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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Idlis


Idlis (Idly, Rice Cake)

Ingredients
  • 1 cup urad dal (black gram or black lentil)
  • 2 cups rice/rice rawa or idli rawa (flour)
  • ½ spoon methi seeds
  • Salt to taste
Method
  1. Soak urad dal along with methi seeds for 4 hours. Soak rice or idli rawa in another bowl for 4 hours.
  2. Grind soaked urad dal in mixer. Make a fine paste with minimum water.
  3. Grind soaked rice/idli rawa coarsely with minimum water.
  4. Mix the two pastes together in a large bowl (since may overflow afterwards).
  5. Keep the mixture at warm place for 6 to 8 hours.
  6. Add salt and mix well.
  7. Oil the idli stand and pour the mixture in it.
  8. Put the cooker/large container with water on the gas/stove and heat. When the water is boiling, put the idli stand in it.
  9. Steam the idlis in a large cooker (without the whistle) or large container for 20 minute or till done.
  10. Remove the idlis from stand and eat with chutney and sambhar.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Soya Patties

Ingredients

  • 2 table spoon soya (soy) granules
  • 2 medium size boiled potatoes
  • 1 medium size finely chopped onion
  • 2 table spoon coriander leaves
  • 2 to 3 bread slices (brown or multi-grained bread preferred)
  • 1 tea spoon finely chopped ginger
  • 1 tea spoon finely chopped garlic
  • 1 tea spoon finely chopped chilies or chili powder (optional)
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tea spoon sugar
  • 1 tea spoon lemon juice
  • 2 table spoons bread crumbs
  • 2 table spoons of edible refined oil
  • 1 tea spoon turmeric
Method
  1. Add a pinch of salt to two cups of boiling water in a pan and add soya granules to it.
  2. Keep this aside for 7 to 10 minutes. Drain the water out of soya granules and squeeze water out of them.
  3. Mash the potatoes.
  4. Take one table spoon of oil in a wok. Put the wok on gas stove. Add onions in it and sir fry for 3 to 4 minutes. Add ginger, garlic, chilies (or clili powder) and stir fry. Add turmeric to it. Add salt and sugar. mix well.
  5. Add soya granules in the wok and mix well.
  6. Add the mashed potatoes to the wok and mix well.
  7. Stop the heat.
  8. Add coriander leaves.
  9. Crumble the bread slices and mix them in the wok. Add lemon juice. Make the firm dough of the entire mixture.
  10. Make small patties out of this dough. Roll them in bread crumbs.
  11. Shallow fry the patties.
  12. Patties can be used for making sandwiches or can be eaten as such with tomato ketchup.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Pear and Apple Cobbler: Simple Way, Yet Delicious

Ingredients
  • 2 to 3 table spoons of unsalted butter
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 pears (sliced)
  • 1 apple (sliced)
Method
  1. Melt butter in the baking pan
  2. Then mix milk, sugar and flour (maida) and baking powder
  3. Add this mixture to the baking pan
  4. Add the pear and apple slices to this
  5. Bake it till it is cooked
  6. Eat it warm

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Baingan Ka Bharta (Seasoned, Mashed, Roasted Eggplant)

Ingredients
  • Large eggplant 1
  • Large onion 1- chopped very fine
  • Large tomato 1- chopped very fine
  • Green chilies 2 chopped very fine or red chili powder (optional)
  • Turmeric powder 1/2 tea spoon
  • Cloves of garlic 7 to 8- chopped very fine
  • Chopped coriander 1/4 cup
  • Refined oil 2 table spoons
  • Mustard seeds 1/2 tea spoon
  • Asafetida(Hing)1/4 tea spoon
  • Coriander seed powder 2 tea spoons
  • Cumin seed powder 1/2 tea spoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Lime juice 1 tea spoon
Method
  1. Roast the eggplant till all the skin is burnt and the eggplant looks soft.
  2. Peel off the burnt skin and remove the top/stem of the eggplant.
  3. Mash the eggplant roughly, in a mixing bowl.
  4. Heat the pan on medium heat and add refined oil.
  5. Add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add asafetida (hing) and chopped onion and saute.
  6. When onion is cooked to light brown color, add garlic and saute further.
  7. Add chopped tomato, green chilies/red chili powder (optional), turmeric, coriander powder and cumin seed powder and saute. Cook till the mixture is done. Add mashed, roasted eggplant and mix thoroughly. Add salt to taste. Mix well.
  8. Add chopped coriander leaves.
  9. Add lime juice and mix well.
  10. Serve the cooked tasty seasoned Baingan Ka Bharata.

Gajar Ka Halwa (Carrot Halwa or Carrot Dessert)

Ingredients
  • Grated carrots 2 cups
  • Ghee (clarified butter) 3 to 4 table spoons
  • Full fat/whole milk 1 cup
  • Sugar 1 cup
  • Cardamom 4 to 5 pods
  • Milk powder 1/2 cup
  • Flaked almonds (optional)
  • Raisins (optional)
Method
  1. In a large pan put ghee and add 2 crushed pods of cardamom. Use medium heat and allow the pods to splutter.
  2. Put grated carrots in the pan and stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
  3. Reduce the heat and cover the pan and cook for 5 to 7 minutes. Stir from time to time till done.
  4. Add a cup of milk to it and allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
  5. Make a paste of milk powder and add it to the cooked carrots.
  6. Allow to simmer further for 5 to 7 minutes. Keep stirring.
  7. Once the moisture from mixture in the pan is reduced, then, add sugar.
  8. Stir and cook for next 7 to 8 minutes on low heat.
  9. Add to it powdered cardamom for flavor.
  10. For garnishing add flaked almonds and raisins.
  11. Yummy Gajar Halwa (Carrot Dessert) is ready to serve.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Shahi Bread Pudding: Simplified, Yet Delicious

Ingredients

4 bread slices
2 to 3 table spoons unsalted butter
1/2 liter milk boiled and reduced to half the quantity
4 table spoons sugar
Saffron
Chopped almonds (for garnishing)
Raisins (for garnishing)

Method

1. Apply butter to the bread slices on both the sides.
2. Shallow fry the buttered bread slices in a skillet (frying pan) till golden in color.
3. Put them in a nice serving bowl.
4. Add sugar to the reduced milk. Add saffron.
5. Pour milk over the golden bread slices.
6. Add chopped almonds and raisins on to the bread slices.
7. Cool and serve.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Deliciously Wow Coconut Rice In Zippy

Ingredients

1cup of rice
1cup of sugar
1 cup of grated fresh coconut
A table spoon of ghee (or unsalted butter)
Two cardamoms (broken)
Two cloves
Saffron
Almonds

Method

1. Wash 1 cup of rice in a bowl and keep it aside.
2. Take a table spoon of ghee (or un-salted butter) in a pressure cooker and put two cardamoms (broken) and two cloves in it. Put the cooker on gas stove (or hot plate) and allow to splutter.
3. Take out the washed rice from the bowl and put it in the cooker.
4. Saute the rice for some 3 to 4 minutes in the cooker, then add 1 cup of hot water and 1 cup of milk in the cooker.
5. Cook the rice in the cooker. Allow one whistle of the cooker. Remove the cooker from fire and allow it to cool.
6. Take a large pan (or wok), put in it 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of grated fresh coconut and cook on medium heat for 5 to 7 minutes. Stir with spatula and mix nicely.
7. Take the cooked rice from the cooker and spread it in a plate (dish) to remove the steam. Put the rice from the plate in to the pan and mix it thoroughly with the coconut mixture already in the pan and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
8. Add saffron and almonds to the coconut rice.
9. Deliciously wow coconut rice made in zippy, ready to serve.

Spicy Assorted Indian Pakoras Simplified

Ingredients

1 cup gram flour
1 table spoon corn flour
Salt
Red chili powder (quantity depends on how hot and spicy you want your Indian Pakoras)
Refined edible oil
Cut slices of onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and spinach leaves

Method

1. Take a 1 cup of gram flour, a table spoon of corn flour, salt to taste, red chili powder (quantity depends on how much spicy and hot you want your Indian Pakoras) and pour a table spoon of any refined oil in a bowl or container. Mix them well.
2. Add water in to this bowl to make a thick paste of the mixture.
3. Add to it the cut slices of onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and also the spinach leaves and roll them in the paste so that they get coated by the paste.
4. Put the frying pan on the gas stove or hot plate, pour edible oil in to it and heat it for few minutes.
5. Put the rolled-in sliced onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and spinach leaves in the heated edible oil in the frying pan and deep fry them until cooked.
6. Take out the spicy and hot Indian Pakoras on to a dish and they are ready to eat with tomato ketchup (keep a cup of coffee or tea ready to go with them).

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Easy to Cook, Yummy Egg Toast Savory (French Toast) With Minimum Ingredients

Ingredients (for one person)

2 eggs

Milk

Salt

Pepper

4 slices of bread

Butter or any refined edible oil or ghee

Method

Break eggs in a bowl.

Beat the eggs by an egg beater or fork or spoon till the yellow and white of eggs are completely mixed.

Add 1 or 2 table spoons of milk in it.

Add salt and pepper.

Stir this mixture with fork or spoon.

Light the gas stove or switch on the hot plate on low or medium heat.

Put the frying pan on stove or hot plate and allow it to heat for half a minute or so.

Pour a table spoon of butter or edible oil or ghee in the frying pan.

Soak a slice of bread in the egg mixture in the bowl from both the sides of the slice.

Shallow fry in the frying pan which has butter or edible oil or ghee already in it.

Roll the done slice on a plate from frying pan.

Repeat this for other 3 slices of bread.

Eat the yummy egg toast savory (if you like, with a small slab of butter on it).

Monday, August 11, 2008

Cooking Simplest Possible Omelet With Minimum Ingredients


Ingredients (for one person)

1-2 eggs

Chopped onion (quantity as per your liking)

Any edible oil or butter

Salt

Pepper

Method

Break egg(s) in a bowl.

Beat the egg(s) by an egg beater or spoon or fork till the yellow and white of eggs are completely mixed.

Add salt and pepper to the eggs.

Stir up all the ingredients in the bowl with spoon or fork.

Light the gas stove or switch on the hot plate on low or medium heat.

Put the frying pan on the stove or hot plate and allow it to heat for half a minute or so.

Pour a tablespoon of edible oil or butter in the frying pan.

Pour the ingredients of the bowl in the frying pan and spread them evenly in the pan with a flipper or spatula.

Allow to cook. You will know that the omelet is done when there is no liquid left in the eggs. You can turn the omelet upside down by the flipper or spatula and allow it to cook for a minute.

Roll the omelet onto your plate by the flipper or spatula.

Eat the omelet. Or you can insert the omelet between two bread slices to make an omelet sandwich and eat.

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