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Quick Cooking Tips

(241)Mix Dal flour OR batter

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Masoor dal.
  • 1 cup Moong dal.
  • 1 cup Chana dal.
  • 1 cup Tur dal.
  • ½ cup Udad dal.
  • ½ cup Rice.

Method

  1. Mix all dals and make coarse flour in a flour mill.
  2. OR Mix all dal in a big sauce pan .
  3. Wash thoroughly for 2 times and soak for 8-10 hours.
  4. Drain all water and add dal, finely cut 2 inches ginger, 2-3 green chillies, ½ cup Coriander leaves and salt. Grind it in a mixture grinder and make smooth batter without water.
  5. Enjoy Chila, Dhokla, Uttapam, Idli and Dosa from this batter. For chila, dosa and uttapam, you have to add some water to meet the consistency. Whereas the flour can  be used for making Thepla, Puri, Paratha, Muthiya and also for Chila, Dosa, Idli and Dhokla.

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snacks

(148)Dudhi na Thepla

Ingredients

  • 2 cup grated bottle guard (dudhi ni chhin).
  • ½ tbsp Salt.
  • ¼ cup Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • 1 tsp. Black sesame seeds.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 1 tbsp. Red Chilli powder.
  • 1 tbsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 1 tsp. Ginger paste.
  • ⅓ cup Curd.
  • ¼ cup Chopped Coriander leaves.
  • 3 cups wheat flour.
  • 9 tbsp. Sesame oil.

Method

  1. First rinse, peel and then grate the dudhi in a bowl. (Before you grate, check the taste of dudhi , If it is bitter to taste, then throw it away).
  2. Mix the sugar , salt and jeera very well with the grated dudhi and keep covered aside for 10 minutes. The dudhi will release its juices.
  3. After 10 minutes add all remaining spices and curd. Mix well and keep aside.
  4. In another bowl, mix wheat flour and oil . ( If dry wheat flour hold shape, it means amount of oil what we add is proper).
  5. Mix dudhi mixture with flour and knead in to dough . If your flour is dry then add one by one spoon of curd for kneading (total 4 tbsp. extra curd used).
  6. once dough is ready, add 1 tbsp. of oil to grease the dough. Keep aside for 30 minutes.
  7. After 30 mins. divide dough into 30 equal parts .With the help of rolling pin, roll each dough ball like roti and shallow fry with oil .
  8. Apply ghee and serve hot or carry with you while traveling or in offices.
  9. You can enjoy your thepla with Aam ras, Masala tea, herbal tea, tameta nu shak, kela nu shak or any pickle, murrabo, chhundo.
Dudhi ni chhin(grated bottle guard)
Marinate with salt,sugar and cumin seeds
Marinated dudhi ni chhin
All Dry spices and ginger paste with marinated dudhi ni chhin
consistency of thepla dough.
Making of Dudhi na thepla
Categories
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.
Categories
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.
Categories
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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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
Categories
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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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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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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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