Mango dal

Ingredients:
Tur dal - 1 cup
Raw mango - 1
Green chillies - 3
Jeera - 1 spoon
Mustard seeds - 1 spoon
Curry leaves - 5-10
Dry red chilli - 3
Garlic pods - 4
Turmeric - 1/2 spoon
Hing - a pinch
Water
Oil
Salt

Procedure:
Pressure cook the dal together with raw mango pieces, green chillies, turmeric and sufficient water.
After 2 whistles remove from stove and mash the dal.
Heat a vessel and dd oil into it. Once its heated add the jeera, mustard seeds, red chillies, hing, curry leaves and garlic pods.
Once they start to splutter or when garlic turns light brown remove from stove.
Now add this seasoning to the prepared dal and serve hot with rice.

Aamras puri

Aamras
Ingredients:
Riped mangoes - 2
Cardamom powder - 1/2 spoon

Procedure:
Peel the skin of mangoes and grind them along with cardamom powder.
Don't add any water for this. Keep it aside once done.

Preparation of Puri's you can find here.
Once puri is also prepared serve it with aamras. It would be really yummy :)

Onion chicken curry

Ingredients:
Chicken - 250 gms
Onions - 3
Mint leaves - 1/2 cup
Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
Red chilli - 1 spoon
Garam masala - 1 spoon
Ginger garlic - 1 spoon
Green chillies - 2
Turmeric - 1/2 spoon
Salt
Oil

Procedure:
Grind the onions and keep the paste aside.
Heat a pan and add oil into it. Once oil is heated add the onion paste, green chillies and ginger garlic paste.
Fry them until the onions turns light brown or raw smell is gone.
Add turmeric and then add chicken. Fry for 2-3 mins and then add red chilli powder, garam masala powder, mint leaves, coriander leaves and salt.
Cook until the chicken pieces are soft and then remove from heat.
Serve hot with rotis or rice.

Green pulav

Ingredients:
Carrot - 2
Beans - 15-20
Cauliflower - 1 cup
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Potatoes - 2
Rice - 2.5 cups
Mint leaves - 1 cup
Coriander leaves - 1 cup
Green chillies - 4
Ginger garlic - 1 spoon
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Cardamom - 2
Cumin seeds - 1 spoon
Water
Salt
Oil/Ghee

Procedure:
Grind together tomato, onion, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon stick, green chillies, coriander leaves, mint leaves and keep aside.
Wash the rice and keep it aside.
Now take a vessel or cooker and add oil/ghee into it.
Once the oil is heated add the cumin seeds, when they start to splutter add the ground paste.
Fry until raw smell is gone and later add all the vegetables. Cook for another 5-10 mins.
Add the rice and fry for 2 mins and add 4.5 cups of water.
Cook until rice and vegetables are cooked nicely. If you are cooking in a pressure cooker off the stove after 2 whistles and keep it aside.
Serve with raita.

Everyone liked this pulav at home Prathibha :) Thanks for the recipe! Hope you remember sometimes it would be our quick lunch preparation with the ready made frozen vegetables ;)

Eggless dates cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1.5 cup
Seedless dates - 20
Baking powder - 1 spoon
Salt - 1/4 spoon
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar you can adjust with as per dates sweetness
Vanilla extract - 1/2 spoon
Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup

Procedure:
Coarsely grind the dates and sugar with little milk.
Sift together flour, salt and baking soda.
In the flour mix add dates mixture, remaining milk, vanilla extract, chocolate chips and butter. Mix well to form a uniform dough.
Keep the dough aside for 10 mins. Until then preheat the oven for 10mins at 180 ºC.
Grease the cake tray with butter and pour the mixture into it.
Bake the cake for 15-20 mins. Or you can check if the cake is done or not by inserting a toothpick.
If the toothpick comes clean the cake is done and you can remove it from oven.

Same dates cake recipe was prepared for Nandita's last year birthday and Chaitra's this year birthday :)

Eggless chocolate cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1.5 cup
Cocoa powder - 3 spoons
Baking soda - 1 spoon
Salt - 1/4 spoon
Water - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Vanilla extract - 1/2 spoon
Vinegar - 1 spoon
Oil or butter - 1/4 cup

Procedure:
Take a bowl and mix water, sugar, oil or butter, vanilla and vinegar till the sugar completely dissolves.
Sift together flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda.
Add the flour mix to the liquid mixture one table spoon at a time. Mix well to form a uniform dough.
Keep the dough aside for 10 mins. Until then preheat the oven for 10mins at 180 ºC.
Grease the cake tray with butter and pour the mixture into it.
Bake the cake for 15-20 mins. Or you can check if the cake is done or not by inserting a toothpick.
If the toothpick comes clean the cake is done and you can remove it from oven.

I prepared this cake on Nandita's birthday 2011. Chaitra thanks a lot for the recipe :)

Chocolate muffins

Last recipe prepared by my student Nandita and instructed by me at Finland ;) Sorry Nandita for the late update due to my vacation. Hope you are happy now :)

Ingredients:
Refined flour (maida) - 2 cups
Cocoa powder - 3-4 spoons
Baking powder - 2 spoons
Salt a pinch
Butter - 250 grams
Powdered sugar - 250 grams
Eggs - 4
Cashews - 5-10

Procedure:
Preheat oven to 180 ºC. Grease muffin moulds.
Take a bowl and add refined flour with cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
Mix together melted butter with sugar and beat well with a wire whisk or beater till light and fluffy.
Mix in one egg at a time and whisk thoroughly.
Pour batter into prepared muffin moulds, filling them only two thirds.
Bake at 180 º C for thirty five to forty minutes.
Once done remove from oven and garnish with cashews.

Capsicum soya curry

Ingredients:
Capsicum - 2
Soya chunks - 1 cup
Onion - 1
Tomato - 2
Turmeric - 1/2 spoon
Red chilli powder - 1 spoon
Coriander powder - 1 spoon
Garam masala powder - 1/2 spoon
Warm water
Salt
Oil

Procedure:
Heat a pan and add oil into it. Once oil is heated add onions into it.
Until onions are fried a little, take a bowl with warm water and keep the soya chunks in it for 5-10 mins.
Once the onions are fried add turmeric and stir.
Now add capsicum and fry for 5mins.
Squeeze the excess water from the soya chunks and add into the pan. Add tomatoes.
Later add red chilli powder, salt, coriander powder and garam masala powder.
Cook for another 10 mins and remove from heat.

Murkulu

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups

Urad dal - 1 cup

Red chilli powder - 1 spoon

Ginger garlic paste - 1 spoon

Ajwain - 1 spoon
Sesame seeds - 3 spoons

Oil for deep frying

Hot Oil/Butter - 3-4 spoons

Water

Salt

Procedure:

Heat a pan and add urad dal into it. Dry roast the urad dal until golden brown.

Remove from heat and allow it to cool. Once it is cooled grind it to fine powder and keep aside.

Take a vessel and boil the water. When water is boiled keep it aside.

Now take a large bowl and add all the ingredients rice flour, urad dal flour, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, salt, ajwain, hot butter/oil and sesame seeds.

To this add hot water and make a soft dough.

Heat a vessel and add oil for deep frying.

Take a murkku presser or a cookie press and insert dough into it.

Make your desire shape and size and deep fry in oil.

When it turns golden brown remove from oil.

Mixed veg curry

Hi Friends,

Sorry for no updates in the blog since more than a month. I was on short vacation as I returned back to India :) From now on I may not be able to update my blog daily as before but surely I'll update it weekly. I hope friends, you'll still view my blog and provide your comments, suggestions and support :)

Ingredients:

Green peas - 1 cup
Carrots - 2
Beans - 10-15
Onion - 1
Cloves - 2

Cinnamon stick -  1 inch

Bay leaves - 2

Red chilli powder - 1 spoon

Corn flour - 1 spoon

Milk - 3 spoons

Turmeric - 1/2 spoon

Salt

Oil

Procedure:

Heat a pan and add oil into it. Once oil is heated add onions.

Fry the onions for a while and then add turmeric powder, cloves, bay leaves and cinnamon stick.

Now add all the vegetables and mix well. (I added only 3 varieties you can add more)

Stir for 5mins and now add red chilli powder and salt.

Mix the corn flour in milk and keep aside.

Once the vegetables are cooked add the corn flour mixture.

Cook for another 5-10 mins and remove from heat.