Vegetable Cheesy Pasta Recipe-Indian Style Pasta-Easy and Delicious Pasta rceipe

Preparation time-30 minutes
Serving-4

Ingredients:

• Pasta (Fusilli)-150 gm
• Chopped onions-2 (medium)
• Chopped tomato-2 (medium)
• Chopped green chilli-1 to 2
• Chopped garlic-7 to 8
• Chopped bell pepper (capsicum)-1 (large)
• Chopped carrot-1
• Tomato ketchup-2 tbsp
• Soy sauce-1 tbsp
• Red chilli sauce- 1 tsp
• Pasta mix(seasoning)-1 tsp (optional)
• Crushed black pepper-1/3 tsp
• Cooking oil-4 tbsp
• Cheese-50 gm
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Boil water in a pan (approx 1 litre), add pasta, 1 tsp oil and 1/2 tsp salt in the water.
• Cover the pan and let it boil for 8 to 10 minutes on medium flame.
• Once pasta has boiled properly, turn off the flame and drain the water from it.
• Heat oil in a pan, add green chilli and garlic and fry it for few seconds on medium flame.
• Add onions and fry it for 2-3 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add carrot and fry it for 2-3 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add chopped tomato, cover the pan and cook the tomato for 3-4 minutes on low-medium flame.
• Open the lid and stir it, Add chopped capsicum and cook it for a minute.
• Add tomato ketchup, soy sauce and red chilli sauce and mix it properly.
• Add boiled pasta and salt, mix it and cook it for a minute on low flame(cover the pan).
• Sprinkle crushed black pepper and pasta mix, mix it properly and turn off the flame.
• Grate cheese on it as per your taste and serve hot.

                    

Sambar Recipe-How to make Easy and Delicious Sambhar-Vegetable Sambar-Sambhar Recipe

Preparation time-45 minutes
Serving-5

Ingredients:

• Toor/tuvar dal(washed)-150 gm
• Chopped bottle gourd (louki)-50 gm
• Chopped carrot-50 gm
• Chopped and peeled drumstick-50 gm
• Chopped green beans-25 gm
• Chopped potato-1 (large)
• Chopped tomato-1 (large)
• Chopped onion-1 (large)
• Tamarind juice-1/3 cup
• Chopped garlic-8 to 10
• Asafoetida(hing)-1/4 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds-1/3 tsp
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder-1 tsp
• Red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Sambar Masala powder-3 tsp
• Dry red chilli-2
• Curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• Cooking oil-2 tbsp

Method:

• Put the dal in pressure cooker pan, add 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and 2 glass of water.
• Close the lid and boil it for 4-5 whistles on medium flame.
• Turn off the flame and let the cooker cool down completely.
• Open the cooker, add all the chopped vegetables and one glass of water and stir it.
• Close the lid and boil it for 2 whistles on medium flame.
• Turn off the flame, once the cooker cool down then open it and stir it.
• Turn on the flame and put the cooker on gas stove, keep the flame on low.
• Add red chilli powder, sambar masala powder, tamarind juice and salt to taste.
• Stir it well, cover the cooker and cook it for 3-4 minutes on low flame without whistle.
• Turn off the flame and keep it aside the cooker samber.

Tadka or Tempering:

• Heat a tadka pan, add oil and let it heat properly.
• Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, hing, garlic, dry red chilli and curry leaves.
• fry it for few seconds and turn off the flame.
• Gently pour the tadka in cooked sambar, stir it and close the lid, keep it aside for 2-3 minutes.
• Sambar is ready to serve with plain rice, idli, dosa or vada.

Super Tasty Drumstick Curry-Drumstick in Mustard Gravy-Drumstick Potato Curry-Drumstick Masala

Preparation time-40 minutes
Serving-5

Ingredients:

• Drumstick(sahjan)-150 gm (chopped, peeled and washed)
• Potato(peeled, chopped and washed)-4(medium)
• Garlic(peeled)-12 to 15
• Ginger(chopped)-2 inch
• Mustard seeds-2 tsp
• Tomato (chopped)-2 (medium)
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Cooking oil-4 tbsp
• Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Cumin powder-1/2 tsp
• Coriander powder-1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Add mustard seeds, garlic and ginger in a blending jar.
• Add little water and  blend it into smooth paste.
• Take it out from the blending jar and keep it aside.
• Heat little oil in a pan, add chopped potato and fry it for 4-5 minutes on medium flame.
• Add drumstick and fry it with potato for 2-3 minutes on medium flame.
• Take out the fried potato and drumstick in a plate and keep it aside.
• Add oil in the same pan and let it heat properly.
• Add cumin seeds and fry it for few seconds, reduce the flame to low.
• Add blended masala paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder and coriander powder.
• Mix it and fry the masala for 2 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring.
• Add chopped tomato, cover the pan and cook it on low-medium flame for 4-5 minutes, keep stirring in between.
• Add one glass of water, cover the pan and let the curry boil on high flame.
• Add fried vegetables and salt to taste, Cover the pan and cook it for 7-8 minutes on low flame.
• Check the potato with fork/knife (cook it for another 2-3 minutes if the potatoes are not cooked properly)
• Turn off the flame and ready to serve with plain steam rice or jeera.

Matar Poha Recipe-Chivda Matar Bihari Style-Flattened Rice with Green Peas-Easy and Quick Snack

Preparation time-30 minutes
Serving-4

Ingredients:

• Flattened rice(Poha/Chivda)-100 gm(any kind of poha)
• Fresh green peas-250 gm
• Green chilli (slit)-2 to 3
• Chopped garlic-8 to 10
• Chopped onion-1 (large)
• Cooking oil-3 tbsp
• Turmeric powder-1/3 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Heat a pan, Add flattened rice and roast it for 3-4 minutes on low-medium flame.
• Once the flattened rice turns crispy, take it out in a plate and keep it aside.
• Add oil in the same pan and let it heat properly.
• Add garlic and green chilli in hot oil, fry it for few seconds on low-medium flame.
• Add onions and fry it for 2-3 minutes on low-medium flame.
• Add green peas, turmeric powder and salt to taste, mix it properly.
• Cover the pan, cook it for 4-5 minutes on low flame or till the peas are cooked properly.
• Add roasted flattened rice, mix it and cook it on medium flame for one more minute, keep stirring.
• Turn off the flame and ready to serve hot.

Note-

• You may sprinkle little black salt to enhance the taste.
• Serve it instantly otherwise the poha will be soft and chewy.

           

Spicy Masala Paneer Recipe-Dry Masala Paneer-Paneer Starter-Easy and Quick Paneer Recipe

Preparation time-20 Minutes
Serving-4

Ingredients:

• Paneer Cubes(Indian cottage cheese)-200 gm
• Chopped onion-1 (large)
• Chopped tomato-2(medium)
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Chopped garlic-2 inch
• Chopped green chilli-2
• Green chilli (slitted)-2 (optional)
• Chopped garlic -10 to 12
• Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder-1 tsp
• Coriander powder-1/3 tsp
• Cumin powder-1/3 tsp
• Black pepper powder-1/4 tsp
• Garam masala powder-1/3 tsp
• Cooking oil-3 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Heat a pan, add oil and let it heat properly.
• Add cumin seeds and fry it for few seconds on medium flame.
• Add ginger, green chilli and garlic, fry it for a minutes on medium flame.
• Add chopped onion and fry it for 2-3 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add Chopped tomato and cook it for 3-4  minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and black pepper powder.
• Mix it and cook the spices for a minute on low flame.
• Add paneer, salt , mix it and cook it for 2 minutes on low flame ( cover the lid).
• Add garam masala powder and slitted green chilli, mix it and turn off the flame.
• Serve it with hot paratha and puri or as a starter.                                                                                       

                 

Tomato Dal-Tomato and Garlic Flavoured Dal-Tamatar wali dal

Preparation time-30 minutes
Serving-6

Ingredient:

• Tuvar Dal (split pigeon peas)-250 gm
• Tomato-5 (300 gm)
• Garlic cloves(peeled)-12 to 13
• Green chilli-2
• Asafoetida (hing)-1/4 tsp
• Dry red chilli-1 to 2
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
• Cooking oil-2 tbsp
• Coriander leaves
• salt to taste

Method:

• Heat a pressure cooker pan, add oil and let it heat properly.
• Add asafoetida, dry red chilli and cumin seeds, fry it for few seconds.
• Add crushed garlic, fry it for a minute on low flame.
• Add chopped tomato,  cook it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add washed dal, turmeric powder and mix it properly.
• Add 3 glass of water, green chilli and salt to taste, stir it.
• Close the lid of pressure cooker and cook it for 4 whistle on medium flame.
• Turn off the flame and let the cooker cool down completely.
• Open the lid, blend it to make it smoother using a whisk or a dal ghotni.
• Add coriander leaves and ready to serve.

                   

                      

Fried Masala Idli Recipe-Masala Idli-How to make Idli Fry-Easy and Quick Tea Time Snack

Preparation Time-15 minutes
Serving-2 to 3

Ingredients:

• Idli-5
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder-1/2 tsp
• Dry mango powder-1/3 tsp
• Sambar masala powder-1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Cut the idli into slices.
• Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves and fry it for few seconds.
• Add idli, mix it and fry it for 2-3 minutes on medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Add sambar masala, red chilli powder, dry mango powder and salt, mix it properly.
• Fry it for 3-4 minutes on low-medium flame, keep stirring in between.
• Increase the flame to medium and fry it for a minute, keep stirring.
• Turn off the flame, serve it hot.