Spinach Egg fry / Palak egg fry

Palak or Spinach are very healthy green leafy vegetable. If we add green leafy vegetables in our daily diet, we can get more vitamins and minerals. If we give only palak means, all the kids will run out from the dining room. I thought to prepare something different with using palak. Then i remembered, my mother will prepare palak with egg. It will be like Egg porridge. But she will add palak in that. Then i also tried the same trick. It works.. All are in my family liked very much this fry. 

Health benefits :

There are many health benefits in palak. Few are : There are bunch of Vitamins are in this green leaf. Vitamins are:  A, B2, B6, C, E, and K. Including these all vitamins, it is also having  calcium, iron potassium, magnesium and omega 3- fatty acids. Important benefits for girls is, it is Cholesterol free, fat free and having less calories. It keep away the old age problems. It helps to reduce BP problems and gastric problems.  

If we cook with egg, we can get the vitamins and calcium  double.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Chopped palak	:	1 Bowl
Onion	:	1 No
Red chilly	:	4 Nos
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Pepper powder	:	Optional
Egg	:	2 Nos

Method :
Separate the palak leaves from the stem, wash and chop nicely. Heat oil in a a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds splutter, add chopped onion, red chilly and saute well. Add chopped palak, salt and saute. No need to add water. Keep the flame simmer and close the pan with lid.

After palak cooked, add eggs and fry well.

Fry well till the egg cooked well and finally, if we want, we can add pepper power and transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

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Kovakkai poriyal / Ivy gourd or little gourd fry

Kovakkai is referred as various names like ivy gourd, little gourd, tinly, coccinia grandis. Using this vegetable, we can make fry and curry. Today i am going to make kovakkai fry which will be very tasty.

Health benefits :

Kovakkai is having a lot of health benefits. It is having lot of Vitamins like Vitamin C, A, B1 and B2 are high content in this vegetable Which is good for our bones. This vegetable helps to cure many diseases like, Asthma, leprosy, Jaundices etc..  It is regulates the blood pressure level and normalize our body's sugar level. We can strongly recommend for Diabetic patients.

Let we can see how to prepare the healthy and tasty "Kovakkai fry".

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	30 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Ivy gourd	:	1/4 Kg
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/4 Tsp
Onion	:	1 No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :
Wash the vegetable and slice it nicely.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds splutter, add onion slices, curry leaves and saute a little. No need to saute till the onion turn transparent.

Add kovakkai slices, tumeric powder, salt and saute well. No need to add water. We can close the pan and have to stir occasionally. 

                                     

When the vegetable became half-cooked, add chilly powder. If we add in the beginning, the chilly powder will be burnt.

Fry well the kovakkai. We have to keep in low flame only. Otherwise it will burn. In low flame, we can cook for 20 minutes for good taste. After cooked well, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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Tomato biriyani

My mother and my mother-in-law are used to prepare Tomato rice very often. But i like biriyani very much. So i tired to make biriyani with more tomatoes. It is very tasty and gives different biriyani taste. I am preparing this rice in biriyani rice. (Jeeraha samba rice). We can make it in basmathy rice also. When we are having with  brinjal raitha or onion pachadi, it will be more delicious. My husband and my daughter also liked very much. I am not adding puthina in this. If we like, we can add puthina(mint leave) along with coriander leaves. let us see how to prepare yummy Tomato biriyani.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

For grind	:
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger	:	Small log
Garlic	:	4 Pcs
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Cardamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	3 Nos
For saute	:
biriyani rice	:	1 Cup
Tomato puree	:	In 5 Pcs
Oil or ghee	:	2 Tsp
Fennel	:	1/2 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Green chilly	:	4 Nos
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1/2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Coriander leaves	:	Few

Method :
Wash the rice and keep it aside. Grind the ingredients which is under the for grind heading.

Heat oil or ghee in a pressure pan, add fennel seeds. Add curry leaves.  Add ground onion paste and saute well. Add tomato puree and saute well.

 Add all the masala powders and salt, saute.

After the masala well cooked, add washed rice and fry a little.

Add water in 1:2 ratio. Add chopped coriander leaves and close the cooker.

After the pressure came, put weight on the cooker and low the flame. Wait for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes of cooking, switch off the flame and wait 5 minutes for pressure release. After that,  open the cooker lid mix well and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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Brinjal raitha / Katharikai pachadi / Dhahi bengan

Brinja raitha is prepared with marinated and fried brinjal with curd. My husband doesn't like brinjal. He not at all eat this vegetable. But when i prepared brinjal raitha, he liked very much and he appreciated me. It is good to eat with biriyany and tomato rice. When we having fried brinjal with curd, it gives different taste and our tongue wants more. Come! let's prepare the tasty, yummy Brinjal pachadi.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Brinjal	:	2 Nos
Fresh curd	:	1 Cup
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Chat masala	:	1 Pinch
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	5 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/4 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few

Method :

Wash the brinjal, slice it as round shape.

Marinate the sliced brinjal with 1/2 Tsp of chilly powder and salt and keep it for 5-10 minutes.

Heat oil in frying pan, deep fry the marinated and soaked brinjal and keep it aside.

Take 1 bowl of curd and add chilly powder, salt, chat masala or cumin powder and mix it well.

Heat oil in a pan, Add mustard. After mustard pops, add curry leaves and add this in the curd.

Add the fried brinjal in the curd and serve it.

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Veg Pizza dosa

Pizza is the favorite dish for all kids. My daughter like pizza very much. She likes cheese also. So i tried pizza in dosa. When i tried this dosa, my daughter liked very much and she always ask me to prepare this dosa.  I am using sweet corn and some vegetables in this pizza. We can use any vegetable, paneer or we can use chicken, mutton as well. We can show our talent to decorate the pizza and we can involve our kids also. They will also enjoy to make and eat their pizza. I am very pleasure to share this recipe to all of you.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	1 Kid

Ingredients :

Dosa batter	:	1 Cup
Cheese	:	2 Slices
Chopped Capsicum	:	1 Tsp
Chopped tomato	:	1 Tsp
Sliced Onion	:	1 Tsp
Sliced carrots	:	1 Tsp
Sweet corn	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	1 Tsp

Method :
Heat dosa thava and pour dosa batter and make dosa.

Put sliced or grated cheese over the dosa.

Add all the vegetables and cooked sweet corn over the cheese. Our some oil over it and close the dosa with the lid.

After 1 minute of cooking, transfer the pizza to serving plate and serve with herbal powder and tomato sauce and your favorite juice.

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Shahi paneer

Shahi paneer is made in paneer with thick gravy. Mostly, we are using fresh cream for this dish. But i am adding low fat milk. When we were in North India, we used to taste this dish as a side dish for nan, roti and fulkas in many restaurants. Now only i got an idea to make this shahi paneer at home. It is very tasty and all are in my family liked very much. It is very tasty when we have with chapathy and paratha. Let we see how to prepare the tasty Shahi paneer.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

For saute and grind	:
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	2 Nos
Cardamon	:	2 Nos
Onion	:	1 No
Tomato	:	3 Nos
Grated ginger	:	2 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few

For saute	:
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 1/2 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Paneer	:	100 Gm
Capsicum	:	1/2 No

Fennel seeds                 :  1 Tsp

Milk                              :  1/2 Cup
Method :
Heat oil in a pan and fry the saute and grind ingredients well till the tomato smashed. After got cool, grind the fried masala as a paste.

Cube the paneer. Heat oil in a pan,  add fennel seeds. add ground paste and saute well.

Add all the masala powders ans salt, saute well till the raw smell goes and oil comes out.

After the oil came out, add cubed paneer, capsicum and mix.

Add 1/2 cup of milk and mix it well.

After adding milk, keep the gravy in low flame for 5 minutes and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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Jeera rice / Cumin seeds fried rice

Jeera rice is prepared with cumin seeds in basmathy rice. Cumin seeds is giving rice aroma and it is very tasty. Cumin seeds are having a lot of health benefits. It is rich in lot of minerals like, iron, calcium, potassium, copper, zinc etc.... These minerals helps to increase the red blood cells and helps to control the blood pressure. It regulates the sperm generation. Also it is rich in vitamins like vitamin A, E ,C and lot of B-complex vitamin. So it is a healthy rice recipe for lunch. Let us see how to prepare the healthy and tasty Jeer rice.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	4  persons

Ingredients :

Basmathy rice	:	1 Cup
Cumin seeds	:	1 Tsp
Ghee or oil	:	2 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Bay leaf	:	1 No
Cloves	:	3 Nos
Onion	:	1 No
Grated ginger	:	1 Tsp
Garlic	:	3 Nos
Green chilly	:	3 Nos
Curry leaves	:	Few
Salt	:	To taste

Method :
Wash the basmathy rice and cook. Heat ghee or oil in a pan, add cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves. Add cumin seeds. Add sliced onion, curry leaves, green chilly and saute well. Add ginger, garlic and saute.

Add cooked rice, salt and mix it well.

After mixing well, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot with any side dish like shahi paneer, chicken curry or something.

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