Easy Biriyani [ avasara biriyani ]

Ingredients :

• Mix vegetables - 1 cup
•  [ flower, beans, potato, carrot, and green peas ]
• Onion - 2 [ cut in to length wise ]
•     cut the vegetables in length wise 
• Cooked  rice - 2 glass
• Salt - as required
• Red chili powder - 1 tsp
• Biriyani masala powder - 1 1/2 tsp
• Coconut milk - 1 cup( it's  optional  )
• Lemon juice - 2 tsp
• Cashew nuts - 6 to 7
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Chopped coriander leaves - little
• Bay leaf - 1 [ broken ]

Method :

First boil the rice in cooker and make it cool. Then Keep one kadai on the gas, add oil and ghee together. When the oil becomes hot, add bay leaf cashews and then onion to that. Fry for 3 minutes adding little salt till it change in to light pink in colour. Then add other vegetables one by one. Add required salt, turmeric, red chili powder  and  biryani  masala along with coconut milk and 1/2 glass of water.  Mix well and  close with a lid.  allow boil till the water completely dryed. Then mix the cooked rice with the vegetables and lemon juice. Remove from the gas. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve with any raitha and roasted papad.

P.N. :

You can make biryani with out using  coconut milk also.

Vegetable Kurma [ South type ]

Ingredients :

• Mix vegetables - 1 cup [ cut in to small pieces ]
•  [ flower, carrot, potato, cabbage, green peas. ect ]
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chili powder - 1 tsp

For grinding masala :

• Onion - 2 [ peeled and cut ]
• Tomatoes - 2 [ chopped ]
• Green chilies - 2
• Ginger - small piece
• Cashew nuts - 5 to 6
• Black pepper - 4 to 5
• Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Dry red chilies - 4 to 5

 [ grind all these ingredients in mixer to smooth paste ]

Method :

First take one small cooker and boiled all the  vegetables adding salt and turmeric for two whistle. Then open the lid and add the ground masala along with required water. Add red chili powder and mix well add 1/4 tsp of sugar and mix well . Check salt and remove from the gas. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve with roti, puri as a side dish. 

Carrot Aloo Paratha

Ingredients :

• Carrot - 3 [ blanched and make purie ]
• Potato [ aloo ] - 1/2 kg [ boiled and mashed ]
• Green chilli- 2 
• Ginger - small piece
• Garlic flakes - 3 [ optional ]
• [ grind all three together ]
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
• Wheat flour - 4 cups
• Oil - as required
• Chopped coriander leaves - 1/2 cup

Method :

First take one big bowl, add carrot purie, potato mash, chilli ginger garlic paste, coriander leaves, salt and other dry masalas. Then add wheat flour to that along with water and little oil. Knead and make soft dough. Keep for 10 minutes. Heat a tawa on medium flame and make parathas. Cook on both the sides.  Pour oil and roast till both the sides become brown. Serve with pickle and curd.

Green Kurma

 

Ingredients  :

• Broccoli- 1/ 4 kg [ clean and cut ]
• Green peas - 1 hand full
• Potato - 2 [ boil peel and cubed ]
• Onion - 2 [ peel and chopped ]
• Tomatoes - 2 [ chopped ] Salt - as required
• Oil - 3 tsp

 For grind masala :

• Coriander leaves - 1/4 bunch
• Green chillies - 5 to 6
• Ginger - small piece
• Garlic flakes - 2
• Grated fresh coconut - 1/4 cup
• Cashew nuts - 4 to 5
• Khus khus - 1/ 4 tsp
•  [ grind all together  in a mixer to a smooth paste ]

 For seasoning :

• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon - 1 small piece
• Cloves - 2
• Cardamom - 2
• Bay leaf - 2

Method :

First take one deep bottom kadai, add oil to that. When the oil becomes hot, add whole masala to that. Wait for a second. Then add onion to that & stir well. Then add ginger garlic paste &  chopped tomatoes. Mix well. Then add the ground masala to that. Add 1/2 glass of water. Then add broccoli, green peas along with potatoes. Add salt to that. Close with a lid & allow to boil for 10 minutes. Then remove the lid. Your kurma is ready to serve. Serve with carrot puri.

Carrot Purie

Ingredients :

• Carrot - 3 to 4 [ peel and cut in to round pieces ]
• Suji [ upma rawa ] - 2 tsp
• Wheat flour - 3 cups
• Salt - as required
• Water - as required
• Oil - enough for deep frying

Method :

First peel the carrot and cut it to round pieces. Then keep enough water in a vessel on a gas. When the water starts boiling add the carrot in to that, close with  a lid and wait for 10 minutes. [ blanch it ] Then grind it  in a mixer and make a  purie.  Add the  purie to the wheat flour along with salt,  rawa and little oil. Kneed it and form a dough.  Keep it aside for 20 minutes. Then make small purie  and fry it  in a hot oil. Your  purie  is  ready  to serve.

Moong Dal Halwa - An Easy Mehod

Ingredients:

• Nestle milk maid - 1 tin
• Milk - 3 cups
• Moong Dal - 1 cup
• Ghee - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Grated mixed nuts - 3 tbsp

Method:

Clean & soak the moong dal for about half an hour. Drain the water & grind in a mixer to a coarse paste. Fry the dal paste in the ghee till it turns into golden brown colour. At this time, add the milk to that & cook in a low flame. When the milk reduces into half, add the nestle milk maid & cook continuously till desired consistency level is reached. Then transfer to the bowl. Garnish with grated nuts.  

Tomato Kurma

Ingredients :

• Ripe tomatoes - 5 to 6
• Onion - 2 [ peeled and finely chopped ]
• Green chillie - 2 [ slit ]
• Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 11/2 tsp
• Salt - as required

For seasoning :

• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Cinnamon - 1 small piece
• Cloves - 2
• Fennel seeds - 3/4 tsp [ sombu ]
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

Chop onions finely  and slit green  chillies. Then grind raw tomatoes and keep aside.[ 2 cups of tomato purie. Grind coconut with adding  little water to a smooth paste. Keep all the things ready. Then heat oil in a  kadai,  add cinnamon, cloves and fennel seeds. When fennel seeds sizzle, add chopped onions, green  chillies  and  curry leaves. Saute till onions turn golden brown. Then add tomato  purie, and other  dry masala   powder and salt. Cook till raw smell goes. At this stage add coconut paste and required water. Cook for further 5 to 8 minutes more. Then remove from the gas. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. It 's goes well with chapati, all parathas, idli, dosa, idiyappam and upma.