Tomato Mushroom

Mushroom recipe

ingredients:-

1 cup Mushroom (sliced)
1 medium size Onion (chopped finely)
3 medium size Tomato
2 kali Garlic
1/2" Ginger
1 tspn Garam masala
1/4 tspn Elaichi powder
1/2 tspnTurmeric powder
1/2 tspn red chili powder
1 tspn coriander powder
Salt to taste
oil

Recipe:-

• Take a pan and heat two tsp oil in it.
• Add the chopped onions and fry till they are pink in color.
• grind tomato,Garlic,ginger ,green chili and all the masala(except garam masala) together.
• add this paste to onion.
• Let simmer for a few minutes and then add the mushrooms.
• Cover the frying pan for about 10 minutes.
• Before removing from the stove add garam masala and stir well.
• Add elaichi powder towards the end
• Garnished with coriander leaves
• Serve hot with chapati.

Garlic Cheese Bread

Recipe for Garlic Bread 

Ingredients

1 french loaf
1 pod garlic - flaked, peeled and ground
100 gm Butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tspn chili flackes
cheese (grated)
40 cm x 30 cm cooking foil


Recipe:-

• Slice diagonally the loaf in 1/2 " slices but do not slice through. Leave a 2 cm base undisturbed.
• Mix the butter with garlic paste, salt and pepper.
• Butter the half cut clices on both sides with 80 gm of the butter - garlic paste.
• Place the loaf on cooking foil and spread the rest of the butter on it.
• Close the foil to cover the loaf completely and bake in a hot over (200 C) for 10 minutes.
• Open the foil the top with grated cheese and rebake for 5 minutes.
• sprinkle red chili flakes
• Serve hot .

Tomato n Bell Pepper Pasta

Recipe for pasta

Ingredients:-

1 cup Pasta
1 onion medium size
1 tomato medium size
1/2 can tamato paste
3- 4 garlic(chopped)
1" ginger(grated)
1/2 Bell pepper
6-8tspPasta sauce
1/2 tspn black pepper powder
Olive oil
Salt to taste

Recipe:-

• Cook pasta in a pan with water by adding 1tsp of oil and salt.
• After pasta is fully cooked, if there is excess water remove it.
• Keep the pasta aside.
• Cut onion, tomato & bell peper into thin slices of similar sizes.
• In a pan add olive oil. Heat it add grated garlic and ginger and green chili (sliced).
• Now add onion fry till it is looking like glass,add tomato and fry for 2 minutes, then add bell pepper fry for few minutes.
• Then put pasta & add salt and pepper powder mix together.
• Keep the flame in low, then add pasta sauce. Mix everything together, keep in heat for 30sec.
• Take out in a serving plate.
• Garnish with grated cheese and serve.

palak paratha

Palak Paratha

Ingredients:-

2 cups wheat flour
1 cup spinach 'palak'(washes and chopped)
1/2 medium size onion(chopped)
2 green chili
1" ginger grated
1/2 tspn cumin
1/2 tspn red chili powder
salt to taste
water as needed

Recipe:-

• Mix all the ingredients together except water.
• Make a soft dough using water.
• Cover with a moist cloth and keep aside for thirty minutes.
• Divide the dough into equal-sized portions.
• Roll out each, spread some ghee or oil and fold into half.
• Fold again into quarter.Roll again into triangle.
• Heat a tawa and place the parantha over it. Turn it and spread some ghee or oil round it.
• Turn again and spread some ghee on the other side too. Cook till both sides are evenly cooked. Similarly cook the rest of the paranthas.
• Serve hot with dum aaloo and yogurt.

dum aaloo

Recipe for Dum Aaloo

Ingredients:-

10 small potatoes
1/2 medium size onion
2 small tomatoes
1" ginger
2 garlic
2-3 green chili
1/2 tspn cumin
1/2 tspn red chili powder
1 tblspn coriander powder
1/2 tspn turmeric powder
1/2 tspn garam masala
salt to taste

1 tblspn kasoori methi
1/ 2 cup geen peas
oil

Recipe:-

• Half boil potatoes ,peel and cut in half.
• Heat oil in a pan shallow fry potatoes keep aside.
• Grind onion,tomato,ginger,garlic,green chili,cumin,red chili powder,turmeric,coriander,garam masala powder and salt together.Make a smooth paste.
• Heat 1 tblspn oil in a pan.
• Add the ground paste and fry until oil leaves from sides.
• Add the fried potatoes stir for a few seconds and sufficient water so that the potatoes are just covered.add green peas and kasoori methi to it.
• Cook on high flame until the gravy thickens.
• Serve with hot parantha or jeera rice

Bharwa Karela

Bharwa Karela

For this recipe you will need.....

8- 10 medium size karela (bitter gourd)
1 tspn salt
1 tspn turmeric
Thread to wrap and tie

Ingredients for stuffing-

3 tblspn coriander powder
1/2 tspn turmeric
1 tspn garam masala
1 tblspn musturd oil
1 tblspn dry grated coconut(coconut powder)
1tspn dry mango powder
1tspn red chili powder
1tspn pickle(mango) masala
salt to taste
Musturd oil for frying

Recipe-

• Wash Karela. Scrape the skin with a knife.
• slit the karela on one side. Remove the seeds and rub with salt and turmeric.
• keep aside for at least an hour.
• you will see a lots of water as a result of salting.
• wash karela. squeeze water and pat dry.

Now stuffing-

• Mix all the 'ingredients for stuffing ' together.
• Stuffing mixture should be chatpata.
• Fill the belly of the Karela with stuffing.
• Wrap Karela with thread so that the stuffing does not fall out.
• Heat musturd oil in a kadhai or pan.
• Put karela and cover the pan .
• Cook on a medium heat till it becomes light golden brown in colour from both sides.
• serve with daal and rice.

Matar Curry(peas curry)

Recipe for Matar Curry

Ingredients:-

2 cup green peas
1 medium onion
2 tblspn ginger garlic green chili paste
4 tblspn thick curd
1 tspn garam masala
coriander leaves
1/2 cup cottage cheese (paneer)
salt to taste
oil

Recipe:-

• Cut paneer in long stripes.
• Grind peas coarsely.
• Cut onion in square shape.
• Heat oil in a pan or kadhai.
• Add onion, fry until light golden brown.
• Add ginger garlic chili paste,salt ,turmeric.
• Fry until oil leaves from sides
• Now add thick curd,cook for 2-3 min.
• Add peas and garam masala .
• Cook for 5 min.stirring continuously
• Add 1/2 cup water.
• Cover the pan and cook for 8-10 min on medium heat.

Masala Puri

Masala Puri

a spiced whole wheat flat bread..

Ingredients:-

3/4 cup wheat flour
1/4 cup gram flour(besan)
2 tbspn rava (suji)
1 tspn red chili powder
1/2 tspn cumin
1/2 tspn sounf
1/4 tspn ajwain
1/2 tspn turmeric
1/4 tspn hing
1/2 cup coriander and pudina leaves(cut finely)
salt to taste
1 tblspn oil
water as needed
oil for frying

Recipe:-

• Mix all the ingredients (wheat flour, gram flour, rava , red chili powder, cumin, sounf , ajwain turmeric, hing, coriander and pudina leaves,salt and oil.
• Make a soft dough using water.
• Keep this dough in a tight container for 1/2 an hour.
• Heat oil in a kadhai.
• Make small balls of the dough.
• Divide into small balls , and roll out into small puries on an oiled board
• Fry the puri one at a time, holding them under the oil on the first side until they puff. Turn and fry till light brown.
• Serve hot with chhole or dum aaloo or potato curry and raita

Akbari Paneer

Akbari Paneer

Ingredients :-

250 grams paneer (cootage cheese)
2 Onion (medium) cut in long thin pieces
Ginger 1" piece cut in long thin pieces
Garlic 8 kali cut in long thin pieces
3 Small cardamom
Cinamom 1" piece
Ghee or oil 4 tbs
3 Tomato (medium size)
Salt to taste
Red chilli powder 1 tea spoon
Milk 1 to 2 glass

Recipe:-

• Heat the ghee in a pan.
• Put onion, ginger, garlic, cinamom and cardamom.
• Fry it till the onion becomes light brown.
• After that keep out all the things from ghee and make a smooth paste with tomato in mixer.
• Then again fry for 4 to 5 minutes the paste in ghee and add salt and chilli powder.
• Add paneer pieces and fry for two to three minutes.
• Add milk and cook till the gravy become thick.
• Garnish with chopped coriander .
• Serve hot with paratha or rice.