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.

Mango Milk shake

Who does not like Mangoes and milk shake of fresh mangoes, here is a simple drink with milk and cardamom powder and brown sugar.

Required a mango, half a glass of milk, cardamom powder, Sugar(white or brown) your choice,

Take out the pulp in a juice jar add, milk cardamom, sugar and  blend it and enjoy.

Mango Kasaribath

Who doesn't like sweet  Suji Halwa and that too if you mix it with  mango 

Just wanted some twist in halwa so used mango in that rest of the recipe goes same as in suji halwa

For 3 servings 100gms of chiroti rawa
100 gms sugar or Jaggery
100 gms ghee
1 teaspoon of cardamom powder
water 2 cups 
Dry fruits make small pieces and fry in ghee and add it.

First fry chiroti rawa till you get the aroma.
Take an bowl add water and jaggery 
Once it starts boiling add cardamom powder and little ghee.
Later add rawa and then add mango slices.
Finally add cardamom powder and ghee

Once it starts leaving the edges of the vessel take out from the stove and serve hot poured ghee on it.

Baby Corn Dry........

Baby corn dry could be a best lunch pack or snack in the evening or you can also eat it with chapati


For 3 servings:
Preparation time will be 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
5 to 6 baby corn 
Corn flour about  half tablespoon----1/2 tablespoon.
Red chilli powder according to your intake of Chilli.
I have added 2 teaspoons.
Tamarind juice about one tablespoon.
I have added gojju powder which I had at home prepared and kept.
One can add any masala powder and add salt.
Onion and Garlic could be used I have not used it here.

Take a kadai and add baby corn and marinate it adding tamarind juice,red chilli powder, masala powder, and salt. Finally add the corn flour and marinate it. 
Take a Kadai, add oil and marinated corn to this and keep stirring, for 10 minutes once it is done, serve it with chapathi......or rice and this is the best one for lunch box.

Second method: You can also steam the corn and then marinate and fry

Millet for better health...........Replace white rice with Udalu(barnyard millet)

I started using millets since one and a half years, though it was not regular but now started with  almost for 2 meals a day prepared with millets, .....normally, it's difficult to change individuals food intake habits.
Anyone who is used to their normal diet will find it little difficult, but once the changes done, one can be happy with the results. my health has improved a lot.
I have heard many of them telling that, In olden days we never ate these millets, they were strictly used to have rice and they were healthy enough.
What I feel is the quality of products produced in olden days was without pesticides,  were so different from the products available today.
For barnyard rice cooking is same as rice 1:2 cup of water.
My Lunch consists
 Barnyard rice,  Amaranth stem sambar(Huli), Sprouted Green gram, Barnyard rice and Amaranth dry gravy is the best lunch to have.....