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Palak Biryani

Palak Biryani

Palak Biryani (spinach rice) is not only an easy to prepare vegetarian rice dish but also a healthy way to get all goodness of spinach.Spinach rice or palak rice: an Indian-style spiced up spinach style that’s quick to make and delicious

Ingredients:
    Other ingredients:
  • 1 cup Basmati rice Basmati Rice
  • 1 1/2 cup Palak
  • 1/2 cup Coriander leaves
  • 2 Green chillies
  • 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
  • 2 Onions
  • 2 tomatos
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp Coriander powder
  • 1/2 tsp Cumin powder
  • 1 tsp Garam masala powder
  • 2 Cloves
  • 1/2″ piece Cinnamon
  • 3 Cardamom
  • 4 tsp Oil
  • Salt to taste

For The Garnish:

  • Onion and Tomato
  • Method:
    • Soak the rice for half an hour and dain and keep aside.
    • Chop palak and coriander leaves.and grind them to a smooth paste.
    • Finely chopped onions and tomatos.
    • Heat the oil in a kadai. add the cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
    • Add onions and cook light brown. and after add ginger garlic paste.
    • Add all dry spices and tomatos mixed well until tomatoes are soft and pulpy.
    • And after add spinach paste and fry well.
    • And rice and as you required.
    • Low flame cook until rice done.
    • Garnish with onion and tomato.
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    Upma Recipe

    Upma Recipe

    upma is a traditional south indian breakfast dish made from rava. rava is also called as suji in hindi and cream of wheat in english. upma is usually served with coconut chutney, lime slices or lime pickle. it can also be had plain.

    Ingredients:
      Other ingredients:
    • 1 cup rava Rava
    • 1 chopped onion
    • 2 chopped green chilly
    • 1 cup rava Chana Dal
    • 1 cup rava Urad Dal
    • ½ inch ginger grated
    • 2.5 cups water
    • 1 tsp mustard seeds
    • ½ tsp cumin seeds
    • 1 sprig of curry leaves
    • 10 to 12 cashewnuts
    • sugar add as required
    • 2 tbsp oil or ghee
    • salt as required

    For The Garnish:

  • coriander leaves
  • Method:
    • Heat kadai first. add 1 cup rava. Begin to roast the rava.
    • The rava grains should become fragrant and start to look dry, separate and crisp.
    • Switch off the flame and then add the roasted rava in a plate and keep aside.
    • In a pan, heat 2 tbsp ghee or oil add 1 tsp mustard seeds.
    • Now add the cumin seeds along with chana dal and urad dal and add cashews.And Fry till they begin to brown a bit
    • Now add the finely chopped onions.then add the chopped green chilly, ginger, curry leaves. cooked for a minute.
    • Then add water to this mixture. add salt as required. and after add sugar as required.
    • When the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the flame to its lowest. then add the rava. Once you add the rava, stir immediately.
    • Quickly stir and mix well. the rava grains absorb water and thus swell and get cooked.
    • Cover and allow the rava upma to steam for 2 minutes on the low flame ,then switch off the flame. here the rava is cooked and the upma is ready.
    • Lastly add about 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves.
    • serve upma with coconut chutney.
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    Sambar Recipe

    Sambar Recipe

    Idli Sambar is also an all-time favourite that is almost synonymous with south Indian food! From the smallest roadside hotel.A delicious lentil recipe made in southern part of India.

    Ingredients:
      For sambhar powder:

    • 1 tbsp chana dal
    • 1 tbsp sukha dhaniya
    • ½ tbsp urad dal
    • ½ tsp jeera
    • ¼ tsp methi seeds
    • 3 red chillies
    • Other ingredients:
    • ¾ cup Toor Dal
    • 2 cups water to cook Toor Dal
    • Lemon sized ball of Imali
    • Salt as needed
    • 12 to 15 sambar onions
    • 6 to 8 beans
    • 1 medium carrots
    • 1 large chopped tomato
    • 1 tsp turmeric
    • Tempering:
    • 2 sprigs curry patta
    • 1 red chilly broken
    • ¾ tsp cumin
    • ¾ tsp mustard
    • pinch of methi
    • pinch of hing

    For The Garnish:

  • coriander leaves
  • Method:
    • Wash dal with 2 cups water and 2-3 whistles of pressure cooker.and mash Toor dal as you want.
    • Soak imali in little hot water, compress the pulp. Keep this aside.
    • Dry roast the ingredients for sambar powder make a powder.
    • Add oil to a pot and heat up. allow jeera, mustard and methi to splinter. Add lal mirch, curry
      patta and hing. Set aside half the tempering if you wish to add at the end.
    • Add veggies and saute for 2 to 3 minutes.
    • Add sambhar powder and cook for a minute.
    • Water and cook until the vegetables are soft cooked.
    • Add filtered tamarind and Toor dal. Stir and bring it to a boil.
    • Add the rest of the tempering and coriander leaves.
    • Serve hot with idli.
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    Rajasthani Dal Dhokli Recipe

    Rajasthani Dal Dhokli Recipe

    Rajasthani Dal Dhokli is a delicious Indian recipe served as a Curries. Easy to make, tastes wonderful with lots of lemon juice.

    Ingredients:
      For Dhoklis:

    • 1 cup Wheat flour
    • 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
    • Salt to taste
    • 1 tsp Cumin seeds
    • 1 tsp Garam Masalapowder
    • 2 tsp Ghee
    • Water as per need
    • For Dal:
    • 1 cup Toor Dal
    • 1 cup Moong dal
    • 2 tbsp Ghee
    • 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
    • 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
    • 1 tsp Garam Masala
    • 1 Onion (chopped)
    • 1 Tomato (chopped)
    • 1 tsp Red chilly powder
    • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
    • Salt
    • Coriander leaves (chopped)

    For The Garnish:

  • coriander leaves
  • Method:
    For Dhokalis:
    • Take the wheat flour, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, salt and cumin seeds.
    • Add the ghee and water and mix everything into a smooth dough.
    • Make small balls from the dough and press dough with your palm to form a ball.
    • Make a hole in the centre of the pressed wheat dough discs and keep aside.
    • Also, cover the rolled dhoklis.
    • For Dal:
    • Wash and soak the dals together for 2 hours.
    • Drain the water and pressure cook the dals together in 4 cups of water with turmeric powder and salt.
    • Keep aside until the dals gets cooked.
    • Take a pan. Heat the ghee and add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds crack.
    • Add the chopped onions and chopped tomatoes and cook for a few minutes.
    • Now, add the cooked dal, garam masala powder and red chilli powder and cook everything in medium mode.
    • Now, add the already prepared dhoklis to the cooking dal and let them for at least 20 minutes.
    • Finally, add the coriander leaves.
    • Enjoy warm with more coriander leaves.
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    Moong Dal Pakoda Recipe

    Moong Dal Pakoda

    Moong dal pakoda is an awesome meal that can be served for breakfast, lunch, or any time of the day for that matter. Yellow moong dal simmered with vegetables and spices, this dish is quite wholesome and does not even require any grand accompaniments.
    Ingredients:
    • 1 cup moong dal
    • 3 green chillies, Chopped
    • ½ inch ginger, chopped
    • A pinch of hing
    • 1 tsp whole black pepper
    • 1 tsp coriander seeds
    • Water as required>
    • Salt as required
    • Oil for deep frying
    Method:
    • soak moong dal in enough water for about overnight. drain the water and add them to the mixture grinder.
    • Add the chopped green chillies, ginger and hing. Add water and grind to a smooth paste.
    • Coarsely crush the black pepper and coriander seeds in a mortar-pestle.
    • Add these to the ground moong dal batter.Add salt and mix well.
    • Stir the batter resolutely for a few minutes.
    • Take a pan and heat oil.
    • Fry moong dal pakoda till crisp and golden.
    • Drain the moong dal pakoda on paper napkins to remove extra oil.
    • Serve the moong dal pakoda hot or warm with coriander chutney.
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    Benefits of Urad dal

    How Urad dals Are Beneficial For Us?

    Urad dal is a considered to be one of the best vegetarian dal which has health benefits too.
    • Urad Dal help boost the energy levels in the body and keeps you actives. And also increasing your body energy.
    • Urad Dal Urad dal is good source of protein in Indian meals.
    • Urad Dal is used in swelling of joints and muscle pain.
    • Urad Dal also has used beauty benefits. urad dal face packs apply to skin its manage to fine lines.
    • Urad Dal is also good for women as it has iron, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, potassium which makes it a healthy pulse.
    • Its rich fiber content is easy for digestion and also improves digestion.
    • Aside from reducing cholesterol, black lentils also boost health.
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    Mix dal Recipe

    Mix Dal Recipe

    Dal is a staple dish in Indian meals and, for most Indian vegetarians, a frequent source of protein. This delicious, nourishing dish can accompany any number of different meals. Mixing a variety of lentils gives a more interesting flavor.

    Ingredients:

      Lentils:

    • 1/4 cup split urad dal
    • 1/4 cup split moong dal
    • 1/4 cup masoor dal
    • 1/4 cup toor dal
    • 1/2 tbsp turmeric
    • 1 tbsp minced ginger
    • 3 cups water
    • 1 tbsp garam masala
    • 1/2 tbsp mango powder
    • 1 salt
    • 4 tbsp ghee or oil
    • 1 tbsp jeera seeds (cumin)
    • 1/8 tbsp hing
    • 1/2 tbsp red chili powder
    • 4 whole red chilies

    For The Garnish:

  • coriander leaves
  • Method:
    • Take all mix dal, Wash and soak in epoxy. 4 cups of water for at least 45 minutes. And Drain the
      water.
    • Take a pressure cooker and 3 cups water and also add salt, turmeric, and ginger. Cook on medium
      heat.
    • When pressure cooker starts to steam, cook seven minutes to medium heat.
    • Wait to steam outside to pressure cooker after open pressure cooker.all mix dal should be soft and
      mushy.
    • If you want add water in all mix dal for thickness than you add water. and cook another 5 minits on medium heat.
    • last add garam masala and amchoor powder.
    • Serve warm garnished with coriander leaves
    • Chaunk:
    • Heat ghee in a small saucepan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the ghee; if it cracks immediately, the oil is ready. Add the cumin seeds. When they begin to crack, add the asafetida, red chilies and red chili powder. Stir for a few seconds. To prevent the spices from burning, you may add one teaspoon of water. Pour spiced chaunk over dal.
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    Benefits of Rajma

    How Rajma is Beneficial For Us?

    Rajma is a considered to be one of the best vegetarian Lentils which has health benefits too.
    • Cholesterol level is also lowered because of Rajma because they are a good source of soluble fibre.
    • Rajma is also helpful for weight loss.
    • They are also a good source of potassium and magnesium which dilate the blood vessels and arteries and ensure smooth blood flow.
    • Rajma help in strengthening the immune system by boosting and protecting our immune system from harmful effects of radicals.
    • Rajma helps in reducing the risk of cancer.
    • Energy levels are increased because of rajma as they contain iron.
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    How to make Rajma?

    How to make Rajma?

    punjabi rajma masala – simple and easy one pot punjabi rajma masala or kidney beans curry.

    Rajma is a special recipe as it includes 9 types of lentils in it.

    Ingredients:

    Lentils:

    • 1 cup rajma
    • 3 cups water for pressure cooking
    • 2 green chili chopped
    • 2 tbsp chopped lahsun
    • 1 inch chopped ginger
    • 3 medium tomatoes chopped
    • 1 large onion chopped
    • 1 tsp turmeric powder
    • 1 tsp regular garam masala powder
    • 1 tsp red chili powder
    • 1 tsp dry mango powder
    • 1 tsp cumin seeds
    • 4 tbsp butter
    • salt as required

    For The Garnish:

    • coriander leaves
    Method:
    • Rinse the rajma beans for a couple of times in running water. And the rajma beans then soak in enough water overnight or for 8 to 9 hours.
    • The next day, drain the soaked water.
    • chop all vegetables – onion,tomatoes,ginger,garlic and green chilies.
    • In a pressure cooker add the rajma along with the chopped onion, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chilies now add the spices.
    • Add butter. stir again.
    • Cover tightly and pressure cook for 16 to 18 whistles on a high flame.
    • Once the pressure settles down on its own, open the lid and check the beans. the rajma has to be cooked completely.
    • Once the rajma are cooked well, then check the gravy or curry also, you will see thin water like stock with the tomatoes and onions floating. so you have to continue to simmer the rajma masala till the curry thickens a bit.
    • Keep the cooker on stove top and on a low to medium flame, simmer without lid. stir at intervals.
    • Add dry mango powder. also add garam masala powder.
    • Stir well and simmer the curry till the consistency thickens. mash a few rajma beans with the back of a spoon to thicken the consistency.
    • When the consistency of the curry is no longer broth like or water like and thickened. then the rajma masala is ready. if you want you can thicken the gravy more, if having with chapatis or phulkas.
    • Lastly check the taste and add more of salt, garam masala, red chili powder or dry mango powder if required.
    • Garnishing rajma masala with coriander leaves is optional. serve rajma masala with some steamed rice or with chapatis, parathas or bread.