Aloo peas Pulav

Basmati rice - 1 cup (soak for 2 hrs)

Onion - 1 small chopped

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Shahi jeera or Cumin seeds - 3/4 tsp

Green chili -2 slit them in half (optional)

Peas - 1/2 cup

Potatoes - 4 small, chop into half

Sugar - 1/2 tsp

Salt - to taste

Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Oil - 2 tsp

Water ( 1:2)

Dry masala - 

Pata - 1 inch, 

Lavanga - 3, 

bayleaf - 1 tear it,

Black cardamom - 1,

Green cardamom - 2

Method:

1. Heat ghee, oil in a rice cooker pan or a normal pan.

2. Now add dry garam masala and fry for a min.

3. Now add onions, green chiliand fry till they are light golden brown.

4. Now add ginger garlic paste and fry for a min.

5. Now add aloo and fry for 5 mins, until edges are light brown.

6. Now add soaked rice and mix well. 

7. Now add peas, sugar and mix well for a min.

8. Now add salt and water and garam masala and mix well.

9. Transfer entire thing into electric rice cooker dish and cook until its cooked well.

In instant pot.

1. from points 1-7 cook everything in instant pot and close the lid.

2. Now lock the instant pot lid in place and seal the vent. Select Manual or High pressure for 6 mins.

3. When the cooking time ends, let it sit for 10 mins and turn off the manual/pressure cooker mode.

Pani puri water

 water - 3 cups

Everest  masala - 4 tsp

aam Chur - 1/2 tsp

chat masala - 1/2 tsp

red chili powder - 1/2 tsp

salt

lemon - 1/2

Soft idli recipe with idli rava

Ingredients:

Urad dal - 1 cup (wash and soak over night)

Idli rava - 2 cup (wash and soak 2-4 hrs)

Poha - 1 cup (soak 1 hr)

Method:

1. In a mixie, take urad dal with enough water to grind into paste and take out in a big bowl.

2. Now from soaked idli rava,  squeeze out water and add to urad dal batter and mix well.

3. Now add little by little urad and idli raava mix with soaked poha in mixie and grind to a smooth paste in mixie.

4. Take out in a big bowl and store in a dark place for 8-10hr to ferment.

5. once fermented, make soft idli

Grilled Mushroom Sandwich

 

Ingredients

• Bread - 4 slices
• Button mushrooms - 2 cups chopped
• Green Chillies -  1 finely chopped (optional)
• Garlic - 8 chopped
• Salt and Pepper , to taste
• SpinachLeaves - 10 finely chopped
• Butter - as required
• Oil , for cooking
• Mozzarella cheese

Method for mushroom mixture:

Heat oil in a pan, 

Now add garlic and fry for 2 mins

Now add mushroom, spinach and fry till water is evaporated. 

Now add green chili, pepper and salt and saute well and cook for 2 mins

Grilling the sandwich

1.Now take bread and spread the butter nicely. 

2.Add about 2 tablespoons of the mushroom mixture on one slice 

3.Add 2 tablespoon mozzarella cheese on top of mushroom and cover with the other slice

4.Now grill the Mushroom Sandwiches using a Panini Press or Sandwich Maker and serve warm.

5.You can alternatively use a Tawa and toast the sandwich. Place the untoasted sandwich on the Tawa on a low-medium flame and place heavy plate on top of the sandwich so that the mushroom filling stays inside. Remove the plate flip to the other side to get an evenly toasted sandwich. 

simple Rasam -2

 

Simple Tomato Rasam

Set 1

Tomato - 2 M round ones ( MW for 8 mins with 1 cup of water)

Tamarind - cherry size

Onion - 1 small

Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup

Curry leaves - 5

Tadka:

Oil - 3 tbsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

urad dal - 1/2 tsp

methi seeds -3

Garlic - 4 crushed

Dry red chili - 1

hing

Set 2

Red chili powder - 3/4 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Salt 

Rasam poder / sambar powder - 3/4 tsp

method :

squeeze set 1 ingredients I=nicely

Now heat oil in a pan, add tadka ingredients and fry well

Now add boiled and mashed tomato pulp with 2 cups of water and cook for 2 mins

Now add red chili powder, turmeric, salt and rasam powder

and let it boil for 10 mins

Shrimp Curry / Prawn curry

 

Shrimp Curry / Prawn curry

 

Ingredients:

Shrimp - 2lbs ( Add turmeric to shrimp and cook for 2 mins in little oil )

Ginger and Garlic paste - 2tsp each

Onions - 1 large chopped fine

Green chilies - 3-4no. (cut lengthwise)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Tomato - 1 chopped

Chilli Powder - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 3/4 tsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Coriander leaves for garnishing

curry leaves - 10 leaves

Mint - 4 leaves

Oil- 5-6 bspns

water - 1/2 cup

Proceed:

a) Heat oil in a pan add shrimp and fry for 1 or 2 mins only ( they just need to turn pink, if you have any water in the pan from shrimp, keep it aside, u can use that in curry)

1. Heat oil in the same pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, onions, curry leaves, mint and chillies, and fry until light pink.
2. Add ginger-garlic paste and mix well.
3. Now add turmeric, red chili powder, salt, and mix well.
4. Now add tomato and mix well and cook with lid closed.
5. Now add shrimp with shrimp  water which was left while frying shrimp
6. Now add Garam Masala and mix well n cook for 5 mins
7. Now add extra water and close the lid and cook till 15 mins on low flame.
8. Garnish with coriander leaves

* Home made Masala powder - 3tspns coriander seeds, 1tsp poppyseeds (white), 1inch cinnnamon stick, 5cloves, 4cardamom. grind these in coffee grinder in to fine powder, remaining store in tight jar.

boiled potato fry

Boiled potatoes - 4

onion - 1 small chopped long

Green chilies -2

giner garlic paste - 1 tsp

mint - 4 leaves

curry leaves - few chopped

chana dal - 1 tsp

Urad Dal - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds -1/2 tsp

red chili powder - 1 tsp

turmeric - 1/2 tsp

salt

method:

heat oil in pan, add Chana Dal, Urad Dal, mustard n cumin seeds fry till light brown

now add onion, green chili, curry leaves, mint n fry till onions r light brown

now add ginger garlic paste n fry for a min

now add rcp, turmeric, salt n mix well for a min

now add chopped boiled potatoes n fry for 2 mins

now put the flame low n cook potatoes for 20 mins

sprinkle coriander leaves n serve hot