Aloo Kurma

It's a wonderful gravy item, which goes fantastic in parties.Served with Roti, Kulcha and Rice.

Ingredients:

Potato- 500 gm
Tomatoes- 250 gm(ripen)
Onion- 3-4 medium size
Green chilles - 4(cut into pieces)
Oil- 100 ml
Curry leaves- 5-6
Mustard seeds- 1/ tea spoon
Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon
Ginger garlic paste- 1 tb spoon
Red chilli powder- 1 tea spoon
Turmeric- 1/ tea spoon
Coriander powder- 1 tb spoon
Coriander leaves- 1 bunch (chopped)
Salt- to taste
Water- 1 glass

Pre-cooking:

1) Boil potato till they become soft ( generally it takes 15 mins) and peel out the skin.
2) Chop onion, green chillies and keep ready. Make tomatoes paste in grinder.

Preparation:

1) Heat oil in a pan,  add mustard seeds, cumin seeds to hot oil after add onion, green chillies, pinch of salt, and curry leaves to it and stir onions turns brown.
2) Ginger garlic paste to it and stir till the raw flavor goes away, then add turmeric and mix it once.
3) Add tomato, red chilli powder, coriander powder, salt and cook it for 5 mins, till  oil oozes out.
4) Add potato (1/2 smashed and 1/2 cut into pieces) and a glass of water then mix it. cook it slowly till it becomes thick gravy.(say 5 min on medium flame)
5) Finally add coriander leaves and switch off stove.


Enjoy your meal..:)

PC: Chef Raghavendra

Fish Flame Fry

flame fried fish

Ingredients :

Fish - 9 Pcs
Salt- to taste
Red chiili powder- 1 tea spoon
Salt- 4 tb spoon (cleaning)

Servings-3

Preparation:

1) Clean fish pieces 2 times by adding 2 tb spoon of salt and enough water each time.
2) Lit the stove and Cook each piece of fish directly on flame with the help of spoon or barbecue sticks all the sides slowly, it may take 3-5 mins.
3) Remove from stick and sprinkle right amount of salt & chilli powder.

Serve it hot.

Italian Mixed Fruit Salad

Italian Mixed Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

Dates- 50gm
Blue grapes- 50 gm
Green grapes- 50 gm
Sweet curd-  4 tb spoon
Rose petals- 8 (fresh)
Saffron strands- 8
Apple- 1no
Green Apple- 1 no (Optional)
Honey- 4 tea spoon

Servings- 4

Preparation: 

1) Clean all the fruits in salt water, then chop Grapes, Dates into quarters.
2) Apple into small cubes.
3) Now add 1/4th of each into a bowl and mix rapidly by adding 1tb spoon Sweet Curd.
4) Transfer into 4 bowls and top up with 1 tea spoon honey on every bowl
5) Serve after garnishing with Rose petals, Saffron strands.

Enjoy delicious Dessert.

Sabudana Vada (Sago rice Vada)

Ingredients:

sago rice-  1 cup
onion- 1 big finely chopped
green chillies- 3 finely chopped
curry leaves- 4 finely chooped
corainder leaves 1 small bunch
salt- to taste
red chilli powder- 1 spoon
ginger garlic paste- 1 tea spoon
rice flour- as required.
coriander powder- 1 tea spoon
and
oil- for deep fry.

Preparation:

1) Soak sago rice in water for 20- 30 minutes and remove water.
2) to this  add chopped ingredients, red chilli powder, turmeric, curry leaves, coriander leaves, ginger garlic and coriander powder, mix well.
3) Now add some rice flour and mix so that you can prepare dumplings out of it. and press them gently in any shape.
4) heat oil in a wok and deep fry prepared dumplings.

Serve hot with tomato chutney or tomato sauce or szechuan chilli sauce.