Vegetable Briyani Recipe

Servings : 2 Persons
Cooking Time : 40 mins
Preparation Time : 15 mins

Ingredients :

Cooked Basmati Rice - 1cup
Chopped Vegetables - 2cups (i used potato, green peas, beans, carrot)
Milk - 1/2cup
Curd - 1/2 cup
Pudina leaves (mint) -a bunch
Coriander leaves - for garnishing
Broken cashew nuts - 10
Dry grapes - 5
Whole garam masala - 5gm
Chopped green chilles - 2
Chopped Onion - 2
Cumin powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 1tsp
Turmeric powder - 1tsp
Kala Jeera - 1/2tsp
Red chilli powder - 1tsp
Salt to taste
Tomato Sauce - 1tsp
Ghee - 2tsp
Oil - 1tsp

Method to prepare Vegetable Briyani:

1. As general rule, cook basmati rice with water ratio (1:2). Make sure it should be cooked with rice looking separate.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add whole garam masala. Fry till it loses raw smell and then add chopped onion along with green chillies. (keep some onion reserved which has to be used at the end as toppings)
3. Fry the onion till it become golden brown colour and then add all the powders mentioned in the ingredients. Mix well in simmer mode. Add salt to taste.
4. Add milk now and stir well. Add tomato sauce. Add chopped vegetables and mint leaves.
Mix well.
5. Let it cook for 5-10 minutes. Close with a lid and let the vegetables cook well.
6. Make sure you have kept the cooked basmati rice in large mouth vessel. Use a spoon and gently make the rice separate.
7. Open the lid and now add the curd to it. Adjust salt and chilli as per taste.
8. Close the lid again and leave it to steam cook for 5-10 more minutes.
9. Between, switch the other stove and heat ghee in a pan.
10. Add dry fruits and fry till it gets nice golden colour.
11.Similarly prepare fried onions with ghee which we have kept reserved earlier.
12. The vegetables have cooked well and with no water left. Now its time to switch off flame and mix everything together.
13. Add the vegetable masala to the rice, add the fried dry fruits, some coriander leaves for garnishing.
14. Mix everything gently and add fried onions on top of it.
15. Hot vegetable briyani is ready now. Serve immediately. Side dish can be any raita :)

Note: to get rice separate while preparing for briyani, you can add 1/2 tsp of oil to the rice along with water before you put in pressure cooker. this will help in rice cooked best for briyani/pulav..

Cookingly yours
ram

Mixed Vegetable Vadai Recipe

Ingredients

Urad dal - 1 cup
Thuvar dal - 1 cup
Moong dal - 1 cup
Gram dal - 1/4 cup
Coconut gratings - 3 tbsp
Carrot - 1 (grated)
Beans - 6 to 8 Nos (slit lengthwise small size)
Cabbage - a small piece (chopped)
Onion - 1 (chopped)
Coriander Leaves - a small bunch
Green Chillies - 2
Asafoetida powder - a pinch
Salt - 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil - for deep frying
Red Chillies - 3
Saunf - 1/4tsp

Method to prepare Mixed Vegetable Vadai:

1. Soak urad dal, thuvar dal, gram dal and green gram (Moong) dal in water for about 3 hours.
2. After three hours, clean the dal and drain out the water completely.
3. Now add red chillies, salt and grind it to a thick coarse paste without adding any water.
4. Add all the chopped vegetables, onion, green chillies, coriander leaves and coconut gratings to the dal paste.
5. Then add salt, a pinch of asafoetida powder and knead well.
6. Now heat oil in a kadai. Take a small size dough and keep it in plastic sheet.
7. Wet your fingers and pat it slightly and make round vadai and put it in the hot oil.
8. You can fry five to six vadais at a time in the oil and fry till it become golden color.

Hot Vegetable vadai is ready now. Serve hot with sambar/chutney. :)

Cookingly Yours
ram

Bhindi 65 Bhindi Fry Recipe

Bhindi 65 Recipe

Ingredients:

Bhindi/okra/vendaikkai - 250gms
Corn flour - 3tbsp
Rice flour- 1tbsp
Maida/All purpose flour - 1 1/2tbsp
Garam Masala Powder - 1/4tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 1tbsp
Tomato Sauce - 1/2tsp
Chaat Masala Powder - 1/4tsp
Oil for frying
Salt - as required
lemon - small piece

Method to prepare Bhindi 65

1. Take a medium size bowl and add all the ingredients except bhindi & oil.

2. Wash the bhindi and slit lengthwise. It can be sliced into different sizes as per wish.

3. Mix all the ingredients and add sufficient amount of water to make as a thick paste.

4. Now add the sliced bhindi into the paste and mix thoroughly. Keep it aside for 30 minutes.

5. Take a pan and heat oil in it. Once the oil gets heated, put the bhindi pieces row by row.

6. Fry the bhindi till it gets golden brown colour. Do not overfry as it may lose its flavour/taste.

7. Garnish with coriander leaves and sprinkle some lemon juice on top of it

8. Bhindi 65 is ready for evening snacks. Try out this easy recipe in your home and enjoy.

cookingly yours,
ram

Vazhaikai (banana) Podimas Recipe

Ingredients:

Green Banana – 1
Onion – 1 (chopped)
Oil – 1 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal – 1 tsp
Saunf – 1/2 tsp
Green Chilly – 1 (chopped)
Coconut gratings – 1 tbsp
Sambar Powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Curry leaves – few
Salt – 1 tsp

Method to prepare Vazhaikai Podimas:

1.Cut the banana into two and put in boiling water with skin
2.Let it cook for five to eight minutes. Take it out and peel the skin. Cool it.
You can grate it or gently mash it by hand. I have grated as it gets crispier better while frying.
3.Chop the onion and green chilli.
4.Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds to crackle. Add urad dhal and fry till it become light brown.
5.Add chopped onion, green chilly, curry leaves and fry well. Add the saunf. Stir for a while.
6.Add banana gratings, salt, coconut gratings, turmeric powder, sambar powder and mix it thoroughly.
7.Close with a lid and keep it in low flame for five minutes.

Vazhaikai podimas is ready now...

cookingly yours
ram

Aloo Mattar Gravy Recipe

Ingredients:

Cooked Potatoes -3 (mashed)
Onion - 1 (chopped)
Cooked Green peas - 1/2cup
Green Chillies - 1 or 2 (chopped)
Salt to taste
Ghee/Oil - 1tbsp
Chopped Ginger - few
Curry Leaves & Coriander leaves - for garnishing
Gram dal - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
whole garam masala - few (as per wish)
Saunf - 1/2 tsp
kala jeera - 1/2tsp (karunjeeragam)
turmeric powder - 1/2tsp
methi leaves - few

Method to prepare Aloo Mattar Gravy:

1. Heat oil/ghee in a pan and add mustard seeds to crackle. Add jeera and fry it along with gram dal.
2. Add Ginger, whole garam masala and fry till it loses raw smell and then add chopped onion.
3. Mix turmeric powder with it and let it get fried till onion gets golden brown colour.
4. Now add the green chillies, curry leaves, saunf and make it to fry for few minutes.
5. Now add the cooked peas and potato and mix thoroughly so that it gets masala evenly. Add salt to taste.
6. Add little water to get gravy proportion and adjust salt. Crush methi leaves and add for additional flavour.
7. Let it cook for 5-10 minutes in simmer flame and mix well often.

Hot spicy aloo mattar gravy recipe is ready now. This is one of the best side dish for any variety of dosa, poori, chapati.

cookingly yours,
ram

Spring Onion Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

Spring Onion - 1 Bunch (chopped 1/2 inch size)
1 Potato - chopped
5 Garlic - chopped
1/2 cup of green peas.
1 cube of butter
1 tsp - pepper powder (as per taste)
Salt for taste

Steps to make Spring Onion Soup:

1. Wash the vegetables mentioned above and chop it.
2. Heat pan and add butter. Once heated add the garlic pieces. Fry till it loses raw smell and then add the chopped spring onion.
3. Keep the stove in simmer and fry for few minutes.
4. Add chopped potato and fry well. Pressure cook the fried items by adding little water to it.
5. Also separately pressure the grean peas.
6. Once it is done, cool the cooked items (except peas) and then blend to fine paste.
5. Heat pan again and add the blended paste, add the cooked peas. Let it get cooked for 5-10 minutes. Add salt and pepper powder for taste.
6. If it is getting too thick, add little water to it to make soup consistency.
7. Finally add little ghee/butter to it as per your wish.
8. Hot Spring Onion soup is ready now.

Note : I have not added corn flour. If you wish you can go ahead.

Cookingly Yours,
ram