Cauliflower Curry

Ingredients:

Cauliflower - 1 Small
Curry Powder - 1 tbsp
Red Chile Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Talimpu:
Urad Dal - 1/4 tsp
Cumin Seeds -1/4 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - 7 to 8
Oil 1 tsp

preparation :

1. Remove outer leaves, break cauliflower into small florets and thoroughly wash them.Heat oil in a pan, add all talimpu ingredients .
2 .When urad dal changes color, add cauliflower florets and salt. Cook covered on medium heat until cauliflower turns soft.
3. Sprinkle little water if required and stir occasionally.Uncover and fry the cauliflower till the edges start to turn brown.
4. Then add spicy curry powder and red chile powder. Sprinkle another tsp of water and stir fry for few seconds till cauliflower absorbs all the flavors.
5. Serve with rice or roti.

Chilli Panner

Ingredients :

Panner - 250 gms

Salt1 - 2 tbsp

Egg - 1

Corn Flour - 1/2

Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp

Chopped Onions - 2 Cups

Green Chillies - 5 to 6

Soya Sauce - 1 tbsp

Vinegar - 1 tbsp

Ajinomoto - 1/4 tbsp

Oil - for frying

Little Water

Preaparation :

1. Cut the paneer into cubes. Mix together the paneer, 1 tsp salt, egg, corn flour, ginger garlic paste and water to just coat the paneer pieces with the mixture.

2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the paneer pieces coated with mixture till golden in color.

3. Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a wok and stir fry the onions in it over high heat for half a minute.

4 . Add the green chillies, salt, soya sauce, vinegar, ajinomoto and the fried paneer cubes.

5. Garnish the chilli paneer with finely cut spring onions and coriander.

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.