Saturday, February 23, 2008

Cabbage with Moong Dal

Cabbage with Moong Dal:
Serves: 6
Preparation Time: 45 Minutes Ingredients: Chopped Cabbage – 1/2 Moong Dal - 2 cups Chopped Onions - 1 Chopped Green Chillies - 7 Turmeric - 11/2 tsp Salt - 2 tsp Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp Urad Dal - ½ tsp Mustard Seeds - ½ tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Curry leaves - 1 Corriander leaves - 1/4 Oil - 3 tsp Daniya Powder - 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp Shredded Coconut - 1 tsp Method: First mix both chopped cabbage and moong dal in a container and then boil them until the moong is properly boiled. Drain the water completely from the container. Now add oil in the other pan and then make tadka or poppu by adding Cumin Seeds,Urad Dal and Mustard Seeds to it. Once these are boiled for a minute,add onions,green chillies,turmeric and ginger garlic paste to it. Now add the boiled chopped cabbage with moong dal in it. Add Chilli powder,Salt,Daniya powder and Shredded Coconut to it and taste it till everything is perfect enough... Finally decorate cabbage with moong dal receipe with corriander and curry leaves...ENJOY!!!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Spinach Dal


Spinach Dal:
Serves: 4
Preperation Time: 30 Minutes

Ingredients:

Chopped Spinach – 1 Bag
Chopped Tomatoes – 1
Toor Dal – 1 small cup
Chopped Onions - 1/2
Chopped Green Chillies - 7
Lemon sized Tamarind - small
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad Dal - ½ tsp
Mustard Seeds - ½ tsp
Ghee - 5 tsp
Curry leaves - 1
Corriander leaves - 1/4
Red chillies - 2
Chopped Garlic - 4

Method:

First pressure cooker Toor Dal, Chopped Spinach, Chopped Tomatoes, Chopped Onions, Chopped Green Chillies and Lemon sized Tamarind all together.

Add salt to it once its cooked well.

Now add ghee tadka(in hindi) which is even called poppu(in telugu) to it and mix well and have it with either rice or chapatti…{If you like to have with rice then make papad…which is really guddd combination}…

Finally, the procedure for tadka or poppu is as follows:

Initially, heat the pan by adding ghee for a minute and then add Cumin Seeds, Urad Dal, Mustard Seeds, Curry leaves, Chopped Garlic and Red chillies by mixing all together for another minute.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sarvapindi

Sarvapindi

Serves: 2

Preperation Time: 20 Minutes

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Grated onion - 1
Ginger mashed - 4
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Channa Dal - 3 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
oil - 10 tsp

Method:

Initially,soak the dal in water for 10-15 min.

Mix rice flour,grated onion,mashed garlic ,red chilli powder,salt and drained dal(make sure there is no water in it) like a chapati dough.

Divide the dough into pieces and roll them into balls.

Grease a frying pan with a little oil all over.

Take one of the balls of dough and flatten it all along the frying pan.

Make about 10 holes on the dough pan and spread oil all over the pan.

Finally fry the pan and enjoy with either ketchup or yogurt :-)

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