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26.4.12

RAJASTHANI THALI

KADHI
Ingredients:
For Kadhi
  • Curd - 1 cup
  • Bengal Gram Flour - 1/2 tbsp
  • Water - 1/2 cup
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Onion -1
  • Cinnamon - small stick
  • Cloves - 2
  • Red chillies - 2
  • Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Corriander seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
  • Ginger - 1 tsp grated
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
For Pakodis
  • Besan - 1/2 cup
  • Methi leaves - 1/4 cup chopped
  • Cilantro leaves - few chopped
  • Green Chilli - 1
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Oil - for frying
How to make it:

For Kadhi:
Beat curd and besan with 1/2 cup water until no lumps. Add turmeric powder and salt. Heat oil in a deep pan, add red chillies, cumin seeds, corriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, Cinnamon and cloves. When they splutter, add grated ginger and onions and fry until onion turns light brown. Add the chilli powder and curd mix and cook on low flame until it thickens. Add the curry leaves, just before switching off the flame.
For methi pakodis:
Mix all the ingredients together with little water and make a soft dough. Heat oil in a pan, drop pieces of dough and cook until it becomes light brown. Take on to a paper towel to drain excess oil. Add the pakodis to the prepared Kadhi. Serve Hot!

GATTE KA PULAO
Ingredients:
For Gatte
  • Besan - 1/2 cup
  • Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Ajwain-1/2 tsp
  • Curd - 1 tbsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
  • Oil - for frying
For Pulao
  • Rice - 1 cup
  • Onion - 1 chopped
  • Cardamom - 2 crushed
  • Cloves - 2 crushed
  • Cashews - few
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
  • Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Garlic,Green chilli,Ginger paste - 1 tsp
  • Oil - 1 tbsp
  • Ghee - 1 tsp
  • Coriander leaves - for garnishing

How to make it:

For Gattas:  Boil water in a large pan.

Mix all the ingredients together and by adding very little water, make a stiff dough. Divide the dough into equal portions.

Shape into a thin cylinder. Rub some oil over the rolls.

Drop into the boiling water and cook for about 10 minutes. Drain and let it cool. Once cooled, cut into small bits and deep fry in oil.


For Pulao :

Cook rice with right amount of water. Let it cool.

Heat oil and ghee in a kadai, add cardamom, cloves, cashews and cumin. When it turns light brown, add the onion and the chilli-ginger-garlic paste and saute until the raw smells goes off.

Add the asafoetida, chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala. Saute for a while.

Add the gattas and salt. Add cooked rice and garnish with coriander leaves.


RAJASTHANI SABJI

Ingredients:
  • Green Peppers - 1/2 cup, chopped
  • Onion - 1 chopped
  • Carrot - 1 chopped
  • Cauliflower florets - 1 cup
  • Peas - 1/4 cup
  • Potato - 1 cubed
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Ginger - 1/2 tsp shredded
  • Sabji masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Asafoetida powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Curd - 1/4 cup
How to make it:

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds ginger and onions and fry until onion turns light brown.
Add the asafoetida, sabji masala, garam masala, chilli powder and turmeric powder.
Add the vegetables and mix well. Add salt and cook covered on low flame until vegetables are half done. Sprinkle little water if required.

Add curd and cook until vegetables are just done and the curd dries up. Serve with rotis.

RAJASTHANI PAPAD KI SABJI

Ingredients:
  • Papads - 2
  • Small onion - 2 chopped
  • Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
  • Asafoetida powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Curd - 1 tbsp
  • Ghee - 1 tsp
  • Water - 1/2 cup
  • Salt - as required
  • Corriander leaves - for garnishing
  • Curry leaves - for garnishing

How to make it:

Heat ghee in a pan, add mustard seeds and when it splutters add cumin and asafoetida powder. Add onions and fry until light brown. Stir in the curd. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt. Add 1/2 cup water and bring it to a boil. Break the fried (deep fried in oil) or toasted papads (toasted on a griddle by pressing it with a cloth or toasted directly on the flame using tongs) into small pieces. Add to the water and boil for 5 more minutes. Add corriander leaves and curry leaves and serve hot as a side dish for rotis.

MISSI ROTI
Ingredients:
  • Wheat flour - 1 cup
  • Besan - 1 cup
  • Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Corriander powder - 1 tsp
  • Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Ghee - for brushing

How to make it:  Combine all the ingredients except ghee in a bowl. Make into a stiff dough by adding little water. Divide the dough into equal portions and make evenly sized balls. Roll each ball into a round shape with a rolling pin. Heat a griddle, add the rolled dough and cook on both sides. Brush little ghee on the rotis. Serve hot.

Here is a complete meal served hot!

23.4.12

Punjabi Thali

MENU FOR THE THALI

Aloo Paratha /Chole/Jeera Pulao/Malai Paneer/Raita/ Sooji Halwa

Aloo Parantha
2 cups plain wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
warm water to make dough
1tsp oil
Filling
1 cup boiled potatoes (mashed)
1/4 cup boiled peas crushed
1/2 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp chopped green chillies
1/4 cup fresh chopped coriander leaves
1/4 tsp ajwain (carom seeds)
1/4tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp turmeric
salt
1-2tbsp oil

Preparation
Prepare a soft dough combining salt, warm water, oil and flour.
Set aside.

In a pan add oil and cumin & carom seeds.
When they starts spluttering, add ginger and chillies. Fry for a minute, add mashed potatoes and peas, turmeric, salt and saute well.  Add chopped coriander leaves. Keep aside.  

Once it cools down, it is filled in to the dough, rolled into paranthas and fried till done on  the tava  just as you make your usual parathas.

Chole

Ingredients2 cup kabuli chana soaked overnight
1 tea bag
1 large tomato chopped
1 large finely chopped onion
1 tsp. garlic paste
1 tsp. ginger grated
3 green chillies chopped
1/3 tsp asafoetida (hing)

1 tsp. red chilli powder
1 tsp dhania powder

1 tsp jeera powder
1/2 tsp. garam masala
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1 cinnamon stick
2-3 cloves
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
4-5 tbsp.thick tamarind extract
3-4 tbsp. oil.  Salt to taste
For Garnish
1 small onion sliced into rings
chopped coriander leaves
whole green chillies

Preparation

Pressure cook the chick pea along with one tea bag and 2tsp salt, for not more than 3 whistles.
Keep the chickpea aside after discarding the tea bag . 
In a deep bottomed pan add oil, once it heats up add cumin, bay leaf, cinnamon stick and cloves.
Once you see them splutter, add ginger, garlic paste, green chillies, chopped onions and fry well till onion turns translucent.
Next add finely chopped tomatoes, turmeric, all the other masala powders and cook till the oil separates from the tomato mixture.
Now add the cooked chick peas.  Once the chana gets well coated with all the masalas add some of the water from the boiled channa.  Next add the tamarind extract and mix well.
Keep on low heat for about 5 minutes and remove.
Garnish with onion rings, chillies and chopped coriander leaves.


Jeera Pulao (with green peas)


Ingredients2 cups long grain Basmati rice
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 onion chopped fine
2 tsp cumin seeds
3-4 cloves
2 bay leaves
1 cinnamon stick
1 star Anise
Salt
41/2 cups water
4-5 tbsp oil or ghee

Preparation
Soak the rice for 30 minustes. After 30 mins wash the rice and drain the water and keep aside.
In a non-stick vessel add oil .  When the oil heats up add cumin and allow it to splutter. Add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon and star anise to the oil till you get a nice aroma.  Next add the onions and fry till  it browns a bit, add the rice and fry till rice is well coated with the spices and onion.  Next add the peas.  Mix gently so as not to break the rice grains.   Now add water and salt. Give it a gentle stir and cover the vessel with lid and cook till the rice is done.



MALAI PANEER
Ingredients1 cup paneer cubes (cottage cheese)
10 Cashew nuts
1/4 cup milk cream
1 cup chopped onions
2 tomatoes
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
2-3 chopped green chillies
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
2-3 cloves
1 Bay leaf
1 cinnamon stick
1 star Anise
1/2 tsp garam masala
2-3 tbsp oil
1/4 cup water
Salt
Coriander leaves for Garnish

Method
In a blender combine cashews and tomato to make a thick puree. Keep aside. In a deep bottomed pan heat oil , add cumin seeds. While they splutter add cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf and star anise. When you get the aroma of the spices, add ginger-garlic paste, green chillies and fry. Then add onions and fry till translucent. Add Paneer cubes and fry for 2 minutes. Now, add the cashew-tomato paste, turmeric, salt and garam masala and fold in together all the ingredients.  Add 1/4 cup water as the cashew paste intends to thicken. Simmer the heat and add heavy cream.  Leave the gravy on medium low heat for 5 minutes and remove from heat.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Raita
Ingredients
1 cup thick yogurt
1 cucumber chopped fine
1 small onion chopped fine
finely chopped green chillies
finely chopped coriander leaves
roasted Jeera (cummin) powder
salt

PreparationBeat the yogurt well, add all the ingredients except cumin powder. Garnish with cumin powder and serve.

Sooji Halwa
Ingredients
1-cup semolina (Sooji)
1/2 cup sugar
1cup ghee
1/2 cup milk
1tbsp cashews
1tbsp raisins
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
ghee for frying cashew nuts and raisins

Preparation
In a deep, heavy bottomed pan warm up the clarified butter, add semolina . Fry continuously till the color changes to light brown. Keep the heat on medium. Once the mixture is well fried, add sugar and milk and stir continuously so that no lumps are formed. Stir gently until the milk is fully absorbed and the mixture comes to an halwa consistency. Separately fry cashews, raisins and add it to the halwa.

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