Thursday, May 22, 2014

Curd rice



Curd rice

A perfect south Indian meal which is now a days common in all over India. Every Indian end up their lunch with this great and easy to make meal. Healthy ingredients and easy to cook in 5 minutes if all the ingredients are available.
I thought of posting this recipe of how to make curd rice and here
 I am this recipe with my kitchen




INGREDIENTS(SERVES 2-3)



RICE(UNCOOKED)1/2 CUP
RED CHILLI FLAKES1
YOGURT |CURD1 CUP
SALTAS NEEDED
OIL1 TSP
MUSTARD SEEDS1/2 TSP
ASAFOETIDA1/4 TSP
GREEN CHILLI1
CURRY LEAVESFEW
CORIANDER LEAVESFEW
CASHEW NUT(OPTIONAL)
ZEERA POWDER(OPTIONAL)
FEW
1/4 TSP

Methods

  • Pressure Cook the rice
    • When done mash the rice nicely with the back of the spoon
    • Then heat oil in a pan then add mustard seeds, green chili , curry leaves , red chili flakes and cashews(optional)
    • pour this tempering on the rice and decorate with finely chopped cilantro
    • put zeera powder (optional)
    • and serve hot or cold as per your requirement whatever tastes you like 

    and this is the best for kids , youngsters or in any age 
    I hope you will like this recipe. Comments are welcome.

    Wednesday, May 21, 2014

    Veg poha

     Spicy kanda Poha
    Ingredients:
    ½ kg - poha (thick ones)
    4 to 7 tbsp - oil
    finely chopped onions

    finely chopped boiled potato
    1 tbsp peanuts
    ½ tsp - mustard seeds
    2 - green chilies
    1 tsp - turmeric powder
    2 to 3 tbsp - coriander leaves (finely chopped)
    juice of 1 lemon
    few curry leaves
    salt to taste

    Method:
    1. Wash the poha very well and drain out all the water and keep aside.

    2.Heat oil in a kadhai, add mustard seeds. and peanuts.

    3.When they splutter add finely chopped green chilies, chopped onions and boiled potatoes and curry leaves. and a pinch of turmeric powder too.

    4.Saute it for few minutes (1-2 minutes)

    5.Add poha, salt to taste, turmeric powder, finely chopped coriander leaves, lemon juice

    6.Mix well. Let it simmer for 5 -8 minutes.

    7.
    Serve hot. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

    Basics of vegetarian cooking

    Basics Of Vegetarian Cooking
    Hi
    A warm welcome to my blog. First of all thank you for stopping by here for reading my blog posts and vegetarian recipe.
    Basics of cooking: The topic itself conveys the message about while starting cooking you have to know about all the ingredients which are required in our daily cooking .
    You have to categorized your items and set up your kitchen according to that I will show you all step by step in different ways with pictures too.
    In basics of cooking you will learn many things'
    Main ingredients in basics of cooking is: Masala box 
    it includes
    red chilli powder
    cumin seeds
    fenugreek seeds
    Asofetida
    turmeric powder
    corriander powder
    Garam masala powder



    This all the items are which I use in all my cooking vegetables / curries and many recipes