Tomato chutney

This chutney is so yummy you can eat a full cup all by itself. To appear lil more civilized (:P), eat it with chapati, dosa, idli, akki rotti.....

This particular recipe I picked from my mom and my aunt. My aunt (from Dharwad) is an awesome cook. She experiments so much and comes up with easy tips to make cooking a delight.

Ingredients:

• Tomato - 3
• chili - 2
• fried ground nut - 2 tsp
• coriander
• hing, jeera, turmeric, cumin seeds
• coconut grating

Steps:

• Prepare seasoning with cumin, jeera and hing. Add chilies and let them crackle.
• Now add cut tomatoes and let it cook till water content is gone.
• Let it cool a bit and transfer this to a mixer container.
• To it, add ground nuts, coriander, coconut grating and salt.
• Grind it to a paste and enjoy!!

Prepare this instead of the regular coconut chutney for dosa and idli and let me know if people at your home liked it :)

Bon appetite!

My version of baked vegetables

It was the day when I had had junk through out the day and so badly wanted my daily dose of veggies. I was so tired to prepare a full meal but was very hungry. This just came to my mind. May be I had read the recipe somewhere or seen someone cook on the telly. Once, the dish was done, it was gobbled up in 2 minutes flat. It turned out super yummy and without a guilt in the world, I had lots of it.

Ingredients (for 1 person):

• carrots - 2
• beans -  a handful
• potatoes - 2 small ones - cut it like potato wedges
• salt, pepper
• italian seasoning 
• chili flakes
• olive oil

Steps:

• Boil all the vegetables in water till they are partially done.
• In a shallow pan, add 1 tsp of olive oil and let it heat. Take out the potato slices from water and shallow fry it on the pan till they are done.

• Similarly, fry rest of the vegetables.
• Add salt, italian seasoning, chili flakes and pepper.

Do try it out when u feel the need to eat nothing but veggies. This can be prepared as a side dish too, for pasta or a burger.

Bon appetite!

Rice with pulses

Imagine you come home after a long day's work and there is absolutely nothing at home and you are so damn hungry you could eat a horse. This is the recipe that should come to your mind. It is super easy to prepare and takes just about 5 minutes of your time in front of the stove. And it tastes heavenly and packs in a lot of nutrition.

Ingredients (for 1 person)

• rice + green gram - 1 cup
• tamarind soaked in water for 5-10 minutes
• chili/sambar powder - 2 tsp
• for seasoning - jeera, cumin, hing, turmeric
• for garnishing - coconut grating, coriander

Steps:

• Cook rice and green gram in a cooker similar to how you cook rice.
• In a pan, prepare the seasoning and add tamarind paste to it.
• Add the sambar powder and salt to taste.
• Once the rice and pulses are cooked, add it to the pan and mix well.
• Add coconut grating and coriander as a final finish.

I had it with a tall glass of butter milk and ambode. It was yummyy...

Let me know if you try it and how it turned out.

Bon appetite!

Broken wheat with vegetables

This is my too-hungry-no-time-to-prepare-anything-else recipe. It is super easy to prepare, very tasty and awesomely healthy. Broken wheat can be used as a rice substitute. You don't get that heavy, very full feeling after eating this. You can prepare broken wheat without these vegetables and eat with curd and pickle. Yumm..

Ingredients (for 2 people):

Broken wheat - 1 cup
Vegetables like carrot, beans, capsicum
Chili - 2
Hing
Salt
Turmeric
For seasoning - jeera, cumin

Steps:

• Broken wheat is cooked exactly like rice. 1 measurement of broken wheat with 2 measurements of water. Add the cut vegetables too. Cook it in a cooker. 
• In a pan, prepare the seasoning by adding jeera, cumin, chili, hing and turmeric.
• If you are adding capsicum, shallow fry it here, instead of cooking it in the cooker.
• Add the cooked broken wheat and vegetables and add salt to taste.
• You can garnish with coriander and also add lemon, if you feel like. It gives an awesome taste.

This can be made better by adding ginger to the seasoning and adding coconut grating at the end.

This can be eaten all by itself or prepare some kind of raita to go along with. 

Let me know how it turned out for you.

Bon appetite!