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Chapatti/Indian Flat Bread

by Pooja 30. October 2008 09:07

Ingredients

  • Whole wheat Flour - 1 1/2 Cup
  • Salt
  • Oil 3 tea spoon
  • warm water 1/2 or 1 Cup
  • Whole wheat flour 1/2 cup on the side to roll up chapatti

Direction

  • Add Flour and salt in big deep bowl, mix it well .
  • Add Oil and mix it again, make sure there are no lumps in Flour.
  • Add water and knead it well to make soft dough.
  • Make portion of dough into a small ping-pong size balls.
  • Roll each ball in your palm and press into a small flat circle
  • Now use Extra flour and coat this small circle with flour on both sides. don't put too much flour.
  • Using rolling pin roll out each circle into flat disc like tortilla.
  • When ready heat tava or skillet on medium heat.
  • Place a rolled chapatti on heated skillet and tava.
  • When bubbles starts to appear flip chapatti over.
  • after 10-15 seconds flip it over again. 
  • Now slowly start press bubbles lightly with clean cloth until Chapatti rises up like Ballon.

Enjoy!

 

Tags:

Indian

French beans with Peanuts

by Pooja 22. October 2008 02:33

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound french beans chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves chopped
  • 1/2 cup coarsly grinded peanuts
  • 1/2 tea spoon mustard seeds
  • 3 teaspoon oil
  • 1/2 tea spoon Chilli Powder
  • salt

Direction

  • Heat oil in pan, Add mustard seeds and when they start crackling add Garlic
  • cook it for minute and add beans and Salt.
  • cover it and let it cook until beans are half done.
  • Add Peanuts and cook it for few more minutes.
  • Add Chilli powder and cook until beans are done completely.

Server with Hot chappati! 

Tags:

Creative | Indian | vegetarian

Blueberry-Lemon Cake

by Pooja 22. October 2008 02:17

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 Cup all-purpose Flour , plus 1 teaspoon for blueberries and zest
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups blueberries
  • 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
  • Nonstick cooking spray, for pan
  • Confectioners' sugar, for dusting (optional)

Direction:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, whisk 2 1/2 cups flour with baking powder and salt; set aside.
  • In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars on high speed until light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs, one at a time, beating until incorporated. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture in three additions
  • In a bowl, toss blueberries and zest with remaining teaspoon flour; gently fold into batter. Coat a 12-cup nonstick pan with cooking spray. Spread batter in prepared pan.
  • Bake cake on bottom rack of oven until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 60 to 70 minutes. Cool in pan 20 minutes.
  • Invert onto a rack; cool completely, top side up. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving, if desired.

Enjoy with Tea or Coffee!

Tags:

Baking | Sweet | vegetarian

Sindhi Kutti - Churi - Sweet Wheat Tortilla Crumbled

by Pooja 7. October 2008 15:08

In Sindhis "Kutti"  is very significant receipe, it is often used as "Food of God" and also know as "Churi". It is one of my favorite Breakfast with Papad ;) Sindhis do Satyanarayan Puja every poornima (full moon day). Along with Fruits we Kutti - Churi as Prasad to God.

Ingredients:

  • Wheat flour 2cup
  • Pinch of salt
  • Ghee /Clairified butter 2 tbsp
  • Sugar 3-4 spoons(or as per taste)

Direction:

  • Mix wheat flour,pinch of salt and oil and make a tough dough
  • Take a small ball size portion of this dough and roll it thick
  • Cook it on a tawa/Skillet like tortilla ,pour little oil while tossing and cook it on medium flame till small brown patches appear on both surfaces just like chapati
  • While it is still hot crush/crumble it in small pea size coarse mixture.
  • Now add sugar,and temper it will a spoon full of hot Ghee
  • Serve it hot with papad

 Enjoy!

Tags:

Break Fast | Indian | Sindhi | Sweet | vegetarian

Sindhi Turi /Ridge gourd in Sindhi Style

by Pooja 7. October 2008 05:12

Ingredients:

 
• 800 gms Turi (chopped)
• 2 Large onions (chopped)
• 2 Large tomatoes (chopped)
• 2 tsp Red chilli powder
• 2 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
• 4 Green chillies (chopped)
• 2-3 spoon oil /as needed
• Salt to taste

Direction

Heat the oil.
Fry onions and green chillies till they turn golden brown.
Add chopped turi, salt and turmeric powder. To make it more healthy add in 1/4 cup your favourite Lentil/daal
Cook over low heat.
Now mix chopped tomatoes and cook them till soft.
Cook it in a pressure cooker for 2 whistles and if you are using daal/lentil make is 3-4 whistles.
Now mix it well.
Turi Bhaji is ready.
Enjoy with Hot Chapatis

Tags:

Indian | Sindhi | vegetarian

Besan Gatta Curry/Gram Flour Dumplings in Spicy Curry - Style 1

by Pooja 7. October 2008 04:50

I don't know whether this Dish Orginates from Rajasthan or MP (states of India) or by Sindhis (ethnic community originated from Sindh) but this surely is different and amazing

Ingredients:

  • 200 gms Besan/Gram Flour
  • 1 tsp Dhaniya powder /Coriander Powder
  • 2 tbsp Ghee/ oil 
  • 250 gms dahi/Curd
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Oil
  • 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  • 1 pinch Haldi/Turmeric

Direction

  • Mix besan with adding 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp red chilly powder, 1/2 tsp. dhaniya powder and ghee.
  • Make a stiff dough. Make 5-6 thin and long strips of the dough.
  • Put these strips in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Cut these gattas into small pieces.
  • Strain the curd through a strainer. Add 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp red chilly powder, 1/2 tsp. dhaniya powder and haldi to the curd. Mix well.
  • Add the gatta pieces. Heat oil in a kadahi/pan. All cumin/jeera, when it splutters addChilli Powder and Curd mixture.
  • Cook it for 5-7 minutes while stirring continuously till it comes to a boil.
  • Simmer the flame and cook for another 5-7 minutes.Turn off the gas.

 

Tags:

Indian | Rajasthani | Sindhi | vegetarian

Daliya/Thulli/Bhatt/Cracked Wheat in Jaggery

by Pooja 7. October 2008 04:37

My favourite healthy sweet dish :)

Ingredients:

  • 2 Cup Cracked Wheat/Daliya
  • 3 Cup Water/ 1 Cup Milk and 2 Cup Water
  • 1/2 Cup Jaggery /Gur
  • 2 tea spoon Ghee/Clarified Butter
  • cardomon little
     

 Direction:

  • Heat ghee in Pressure Cooker, add Cardomon.
  •  Add Daliya and keep stirring it till it gets brown and aroma comes out.
  •  Add Water or Milk/Water .
  •  Add Jaggery and cook it till 3 Whistles or more
Enjoy!

Tags:

Indian | Sindhi | Sweet | vegetarian

Pitla/Pithale/Zhunka/Gram Flour Maharastrian way

by Pooja 2. October 2008 02:17

Ingredients

  • 1 cup gram flour,
  • 1 onion,
  • 3-4 green chilies,
  • coriander leaves,
  • salt,
  • asafoetida,
  • turmeric powder,
  • 2 teaspoon mustard seeds,
  • 4 teaspoon oil

Method

  • Mix together gram flour, salt and some water for desired consistency. Remove the lumps.(There is an alternative method for this. First follow the step 2, and add water directly to it. When water starts boiling, add gram flour and stir. Watch out for lumps.)
  • In a deep pan, heat oil. Add mustard seeds, asafoetida and turmeric powder.
  • Add chopped onions. Give vertical slits to the chilies and add them.
  • When onion pieces become transperent, add the paste of gram flour. Now keep stirring to avoid lump formation.
  • Cover and turn the heat on medium.
  • Remove the lid and stir after 5 minutes. Pithale is ready to serve when the raw smell goes.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with plain rice or bhakri.
Enjoy!  

Tags:

Indian | Maharastrian | vegetarian