Broccoli and Eggplant curry

About the Recipe:

Again this is another healthy recipe posted with a Indian blend to it. This is Gujarati dish.I know many of us are against of eating Broccoli but making something like this will improve the chances to eat more and more broccoli.

Ingredients:

1.Season Ingredients
2.Eggplant
3.Potato
4.Broccoli
4.Onions
5.Lemon Juice

Preparation:

1.Cut Potatoes and boil them till they become tender but do not overcook them. Cut broccoli and eggplant.
2. Add seasoning items on a pan and saute onions with a pinch of salt and green chillies.
3.Add eggplant pieces and without the lid, stir fry together until they are cooked, but not overcooked.
4.Add broccoli florets after eggplant is half cooked.Cook them with lib closed.Broccoli gets cooked fast.
5.Now after they get cooked add potatoes and wait till it gets good consistency by adding water.


6.When water evaporates, check the seasoning, add lemon juice and mix well. Add Garam masala,coriander powder and coconut powder for added flavor. Let the gravy get thicker.
7.Heat through for few minutes. Remove from heat, can garnish with some extra fresh coriander leaves.

Spinach Curry

About the Recipe:

Spinach is a healthy veggie and if u want to have something healthy with taste probably you try this.

Ingredients:

1.Spinach
2.Seasoning Ingredients
3. Onions
4.greenchillies
5.Garam Masala
6.Tomatos (Optional)



Preparation:

1.First boil the cut spinach in a vessel so that it gets soft.After this is done mash the boiled spinach into paste.Do not blend it as it would be more tasty and good to see if you have little spinach leaves but make sure you mash it really well and almost like a paste.

2.Now add seasoning ingredients to a vessel (Mustard seeds,cumin seeds,curry leaves,red chilli,hing,chana dal,garlic).

3. Saute onions,tomatos and green chillies.

4.Add the spinach paste to it and let it boil for a while.Add salt and chilli powder as required.

5.The spinach curry is ready to serve and would be delicious if eaten with rotis.

Jeera Matar Pulao

About the Recipe:
                            This is a simple recipe from one of my weekend experiments.I am among those people who needs rice as meal at least once a day.For all those rice lovers this recipe makes your rice much more favorable with less effort.

Ingredients:
1) Whole Garam Masala
2) Jeera
3) Matar
4) Red Onion
5) Green Chillies
6) Ginger- Garlic Paste
7) Turmeric
8) Butter/Ghee
9) Pulao masala

Preparation:



Soak Rice before you start this process.

Heat Butter/Ghee add Jeera,Turmeric and Whole Gram Masala and fry.

Add Ginger-Garlic paste fry and then add finely chopped onion.

Add matar to this mixture and fry.


Now add 1 tbsp of pulao masala, add small portion of water so that the mixture is well cooked.


Finally add this mixture to the soaked basmati rice and cook. Serve this delicious hot with Raita.

Chicken Fried Rice

About the Recipe:

Yummyyy...Nothing can be more tasty for me but for chicken. It was weekend and wanted to try out something tasty. I tried a new recipe today suggested by my bestestttt fiend. It came out very well and wanted to share with all of you as well.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken (Chicken breast and cut into small pieces)

2. Veggies

3. Ginger garlic paste

4. Chilli powder and salt

5. Garam Masala

6. Garlic and spring onions

7. Corn flour

8. Vinegar

9. Soy sauce

10. Ajinomoto

Preparation:

1. Cook rice with whole garam masala in it and salt.

2. Cut the chicken into small pieces and marinate it with ginger garlic paste, corn flour, garam masala, chilli powder and salt.

3. Take a pan and sauté the vegetables .Keep it aside.

4. Now fry the marinated chicken. Keep it aside

5. Fry garlic and spring onions in a separate pan. Add rice to the pan (removing the whole masala particles which are cooked in the rice). Add soy sauce, vinegar and pinch of ajinamoto.

6. Now add fried vegetables and chicken.

7. Add salt and check for the amount u have to add to get the required flavor.

Egg Curry

About the Recipe:
                                I know most of you have your own style of cooking egg curry.This is recipe is the way I tried to make a mouth watering egg curry.

Ingredients:

Eggs
Onions
Green Chilies 
Ginger
Garlic
Coriander
Shah Jeera




Masala:
Garam Masala
Cumin-Coriander Powder
Fennel Powder
Fenugreek Powder
Amchur Powder


Preparation:
Boil the eggs and keep aside.Heat oil and add Shah-Jeera. As they splutter add onions and fry.

Make a smooth paste of ginger,garlic, green chilies and coriander.

Add a little of all the above mentioned masalas and add little water.

Make small splits for boiled eggs before you add them to gravy and let them cook for a while on a low flame.

Tepala Chekkalu

Tapala chekka is an authentic snack which does not require too many ingredients to make. Very easy to make and tasty also but takes quite some to prepare.

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour

2. Green chilies

3. Chana dal

4. Onions (thin slices)

5.Cumin seeds

Preparation:

1. Take rice flour may be one and half cup. Make it into dough by adding hot water.Boil water for some time by adding salt.Hot water is preferred compared to room temperature water because it increases the flavour and consistancy of tapala chekkalu.

2. Add green chilies(paste would be better if not that’s fine), onions, salt , cumin seeds and chana dal to the mixture.

3. Check for the consistency.

4. Now take a small quantity of dough on a plastic sheet, spread it evenly. Make holes in between the dough mixture so that it can fry evenly on the pan. Meanwhile heat the pan.

5. Now take this spread and put it on the pan. Add oil and let it fry for 5 min in low flame so that it won’t get burnt. Turn upside down and let it fry.

6. You can add curry leaves and coriander leaves also to the mixture initially if u like the taste (tastes good though).

7. That’s it and you have hot hot snack ready to eat. It tastes yummy and crispy if you make the spread thin.