mari and gunda.
  4. Wash gunda thoroughly and wipe with cloth so no water content remains.
  5. Gently smash gunda and remove seeds .Cut each gunda into 4 pieces.
  6. Mix sambhar, keri and gunda in one big vessel.
  7. Next day add oil in it and again mix thoroughly.
  8. Keri gunda pickle is ready.
  9. Fill up this pickle in clean ,dry and air tight glass jar .
  10. Serve with love and smile and enjoy this pickle whole year.
keri tukda from vendor
cut and separate seed portion from keri tukda
Each big piece cut into small 1 cm. cubes
Athana no Sambhar
Gunda
Deseed gunda
Keri,gunda and sambhar in sauce pan
Keri gunda nu athanu
Categories
salads

(77) Lila lasan nu kachumber

Ingredients

  • Green garlic 100 gms.
  • ½ tsp ghee.
  • ½ tsp cunin
  • ⅓ tsp salt.

Method

  • Seperate white hairy roots from the garlic pods.
  • Wash thoroughly and finely chopped green leaves as well as garlic pods.
  • Heat ghee and cumin seeds in saucepan.
  • After crackling sound add freshly chopped materíal in it.
  • Saute for 2 minutes.
  • Add salt.
  • Accompanied with roti,paratha and rotla or as your desire.
  • Serve with love and smile.
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Sweets

(29) Sevaiya kheer

Vermicelli Kheer

Ingredients:

  • 150 gms. Vermicelli
  • 1 tbsp.ghee.
  • 1 lit. Milk.
  • 5 tbsp. Sugar.
  • Chopped dry fruits.
  • Pinch of Cardamom powder.

Method:

1)soute vermicelli in ghee to light brown and keep aside.

2)Boil 1 lit.milk to its half in thick sauce pan .

3) Mix vermicelli in boiled milk ,add sugar ,chopped dry fruits and cardamom powder. Boil for 1 min.and kheer is ready.

4) Enjoy kheer with puri, paratha, thepla or as you like.

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Dinner lunch

(20) Stuffed Kulcha

Roasted stuffed flatbread

Make 12 Kulchas

Ingredients

1 bowl (250 gms.)wheat flour

1/2 tsp.salt

1tbsp.sesame (til)seeds

2 tbsp curd(dahi)

2 tbsp.oil

130 ml water

For stuffing:

1 cup grated cheese

Chat masala

Method:

1)In one big mixing bowl add all ingredients for making dough and knead for 2 mins.

2) After pouring 1 tsp.oil on dough knead for 1 min. more.

3) Cover the dough and allow it to rest for 30 mins.

4) With the help of rolling pin roll tennis ball sized dough into round flat bread.Now put 1/12 th of grated cheese in the centre, sprinkle chat masala over it. Make it into ball by pinching all sides together,gently press to flatten and once again roll into flat round bread(kulcha).

5) Apply water on upper side of kulcha with fingers or brush

6) Flip upper side on hot tawa so that kulcha stick to tawa .

7) Roast upper side of kulcha directly on flame.

8) once upper side roasted,put the tawa again on flame so that lower side starts cooking on tawa.

9) same way roast all kulchas and apply pure ghee or buuer on it

10) Enjoy kulcha with any curry of your choice.

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Daal

(19) Rasawala Moong

Green gram curry

serves 4 150 ml .each

Ingredients

1 bowl (100 gms.) green gram( moong)

2 tsp.salt

4 garcinia( kokum)

2 inch size jaggery ( gud) ball

1/2 inch grated ginger

Tampering (tadka) ingredients:

1tbsp. oil,1/4 tsp.mustard(rai) seeds, pinch of Asafoetida (hing) 1/4 tsp.jeera( cumin),8-10 fenugreek ( methi),1 red chilli halved and deseed ,5-6 curry leaves,1 tsp. washed finely chopped coriander (dhaniapatti)leaves

Dry spices(masala)

1/2 tsp. turmeric (haldi),1tsp.CorianderCumin( dhaniajeera) pd.,1/2 tsp. red chilli ( lal mirchi)pd.

Method:

1) Wash moong for 3 times, add 3 bowl water and pressure cook upto 3 whistles.

2) When pressure cooker cool down ,check that moong is tender. If uncooked,cook again for 3 more whistles.

3) In cooked tender moong add all ingredients and 1 bowl water except tadka ingredients.

4) Boil on slow flame for 5 mins.

5) Put tadka pan side by side with slow flame after adding oil . Add rai and wait for crackling sound then add jeera and methi,hing,chilli,curry leaves and coriander leaves.

6) Boil for 2 mins. and Rasawala moong is ready.

7) Enjoy with fulka roti ,wheat bhakhri,paratha,kulcha,jowar roti,bajari roti and /or rice

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