Mixed Vegetable Curry

Add oil to a hot pan. Then add sliced onions, diced garlic, ginger, diced mix of vegetables( I have used Potatoes, carrot and peas), diced tomatoes and coriander leaves all at the same time. Then add chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and salt. Keep the pan hot and keep frying these without adding water, without covering the pan, till the vegetables are cooked. This will make them a little crispy too. Enjoy!

Bisibelebath with Raita and Appalam

Pressure cook rice(with extra water than usual) and Sambar paruppu along with the vegetables(potato, carrot, peas, bell pepper, etc). Fry lots of sliced onions, tomato and diced ginger and garlic after the mustard seeds pop in oil. Then add tamarind water, sambar powder, turmeric powder and salt. After it cooks, add the dhal and vegetables. Then add MTR bisibelebath powder and after a couple of minutes, add mashed rice and required salt. Mix them together. It needs to be little watery so once the rice cools down, it will be the right consistency to eat. Add ghee and raita is the best side dish for this.

Pongal With Brinjal Gosthu

Pongal - Pressure cook Rice + Moong dal along with ground ginger + green chillies. Once done, add salt and fried jeera + hing + whole black peppers + cashewnuts.

Brinjal Gosthu - Grind brinjal in mixie. Fry diced onion, add tamarind water, sambar powder and turmeric powder. Once it comes to a boil, add the brinjal and salt and once it cooks, add the gosthu powder and cook for 2 mins. You can do the same with tomatoes also.

Rajma Masala

Use the medium sized Rajma Beans. They taste better than the large ones. Soak them for 5-6 hrs. Grind Onion + Garlic + Ginger, add it to the Rajma beans and pressure cook them all together. In a pan, fry some diced onions and ground tomatoes. Add masala powder, chilli power and salt and once the tomato is cooked, add the cooked rajma/onion mixture, add water and necessary salt. Cover and let it simmer for 15-20 mins. Add some diced raw oinions on top and the Rajma Masala is ready to be served.

Bell pepper, Onion and Tomato side dish

Cut bell pepper, onion and tomatoes into big pieces. Grind onion + little coriander seeds + jeera. After grinding this add cashewnuts(soaked in water for 10 mins, you can also use roasted and peeled peanuts) and grind it all together. Don't grind it to a very fine paste, else the gravy will become sticky. In a pan, add oil and add the ground ingredients, chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala. Once it gets cooked, add the vegetables and salt. Add very little water and cook it till the vegetables are 90% cooked. There should be a little bite to the vegetables when we eat it. This can be a thick side dish or add more water to make it into a gravy. Click on the photo to view a larger picture. It's a delicious and quick dish to make.

Stuffed Chappathi with Potato Kurma - Simple and Refreshing!

Chappathi stuffing
Finely slice cabbage, carrot, bell pepper and onions. In a hot pan add these together and add little salt and pepper. Once the vegetables are half cooked, switch off the stove. The vegetables still need to be crispy.
Potato Kurma
Fry diced onions, garlic and ginger. Then add diced tomato, chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and salt. Then add diced and boiled potatoes. Grind coconut and cashewnut together and add it to the pan. Once you get the right consistency, switch off the stove and kurma is ready.

Wheat Laddu

Heat the wheat flour in a dry pan till it is very lite brown. Grind sugar in a mixie to powder. Fry little pieces of cashewnuts in ghee. Mix wheat flour and sugar and the nuts. Keep adding ghee little by little and mixing until you can make balls out of them. Do not add water. Make the laddoos very tightly so they won't crumble while eating

Spinach Dal with Chapathi

Spinach Dal

Cook moong dal and little channa dal in cooker. Grind onion + ginger + garlic + dried red chillies. Fry them up in pan after the routine oil+mustard seeds+ jeera. Add cut onions and once everything is cooked, add the spinach, some cut tomatoes + cooked dal + salt and turmeric powder.

Gulab Jamun

Gulab Jamun made from MTR readymade Gulab Jamun mix, but I stuffed each one with a raisin and then fried it. It tasted very good.

Brithday Cake

I made this from the readymade cake mix. But made the icing from scratch(the ready made icings were just too sweet) using whipping cream and powdered sugar. I am not very good at icicing/piping, so just used sliced strawberries for decoration.

Fruit and Icecream sundae

In a bowl, add cut fruits, then put icecream on top, then add whipped cream, then chocolate sauce and then some nuts. Yummy yummy!

Kovakkai(Tindora) Curry

I wanted to recreate this really crispy tindora curry I had in a restaurant once. I came close to that I think. The key is to cut the tindora really really thin and long and cook it in a little high heat on a non stick pan with onions, tomatoes, red chilli powder, tumeric powder, coriander powder and salt. Do not add water and do not cover. Keep frying it till the tindora is cooked.

Black eyed Peas curry

Microwave the frozen black eyed peas for 5 mins and wash and drain them. In a pan, add mustard seeds + urad dal + channa dal, fry cut onions, then add lots of tomatoes and then add the peas along with red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt. Cover and cook till the peas is cooked.

Egg Kurma

Boil eggs and cut them in half. Grind tomato + onion. Grind coconut+chilli powder+turmeric powder+ garam masala powder. In a pan, fry little sliced onion, then add ground tomato + onion. After this cooks, add the coconut paste and water and salt. After it has cooked to right consistency, add the cut eggs.