Poha Bisi Bele Bath

A quick dish which is really yummy to eat hot...........

Ingredients you need 

Poha 150 grams for 4 servings 

Any vegetables 3 to 4 type your choice finely chopped.

Toor Dal  50 grams

Tamarind juice 2 tablespoons

Mustard seeds two teaspoons 

Asafoetida pinch

Turmeric Powder

2 red chillies

Curry leaves few strands.

Ghee for Tadka 

Salt to taste.

Bisi Bele Bath powder 1 tbsp 

1 inch of jaggery.

Method:

Take a cooker add Dal and vegetables in that pressure cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistle, 

Take a kadai, add ghee,  add mustard seeds,  curry leaves and  asafoetida. Then add tamarind 

juice add bisibelebath  powder,  turmeric powder, and  jaggery. Once it comes to boil, add cooked dal

and vegetables. Leave it for 5 minutes, check the consistency of that if required  water

(poha will get smooth very fast) after adding poha, swich off the stove and leave it for 5 min. 

Poha will be smooth, take out and serve hot.

Cabbage Upma

Whenever we say upma for breakfast, most of them make funny faces, I love the way my mother and granny makes it, I always tell her that I need upma whenever I visit her.  

The above is a simple recipe I have replaced onion with cabbage and rest goes the same.

200 gms of cabage finly chopped.

 Green chillies according to the spice you want 

Coriander leaves chopped about fist full

curry leaves few 

 200 grams of Rava which is roasted before 

Chana dal 2 teaspoons 

Asafetida pinch

Jeera and pepper powder 1:1 teaspoon

Mustard and cumin seeds about 2 teaspoons each.

(Optional)of about 100gms coconut grated.

Take a kadai, add 1 tablespoon of mustard and cumin seeds, once they splutter add chana dal, curry leaves,  green chillies and asafoetida. 

Add Cabage and leave it for 5 minutes.

Add 1:1and a half cups of wayer shotwell that one is too true water.

Once it comes to boil add salt, jeera pepper powder

Once it comes to boil, add salt and suji, keep stirring and switch off the gas and 

 close the lid and leave it for 5 minutes.

Finally add grated coconut.

Serve hot.....

Alu Parota

This is one of well known and liked by friends and my family, Simple recipe                                  All you need                                                          is for 5 servings,    cooking time 10 min, preparation time:    20 minutes                                                                                                               Take three medium sized potato, 1 or 2 green chillies, hand full of coriander leaves, red chilli powder, saunf powder (optional) Onion one medium sized (optional) and salt to taste.

Take 250 gms of Take 250 grams of wheat flour, add 2 teaspoons of oil and salt. Knead it into a smooth dough and keep it aside, till you prepare the stuffing or leave it for 15 minutes so that it will become smooth.

I normally do not prefer onion. 

Pressure cook potatoes, mash it and add all the above mentioned in it and keep it aside.

 Take small balls from the  dough, flatten them and roll it and then place the stuffing in between and join the edges to make a ball, close it , roll it again to make a round parata. 

                                         

 

Fry the rolled parata and spread the ghee. Fry  both the sides well and serve it with  chutney or pickles or chutney powder with curd.