Dal Kichdi

Hi fellow bloggers,

its been indeed quite a few months since i logged in to my blog, though tried to catch up other bloggers, i missed many of your posts. Life has been hectic for past few months with work, home and kid.So wanted to take a break from blogging, but my mind always thought about the numerous contests and awards which would be shared every now and then, missed all those participation in the contests, reading nice reviews and congratulating each others, never mind priorities keep changing :))  let me cheer up my self and start my blogging once again with a very simple recipe which i would often end up doing when my vegetable tray is completely out of stock

Preparation Time : 5 Minutes

Cooking Time: 20 Minutes

Serves : 2 

Ingredients :

Rice : 1 cup
Toor Dal : 1/4 cup
Moong dal - 1/4 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Green Chilli - 1 - slit
Pepper Corns - 4 - slightly crushed
Mixed vegetables - 1 cup ( purely optional)
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1 teaspoon
Coriander leaves - 1 tbps - finely chopped
Salt - to taste
Oil - 2 tbps
Ghee - 1 tbps

Method :


Heat oil in a small pressure cooker , add cumin seeds and let it splutter, then add ginger garlic paste and green chilli, saute for half a minute. To this add the washed rice , dal, 2.5 cups water, turmeric powder, pepper, mixed vegetables, ghee and salt. Close the lid and pressure cook for 3 - 4  whistles. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with pickle :)


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Lavanya !!

Sorakkai Milagu Kootu

 Preparation Time : 20 Minutes
Cooking Time : 15 Minutes
Serves - 2

Ingredients :

Sorakkai / Bottlegourd - 1/2 cup - cut into cubes
Tomato - 1 Medium - finely chopped
Red Chilli - 1
Tuvaram paruppu / Split Red Gram - 1/2 cup
Kadala Paruppu / Split Bengal Gram - 2 tablespoons
Black Pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds - 1 teaspoon
Mustard Seeds - 1 teaspoon
Desiccated Coconut - 2 tablespoons
Asafoedita - a pinch
Salt
Oil

Method :

Pressure cook both paruppu until well cooked. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, let it splutter, then add cumin seeds and red chilli, fry for few seconds,add tomatoes, sauté until soft. Now add cut bottle gourd along with a cup of water, cook on medium flame for 5 minutes. In the mean time , grind desiccated coconut and pepper with little water and make it in to a fine paste. Mix this paste to the bottle gourd mix along with cooked paruppu. Add salt, asafoedita, bring the gravy to boil and switch of the flame. Server hot with rice.

Tip : You can pressure cook bottlegourd along with the paruppu to save time. You can also add garlic to pep up the kootu :)

Carrot Corn Pulav

This is again a quick one pot meal with goodness of sweet corn and carrot. Few health benefits of sweet corn are they act as a antioxidant and thereby reduce the chance of heart diseases and cancer. Carrot as we all know are rich in vitamin A and dietary fiber. It becomes all the more easy, when it is prepared in Microwave. Lets enjoy this pot meal with whole lot of nutrients in it :)

Preparation Time : 10 Minutes

Cooking Time : 17 Minutes

Serves - 2

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Carrot - 1 Medium Sized - Grated

Sweet Corn Kernels - 1/2 cup

Green Chili - 2

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tablespoon

Coriander leaves - 1 tablespoon - Finely chopped

Fennel Seeds- 1 teaspoon

Cinnamon Stick - 1 small

Bay Leaf - 1

Oil

Salt

Method:

Add a 3 tablespoons of oil, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick and bay leaf in a microwave safe bowl. Heat on High heat for a minute, now add slit green chillies, ginger garlic paste and heat for another minute. Now add washed rice, corn kernels along with 2 cups of water. Cook on high heat for about 10 minutes.Now add grated carrots,salt, give a stir and cover and cook for 5 more minutes or until cooked. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve Hot with Chips and Raita :)

Sprouted Chick Pea Paneer Pulao

This has been lying since long in my draft, actually wanted to send this to Priya's Lets Sprout Event, anyways i ll save it for her future events. The combination of spinach, sprouts and paneer gives the pulao a wonderful aroma filled with bunch of nutrients. The spinach i have used is a local filipino one, it looks entirely different from the indian one. Here's the yummy one pot meal, which can be prepared in less than 25 minutes if you have all the ingredients handy !!

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice or Ordinary Rice - 2 cups - cooked

Spinach - 1 small bunch

Chick Peas - 1/2 cup - Sprouted and cooked

Paneer / Cottage Cheese - 100 gms - cubed

Onion - 1 Large

Tomato - 1 Large

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tablespoon

Green Chilli - 3

Fennel Seeds - 1 teaspoon

Cinnamon Stick - 1 

Clove - 4

Turmeric Powder - 1 teaspoon

Salt

Oil

Method:

Heat Oil in a thick bottomed pan, add fennel seeds,cinnamon stick and clove, saute them for a minute. Add Chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies, ginger garlic paste and turmeric powder and saute until the tomato is well cooked, now add chopped spinach and boiled chick peas and cook on low flame for 10 minutes. Now add the salt , and cubed panner along with the cooked rice,mix the rice evenly with the veggies and cook further for few more minutes. Serve hot with raita of your choice.

I am sending this recipe to Letz Relishh event hosted by Jay, Kids Delight hosted by Pari and Kids Menu Event hosted by Neha.

Channa Biriyani

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 2

Ingredients:

Cooked Ordinary Rice / Basmati Rice  - 2 cups

Sprouted Channa - 1 cup - Boiled

Onion - 1 Large - Chopped length wise

Tomatoes - 2 Medium - Chopped length wise

Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon 

Biriyani Masala - 3 teaspoon

Bay Leaf - 1

Fennel Seeds - 1 teaspoon

Cinnamon Stick - 1

Hing - a pinch

Yoghurt - 3 tablespoons

Salt

Oil

Method:

Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan,fry bay leaf, fennel seeds and cinnamon stick, add onion and tomatoes, saute until soft, add the masalas and the sprouted channa, saute for 5 minute.Sir in the yogurt and cook on low flame for two more minutes. Now mix the rice along with little salt .Serve hot with raitha.

Tip: Most of the biriyani masalas will have chilli powder, if you want to add more spice , you can add more chilli powder accordingly.

I am sending this recipe to Priya's Easy and Tasty Recipes LETS SPROUT event and Umm Mymoonah's Iftar Moments Hijri 1431.

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Easy Dal Kichdi / Mixed Vegetable Lentil Rice

Preparation Time : 5 Minutes

Cooking Time: 15 Minutes

Servings : 2

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Yellow Moong Dal / Green Gram - 1/4 cup

Mixed Vegetables - 1 cup

( I used frozen cut veggies)

Tomato - 1 small finely chopped

Garlic - Finely Chopped - 1 tablespoon

Green Chilli - 2

Coriander leaves - 1 tablespoon finely chopped

Turmeric Powder - 1 teaspoon

Asafoedita - a pinch

Cumin Seeds - 1 teaspoon

Ghee - 1 teaspoon (optional)

Oil

Salt

Method:

Heat a tablespoon of oil in a pressure pan, add Cumin Seeds let it splutter.Add garlic,tomato, green chilli , rest of the veggies and saute for a minute.Add washed rice and dal along with 3 cups of water and pressure cook on low flame for 20 minutes or upto 4 whistles.Smear little ghee and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.

Tip: You can use vegetables like carrot, corn, beans, potato and peas.

Instant Fried Rice

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 5 minutes

Servings: 2

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice  - 2 cups

Cabbage - finely chopped - 2 tablespoon

Carrot - finely chopped - 2 tablespoon

Srping onions - 1 small bunch - finely chopped

Red chilli powder - 1 teaspoon (depending on the spiciness)

Soy Sauce - 2 teaspoon

Hing - a pinch

Salt

Oil

Method:

Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan, fry all the vegetables oh high flame for a minute, now add soy sauce, redchilli powder and hing, saute for a minute.Mix the rice along with little salt and garnish with spring onion leaves. Serve Hot.

Brown Rice Biriyani

Brown Rice is  unmilled rice, a kind of whole and natural grain. It is much high in nutrition when compared to white rice.They are very rich in dietary fibre and cure constipation effectively.          

Preparation Time: 1 hour

Cooking Time : 30 minutes                  

Serving: 2

Ingredients : 

Brown Rice - 1 cup

Onion - 1 Medium

Tomatoes - 2 Medium

Green Chilli - 1

Carrot - Finely chopped - 1/2 cup

Beans  - Finely chopped - 1/2 cup

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 Tablespoon

Coriander Leaves - Finely chopped - 2 tablespoons

Cinnamon Stick - 1

Clove - 3

Fennel Seeds - 1 teaspoon

Bay Leaf - 2

Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon

Biriyani Masala - 2 teaspoons

Oil - 2 tablespoons

Salt - to taste

Method:

Soak brown rice for an hour in warm water. Heat oil in a pressure pan, add fennel seeds,clove,cinnamon and bay leaf and saute  for a minute.Then add finely chopped onions, saute for a minute.Now add tomatoes,green chilli and other vegetables, add turmeric powder,biriyani masala and saute for 2 minutes. Add the soaked rice along with 2 cups of water, cook on low flame for 15 minutes or until the rice is cooked.You can also pressure cook up to 3 whistles.Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.Healthy Biriyani is ready.