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Friday, August 31, 2012

Garlic chatni/ Lasun chatni

Preparation time 15 minutes
Quantity:- 4 to 6 tablespoons (Approximately)

Garlic chutney/Lasun Chutney:-

This recipe is very simple,tasty and multipurpose. It contains Garlic cloves and cumin seeds,red chili powder,salt and sugar. This can be served as a side dish,goes well with vada pav (Indian Snack), sandwiches,parathas and Dabeli(when used for dabeli need to dilute to make the paste).Very good to carry in traveling. And can stay for one month in a airtight container. Its another name is Gun powder ,so here is the recipe.

Ingredients:-

1) Garlic cloves big size 6 numbers

2) Cumin seeds 1 tablespoon

3) Red chili powder(hot) 2 and 1/2 tablespoons

( if you want less spicy use kashmiri chili powder)

4) Salt 1 teaspoon
5) sugar 1/4 teaspoon

Method:-

1) Heat pan add cumin seeds and just warm it for 3 seconds do not roast

2) Remove the cumin seeds in a plate and allow it to cool down

3) Cut the garlic cloves in halves to the heated pan and roast till it get roasted spots ( Refer the picture.)

4) When the cumin seeds are cool grind them to a coarse powder,add garlic cloves ,red chili powder,salt and sugar and just turn the grinder knob to first speed level for 1 second and again off ,turn to the first speed level for another 1 second and again off. Do not grind too much other wise it wont have powder texture.

5) Thats all the Garlic chutney is ready.

Ingredients:-

Heat cumin seeds (just make it warm do not roast)

Roast Garlic till it get brown roasted spots

Coarsely grind cumin seeds

Add roasted garlic pieces

Add all other ingredients and

Grind to a powder so that it will get this texture

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Patra/Aloo wadi Curry

Patra/Aloo Wadi Curry:-

This recipe what i made is a very easy curry recipe,Originally its not , Originally in this recipe first u need to make the Aloo wadi/Patra rolls using colocasia leaves (Aloo chi pane in Marathi) which we can get easily in India but as so far, i didn't see them here in Australia.So i have used the frozen Patra for this recipe,which made it easy to prepare this curry. This is a very convenient dish for tifins in the rushy mornings, if u have frozen Patra rolls in your refrigerator. So here is the recipe.

Ingredients:-
1) Medium onion 1 number
( Very finely chopped)
2) Patra roll slices 10 to 12 numbers.
3) Red chili powder 1 tea spoon
4)Turmeric powder 1/4 tea spoon
5) Everest Garam Masala 1 tea spoon
7) Whole garam masala powder 1 tea spoon
( Cloves,cinnamon,green cardamom,black cardamom,Dried lichen(Dagad Phool),Coriander seeds,star anise cumin seeds,red chili, dry roasted and grinded to a fine powder)
6) Cumin seeds 1/2 tea spoon
7) Ginger paste 1/2 tea spoon
8) Garlic paste 1/2 tea spoon
9) Lemon Juice 1/4 tea spoon
10) Sugar 1/2 tea spoon
11) Oil 3 to 4 table spoons
12) Salt to taste ( I needed 1/2 tea spoon)

Method:-
1) Heat oil in a pan/Kadhai
2) Add Cumin seeds,allow them to sizzle.
3) Add chopped onions, fry for 4 minutes add in ginger and garlic paste
4) Fry still it changes to golden brown color
5) Add red chili powder,garam,masala, turmeric powder Stir well
6) Add sugar,mix it .
7) Seperately in a pan heat 1 to 2 table spoon oil and add patra slices and shallow fry till it become golden brown.
8) Add the patra slices in to the onion masala pan/kadhai mix gently,sprinkle the lime juice,mix gently
9) Finally sprinke 1/4 cup water ,cover and cook for 5 minutes
10) Garnish with chopped coriander Leaves. Serve with chapati.Enjoy.