Potato / Aloo tikki stuffed with dry fruits

Potato is one the favorite food item for mostly all of us. Using potato or aloo, we can make many verity of dishes. This time, i made a yummy snack item called Aloo tikki. It is very famous in North India, especially in Delhi. It is prepared with boiled, smashed potato crispy fry. I thought to prepare this snack with something interesting.. So i have added some stuffing in this. In that stuffing, i am adding dry fruits. Stuffing with dry fruits, aloo tikki will be very tasty. Bite the allo tikki, crunchy dry fruits... Wow!... What a wonderful taste. must try..

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Potato	:	1/2 Kg
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Green chilly	:	1 No
Cumin powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1/4 Tsp
Grated ginger	:	1 Tsp
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Oil	:	To fry
Filling	:
Badam	:	Few
Pista	:	Few
Cashew nut	:	Few

Method :
Boil the potato well, drain well. Peel off the boiled potatoes and mix the given ingredients.

Mix all the ingredients along with the potato well without water. The mixing should not be watery.

Cut all the filling ingredients in small pieces.

Make ball in the potato mixing and make dig in the center.

Fill the chopped filling in the dig.

Cover the filling and make it in tikki shape. Make like same in all the balls.

Heat oil in a grilling pan or a normal pan for shallow fry. Roll the tikkies in maida flour and make shallow fry.

After fried in both the sides, transfer to the serving platter and serve with the tomato sauce.

Try this wonderful recipe and enjoy the good taste.

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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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