Flaxseed Chutney Powder

Flaxseed Chutney Powder/ Agasi Chutney

Ingredients

1 cup Flaxseed

2 spoons Jeera/ Cumin seeds

8 Garlic cloves

4 Dry Red Chilli ( Bydagi)

Salt

Method

1. Dry Roasting:

    - Heat a pan over medium flame.

    - Add flax seeds and dry roast for 2 minutes, until they splutter.

    - Turn off the flame and set aside.

    - Dry roast dry red chillies and garlic cloves separately.

2. Grinding:

    - In a mixer jar, combine:

        - Roasted flax seeds

        - Jeera

        - Garlic cloves

        - Dry red chillies (or red chilli powder)

        - Salt

    - Grind the mixture into a coarse powder.

Result:

    - Flaxseed Chutney Powder is ready!

    - Store in an airtight container for up to 15 days.

 Optional: Add 4-5 curry leaves to the chutney powder for extra flavor.

Instant Jowar Dosa with Onion Tomato Chutney

Instant Jowar Dosa with Onion Tomato Chutney

Easy and Quick 

Ingredients

1 cup Wheat Flour
1 cup Jowar Flour
1/2 spoon Jeera
Salt

Method

In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, jowar flour, jeera and salt. Add sufficient water and mix well. Consistency of dosa batter should not be too thick or too thin. See that there are no lumps. Cook dosa on hot tawa and serve with onion tomato chutney.

Ash Gourd Sandige

 Ash Gourd Sandige

Ingredients
1kg Ash Gourd
250 grams Greengram
250 grams Rice
8 Green Chilli
2 spoons Jeera
2 sprigs Curry Leaves
Salt

Method
Grate ash gourd and keep it aside.
Grind in a mixer jar green gram and rice into a coarse powder.
Grind green chilli, jeera, curry leaves and salt into coarse paste.
In a large vessel, mix grated ash gourd, green gram, rice and green chilli paste.
Soak overnight and next day you can make sandige.
In an open space, spread cotton cloth, make small disc shape sandige and place them on the cloth.
Sundry both sides of sandige for 4  days.
Store in an airtight container and it can be stored for 6 months.
Fry in hot oil when sandige is dried completely and serve as side dish.

Note
Add green chillies as per your requirement, when you soak green chillies with other ingredients, there is less spiciness.

Muruku

Muruku

                                                                         

Ingredients :
2 Cups Rice flour
1 Cup Roasted Chana Dal(powdered)
1 spoon Jeera
Pinch of Asafoetide
1- 2 spoons Red Chilli powder
1/2 spoon Sesame seeds(white) optional
Salt
Oil for frying

Method :
Take a bowl put 2 cups of rice flour , 1 cup roasted chana dal powder.
Add jeera, asafoetida, sesame seeds, red chilli powder, 1 spoon hot oil and salt.
Mix all the ingredients with little water.
Dough should be soft.

Fill dough in chakli maker.
Heat sufficient oil in a kadai, press muruku using chakli maker directly into the oil and fry the chaklis on a medium flame until it turns golden brown.
Muruku is ready to serve.

Tips
While frying chakli, drop them gently into the hot oil. 

In second picture, I added 1 spoon butter to rice flour, roasted gram flour, salt, jeera and sesame seeds.

 

 World Environment Day

June 5 is considered as World Environment Day. 

Following are some of them we can practice in our life.

1. Say no to plastic bags, carry your own cloth bag.

2. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

3. Say no to plastic bottles, use stainless steel bottle.

4. Do not Litter.

5. Buy grocery in bulk like for 1 month.

6. Use cloth napkins/ towels instead of tissue.

7. During marriages/ functions one can use stainless steel plates, cups and spoons or eco friendly items.

8. Children can take up activity like sowing mustard seeds, methi seeds, coriander seeds etc at home.

9. Gifting plants as return gifts.

10. Do not waste water.

11. Ecofriendly items like coir, jute, bamboo, banana leaves can be used and are biodegradable.

12. Save forests.

13. Less packaging leads to less trash.

14. Use of Public Transport will reduce pollution.

15. During Travel, carrying your own stainless steel water bottle and cloth napkins.

16. Buy Local products.

17. Instead of buying 5 items, buy 2 of superior quality. It is quality over quantity.

18. Save lakes and ponds.

19. Grow Trees and plants.

20. Plants and flowers can be used as home decor or office decor.

21. Encourage cycling, which is pollution free and reduces traffic congestion. 

22. Fast fashion is not good for our environment. It ends up in textile waste.

Chapathi, Paneer Butter Masala and Tamarind Rice.

Chapati, Paneer Butter Masala and Tamarind Rice 

Lunch Menu

Recipe For Tamarind Rice

Recipe For Homemade Paneer

Here I have used store bought paneer for paneer butter masala. I will share the recipe in my future posts.

Alu Bonda

Alu Bonda

Ingredients

3 Potatoes

2 cups Besan Flour ( Gram flour )

1 spoon Jeera

2 spoons Red Chilli powder

Pinch of Cooking Soda

1/2 spoon Mustard Seeds

1 - 2 Green Chilli chopped

4 Curry Leaves

Coriander Leaves chopped

1/4 spoon Turmeric Powder

Salt

Oil for frying

Method :

Cut Potato into 4 pieces and pressure cook for 4 whistles in pressure cooker.

Remove the skin of cooked potatoes and mash evenly.

In a mixing bowl, put besan flour, jeera, red chilli powder, cooking soda, and salt.

Add water and mix well and make thick batter.

In a pan, heat 2 spoons oil, add mustard seeds, green chilli, curry leaves and mashed potatoes.

Add coriander leaves, turmeric powder and salt and mix well.

After it cools down, make lemon size balls and keep it aside.

Heat sufficient oil in a kadai for frying.

Now roll potato balls in the batter and deep fry on a medium flame.

Fry both sides till it turns golden brown.

Alu Bonda is ready.