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Rumali Roti

Do you buy more wheat flour than rice in a month? I do...so it's always Phulkas/Parathas every night . So boring of this routine, I decided to do rumali roti. Whenever we visit the food street in Bangalore in Basavangudi, we go to stall where Rumali rotiis are served hot with Channa masala as side dish. Hmmm...still I can feel the taste in my mouth.



What if I can try remaking the same?? But will I be able to recreate the same big rumali rotis made with the inverted tawa ? As my dear hubby always a guinea pig ( am sorry dear) , I went ahead to make this rumali roti with Tofu as a side dish.

Here is the recipe:



1 cup All purpose flour/Maida
1 cup Whole Wheat flour/Atta
salt to taste
1 Tbsp oil
Milk and Water to make dough


Method:



Mix all the dry ingredients and start kneading the dough with Milk and Water. Allow to rest for 1 hr. Start making balls of same size and roll it thinly .


I bet we can't make that big size like of Hotel/Restuarant but am sure we can make a small sized just like Phulkas. This might be very high in calories so you can make it a once a month option.

Dum Paneer and Rumali Roti

Recipes coming soon...

Zucchini Sambar/ Zucchini ToorDal

Of late I started going to gym to burn lot of calories and walking more steps,rather than concentration on losing weight. I am in search of eating healthy meals since I am at home. Buying Vegetables during weekend is lot more fun,because I love to experiment with new vegetables. Eventhough I know Zucchini is now a part of Indian Vegetable, this is the first time I got one...Yeah, Just one.

Before trying it as a just plain curry ,just thought about it mixing with Toor Dal r Moong Dal, and I came up with Sambar.Ofcourse, I googled it and saw Zucchini Sambar on their list. So had an idea to continue it further. Along with this I made Brocolli Curry with Small Onions.

Before I start out with the recipe, I should say it tasted yummy and was same like Radish without the Radish-smell.

I am sending this Entree: Veggie/Fruit- VFAM – Zucchini : Event - Zucchini hosted by CooksJOy

Ingredients:
Toor Dal - 1 cup cooked and mashed lightly
Tamarind- size of a small lemon(india size not the american one)
Vegetables :-
Zucchini- 1 cut in to small cubes
Onion- 1 chopped
Tomato - 1
Green Chillies - 1 slit lengthwise
Sambar powder - 1.5 tsp

Tempering:
Mustard- 1 tsp
Ural Dal - 1/2 tsp
Long Red Chillies/Milagavathal - 1
Curry leaves - a few
Hing/Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
Oil and salt
Coriander LEaves for Garnishing

Method:

1)Keep cooked Dal ready
2) In a Pan with oil, Add Mustard and wait till splutter. Add Urad Dal and Long Red Chillies and Curry Leaves, Asafoetida
3)Add Onions ,Zucchini. Fry for 5 Minutes and add Tomato,green chilli.
4)Add Pulp of Tamarind ,Sambar Powder,salt .Let it boil for about 10-15 minutes on medium-high
5)Once you know the consistency, add toor dal ,Coriander Leaves and little pinch of Coriander Powder at last.Coriander powder is just a option but I bet it taste different and yummy.

Carrot peas Paratha- Healthy and easy paratha

It's been a wonderful experience looking at ll other super food bloggers and learn from there recipes. Not only that, but also the photography part. Need to get one SLR cam soon...As my guests were arriving to my house for the weekend, got panic and started to think about something new I wanted to make but as well tastes good. I came across couple of blogs and saw a beautiful narrated website than a blog. It's


She is a wonderful cook and a photographer too...she sure has passions for cooking and clicking which is what her website says. So inspired by her 'carrot peas paratha',I made my own version just to impress my guest. I know this is just my new recipe which I haven't tried so far and to impress a guest ,I dare to try for the first time and came out perfectly.


Ingredients:
Wheat flour- 2 cups
Grated carrot -2
Frozen peas - 0.5 cups
Oil and salt
Jeers seeds- 1 tsp
Ginger- garlic - 1 tsp
Coriander-jeera powder- 1tsp
Coriander leaves - 1 cup for garnishing


Method:


1) In a Kadai with oil, add Jeera seeds and grated carrot and peas and fry for 5 to10 minutes.
2) Add all the masalas and salt.
3)Add these to the Wheat Flour with water and little bit of oil and knead the dough.
4)Make little balls and roll it in to parathas.

Yummy carrot peas paratha is ready.

I made this with Dal Makani made out of whole Masoor Dal and raita.

Channa vathakhuzhambu/kondakadalai vathakuzhambu

Sounds different but I bet it's a tasty treat. When it comes to kuzhambu ,we simple add some vegetables such as onion, tomatoes ,methi leaves or even add appalams but what it's like to add Channa in vathakuzhambu?i had the same doubt when I saw making this in my in-laws house , but I bet, it was very very yummy. Not only it contains high protein but it was hmmmm... Before it gets over I thought I need to pen down this recipe.

Ingredients:

Big lemon-sized tamarind(puli)
1 spn Mustard seeds
1 spn Channa dal
1 spn Urad dal
1 spn Toor Dal
1 cup of Channa / chole , soaked in water overnight and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles
4-5 Methi seeds
4-5 Red Chillies
2 heep spn Sambar powder
6-7 Curry Leaves
5 Spoon Gingely Oil


Method:


* Take a kadai, Pour Gingely oil
** Add Mustard Seeds
** Add Channa Dal
** Add Urad Dal
** Add Toor Dal
** Add Methi Seeds
** Add Red Chillies
** Add Channa/chole

* Then add the pulp of Tamarind Juice

* Add Sambar powder and Salt

*Let it boil for 15- 20 minutes till it becomes semi-fluid consistency.

Sweet Corn Pulav

Recipe will follow soon....

Lunch Box Menu- Tomato Pulav and Brocolli Curry

I always wonder, how bloggers make the food and take pictures at the same time.The best part is post the pictures the same day. I have always tried but in vain. Last week, I made tomato pulav and Brocolli Curry for the box and kept the same for us. The box was so colorful with Bright red and Green for the side box. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

Rice - 3/4 cup
Onions- 1/2 cup ,Sliced long
Tomatoes- 2 small or 1 Big ,
GInger- Garlic- 1 tsp
Green-Chillies- 2 slit long
Coriander Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cuming Powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
PattaiCinnamon stick - a small piece
Cloves/Krambu- 2 pieces
Elaichi - 1
Bay Leaves- 1
Curry leaves and Coriander leaves for garnishing.
Oil and salt as needed.


Method
1) Wash the rice and soak in water for 10 minutes.
2) Take a pan with oil and add Cinnamon Stick,Cloves,Elaichi,Bay leaves ,Then add sliced onions and green chillies and let it fry for couple of minutes. You can add little bit of salt to onion, so that it will fasten up the frying.
3)Grind "Ginger-Garlick-Tomatoes" in a mixie and pour it in the pan .Fry for some time.
4) Add Masala powders - Turmeric powder- Cumin powder - Coriander Powder and salt.Add Curry leaves which will enhance the flavor.
5) Now add rice-without soaked water and fry for 1 minute. Let it marry all the flavours and add salt.
6) Now add the water. For 1 cup of rice: we can add two cups of water. For this 3/4the cup of rice 1.5 cups of water and salt and keep in electric cooker or just pressure cook it.
Tada..Its ready.

Now comes Brocolli Curry: This is the simplest veggie of all.

Ingredients:

Brocolli - 10 florets
Mustard - 1 tsp
Urad dal- 1tsp
Long red Chillies - 1
Asafoetids- 1 tsp
Curry Powder- 2 tsp
Oil and salt.


Method: 1) Boil Brocolli in water for 10 minutes and keep it aside.
2) In a pan with oil, add mustard - wait till it splutters and add urad dal,Long red chillies.
3) Add Boiled Brocolli with salt and fry for 5 - 10 minutes . Add Curry powder and asafoetida.


Tomato Pulav with Brocolli goes well together.

Spinach with buttermilk gravy/Keera Morkootu

After I came here to US, It seems am losing my hair daily. Without vitamin supply, I cant survive here.We can't just rely on tablets alone, so I started including spinach in our diet.Atleast 2-3 times a week is a must to have greens.Since spinach is much cheaper in US than India, I get it often. Spinach is a good source of iron.I love 'kootus' and my hubby is dead against coconut-greenchillies combination. So, I always make him 'porichakootu ' which is 'coconut-uraddal-daniya-milagavathal' combination. So for a change with "vethakuzhambu' , I did this spinach with buttermilk gravy /Keera Morkootu.


Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

Spinach - 1 or 2 bunch ,Chopped finely, Washed

Coconut- 1/2 cup

Greenchillies- 2

Jeera- 1 tsp

Curd/Yogurt- 1 cup

Mustard-1 tsp

Long red Chillies/Milagavathal - 1



Method:-

1) Grind Coconut,greenchillies,jeera and make in to paste

2) In a kadai with oil, put mustard and wait till splutter. Put urad dal and Long Red Chillies and add spinach/Keera and fry till it cooks well.

3)Add the paste in to that Keera and let it cook for couple of minutes.

After switching off the fire and keep it on the side.Add Yogurt/Thick Buttermilk over the top and mix it. Serve it hot.

Ta..Da Spinach with buttermilk gravy is ready.

South Indian Thali...

Manathakali/Drumstick Vathakuzhambu,Thakali/Tomatoes Rasam without Puli/Tamarind,Keera Morkootu,Vadams,Rice

Eggless Dates Cake

Who doesn't like sweets or cakes...I always love them but was so poor with the to-do stuffs. Normally I dont get sweet stuff in my kitchen. Always its a struggle to make a simple payasam/Kheer except the vermicilli which I have mastered recently. Even I was ready to go for Cake classes in Chennai but didn't get time for that. So after all the thinking I put in to make something sweet, I went for eggless dates cake.

Though I love eggs, my hubby is no-eggs-at-home person. I have to make a cake without egg.My sister does awesome cooking.Once she gave me this dates cake ,so the idea struck me to just re-do it again and see how it works.
To my fear,it came out so perfect at the end. I referred Aayi's recipe.Thanks yaar.





Ingredients:

1 cup All purpose Flour
18 Seedless Dates
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1 tea spn baking soda

Also, thanks to Aayi's recipe. If I din't see baking soda and put baking powder instead of it, it would have gone thick.But I love this texture.

Method:

1)Soak dates in Warm Milk.
2) After 10-15 minutes,once you know its soaked well,put it in blender and mix it well with sugar.
3) In a big bowl, add All purpose flour,oil,baking soda and the mix the dates blended with milk and sugar.

Preheat the oven at 350F. Bake the cake in a greased oven proof dish for 35-40min (or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean).

Lunch box menu: soya chunks pulav & shredded carrot

Soya chunks Textured or texturized vegetable protein (TVP), also known as textured soy protein (TSP), soy meat, or soya meat is a defatted soy flour product; a by-product of extracting soybean oil.[1] It is often used as a meat analogue or meat extender. It is quick to cook, with a protein content equal to that of meat. by Wikipedia.com.

So for a change, planned to make Soya Chunks Pulav than Masala. Its the same procedure as the Masala which included the adding of rice.It goes well with Salad or Raita. I made shredded carrot which is the best combo ever.

From now, there will be so much Lunch Box menus from dhomefood :).
Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

Rice : 1/2 cup
Soya Chunks- 10-15 (Boiled in water for 10 minutes with salt and squeeze it and cut in to half)
Onion- 1 chopped long
Tomatoes- 1 Chopped fine
Bay Leaf- 1
Cinnamon - small stick
Turmeric - 1 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala- a pinch
Oil ,Salt and Coriander leaves

Method:
1) Wash the rice and let it soak in water for 10 minutes
2) While doing so, IN a kadai with oil, Put the Cinnamon,Bay Leaf and add Onions.
3) After few minutes, Add tomatoes ,and all the spices (turmeric,coriander powder,Cumin Powder,Garam Masala)
4)Once the raw smell goes away, add Soya chunks and peas(Optional). Add salt and fry for 5 - 10 minutes
5)Add soaked rice with the ratio 1:2 water and keep it in rice cooker.

Soya Chunks Pulav with Shredded carrot and Chips...Is ready

P for Palak Paneer

What more comforting than store bought paneer. After all its low calorie. Everyweek I make sure that we include lot of greens in our food atleast twice/thrice a week. I am talking about spinach which is rich in iron and Paneer for Protein.
Do you add toor dal in Palak Paneer, because I dont and the recipe is as below.

Main Ingredients:

Palak/Spinach - 1 bunch
Paneer - 10- 15 cubed- Fry it separately.

Fry and Grind:
Onion - 1 chopped roughly
Tomato- 1 chopped roughly
Ginger- garlic - 1 small piece

Tadka:
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - a pinch
Jeera -1/2 tsp

Method:-

1) Boil Palak and grind , after it cools down.
2) Fry and Grind: Fry onion,Tomato ,Ginger -Garlic and grind it.
3)In a kadai with Oil, add Tadka and pour the onion-tomato gravy. Fry for 2 minutes till you see the oil on the top. By this time add Grinded Palak, salt and let it boil for 5 minutes.
4) Altast add fried Paneer cubes.

P.S: If you are health freak, you can boil paneer in water and add it at the last stage.

Palak Paneer is ready to be served with Phulka.

Back to my heaven...

After a sweet 2.5 yrs in India, leaving behind all the bad memories ..am back to my heaven place .yes in U .S.S(United States of America) . I feel so comfortable here with my family near by.Ofcourse, am happy to announce that I will be back with food blog with a long /in-between breaks.Thanks to my inspiration - Food TV ( Giada ,Barefoot Contessa ,Rachel Ray)...Whoops...Bye bye for now . Will be back with Yummy Yummy Indian Recipes with a dash of local to it.