A PINCH OF HING

  This vegetable kurma tastes best when the vegetables are crunchy and not over cooked and is well balanced with mild flavors from spices and fresh coconut.  In almost every notable South Indian hotel and restaurant in the city, this vegetable kurma is served as a side dish with puris, chapati, and parotta, and with iddiyapam, apam, for breakfast and dinner. Try this once..... Ingredients... 2 onions 2-3 green chillies 1 tsp ginger garlic paste 3 cups mixed small cut 9 types of vegetables  1/2 cup milk 2 tbsp yogurt optional 2 tsp coriander powder / malli podi 1/2 tsp cumin / jeera 1/2 tsp black mustard seeds 1/4 tsp fennel seeds  2 string curry leaves 1 tbsp oil 2 tsp ghee Salt to taste For paste..... 4 cloves 2 ″ cinnamon stick 2 cardamom pods 5-6 cashew nuts 2 green chillies 1/4 cup grated coconut Preparations...... Add the ingredients under the list “to grind” into a small mixie jar or spice grinder. Grind to a smooth paste with water. I added about 1/2 cup water...

  Amba Nadiya palua thikiri Ingredients .... 1 Cup Arrowroot powder 1 Cup Mango pulp ¼ Cardamom powder ½ Cup grated tender smooth coconut Sugar if needed ½ Cup Milk 1 pinch Salt Desi ghee for grease the tray Preparations...... Grease the tray and keep this tray on refrigerator. Take a bowl add arrowroot powder and add water mix well, cover and keep aside for 2 hours to settle down. After 2 hours remove the lid stir once and keep it for just 2 minutes more, slowly drain the water. Now take another mixing bowl add everything mix nicely to make like batter. Take a saucepan add spoon full of water, swrill it and then pour all liquid mixer cook on low flame and keep stirring continuously. When it becomes thick , switch off the flame, stir once to evaporate the heat and then pour on a greased tray.  After it comes to room temperature cut into your choice of pieces. Before that apply some ghee on knife. If you want you coat sugar powder. But I prefer like this. Serv...

  Ingredients..... Radish greens 1 radish cut into small cubes 1 Onion chopped  1 tblsp of Garlic chopped  2 dry red chillies into 4 pieces ½ tsp cumin seeds ½ tsp mustard seeds Mustard oil Salt to taste  Preparations........ Wash properly leafy vegetables along with it's soft tender stems. Remove in a colander, when all water drains shred into thin and fine. Keep aside. Heat one cup of water with little salt add shredded saag cover and cook until dry and done. No need add more water, we need a dry fry side dish. Heat kadhai, add oil when it comes to smoking point add chopped garlic stir well fry until light brown, now add chopped onions fry till brown, spread these make a hollow add red chillies, Mustard, cumin, when spluttering mix every thing, now add boiled saag to this tempering mix nicely fry on high flame until it's done perfectly. Serve as side dish with rice or roti.

  Whole moong dalma  Ingredients..... ½ Cup Moong Hing 1tsp crushed ginger garlic 1 tsp Red chilli powder 1 tsp Turmeric powder 1 tsp fried red chilli & cumin powder 1 tsp panch futana  Mix Vegetables 1 Cup Plantain, Parwal, Potato, Brinjal, Taro, Pumpkin and Raw Papaya.  Cut into small cubes. Ghee Salt to taste  Preparations...... Wash moong well drain water and fry with ghee and then soak for 2 hours.  In a pot add moong along with it's water, turmeric and salt, when half   cooked add all vegetables, stir well, cover and cook until fully done. Heat ghee in a separate pan, add panch futana, hing,  crushed ginger garlic, red chilli powder saute nicely then add little water pour this on top of moong dal, stir well sprinkle cumin red chilli powder on top, cover the lid, stir on the time you serve.  Enjoy this with steam rice or roti.

  Ingredients.... .¼ cup golden raisins ¼ cup black raisins (seedless) ¼ cup cashews ¼ cup chopped candied orange peels or candied citrus peels 8 dried apricots 8 to 9 dates – small to medium-sized ¼ cup tutti frutti – optional 2 tablespoons dried cherries or glazed cherries 1 cup rum or 1 cup fresh orange juice or apple juice 1.5 cups all-purpose flour – 187 grams 1 cup whole wheat flour – 120 grams 1.5 cups demerara sugar – 250 grams – can also add instead 250 grams brown sugar or 250 grams white sugar or 250 grams powdered sugar/confectioner’s sugar 1 cup oil or melted butter, use any neutral flavored oil 1 cup soy milk or any nut milk or dairy milk 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or regular white vinegar 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence stir nicely. Preparations... Start by chopping all the nuts and dried fruits. Put them in a bo...

  Dry Ingredients:     3/4 cup whole wheat flour     3/4 cup oat flour (ground oats)     1/2 cup  white flour     1/3 cup shredded coconut     1 tsp baking powder     1 tsp baking soda     1 tsp cinnamon     1/2 tsp salt     1 cup cooked quinoa Wet Ingredients:     1 cup shredded carrots     1/2 cup whole milk yogurt (thick)     2 eggs, beaten     1/4 tbsp unsweetened apple paste(ground the green apples)     2 T coconut oil     1 tsp vanilla Preparations: 1. Preheat oven to 350 2. Cook quinoa (about 12 min.) 3. Combine dry ingredients, excluding quinoa 4. Whisk together wet ingredients 5. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir unti...

  Navratna pulao is a non-spicy but fragrant and exquisite recipe for pulao. Whole spices are there, like green cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves, which impart flavor rather than heat. There is no spicy chili, peppers and ginger or garlic, used in this recipe.  In fact, its flavor profile is somewhat on sweeter side, because of the use of nuts, raisins, cherries and saffron milk. And that's exactly how it should be, soft, rich, flavourful and mild taste. Ingredients.... 1 cup – Basmati rice 1 Cup Paneer cubes Potato Onion Carrot  French beans Peas Cauliflower florets Corn  6 Green chilly chopped Nuts... 10 no. Cashew nuts 10 no. Raisins 10 no Cherries 10 no Sultana  Spices... 1 tsp Sahi jeera 1 Star anise 1 Javitri 4 Cloves 4 Cardamom  2 Bay leaf Desi ghee Water as required Salt to taste Rich products.... 2 tbsp few Kesar strings soaked in milk. 2 Cup thick milk Preparations..... Cut all vegetables into cubes. Fry paneer and keep aside. Soak rice fo...