A PINCH OF HING

  You swallow the rice as soon as  the distinctively tangy sweet gravy of Odisha reaches  your tongue.😁.  The number of individuals who consume sweets with rice has decreased in the modern day, but Bhendi Sakara, an ancient Odia side dish has a flavor that will completely please your palette.No regrets, no complaints at the dining table, just a request for further finger-licking dishes. Ingredients..... 250 gm Bhendi  4 tbsp Jaggery  Lemon sized Tamarind  1 tsp Rad chilli powder  ¼ tsp Dhaniya powder  ½ tsp Jeera powder  Few Curry leaves  One onion (optional) 1 tsp Panch phoran Salt Oil Preparations......  Cut the bhindi into two pieces after washing. Add a spoonful of oil to a kadhai and cook the bhindies till they change color. Remove in dry plate. Add extra oil to the same kadhai, add panch phoran, and while it's spluttering, add onion. Don't brown it. Add all of the spices, including salt, tamarind water, and jaggery. Cook...

Biri chaula dantikili ******************* Ingredients...... Rice flour - 1 1/2 cup Urad dal -1 cup  Sesame seed - 1or 2 tsp Oil - 1 or 2 tbsp Salt - 1 or 2 tbsp Preparations..... Heat a pan, add urad dal, and roast them well, without changing colour. Once cool make a fine powder of it. Take a bowl, add rice flour, and urad dal flour, black sesame seed, two tbsp oil and salt and mix them well before adding water to this. Now gradually add warm water and knead until the dough is smooth, cover and keep aside. On dinning table spread a clean white sheet apply slightly oil on it . Take dantikili mould fill the dough close it tightly and start making dantikili on sheet as round shaped. Repeat until finish all your dantikili dough. Fill a dantikili mold with dough,  seal it tightly, and begin creating  circular foam dantikili on a sheet.  Continue until you have used up  all of the dantikili dough. Allow this uncooked circular dantikili to dry somewhat. In a pan, heat ...

  Raw Papaya and Shrimp Rai ***************************** Rai paste .... Take mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, garlic, dry chili, and onion and grind them into a paste. Cut and wash the papaya accordingly for family choices.  Clean the shrimp and marinate it. Fry the shrimp in oil in a pan, and add a little oil; fry one teaspoon of panch foran, onion, green chili, curry leaves, and dry chilli in it; add the rai paste and salt; add the papaya  and a little water; and cook until it is cooked. When it becomes thick, add the shrimp, add one tomato, and cook for another ten minutes. Eat it hot.

  Smokey Cherry Plumb Mojito  If you want to add something new to your healthy fresh cool drinks, include this smokey plum Mojito in your menu!   Choose both types of plums in this drink orange for sourness red ripen for sweetness.     Ingredients..... 2 smokey plums Few mint leaves  ½ lemon into 2 parts ½ teaspoon 3 mix powder  Soda water Ice cubes  Presentations... 3 mix powder.... Heat a pan on high flame and switch off the flame when heated up. On that hot pan add one teaspoon spoon full of cumin seeds keep continue stirring when start splutter remove and make a powder along with one teaspoon of white pepper and half teaspoon of salt.  Mojito making.... Slice smokey plums into pieces and place in tall glass.   Add mint, lime juice,  and 3 mix powder.  Using a muddler, muddle the plum and mint until the plum’s juices are released and mint leaves are slight broken apart. Add chilled water and then top with soda wate...

  Dahi lau santula is a healthy and refreshing side dish from the Odisha Cuisine made with steamed bottle gourd and curd. The recipe is very simple and requires a few basic ingredients. Ingredients.... 1 Bottle gourd  1 cup thick curd 1 green chilli  5 garlic cloves round slices  1 tsp urad dal 1 tsp mustard cumin seeds  2 Chopped dry red chillies  Few curry leaves  Oil Salt to taste  Preparations.... Wash bottle gourd peel it and cut into small pieces. In a pan add bottle gourd, little water and salt boil until bottle gourd smooth and transparent. Remove from flame. In a bowl add curd mash one green chilli and add salt mix well and pour this on boiled bottle gourd mix well keep aside  In a pan heat oil add all tempering ingredients one by one when all done spread this on top of dahi bottle gourd mix well and serve as side dish. You may also add chilled curd and serve like raita.

Ingredients...  1 cup of rice  1 liter of milk  1 Baiganapalli mango  1½ cups jaggery  4 whole Cardamom  1 large bay leaf  ⅓ tsp salt  ½ cup of desi ghee  Preparatory...   *Wash the rice and pat dry on a dry cloth, once completely dry transfer it to a dry bowl and keep aside.  * Bring the milk to a good boil, stir once and boil for few more minutes. No need to reduce  * Make a powder of cardamom and bay leaf and keep aside  * Wash mango and keep them in a bowl filled with water for at least 2 hours.  *Cut the mango, peel it and make a smooth puree. Keep aside. * To remove the impurities from the jaggery, soak it in little water, boil, and strain it. Keep aside. Preparation.....   In a pot, take desi ghee and melt it on low heat    After the ghee melts, add the rice and saute until light brown   Once rice roasted well, add jaggery water, cardamom - bay leaf powder and salt and cook until comple...

  This is my favorite form of chicken curry, not only because it tastes great but also because it requires very little work in the kitchen. Additionally, I always choose nutritious recipes based on what my family requires.     Here is my version of healthy saffron chicken curry...... Ingredients...... 1 bowl thick warm milk 1 pinch of saffron  1 Cup milk powder  1 tblsp Green chilli paste(spicy) 1 tbsp GG paste  1 tsp Fresh grounded garam masala  ¼ tsp Turmeric powder  ½ Cup malai ½ Cup desi ghee  Salt to taste    Preparations...... Take warm milk add saffron mix well cover and keep for later use. Churn the malai keep aside. Wash and trim off any excess fat from the chicken drumstick, this will not only enhance the flavor but also help the chicken cook more evenly. Keep in a mixing bowl.  Now first add salt and turmeric powder give a nice massage and rub the salt turmeric into the chicken slits.  Now add milk powder, GG pa...