Chole

Ingredients :
Kabuli Channa - 1 cup
Onions - 2
Tomato - 2
Potato - 2 (If u need more quantity add potato or u can skip this)

Spices
Cloves, Cinnamon, Elachi, Maratti Moggu, Anas Flower, Sombu, Kasa Kasa, - All little
Turmeric Powder, Chilli Powder, Salt - Per ur requirements
Jaggery - very little.
Oil/Ghee - for frying
Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
Lemon - 1

Grind together
Ginger - small piece
Garlic - If u prefer garlic (not sure of the quantity, 1 or 2 pieces should do i guess)
Green Chillies - 2
Red Chillies - 2
Grated Coconut - 2 tsp
Cashewnuts - 6

Method of Preparation
1. Soak Channa for 10 hrs and pressure cook along with the potatoes.
2. Grind together all the spices with finely cut onions.
3. Blanch tomatoes in hot water and make a thick puree.
4. Heat oil/ghee in a pan and add the onion paste and as it gets fried add the tomato puree with little turmeric.
5. Add the ground masala and chilli powder, salt, jaggery to this and keep in low flame till good smell comes.
6. Add the channa and mashed potato to this and add water based on the thickness u need for the gravy.
7. Keep in stove for another 5 mins.
8. Remove from stove and garnish with coriander leaves
9. Serve hot with rotis, with a piece of lemon.

Vegetable Briyani

I make vegetable briyani or veg pulav quite often , but somehow it wasnt all that satisfactory esp the colour of the briyani, but today it turned out real good, just the right colour and taste i shd say ;)

Ingredients :

Basmathi rice - 1 Cup
Carrot(2), Beans(10), Capsicum(1)(Red & Green ones), Potato(2), Onions(2), Tomato(2),Cauliflower - We can change it as per ur taste and quantity.
Pattai (Cinnamon) - 1 inch piece
Elakkai (Cardamon) - 1
Krambu (Cloves) - 3
Maratti Moggu - 2
Anas Flower - 1
Bay Leaf - 1
Aji-No-Moto - just a small pinch
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
Garam Masala Powder - 1 spoon
Coriander leaves - a small bunch
Lemon - Half piece
Oil/Ghee - For frying.

Grind Together

1 tsp grated coconut
1 tsp Dhania (Coriander seeds)
Cashewnuts - 8
Red Chilly - 5
Onion - 1 (Just roast it over the flame directly)

Method of Preparation
1. Wash and soak the rice for 10 mins.
2. Cut all the vegetables into small small pieces.
3. Blanch tomatoes in hot water, remove skin and make a thick puree out of it.
4. Boil the vegetables till they get half cooked.
5. Heat oil/ghee in a pressure pan and add the spices and fry them.
6. Add finely cut onions to this and keep frying.
7. To this add the ground paste,tomato puree, turmeric and keep frying till u get a good smell.
8. Add the boiled vegetables to this and continue to fry.
9. Add 2 cups of water and squeeze half a lime into this.
10. In a kadai , add half a teaspoon ghee and fry the basmati rice for 2 mins
11. Once the water boils, add the rice to this and pressure cook for 10 mins.
12. Remove from fire, add a spoon of garam masala and ghee.
13. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raitha.
14. Result will be something similar to this :)

Corn Capsicum Masala

This is my latest favorite dish, tasted it once when i went to kolkatta recently.

Ingredients :

Sweet Corn Kernels - 2 Cups
Capsicum - 2 Big ones
Onion - 2 Big ones
Tomato - 2 Big ones
Pattai (Cinnamon) - 1 piece
Krambu (Cloves) - 2-3 pieces
Elakkai (Elachi) 1-2 pieces
Red Chilly powder , Salt - as per ur need
Cashewnuts - 5-6
Oil/ Ghee - for frying.

Prep Method :

1.Cut the onions, tomatoes, capsicum to fine pieces.
2.Grind the cut onions, tomatoes, cashewnuts with the masala spices(Cinnamon, Cloves, Elachi) to a fine gravy/paste (The cashewnuts will give more thickness and taste to the gravy).
3.Cook the capsicum and corn in a kadai with oil/ghee. Cook till the raw smell of capsicum is gone and the corn also gets cooked.
4.Simultaneously put the gravy in a kadai and cook the same with oil/ghee till the raw smell of onion and tomato is gone and the gravy comes to a red/brown colour .
5.To this , add chilly and salt and some more oil/ghee and allow it to boil , add the cooked corn n capsicum keep it on stove till u get a good flavor.
6.Garnish with cut corrainder and serve hot with cut lemons and onions.

Can be used with phulkas, naans, or with rice also.
Happy Eating !!!

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