Odisha Plates

(Drumstick fry) Ingredients: Drumsticks : 3-4 Potato : 2 Turmeric powder :1 teaspoon Curry powder : 1 teaspoon Red chili powder : 1 teaspoon Refined Oil : 1 tablespoon Water : 1 small cup salt to taste Preparations: Peel the potatoes and drumstick and cut it into equal sizes. Boil it with 1 small cup water ,with turmeric powder and salt till it get tender. Take a non-stick pan , heat oil, add mustard seeds and boiled potatoes and drumsticks. Add curry powder and chili powder and fry it in high heat until drumsticks and potatoes may change their color. Serve as side dish with rice.

Ingredients:      2 cup Assorted veggies (diced) 2Onion (finely chopped) 2Tomato (finely chopped or crushed) 2 tsp Ginger garlic crushed 2 Green chilli 1 tsp Dry mint leaves 2 tbsp  Coriander leaves (finely chopped) 1 Bay leaf 4 Cloves 2 Cinnamon stick (small) 2 Cardamon ½ tsp Cumin seeds ¼ tsp Turmeric powder ½ tsp Red chilli powder 2 tsp Coriander powder 2 cup Basmati rice 6 tbsp Desi Ghee 3½ cup Water ½ cup Curd 4/5 fresh pudina leaves 1 tsp biryani oil Salt to taste Preparations: Take a biryani handi, heat  ghee , add all dry spices bay leaves, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon and cumin seeds . Toast them for a while, then add slit green chillies, dry mint leaves and finely chopped coriander leaves. Fry them until they turn crisp. Now add chopped onions, fry till golden, followed by crushed ginger garlic. Saute for couple of minutes, then add chopped tomatoes along with turmeric, chilli powder and coriander/dhania powder. Let the tomatoes c...

Ingredients: 4 -eggs 4tblsp- milk Tomato sauce softened cream cheese salt to taste Preparation: Lay out slices of bread. Spread half the slices with tomato sauce and the other half with softened cream cheese. Fold each slice with cream cheese over the slices with tomato sauce. In a shallow dish add 4 eggs, 4 tablespoons milk, and salt and whisk until well blended. In a large skillet, heat 2 Tablespoons of oil over medium heat.  Place a sandwich into the egg mixture and turn to coat both sides. Cook the stuffed French toast sandwiches until the egg is done and the bread is golden brown.  Repeat until all the French Toast is cooked. After the toast is done, remove from heat and place on a serving plate with tomato sauce.

Ingredients: 2 cups beans thoroughly washed and cut  1 pinch turmeric powder   1 pinch chilli powder 1 pinch masala powder Salt to taste mustard oil for frying Preparations: Heat a fry pan on medium heat and put 1 spoonful  of oil  Add turmeric powder,chilly powder, masala powder and mix it nicely Then add 2 cups of cutting beans and salt stir it and cover the pan and leave it for medium-low flame until beans is cooked perfectly.Serve with roti or steamed rice.

Ingredients: pomogranet-2 Water-2 cups Sugar-1 cups Cardamoms powdered-1 tsp Preparations: In a juicer blend the pomegranate seeds and stain the juice. Now add sugar cardamom powder,ice cubes and water with pomegranate juice to make a cool sharbat . Delicious pomegranate sharbat is ready, serve this chilled with pudina leaves.

Ingredients: 2 cups dry lima Beans (simba manji) (soaked and boiled) 2 tablespoon tamarind pulp 2 dried Red Chillies 2 1/2 cups Water 4 tablespoon Mustard Seeds 1 tea spoon zeera 1 garlic 1 tomato Salt, to taste Seasoning: 4 tbsp Oil 1/4 tsp Mustard Seeds 1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds 1/4 tsp funnel seeds 2 dried Red Chillies 1 small onion Preparations: Grind the dried red chilli, tomato,mustard seeds,garlic and zeera. Keep this mixer aside.Heat a pan add oil and add 1/4 tsp Mustard Seeds, 1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds,1/4 tsp saunf,2 dried Red Chillies, the sliced onion fry till light brown add ground mustard mixture;add turmeric pdr. stir nicely and  Cook until the raw smell of the mustard disappears then add little water when one boil will come then add the boiled lima beans and salt.           Mix well and remove from heat.Garnish with coriander leaves. serve with rice as a side dish.

Pakhala bhata (watery rice) is one of the daily food recipe in Odisha of Oriya People home. Because of the high temperature in the costal areas of Orissa.Pakhala , contains with Boiled rice in Cold Water ,with curd,chilly,,salt and a piece of onion.This recipe is very very popular in Cuttack,Puri, Berhampur and Bhubaneswar. To have the Pakhala , we need some sort of add on spicy recipes as their side dish like the drumstick fry,bitter gourd fry,pappad,small potato dum,baingan ka bharta  etc........... but If we have guest then we serve varieties of side dish.   After eating the Pakhala bhat, the Remaining water (called the Torani) is sipped with great relaxation.  The cooked rice with starch is soaked in water overnight for fermentation. This fermented rice is eaten the next day for lunch with little side dish.   Overnight for fermentation type of preparing Pakhala is called ‘Basi Pakhala’.This the traditional way of preparing pakha...