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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Masala Chole with Bhatura


Ingredients
•Refined flour (maida)2 1/2 cups
•Yogurt1/2 cup
•Baking powder1/2 teaspoon
•Soda bicarbonatea pinch
•Salt1 teaspoon
•Sugar2 teaspoons
•Oil2 tablespoons + to deep fry
Method
Place flour and baking powder, soda bicarbonate and salt in a bowl. Mix well and pass it through a sieve. Mix yogurt with salt and sugar. Add this to the flour and add about a cup of water and mix gradually to make a soft dough by light kneading. Incorporate two tablespoons of oil into the dough and cover the dough with a wet cloth. Keep it aside for an hour. Divide dough into sixteen equal portions. Roll them into balls. Cover and keep to ferment for ten minutes. Grease your palms with a little oil and flatten the balls. Roll out into five-inch diameter diskettes. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai and deep fry the bhaturas on high heat till light brown on both sides. Drain on absorbent paper. Serve hot with chole.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Masala Dosa with sambhar

Ingredients: (for 6 people)

1) 1 1/2 BIG vati urad dal + 3 BIG vati ukda/idli rice (soak overnight in water separately. First half grind the rice & then grind urad dal. Mix well & ferment it for 8-10 hrs.)
2) Potato sabji
3) Sambhar
4) Coconut chutney

For idli recipe- check the YouTube video of Vishnu Manohar- Master recipes 

For vada sambhar - Take exactly 2 and half BIG wati urad dal. Do not take more, it will be too much of vadas . 

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Kadhi Gole

Ingredients: (for 4 people)
1) 1 1/2 cups chana dal + 1/2 cup tur or moong dal. (soak overnight or for 1 1/2 hr in hot water)
2) 7-8 red chilies
3) 7-8 or lots of garlic
4) Ginger paste
5) 1 small cup coriander seeds
6) Salt to taste

Method:
1) Remove the water from the dal completely. Mix all the above ingredients & grind it into fine paste in the food processor. Add minimum water.
2) Make kadhi. When the kadhi starts boiling add the gole. Allow them to cook for 10-15 mins on medium-high flame.
3) Garnish with fresh coriander.

Dal Bati (Baafley)

Ingredients: (12 battis)
1) 3 cups karmari flour or 1 wati aata + 1/2 wati rava + 1/4 wati besan (proportion will change as per the requirement)
2) 2 tsp ovae
3) 3-4 tsp hot oil
4) Pinch of eating soda
5) Salt to taste
6) 2 tsp turmeric powder

Method:
1) Mix all the ingredients well. Make a firm dough. Keep the dough aside for 1/2 - 1hr. After that, knead the dough for 5-7 mins.
2) Now, make big battis & put them in hot boiling water for 12-15mins.
3) Remove the battis. Cut them in 4 equal sizes. Allow it to dry for 10-15 mins.
4) Deep fry them in hot ghee.
5) Serve the battis with sweet-sour dal with lots of ghee.

(You can also shallow fry the battis in pure ghee on hot pan. Reddish brown battis tastes good.)

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Besan Ladoo

Ingredients:
1) 7 cups besan
2) 2 1/2 cups pure ghee
3) 3 cups powder sugar (u can add more sugar also)
4) Powdered cardamom & nutmeg
5) 1/2 -1 cup barik rawa

Method:
1) In a container, add ghee. Now add rawa. Roast it for 2-3 mins.
2) Add besan. Roast it, till nice aroma develops.
3) Allow the mixture to cool (for 2-3hrs). Add dryfruits. On cooling, the final ladoo mixture should be a firm dough. 
4) Mix sugar. make ladoos.
 

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Dahi Wada

Ingredients: (For 6-7 people)
1) 1/2 kg Urad dal
2) 1 1/2 L Dahi
3) Ginger paste
4) 10-12 green chilies
5) 2 tbsp dahnia powder
6)  2 tbsp red chili powder
7) Suger & Salt to taste
8) Oil for deep frying
9) Tamarind-Jaggery sweet chutney
10) Jeera powder

Method:
1) Soak the dal in water for 3 -4 hrs.
2) Drain the water from the dal. Add the dal, salt & all the ingredients from 3-6 in a mixer bowl. Grind it into fine paste.
3) Now, prepare sweet dahi.
4) Deep fry the wada in the oil. Put the wada in cold water for 5-7 mins.
5) Now, press the wada & remove excess of water.
6) Put the wada in the dahi atleast 2-3 hrs. prior serving.
7) Serve the waada with sweet chutney, red chili powder, jeera powder & corriander.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Deep Fried Modak & Karanji

Ingredients: (For 35-40 modaks)

1) 1/4 kg Maida
2) 1/2 cup/wati rawa
3) Hot ghee
4) 2-3 cups dried grated coconut
5) 1-2 cups powder sugar
6) 1 tsp cardamom powder
7) 1 tsp nutmeg powder

Method:

1) Mix the maida & rawa. Into it, now add enough quantity of hot ghee (you should be able to make small balls of maida).
2) Add cold milk slowly into the above mixture. The dough should be hard & not soft.
3) Cover the dough with a moist cotton cloth for 2-3 hrs.
4) Now, make the saran. Mix all the ingredients from 4-7.
5) Now, beat the dough into smooth form.
6) Make modaks. Allow the modaks to dry.
7) Deep fry into hot ghee. Modaks will be ready.