Methi Paratha

Ingredients:
2 cups Wheat Flour
1/2 cup Besan
salt to taste
1 tesp Sesame
1/2 tesp Ajwain
1 tesp Aniseed (sauf)
1/2 tesp red chilli pd
1/2 tesp turmeric pd
1 crushed green chilli
1/2 tesp coriander pd
1 cup fenugreek leaves
2 tesp oil
Method:
1.Mix all the ingredients and knead dough with reqired water.
2.Make sized ball of dough and roll it round using rolling pin.Spread a bit of oil over it and fold it like paratha.Then roll it again either in triangle or round shape.
3.Roast it one side on heated tawa.Turn it and roast from other side also with oil/ghee.
4.Serve it with any Pickle/curry/curd/chutney.

Urad Dal and Beans Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup soaked Urad Dal
1/2 cup chopped Beans
salt to taste
2-3 dried Red chillies
1/2 tesp Turmeric pd
1/2 tesp Mustard seeds
2 tesp oil
Method:
1.Coarsly Grind dal,dried red chillies in a grinder.
2.Heat oil in a pan.Add mustard seeds.Add dal.Mix all the spices and cook it well till the dal changes colour.
3.Mix par boiled beans with dal.cook for 5 mins and mix it well.
4.Serve with rice/chapati

Panchmeli Dal

This is basically made in Rajasthan with Bati.Its a traditional dish,and its called so because to cook it we need 5 types of Lentils .Do you want to try it, you need.............. Ingredients:
1/2 cup chilkewali moong dal (split green gram)
1/2 cup lal masoor dal (red lentils)
1/2 cup arhar/ toovar dal (split pigeon peas)
¼ cup chana dal (split Bengal gram)
¼ cup dhuli urad dal (split black gram)
Salt to taste
1 tesp turmeric powder
For Tempering:
1 tsp cumin seeds
A pinch of asafoetida
1 tesp ginger paste
1 chopped green chili
1 tesp Redchilli pd
1 tesp coriander powder
6-7 cloves
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp ghee
Method:
1. Mix all the above dals and wash them. Soak them for at least 1 hour. Drain and boil them in a pressure cooker with 2inch above water level by adding turmeric powder, salt green chillies and ginger paste.
2. After opening the cooker ,heat ghee in a fry pan.
3. Add cumin seeds.When they splutter add hing, cloves, bay leaf.
4. Add a spoon of red chilli pd,coriander pd and boiled dal.Cook it till it mixes with masala.
5.Garnish with coriander leaves.Serve with Bati/chapati/Rice.

Modifications:

We can temper it with onion and tomato gravy as Dal fry.

Vadia(Mangodi)

This is a Rajasthani Curry..............For it you need.............

Ingredients:

1 cup vadia(Lentil dumplings )(grounded coarsly not in mixer)

1 chopped green chilli

2 tesp finely chopped green coriander

salt to taste

1/2 tesp red chilli pd

1/4 tesp turmeic pd

1/2 tesp coriander pd

1/2 tesp cumin seeds

a pinch of Asafoetida

Water as required

2 tesp oil/ghee

Method:

1.Heat ghee/oil in a cooker.Add cumin seeds and asafoetida.Add grounded vadia.Roast them till the colour changes.

2.Add all spices and two cups of water.Add green coriander and chilli.Cook for a whistle.

3.Serve hot with chapati.

Cabbage Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped cabbage

1/2 tesp cumin seeds

a pinch of Asafoetida

salt to taste

1/4 tesp redchilli pd

1/4 tesp turmeric pd

1/2 tesp coriander pd

1/4 tesp Amchoor pd

2 tesp oil

Method:

1.Heat oil in a pan.Add cumin seeds and hing.When it splutter add chopped cabbage.

2.Add all the spices and mix it well.Cook it for 5 mins with covered Pan.

3.Serve it with chapati/rice.

Kadai Paneer

Ingredients:
100 gm cubed paneer
1 chopped onion
1 diced Capsicum
1/2 cup tomato puree
1/4 cup tomato sauce
1 green chilli
a small piece of ginger
1 tbsp ghee/oil
4-5 Cloves
4-5 Black Pepper
1 Big Cardamon
1/2 tesp Cumin seeds
1/2 cup cream

Salt to taste

Method:
1.Heat 2 tesp ghee/oil.Add cumin seeds,cloves,pepper corns,cardamon and cumin seeds
2.Add onion and cook till it changes colour.Add tomato ,ginger and green chilli.Cook it for 2-3 mins.
3.Now grind the above mixer to the smooth paste.
4.Now heat the remaining oil/ghee,add capsicum,above paste, tomato sauce and Salt.Add cream and Paneer.Garnish with green coriander leaves and serve with Chapati or naan.

Dal Dhokla

This is basically a Gujrati dish.It looks lengthy to cook but its not.It takes only 15 mins.It is also very healthy recipie.For it you need.............
For Dal:
1 cup Toohar(Arahar) Dal(Soaked)
salt to taste
1/2 tesp turmeric pd
For Dhokla:
1 cup Wheat Flour
salt to taste
1/2 tesp red chiili pd
1/4 tesp turmeric pd
1 tesp cumin seeds
1/2 tesp Rock(Kala) salt
1/2 tesp Black Pepper
1/4 tesp Garam Masala
For Seasoning:
1 tbsp ghee
1/2 tesp Cumin seeds
a pinch of hing(asafoetida)
2-3 Dry Red chilli
8-10 Kari patta(meetha neem)
1/2 tesp red chilli pd(optinal)
Method:
1.Mix all the ingredients of dhokla and knead the dough with water.
2.Now take a portion of dough and flatten it till the desired thickness.Better you keep it 1 cm thick.
3.Now Cut it into square pieces using knife or a cutter.
4.Keep all the dhoklas on the soaked dal.
5.Add salt and turmic pd in dal with dhoklas in a cooker with 3 cups of water.
6.Cook it till 3-4 whistles.
7.After opening the cooker check whether dal has cooked.Now heat ghee.add cumin seeds,hing,dry red chilli and curry patta.When crackles add 1/2 tesp red chilli pd and put it into Dal.
8.Serve it with chopped onions,coriander leaves and green chutney.
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