Saturday 30 April 2016

Rice Soup

Ingredients:
1. Rice Starch: 2 cups
2. Soaked Moogdal: 1/4 cup
3. Small Onion finely chopped: 1
4. Green chilli finely chopped: 1
5. Salt for taste

Procedure:
1. Boil all the above ingredients till Moog dal is cooked completely.
2. Garnish with coriander and serve hot with a pinch of lemon juice.

Thursday 28 April 2016

Tomato Pasta

Ingredients:
1. Pasta: 250gm
2. Dolmio Bolognese pasta sauce: 1 cup (250gm)
3. Tomato: 1
4. Onion: 1
5. Capsicum: 1
6. Ginger: 1 inch
7. Garlic: 2 pods
8. Coriander: for garnishing
9. Salt to taste
10. Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
11. Jeera powder: 1/2 tsp

Procedure:
1. Cook pasta with 1 tsp oil and salt.
2. In a wok, heat oil and fry chopped garlic, ginger till they are a bit brown.
3. Add chopped onions and fry till translucent.
4. Add chopped tomato, capsicum and fry a bit.
5. Add Salt and put lid for 5 mins. Mix chilli powder.
6. Add the sauce, jeera powder and pasta and mix well.
7. Garnish with Coriander and serve hot .

Sunday 17 April 2016

Shakarkandi/Sweet potato Chat

Ingredients:
1. Sweet potato: 1 medium (250-300gm)
2. Chat masala: 1 tsp
3. Chilli powder: 1 tsp
4. Cumin Seed powder (roast and grind): 1tsp
5. Salt: 1 tsp
6. Amchur powder: 1/2 tsp

Procedure:
1. Preheat Oven at 200oC and bake for 30-35 mins.
2. Pierce the sweet potato and bake in Oven or cook in cooker till its soft but not mashed completely.
3. Take out of over and cool for 10 mins. Peel the skin and cut the sweet potato into 1 inch cubes.
4. In a small bowl mix all the masala (Chat masala, Chilli powder, Cumin seeds powder, Salt, Amchur powder).
5. In the serving bowl, arrange the cubed pieces and sprinkle the masala powder on them and serve.


maggie with home made tastemaker

Ingredients:
1. Dhaniya powder: 1 tbsp
2. jeera powder: 1 tbsp
3. haldi: 1/4 tsp
4. black salt: pinch
5. chat masala: 1/2 tsp
6. amchur powder: 1/4 tsp
7. chilli powder/pepper powder: 1/4 tsp
8. garlic powder: pinch
9. fennel powder: 1tsp
10. fenugreek power: pinch
11. ginger powder: 1/4 tsp
12. chinnamon: 1/4 tsp
13. Maggie 1 pack
14. Vegetables as per your interest (carrot, peas, beans, capsicum, corn)

Procedure:
1. Heat 1 tsp oil in a wok, add the vegetables and fry a bit.
2. Add a bit of salt and close the lid.
3. After they are cooked half add all the masala and cook a bit.
4. Add the maggie and fry for 2 mins.
5. Add water and cook till done.

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Tomato Avvakai with sundried tomatos

Ingredients:

1. Sun-dried tomatoes: 100gms
2. tamarind: 25gms
3. salt: 4 tbsp.
4. waragal bamboo mirch powder: 3 tbsp
5. roasted mustard seeds powder: 3 tbsp
6. roasted fenugreek seeds powder: 2tbsp
7. oil: 5 tbsp
8. Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
9. Red chillies: 4
10. Hing: 1/2 tsp

Procedure:
1. Soak the tamarind, remove the fibre and seeds.
2. Grind tomatoes with tamarind and salt.
3. Add the mirch powder, mustard powder, fenugreek powder.
4. Mix well till all the powders are completely blemd.
5. Heat oil and season with mustard seeds, red chillies and Hing.
 Serve with hot rice and generous amount of ghee.