Few days back I was chatting with my friend and colleague Poornima. She was very happy about my blog. So she voluntarily gave me two recipes. Here is the first one. The other one requires deep frying, so I haven’t tried yet.
This requires a bit patience. When I read the recipe, I thought, ‘Such a big procedure for upma!! (I am not a great fan of upma). But still, Poo is telling the recipe, so it should be good’.
Then the very next day I prepared it. While preparing, it was giving some bad smell of moong daal. So I again started thinking…’who will eat it, if it smells this bad!!’. Still I prepared it, and it was amaging. Just give it a try, though throughout you will feel its a bad idea, finally I am sure you will be happy to have prepared this!!!.
Ingredients: Moong daal(hesru bele, mooga daali) 1 cup Onion(chopped) 3/4th cup Lemon juice 2 tbl spns Curry leaves 1 strand Green chillies 4-5 Mustard seeds 1 tea spn Coriander leaves 3-4 strands Oil 1 tea spn Salt
Method: Soak moong daal in water for 3hrs (I soaked it for just 1 hr or may be less than that). Grind with salt without adding water(if required, add very less water) it to a coarse paste. Make small balls with hand, keep on idli stand or a normal vessel and cook on steam (the way idli is cooked).Powder the cooked balls with hand to remove big lumps. (Ignore the bad smell of cooked moong daal at this stage!!!). Heat oil and add mustard. When it starts spluttering, add curry leaves, green chillies. Fry for some more time. Now add onion and fry till they turn slightly brownish. Add moong daal powder prepared already and a little salt ( Salt is already added while grinding, so add only a little at this stage). Add coriander leaves and Lemon juice. Serve hot.
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 30min
Its been a long time I blogged about any rice items. So here is a simple and helthy recipe.I saw this in kannada programme “Aduge Aramane” on ‘Udaya news’ channel few months back (Before coming to US). I was a regular viewer of that program. Everyone at home cursed me for that, especially my cousin who did not understand Kannada!!. At some point I was so addicted to these programs that on sundays, morning 11 to 1.30, I would watch one after the other recipe programs on different channels!!!. I am missing them now :).
Ingredients: Basmati rice 1 cup Palak(Spinach) 1/2 cup Corinder leaves 1/2 cup Green chillies 4 Ginger 1″ piece Garlic 4-5 Lemon juice 2 tbl spns Sugar 1 tea spn Coconut 2 tbl spns Garam masala 1/2 tea spn Bay leaves 2 Cloves 3 Cinnamon 1″ stick Cardamom 2 Ghee/oil 1 tbl spn Onion 1 big Vegetables(Green beans, carrot, peas, cauliflower) 1 cup Salt
Method: Grind together palak, coriander leaves, green chillies, ginger, garlic, lemon juice, coconut, sugar and garam masala without adding much water(If required, only a little water can be added). Heat ghee, add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, garlic(2). Fry for a minute. Add onion and fry till they turn slightly brown in color. Add vegetables and the paste, fry for 5min. Add rice and fry for some more time. Add 2 cups of water,salt and close the lid. Check after 10min, if required, add some more water and cook till completely done. Serve hot with raita.
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 40min
