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Healthy food

(232) Celery – Green Peas Paratha.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Celery leaves.
  • 1 cup Green Peas.
  • 3 Green chillies.
  • ½ inch Ginger piece.
  • ½ cup Finely chopped Coriander leaves.
  • 1 tsp. Mango powder (Aamchur powder).
  • 1 tsp. White Sesame seeds.
  • 3 cup Wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 5 tbsp. oil for dough.
  • 1 tsp. Garam masala.

Method

  1. Pluck leaves from Celery stalk, wash and keep aside.
  2. Wash Green peas, chillies and Ginger and keep aside.
  3. Grind it into a fine paste of all ingredients and keep aside.
  4. In a mixing bowl mix wheat flour, oil, and all dry spices. Mix thoroughly and check oil is in the exact amount by making fist of flour. If flour holds the shape it means oil is perfect.
  5. Mix paste in flour and knead soft dough with the required quantity of water.
  6. With the help of dry flour roll parathas and roast with ghee on medium flame.
  7. Serve hot with Bundi Raita, Golkeri pickle, Chass or herbal tea, Green chutney or as you wish.

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(158)Dhokli nu Shak

Any beans you can use in this recipe like Cluster beans( Gavar), French beans(Fansi), Lobia beans(Choli) and Broad beans( Val papdi).

Ingredients

  • Ingredients of dhokli:-
  • 1¼ cup coarse Wheat flour.
  • 4 tbsp. Oil.
  • ½ tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp. Chilli powder.
  • 1 tsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • ½ tsp Carom seeds ( optional).
  • 2 tsp. Sugar.
  • ⅓ cup water.
  • Ingredients of shak:-
  • 1 cup  beans of your choice.
  • 2 tbsp. Sesame seeds oil.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ½ tsp. Salt.
  • ½ tsp. Carom seeds.(Optional)
  • 2 tsp. Sugar.
  • ½ tsp. Green Chilli paste (optional)
  • ½ tsp. Ginger paste.
  • 1 tsp. Red chilli powder.
  • 1 tsp. Coriander Cumin powder( Dhanajeera powder)
  • ½ cup water.
  • ¼ cup finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • Ingredients to add after the cooking of dhokli:
  • 1 tsp. Jaggery.
  • 6 kokum or 2 tbsp. Lemon juice( 2 lemon juice cubes)

Method

  1.   Wash and Chop beans of your choice.
  2. In a pressure cooker  add oil, Asafoetida powder and washed beans , salt and sugar. This is called cold tadka. As we are not heating oil .
  3. Stir once and add remaining ingredients of shak in the pressure cooker. Add ¼ cup water. Again stir and switch on the flame.
  4. Pressure cook upto  two whistles. Keep aside.
  5. In mixing bowl mix wheat flour with oil and then mix remaining  ingredients of dhokli and knead into soft dough. Keep aside for 1 hour.
  6. After 1 hour due to the coarseness  of the wheat flour,soft dough now turns into medium hard dough.
  7. Hold a small portion of dough and roll over a wooden  board  or mat and make a long cylinder. Now hold this cylinder with one hand and with the other hand fingers, pinch a small portion of dough.  Roll the dough portion with your fingers and then press with your thumb. This way makes all dhokli and keep aside.( see Video).
  8. Open the lid of the pressure cooker. Stir and mix the cooked beans.
  9. Add 3  glass (1½ lit.)of water in same cooker and boil on high flame.
  10. Once it starts boiling add all dhokli , give one quick stir and close the lid and pressure cook upto 2 whistles.
  11. Once pressure releases, open the lid and adjust the consistency by adding water,
  12. Add jaggery and kokum,  give one boil on high flame. If you want to add lemon juice instead of kokum then mix juice only after switching off the flame.
  13. Taste the dish before serving. Serve hot dhokli nu shak with Fulka Roti, bhakhri, paratha, rice  or as you wish.
  14. Serve with love and smile.
Proper quantity of oil in the flour hold the shape.
Dhokli
Cooked beans.
Making of Dhokli
French beans and dhokli.
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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

(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

(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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Quick Cooking Tips

(146) Mixed Herbs Butter.

Ingredients

  • 100 gms. Amul butter.
  • 1tbsp.finely chopped fresh Parsley.
  • 1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh Basil.
  • ¼ tsp. Oregano powder.
  • ½ tsp. Chilli flakes ( optional)
  • 4 Garlic pods or 1 tbsp. green garlic paste.

Method

  1. Pluck leaves of Parsely from stalks.
  2. Wash leaves and finely chop. Keep aside.
  3. With the help of rolling pin crush Garlic pods into smooth paste. Keep aside.
  4. Bring butter to room temperature .
  5. In mixing bowl, mix all ingredients- butter, Parsely leaves, Oregano powder, Chilli flakes and Garlic paste.
  6. Mix well and refrigerate.
  7. It remains fresh for 6 months in freezer.
  8. Apply this butter on bread, bhakhri, roti, paratha, kulcha, chila, Idli, Dosa or as you wish.
Mixed Herbs Butter
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Breakfast snacks

(123) Khakhra

Ingredients

Leftover fulka rotis.

Method

  1. Heat iron tawa on high flame.
  2. Start making khakhra on medium heat with the help of wooden press.
  3. Give gentle pressure every time whenever press with wooden press.
  4. Each khakhra will take 2 to 3 minutes depending on the thickness of roti.
  5. Apply melted ghee on khakhra and sprinkle Jiralu, athana no sambhar or as you desire.
  6. Enjoy with masala tea, coffee, hot chocolate milk, turmeric milk, masala tea or as you desire.

You can also make khakhra from leftover paratha, thepla or bhakhri . This khakhra will take more time means 5-6 minutes as thickness is mostly double then roti. Procedure will be the same.

Roti
Khakhra
Making of Khakhra
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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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vegetables

(99) Bhinda nu shak

Lady finger sabji

Ingredients

  • 500 gms. Lady finger
  • ½ cup Til oil.
  • 1 cup finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • ½ cup dry coconut powder.
  • ¼ cup coarse besan or coarse dalia dal (roasted channa dal)
  • 2-3 Kokam(Garcinia) or 1 tbsp. lemon juice.
  • 1 tbsp.Coriander-Cumin powder.
  • ½ tbsp. Chili powder.
  • 1 tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • ½ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • ½ tsp. Mustard seeds.
  • ¼ tsp. Fenugreek seeds.
  • ½ tbsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp. Sugar.

Method

  1. Wash thoroughly and wipe with dry cotton cloth each bhinda otherwise water content remains makes shak sticky.
  2. Cut each into ½ inch dice .
  3. Heat oil in kadhai. Add Mustard seeds in the hot oil. Wait for crackling sound.  Add Fenugreek seeds and Asafoetida powder . Wash kokam and add.
  4. Add cut bhinda , give nice stir and close the lid. Turn the gas stove  switch  on slow flame.
  5. After 2 minutes open the lid and give nice stir for 2- 3 times.
  6. Cook bhinda on medium flame and frequently stir so that bhinda won’t stick to the bottom of kadhai.
  7. Once bhinda is tender and  all slimy material dry off add salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly.
  8. Add coconut powder, coriander leaves and dry spices . Mix thoroughly. Cook for one more minute and Bhinda nu shak is ready. If you wish you can add fried cashew and kismis which enhance the  taste of bhinda nu shak.
  9. Enjoy with phulka roti, paratha, bhakhri, gluten free rotla like jowar, bajri, nachni ( Ragi) , or oats.
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Pickle

(85) Keri no murabbo

Mango jam

Ingredients

Mango seeds which we kept while making gol keri and keri gunda athanu.

  • ¾ cup Mango pulp
  • 1 cup Sugar

Method

  1. Pressure cook all mango seeds upto 3 whistles.
  2. Scrap pulp from seeds. Strain the gathered pulp.You will get ¾ cup pulp from the seeds of 1 kg Mangoes.
  3. Mix  sugar and pulp thoroughly in thick bottomed sauce pan.
  4. Cook for 5 minutes on medium flame. Stir continuously, otherwise it will stick at the bottom.
  5. After 5 minutes cook on slow flame. Stir continuously.
  6. Check jam consistency after 8 minutes by dropping one drop on plate. Stir continuously.
  7. After 10-15 seconds hold plate horizontal . If drop shift, it  means jam is not ready.
  8. Stir continuously and again check after 2 minutes. This time drop remains at its place , it means jam is ready.
  9. Cool it down for 15 minutes, but occasionally stir the jam even after swiching off the flame.
  10. Pour the jam in clean, dry glass jar and store at room temperature for whole year.
  11. Enjoy Mango jam with bread, toast, roti, bhakhri, paratha or as your desire.
Steamed Mango seeds
Scrap seeds
Mango pulp
Strained mango pulp
¾ cup Mango pulp
1 cup Sugar
Pulp with sugar on gas stove
Check the consistency
Pouring consistency of jam