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Carrot_ Cauliflower Pickle

Northern India is experiencing cold winter but winter brings lot of delicacies which give us taste as well as immunity. Vegetable pickle is one of the recipe which I am sharing today.

Ingredients:

One piece cauliflower

250 gm carrots
50 gm mustard seeds powder

salt to taste
1 tbsp turmeric powder

1 tbsp red chilli powder

one bowl mustard oil

Method:

Cut all the veggies roughly. Boil 1 ltr water and switch off the flame. Put all the veggies into boiled water and cover the pan for 10 mins. After 10 mins strain water and tap dry all the veggies into the clean piece of cloth. Now add all the ingredients and mix well into glass bowl. Now cover the bowl and keep it at some warm place for 2 days. Stir these vegetables in 3-4 hours. After 2 days pickl will be ready to eat. Preparation time depends upon how much cold the weather is. More cold more time to get ready.

Momos without rolling hassle

Momos recipe has been already posted. Here I am just posting how to roll momo balls without hassle.

Take a dough and without making small balls roll the big one. It will become very thin and large. Now cut it in round shape with any cutter available.

Rest of the recipe is same as earlier. Thanks.

Paneer sandwich without onion

In Navratri when most of us don’t use onion for nine days, these sandwiches will not let you down.

Ingredients:

200 gm grated paneer cottage cheese
3-4 tomatoes finely chopped
2 green chillies
coriander leaves for garnish
Spices: red chili powder, coriander powder, asfoetida, cummin seeds, garam masala powder, turmeric powder and salt to taste.

one small loaf white bread

desi ghee for tadka and applying on bread slices.

Method:

First add tsp of desi ghee in a pan. When it get heated add cummin seeds and asfoetida. Add chopped tomatoes and saute it. Add remaining spices and saute till tomatoes get cooked well, now add grated paneer and green chillies. Again saute for 2-3 mins. Add chopped coriander leaves and leave it in a pan for 5 mins.

Spread it on bread slices and apply little ghee on bread slices. Cook it in sandwich maker.

Serve it with green chutney or tomato ketchup.

Restaurant style gobhi aloo

Gobhi(Cauliflower) aloo vegetable is the favorite vegetable of Indian vegetarian people. Today we will prepare restaurant style gobhi aloo without onion and garlic.

Ingredients

3-4 Potatoes
2 green chillies
1/2 inch ginger, 2 nos. tomatoes

One pc Cauliflower (Gobhi)

Spices:

one pinch of asafoetida, 1 tbsp coriander powder,1 tsp cummin seeds, 1 tsp red chili powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1 tsp kasuri methi, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, salt as per taste

Oil for frying cauliflower

Oil for tadka

Method:

First cut the veggies and blanch them. When it get cooled fry them.

Make tadka now. Pour some oil in a pan, add asafoetida, cummin seeds into it. Now add chopped tomatoes and other spices. Saute all of them till tomatoes get cooked. Now add fried veggies and saute them well.

Cover it at low flame for full 5 mins. And tasty, yummy veggie is ready to serve with Indian bread.

Dum aaloo with home made spices

Usually we in North India make dum aaloo with masala(spices) bought by market. But today we will prepare it by grinding own masalas.

Ingredients:

One tsp cummin seeds
One tsp panch phoran masala
One tsp black pepper (whole)
1 inch cinnamon stick
2 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp red chili powder
2 tsp dry mango powder (aamchur)
One inch ginger
1 green chili
1 bay leaf
1 kg boiled, peeled and roughly chopped potatoes
2 tbsp mustard oil/desi ghee

Method:

Dry roast all the whole spices except bay leaf and grind it.

Mix powdered spices into it.

Pour oil in a large pan heat it. Add asafoetida and cummin seeds with bay leaf. Add chopped ginger and green chillies. Add chopped potatoes too and saute it well. Mix 250 ml water into it and leave it on low medium flame.

Now piping hot dum aaloo is ready. No garlic no onion used still tasty.

Rava Kesari

The goodness of saffron blends with desi ghee and semolina and make a perfect sweet for Indian monsoon season.

Ingredients:

one cup semolina (suji)
one cup sugar
Three cups water
Two tbsp desi ghee(clarified butter)
10-12 strands saffron
pinch of cardamom powder

Method:

Take one tbsp of ghee in a pan.Roast semolina at medium low flame in this pan for 10 mins.

Boil water in a pan. Pour remaining desi ghee, cardamom powder and saffron into it.

When water get boiled pour roasted semolina in boiling water and whisk fast. Now add sugar and mix them until it became thick as halwa.

Rava Kesari is ready.

Garnish it with some dry fruits and serve this mouth melting sweet.

Cafe Mocha

Indian monsoon rains give craving for hot tea or coffee. So try different version of coffee at home when it’s not safe to go out.

Take two three cubes of dark chocolate. Put it into coffee mug. Pour one coffee shot over it and stir. Chocolate will get melted. Put little sea salt.

Heat 100 ml of milk add 1tsp sugar. Blend it to make froth.

Pour hot milk into the same mug. Put all the froth on the top. Sprinkle some chocolate powder.

And here it is your hot cup of cafe mocha.

Chilli garlic lotus stem

After a while posting yummy, crispy and hot recipe which is perfect for Indian monsoon season. Lotus stem is abundant in market these days. So let’s prepare something tasty which is healthy too.

Ingredients:

Two medium size lotus stem.

Two green chillies.

3-4 garlic cloves.

One tsp ginger garlic paste.

One big onion.

One capsicum.

One tbsp of vinegar, soy sauce, red chili sauce. 2tbsp of tomato ketchup.

3-4 tbsp of corn flour.

Oil for frying.

One tsp white seasame seeds.

Method:

First we will peel lotus stems and cut very thin.

And sprinkle one tbsp of cornflour over it.

Deep fry these pieces until crisp.

Meanwhile take a tsp of oil and put chopped garlic, chilli and chilli garlic paste into it. Saute chopped onions into it for 1 full minute. Now add ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce and chilli sauce into it. Now add cornflour paste into it.

Add fried crispy lotus stems pieces into it. Stir it. Mix it. Transfer it it into serving bowl. Garnish with white seasame seeds.

Spring rolls

Yummy spring rolls when situation is again lockdown like. And preparing stuffs with what we have at our homes.

Ingredients:

Two carrots
One bell pepper
Two onions
Any vegetable available
Two cups refined flour
Two tbsp cornflour
Salt
One tsp of vinegar, soy sauce, red chilli sauce.
One tsp ginger garlic paste
Oil for frying

Method:

Take little oil in a pan and add ginger garlic paste and saute chopped onions. Add grated carrots and chopped bell peppers. Saute till cooked. Add little salt and vinegar, soy sauce and red chili sauce. Put the flame off and cover it.

Now prepare batter. Add flour, corn flour and salt in a bowl and add water into it till dropping consistency. Take a flat pan grease it and pour one big spoon of water and cook it from both sides.( pls refer video given in the end). Prepare all the sheets from batter. Now take one sheet and fill the prepared veggies filling and wrap it. Wrapping will be done with the help of refined flour batter. Deep fry in oil till golden brown. Take it out and serve with tomato ketchup.

P.S. The thinner the sheets spring rolls would be more crispier and tasty.

Spring rolls

Palak Paneer

Palak paneer is the Indian vegetable which is very healthy and nutritive with a lot of taste. Kids who don’t like to eat green leafy vegetables also love this vegetable a lot. Today I am preparing it in very traditional method using iron utensil. Iron utensils have their own impact on vegetables which enhance its taste

Ingredients:

250 gms palak
150 gms paneer
one small onion
ginger garlic paste
pinch of asafoetida
1 tsp kasuri methi
1 spoon cummin seeds, coriander powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder, amchur powder
one pinch of nutmeg powder
salt
1/2 tsp black pepper powder
2 tbsp desi ghee/butter
2 tbsp fresh cream/ malai

Method:

First take a pan and add ghee into it. Add asafoetida and cummin. When it crackle add ginger garlic paste. Saute it . Add chopped onion and tomato. Both should be finely chopped. Saute it. At one side blanch palak(spinach) into boiled water and transfer it into chilled water. Then make a paste of it. Add paneer cubes into pan and mix well. Now add palak paste into it and keep stirring until ghee leaves sides of the pan. Add fresh cream. Yummy, tasty and healthy vegetable is ready to eat with chapati or any kind of Indian bread.