I was thinking about blogging about this typical konkani style Buns from many days. But recently one of my visitor, Seema, requested for this recipe. So I thought of blogging about it without any further delay.’Buns’ is a very famous Konkani dish usually prepared with pumpkin or ripe bananas. Usually when we get the big pumpkins at home, a veriety of dishes are prepared using them. It will be cut into big pieces and some of the pieces go to neighbours and relatives who stay in nearby places. The remaining pieces are dried under the sun and kept for a few days.
Since I love pumpkins, my parents keep it till I go home for some vacations and then cut it and the usual procedure I explained just now goes on!!. Isn’t it so sweet…. Ahh…I am missing my parents now…Well, I think I am becoming too emotional!!.
Ingredients: Pumpkin pieces or ripe banana pieces 1 cup Wheat flour 2 cups Jaggery or Sugar 3/4th cup Oil Salt
Method: Cook pumpkin pieces (ripe bananas are directly used without cooking). Grind pumpkin/bananas, Jaggery(or sugar) to a smooth paste(preferrably dont use water). Add wheat flour and salt to the paste and kneed the dough(Puri dough consistency). Preferrably keep the dough overnight. Make puris(a bit thicker than normal puri) and deep fry in oil. Serve hot with chutney .
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 20min
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
