CHUTNEY PULAO

Recipe Source & Acknowledgement: Homely Food

Here is a simple delicious pulao recipe, ready within few minutes. Trust me, it is so flavourful and tasty rice dish, if you try it once, will surely love it.

INGREDIENTS:
1 Cup Kalo Jeera Rice (or use basmati rice)
1/2 Cup Coriander Mint Chutney
Handful of Green Peas (frozen)o
1 Green Capsicum (cut into small cubes)
1 Small Carrot, Cut into thin slices
1 Onion, thinly sliced
7-8 Green Beans, Cut into small pieces
2 pods Green Cardamoms
3 cloves
1" Cinnamon
2 tbsps Clarified Butter
1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds
Salt to taste
Water as required

METHOD:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Wash and soak rice for 30 mins. Drain waer completely and set aside. In a large pan, heat clarified butter. Add cumin seeds, cloves, green cardamoms and cinnamon. Let cumin splutters. Add onion in it.

Fry onion till it turns golden. Add all chopped vegetables now. Keep stirring for 3 minutes.

Pour rice and salt in it. Fold well.

Add chutney in it. Stir for another a minute.

Pour 2 cups warm water in it. When it starts to boil, cover the pan and lower the heat. Cook exactly for 15 mins. Turn off the heat now.

Delicious pulao is now ready to serve.

Serve hot wih any raita.
                                                                               

                                                                                                                                            
For Green Chutney (mint-coriander chutney) Click Here

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DAHI VADA (DOI BORA)

Recipe Source & Acknowledgement: Homely Food

Today I am going to share a mouthwatering chaat item "Dahi Vada", which also known as dahi bhalla, perugu vada, thayir vada or doi bora. A mouthwatering and yummilicious chaat item, is popular through out India. This recipe I inherited from my 'Ma', she is really a wonderful cook. In summer days, she oftenly made this delicious chat patta dish for our evening snacks. This is an all times favourite cold appetizer or starter.

INGREDIENTS:
1 Cup Urad Dal
1 tbsp Mung Dal
3 Cups Plain Yogurt/Curd/Dahi
Red Chilli Powder (as per taste)
Roasted Cumin Powder (as per taste)
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves (chopped)
10-12 Curry Leaves
2 Green Chillies
A Pinch of Asafoetida
Sweet Tamarind chutney, green chutney & sev for garnishing
Oil to deep fry

METHOD:
Soak urad dal along with mung dal for overnight. Drain it completely. 

Grind it in mixer along with curry leaves, green chillies and little water, till make a smooth paste. 

Mix addasafoetida, cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt with the pounded dal. Mix nicely.

Prepare butter milk with 1&1/2 Cups yogurt with salt, red chilli powder, cumin powder and set it aside. 

Heat oil on medium heat for deep frying. Wet your hand and take out 2 tbsps of batter and slight it very carefully in the hot oil. Deep fry vadas till golden brown. 

Drain oil and soak vadas in butter milk for 1-2 hours. Vadas absorbed maximum buttermilk.

Prepare yogurt mixture by adding little salt, cumin powder and red chilli powder. Mix nicely. Keep it in refrigerator till needed. Now place soaked vadas on a serving plate. Pour yogurt mixture on it. Sprinkle coriander leaves on the top. 

Add sev mixture and sprinkle cumin-red chilli powder, green chutney and sweet tamarind chutney on the top. Serve chilled. Enjoy this luscious & mouthwatering appetizer!

For Green Chutney CLICK HERE
For Sweet Tamarind Chutney CLICK HERE

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AAM RAS WITH POORIS

Recipe Source & Acknowledgement: Homely Food
It's better not to say anything about aam ras. Litterally 'aam ras' means mango juice. It is more than a juice, a luscious, gorgeous, sweet and tasty mango delicacy, goes well with pooris.

INGREDIENTS:
2 Cups Mango Pulp (Alphonso)
1/2 Cup Sugar or as per sweetness of mango
1/2 Cup Milk
1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder
A Pinch of Saffron (optional)

METHOD:
Combine mango pulp, sugar, saffron, cardamom powder and milk in a jar. Blend all together for 60 to 90 seconds.

Pour in Serving bowls, keep in refrigerator for 1-2 hours before serving. Served chilled with warm pooris.

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MIX VEGETABLES IN DAL

Recipe Source & Acknowledgement: Homely Food

My mom cooked well this 'paanch misali sabjir dal' or mixed vegetables in dal mainly in Winter season, when vegetables such as carrot, green peas, tomato, green beans, cauliflower are widely available. It is not very spicy or hot, goes well with plain rice. We really bored with making and eating the same dal everyday, so veggies and spices add a variety to the simple dal. 

INGREDIENTS:
1/2  Cup Yellow Lentils (Toovar/Arhar dal)
1 Onion (sliced)
2 Pods of Garlic (crushed)
1 Tomato (chopped)
1 Small Carrot, cut into thin slices
A Handful of Green Peas (frozen)
100 gm Eggplant, cut into medium cubes
8 Green Beans, cut in 1&1/2" pieces
8-10 Okras, trim from both end
2 Green Chillies (chopped)
1 tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1/2 tsp Coriander Powder
1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
1/2 tsp Dried Mango Powder (amchur)
Chopped Coriander Leaves For Garnishing
Salt to taste
3 tbsps Oil

FOR TEMPERING:
1 Dried Red Chilli
A pinch of Asafoetida
1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
1/2 tsp Fenugreek Seeds
1/2 tsp Urad Dal
10 Curry leaves

METHOD:

In a pressure cooker, boil dal and set aside.

Heat oil, add tempering ingredients. 

When they crackle, add onion, crushed garlic, mixed vegetables and tomato in it. Fold well.

Now add all dry spice powder in it. 

Saute for a minute and pour 3/4 cup water in it. Mix nicely. Cover and cook for 10 minutes on medium heat.

Pour boiled dal along with water in it. Mix thoroughly. Boil for another 3-4 minutes and switch off the heat now.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. 

Serve hot with steamed rice accompanied with fries, pickles or salad.

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APPLE RAITA

Recipe Source & Acknowledgement: Homely Food
This is a quick and easy to make raita with minimum ingredients, yet delicious. Very simple and healthy recipe but yummilicious.

INGREDIENTS:
1 Apple
1 Cup Plain Yogurt
Sugar/Honey to taste (I used Honey only)
Few Pinches of Roasted & Pounded Cumin Seeds
Few Pinches of Black Pepper (freshly crushed)
A pinch of Black Salt

METHOD:
Wash and cut apple into tiny pieces.

Churn yogurt with black salt and honey. Mix the apple pieces into yogurt. Sprinkle cumin and black pepper powder on the top. 

Serve chilled, with any rice dishes or as a side of chapati-sabzi.

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