Cauliflower-Carrot Fry

Ingredients:

Brinjal-Peas Fry

Ingredients:

Alu Methi

Ingredients:

Potatoes : 8 medium size
Oil : 4 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Chana dal : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : handful
Chilli powder : 1 spn
Salt : to taste
dhania powder : 3/4 spn
turmeric : 1/2 tsp
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut
Methi leaves : small bunch


Method :


1. Wash potatoes and dice them. Put it in cold water to get rid of starch and also to avoid them getting oxidized.
2. Heat oil in a pan.
3. Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop.
4. Add chana, urad dal. Let it turn brown.
5. Add curry leaves.
6. Add onion, methi leaves and saute it.
7. Add diced potato and mix well. Cook for few min.
8. Add salt, chilli, dhania powder, turmeric. Mix well.
9. Sprinkle water if required. Close the lid.
10. Just before potatoes are getting cooked well, add cilantro.
11. Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.

Spinach Egg fry

Ingredients:

Spinach: 1 medium bunch(washed n chopped)
Eggs: 3
Onion: 1 medium finely cut
Tomato:1 medium diced
Oil: 2 spn
Green Chillies: 7
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 spn
Clove: 4
Cinnamon: 1/4 inch
Salt:to Taste
Turmeric Pwd: 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds: 1/2spn
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Curry Leaves: 6 to 7
kasoor methi: 2 spoons


Method:

1. Make a paste of clove, cinnamon, ginger-garlic, salt and green chillies.
2. Heat oil in apan.
3. Add mustard seeds and let it pop.
4. Add cumin seeds and let it splutter.
5. Add curry leaves.
6. Add onions, tomato and ground mixture. Saute it.
7. Add salt, turmeric powder. Mix well.
8. Add chopped spinach leaves.Mix well and let it cook till the spinach is cooked smooth.
9. When the spinach is cooked, break open the eggs in this spinach mixture and then cover it with
a lid..
10. Do not disturb the above mixture. Cook for 3 min with lid open.
11. Now, turn the eggs to the other side and cook well. At this point, break the egg into small pieces with the stick.
12. Crush kasoor methi between palms and add it to the fry. Mix well.
13. Goes well with plain rice/chapathi.

Capsicum Fry

Ingredients:

Green capsicum : 3
Onion : 1 medium size finely cut
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1 tsp
Cumin powder : 1 tsp
Chilli powder :  3/4 spoon
Dhania powder : 3/4 spn
Turmeric : 1 tsp
Salt : to taste
Crushed garlic : 3 cloves
Cilantro : to garnish
Oil : 3 spoons

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Add mustard seeds, let it pop.
3. Add cumin seeds, let it splutter.
3. Add urad dal, let it turn brown.
4. Add onion and saute it.
5. Add diced capsicum. Mix well  and saute until it reduces in size.
6. Add jeera powder, dhania, chilli powder, salt and turmeric.
7. Mix well.
8. Close the lid and cook well until done.
9. Add crushed garlic and cilantro 2 min before switching off the flame. Mix well.
10. Switch off the stove and take it to a serving bowl.

Bendakaya Fry

Ingredients:

Okra : 2 lb

Chilli powder : 3/4 spoon
Dhania powder : 1/2 spoon
Salt : to taste
Turmeric: 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder : 1/2 tsp
Garlic : 3 cloves crushed

Cilantro : handful finely cut

Tempering:

Oil : 2 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 spoon
Cumin seeds : 1 spoon
Urad dal : 1 spoon
Hing : 1/4 tsp
Onion: 1 medium size finely cut

Method:

1. Cut the ends of okra on both sides. The, cut each okra length wise.
2. Spray some oil/sprinkle water on okra and cook it in microwave until it's half cooked.
3. Heat oil in a pan.
4. Add mustard seeds, let it pop.
5. Add cumin seeds, let it splutter.
6. Add urad dal let it turn brown.
7. Add hing.
8. Add onion and saute it.
9. Add half-cooked okra . Mix well. Let it cook for 3 min.
10. Add chilli, dhania, cumin powder, turmeric, salt. Mix well.
11. Add crushed garlic and cilantro 2 mins before switching off the flame.
12. Switch off the flame and take it to a serving bowl.

Aratikaaya Fry

Ingredients:

Raw plantain : 3 medium size
Oil : 3 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Curry leaves : handful (optional)
Salt : to taste
Chilli powder : 3/4 spoon
Dhania powder : 3/4 spoon
Turmeric : 1 tsp
Crushed garlic : 2 cloves (optional)
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut

Method :

Peel the plaintain and dice the banana into pieces.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop.
Add urad dal. Let it turn brown.
Add curry leaves.
Add onion and saute it.
Add salt.
Add diced plantain. Cook for few min.
Add chilli, dhania powder, turmeric and mix well.
Close the lid.
Just before plantain is getting cooked well, add crushed garlic and cilantro.
Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.

Tip:  Sprinkle water instead of addeing more oil while cooking plantain.

Green Cabbage Fry

Ingredients:

Green cabbage : 1 medium size
Oil : 3 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Chana dal : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : handful (optional)
Salt : to taste
Green chillies : 5
Crushed garlic : 2 cloves (optional)
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut

Method :

Cut/shred cabbage into fine pieces.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop.
Add chana, urad dal. Let it turn brown.
Add curry leaves.
Add onion, green chillies and saute it.
Add salt.
Add shredded cabbage and mix well. Cook for few min.
Close the lid.
Just before cabbage is getting cooked well, add crushed garlic and cilantro.
Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.

Kaakarakaaya (Bitter Melon) Fry - 2

Ingredients:

Indian Bitter melon : 8 medium sized
Salt : to taste
Turmeric : 1 spoon
Chilli powder : 1 spoon
Dhania powder : 1 spoon
Oil : 2 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Cilantro : to garnish
Urad dal : 1 spoon
Onion : 1 medium size finely cut
 Amchur : 1 spoon

Method :

Wash bitter melon and chop off the edges.
Cut each bitter melon into round circles (not too thin or not too thick).
 Add salt and turmeric to the cut pieces. Mix well. Let it sit overnight or at least 1 hour. After the marination, squeeze the water from the melon pieces. Wash this in water twice to remove further bitterness from melons. Ensure that no water is left from the bitter melons.
Sprinkle very little water on the veggies and cook in microwave  for 7 min.
Heat oil in a wide pan.
Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Let it pop/splutter.
Add urad dal. Let it turn brown.
Add finely cut onion. Saute it.
Add bitter melon. Let it cook for few more min.
Add hania, chilli and amchur powder. Mix well.
Check spice/salt and add additional salt if needed.
Close the lid and cook until the cut pieces turn brown/crisp.
Switch off the stove and garnish the fry with cilantro.

 Tip : Sprinkle some water while frying bitter melon instead of adding more oil.

Egg Fry

Ingredients:

Eggs : 4

Oil :2 spoons

Onion : 1 small finely cut

Tomato : 1 medium finely cut

Clove: 1

Cinnamon : 1/2 inch

Star Anise: 1

Mustard seeds: 1 tsp

Curry leaves: 5

Ginger & garlic paste : 1 spoon

Salt : 2 taste

Green chillies : 4

Turmeric : 1 spoon

Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut

Method:

Heat oil in a pan.

Add clove, cinnamon, star anise. Let it splutter.

Add mustard seeds, curry leaves. Let it pop.

Add green chillies. Saute it.

Add onion, tomato, ginger&garlic paste. Saute it.

Add salt, turmeric. Mix will.

Break eggs one by one into the pan. Mix well.

Mash the egg into small pieces while cooking.

Close the lid and cook for few more min. One the egg mixture is dry, switch off the stove.

Transfer the fry into a bowl.

Goes well with Chapati or as a side item for rice.

Red Cabbage Fry

Cabbage is very good for health. But, cutting/shredding of cabbage takes hell lot of time for me. So, sometime I buy this vegetable and let it sit in my refrigerator forever.

I was just browsing some websites last week and saw some kitchen gadget that's very good in shredding the cabbage in few min with very less effort. I was very excited and wanted to buy them. Hmmm.. they sell only in Australia not in US. So, I was disappointed.

This afternoon, when we went to mall, I saw 'As seen in TV' shop and went into that store just to have a glance at all the items they have. Guess what.. I found similar item that I was looking for to shred cabbage. Without second thought, I bought it. As soon as I got home, I have cut the  cabbage into half lengthwise. And with this peeler/gadget, I was able to shred the whole cabbage in less than 10 min with no hand pain. I am really happy and its worth every penny !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. It does many other jobs as well.. like slicing, peeling onions and some other stuff.

If you need more details on this, let me know.. I sure can help you on this !!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, here is my recipe.. an easy, tasty and healthy food.


Here is the picture of shredded cabbage with my new & favorite peeler.

Here is the picture of the recipe.

Ingredients:

Red cabbage : 1 medium size
Oil : 4 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Chana dal : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : handful (optional)

Salt : to taste
Green chillies : 5
Crushed garlic : 2 cloves (optional)
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut

Method :

Cut/shred cabbage into fine pieces.

Heat oil in a pan.

Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop. 
Add chana, urad dal. Let it turn brown.
Add curry leaves.
Add onion, green chillies and saute it.
Add shredded cabbage and mix well. Cook for few min.
Add salt. Close the lid.
Just before cabbage is getting cooked well, add crushed garlic and cilantro. 
Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.

Note: I ran out of fresh curry leaves, cilantro and crushed garlic at home, so I have not used them in the recipe.

Potato Fry

I love potato fry from my childhood. There are many varieties to cook Potato fry and all the types are my favorite. When I was about to cut the potatoes, I was thinking to cook the other type of fry that goes well with plain dal or dosa. Somehow, I ended up making this for dinner.

There is no need to add green chillies for this. Add more pepper powder instead of green chillies. It tastes unique when cooked with only pepper but no chillies. As I have already cut the chillies, I used them in this recipe.

Ingredients:

Potatoes : 8 medium size
Oil : 4 spoons
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1tsp
Chana dal : 1 tsp
Curry leaves : handful
Pepper powder : 1 tsp
Salt : to taste
Green chillies : 5
Crushed garlic : 2 cloves
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut
Onion : 1 small size finely cut

Method :

Wash potatoes and dice them. Put it in cold water to get rid of starch and also to avoid them getting oxidised.

Heat oil in a pan.

You may need more oil for this particular method as potato sticks to the pan. In order to avoid this, instead  of using more oil, I sprinkled 1/4 cup of water while frying the potatoes.

Add mustard, cumin seeds. Let it pop.

Add chana, urad dal. Let it turn brown.

Add curry leaves.

Add onion, green chillies and saute it.

Add diced potato and mix well. Cook for few min.

Add salt, sprinkle water if required. Close the lid.

Just before potatoes are getting cooked well, add crushed garlic, pepper and cilantro.

Mix well. Cook for 2 min. Switch off the stove.

Kaakarakaaya/Bitter Melon Fry - 1

I got this recipe from my friend Vani. This is her mom's recipe. A very tasty food when eaten with rice. Few weeks ago when I visited Vani at her home, I tasted this fry with plain rice. From that day, I could not forget the taste and I was waiting to find the nice bitter melon in the grocery store. Finally, I found some nice ones couple days ago and here I am... with the wonderful recipe...

Recipe came out very well.. except that my husband said it is little salty when had it without anything. But tasted very well when eaten with rasam annam and perugu(yogurt) annam.

This recipe can be done in 3 simple steps. I will specify ingredients according to these steps. This is a very simple recipe to make.

Ingredients:

1st step:

Bitter Melon : 4 lbs
Salt : 1 spoon
Yogurt : 2 tbsps
Turmeric : 1/2 spn
Water : 2 boil

2nd step:

Oil to deep fry

3rd step:

oil : 6 spoons (adjust it if you need more)
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
urad dal :1 spoon
Dhania powder : 1 spoon
Chilli powder : 2 spoons
Turmeric : 3/4 spoon
Cumin powder : 1/2 tsp
garlic : 3 crushed
Salt - to taste

Procedure:

1st step:

Wash bitter melon properly.
Mix all the ingredients under 1st step and boil them without closing the lid. Reson to not to close the lid is, bitterness will be evaporated.
This should be done approx in 20- 25 min.
Remove bitter melon carefully from water.
Cut them into 1/2-1 inch circles and dry them under sun for few hours. if there is no sun, let it dry in your house for few hours. The reason to do this is to dry the melon with no water so that it can be easily deep fried.

2nd step:

Deep fry the dried melon until it turns brown color.

3rd step:

heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds. let it pop.
Add urad dal. let it turn brown.
Add crushed garlic.
Add fried bitter melon.
Add cumin, dhania, chilli, salt and turmeric.
Fry for 10 min or until all the powders are mixed with with bitter melon.
Serve with rice. This goes well with rasam and yogurt.

Note :

When doing the 3rd step, add spoon of powdered jaggery, roasted coconut powder, roasted tamarind (small lemon size) and handful of curry leaves to enhance the flavor.
I did not add all these. But the taste was equally good.

Broccoli Fry

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 2lbs (separate each floret and cut the hard part of the floret)
Onion - 1 medium size finely cut
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Dhania powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp (optional)
Peanut powder - 1 tsp
Dhalia powder - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Cilantro - 1/4 cup finely chopped

Method:

Wash broccoli florets very well.
Heat oil in a pan..
Add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
Add cumin seeds and urad dal
Add onion and saute it.
Add broccoli florets. Let it cook for few min. Sprinkle water to cook florets well.
Add chilli, dhania, turmeric, salt and mix well.
Close the lid and let it cook well.
Add peanut powder, dhalia powder, cilantro and mix well.
Let it cook for 2 more min and switch off the stove.

Beans Fry

Note : Coconut powder/garlic was not added in the above picture.

Ingredients:

Beans - 2lbs (cut into small size)
Onion - 1 medium size finely cut
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Dhania powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp (optional)
Coconut powder - 1 tsp (optional)
Garlic - 2 pods crushed (optional)
Oil - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Cilantro - 1/4 cup finely chopped

Method:

Cut beans into small pieces. Microwave them by sprinkling water. This will avoid adding more oil while cooking.
Heat oil in a pan
Add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
Add cumin seeds and urad dal
Add onion and saute it
Add beans. Let it cook for few min. Sprinkle water to cook beans well.
Add chilli, dhania, turmeric, salt and mix well.
After few min, add coconut powder, crushed garlic, cilantro.
Let it cook for 4 min and switch off the stove.

Tindora/Dondakaaya Fry

Ingredients :

Tindora : 3 lbs
Chilli powder : 3/4 spoon
Dhania powder : 3/4 spoon
Turmeric : 1/4 spn
Garlic : 3 pods (crushed)
Seasoning:
Oil : 3 spoons
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1 tsp
Salt : to taste
Onion : 1/4 cup finely chopped
Curry leaves : 1/4 cup
Cilantro : 1/4 cup finely cut

Method:

Wash and cut the tindora length wise/rouns/squares. Microwave them for 7-8 min by sprinkling little water.
Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
Add urad dal. Let it turn brown.
Add curry leaves and onion. Saute it for few min.
Add microwaved tindora. Fry for fewmin or until its cooked.
Add chilli, dhania powder, salt, turmeric and mix well. Let it cook for 3 min.
Sprinkle cilantro and crushed garlic. Mix well. Cook for 2 min.