Happy Ugadi

Ugadi Subhakanshalu.

Wishing you all a very Happy NewYear.

Ingrediants :

Jaggery

Small pieces of raw mango

Neem flowers (In U.S we don’t find neem flowers, so I made mine with out them)

Small pieces of banana

Little bit of red chillie powder

A pinch of salt

Preparation :

1. Soak tamarind in water for few minutes or microwave for 20 seconds.

2. Squeeze the pulp, the consistency should be little thick (if u feel it’s too thick, u can always add water).

3. Now add jaggery, mango, banana, neem flowers, red chillie powder and salt.
4. Offer to the god and then eat as prasadam.

Mango Rice

Ingredients:

Grated mango - 1 medium

Cooked rice - 2 cups rice

Turmaric -1/4 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

For popu - oil 3 tbsp

Red chilli - 2 Green chillies

Ginger pcs - 1/2 tsp

Ground nut - 2 tbsp

Cashews - 1 tbsp

Bengal gram -1 tsp

Black gram - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Inguva - a pinch

Curry leaves - 5 to 6

Preparation :

1. Heat oil in a pan add all popu ingredients and fry up to light brown. add grated mango, salt, turmaric and fry for 5 mts add cooked rice and mix well and remove from heat.

2. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Pachi Pulusu

Ingredients:

Onions - 2 (finely choped)
Tamarind - lemon size
Jaggery -3 tbsp
Red chillies - 4 (fried)
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 5 to 6
Garlic - 5 to 6

Preparation :

1. Soak tamarind and make 2 glasses of tamarind juice add jaggery, salt, hand crushed red chillies, finely choped onionsthalimpu.
2. Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, cumin seeds let them splutter add curry leaves add tamarind juice and mix well. no need to heat.

Mysore Bonda

Ingrediants:

Maida - 2cups

Curd ( sour) - 2cups

Rice Flour - 1/2 cups

Onions - 2 (pieces)

Green Chillies - 5 to 6

Soda - 1/4 tbl spoon

Salt - to taste

Corainder leaves - 5 or 6

Oil -

Method:

1 . Maida , Curd , Rice Flour ,Onion pieces , Green chillies , corainder leaves , Salt , Soda and mix it well.

2 . Take oil in pan and heat . Make round balls with above mixture and fry in oil .

3. Serve with Groundnut chutney.

Panner Pulav

Ingredients:

Cooked Basmati Rice -3 cups

Paneer Cubes -10

Bay leaves -2

Chopped Onions - 2

Turmeric Powder -1/2 tsp

Pepper Powder -1/2 tsp

Coriander powder -1/2 tsp

Mint Leaves - 5 to 6

Coriander - 1/2 bunch

Salt - to taste

Green Chillies - 5 to 6

Green peas -1/2 cup

Cut beans -1/2 cup

Chopped Carrot -to garnish

Cashews - 9 to 10

Oil - 4 tbsp

Preparation:

1. Cook beans and peas in microwave for 5 min. Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaves.

2. Add chopped onions,green chillies and fry till brown. Add cashews and paneer cubes and fry till brown.

3. Add beans and peas and stir fry. Add turmeric powder, salt,pepper, chopped mint leaves and fry.

4. Finally add cooked rice and mix well such that masala is well coated to rice.

5.Garnish with carrot and coriander and serve hot.

Palak Paneer

Ingredients:

Palak -1 bunch

Panir cubes -10
Oil - deep frying
Ghee -1 tbsp
Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp

Whole Milk:-1 cup
Cumin seeds:-1/2 tsp
Coriander powder:-1/2 tsp
Chilli powder:-1/2 tsp

Ginger - 1 tsp
Salt - as per taste

Preaparation:

1. Wash and chop spinach and cook without adding water untill tender.
Grind spinach to a fine paste.
2. Deep fry paneer and spread the paneer cubes on a tissue paper to remove excess oil.
Place the deep fried cubes in 1 cup of hot water to make them soft.
3. Leave in the water for about 5 minutes, then drain.
Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a pan and add the black cumin seeds, coriander powder, chilli powder and ginger.
4. Stir fry and add the spinach paste and salt and stir for a minute or two, then add milk and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add cubes of panir and simmer for 10 minutes longer.
6. Garnish with coriander and serve hot with rice or chapatis.