Thursday, October 3, 2013

CABBAGE CHUTNEY

Ingredients

Cabbage small.....................one

Red chillies...........................5

tamarind cleaned.............a small fist ful

Gingelly seed (til seeds) ..........One tablespoon

Salt to tast

A pinch of sugar,

Oil... a big spoonful

 

For seasoning

Udad dal..........one teaspoonful.

Mustard seeds....Half a spoon

Method

In a little oil, fry the udad dal, mustard seeds, gingelly seeds,  and red chillies

Remove them into a bowl and in the same oil, roast the finally cut cabbage slices till the raw smell disappears.

When the cabbage and the seasoning cools down, add salt, tamarind and grind it all together in a mixie a bit coarsely

Eat with rice or chapaties

 

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

SPINACH LEAVES CHUTNEY

INGREDIENTS

PALAK (SPINACH) --------------ONE BUNDLE
RED CHILLIES WHOLE---------4
TAMARIND PASTE----------------2 TEASPOONS
TIL SEEDS (GINGELLY SEEDS)----2 TEASPOONS

FOR SEASONING
CHANNA DAAL--------------ONE TEASPOON
UDAD DAAL ------------------ONE TEASPOON
MUSTARD SEEDS------------ONE TSP
HING-------- JUST 2 PINCHES
SALT AS PER TASTE

METHOD

CLEAN AND WASH THE SPINACH LEAVES  AND DRY THEM . THEN IN A PAN TAKE 2 SPOONFULS OF OIL AND FRY THESE LEAVES TILL THE MOISTURE HAS GONE. TAKE OUT THE LEAVES FROM THE PAN AND IN THE SAME OIL FRY ALL THE SAID SEASONING EXCEPT THE SALT . NOW GRIND ALL THE ROASTED AND FRIED ITEMS IN THE GRINDER ADDING TAMARIND AND SALT.
THIS GOES WELL WITH CHAPPATIES OR RICE 

Friday, March 4, 2011

Green Apples Chutney

Ingredients:-

Green apples --------2
Mustard seeds -------1 tablespoon
Methi seeds-----------1/2 tablespoon
Haldi-------------------1/4 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Red chillies------------3

For tempering
udad daal-------------1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds--------1/2 tsp
Hing--------------------1 pinch
Kadi patta--------------1 sprig
Oil-----------------------2 tblspns

Method:-

Wash and DO NOT peel the apples and cut them into cubes
Roast the methi seeds to a brown color and grind it to fine powder
Grind the mustard seeds also
Now put the apple cubes, salt and haldi and grind it in the grinder
Add the powders in the ground apples
In a little oil fry the red chillies and grind it along with the cubed apples

For tempering

In a pan put the required amt of oil and add the udad dal, mustard seeds, and kadi patta with the pinch of hing
Add all this to the chutney
(This is a sweet -salt chutney)

Saturday, February 26, 2011

garlic chutney

Ingredients

Peanuts roasted---------one cup
Sesame (Til) seeds------1/2 cup
Dry dessicated coconut----1/2 cup
Red chillies-------------ten or as per taste
Salt as per taste
Garlic pods -------------15 or so
Sugar------------half a spoon

Method

In a grinder grind first the til seeds, then the peanuts, add the dessicated coconut, red chillies and lastly add the garlic pods.
Then add the salt and grind all of them together.
(This was made in my mother's house in Pune as it is a Maharashtrian dish)

Friday, February 25, 2011

Niluva Allam Pacchadi (ginger pickle)

Ingredients

Ginger --------100 gms
Jaggery--------100gms
Tamarind------100gms
Red chillies ----6-8
Oil (preferbly til oil)----half a cup
Methi seeds------one tabspn
Channa dal-------one tsp
Mustard seeds----one tsp
Hing------------1/4 tsp
salt as per taste

Method

wash, peel and cut the ginger into pieces
Soak the tamarind in a small quantity for some time till soft
Roast the methi seeds till light brown and grind them to a fine powder
Grate the jaggery

Now take the oil in a pan and fry the ginger till pink in color and keep it aside
Squeeze out the thick juice of the tamarind and keep it aside.
Fry the channadal and the red chillies
Now grind all these----ginger, tamarind paste, jaggery, red chillies and the channa dal to a fine paste

Add the methi seeds powder to it
Add salt

Tempering/tadka
In a litttle oil, fry the mustard seeds till they splutter , add hing to it and pour all that on to the prepared ginger paste
This is best eaten with hot rice or better still with idlis

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

RAW PAPAYA PICKLE

INGREDIENTS
One very raw papaya (papita...or...boppayakai)
3/4 cup of chilli powder
3/4 cup of salt
One cup of mustard powder
One tsp of haldi powder
One tablespoon of Methi powder
One cup of oil
1/4 spn of hing powder
A few red chillies (whole) for seasoning.
Two sprigs of curry leaves
One tsp of mustard seeds

METHOD
Cut the Papaya into small pieces
In a bowl put the chilli powder and then the mustard powder and salt. Then add haldi to it and mix all the powders thoroughly.
Put the cut papaya pieces in to this powder mixture and mix all
In a pan heat the oil and put the mustard seeds, add the curry leaves and the whole chillies. Lastly add the hing
Pour this seasoning on the papaya mixed with all the ingredients and store for a day and eat it.