Moong Dal Cakli Recipe

Ingredients :

• Rice flour - 2 cups
• Moong dal paste  1/2 cup
• Salt - as required
• Oil - 2 tsp
• Cumin seeds or ajwain seeds - 1/2 tsp [ optional ]
• Red chili powder - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
• Water - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - enough for frying

Method :

Boil the moong dal with enough water to a paste consistency. Then take a big bowl add rice flour, moong dal  paste, turmeric, salt, chili powder  and mix gently.  Meantime heat oil in the kadai, take 2 tsp of sizzling hot oil and add it to the rice flour  mix. Add water as needed to make a stiff  dough, kneed throughly with hand  [ not in food processor ] Take a lemon size dough and place it in a chakli mould.  Heat oil for frying. Test the oil by dropping small piece of dough and wait for a second , if it does not rise to the top, then the oil needs to be more  heated. Then gently make caklli with caklli mould and deep fry till it changes in  to golden brown. Cool the caklli completely before storing in a air- tight container.

Masala Rice

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice - 1 glass (soaked in water for 20 mins)
• Mix vegetables - 1 cup
• Onion - 3 [cut length wise & fry in a oil (See image above)]
• Tomatoes - 2 big (chopped)
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 1/2 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cashewnuts - 6-8
• Saunf powder - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Coriander leaves - for garnishing

For grinding masala:

1 Onion, small piece ginger, garlic, tomato.
Fry them in a little oil & grind them into a small paste.


Method:

Take a cooker, add ghee & oil. When it becomes hot, add cashewnuts, stir till it changes to light brown colour. Then add vegetables along with tomatoes. Mix well. Then add all dry masalas. Fry till the tomatoes becomes mushy. Then add that ground masalas and fried onions. Mix well. Then add the soaked rice. Add water till all the ingredients gets covered. Close the cooker & allow for 3 whistles to come. After the pressure leaves, open the cooker, garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with raitha & papad / waffers.

Instant Dosa

Ingredients :

• Cooked rice  1 bowl
• [ you can use morning cooked remaining rice ]
• Curd - 3 to 4 tbsp
• Besan [ kadalai mavu ] - 3 tbsp
• Finely chopped onion - 2 
• Maida - 2 tbsp
• Salt - as required
•  Green chilli = 1 finey chopped
• Ginger = small piece [ finely chopped ]
• Oil + ghee - as required for roasting

Method :

Take a mixer or grinder and grind  cooked rice, green chilli, giner salt, curd, besan, maida  to a smooth batter. Add chopped onion to  the batter or sprinkle on   the hot  tawa before making dosa.  When the tawa  becomes hot first apply little oil, then sprinkle onion wait for a second, then take a full  landle  of  dosa  batter  and spread thin,  wait  to  roast  nicely [ both sides ]  remove from  the tawa  and  serve  hot   with  onion  chutney and  sambhar.

Allu Chat

Ingredients :

• Potato - 1/2 k.g. [ peel and cut in to cubes ]
• Salt - as required
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
•  Chat masala - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - enough for frying
• Sweet [ meeta ] chutney - as required
• Green [ theka ] chutney = as required
• Beaten curd - 1/4 cup
• Finely chopped onion - 2 tbsp
• Finely chopped tomato - 2 tbsp
• Barek sev - little
• Chopped coriander leaves - little

Method :

First boil the potatoes in enough water adding  salt  [ just half boil ] Then drain the water. When it's become cool deep fry in hot oil [ light brown ] don't fry golden brown.  Remove from the oil and keep it in the bowl. Add red chilli powder, chat masala,  both chutneys   and  mix well. Before serving take a serving plate, add  allu,  garnish  with  chopped  onion,  chopped  tomato  sev  and finely chopped coriander leaves. 

Dhaba Style Bhindi Masala

Ingredients :

• Bhindi - 1/2 k.g. [ cut in to 1/2 inch and fryed in a oil and keep aside ]
• Onion - 2 [ peeled and finely chopped ] [ fried in oil in to golden brown ]
• Ginger garlic paste - 1/4 tsp
• Tomatoes - 2 to 3 [ make it purie ]
• Salt - as required
• Sugar - little
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste  1/2 tsp
• Kasoori methi - a pinch
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 11/2 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
• Curd - 1/4 cup [ beaten ]
• Fresh cream - 2 tsp
• Oil - enough for frying

Method :

First cut the bhindis  and deep fry  in hot oil  till its change crispy, and keep aside. Same oil fry the onion also till its change in to golden brown. Allow it to become cool, keep on a tissue  papper.
Take one deep bottom kadai, add oil. When its become hot, add cumin seeds, bay leaf, and ginger garlic paste. Fry for a second and add the fried  onion  along with tomato purie and mix well. Add all dry masala  powders and beaten curd. Mix nicely, when the gravy becomes thick add little water. Wait for 5 minutes and add  fryed bhindi to that.  Add  kasoori methi [ crushed ] and fresh cream to that.  Your tasty dhaba style bhindi masala  is ready. Serve with roti, parathas etc.

Brinjal Dahl

Ingredients :

• Thur dal -  1 cup  [ soaked  in the water ]
• Tomato - 3 [ chopped ]
• Onion - 2 [ peeled and chopped ]
• Green chilli - [ chopped ]
• Brinjal - 1/4 k.g. [ cut in to big pieces ]
• Tamarind paste - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Salt - as required
• Water - 2 cup

 For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
• Dry red chilli - 1 [ broken ]
• Garlic flakes - 2 [ crushed ]
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Curry leaves - little
• Coriander leaves - litle

Method :

Add everything  [ dal, onion, tomato, green chilli, brinjal  and dry masalas ] in cooker and close the cooker. Wait for 5 to 6 whistle to come. After the pressure leaves open the cooker. Mean time take a small kadai, add oil. When the oil becomes hot, add mustard seeds, urad dal, dry red chilli garlic [ crushed ] and curry  leaves when the seeds pop, add boiled brinjal dahl and mix well. Add chopped coriander leaves and 1 tsp of ghee. Check salt at this time. Serve with roti and steamed rice.

Dum Biriyani

Ingredients:

• Basmathi rice - 1 glass [ soak in water for 20 minutes ]
• Vegetables - 1 cup [ flower, carrot, potato, capsicum and onion ]
• Biriyani masala - 1/2 tsp
• Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as required
• Food colour - green, yellow few drops 
• Cream - 1 tbsp
• Saffron [ kesar ]  - pinch [ soak in warm milk along with sugar ]
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Whole garam masala - 1 tsp [ cinnamon, clove, cardamom, each 1 piece ]
• Onion - 3 to 4 [ peel, sliced thin and fried in a oil to golden brown ]
• Ginger - small piece [ sliced thin  ]
• Cashews - 10 

Method:

First cook the rice in cooker adding whole garam masala, cashews, along with salt & wait for 3 whistles to come. After pressure goes, open the cooker and make it cool. Meantime, boil the vegetables in an oven or kadai, adding salt till it becomes soft. Then fry the sliced onion in an oil till it changes into golden brown colour. Then take one iron tawa & keep it on the gas. When it becomes hot, keep the pressure pan on the top of the tawa. Add ghee and oil together. When it becomes hot, first add little fried onion, then cooked rice, little fried veggies & sprinkle some garam masala ,green colour 2drops, & biriyani masala. Again add rice. Finally add soaked kesar, fresh cream, close the cooker & keep it for 10 to 15 mins. Then open the cooker & serve along with onion raitha & waffers.