Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Rice Chakli!!!


Ingredients :

2 cup Rice Flour
1/2 cup Sour cream
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1/2 tsp green chili paste
1/2 tsp ginger/garlic paste
salt to taste

Directions :

1)Mix all the ingredients and make dough out of it,use some water if needed.

2)Put it in chakli mold and make chakli's out of it.

3)Deep fry it until its light brown.

Ready to eat.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Handvo !!

Ingredients :

3 cups of urad dal (split )
1 cup rice
1 tsp green chili paste
2 potatoes
salt to taste
few methi seeds
2-3 tsp yogurt
a
oil

While making handvo :

oil

sesame seeds
mustard seeds
batter using above ingredients



Directions :

1)Soak the dal and rice in afternoon if you are planning to make the handvo as next day breakfast or lunch.

2)Same night you need to grind the dal a
nd rice into smooth batter.

3)Add 1-2 tsp hot oil,1/4 cup hot water,c
urd and methi seeds to it and let it ferment whole night in a warm place (best place I think is oven).

4)Next morning add grates potatoes,green chilli and salt to the batter and mix well.


5)Take a non-stick pan add 1 tsp oil to it ,add mustard and sesame seeds and let it splutter.

Add around 1 soup pouring spoon of batter (just like panc
ake) and let it cook on one side until it turns bit brown.

6)Once done flip over the handvo and cover it for few minutes.
Flip once or twice to get nice color and crispiness.


Serve it with sauce,chutney or curd.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Vade(to eat during fast)



Ingredients :

Batter :
1 cup Singoda flour
1/4 cup Rajigra Flour
1/4 tsp green chilli paste
salt to taste
1/4 tsp Aamchur powder
1/4 tsp black pepper powder
water as needed

Oil to fry
2-3 Potatoes and 1-2 Banana's

Directions :

1) Mix all the things mentioned in the batter section (please note the consistency should be thick enough to cover the potatoes)

2)Cut potatoes into thin slices and dip into the batter and "Deep fry" it.

Server it with curd and sugar(mixed)

Besan ke laddoo!!

Ingredients :

1 cup ghee
2 cup's of besan flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp milk

Directions :

1) In a non-stick pan take ghee and warm it then add the flour to it and saute it till you smell nice aroma from it the color of the besan flour changes from yellow to light brown.

2)Then add 1 tsp of milk and mix it well (note you should feel some crispness when you kind of hold this mixture in your hand).

3)Add sugar to it and mix it well again,remove it from flame.

Let it cool for some time.


Please note if you feel the proportion of ghee is more and you cannot make ladoo's just freeze the mixture for 15-20 minutes and form ladoo's as shown above.

Gatte ki sabji!!!

Ingredients :

For dough :
2 cups besan ka aata
salt to taste
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp garam masala
water to knead dough

For Gravy :
3-4 tsp oil
3/4 tsp garlic paste
approx 3 cups of yogurt
2-3 tsp besan ka aata
cumin seeds
water as needed
1/4 turmeric powder
1/4 red chili powder
salt to taste

Directions :
1)First of all knead dough using the above mentioned ingredients.Please note the dough should not be very soft it should be hard enough to make rolls and cut it as shown in the picture below.

2)In a pot pour some water and bring it to boil and put the cut gatte's into it.Keep boiling it until it starts sticking to bottom of the pot. 3)Then drain it in a vessel as shown above.

4)In a pan take some oil add cumin seeds and after it sputters add garlic paste and saute it. Add the mixture of yogurt and besan and add water to it.
Let it boil then add turmeric powder,red chilli powder and salt. Once it has the thickness of a gravy add gattes to it and garnish with cilantro and serve with roti.