Monday, May 25, 2009

Bharva(Stuffed) Tinda

Bharva Tinde : A delicious recipe from tender small tinde.
Ingredient:
Small Tinda : 250 gm
Roasted gram flour : 1 cup
Onion : 1 finely chopped
Green chilly : 1 finely chopped
Ginger : 1/2 inch crushed
Garlic : 3-4 slice crushed.
Red chilly , dhaniya pwr, : 1 tea spoon
hing : 1 pinch
Salt : according to test
Oil : 2-3 spoon
Coriender leaves - for garnishing
Method :
1 ) Wash and peel the all the tindas.
2) Make Cut on the tindas from center horizontally and vertically without letting the knife reach the end. Donot cut in pieces. 3) Mix all other ingredient except oil to make stuffing masala. Now add 1 spoon of oil and mix it. Mix 2-3 spoon of water and mix it. 4) Fill the masala in the tindas the way it is shown in picture
5) Add the oil to a pan and Cook the tindas on low flame until soft.
6) stir it slowly in between . It will take 15-20 min time to cook. You can use microwave also for cooking.
7) Serve with Roti\paratha.

Ajwain (Carom seed) paratha

Ajwain Paratha : A popular Punjabi bread. It is almost eaten in most of the punjabi houses. I had it for the first time at my PG in delhi. After that I my self started preparing it and everyone just love it. I like strong smell of ajwain in it .

Serve : 4-5 paratha

Ingredient:

Ajwain : 2-3 teaspoon.

Salt : accrording to test.

Wheat flour : 1 cup

Ghee\oil : 2-3 tablespoon


Method:

1) While mixing water make dough out of wheat flour. dough should be the same as we prepare for chapati.

2) Devide this dough in 4-5 equal parts.

3) Make a ball from each part and dust dry flour on them

4) Roll ball into puri size. Now spread ghee on it as we do for paratha.

5) now take a pinch of ajwain and evenly spread on ghee.

6) Take a pinch of salt and evenly spread it.

7) Fold the sides of chapati like we do for plain paratha.

8) Dust little dry flour and roll it.

9) Roast it on hot tawa with ghee and server hot with anykind of chutny\sabji.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Wheat Idli

My Experiement - Wheat idli. Once I had lot of spare broken wheat in my shelf and I was getting worred that it might get spoiled because rainy season was about to start. Then this recipe comes in my mind. I thought lets do experiement today and luckily it comes out very good and eveyone appritiated it. Believe me it is very quick.


Serve - 2 person

Preparation time - 5-7 min

Cooking time - 10 min.

Ingredients:

Broken wheat (dalia) - 2 cup

Fruit salt (eno)- 1 spoon

Salt - according to test.


Method:

1) Roughly griend wheat in mixer. It should not be fine powder.

2) Mix with water and sock it for 15 min.

3) Now keep idli steamer ready and mix salt, fruit salt in wheat batter.

4) Batter will start fermenting. Immediately put this batter in steamer.

5) Let it steam for around 10 min or till idli is ready.

6) you can decorate idly with dry fruits while steaming (optional)

7) Serve hot idli with coconut chutly / green chutny.