Ganesh chathurthy special Sundal

For Ganesha chathurthy day, different types of sundals willbe making in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu. My mother used to prepare verity of sundals. This time, i tried to make little different. I am adding sweet corn and pomegranate. Most of us are not add onions, since it is a festival recipe. I am also not added the onions. This is very tasty and healthy sundal. My daughter liked very much. I am vary glad to share with you all this tasty Sundal recipe. Happy Ganesha chathurthy festival for all.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Chickpea	:	1 Cup
Sweet corn	:	2 Tsp
Pomegranate	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	1 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Red chilly	:	2 Nos
Grated coconut	:	3 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Soak the chickpea or white channa (chole) over night or for 7-8 hours. Pressure cook the soaked chickpea with adding salt. Boil the sweet corn and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After mustard pops, add curry leaves, red chilly and cooked chickpea and sweet corn and mix well.

Add grated coconut and mix well.

After mixing well, transfer to the serving plate, garnish with pomegranate seeds.

Try this tasty sundal and enjoy the festival. 

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Chole bhature - Bhature recipe

Chole bhature is a very famous Punjabi dish. I used to have this in many times in restaurants when i was in Delhi. The Bhuture will be very soft and the size also very big in many restaurants. It will be very tasty when we have with chole masala. I already posted the chole masala recipe. Now, i am going to make the bhature for chole recipe. Let us prepare the soft and tasty Bhature.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Quantity	:	10 Nos
Soaking time	:	3 Hrs

Ingredients :

Maida	:	8 Tsp
Milk	:	1/2 Glass
Baking powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Sugar	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
In a bowl, take 8 teaspoon of maida or all purpose flour. In center, add all the ingredients.

Mix well and make a smooth dough. Add some oil and knead the dough well and cover with an wet cloth.

After one and a half an hour, knead the dough well and make 10 equal size balls in the dough.

Again cover the balls with the wet cloth for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, using chapathy roller, sread the dough balls as puri one by one.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the puries well.

After the puri fried well, transfer to the serving plate and serve with chole masala.

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Chole bhature - Chole masala recipe (Chickpea masala)

Chole bhature is one of the favorite dish in Punjab. Making of bhature also different from normal puries. This weekend, i tried chole bhature and my family members liked very much. My daughter liked very much and she ate extra one bhature. This is very tasty, healthy curry and easy to prepare also.

Health benefits :

Chole or chickpea is having a lot of health benefits. It is having Vitamins, minerals, protein, calories, carbohydrates and a lot of omega-3 fatty acids. It is having 365 calories per 100 gm of chickpea. So it is very healthy for growing children.   

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Chickpea	:	100 Gm
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Fennel seeds	:	1 Tsp
Onion	:	2 Nos
Tomato	:	2 Nos
Grated ginger	:	1 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 1/2 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	2 Tsp
Cumin seed powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Soak the chickpea in over night. Morning or after 8 hrs, pressure cook the chole by leaving 5-6 whistles.

Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds. Add nicely chopped onions and saute well till gets golden brown color.

Add ginger, garlic and saute. Add chopped tomato and saute till the tomato smashed. Add all the masala powders and salt.

Add cooked chickpea with the water and cook for 15 minutes.

After 15-20 minutes of cooking, transfer to the serving bowl and serve with bhature or chapathy, naan.

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Chicken biriyani

Chicken biriyani is my husband's very favorite dish. He ask me to prepare very often. I already posted Mutton biriyani and Chicken dhum biriyani. This is i learnt from one of my friend. She prepared very nice when we have gone to my husband's friend house. The taste was very nice. She prepared with basmathy rice. But i am going to prepare with biriyani rice. That is Jeera rice (Jeeraga samba). We can get it from all grocery shops. When we prepare with this rice, we can get great aroma for biriyani and very good taste. Let us prepare the tasty Chicken biriyani.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Jeera rice	:	1 Cup
Chicken	:	250 Gm
Oil+ Ghee	:	4-5 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Bay leaf	:	1 No
Cloves	:	3 Nos
Cardamon	:	1 No
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger garlic paste	:	2 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Chilly Dhaniya powder	:	2 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1 Tsp
Cumin seed powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Mint leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Lime juice	:	2 Tsp

Curd                             :  1 Cup

Method :
Wash the chicken pieces well with adding turmeric powder. Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves and cardamon. Add onion slices, chopped mint and coriander leaves and saute well.

Add Ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell goes. Add tomato, saute well.

Add washed chicken pieces and saute. Add all the masala powders and  sour-less curd.

Add rinsed rice and fry a little. Add lemon juice and water in 1:2 ratio.

Close the pressure cooker with the lid and wait for 20 minutes in low flame or allow 2 whistles to come.
After 20 Minutes, wait for 5 minutes for pressure release. Open the lid, mix slightly and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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Kozhukattai sundal / Spicy kozhukattai

I remember, in my childhood days, my mother used to prepare Paal kozhukattai very often. Along with that, she will prepare kozhukattai sundal or spicy kozhukattai also. It will be very tasty and my sister and myself enjoyed a lot with her sweet and spicy dishes. Now also when i am going to my mother's house or my sister's house, they will prepare these two kozhukattai. Let us see how to prepare the tasty "Kozhukattai sundal" - The Ganesha chathurthy festive recipe.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Rice flour	:	1 Bowl
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Peanut	:	1 Tsp
Sesame seeds(ellu)	:	1 Tsp
Grated coconut	:	4 Tsp

Red chilly             :   3 Nos
Method :
In a bowl, mix rice flour with warm water to make smooth dough.

Make mini balls in the dough.

Boil water in a pan. When the water started rolling to boiling, add mini rice balls and cook.

After the balls cooked well, drain the water well.

Dry fry peanuts and sesame seeds (black ellu) and grind it partially without adding water after getting cool and keep it aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds spluttered, add curry leaves and red chilly.

Add cooked rice balls (kozhukattai) saute.

Add salt, ground powder, grated coconut and saute well.

After mixed well transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

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Paal Kozhukattai - Yummy Sweet recipe

Paal kozhukattai is prepared with rice flour and jaggery milk. It is one of the very popular sweet item in Tamil Nadu. When i prepare this, i remembered my mother. She will prepare very nice and very often especially for Gansha chathurthy. I learnt from her only. It is very simple and yummy dish. We can prepare with soak and grind rice flour. I prepared this with normal rice flour which is bought from grocery shop. Let we see how to prepare the delicious Paal kozhukattai.

basic information :

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

Ingredients :

Raw rice flour	:	1 Bowl
Jaggery	:	1/4 Kg
Cardamon powder	:	1 Tsp
Grated coconut	:	3 Tsp

Milk            
Method :
In bowl, take the rice flour, mix with water to make smooth dough.

Make small balls in the dough. Make it sure, the balls should be small in size. We can make other shapes also but small. Otherwise, it will take more time to cook.

Mix jaggery in water and make it mixed. After mixed well, drain the jaggery water to remove the dust.

Add 1/2 cup of milk in the jaggery water and allow it to boil. When the milk+water started rolling to boil, add flour balls slowly to the milk.

Cook well the balls (kozhukattai). After cooked well, add grated coconut, cardamon powder and keep it for thickening. If you want watery, you can switch off the flame.

Transfer to the serving bowl, the koukattai along with the jaggery milk and serve hot.

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mixed vegetable lababdar

Mixed veg lababdar is one of the famous recipe in the state Punjab. I tasted this in one Punjabi restaurant. It was very nice and i tried at home in my way. It came very well with same taste. I am adding three vegetables which is tricolor - carrots, beans, potato. We can add other veggies also. Being added all the veggies, it is a healthy curry. This curry goes with chapathy, poori and with rice or all vegetarian variety rices like, Tomato rice, lemon rice, coconut rice, Kuska rice etc.

Basic information :

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

Ingredients :

For grind	:
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Cardamon	:	2 Nos
Fennel seeds	:	1 Tsp
Pepper	:	1 Tsp
Onion	:	1 No
Grated ginger	:	1 Tsp
Garlic	:	5 Cloves
Green chilly	:	4 Nos
For saute	:
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Carrot	:	1 No
Potato	:	1 No
French beans	:	5 Nos
Capsicum	:	1/2 No

Method : 
Chop the vegetables and cook it with adding turmeric powder and salt.

Heat oil in a pan, saute all the grind ingredients well and grind it nicely after getting cool.

Heat oil in a pan, add curry leaves, chopped capsicum, ground masala and saute well. Add turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt. Saute well and add water.

After 3-5 minutes of cooking, add cooked veggies and cook for 5 minutes.

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

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