MOONG KA MOGRA

Hi Friends,
This recipe has a story behind it. This is one of my favorite recipe. As all of us know many children have less taste for raw food.I include my daughters in that group. They need to be pampered to have raw food. But this one is the first recipe that both my daughters loved to eat. This recipe needs very little cooking as most of its ingredients can be had raw and I hope you like it.

Ingredients:
1 cup Sprouted Moong
1 small chopped onion
1 big chopped tomato
2 to 3 chopped green chilly
1/2 tsp pepper powder
Salt

method:
Heat oil or butter in a pan, add chopped green chilly and fry. add onions and fry for 2 mins. Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric and salt. let the tomatoes leave its juice. Now add sprouted moong and add 1/2 cup water. cook for 6 to 8 mins. Garnish with chopped fresh coriander. Serve hot with chapati or Enjoy as a salad.




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COOKING TIPS

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Tip no 1: While batter-frying anything, add a bit of soda bicarbonate to the batter. it adds a lovely glaze to the dish.

Tip no 2: If using raw bananas for curry, soak them in plain buttermilk to get rid of any bitter aftertaste. It also cleans the fruit of resin.

Tip no 3: When chopping yam, apply a bit of coconut oil on the palms and the knife to get rid of the itch that yams are famous for.




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IDLY SAMBAR

2 cups Boiled rice

1 cup Raw rice

3/4 cup urad-dal

Salt

1 pinch cooking soda

Method:

Wash and Soak Boiled rice, Raw rice and urad dal for 6 to 8 hrs.





Grind urad dal first and then grind both rice (you can add the soaked urad dal water to grind

the rice and also the soaked rice water, take care not to add more water, the batter should be

thick. Add salt and cooking soda to the batter and mix well. Keep overnight.



Ingredients:





In the morning, mix well the batter. check the consistency of the batter. if it is very thick add

little water and stir. Now steam cook the idlies in idly cooker for 8 to 10 mins. Do apply some oil



to the idly plates for it allows the idly not to stick to plates.

SAMBAR

Ingredients:

1/2 cup toor dal

2 cups water

salt

turmeric

3 tbsp oil

2 chopped tomatoes

2 chopped onions

coriander leaves, curry leaves

1 pinch hing

1tsp mustard seeds

2 to 3 Red chillies

2 tbsp red chilli powder

1 tennis ball size tamarind juice

jaggery according to taste

2 tbsp sambar powder

sambar powder recipe:

Ingredients

1 tbsp coriander seeds

1 tbsp chana dal

1/2 tbsp urad dal

1/4 tbsp moong dal

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/4 tsp methi seeds

1/4 tsp jeera seeds

3 to 4 pepper seeds

2 to 3 medium cinnamon stick

Roast all the sambar powder ingredients and grind to a semi half powder. Keep this ready

before hand.






Method:

cook dal, turmeric, coriander leaves, curry leaves, 1tsp oil, with 2 cups of water in pressure

cooker. Heat the remaining oil in deep kadai. Add mustard seeds,when they start spluttering

add curry leaves, hing, red chilly one by one.

Add chopped onions and stir cook for 2 mins. then add chopped tomatoes, allow it to cook for

2 mins. add salt, red chilli powder , tamarind juice, and jaggery. after 2 mins add sambar

powder and stir cook for 5 to 8 mins.

Mash the dal throughly and mix this in the kadai. Boil for 3 to 4 mins. you can

add grated fresh coconut and lassan pieces for taste. But I prefer not to add.

Garnish sambar with chopped coriander leaves. Serve Hot Idly with sambar.

For mouth watering coriandder chutney see my earlier posts.





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DRY CHANA

Ingredients:
1 cup boiled chana
1 cup chopped onion
6 to 7 chopped green chillies
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 cup grated fresh coconut

seasoning:
mustard seeds and curry leaves

METHOD
Soak chana for about 4 to 5 hrs. Boil it in pressure cooker with salt and water.
Heat 2tbsp oil in pan, add mustard seeds and curry leaves, when they start spluttering add chopped green chillies and fry for a min. Now add chopped onion and fry till light golden colour, add turmeric and salt and stir once in a while. mix boiled chana in the mixture and cook for about 2 to 3 mins. mix grated coconut and stir so that it mixes well. Remove it from heat. Garnish with chopped coriander and Serve Hot.



DRY CHANA


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BHINDI MASALA

BHINDI MASALA
Ingredients:
1/4 cup oil
1 large chopped onion
10 cloves garlic, minced
2 green chillies, chopped
1tsp turmeric
1tbsp ground cumin
250 gms bhindi

Method
Heat oil in a deep pan. Add onion, garlic and chillies and fry on medium heat till it turns brown. Add turmeric and cumin and fry again for 2 mins. finally add bhindi, salt and mix properly. Cover with a lid and cook for 10 mins on a low flame. Serve hot with steamed Rice or Rotis.



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METHI-PUDINA PARATHA

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped fresh methi leaves

1 cup chopped fresh mint ( pudina ) leaves

1 tsp Red chilli powder

1 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Garam masala powder

1/2 tsp jeera powder

2 cups Whole Wheat flour

Oil or Ghee for frying

Method:

Add all the above ingredients to wheat flour and mix thoroughly. Add required quantity of water and make soft dough. Roll out like chapathis and fry with 1tsp of oil or ghee on each sides of chapathis.Serve with curds or any curry.

You can add boiled potatoes to this. Take care while adding water to make dough. Do not add more water.



Add chat masala and salt to the curds. this tastes delicious.

Here I have shown methi pudina paratha with capsicum curry.

Good Luck,

Kavitha.

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WATER-MELON DELIGHT

WATER-MELON DELIGHT
INGREDIENTS:

5 slices of deseeded watermelon

1 teaspoon sugar

1 scoop of vanilla ice cream( the suprise element of the drink)

1/4 cup milk

ice cubes

METHOD:

Add all the ingredients in a blender and blend till smooth. you can reduce the sugar depending on taste. Since the ice cream is already sweet, you can make do without the sugar too if you wish.

Incase it gets too thick you can add more milk or substitute milk with water.

Watermelon is not only delicious, but extremely healthy, as well. Melons are also abundant in vitamin C. and are rich in carotenoids. Carotenoids have antioxidant activity, free-radical scavenging property. Watermelon seeds are excellent sources of protein. Watermelon seed is rich in magnesium, calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorous, zinc etc.

Besides, the red flesh, in the Arab world, salted and roasted watermelon seeds are also consumed as a snack. Researchers believe that beta-carotene and vitamin C are capable of preventing heart disease, cancer, and other chronic conditions. No matter which way you cut them, when it comes to nutrition, melons are number one. Whether you choose watermelons for their health benefits or simply for their good flavor, they can be an excellent snack, summer dish -- or gardening project.

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