Kolhapuri

Ingredients :
1 onion, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 potato, boiled and chopped
1 capsicum, chopped
1 carrot, boiled and chopped
1 tbsp peas, boiled
2 tbsp oil
¼ tsp cuminseeds
¼ tsp garam masala
1 tbsp coriander chopped
Salt to taste
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp dhania powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
¼ tsp tandoori powder
1 tsp red chilli powder

To be Ground together :
1 onion
½ " piece ginger
2 red chillies
3 to 4 garlic flakes
1 tomato
1 tsp sugar
Method :
Heat oil, add cuminseeds, allow to splutter.
Add add chopped onion, saute till tender. Add paste
Add red chilli powder, dhania powder turmeric powder and tandoori masala
Stir fry till oil separates. Add salt, garam masala, and ½ cup water.
Allow to simmer for 2-3 minutes. Add all vegetables. Mix well.
Cook till masala thicken enough to coat vegetables.
Add lemon juice, mix, take off fire.
Garnish with chopped coriander, serve hot.

Vegetable Kurma

Indian Recipe :

Ingredients :
Oil little
1 big onion
Salt to taste
1 garlic piece
2 carrots, 1 capsicum
1 potato, small ginger piece
7 to 10 beans, 3 to 4 cauliflower pieces
2 to 3 cloves, little elaichi
½ tsp cinnamon
10 to 15 cashew pieces
1 tsp of khus khus
½ cup coconut
Method :
Cut the onions into small pieces and one fourth of the onions into big pieces.
Take a Kadai with little oil and add cloves, cinnamon, elaichi and cashews and then fry a little add ginger, garlic and big pieces of onions and then keep it to cool a little after everything is fried.
Then grind the whole mixture with coconut and khus khus and keep it aside.
Now take a little oil and add sombu, and then onions, fry it nicely.
Take all the vegetables cut into small pieces and boil it in the microwave. After everything is cooked nicely add it to the onions and mix it.
Add salt in the ground mixture. Now after everything is mixed well add water if it is very thick.

Indian Vegetarian Recipes

Indian Cooking Recipe : White gravy

Ingredients :

100 gms cauliflower
2 potatoes
1 onion, chopped finely
2 carrots
100 gms french beans, chopped finely
100 gms of shelled peas

For Gravy :

2 tbsp of daaliya
3 tbsp grated coconut
3 green chillies
½ tsp khas-khas
2 cloves
1" piece cinnamon
1 cardamom
1 cashew-nut
½ cup milk

Method :

Fry the onions till light pink.
Pressure cook all the vegetables except Cauliflower and the fry onions with a little salt.
Boil the Cauliflower separately, so that it does not get mashed.
Soak the khas-khas, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and the cashew in a little water.
Grind the spices with daaliya, coconut, green chillies and milk.
Add the above ground mixture to the boiled vegetables.

 

American-Style Rice Recipe

 1)CUP UNCOOKED RICE
 2)2 CUP COLD WATER
 3)1/2  TO A 1 TEASPOON SALT
 METHOD

1.	Put rice, water, and salt in a 2-quart saucepan; cover with a tight-fitting lid. Bring to a vigorous boil then turn heat as low as possible. Continue to cook 14 minutes. Do not stir or lift cover. Turn off heat; allow rice to steam, covered, for 10 minutes more Makes 3 cups.

How to make…Muttakose vada

Muttakose vadai is a dish I learnt to make from my mother. Because it is a steamed dish, it hardly absorbs oil and retains the nutrients.

A vadai with the goodness of cabbage

What you need

Chopped cabbage: 3cups

Bengal gram (Channa dal): 1 cup

Split pigeon pea (Toor dal): 1cup

Green gram (Moong dal): 1 cup

Oil: 4 tsp

Red chillies: 10

Asafoetida: 1tsp

Salt: to taste

Curry leaves: a few

Cooking instructions

Soak all three varieties of gram in water for 30 minutes.

Grind it with chillies and salt and curry leaves.

Add chopped cabbage and asafoetida.

Make vadais by steaming it on idli plates.

Fry the steamed vadai in a pan with 2 tsp of oil till it turns crispy.

Serve with coriander chutney.

Manipal Idlis

Ingredients
1 cup rava (sooji)
1 3/4 cups thick fresh yogurt
3 tsps ghee
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp. split black gram dal
1 tsp. split bengal gram
1 tsp. finely chopped ginger
1/4 cup grated coconut
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup finely chopped coriander leaves
1/4 tsp baking powder
manipal idlis

Method
Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When they sputter add the grams. Fry until
light brown.
Add chilies, ginger, coconut, salt and rava. Fry for two minutes over medium heat. Cool.
Add yogurt (curd), coriander leaves and baking powder to the rava mixture. Pour into 12
lightly greased moulds of an idli stand. Steam for ten minutes.
Cool slightly before removing from moulds. Serve with saar and mint chutney.

Mal Puris

Ingredients
1 litre full milk cream
4 tbsp maida (white flour)
3 tbsp sooji
1 kg sugar
1/2 litre water
ghee (butter) for frying
mal puris

Method
Boil milk so that it reduces to half of the original quantity.
Keep the reduced milk to cool and then add sooji and maida together and mix so that it
does not form lumps.
Keep the batter for 10-15 mins.
Take a pan and put in ghee for shallow frying.
Put 1 tbsp of batter in ghee and spread it (to give the shape of a pancake) and cook on
slow fire.
Meanwhile, make sugar syrup with water.
Take out the pancakes when they are light brown and dip them in sugar syrup.
Garnish with pista/dryfruits and serve hot.(with kheer or rabri)