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Green Pav Bhaji

Ingredients - Oil - 2 tbsp Butter- 2 tbsp Cabbage - roughly chopped - 1/2 cup Lauki - Bootle Gaurd - roughly chopped - 1/2 cup Eggplant - remove skin and chop roughly - 1/2 cup Capsicum - finely chopped - 1/4 cup Fresh Peas - optional - 1/4 cup Corn - 1/4 cup Potato - remove skin and chop roughly - 1 cup Spring onion - finely chopped - 1/2 cup onion - finely chopped - 1/4 cup Tomato - finely chopped - 1/2 cup Green chilies, ginger, and garlic - paste 1/2 tsp each or finely chopped 1/2 tsp each Salt to taste Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Pav Bhaji Masala - 2 tsp Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp Lemon juice- 1 tsp Process - Put oil in a pressure cooker and turn on the stove flame. Add green chili, ginger and garlic paste. Let it cook on a slow flame for 1 minute. Now add chopped onion and cook it for another 1 minute. Add red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and pav bhaji masala with tomatoes, saute ...

Tomato Chutney for Dosa

Ingredients- Tomatoes - 4 medium size Garlic - 7-8 cloves or 2 tsp garlic paste Sesame seeds - 2 tsp Red whole chilies- 2 or red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Oil for tempering Curry leaves- 5-6 leaves Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 tsp Process - Take a frying pan and heat up 1tbsp oil in it. Once the oil is hot enough for tempering, add some mustard seeds and chili, then add whole garlic cloves and roughly chopped tomatoes. Cover the frying pan and let it cook until it becomes dry, keep stirring every 2-3 minutes to make sure it doesn't get burnt. Add some salt. Once the water is evaporated and tomatoes are cooked, turn off the stove and let it cool down completely. Meanwhile, dry roast sesame seed and grind into dry powder with the help of a mixer grinder. Now in the same jar, add cooked tomato and garlic mix. Make a smooth paste. chutney is ready now we have to make tempering for the same. Taste once, and if you need to add salt, add some at this stage. Now for tempering, ...

Cabbage Muthiya by Rupam

Ingredients Muthiya - Semolina 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Whole wheat flour 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Besan 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Salt To Taste Turmeric powder 1/4 Teaspoon Cumin and Coriander seed powder - Dhaniya jeera powder 1/2 Teaspoon each Baking soda 1 Pinch Cabbage 2 Cup finely chopped Ginger paste 1/2 tsp Garlic paste 1/2 tsp Green chili paste To Taste Curd - Dahi - 3 Tablespoon Lemon juice 1 Tablespoon Tempering - Oil 6 Tablespoon Mustard seeds 1/2 Teaspoon Sesame seeds 1 Teaspoon Lemon juice - 1 tsp Coriander 1 Teaspoon, finely chopped Process - Mix all the ingredients listed under Muthiya except the soda and leave it aside for about 10 minutes. The cabbage releases some water, which should be good enough to bind it all together. You can add more water if needed. Add the baking soda. Conversely, If the mixture becomes too watery, you can add more flour till it all comes together as a soft dough. You should be able to give it a log shape when you grip the mixture between your h...

Gujiya - Dry

Ingredients DOUGH- All-purpose flour - Maida - 1 cup Powdered sugar - 1 tsp Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp (optional) Melted Ghee - 2 tsp Baking powder - a pinch STUFFING - Semolina - 1/2 cup Ghee - 3 tbsp Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup Grated dried coconut - 1/4 cup Milk powder - 2 tbsp (optional) Cashew nut - finely chopped - 1 tbsp Almonds - finely diced - 1 tbsp Raisins - 1 tbsp Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Process - Mix all-purpose flour, powdered sugar, cardamom powder, baking powder with Ghee. Mix these very well and now start binding them together with the help of putting in little water. Do not put too much water at once, try and do it slowly and make a dough. It should not be very soft, and it should not be very stiff also. Try to make it of medium consistency. Now, for stuffing, take a frying pan and roast semolina with Ghee on slow to med flame until it turns golden brown, now keep the flame on low heat. Add milk powder and powdered sugar together. Add grated coconu...

Vegetable Momos by Rupam

Ingredients - FOR DOUGH 1½ cup maida / all purpose flour ½ tsp salt water for kneading oil for greasing FOR STUFFING: 3 tsp oil 2 finely chopped chili, 4 tbsp spring onion 1 cup carrot 2 cup cabbage finely chopped 1/2 cup Capsicum ½ tsp pepper ½ tsp salt Process - Firstly, prepare stuffing by heating 3 tsp oil and saute 2 chilies add 2 tbsp spring onion and saute on high flame. Further, add 1 cup carrot and 2 cup cabbage, 1/2 cup Capsicum stir fry on high flame. Now add ½ tsp pepper and ½ tsp salt. The stuffing mixture is ready. Now take out a small ball sized momos dough and flatten, dust with some maida and start to roll using a rolling pin. Roll to an almost medium thin circle, Around 4 – 5 inches in diameter. Make sure you roll from sides and keep the center slightly thick. Now place a tbsp of prepared stuffing in the center. Start pleating the edges slowly and gather everything. Press in the middle and seal the momos forming a bundle. Heat a steamer a...

Aate and Gud ke laddu

Ingredients - Wheat flour - 2 cup Jaggery ( GUD) - finely choped or crushed - 1 cup Ghee - 1 cup Dry fruits - chopped cashew nuts, sliced almonds, raisins - 2 tbsp each Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Process - Start roasting aata and ghee in a cooking pan, on slow to medium flame. Keep mixing and cooking the flour until it turns brown. Take another pan, put just a tbsp of ghee in it. Put jaggery and let it melt on a slow flame for 2-4 mins. Now immediately mix this with roasted flour. Mix all the ingredients well, put all the dried fruits and cardamom powder. Turn off the flame. Make sure Jaggery is mixed well with flour. Wait till this mixture cools down a bit and you can handle it, immediately start making ladus. Do not let it cool down completely if the jaggery is processed, it might get difficult to make ladus once it completely cools down. If you find it difficult to make ladus, you can spread the mix on a greased tray evenly and when the mixture is still a little warm, make s...

Lemon Cake

Ingredients - Plain Flour - 1 cup Corn Flour (optional) - 1 tbsp Ghee - 4 tbsp Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup Lemon zest - 1 tsp Lemon juice - 1 tsp Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp Sprite or any other lemon fizzy soda drink - 1/2 cup 6" cake tin or 6 cupcake molds Process- Take a mixing bowl and add all the wet ingredients other than soda- Ghee, condensed milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla essence and mix all these together until forms a smooth paste. Now sieve plain flour, corn flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl. Start putting this dry ingredient mix into your wet ingredients and keep whisking the batter. Add soda drink to make this batter of pouring consistency. Don't whisk it too much, just make sure all the ingredients are mixed well and there are no lumps in the batter. Now pour this in a greased cake tin and bake it in a preheated oven at 170 degree Celsius for 25-30 minutes. Tip- You can add yellow food ...