Indian Veggie Recipes

Ingrdients:

• Rice                                    250 gms
• Coconut                             1, grated
• Green chilli                         2, chopped
• Coriander leaves              50 gms, chopped
• Cumin seeds                  ½ teaspoon
• Urad dal                             1 teaspoon
• Chana dal                          1 teaspoon
  
• Oil                                       50 ml
• Salt                                     to taste

 Method:

• Cook the rice till half done.
• Heat the oil and temper with the cumin seeds, urad dal and chanadal.
• When the cumin seeds crackles add the chopped  green chilies.
• Add grated coconut and stir without allowing the mixture to get brown.
• Add the cooked rice, coriander leaves, mix well and stop heating.
• Serve hot garnished with grated coconut.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Yogurt
• 1 tablespoon gram flour
• 1 tablespoon Jaggery
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon black mustaed seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds(methi seeds)
• 1 teaspoon chanadal & urad dal
• 4 cloves, 4 whole black peppe, 2 whole round chillies & 2 pieces of cinnamon
• 1 pinch asafetida powder (hing)
• 2 chopped green chillies
• chopped coriander leaves(to garnish)

Method:

1. Place gram flour in a deep mixing bowl.
2. Add yoghurt, salt  and water. Whisk until smooth.
3. Heat ghee in a saucepan.
4. Add the seeds and rest of ingredients except jaggery & yogurt mixture.
5. After a minute add yogurt mixture & stir it.
6. Add jaggery.
7. Boil the mixture for 10 minutes.
8. Garnish it with coriander leaves & serve it hot with Rice preparations.

This dish is full of proteins and doubles up as a ‘quick dish’ if you have boiled chana (bengal gram) in stock.

Ingredients:

• 250gm Boiled Kabuli Chana
• 1 table spoon chopped spring onions
• 1 table spoon chopped green Capsicum
• 1 table spoon chopped Red Capsicum
• 2 table spoon chopped Paneer Cube (Cottage Cheese)
• 1 teaspoon Red Chilly powder
• 1 teaspoon Chana Masala
• 1 teaspoon Garam Masala
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 2 teaspoon oil
• Salt

Method:

1. Pour oil in a frying pan & heat it.
2. Add cumin seeds and spring onions.
3. Stir for a minute and then add chopped green & red capsicum.
4. Stir for a minute more and add boiled chana and all masalas mentioned above and mix well.
5. Add Paneer Cube, mix it well.

Serving:

This vegetable can be relished with rotis or paranthe (Try our Palak Paratha or Chatpata Masala Paratha)

Note: The more health conscious of you may prefer replacing Paneer with Tofu)

This yummy khichadi is full of proteins. Instead of rice I use Lapsi dalia –wheat porridge to make it even more healthier.

Ingredients:

• 50 gm. Chanadal
• 50 gm. Lapsi
• 1 small capsicum
• 1 small onion
• 1 small carrot
• 7 beans
• 12 green peas
• 1 tablespoon small pieces of cabbage & cauliflower
• 2 green chilies
• 2 teaspoon roasted groundnuts
• ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
• ½ teaspoon garam masala powder
• ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• 2 teaspoon ghee
• 250 ml water
• salt

Method:

1. Cut all the vegetables in chips shape.
2. Wash dal and lapsi.
3. Heat ghee in a pan , add cumin seeds.
4. Now add roasted groundnuts.
5. Add all vegetables and green chilies.
6. Stir for a minute and add all spices.
7. Add water and salt and boil it for 2 minutes.
8. Pressure cook it for 2 whistles.
9. Serve hot with chilled curd or hot kadhi.

Pakodas (also called bhajji or bhajiya) are crispy and yummy snacks enjoyed with tea. People enjoy it with tomato catch up, mithi chatni, red chatni, green chatni etc. Pakoda as stuffing for sandwich is also savoured by many.

 Vegetable Pakoda

 Ingredients:

•  1 Potato,1 Onion & 1 brinjal chopped in thin circle shape.
• 1 capsicum chopped in chips shape.
• 200gm. Besan.
• 1 teaspoon Red Chilly powder.
• ½ teaspoon turmeric powder.
• ½ teaspoon ajwain seeds.
• Oil for frying
• Water
• Salt

Method:

• Mix besan, ajwain seeds, salt, redchilly and turmeric powder in a bowl
• Prepare semi liquid batter with water.
• Add oil & heat it for frying in a frying pan
• When oil is sufficiently hot, dip vegetable pieces in besan’s batter and fry it.

Enjoy your Pakodas!

Prepare paste of a  raw potato with cold water

Apply it on the burnt part. It gives cooling effect immediately.

Ingredients:

6 chapaties

3 cups buttermilk

2 green chillies

1/2 teaspoon mustard & cumin seeds(rai-jeera)

a pinch of asfoetida

1  teaspoon chilli powder

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

1/2 teaspoon coriander powder

6 curry leaves(kadipatta)

1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon oil

salt to taste

Method:

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard&cumin seeds. When seeds crackles, add asfoetida, curry leaves and green chillies. Now add buttermilk, salt, chill, turmeric and coriander powder, boil it for 5 minutes. Cut chapaties into equal pieces and add it. Boil it for 2 minutes.  Remove from heat. Add lemon juice, mix it well, Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve it hot.

Leftover rotiya is a delicious dish now!

Add Rock Salt in Hot water, mix it properly and take a bath.

You will notice all your bodyaches will disappear into thin air.

Palak ke Parathe are very healthy and it is full of Iron.

Ingredients:

1 Bunch of Palak, 3 tablespoon of Wheat flour, 1 tablespoon Soya flour, 1 teaspoon Cumin , 1 teaspoon ginger chilly paste , 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon olive olive.

Method:

Wash Palak leaves and boil it in water.Grind it after cooling. Add Wheat flour, Soya flour, Ginger chilli paste, cumin and salt. Mix it properly and shape it into dough. Roll out Parathe and roast it with olive oil.

Serve them with curd.

This is a sugarless sweet and it gives great protection against cold and improves our resistance power.
This sweet is prepared with dates and dryfruits and it is very healthy for kids.

Ingredients: (preparation time 15 minutes.)

500 gms Black seedless Dates
250 gms Walnuts,Almonds and Pista mix.
2 Teaspoon Ghee.

Method:
Crush the Dates with Potato Crusher.
Crush dry fruits as well but keep them in big pieces.
Heat Ghee in a kadai.
Add pieces of Dryfruits, roast them for 5 minutes.
Add Crushed Dates in it, mix it properly.
After 5 minutes remove from heat and spread it on a flat plate.
Make square pieces and it is ready to serve.