Masala Tomato Rice

Ingredients :

Basmati Rice/Pulav rice : 1 cup
Tomatoes : 5 to 6
Onion - 1 big ( chopped length wise)
shahi jeera- 1 spn
slitted green chillies: 4
pudina leaves : fist ful
coriander leaves: fistful

My Masala powder

Procedure:

1. soak rice for an hour ( If u have time)
2. Now boil 3 cups of water in a container
3. Once it comes up to a boil,add salt,pudina leaves and jeera
4. Now add rice and cook so that grains are seperate ( cooking in a container ,with stirring in between is preferrable)
5. While the rice is cooking, just switch on another stove
6. place a kadai, add oil- do tadka, then add onion, chopped tomatoes and slitted chilli
7. Let it cook until tomatoes tun smooth adn juicy when pressed with back of a ladle.
8. Now add the Masala powder over here and coriander leaves
9. Add the cooked rice and mix nicely and allow it to get fried properly and evenly

My Masala Powder

After using many masala's - garam masala, goda masala --- that masala and this masala which I bought in big bazaar,
thought of preparing one out of my own thought and keeping it in tact for using when its necessary.
Just see it and use it in case u like. here's the recipie for it.

Ingredients:
cloves  - 1 tspn
pepper  - 3
dalchin - 1/2 inch
elaichi - 4
jeera   - 1 spn

Dry roast all the above ingredients and make fine powder out of it.

This one will be good for masala rice, biryani's ,pulav and fried rice also...try it !!!

Popu/Tadka/Tempering

Tadka/Popu/tempering :

Ingredients:

Oil : 1 tblspn
Chanadal - 1 spoon
urad dal - 1 spoon
mustard seeds - 1 spoon
jeera - 1 spoon
red chilli - 2 to 3 break into slits
kadi pattha/ karivepaaku - fistful
garlic ( crushed ) : 5 /Optional
( Garlic is mandatory for dal, sambar, rasam and any traditional curries)

Heat oil in a small kadai, once its hot enough add all the above ingredients and cook until a nice aroma hits your kitchen, thats it .
Start your recipie  or end end it up by adding tadka !!
anyways it makes a path to heaven :) I promise

Green Chutney

Hi ,
Let me put before you a simple and healthy recipie.
having a spoon of this chutney everyday with breakfast gives you a good start.


Green chutney with plain dosa !!! My healthy breakfast wr is urs ???



Ingredients:


coriander/ kothimeer : fistful
pudina : fistful
kadi pattha/ karivepaku : fistful
green chillies: 2 to 3 ( based on your taste)
Salt : 1 spn



 Just grind all the above ingredients with a pinch of salt according to your taste
and there you are !!!


Serve it with idli or dosa and be healthy and fit !!

Gutthi vankaya/ Bharli Vaangi / stuffed brinjal masala

Gutthi vankaya/ Bharli Vaangi / stuffed brinjal masala :

Ingredients:

•10 small brinjals/eggplants,
•1 cup dry shredded coconut,
•1/2 cup peanut powder or peanuts (roasted),
•1/4 cup sesame seeds,
•1 tbsp each coriander-cumin seeds,
•2 tbsp Maharashtrian goda Masala ,
•1 tsp tamarind pulp,
•1 tbsp jaggery,
•2 tsp chili powder,
•salt to taste,
•1 tsp ginger-garlic paste (optional),
•1 tsp turmeric powder.
•2 tsp oil.

Masala:
cloves : 5-6
black pepper : 6
jeera : 1 tspn
elaichi : 4
dalchin - half inch piece
Roast all the above masala ingredients and grind them together into powder consistency.

Method :

1.Remove stems and give four vertical slits (not fully) to the brinjals from the top. If you want to keep the stems, give the slits from the bottom of the brinajls keeping the stem intact. Keep them in salt water for 10 minutes and rinse. Set aside.

2.Roast coconut, sesame seeds, coriander-cumin seeds together till light brown. Powder this mixture and combine tamarind, jaggery, peanut powder, ginger-garlic paste, salt, chili powder and masala mentioned above

3.Heat oil in a pan. Make standard tempering with mustard and turmeric.

4.Add the eggplants and sauté for half a minute and adda pinch of salt just enough for making the brinjal's soft.

5.Add the masala and mix well. Add 1 cup water. Close the lid and cook until eggplants are soft.

6.Garnish with additional coriander leaves. Serve hot !!!