Veg momos with chutney

Momos is a very famous Chines food and we can get mostly in North India. Now a days we can get it all over India. It is steamed food stuffed with veggies. Mostly all the people will use cabbage only for moms. I also take cabbage and also grated carrots. This is very good taste with special momos chutney. It is very tasty and oil free recipe. All the kids will like very much and my daughter liked very much. Let us see, how to prepare the tasty Veg momos.

Basic information :

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

Ingredients :

Maida flour	:	1 Cup
Salt	:	1 Tsp
For filling	:
Cabbage	:	100 Gm
Carrot	:	1 No
Onion	:	1 No
Oil	:	1 Tsp
Pepper powder	:	1/2 Tsp
For chutney	:
Tomato	:	1/4 Kg
Garlic	:	4 Nos
Red chilly	:	5 Nos
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :
Mix maida or all purpose flour, salt, 1 teaspoon oil with water and knead as smooth dough. Keep it for 15 minutes.

Making filling :
Heat oil in pan, add chopped cabbage, grated carrot and saute well. Add salt and pepper powder. Add some water and cook till the veggies cooked well.

Making momos :
Knead the dough and make small size balls. Spread the balls as puri and add the filling over the batter.

Cover the momos with making flits. Make all the balls like that.

Steam the momos well. After 15 minutes, the momos will be cooked well. Transfer to the serving plate and serve with the chutney.

Making Chutney :
Grind tomatoes, garlic, red chilly with adding salt. Grind well as chutney. Heat oil in a pan, add the ground chutney and cook till oil comes out.

After the chutney is ready, transfer to the serving bowl and serve with steamed momos.

Try this yummy recipe and enjoy the good taste.

   

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Corn with peas fry

Corn and peas is a very good combination. Green, yellow and tomato's red.. What a colorful dish. Being colorful, all the kids will like this fry. This goes with chapathy or we can have as a side dish for rice. It is very tasty and healthy recipe and easy to prepare also. I am using pepper powder for spicy and 1/4 teaspoon of chilly powder for extra spicy. If we want as spicy less fry, then we can avoid chilly powder. In this, i am adding 1/2 teaspoon of oregano powder. It is optional. If we add, the taste will be very nice and we gets nice aroma. Let we see, the preparation of Corn and peas fry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Corn	:	1 Cup
Peas	:	1 Cup
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger garlic paste	:	1 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Pepper powder	:	2 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Oregano powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Fennel seeds	:	1/2 Tsp

Method :

Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds. Add nicely chopped onions and saute well. Add ginger garlic paste.

Add chopped tomato and saute well till the tomato gets smashed.

Add corn and fresh peas.

Add pepper powder, oregano powder, chilly powder and salt.

Add little water and cook for 10 minutes. After the corn and peas cooked well, transfer to the serving bowl and serve hot...

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Baby potato fry

Potato is one of the very favorite for mostly all of us, especially for all kids. I will prepare a lot of verity of dishes using potato. Potato finger fry, potato chilly, potato lahori, Dum aloo etc... This time, i prepared with baby potato. I thought to prepare something different fry in baby potato. I used curd and some masala powders in boiled baby potato, soak and fried it. It was very tasty and flavorful. We can have this fry without any main dish. It goes well with all the rice items. We had this fry with sambar rice. Let we see, how to prepare the favorite   baby potato fry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Soaking time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	15 Mins

Ingredients :

Baby potato	:	1/2 Kg
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Fennel powder	:	1 Tsp
Cumin powder	:	1 Tsp
Ginger garlic paste	:	1/2 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	To fry

Method :
Boil the baby potatoes, peel off and mix with all the ingredients.

Soak the marinated potato for minimum 15-20 minutes.

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the soaked potato well.

After fried well, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot..

Try this yummy recipe and enjoy.. Please share your valuable comments...

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Andhra Idly with Tiffin sambhar ( Moong dal sambhar)

Andhra idly means, Preparing idly with using idly rawa. Idly is Andhra style and sambhar is Tamil Nadu style. So, this is a very good South Indian combination. For moong dal sambar, i cook the moon dal in pan itself. If we cook it in pressure cooker, the dal and the sambar will not be in good consistency. If we cook in pan, we can get good consistency for sambar. Idly is preparing with idly rawa and it is very soft and spongy.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

For idly	:
Urad dal	:	1 Cup
Idly rawa	:	2 Cup
Salt	:	To taste
For sambar	:
Moong dal	:	100 Gm
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Small onion	:	1/2 Cup
Curry leaves	:	Few
Tomato	:	1 No
Cumin seeds	:	1 Tsp
Dry methy seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/2 Tsp
Sambar masala	:	1 Tsp
Green chilly	:	1 No
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Asafoetida	:	1/4 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/2 Tsp

Method :
Making idly :

Rinse the urad dal and soak for at least 1 hour. Soak the idly rawa in little water. After soaked well, grind the urad dal nicely as batter. Add soaked idly rawa and grind for another 3 minutes. Add salt and keep the batter for minimum 4-5 hours for foaming. After the batter foamed, using idly pot, bake spongy idlies.

Making sambar :

Heat 4 cups of water in a pot. Rinse the yellow moong dal and cook with adding asafoetida, termeric powder and 1/2 a teaspoon of oil.

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, methy seeds, mustard seeds. Add chopped small onion, green chilly, curry leaves and saute well.

Add chopped tomato and saute.

Add it in the cooked dal. Add sambar masala, salt and add water. mix it and cook till the raw smell goes.

After the sambar cooked well, transfer to the serving bowl and serve with hot idly.

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Bitter gourd curry / Pavarkai puli kuzhambu

Bitter gourd curry is one of the famous south Indian curry. This is filled with tangy gravy. So it is called Pavarkai pulikuzhambu. Pavarkai means, bitter gourd in Tamil. Rich tangy with bitter less bitter gourd. For making bitter less, we have to saute the bitter gourd slices in oil. For this curry, we need some extra oil. No matter.. Bitter gourd is having a good health benefits. We can strongly recommend for diabetic patients. Let we see how to prepare the tasty Bitter gourd tamarind curry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Bitter gourd	:	1 No
Sesame oil	:	3 Tsp
Onion	:	1/2 Cup
Garlic	:	2 Tsp
Tomato	:	3 Nos
Tamarind	:	1/2 Cup
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
For dry powder	:
Methy seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/2 Tsp
Cumin seeds	:	1 Tsp

Method :
Make dry powder after dry fry the given ingredients.
Wash the bitter gourd and slice it nicely. Heat sesame oil in a pan, fry the bitter gourd slices for 3-5 minutes.

Add nicely chopped onions, garlic, curry leaves and saute well. I am taking small onions(Sambhar onion). We can use big onions also.

Grind tomatoes and add the puree with the onion and bitter gourd and keep cook till the raw smell goes.

Add tamarind paste. Add all the masala powders and salt. Allow it to cook till the raw smell goes and oil comes out.

Add the dry powder and keep it for 5 more minutes in medium flame.

After cooked well, transfer to the serving dish and serve with rice..

  

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Chicken recipe - Sauce chicken

When i was in Delhi, we went to one restaurant. There, we had fried rice with chicken curry.  That chicken curry was amazing taste. Then, for long time, i thought to prepare that chicken curry. This weekend i tried with chicken biriyani. This curry is made with boiled chicken with sauce gravy. So, i mentioned the name as Sauce chicken. It is very tasty and it goes very well with biriyani, chicken fried rice and also kuska rice. Very simple curry which everyone can make this. Let us see how to prepare the tasty Sauce chicken.

Basic information :

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

Ingredients :

Chicken	:	1/2 Kg
Ginger garlic paste	:	1 Tsp
Pepper powder	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	2 Tsp
Tomato sauce	:	2 Tsp
Soya sauce	:	1 Tsp
Corn flour	:	1 Tsp
Chilly flacks	:	2 Tsp
Corinader leaves	:	1 Tsp
Sesame seeds	:	To garnish

Method :
Wash the bone less chicken and cook with adding ginger garlic paste, pepper powder and salt.

After the chicken cooked well, keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan, add chopped garlic and fry.

Add cooked chicken with the water. Add the sauces and chilly flacks.

Mix 1 teaspoon of corn flour in 1/2 cup of water and mix it with the chicken. Add chopped coriander leaves.

Keep the gravy in medium flame for 3 more minutes and transfer to the serving dish and garnish with the white sesame seeds. serve hot...

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Ladyfinger crispy fry / Bindi crispy fry

Ladyfinger fry is the best snack item and healthy. This can be have as a side dish for any main dish or we can have as it is. I always used to make normal bindi fry. This time, i tried the crispy version. It came very well. I made it with the inspiration of you guys who have posted the bindi fry. This is crispy and tasty fry which all the kids like very much. My daughter likes very much and she will eat more food with this fry. Hope you all like this...

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Ladyfinger	:	1/4 Kg
Corn flour	:	4 Tsp
Rice flour	:	2 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Cumin powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Curd	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	To fry

Method :
Wash the ladyfinger, make it dry and cut into slices. Mix all the ingredients well as bajji mix batter and mix it with the bindi slices. Keep it for 15-20 minutes.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the batter mixed bindi well in all the sides.

After fried well, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot...

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Sheer fish fry with lemon butter sauce

Sheer fish is also called Vanjram fish, King fish, Neimeen. It is very tasty and healthy fish which can be give for kids. Sheer fish is having only center bone. Already i made normal Sheer fish fry and posted it. This time, i tried different fry which is learnt from my favorite chef. He made this as grilled fish. Being not available of grilling pan, i fried in dosa thava. It came very well and i tried with lemon butter sauce also. With the sauce and medium spicy, this fish fry is very good taste and my daughter like very much. Being less spicy, we can give for all the kids. Let us see, how to prepare the tasty and healthy Sheer fish fry with lemon butter sauce.

Basic information :

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

Ingredients :

For marinate	:
Sheer fish	:	4 Slices
Mustard paste	:	2 Tsp
Lemon juice	:	1 Tsp
pepper powder	:	3 Tsp
Mixed herbs	:	1 Tsp
Maida	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
For sauce	:
Butter	:	3 Tsp
Lemon juice	:	2 Tsp
Parsli	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp

Method :
Wash the fish slices, marinate with the given ingredients except maida and keep it for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, dip the fish in the maida flour and fry it in both the sides well.

Heat butter in a pan. Do not over cook the butter. Add lemon juice, salt, parsli.

Add the lemon butter sauce over the fried fish and serve hot.

Try this yummy fish recipe and enjoy the different taste experience.

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