Sunday, 16 November 2008

Sabudana Vada


Ingredients:
1 cup Sabudana
1 cup coarsely ground roasted penuts
1/2 cup Rajgeera Flour
1/2 cup boiled and mashed potato
1/2 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
2 green chillies (finely chopped)
salt to taste

Procedure To Make Sabudana Vada:
1.Take the sabudana in a container, and add enough water that it barely comes above the surface of the sabudana.
2. Leave it like this for at least 4-5 hours.(The sago will soak up all the water, fluff up to become soft and spongy, so it can be squeezed between your fingers, without feeling sticky or mushy.)
3. Drain out any excess water, if remaining.
4. Add boiled mashed potatoes,green chillies,red chilly,cumin powder,Rajgeera flour and penut powder.Mix well.
5. Make the paste into equal-sized balls and flatten slightly to form patties.
6. Heat oil in a wide, flat pan and shallow fry the patties till golden.
7. Drain on paper towels and serve with seasoned curd.

Sabudana Khichdi


Ingredients:
2 cups sabudana/sago
2-2 1/2 cups water - for soaking the sabudana
1 cup roasted peanut(coarsely ground into fine powder)
1 medium potato - boiled and chopped
10-12 roasted peanuts
3 tbsp ghee or cooking oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 green chillies - finely chopped
6-7 curry leaves - whole
1 tsp sugar (adjust per taste)
salt and lemon juice - to taste
chopped coriander leaves to garnish

Procedure To Make Sabudana Khichdi
1. Take the sabudana in a container, and add enough water that it barely comes above the surface of the sabudana.
2. Leave it like this for at least 4-5 hours.(The sago will soak up all the water, fluff up to become soft and spongy, so it can be squeezed between your fingers, without feeling sticky or mushy.)
3. Drain out any excess water, if remaining.
4. Chop your boiled potatoes into small cubes.
5. Take a non-stick pan and add the ghee to it. When it's a bit hot, add the cumin seeds, chopped green chillies and curry leaves and roasted peanuts.
6. Cook the potatoes for about 2 mins, then add the soaked sabudana to the pan. Add the coarsely ground peanut powder, salt, sugar and lemon juice and mix well, but gently. Cook the sabudana on medium-flame and stir gently to prevent clumping together. Once everything is mixed, and the sabudana khichdi gets a light-brown color, adjust for seasoning to your taste. Then remove from flame and set aside.
7.Garnish with the coriander leaves and serve the hot Sabudana(Sago) Khichdi with curd or lemon.

Friday, 14 November 2008

Daal Baati


Ingredients For Bati:
Wheat Flour 3 Cups
Baking soda 1/4 tsp
Vanaspati Ghee 3 tbsp
Sault to taste
Ajwain 1 tsp
Water to kneed

Procedure For Baati:
1. Take the flour add all the ingredients and make dough.Keep aside for 15 mins.
2. Prepare small balls out of this dough.
3. Roast these batis in Gas Tandoor.Turn occasionally.Cook till Baaties become golden in colour.
4. Pour Ghee on Baati.
5. Baati is ready.

Ingredients for daal:
1 cup Tooar daal
1 tbsp Chana daal
8 Garlic flakes
8 Curry leaves
2 Green Chillies
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Red Chilly powder
1 pinch of Cumin seeds
1 pinch of Mustard seeds
1 Toamto chopped
2 tsp Turmerind paste diluted in water
Jaggery or Sugar to sweeten the taste
Salt to taste.

Procedure for Daal:-
1. Cook Toor dal.
2. Take some oil in a pan.Heat it and add cumin seeds and mustered seeds.
3. Add green chillies, curry leaves,garlic, red chilli powder,turmeric powder, garam masala and tomatoes.
4. Stir it well.
5. Add boiled toor dal and pour 4 cups of water.
6. Allow it to boil for 10 minutes.
7. Dal is ready.
8. Serve Daal bati with ghee.

Sunday, 5 October 2008

Kaafe



Ingredients:-
1 Big Eggplant (aubergine) cut into thin slices
1 Cup rice flour
1/2 tsp jeera/Cumin powder
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/2 tsp Salt

Procedure:-

1. Rub salt on the eggplant slices at both sides and keep aside for 10 mins.(Eggplant slices will become watery).
2. Mix rice powder,jeera powder,chilly powder and salt.
3. Heat a pan and grease it with veg oil.
4. Take the Eggplant slices and dip in Rice flour, so that the four sticks to the slices.
5. Put 4-5 dipped slices on the frying pan and cover it.Turn the slices after 5 mins and cover with lid and keep it for 5 mins.
6. Hot kaafes are ready.Serve hot with ketchup.

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Vada Paav


Ingredients
8-10 potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed
2 tsps garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
3 green chillies
1/2 tsp tumeric powder
1/2 tsp black mustard seeds
6-7 curry leaves
Salt to taste
2 cups bengal gram flour
Vegetable/ canola/ sunflower cooking oil for deep frying
6 Pav buns (square buns that look like burger buns but are smaller, so you can substitute)
1/2 cup Shengdaana Lehsun Chutney (peanut garlic chutney)

Procedure:

1.Mix the gram flour with enough water and salt to taste, to make a thick, smooth paste. Keep aside.

2.Mix the ginger and garlic pastes and add the green chillies to them. Grind into a smooth paste in the food processor.

3.Mix this paste with the mashed potatoes. Season with salt.

4.Heat 2 tbsps of oil in a pan on a medium flame and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and tumeric powder. Fry till the seeds stop spluttering.

5.Add this to the potato and mix well.

6.Divide the potato mix into portions slighter smaller than a tennis ball. Smoothen by rolling between slightly greased palms.

7.Heat the oil for deep frying on a medium flame.
When the oil is hot, dip one potato ball at a time into the gram flour batter to coat well and then deep fry till golden. Drain on paper towels.

8.Take one Pav bun, slit in half (not completely - leave one edge joined) and put a spoonful each of Tamarind Chutney, Mint-Coriander Chutney and Shengdaana Lehsun Chutney (peanut garlic chutney) each on it. Place a potato ball on the bun and fold over, pressing down gently. Serve while the potato ball is still hot.

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First of all thanks for visiting my blog.Spiceland means the land of spices that is India.Even after travelling across various places in the world I find Indian Food the most delicious among all.The reason behind writing this blog is not only to share my favourite recipes with other foodies like me but also I see it as my personal CookeryBook in which I have stored the recipes with the perfect procedures with the images.I own a recipeblog doent mean that I am a chef or expert in cooking,I still assume myself a beginner cook.The recipes mentioned in the blog are inspired by my loving mom who is the Greatest cook in the world and are blend of North Indian,Maharashtrian,South Indian since I belong to these various places in India.Hope you are enjoying your tour to Spiceland.Feel free to comment any suggestions on Spiceland Recipes.

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