CURD RICE

The most important dish of South Indian MOM. And its not only limited to MOM, here in everyones life its very important,,,,, After every meal they have curd rice, without it their meal wouln't get completed......
South Indian people have it auspiciously........

Five year's back when i joing IHM Bangalore, first time I saw & heard about it. I was very reluctanat about it. Me n my room partner always bet on this if anyone of us will eat one small bowl of it, other person will give Rs. 500/- to him, but we never tried it.........
Time thaught us how to eat it, my friend had some health problem & Doc suggested to only have "Curd Rice",,,,,,,, the biggest shock for us...........

From that time we started eating "Curd Rice", now its my one of the favourite dish but i like the little sour & with nice tadka, typical South Indian one, which have jeera(cumin seeds), rai(mustard seeds), kadi patta, chana dal(split bengal gram), urad dal(split black gram), hari mirchi(green chili) & its my addition shegdana(pea nuts), may people add grappes both green & black & pomogranete...........

Yesterday I took it on tiffin for lunch, few of my friends tasted it & like it alot, they ask me to bring it again & in more quantity so i thought lets put this recipe on blog


Ingredients

Curd/yogurt
Cooked rice
Oil
Cumin seeds
Mustard seeds
Split bengal gram
Split black gram
Pea nuts
Kadi patta
Green chilies
Salt
Coriander leaves
Grapes (optional)
Pomogranate (optional)


Methods

• Whisk the yogurt, till smooth.
• Add rice salt & littel cold water.
• Dry roast the grams & peanuts.
• Heat little oil , add mustard when cracker add cumin, green chillis & kadipatta
• Mix tadaka & dry roasted gram & peanut wit rice.
• Mix finely chop corriander leaves.
• Add optional grapes & pomogranate
  
• Now its ready to eat
• Taste awesome if eaten cold with pickel.....

MY CAKES

These are snaps of my few cakes (gaetaux) which i used to prepare for commercial purpose.

I think cakes are one of the easiest things to prepare, but it is easiest when you have interest in it.

It took me almost 5-6 months to bring finishing in my work.

I almost prepared 68 cakes in the duration of 6 months of my work.

I'm in love with bakery prep., i love to make cookies & bread too, but cakes was the favourite one.

Out of all cakes i took very few snaps, lots of coustmer having it whome i sold the it.

My favourite flavour is butterscoth, most of the cakes was in butterscotch, other than that i sold, pineapple gaetaux, black forrest, Dark chocolate fantasy, ganache cake, strawbery chees cake, starwbery gaetaux, white forrest & many more,,,,,,,,,

Here few snaps of my cakes are available



My last order Butterscotch









Simply vanilla








Butterschotch








Strawberry Cheese Cake








Vanilla & chocolate
Mickey Mouse






Now I'm not making cakes, I'm doing banking.
Feild totally changed, but i still love cooking & making cakes, its in my blood so it will never go.....

MY SWEETHEART

One of the best combination in soft drinks.
Very easy to prepare, if u wann impress your betterhalf by making something its the one of the best thing you can prepare.
Hope your love will get impressed by you this effort.
For all husabands its very easy & less time consuming prep.


Ingredients:

Apple juice (fresh or canned)
Soda
Strawberry


Method:

• slice the strawberreis lenghtwise
• pour apple juice in a tall glass
• slit strawbery from the bottom so it can get adjust on the glass rim.
• keep the glass on the plate with sliced strawberries.
• pour the soda n serve to your love.
• don't forget to put sliced strawberries in the drink in front of he person, with your lovely love coat..................................

Keda nu shaak {Gujrati Jain, dry prep)

Keda nu shaak (kele ki sabji),

I got this recepi from my friend Pooja, she Gujarati Jain.
Making Jain food is easy n its healthy.
Most important thing it doesn't have the crying process i.e. chopping of onions.
Jains doesn't eat any root vegetables & its very logical.
For potato they use plantain (raw banana).
Its my experience, that u can replace potato by raw banana (plantain), its gives you excellent output.
lets try this recipe...........


Ingredients:

Raw banana 2 nos
Tomato 2 nos
Oil 2 tbsp
Hing a pinch
Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Red chilli powder 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Garam masala 1 tsp
Chat masala 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Corriander leaves


Methods:

• Pressure cook the whole raw banana.
• Peel and chop the banana and keep aside.
• Heat oil, add hing, mustard seeds, allow to crackel then add cumin seeds, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder.
• Add chopped tomatoes & cook well till its start leaving the oil
• Now add the chopped banana, garam masala, chat masala & salt
• Toss well, & its ready to serve.
• If u wish add chopped coriender leaves
  

Carrot Koshimbir

Few day back Mai(mom) prepared it for lunch, i loved it....
Mai learned it from her colleague & tried it out at home, one of the basic n easiest recipe which anyone can prepare.......
It blend well with any food veg or non-veg.
It can be used as the sandwich filling with spicy mint chutney & it taste great......
so here is the two in one recipe carrot koshimbir which generally used as an accompaniment for meal & can be used as sandwich filling


Ingredients (4 serving)

Carrots 1 no medium size
green chili 1 no
roasted peanuts 20 gm
chopped coriander 2 tbsp
salt to taste
lemon juice 2 tsp
curry leaves few
oil 1tsp
mustard seeds 1/2 tsp


Method

• peel and grate the carrot.
• add finely chop chili n coriander to it.
• crush the roasted peanut & add.
• prepare tempering, heat oil add mustard seeds when crackle add the crushed curry leaves n pour on the grated carrot.
• add salt & lemon juice n mix well.
• ready to serve
  

Apple Pie (Baking Free)

Wow, it taste awesome, one of the best dessert i have ever had. Having hot apple pie with vanilla ice-cream is amazing. I will suggest you to try it once & you will want to have it every time.
Many people want to prepare it but they think its difficult to make, here I'm giving you the easiest recipe for apple pie, which doesn't required baking. So any one can prepare it at there place.
Apple pie taste really good when its served hot. Always try to serve it hot. & here is the recipe for Apple Pie.


Ingredients:

Apple 250 gm
Sugar 100 gm
Cinnamon powder a pinch
Digestive biscuits 14 nos
Unsalted butter 50 gm

Method:

• Peel & roughly chop apple.
• Mix sugar, apple & cinnamon powder in cooking pan.
• Cook the mixture till well done.
• Crush the biscuits and mix butter to it & make dough.
• Roll the dough, it should be 1 cm thick.
• Grease the mould & line the rolled dough.
• Now pour the cold apple mixture in it.
• make the strips of the dough & cover the mould first horizontally n then vertically.
• Keep in fridge for 1-2 hours.
• cut into pieces & serve warm.

Rawa Idli

Idlis are from south india. Every dish has its history. Rawa Idli was invented at the time of emergency, at that time people wanted alternative for rice idlis. MTR the oldest food joint of Bangalore, Karnataka, still working is the origin of Rawa Idli. MTR is now one of the best food chain available in Bangalore for its traditional food & now they prepare ready to eat, spices, condiments, ready mix & many more things. MTR represent "Mavalli Tiffin Room". MTR's first joint is still working near Lalbagh Garden. If you want to have have anything in this joint you should have patience, it happens very rarely that you get table vacant.


Ingredients:
Semolina (roasted & cooled) 2 cups
Split blak gram (urad dal) 1 cup
Fenugreek seeds a few
salt to taste

Method:
*Soak the gram & fenugreek seeds for 3-4 hours.
*Grind till li8ght & frothy.
*Mix with roasted & cooled semolina.
*Add salt & leave for overnight.
*Steam in steamer & served with chutney.

Green Chilli Pickel (Jhatpat Hari mirch ka achar)

I love pickle, I'm crazy about it........... When I was a kid, I used to see my mom making pickle, mostly mango, but the the procedure was very long. Here is the very easy pickle recipe which we can have as soon as we finish the preparation. I learnt this achar from my sweetest Priti Mausi. When i was studying in Bangalore i always asked here to pack different types of achar for me. I learnt lots of recipes from housewife's only. I salute all mom's, wife's & sister's because they are the real inventor of new food preparations within the basic cuisine with limited access to material variety.

Ingredients:

Green chillies 250 gm

lemon 5 nos

Cumin(jeera) powder 50gm

Coriander(dhaniya) powder 50 gm

Fennel seed(sauf) powder 50 gm

Asafoetida(hing) 1/8 tsp

Rai ki dal 25 gm

Salt to taste

Edible refined Oil 50ml

Method:

• Wash and remove all moisture from chillies.
• Cut lengthwise into 2 or 4 according to size of chili.
• Heat the oil, add hing and all other powder and saute.
• Now add green chillies and saute well till all the moisture removed from it.
• Remove from heat and add rai dal , mix well.
• When the mixture gets cool add lemon juice.
• Keep the mixture in glass bottle.
• Heat oil and cool it, add to the pickle mixture till its cover the full mixture.
• Pickle is ready to eat.

Party menu (without onion, garlic & tomato)

These recipe I learnt from Mayunk Bhai's Mom Mrs. Jain. She Used to take cooking classes. She is wonderful cook. As we know all housewives have there wonderful secret recipes, so here is few of them. Today I'm writing a full menu for small Get Together (GT). This full menu I learnt from auntie only. Just I'm including one starter & vegetable raita.

The menu is :

Paneer Pakoda

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Chhole
Bhatura
Palak Pulao
Vegetable Raita
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Choco Vanilla Sundae
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Paneer Pakoda

Ingredients: (serves 4)

Paneer thin slices 12 n0s

Bengal gram flour (besan) 60 gm

Salt to taste

Chili powder to taste

Oil to fry

Method:

• Prepare a smooth batter with gram flour, salt, chili powder & water (pouring consistency).
• Dip paneer and fry in hot oil.
• Serve piping hot with mint chutney or tomato ketchup.

Chhole

Ingredients:
Chhole 250 gms
Oil 15 ml
Chili powder 1 tsp
Jeera powder 1/2 tsp
Coriander(Dhaniya) powder 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Jaggery crushed 1 tsp
Tamrind pulp 2 tsp

Method:

• Soak chhole overnight. Pressure cook till full done.
• Heat oil, add jeera pwd, dhaniya pwd, chilli pwd, cooked chhole & cook for 2 mins.
• Add jaggery, tamarind pulp & salt, mix well.
• Add little water if required.Add freshly chopped coriander & serve hot.

Bhatura

Ingredients:
Rfined flour 400 gm
Yogurt (curd) 115 gm
Soda bicarbonate 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to deep fry

Method:

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Make dough with curd, salt, soda, flour & little water (fairly wet).

Keep aside for opne hour.

Knead well. Roll our puries of 6" diameter.

Fry them in hot fat like puries & serve hot with chhole.

Palak Pulao

Ingredients:

Pulao rice 500 gm
Jeera 1 tsp
Bay leaf 2 nos
Palak (spinach) 250 gm
Salt to taste
Oil 20 ml

Method:

• Wash rice and soak.
• Wash n chop spinach.
• Heat oil, add jeera, bay Leaf & chopped spinach.
• Cook spinach till well done.
• Add rice, water & salt. cook till done.

Vegetable Raita

Ingredient:

Cauliflowe 100 gm

Carrot 100 gm

French beans 50 gm

Green peas 20 gm

Potato 50 gm

Pomogranade 50 gm

Curd (yogurt) 250 gm

Salt to taste

Sugar to taste

Black pepper powder to taste

Method:

• Boil all vegetables separately, refresh all except potato.
• Whisk curd with sugar, salt & pepper powder.
• Mix vegetable, pomogranade & curd together. Now its ready to serve.

Choco Vanilla Sundea

Ingredients:

Vanilla ice cream

Chocolate sauce

Dry fruits Chopped

Tuti fruity

Method:

• Pour chocolate sauce from the rim of glass and make design.
• Add one scoope of ice cream & and dry fruits and tuti fruity.
• Repeat it again & pour chocolate sauce over it.
• Garnish with lots of nuts & cherry.

Aloo Channa Chat

This prep varies from place to place. Its totaly upon us how we will prepare it according to our taste. In our college this was the always first choice for starter, because its very easy. Here I'll tell you the easiest version without any chutney.





Ingredients



Potato boiled (aloo) 250 gm

Cheak pea boiled (kabuli channa) 100gm

Fresh Pomogranade 50 gm

Onion Large finely chopped 2 nos

Tomatoes Large finely chopped 2 nos

Green chillies finely chopped 8 nos

Salt to taste

Lemon large 5 nos



Method:

• Boil the potatoes and soaked cheak pea saperately.
• Add onion, tomatoes, green, cheak pea, potato, corriander & salt.
• Add pomogranade, lemon juice & mix well.
• serve chill.

Lahsuni Palak (spinach with garlic)

I love garlic. This is the easiest prep with only 5 ingredient including salt.



Ingredients:

Palak (spinach) 250 gm
Garlic 10 cloves
Green chillies 2 nos
Butter 20 gm
Salt to taste


Method:

Blanch spinach and make fine puree.
Chop garlic very fine.
Slit chillies length wise.
Heat the pan, add butter and saute garlic till cook.
Add green chillies and spinach puree and cook well.
Add salt according to taste.
Finish with 1 spoon of fresh cream(optional).