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Spiny potato fry  Ingredients: 250 g Spiny Gourd 1 Potato 1 tsp Chili powder ½ tsp Turmeric powder 1 tsp Curry powder 1 tbsp Rice powder 1 tsp ginger garlic paste Salt to taste Oil  Preparations : Wash and clean spiny gourds well. Wash potatoes properly with skin. Cut both Vegetables into length wise. Keep in a large mixing bowl add all above spices toss and keep this for 5 more minutes. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a kadhai when enough heat add all marinated vegeies and give it a nice stir on high flame. Sprinkle water, mix it well , spread the veggies evenly in kadhai so each may fry equally and cover the lid cook on low flame. Do not stir again and again. Otherwise all veggies may mess and not fries well and crispy. Give 5 minutes to fry. After 5 minutes, open the lid. Sprinkle water on top of veggies swrill the kadhai and stir well again and cook it for another 2 to 3 minutes without lid on each side may fry well. Slowly cooking gives nice and crispy fries wi

Kani Macha Ambila 1 King fish is very favourable salty fish for Odia's because of its taste, with a single bone and good match mix for any curry and specially we cook ambila. We use small king fish for this curry but now a days it's not possible to get perfect small or Midium in size, Because high demands and highly expensive .  It is expensive but very much satisfaction to your palates,to your tummy,to your food. Today I am going to share this recipe. The combine tastes and smell of sweet, sour and spicyness of this curry force  to eat before time. The smell of this curry is knoked the mind and palates of your neighbours.   I m damn sure they ask about this special curry only because of the powerful smell which spread all over the kitchen. Ingredients: 8 piece's of King fish 4 tbsp jaggary 1 Onion sliced 3 tbsp tamarind paste  ½ tsp cumin seeds ½ tsp mustard seeds ½ tsp fenugreek seeds 1 tsp funnel seeds 2 red chilly few curry leaves ½ ts

Jackfruit potato curry Ingredients:  2 Cups Raw Jackfruit cubes  1 Cup Potatoes cubes 2 Chopped Tomatos 2 Sliced Onions    1 Star anise 1 Bay Leaf 1 Green Cardamom  ½" Cinnamon Stick  2 Clove 1 tsp Curry Powder 1 tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder  ½ tsp Turmeric Powder 1 tsp Coriander powder ½ Cup Hung curd 1 tsp Ginger-Garlic paste 1 tsp Garam masala powder Salt to taste Mustard oil Preparations : Add all jackfruit in pressure cooker along  with salt and turmeric. Cook till 2 whistles remove drain and Keep aside. Heat oil in a kadhai and fry potatoes till slightly different in colour remove in a dry plate. Fry boiled jackfruits on high flame till little harder. Remove on a plate. On same kadhai add some  more oil for tempering the whole spices. Fry till the aroma comes add the onions along with a pinch of salt  fry till brown. Add tomatoes fry little bit, add ginger garlic paste and fry for a few minutes add all spice powder fry till o

Skipping Dal on meals is not likable for all But always consuming Dal is also felt boring.  So here is another dish, mostly we prepare in summer ,because of its spicy ,tangy, soury, and mild sweetness of this gravy gollapes the rice balls into our mouth. Once we taste it we will forget about the Dal. You can also keep this in refrigerator for next day because it will not stale  and the taste is much better than the previous day. Ingredients: 1 Cup Dried broad beans 2 Onions sliced 2 Tomato chopped 1 tbsp Ginger-garlic paste ½ Cup coconut paste 1 Cup Coconut milk  1 Pinch Hing ½ tsp Coriander powder 1 tsp Red chili powder  1 tbsp Kashmiri chili powder 1 tsp Turmeric Powder 1 tsp Garam masala 1 tsp Methi seeds 1 tsp Fennel seeds  ½ tsp Mustard seeds ½ tsp Cumin seeds 4 tbsp tamarind paste 1 tbsp grated jaggery 2 Dried red chili Few Curry leaves Cooking oil Salt to taste Presentation : Wash,drain and soak beans in warm water for over night. Next d

Dalma "DALMA"  A healthy recipe from my Odisha's kitchen. We Odia's always proud to announce that the "Dalma" is the only one recipe which has no substitute with any other recipes. The Dalma recipe has the perfect combination of taste and health, that is packed with proteins from dal and minerals ,vitamins and all nutritional value from vegetables. This dish is one of the Chappan Bhog in Jagannath temple. Now you would get to know that "Dalma" is an Ancient and an authentic recipe from 1161 AD from Jagganath Puri temple. We enjoy the Dalma oftenly hope you all will enjoy it also. Ingredients For Dal....... 1 cup Green gram dal 1 tsp turmeric powder 1 tsp grated ginger 2 tbsp chopped green chillies 1 tsp hing For 1 bowl Vegetables.... Pumpkin Plaintain Potato Brinjal Potato Jackfruit Drumsticks Taro Raw papaya For seasonings...... Oil 1 tsp panch phoran 1 pinch hing 1 bay leaf 1 tsp

My first time experience with "No oil recipe on Biryani" and the result was a great success . Before I cooked Fried rice, fish curry, Pulao and more recipes with less oil or without oil........ We all hesitate about Biryani because of the bad experiences we had........... it's heavy on the stomach , feeling bloated,  add fatigue , cholesterol problems , digestive problems , sleeping problems and many more . Stop thinking about all these problems.  Try my unique biryani preparation. Trying of biryani is little worried because of more hectic work . Now I made it easy with few tips and tricks.  I must say after this process you all forget to add oil or ghee on your biryani. I always suggest " Day Before preparations" are made easy to get best results. So here also I use the few ingredients for pre - preparation. Take a look..... Ingredients : 2 bowl Jackfruits  2 bowl of Long grain Basmati rice 1 bowl of chopped mint 4 large Onions

Lollipops are lip smacking starters and appetizers for Indians. The spicyness, flavour and the crispyness of lollipops is a favourite treat for us. I have try to make jackfruit lollipops with simple ingredients what always available  in our kitchen. Without using of any sauces ,ajinomoto ,and all purpose flour. These lollipops are pan fried not deep fried. So it's quite possible to make with less oil. I choose the lengthy raw jackfruit because it's less fiber and perfect for 65, pakoda, fries and lollipops. The round shaped jackfruits have more seeds , more fiber and little sweet in taste. This is perfect for curry. Ingredients : 1 bowl raw jackfruit ½ tsp Termeric powder Salt For Marination : 4 tbsp corn flour 4 tbsp Hung curd 2 tbsp Gram flour 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste 1 tbsp Chopped Green Chillys 1 tbsp Chopped Garlic 1 tbsp Chopped Ginger 1 tbsp Chopped Coriander leaves 1 tbsp Chopped curry leaves 1 tsp Kasuri methi powder 1

"Jalebi " a popular Indian sweet dish. The deep fried sweet which is garnished with strands of saffron has a rich and imposing history of jalebi. Do you remember the Phrase "Like as straight as jalebi”.  This phrase referring to that person who is very cleverly proof he is right but we know him and  say, “Well, we know that you are just like as straight as jalebi",. We can see, jalebi is not straight it's a difficult to prepare, looks so many round shapes. Ingredients : Sugar Syrup  1 bowl Sugar  1 bowl Water 1 tsp milk to remove the dust from sugar syrup Jalebi paste 2 Cup maida flour 1 Cup butter milk Few saffron 1 pinch salt Desi ghee Preparations: Take broad kadhai along with sugar and water for syrup cook on medium heat Cook and Stirring occasionally until the sugar dissolves. Cook till you get a perfect sticky consistency and form a one string consistency. Check with your two fingers. Keep aside for next use. Now take a

Crispy Paper Dosa "Dosa or Masala Dosa" has a wonderful and  incredible childhood memories of mine when I visit any appetizer hotels with my family and enjoying a variety of appetizers.In those days going to a restaurant was a very excitement treat. Each one oder different types of appetizers and we start sharing and tasting each one's dish and then 2Nd oder will be the best one. And I always prefer the masala Dosa because I love the taste of stuffed boiled spicy potatoes. First finished whole Dosa leave masala for last taste and slowly slowly by enjoying I take little little bite of it. Ufffffff Pease of mind so so relaxed. But today instead of potatoes I use dry green peas chat for stuffings. A different taste to masala Dosa. This is actually for my Hubby who always avoid to eat potatos. Take a look ..... Ingredients: 3 Cup rice 2 Cup Black gram Dal 1 tbsp Butter Water Salt Dosa Batter : Clean , wash the rice and urad Dal properly. If you wash p

Ingredients 1 cantaloupe 4 Cup sugar 1 cup water 1 tsp saunth (dry ginger powder) Preparations: Using of 4:1 sugar : water to make a long lasting thicker syrup for this drink Cut the mellon into half. Remove all the seeds, using a spoon scrap all mellon flesh to a  grinding jar. Make fine pure of it and set aside. Heat a shallow pan , combine sugar, water cook and stir occasionally until the sugar is dissolved and the syrup will thicken. Remove from heat to a room temperature ,add the cantaloupe pure and saunth to syrup stir nicely to mix all ingredients very well . You may also use few shredded cantaloupe to get better taste. Cool completely pour in a dry bottle and store in refrigerator for long use. * Use this drink with lots of ice and with club soda. * Adding few drops of lemonade it give a nice and different taste. * Simply add with milk make , shake and drink. * adding a pinch of pepper mint and menthol give a cool cool taste. Try all these and

It's a Pure Kashmiri style kadhai Murg masala. Now it's popular as kadhai chicken. As we know Kasmiris fond of Gosht(Mutton) so they bought loads of Mutton from market on any suspicious occasion and when it not finished then marinade all meat and store for next day use. On next day they cook kadhai gosht it's a easy and quick to cook and one pot dish. This dish noted for it's spicyness and flavour of capsicum. Instead of Mutton , choosing chicken is the only reason for easy cooking process. Now a day's so many changes are there in this dish but I try to make North Indian style Kadhai Murg Masala. Have a look..... Ingredients: ChickenMarination: 1 kg chicken ½ Cup curd 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste ½ tsp Termeric power 1 tbsp oil Salt, to taste Sauted Vegetables: ½ of Capsicum square cut 1 Onion square cut 1 Tomato square Cut (without seeds) Make a paste: 2  Tomatoes 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste 1 tsp chilli powder 1 black carda

There is no better and wonderful day where you eat your favourite fish curry and take a nap for long time on Summer Afternoon. The strongest flavour of mustard, soury and tangy taste of Ambula makes the dish terrific and different from regular curries. Besara Odisha's staple food which prepared  with fishes, vegetables ,few selective lentils, mushrooms and Vadi. This is based on mustard paste gravy with use of Ambula ( salted sun dried raw mangoes) for enhanced the taste of sourness, tangyness to the curry.  But sometimes we combine both fish and vegetables for a unique taste and for a better changes to regular foods. Very popular is with Rohu fish and Katla fish Besara. Today I am making this recipe with King fish however, you may choose varieties of fish even you may also use shrimps, anchovies,kerandi (little bitter in taste). Need little careful for delicate small fish. Ingredients: 1 kg king fish 10 lady's finger 4 Ambula(Salted dried mangoes) 1

Ingredients: 2 cups Idli rice  1 cup Black gram dal 2 cup fine grated coconut 2 cup coconut milk Salt Preparations: Wash the rice and dal  Soak for 6 hrs.  Drain all water and grind with coconut milk to as regular idli batter.  Add grated coconut and salt stir well. Cover the lid and keep for fermentation for about 6 hours or overnight. Next day stir again and  use the batter to make idlis the usual way. I use to pour onto a steel bowl and place it in pressure cooker without its weights. With 1 cup of water. Steam for 15 minutes check through skewers if done , remove and place another one . Serve with any of the usual accompaniments.

Sambar is one of staple dish in Tamil homes. Like Gujarati’s fond of dhokla ,Bengoli’s  fond of fish,Punjabi’s fond of sarso ka saag, Mumbai people are fond of pao bhaji,and we Odia's fond of dahi bara and sweets. Tamil's are fond of Sambar. The food never complete without Sambar. They cook Varieties of Sambar with using of single - single vegetables like lady's finger Sambar, drumstick Sambar,raw mango Sambar, keerai Sambar,radish Sambar,mix veg sambar, young coconut Sambar, bitter gourd Sambar which I like mostly with plain rice.  I usually prepare sambar twice a week with idli and each time I try to cook different flavour of Sambar. My family enjoyed these variations of Sambar. Ingredients : 2 Cups Boiled toor dal 2 chopped Tomato  2 chopped Green chillies 10 Vendakkai / Lady's finger into half ½ cup Tamarind water 1 tbsp coconut powder 1 pinch hing 2 tbsp Sambar powder 2 Dry red chilli 1 tsp Mustard and Cumin seeds 1 tsp fennel seeds

Ingredients: 6 Big sized Potato pinch of hing ¼ tsp Curry masala ¼ tsp Garam masala ½ tsp Aam Chur powder ½ tsp black pepper powder ½ tsp red chili Powder ½ tsp Tamarind pulp Hand full of Coriander leaves Few Curry leaves 4 cross long cut Green chillies 2 tbsp Mustard Oil Presentation: Wash and Cut potatoes into four with skin. Boil the potatoes by adding the required amount of salt. Remove the skin and keep a side. Take a bowl add all dry spices in a bowl mix well along with tamarind pulp and ½ cup of water keep aside. Heat kadai add oil with a pinch of hing,  add soaked wet spices to oil fry till raw smell go out add boiled potatoes , green chilly ,curry leaves and coriander leaves stir on high flames. Add salt stir and roast potato well do not burn the spices. Switch off the flame remove from kadhai to serving bowl. Serve with naan , Chapattis, roti or with rice as side dish.

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