A PINCH OF HING

  Ingredients.... 3 Plantains 1 cup Soya chunks 2 tbsp Besan 1 tsp GG paste 1 tsp Red chilli powder 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder 1 tsp aam chur powder ¼ tsp Turmeric powder 1 tsp Garam masala powder Salt to taste Oil  Few wooden Skewers Preparation.... Wash and soak soya nuggets in warm water. When it double in size, Squeeze and gently press the soya chunks between your palm to drain the excess water from it. Do this process 2 to 3 times for removing impurities if any. Put them in the grinder jar,add half of the soya nuggets at a time. Grind till small granules without using water.  Wash plantains with skin trim the tip and  stem. Boil plantains with excess water and remove the skin, cut and grind into roughly  without water. Add both nuggets granules and plantain on mixing bowl add all above spices and mix make a nice thick dough.  Keep this in refrigerator for 10 minutes.  Soak the skewers before making seekh kebbabs. Through this your skewers are no...

  Ingredients... 4 Cups chopped Cabbage ⅓ tsp Mustard seeds Jeera 1 tsp Urad dhal 1 tbsp Bengal Gram Dhal 2 tbsp Grated Coconut 4 Green Chillies Few Curry leaves Salt to taste Preparations.... Heat oil in kadhai Add all seasionings one by one bengal gram dal, urad dal, mustard, jeera, green chillies and curry leaves fry till light brown Add cabbage and salt and mix well. Cover with a lid and cook on low flame. No need to add water.  When half done add grated coconut and stir well cover and cook for just two minutes. It's ready to serve.

  Ingredients..... Corn 65 .....  1 packet Baby corn  ½ tsp GG paste  2 tbsp of 65 masala Oil for frying Preparations ..... Cut the baby corn into 1" size pieces. In a mixing bowl add 65 masala and GG paste with a little water mix well add corns mix and coat each and every piece of corn,  let it marination for few minutes.  While baby corn absorb these masalas let's  prepare bread 65  For bread 65 ..... 8 bread slices 1 tsp Gg paste 1 Onion  4 Green chillis  6 Garlic pods Garam masala 4 tbsp 65 masala.... Take a chopper add onion, garlic and green chillies chop finely keep aside. Take a mixing bowl add bread , add chopped OGGc , garam masala,GG paste and 65 masala. Mix with using little water . It is like a loose dough. Keep in refrigerator for few minutes.  Heat oil in a kadhai. Drop one by one the babycorn pieces into the oil. Deep fry on medium flame till they looks crispy.  Take them out on paper towel to remove excess oil....

Dal Tadka without Onion, Garlic and ginger is healthy and one of the most comfort foods on this auspicious month. Ingredients.... For dal.... 1 Cup Bengal gram dal 2 Bay leaves ½ tsp Termeric powder ¼ tsp hing ½ tsp Homemade garam masala  (without garlic) Salt to taste For tempering.... Pinch of Hing ¼ Mustard seeds ½ tsp Cumin seeds 1 tsp Fennel seeds 2 Dry chillis into half ½ tsp Garam masala 1 tsp of Kashmiri Chilli powder Oil Salt Water Vegetables.... 1" Radish 1" Cucumber 1 Tomato  ½ Cup Cabbage 1 tsp of Green chillis Chopped coriander leaves Preparations.... Chopped radish, cucumber, green chillies and tomato into small pieces. Thinly slice the cabbage. Keep aside. You may also add carrots and capsicum. Now rinse dal nicely until the water runs clear. Soak dal for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes pour the soaked dal in pressure cooker with 2 more cups of water, salt, termeric, bay leaves and garm garam masala. Cook it for perfect tender, do not overcook otherwise dal will b...

Skipping dal is easy now. Dal is full of protein but sometimes we need something different in regular going food isn't?  This Green Curd is better option to skip dal without any difficulty. Ingredients.... ½ Litres thick curd For Green masala.. Handful of Coriander leaves Hand full of curry leaves ½" Ginger 4 Garlic cloves 4 Green chillis Pinch of cumin seeds For seasionings.. ½ tsp Fennel seeds ½ Fenugreek seeds ¼ Mustard seeds ¼ Cumin seeds ¼ tsp Hing Oil salt Presentations..... Take a mixing bowl along with thick curd add two cups of water and 1 tbsp salt and churn to mix well. Keep aside. In mortar add all green masala ingredients with little salt crushed into fine and add this green masala to curd and mix well. ( Adding salt to mortar helps to make a fine paste easily ) Take seasioning pan along with very little oil add all above dry spices when start spluterning add these to curd.  Serve with plain rice.  

  How to make instant appe when your family hungry on evening time.  Maida, oil,  salt, Eno and curd mix well to form a paste without forming any lumps to form a thick batter. Heat appe pan with oil just add one tbsp of batter flip twice and it's done.  Serve with coconut chutney.

  Ingredients... ½ Cup moong dal ⅓ tsp Termeric powder 2 Cups of bottle gourd 4 tbsp of coconut paste Handful of Curry leaves Handful of chopped green chillies ⅓ tsp Mustard Cumin Coconut oil Oil Salt Preparations... Wash properly and peal the skin of the bottle gourd and cut them into cubes. In a deep wok add ½ cup of water along with a 2 pinch of salt and add all gourd cubes cover and cook until tender.  Bottle gourd release it's own water so do not throw this water strain and keep aside. Fry dal and boil with termeric powder and bottle gourd water . Do not stir dal. Keep aside in open flat bowl. To avoid over cooking.  Grind coconut into fine thick paste this paste. keep aside. In a pan heat oil. when it's hot, add mustard, cumin when starts spluttering add chopped  green chillies and Curry leaves do not over fry just saute and add coconut paste fry for 2 to 3 minutes add boil dal and gourds and salt stir nicely cook on high flame . Do not stir continuously . Just...