Indian Cucumber Dal with Home Made Plantain Chips

I love Dosakaya pappu and my kdis love plantain chips as side dish. I already submitted plantain chips recipe in my blog.

Now Dasakaya Pappu recipe
Ingredients
1 Cup toor dal
1 Medium size Indian Cucumber
3 Spicy green chillies
Turmeric Pinch
salt
oil
chilli powder
coriander powder

Seasoning
2 red chillies
2 medium size garlic crushed
Split uradh dal few
Chenna dal few
5-6 Curry leaves
Mustard Seeds few

Preparation:
1. Take a Pressure cooker soak toor dal with water 5 minutes and add Indian Cucumber Slices to it.
2.Now add pinch of turmeric and green chillies.
3.Pressure cook until get 3 vistles
4.Taka another kadai pour oil.
5.Add mustard seeds, garlic, dals, curry leaves, red chilli powder, coriander powder mix with cooekd dal.

Serve hot with plain rice and ghee, pickle... Yummy

Thotakura Pappu kodiguddu porita

I kept telugu name greens dal with egg bhuji

Ingredients for Thotakura pappu
1 bunch of thotakura
1 white onion
1 tomato
2 green chillies
pinch of turmeric
1/2 cup toor dal
salt
oil
tamarind juice 1/2 bowl
chilli powder
coriander powder
mustard seeds
curry leaves
garlic cloves -1 big shredded
chenna dal
2 red chillies
uradh dal.


Ingredients for Kodiguggu Porita
2 eggs
1 red onion
3 green chillies
few curry leaves
few coriander leaves
garlic cloves -1 shredded
salt
cumin seeds few
black pepper powder
oil


Preparation of lentils:

1. Take Pressure cooker soak toor dal for 10 minutes add pinch of turmeric .
2.Clean the thotakura bunch cut into pieces with stems and leaves add to the pressure cooker.
3.Slice the white onion add to the pressure cooker.
4.Slice the tomato add to the pressure cooker.
5.Add green chillies close the lid and pressure cook on low flame until 3 vistles.
6.Now squeeze the tamarind juice keep aside.
7. Take another kadai pour oil once it get heat add red chillies, mustard seeds, split dals, curry leaves, garlic, chillipowder, coriander powder and mashed cooked dal mix well with tamarind juice and salt.
8. Let it cook some time on low flame.
9.Serve hot with plain rice.

Preparating Egg Bhuji:
1.Cut the garlic cloves, curry leaves, green chillies, red onion, coriander leaves.
2.Take a kadai pour oil add cumin seeds, mustard seeds(optional), shredded garlic, curry leaves,green chillies, red onion slices one by one and fry .
3.Take a other bowl break the egg shell and beat with the help of fork make sure weather egg white and egg yellow got mixed well.
4.Now add the beaten eggs to the curry with salt, pepper powder, stir well other wise it will burn.
5. Add coriander leaves and mix well..

Herbs Butter Milk

This is for who is suffering with UTI and who is carrying baby..

This butter milk helps to clear all urinary track infection diseases

Ingredients

1 cup home made curd
2 green chillies
10 -15 fresh curry leaves
2 long thin coriander leaves with stems
salt
water.

Preparation:
1.Clean all herbs and chillies
2.Take a mixykeep chillies, herbs and butter milk grind it nicely.
3.Last add salt and water if u want add lemon juice to.

Lentils soup with coconut

The dish also called as Dal rasam, Parpu Rasam, Pappu Charu came well and delicious with nice side dish..

I usually prepare this rasam when i have nice fish fry or masala egg fry feeling bit lazy bcoz of dull weather.

Ingredients
masoor dal - 1/4 cup
Whole peeled tomatoes or cooked tomatoes paste - 1/2 bowl
tamarind juice - 1 bowl
garlic cloves - 1 clove big size shredded into small pieces
2 green chilli's
2 red chillies
mustard seeds
curry leaves
chenna dal
uradh dal split
1/2 teaspoon rasam powder
pinch of turmeric
salt
coconut shredded 1/2 teaspoon
oil
coriander leaves to garnish at last

Preparation:
1.Soak masoor dal fro 10 minutes in water add pinch of turmeric powder and green chillies , pressure cook for 3 vistles.
2.Take a kadai pour oil add mustard seeds, red chillies, shredded garlic, curry leaves, dals fry it well and add cooked dal and tomato paste and tamarind juice.
3.After boiling some time add salt and rasam powder, coconut shredded to it stir well.
4. Now add coriander leaves to it .

Serve with plain rice.

Mint Chutney

I love mint chutney finally i tried one recipe came well..

Ingredients
oil
1 bunch of mint
small piece of coconut.
cumin seeds
2 green chillies
tamarind juice
curry leaves
salt

seasoning
uradh dal
chenna dal
2 red chillies
curry leaves

Preparation:
1. Separate the mint leaves from stem and wash it well and keep a side.
2.Shred the coconut and keep a side.
3. Clean the chillies and curry leaves.
4.Now a take a kadai pour oil add cumin seeds,mint, coconut, curry leaves, chillies. fry it well until water will go off.
5.Once it get warm make a fine paste with help of salt and tamarind juice.
6.Pour oil in another vessel and all dals and red chillies, curry leaves top it on chutney.
Serve this with idly, dosa, or  you can serve with plain rice .

And i use this with samosa side dish too..

enjoy

Palak Alu

Very famous dish from north part of India i genrally serve this dish with jeera rice.

servings size -2

Ingredients

cumin seeds
curry leaves
2 red chillies
2 green chillies
1 small white onion
1/4 bunch of Spinach
1 medium size potato
garam masala pinch
kasoori methi pinch
ginger garlic paste - 1/4 tea spoon
turmeric -pinch
salt

Preparation:
1.Peel the skin of white onion keep aside
2.Peel the potato skin keep aside.
3.Clean the spinach leaves under running water.
4.Now take a pressure cooker keep whole peeled onion, whole peeled potato and spinach in it and swtich off after one Whistle.
5. Once the steam gone take onion mash it well like fine paste.
6.Now take spinach leaves and mash it fine paste with 2 green chillies.
7.Take a potato and cut into medium size slices and fry it oil with bit of slat and keep a side.
8.Taka a kadai pour oil add cumin seeds, red chillies, curry leaves and onion paste.
9.Once the onion get fry add spinach paste fry it well..
10.Now add fried potatoes and mix well with turmeic, ginger garlic paste, salt, garam masala.
11.Cook under low flame for 5 - 10 minutes at last add kasoori methi leaves..

Serve hot with jeer rice...yummy

Chicken Dum Biryani (Chicken Biryani with Pressure Pan)

This is other variety of chicken biryani or pulav we cook everything in pressure pan.


Ingredients
Fennel seedsfew
curry leaves few
coriander leaves few
mint leaves few
spring onions -2
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 teaspoon
Chicken Drum stick - 4 big
3 green chillies
1/2 cup curd
pinch turmeric
chillipowder - 1/2 teaspoon
coriander powder - 1teaspoon
salt
half lemon slice
garam masala - 1/8 teaspoon
Biryani masala - 1/4 teaspoon
star anise -2 or 3
cinnamon stick - 1 medium piece
cardamon - 3
cloves - 2
bay leaves- 2
2 cups Basmati rice (i used regular rice in the picture)
1 medium size onion
1 medium size tomato


Marination :
Clean the chicken drumsticks with turmeric and water , create some gaps with fork to marinate well..
Take cup curd add ginger galric paste, salt,chillipowder, corinader powder marinate 1/2 hour, squeeze lemon juice also

Preparation:
1.Take a pressure pan pour oil add fennel seeds, curry leaves, star anise, cinnamon stick, cardamon, cloves, mint leaves.
2.Add onion slices fry well..
3.Add tomato slices fry well.
4.Once it get fry remove and keep in some bowl.
5.Use the same pan to saute marinated chicken drumstick for 10 mintues.
6.Once chicken drumsticks gt cook 1/2 then add onions and masala to it.
7.Fry some time.
8.Now add required water (keep one thing on mind chicken will have some water and also on green and vegetables so try to reduce the water content and salt already added to chicken so no need to add salt again).
9.Now add cleaned rice to it  keep srping onion slices and coriander leaves slices on top of it. pressure until get 2 vistles..


Note: Here i serve the chicken biryani with egg also. For egg i boil it for some time and later remove the shell and add bit salt and pepper and roast it little bit and add to the Biryani at last.
Serve hot with Cucumber - carrot raita