Vegetable Pakoda

Ingredients

1/2 cup whole Baby corn (cut into long thin slices)
1/2 cup Carrots (long thin slices)
1/2 cup Potato (long thin slices)
1/2 Cup Red onion (long thin slices)
1/2 cup gram flour
1/4 cup rice flour
salt
Green chillies
Ajwain seeds

Preparation:
1. Mix all the vegetables well.
2. Mix with the gram flour without adding water.
3. Add salt and rice flour, Ajwain seeds, green chillies and mix well with little bit water.
4. Fry in the oil.

Serve hot..........

Grilled Tofu with vegetables

Ingredients
1 pack of tofu cut into cubes
color bell peppers
red onion
ginger garlic paste
curd
salt
Pepper
Italian Seasoning
olive oil
Bamboo sticks

Preparation:
1. Take the all the ingredients marinate with all together in the fridge for 3 hours.
2. Soak the bamboo sticks for 15 minutes and thread all the tofu and veggies on skewers.
3. Grill it on the medium flame.

Serve hot healthy and tasty

Vegtable pizza Sandwich

Quick , easy, Tasty recipe.

Ingredients
sandwich slices 2
paste sauce 1 table spoons
onions
chedder cheese
tomatoes
bell peppers
salt pepper

Method:
1. Take bread slice spead with pasta sauce, next layer onions, other vegetables, topped with cheddar chese close with the other bread slice.
2. Toast on the Sandwich maker,.

Easy and yummy

Vada Curry

Famous South Indian dish vada curry , very famous in tamilnadu side people love it.

Ingredients for making masala vada please visit the below link

http://mallikasureshkitchen.blogspot.com/2009/02/vada.html

Ingredients for making gravy 
Onion 2 
Tomatoes  2 

Ginger  1.2 tsp
Garlic paste  1/2 tsp 
Turmeric Powder  1 tsp 
Coriander powder  1/2 tbsp 
Red chili powder  2 tbsp 
Curry Leaves 4 springs 
Bay leaves: 2 
Cloves  3 
Cinnamon sticks  1 small
Mint leaves  1 tsp chopped
Coriander leaves few chopped
Fennel seeds : 1tsp 
Salt required to taste

For seasonings: 

Oil 

Mustard seeds few 
Fennel seeds  1 tsp 
Cinnamon stick  1/4 inch 
Curry leaves  few ( nos mentioned above)

Preparation : 

1. Once vada is ready keep side.

2. Now cut the onion and tomato keep aside.

3.Heat oil in a pan, add cloves, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves fry ti bit.

4. Add onions fry it for few minutes till the onions turns brown.

5.Add ginger & garlic paste and fry them until the raw smell goes off.

6.Add the tomatoes with coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chili powder, a glass of water and little salt. Then mix it all together and let it cook for 5 to 10 minutes under closed lid.

7. Turn off the flame and once the ingredients come to room temperature make a nice paste.

8. Take a pan add oil once it get heat add all the seasoning ingredients and later add the masala paste to it with required water.

9.Add mint leaves and a tsp of coriander leaves, close the lid and let it cook for another 5 minutes in medium heat.

10. Once the gravy become nice add the vadas to it and reduce the flame for 5 minutes and turn off the flame.

11. Serve hot with idleis, dosa, rice

Dhal Makhani

One more famous dish from the Northern part of India "Dhal Makhani"

Ingredients
Whole Black Gram 1/2 cup soaked and cleaned
While Green Gram 1/4 cup soaked and cleaned
few Red kidney beans soaked and cleaned
Onion -1  big size
Tomato - 1 medium size
2 garlic cloves
pinch of ginger
Dhal makhani masala - 1 tea spoon
Green chillies
Cumin seeds
Cream cheese
Water
Salt
Turmeric
oil
Cumin seeds

Preparation:
1. First take all three dals pressure cook for one whistle on low medium flame.
2. Take a kadai pour butter or oil add cumin seeds, garlic and curry leaves.
3. Now add onion slices and Chilli to it fry it well.
4.Add tomato and pinch of gingerfry it well.
5.Switch off the flame and mash the ingrdients.
6. Take the same kadai pour the mashed masala and fry it again.
7. Add Pressure cooked dhals to it add Dhal makhani masala to it.
8. Chilli powder, turmeric, salt, coriander powder mix it well and if required add the water.
9. Let cook it under low flame for few minutes and at last garnish with coriander leaves..

Serve hot with Roti or Parota

Indian style Veg Sandwiches with Western style Chicken Sausages

Serving Size 3 people

Ingredients
6 Whole Grain Sandwich Bread slices
2 potatoes
1 Small red onion cut into long thin slcies
pinch ginger
cumin seeds
curry leaves few
mustard seeds few
green chilli -1 cut into thin circles
1 small toamto (optional)
Coriander leaves  few
oil - 1/4 tea spoon
salt
Turmeric
pinch of Garam Masala (for flavour)
pepper powder (According to their spice level)
Sandwich Press for making the Sandwiches
3 Chicken Sausages
Ketchup for dipping

Preparation:
1. Make a veg Curry for stuffing the sandwiches
a. Boil the potatoes and mash it well.
b. Take a vessel pour oil once oil getting hot add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, ginger, onion slices, chilli slices fry it well.
c. Once onion get fried add mashed potato and tomato salt, turmeric, pepper mix well and at last garnish with coriander leaves .
2.Take a Sandwich presser keep the one slice of bread and spread the potato stuff and cover with the other bread slice and close the sandwich presser and once it get ready take it out from the press.
3. Coming to Chicken Sausages u will get these sausages in the super markets once it come to room temperature either grill on the Grilling or else take a tawa keep the flame on lower medium and once it get heat tawa the sausages and serve hot with the sandwich and sausages with ketchup or Ranch..

Healthy and Tasty food to small kids... and very Quick dinner to Adults..

Paneer Satays

These kebabs came very yummy..
Ingredients
1 whole paneer cut into big square size cubes
lime leaves
Crushed Garlic
white pepper
salt
lime juice
Oregano herbs
Kasoori methi
1 red onion
bell peppers
olive oil
Barbecue Satay Sauce - 1 1/2 Tea spoon
Bamboo Sticks

Prepartion:
1. Take a bowl 1 tea spoon olive oil, add garlic, lall ingredients except onion and bell peppers marinate the Paneer for 20 minutes inside the fridge with closed lid.
2. Soak the Bamboo Sticks in warm water for 20 minutes.
3. Take onion and bell peppers nice cut into long big slices to arrange on Bamboo Sticks.
4. Now Arrange the Satay like this...(See below picture)

5. If u don't have these herbs add other combination like Lemon grass, mint flakes..
6. Pre heat the Grill now and arrange the stays for 10 min each side.
Serve with BBQ sauce... or Ranch

Baby Corn Soup

Ingredients
1 small pack of Baby Corn
1 inch of Ginger grated
1/2 liter Vegetable stock
Chives few
pepper
salt
1 cup of Coconut Cream
1 table spoon oil
2 -3 Spring onions
1 red chilli
1/2 cup canned Corn
Lemon Grass (if available i didn't added )
1 table spoon soy sauce

Preparation:
1. Cut the baby corn into long slices like each 2 slices
2. Heat the oil add lemon grass, ginger once it get fry add vegetable stock with spring onion slices and coconut cream bring to boil on a open lid.
3. Add canned corn soya sauce, salt pepper and boil under low flame.
4. Atlast add chives and red chilli as topping..

 Healthy and tasty Soup ready...

Easy Indian Veg stir fry

I tried this one came well very good and right combination with rotis. Whenever we feel very lazy to make some curry with the frozen rotis or parots this will be the best recipe.

Ingredients
3-4 small size boiled poatoes
1 medium size capsicum
1 large carrot
1/2 piece of onion
oil
salt
pepper
soya sauce
Chilli Sauce

Preparation:
1. Take a kadai pour oil add onions and mashed potatoes to the heated kadai and fry it.
2.Add capsicum slcies and carrot slices to it fry it.
3.Now add soya sauce, chilli sauce, salt pepper.

Serve hot with rotis

Easy Cabbage fry

This is also same cabbage recipe like others but bit difference but really gives nice taste with combination of Rotis.

Ingredients
cumin seeds
green chillies slices - 2-3
curry leaves
2 red chillies
garlic crushed -2
1 medium size onion
turmeric
salt
1/2 big cabbage

Preparation:

1.Take cabbage shred it nicely with the vegetable shredder and keep aside.
2.Take a plat wide kadai pour oil add cumin seeds, curry leaves, red chilli and green chilli, onion slices fry it well.
3. Now add shredded cabbage to it with turmeric and salt fry it well.

Note: Don't close the lid

Cauliflower Potato Kurma

Finally i tried one more good recipe with the cauliflower and potato.

Ingredients

1 bay leaf
2 cloves
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
4 big potatoes
1/2 big Cauliflower
fresh coconut paste 1/2 bowl
chilli powder
coriander powder
turmeric
salt
jeera seeds
 1 big onion
1 tomato

Preparation:

1. Take a kadai pour oil add cumin seeds, bayleaf, cloves, curry leaves(optional), add the sliced onions and fry it well.
2. Mean while take the cauliflower clean it and keep aside.
3.Peel the potato skin and cut into cubes and keep aside.
4. Make a nice paste of fried masala in kadai and again fry it with tomato paste.
5.Now add all the ingredients like coconut paste, chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, e.t.c and finally add potato cubes with cauliflower and pressure cook under low flame for 1 whistle with sufficient water.
Garnish with coriander leaves.

UTTAPAM

My husband favorite thing is "UTTAPAM" . Very easy we can make with regular idly or dosa batter with veggies.

Ingredients
1 bowl Dosa Batter
1 onion thin and small slices
coriander thin slices
carrots again thin slices
Tomato (I didn't put)
green chillies thin and circle slices.

Preparation:
1.Heat the Dosa tawa and pour the dosa batter thickly and spread all the veggies on top of it.
2. Add light oil to it.
3. Turn other side and cook well.

I served this dish with coconut chutney..

Note: If Batter looks veyr thick add bit of water.

Mushroom Lasagna

This is my own idea and recipe last i make meat lasagna this time i tried with mushroom bit simple recipe very yummy. In my house all members don't like mushroom but it's really good for health so i tried this recipe came well.

Ingredients
1 cup of mushrooms
1 white onion
1 garlic clove
Italian herbs
salt
Pepper
bell peppers
pasta sauce
cheese
olive oil
tomato

Preparation:
1. Take a pan pour olive oil add onion slices garlic, tomato slices and bell pepper slices one by one fry it and once it get fried shift into aluminum covered tray and keep aside.
2. Now take another kadai don't pour anything on it just add cleaned sliced mushroom slices and fry it.
3.Shift those to the tray on top of the onions and other veggies.
4. Add pepper and salt with herbs (please consider pasta sauce , and cheese having salt) try to reduce the salt content.
5.Now cover everything with pasta sauce mostly it will take half bottle sauce and garnish with herbs again and final touch with cheese and again herbs.
6. Pre heat the oven180under fan froced heat and bake it for 15 minutes  (it may vary oven types)
7. You can also add lasagna sheets if u want i just avoided it in this recipe.

Serve hot my husband and kids loved it and we all finished it

Eggplant Parmigiana with Baked Potato and Carrot orange Soup

I tried different combination with Italian style.


1. Carrot  Orange Soup
2. Baked Potato
3. Eggplant Parmigiana

Carrot Orange Soup Recipe:
Ingredients
1/2 kg carrots
1 fresh orange
1 liter Veg stock or Chicken Stock
Italian Spices
pepper
salt
onions
olive oil

Preparation:
1. Take a sauce pan add olive oil 2 teaspoons, add onion slices, carrot slices to it and cook it with closed lid.
2. Now remove it from the flame let it cool down.
3. Mash cooked onion and carrots with nice blender.
4.Take same sauce pan pour the vegetable stock cook on low flame add salt, pepper, Italian herbs and add all the mashed content to it cook on low flame.
5.At last squeeze the orange juice to it and mix it well.
6.Turn off the flame.




Baked Potato

Peel the Potatoes cut into 2 slices each potato and place on the aluminum sheet in a oven tray apply olive oil or butter with brush and bake it until it cook.

Eggplant

Ingredients
1 big eggplant cut into thin circular slices
Beaten egg
Bread Crumbs
Salt
Pepper
Parmesan cheese
Pasta Sauce
oil
Italian Herbs

Preparation:

1. Take the each eggplant slice and dip into beaten egg and coat with bread crumbs and fry it in oil keep aside. (for pure vegeterians can use only bread crumbs with eggplant or plain egg plant will be placed instead of that)
2. Take the Aluminum sheet tray place all the fried slices and bake it under 180 under fanforced heat for 4 to 5 minutes
3. Now add the pasta sauce to cover all the slices add layer wise and salt, pepper, herbs.
4. Now add Cheese as toppings and cook it for 15 minutes or until it get ready.

These dishes always tasty whenever it is fresh and hot.

Veg Manchurian

When i went to one frends get together one of the couple bought this dish (My thanks to those Couple Deepa and Mathavan) it was yummy so i asked the recipe that they got from the vahrehvah website so finally i given a try. It really came good.



Vegetables

Chop the thin slices of all veggies

Cabbage

Carrot

Cauliflower

Celery

Bell pepper

Beans and peas

Ingredients

Pepper Powder

Corn flour

Chopped chilli

Spring onion

Chopped ginger

Soya sauce

Chilli paste

Ajanamoto

Salt

Cooked rice

Preparation

1.Take 2 cups of water boil the water and pour all the veggies to it and close the lid cook on low flame util veggies get cooked.

2. Squeeze the water from the veggies using some cloth or filter and keep the water aside.

3.Now add salt, ajanamoto, chopped chillies, pepper powder, chopped ginger, soya sauce,chilli sauce or paste, spring onions, add cooked rice ,  corn flour and mix well and make a nice dumplings keep aside.

4. fry all dumplings and keep aside.

5.If u found that dumpling is breaking while frying then it needs more rice . Add more cooked rice mix well and try it again

Making Manchurian Sauce

Soya sauce

Chilli paste

Chopped garlic

Chopped ginger

Pepper powder

Green chillies slices

Onions

Spring onions

Salt

Ajanamoto

Sugar

Sesame oil

Sweet and sour sauce

Veg stock or water

Corn flour

Cumin seeds

Making Manchurian sauce:

1.Add corn flour to the veg water and take a kadai pour sesame oil to it.

2. add some cumin seeds to it

3. add chopped garlic, chopped ginger, chopped onions to it and fry it well.

4. Add green chilli , pepper powder, soya sauce, sweet and sour sauce to it.

5. Add chilli paste, little ajanamoto, very little salt at last add spring onions

6.Add veg water to it make a nice sauce.

Note: if u have sweet and sour sauce then no need to add sugar otherwise add sugar.

Making Dry Manchurian:

1.Heat the half sauce and add dumpling s

Making Manchurian Curry:

Add the heavy sauce and Dumplings add vegetable stock (left over ) to the sauce and boil on low flame and add some corn flour for thick and now add dumplings.

Just Typed when the Video is running so sometimes i typed exact words when he is talking in the video..
Thanks to Vah reh vah website too.

Note: Only thing is we have to add dumplings before eating the food otherwise it will be saagi and this dish will be good immediate serving than long time..

Vegetable Soup with Baked Salmon Fish

Finally i want to give bit healthy dinner to family so i tried this.

Vegetable Soup

Ingredients
1 bowl of mixed veggies
Cooked 1 cup of barley
Garlic 2 cloves
Spring onions
salt
pepper
few macaroni for taste
Olive oil

Preparation:
1. Soak the barley and pressure cook it.
2. Take a kadai pour olive oil add crushed garlic n bowl veggies and cook it well.
3. Add cooked barley with whole water.
4.Add salt and pepper with macaroni boil on low flame for 20 minutes.
5.Garnish with spring onion slices.


Baked Salmon

Marination:
Take a salmon pieces clean with pinch of turmeric and keep aside.
Make a nice masala with 2 teaspoons of chilli powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, salt,.1/2 teaspoon oil mix the masala and coat with salmon and marinate for 10 minutes

Baking:
Place a aluminium foil in the oven tray and place the salmon slices on top of it.
Preheat the oven 220 and keep the tray inside the oven for 20 minutes and turn the slices and bake agian for 10 minutes at 180 heat.

Note: Remove the skin of salmon garnish lemon juice when u r eating

chow chow sambar

Finally even i tried show chow sambar it's tasty. I got fresh chow chow from the plant i cooked with dal.

Ingredients
2 chow chow cut into equal sizes
garlic
1 cup dal soaked cooked with pinch turmeric
2 red chillies
1 medium onion slices
1 tomato
1 bowl tamarind juice
salt
chilli powder
coriander powder
salt
mustard seeds,
few chenna dal
few uradh dal
curry leaves
oil


Preparation:
1.Take a kadai pour oil add mustard seeds, chenna dal , uradh dal, red chillies, curry leaves, crushed garlic.
2. Fry all the seasoning ingredients add sliced onions and fry it well.
3. Now add chow chow slices with tomatoes and cook with tamriind juice for 15 minutes on low flame
4. Now add cooked dal chilli powder, coriander powder, salt.
5. Boil until u get nice sambar smell.
6.Serve with hot rice and nice rice dish.

Gobi Alu with green Peas (Andhra Style)

I love North India dishes but i hate cauliflower . In my fridge i have big cauliflower and lot of potatoes. So i have no choice so i tried this dish came very well.. I love it delicious it goes well with jeera rice , parotha , any bread.

Ingredients

1 bay leaves
few cumin seeds
onion- 1 medium size
one tomato - medium size
cauliflower flakes
potato -2 or 3
small cup of peas
salt
chilli powder
curd
lemon juice bit.
oil

Marination:
Before 2 hours of making the curry just cut the potatoes in long thin slices and seperate the cauliflower flakes and mix both with curd and lemon juice keep a side.
Preparation:
1.Take a kadai pour oil once it get heat add bay leaves and cumin seeds.
2.Add onion slices fry it well.
3.Make nice paste of onion and masala.
4.Now add tomato mashed.
5.let it cook some time then add cauliflower and potato close the lid of low flame and stir occassionally.
6. Once the veggies become tender and soft add peas and bit water for nice gravy.
7.Add salt, chilli powder, coriander powder.
8.Serve with rice or bread.

Pav Bhaji

Finally i got the nice recipe thanks to my facebook frends and youtube.

Serving Size 

4 members

Time : 20 min

 Ingredients

Capsicum slices few

Onion slices - 1

Tomato slices- 1

Boiled potatoes boiled and mashed -2  medium size

Peas- ½ cup

Red chilli powder -1/2 table spoon

Turmeric – ½ tea spoon

Ginger garlic paste- ½ tabl;e spoon

Water - few

Salt

Pav bhaj  masala

Butter

Lemon juice

Food color pinch

Bread rolls

Preparation:

1.Place capsicum slices on heated tawa and allow some water to cook it well.

2.  one medium size tomato slices add to it cook well.

3. Boiled potatoes 2 mash it and mix to the existing cooking veggies.

4. Add water to the veggies and mash it well. With masher on tawa itself.

5. Add Green Peas and Sprinkle some Red Chilli powder on top of it.

6. 1 spoon full of ginger garlic paste to the existing gravy, turmeric powder, and water again .

7.Allow veggies to become tender and add butter to mix well all veggies.

8.  Add water and mash all veggies nicely like nice paste.

9. Add pav bhaji masala to the cooking gravy.

10. add sufficient salt and chopped coriander leaves.

11. Keep mashing and cooking till the oil seperates  nad will get thick gravy.

12.  Take another kadai heat it add butter add onion slices to it mix well.

13.  again some ginger garlic paste pinch of chilli powder, pav bhaji masala, kasoori methi mix well with water.

14. asfatodia, lemon juice to the new gravy, coriander leaves, food color to it.

15. Now mix all 2 gravies and mash it well.

Now Masala for Pav

1.Heat some butter on tawa add chilli powder , coriander leaves, pav bhaji masala.

2. Take bread split into horizontal and wipe on the masala and close the bread.
3. Outer sides also the butter should be spread all sides of the bread.

Note:

Here mashing i used mixy to get hick gravy and i used hot dog rolls for pav

Broccoli Dal with Mango Pickle and Appalam

Broccoli is very healthy green to kids and adults . I use this one while making fried rice, noodles, pasta that tastes yummy. Long back my younger was telling about broccoli dal today in my fridge only broccoli is there i given a try came very yummy. Simple dish and easy to make to Indians.

Ingredients
2 small bunches of broccoli
1 cup of split moong dal(like 75grams)
3 green chillies
turmeric
salt
1 1/2 tamarind piece

Seasoning
few mustard seeds
split uradh dal
chenna dal
chilli powder
coriander powder
curry leaves
garlic cloves 2
red chillies -2


Preparation:
1.Take a small size pressure cooker soak the moong dal for1 to 2 minutes with turmeric.
2.Add cleaned broccoli pieces and chillies.
3.Cook under low flame get 1 vistle. (moong dal and broccoli will very less time to cook).
4.Once pressure gone mash t well and mix with salt and tamarind juice.
5. Take a other small pan add oil once oil get heat add mustard seeds, red chillies, curry leaves, uradh dal, chenna dal, garlice cloves, chilli powder, coriander powder mix well and add to the cooked dal.

Serve hot with hot nice, mango pickle, pepper papad, ghee(optional).