Alu ki Sabji - The Masala used in Masala Dosa!

Masala Dosa is the most popular dish among all South Indian Cuisines. So how about trying it out at your home.

Very simple to make. In this post, i'll be telling you how to make the Potato Bhaji used in Masala Dosa.. which can also be had with chapatis, rotis etc or as a side dish with rice! Take your pick.

Serves four people.

Time needed - 15 minutes.





Ingredients -

6 Potatoes
3 onions
3 Green chillies
3 Dried Red chillies
Mustard seeds
Urad dal
Vegetable oil
Salt

Method -

• Put the green and red chillies in the mixer and crush it enough as shown below.

• Boil 6 potatoes and once it cools down, mash the potatoes. Not into a paste, look below for an idea.

• Heat some oil on the pan on low flame. After a minute or two, add about 1 tspn mustard seeds.

• Once the mustard seeds start popping, add about 3/4 tspn urad dal. 

•  When the urad dal turns a little red, add the chopped onions to the pan and mix.

•  After a minute, add the chilly paste to the contents in the pan and mix well.

•  Mix the contents well until the onion turns golden brown. Then sprinkle some turmeric powder and salt to taste.

• Then add the mashed potatoes to the pan and mix well.

• Leave the flame for a minute or two and then switch it off.

•  Place it on the dosa to have Masala Dosa, serve it with rotis, or make a potato roll using chapatis, or you can fill this between to breads and eat it like sandwich. Choose or create your own way to enjoy this dish. Do let me know though ;) 

Try it out yourself and mail me a picture of your preparation to princesspranita@gmail.com, and i will flaunt it on my blog. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.

Coconut Barfi - Janmashtami Special :)

Happy Krishna Janmashtami to all of you! 

Mom made a yummy sweet Khichdi today. But that didn't feel enough. So i went ahead and made these yummy Coconut Barfi.

I never knew it's so easy to make them. So go ahead, try it out and surprise someone special :)

Time needed : About 40 minutes.

Ingredients -

1 cup grated coconut
1 cup milk
3/4th cup sugar
cardamom powder
ghee

1 cup = 200g approx.


Method -

• Grate coconuts enough to fill a cup. Transfer it into a mixer.

• Mix it until it gets something like the picture below. Do not let it get all liquidy and gooey.. just a crushed texture.

•  Empty the contents into a pan heating on low flame.

•  Add the sugar and mix.

• Keep stirring on low flame, or the contents will get burnt at the base. Once the coconut gratings and sugar mixes and gels into each other well, add a cup of milk and mix.

•  Let it simmer on low flame and make sure to keep stirring. This is how it's gonna look when it's done. Add some ghee and sprinkle some cardamom powder and mix again. Leave it for a minute or two and then switch the flame off.

• Take a plate and coat it's base with a few drops of ghee. Transfer the contents from the pan on to it.

•  Use a knife to mark the shapes you want your Barfis to set in.

•  Let it cool and harden. Make sure the base has hardened before getting the barfis out of the plate. That taken care of, present your hand made Krishnashtami sweets to those lucky people and watch as they take a yummy juicy bite into it...!;-)

Try it out yourself and mail me a picture of your preparation to princesspranita@gmail.com, and i will flaunt it on my blog. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.

The Yummy Jelly Belly! :D

When i look for dessert, there's nothing that appeals to me more than something involving some Jelly!

I wouldn't mind having this fruit flavored dessert with nothing to go with it. Kids love it too.

You'll easily find flavored jelly crystals manufactured by various companies. I went for black currant this time.






Ingredients -

90g Jelly Crystals (80g Jelly mix + 10g Jelly pre-mix)
Water
Mould

Method -

• Mix the contents of both the Jelly Mix and Jelly Pre-mix into a bowl.

•  Add 500ml boiling water to the contents in the bowl and stir rapidly, so that all the contents get uniformly dissolved.

•  Pour the contents from the bowl into a mould of your desired shape and size. It can be a single huge mould or many little moulds. Use your imagination, for jelly takes beautiful forms of anything it's poured into!

•  Keep it aside after covering it with a lid. Let it set. Do not keep it into the refrigerator. It takes about 1.5 hours to set properly. Once it sets, place into the fridge. After it gets cooled, slowly pry into it's sides with a knife or a spoon and topple the mould over a plate and behold your beautifully shaped Jelly ready to be served! :)

Try it out yourself and mail me a picture of your preparation to princesspranita@gmail.com, and i will flaunt it on my blog. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.     

Brinjal curry!

I find Brinjal a strange vegetable. If cooked well, it tastes beautiful. But otherwise it gets all gooey and yucky! Here's one recipe to get out it's yummy side.

Be sure to use little brinjals for this recipe.

Time needed - 20-25 min.

 Serves six people.

Ingredients - 

25 Brinjals
Green Chillies
Red Chillies
Tamarind (keep it soaked in water)
Asafoetida paste (hing)
Mustard seeds
salt to taste
vegetable oil


Method - 

• Clean the brinjal as shown below.

• Give the brinjal two cuts in different directions. This helps the spices to get inside the brinjal so that the taste is uniformly distributed.

• Keep the brinjals which are cut in a bowl of water. 

• Put the green chillies, dried red chillies and tamarind along with the water in which it was soaked into the mixer vessel. 

•  Get a paste as shown below.

• Place a cooking pan on low flame. Pour enough oil. After about a minute. Add about 2 tsp of  mustard seeds. 

• Once the popping starts, add the brinjals to the pan after draining all the water.

•  Now add the paste to the contents in the pan. Also add the asafoetida paste and mix.

•  Add salt to taste at this stage.

•  Add enough water to cook the brinjals well.

•  The brinjals cook very quickly. So let it cook as long as all the water gets evaporated. Following are the stages for a better understanding.

•  Serve with chapatis or rice and enjoy! :)

Try it out yourself and mail me a picture of your preparation to princesspranita@gmail.com, and i will flaunt it on my blog. Looking forward to your valuable feedback. 


 

Cabbage Soup - Healthy, yummy, quick n easy!

What do you do when you have the urge to drink something warm and yummy? A soup? And you've got no ready-to-make packets ;) Fish into your kitchen.. find some onions and cabbage? Then you're all set.

Here's a simple quick recipe for the soup my mom likes to make often. Very healthy and very easy to make. This is one of my mom's own creations! Enjoy!

Time needed - 15-20 min.

Serves three people.


 




Ingredients - 

1 onion (finely chopped)
cabbage (refer below for an idea. You can add more if you like to munch much in your soup ;) )
3 tbspn chana flour (corn flour/maida will also do)
corn stock(optional)
ginger
garlic
green chilly
salt
ghee
pepper 

Method -

• Chop the onion finely and also the cabbage. Add one clove of garlic, a little ginger, and one big green chilly to the mixer vessel and get the paste as shown below. Keep aside.

• Add some water to about 3 tbspn chana flour and keep aside. (This is to give your soup a little thickness. The amount of flour you add depends on how thick you want it!)

•  If you boiled corn sometime to eat, don't throw away the water you cooked it in. Save this corn stock in the fridge and voila! It'll come handy when you make this soup! (This is optional, but definitely adds to the taste.)

• Place the cooker on a medium flame. Add 1 tbspn ghee. After about a minute, add the paste prepared above to it and stir. After another 2 minutes, add the finely chopped onion to it and mix well.

•  Don't let the onion turn completely golden brown. Add the cabbage to it and mix again.

• Now add the corn stock and the chana-flour-water to the contents in the cooker. Add a pinch of turmeric for a nice yellow color and some salt to taste. Add enough water. Refer below.

• Cover the cooker and bring the contents to a boil. Then sprinkle with pepper(optional) and serve. Yummy Healthy Easy Quick Soup is ready!!! You can also add other veggies like carrots, beans etc to this. Try it out and let me know :)

Try it out yourself and mail me a picture of your preparation to princesspranita@gmail.com, and i will flaunt it on my blog. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.