This time when I went to Price choppers, I saw mushrooms and could not restrain myself from buying them. I love mushroom curry, mushroom pulav or anything made of mushrooms.
After trying all my usual recipes, I still had some remaining in my refrigerator. So thought of trying out something new.
From last one or two months, I prepare different kind of soups almost alternative days.
Actually I have got big collection of recipes with me these days…Thanks to my pappa(daddy), who had cut all the recipes from kannada weekly magazines(like Tharanga, Sudha) and neatly bound it into a book. I think it has more than thousand recipes. I call it my “recipe bible”. Along with so many recipes, it has other information like household remedies for small problems, beauty tips etc. Only problem is there is no index in the book. So the next task in my “to-do” list is to create an index into that book.
Needless to say, I have picked up this recipe from that book and made some modifications which will suite our taste.
Ingredients: Mushrooms (cut into pieces) 1 cup Tomato 2 Carrot 1/2 Potato 1 Cabbage pieces 1/2 cup Garlic 2 Ginger 1″ piece Cinnamon(dalchini) powder 1/2 tea spn Pepper powder 1/2 tea spn Butter 2 tea spns Salt as per taste
Method: Cook carrot pieces, cabbage, tomato, potato, ginger and garlic in cooker adding 4-5 cups of water. Grind them to get a smooth mixture. Heat butter and add mushroom pieces. Fry till mushrooms are cooked. Add the ground soup and all other ingredients. Cook for 5 min to get a thick soup. Serve hot.
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 30min
From a long time I am not able to post any of the traditional recipes. I felt like I am going away from the basic idea of having a Aayi’s recipe blog. Its mainly because most of my readers are non-konkanis. But there are few of them who visit my blog for traditional Konkani food. This recipe is for all those and also for non-konkanis who want to try out something different.I have learnt this dish from aayi. She prepares this with rice roti(alayle pita rotti) . Though the roti is little difficult to do, brinjal curry is very easy and takes very less time. As far as I have seen this dish does not go with any other roti or rice. I feel rice roti and brinjal curry is an ideal combination for a breakfast.
Ingredients: Brinjal (chopped into squares) 2 cups Onions(chopped) 1 cup Coconut(grated) 1 ½ cup Green chilies 4-5 Tamarind pulp 1/4th tea spn Salt
Method: Cook brinjal pieces and onion in water(almost 4 cups of water). Do not cook this in cooker, because brinjal pieces should not become a paste. Grind coconut, green chillies, tamarind and salt. Add this grounded masala to cooked brinjal and onion. Cook for around 5minutes till the masala is completely done. Serve hot with rice roti.
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 15min
