Ground Nut Chutney

 Ingredients

• 1 cup Groundnuts
• 1/4 cup Coriander seeds
• 1/4 cup Red Chilli powder
• 1 tsp Asafoetida
• Salt to taste

Method

• Roast the groundnuts and then peel off the cover.
• Then grind them in a mixer/grinder coarsely.
• Roast the coriander seeds lightly and grind separately.
• Mix the crushed groundnuts and coriander seeds and grind it once more together.
• Then add the red chilli powder, salt and asafoetida.
• Mix it well and store in a air tight container

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Thaalipeeth

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup jowar flour
• 1/2 cup gram flour(besan)
• 1 onion chopped finely
• 1/2 cup coriander leaves
• 3 green chilies
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• salt to taste
• 2 tbsp oil

Method

• Mix all the above ingredients properly and knead dough.
• Make small balls of the dough (as in chapati).
• Take a damp cloth and put on the wooden/plastic/any platform (polpaat).
• Take one ball at a time and spread it with palm hitting slowly in round shape of about 2-3 inch in radius.
• Now make about 5 holes in the flattened dough, widely spread.
• Heat the tava (griddle)at medium flame.
• Put the flattened dough on the tava upside down(i.e upper portion down).
• Pour little oil through the holes.
• Turn it upside down when cooked.
• When both sides are cooked, serve it hot with ghee or white butter or curd/yoghurt or pickle.

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Shankerpaali - Diwali Faral

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup and for deep frying- oil
• 1-2 cups maida flour
• Salt to taste
  

 

Method

• Mix the sugar, oil and 1 cup water in a vessel and boil it.
• When cooled, add salt to it.
• Then very slowly go on adding the maida flour to it and knead soft dough.
• Make big balls of it.
• Now flatten each of them with a rolling pin into round shape.
• With the help of a knife or a designed mould, make rhombus/ diamond shaped pieces.

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Sheera

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup suji
• 2 cups water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup ghee
• Dry fruits -cardamon,almonds cashewnuts, etc according to need.
• Salt to taste

Method

• Heat the ghee and roast the suji in the ghee till light brown and nice aroma on a very sim/low heat.
• Put the water and salt till it absorbs.
• Now add the sugar and stir gently.
• Close the lid and let it cook for couple of minutes.
• Fry the dry fruits in 1 -2 tsp ghee and garnish over the sheera and there you have the most favourite sweet dish.

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Bengali Style Chana Dal / Cholar Dal

 Ingredients

• Gram dal (Chana dal)
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 green chili
• 4-5  big garlic cloves
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp ghee ( clarified butter)
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 inch cinnamon
• 3-4 cloves
  
• 1/4 cup chopped coconut pieces
• salt to taste
• 1 tsp sugar

Method

1. Soak Gram dal for 1/2 -1 hr
2. Add into it chopped onion 1 green chili and garlic and pressure cook it.
3. Roast some coriander and cumin seeds and crush in a mortar and pestle.
4. Heat ghee in a small pan and season it with bay leaf cinnamon clove and coconut pieces.
5. Pour the seasoning in the dal and add the crushed coriander- cumin seeds .
6. Add salt and sugar and simmer for about 5-10 minutes and serve.
   

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Green Chilli Pickle

 Ingredients

• 200-250 gms Cut Chilli
• 6 small lime
• 1 tsp black mustard
• 1 tsp hing
• 2 tsp turmeric powder
  
• 4-5  tsp salt
• 4-5 tbsp yellow mustard
• 1 tbsp methi seeds
• 1/2 cup oil ( sun flower)

Method

1.  Put salt in the green chillies
2. Fry the methi seeds in 1 tbsp oil till dark but not burnt
3. Mix the mehi seeds and yellow mustard in the green chilli
4. Add juice of 6 limes and keep aside.
5. Heat oil and season it with black mustard seeds.
6. Once they start spluttering add turmeric powder. Switch off after 30 seconds.
7. Add turmeric powder in not very hot oil so that it doesn't burn.
   
8. Mix in the prepared Chili mixture and adjust the salt mustard and turmeric according to taste.

Courtesy: Devika Aunty

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Egg Adai

 Ingredients

• 2 egg yolks
• 1 egg
• 1 cup grated coconut
• 3 tbsp fried split gram daal
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/4 onion chopped
• salt to taste
• oil to make
  

Method

1.  Grind together grated coconut, split gram dal ad red chilli powder with very less water.
2. Mix the egg yolks, the egg, salt  and the onions with it.
3. Either in a Apam pam or a small non stick pan, put a tsp of oil and heat.
4. Put about 2 tbsp of the prepared batter and cook from both sides.
5. Serve with rice and dal/sambar
   

 

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