A PINCH OF HING

Ingredients : 1 Cup Moong Dal  1 Cup Rice 1 tbsp desi ghee Salt Preparations: Wash Dal and rice properly.and soak for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker. Add rice and Dal to the pressure cooker. Fry for a while Add four cups of water to it. Quantity of water can be varied depending on the thickness you prefer. If you want little liquidity add one extra cup of water. Add salt stir well so that it gets uniformly added. Close the lid of the pressure cooker. Cook on low flame wait for steam from cooker when it's start whistling switch off the flame and leave this to cool. After steam come out of the pressure cooker open and stir nicely. Khichadi is ready for serve on late. Top it with ghee.

This is typical South Indian korma Using seasonal vegetables , creamy with combination of curd, Poppy seeds and cashews, Mild sweetness of coconut, Slightly spice of green chillies and flavorful whole spices. Good for health. Ingredients: All mix Vegetables - 1 Bowl (Cauliflower,Tomato, knol khol ,Carrot ,Potato ,Beans,Green Peas ,Broad beans and Capsicum) Chopped Onion - 1 Green Chilly splits - 2 Ginger Garlic paste - 1tsp Hung curd - 1/4 cup Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp Curry Leaves - few For paste : Grated coconut - 2 tbsp Cashew - 5 Poppy seeds - 1 tbsp Cardamom - 1 Bay leaf - 1 Cinnamon - 1 Clove - 1 Green chillies - 2 Preparations: Wash,clean and cut into cubes or your choice of shape and size. Make paste from above paste ingredients keep aside. Beat the hung curd keep aside. Boil all vegetables along with salt use very little amount of water to boil the Veggies. When done separate the water from vegetable. Veg stock and boiled Vegg...

Making pasta is fun ! Here is my version of making pasta. I hope you will enjoy this Spicy pasta My family love spicy foods and to be fair I personally prefer more spicy to any Italian food. Not too much Spicy ; feeling like fire breathing mouth but yes limit of tolerance. This can be enjoyed hot, slightly chilled or at room temperature, making it ideal for kids Tiffin box. Ingredients : 250 g Pasta ½ Cup Tomato puree 1 tbsp Olive oil 2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese 2 tbsp Chopped Vegetables (Beans,carrot, capsicum,peas and tomato) 1 tsp crushed garlic 1 tbsp Spicy Curry powder 1 tsp Red Chilly flakes 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste Few Chopped Coriander leaves Olive oil Salt Preparation : Heat a large pan along with olive oil, add crushed garlic,chilly flakes,add tomato puree then add all other spices and vegetables fry till dry and oil separates. At the same time ; boil water, add salt, and then add pasta. No need to add oil. Adding oil may keep the pasta water from bubbling ...

Munj means knol khol . Haak means green leafy vegetables ; consumed by Kashmiri's. Haak is very popular side dish of Kashmiri Pandits home on their food plate. Pandits avoid to use of Garlic and Muslims were use hand full of Garlic. Today I am sharing ; one of seasonal recipe of Kashmiri Haak with it's vegetable is Munj. Kashmiri's use more mustard oil because of cold weather. Which is suitable for their local climate. We can avoid more oil but for the exact flavour we may drizzle atleast 1 tsp of oil after cooking. Ingredients : 1 Bowl knoll khol leaves 1 Bowl knol khol chopped 10 Garlic pods 2 dry red chilies 1 tbsp hing 1 Cup Mustard Oil Salt Presentations : Wash ,clean, rinse and trim the haak with hands and keep aside. Cut munj into desired shape and keep aside. Heat clay pot along with 4 cups of water add haak ,munj ,oil , garlic and salt. Cover and Cook on high flames till the haak tender. Once the vegetables are ...

My Mom's favourite Simba Pithou bhajja or Jhatta Pithou bhajja . Pithou bhajja is our traditional and authentic Recipe of Odisha. We make different types of Pithou bhajja. And this is one of them. But this not so likely because of the most bothersome insects inside the broad beans. Choose the best one and cook. Ingredients : Broad beans ½ kg For Batter Rice 4 tbsp Gram flour 2 tbsp Cumin 1 tbsp Ginger 1" 1 Dry red chilly 2 Whole dhaniya ½ tsp Hing 1 pinch Oil for deep fry Salt to taste Preparations: Wash ,clean and remove the fiberous part from both sides of Beans. Keep in a kitchen towel to dry. Blend together all above Ingredients and make a fine thick batter. Take a large bowl along with broad beans sprinkle pinch of salt and toss very nicely applying each and every piece. Now add the batter mix all adjust salt. Keep this for 5 minutes. Heat sufficient oil for deep frying in a kadhai on medium flame. Dip one by one marinated beans to hot oil. Do no...

Dal Ingredients: Toor Dal 1 Cup Mix vegetables 1 Cup Tomato 2 chopped One pinch Hing Mustard and Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp Red chilly powder 1 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Green chilly 2 Chopped Salt Ghee Dhokli ingredients: Wheat Flour 1/2 cup Gram flour 2 tbsp Carom seeds 1 tsp Salt Ghee Presentations: Dal: Wash and soak dal for ½ hour. Mix soaked dal , turmeric powder, vegetables, along with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker. Close the lid cook on low flame until it done . Switch off flame and let the steam escape. Keep the dal as it is in the pressure cooker. Take a deep vessel along with ghee add seasonings one by one , fry the spices for few minutes , add chopped tomatoes. Once tomatoes are cooked, add red chilly powder and mix well. Saute the masala until oil starts separate and comes aromatic smells. Add little water stir , add cooked Vegetables Dal and salt , stir everything very nicely , cook for 10 more minutes. Dal is read...

Ingredients : 4 tbsp Sugar 250 ml Full Cream Milk 4 tbsp Corn flour 1 Cup Mango Pulp Unsalted butter For mango caramel : 4 tbsp Sugar 1 tbsp mango pulp Water Preparations : Make one cup of hot water and keep aside. Brush the pudding mold with unsalted butter and keep aside. Take half cup of water in a bowl add corn flour mix well and keep aside. Cut off the mango flesh and discard the peals. Cut the mango into pieces and make a fine paste and keep aside. Now start the process of making pudding. Cook sugar and mango pulp along with little water to caramelized, add hot water quickly and stir for a while, pour syrup to pudding mold. Keep this in refrigerator for quick result. Melt sugar in milk until dissolved add mango paste and corn water to it stir constantly. When it's enough thick ; Remove from flame and immediately transfer to pudding mold. Wrap up aluminium foil on top of the pudding mold to prevent a hard layer on it. Keep this in the refrigerator for 1...

Pressure Cooker Biryani is not a big deal. I make this pressure cooker version of white biryani hope you all like. I love this biryani as it turns out perfect every time whenever I prepared the delicious , a Unique taste of whole spices and without any colour. Cooker biryani is bad impression by few but to know the secret behind it ; I suggest few steps like before soaking, citrus to cooked rice , adding spices into half, adding milk and more . Comes perfect fluffy biryani. Taste, look and perfection in one pressure pot. So here is the recipe of delicious biryani with 3 combination cooked in a pressure cooker. Ingredients: 2 Cups Basmati rice 6 Boiled Eggs 3 Potato cut into Cubes 1 Cup Boiled dry peas 2 Crushed Cardamom 1 Bay leaf into half 4 Cloves (2..2 ) 2 Anis (1 each) 1" Cinnamon into half 1 tbsp Lemon juice 1 Sliced Big Onion 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder 1 tsp Sahi Zeera 1 Cup Hung ...

This saag recipe is very old authentic Recipe of Odisha. The combination of saag,rice and few vegetable which gives a unique taste and flavorful to this side dish. Rice stock and brinjal gives thickness to curry. Sweet potato give a mild sweetness . Garlic is the inhencer flavour of the greens( Saag Ghanto) 1 Bunch green leaves 1 Brinjal 1 Sweet Potato 1 Cup Rice stock 1Pinch hing 10 Crushed Garlic 2 Dry Red Chillys 1 tsp Mustard,Cumin seeds 2 tbsp Broken Rice Salt Oil Preparations : Chop the green leaves ,Cut brinjal and Sweet potatoes into small cubes Keep aside. Soak rice for 15 minutes. Heat oil in kadhai. add hing ,mustard and cumin seeds when start spluttering add red chillies ( broken into half) crushed garlic fry till brown , add rice stock after one boil add broken rice cook till done. Add brinjal and Sweet Potato cook another 10 minutes, add saag stir well when saag shrink down add salt cook till done. Serve as side dish with rice.