Saturday 17 October 2015

Aloo Begun diye Ilish Marcher Jhol Hilsa with Brinjal and Potatoes

Aloo Begun diye Ilish Marcher Jhol
Hilsa with Brinjal and Potatoes
Ingredients
6 pieces of Hilsa
2 Potatoes cut into thick strips
2 Brinjal cut into strips
1 Tomato cut into strips
4 Green Chillies slit
1 small pieces Ginger
1 tbsp Mustard paste
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Cumin powder
1/2 tsp Chilli powder
1/2 tsp Panch Phoren
1 Bay Leaf
Mustard Oil for fry
Coriander leaves for garnishing
Method
Marinate the  fish with salt and turmeric powder, let it rest for 15 minutes. Heat the oil. Fry the fish in mustard oil till brown on both the sides. Keep it aside. Remove the excess oil from the wok. Add Panch Phoren, bay leaf and green chillies, let the Panch phoren crackle. Add the vegetables, sauté it for 2 minutes. Add mustard paste, salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, and cumin powder. Stir and cook for 2 minutes more. Add 2 to 3 cups of water as per the gravy required. Cover and boil till the vegetables are tender. Add the fish and cook for 2 minutes. Add coriander leaves for garnishing. Serve hot with rice.

Mix Fruit Spread

Mix Fruit Spread
Here it is, a very healthy Fruit spread....
Ingredients
2 ripe  Plums chopped
1 cup Pineapple chopped
1 Apple chopped
1 cup Red Grapes seed removed
Few dry Cranberry
2 tbsp Honey or more as per the sweetness required.
P.S. It can be kept only for 2 to 3 days.

Method
Take all the fruits and blend it in a blender. Add1/2 cup water. Take a pot, add the fruit juice into the pot, on a low flame, stir the juice occasionally. Let it simmer till the juices reduces to 1/2 the quantity , add the cranberries and the honey. Cook and further reduce the juices till all the juices and the pulp of the fruit combines very well. Serve with toast.

Friday 16 October 2015

Dahi Wala Bhindi Curry Healthy and Easy Okra in Curd Curry with very less oil.

Dahi Wala Bhindi Curry
Healthy and Easy  Okra in Curd Curry with very less oil.
Ingredients
1/2 Kg Okra cut into half
1 cup Curd
1 piece of Ginger
4 Green chillies slit
2 tbsp Gram Flour
1/2 tsp Cumin powder
1/2 tsp Coriander powder
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1/4 tsp Garam masala powder
Pinch of Asafoetida
Rock Salt to taste
1/4 tsp Cumin seeds
1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
1/4 tsp Coriander seeds
Few Curry Leaves
1 tsp Oil
Few coriander leaves chopped

Method
Take 1/2 tsp oil in a wok. Heat it, add the Okras and stir it. Sprinkle some salt. On high heat stir the Okras. Let it cook till it changes its colour. Take the Okras  out from the wok and keep it aside. 
Blend curd, salt, ginger, 2 green chilies, gram flour, cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder in a blender. In the same wok, add the remaining oil. Add cumin seeds and mustard seeds. Let it crackle. Add curry leaves, 2 chillies and asafoetida. Sauté for 30 seconds. Lower the heat. Add the curd masala. Keep stirring as the gram flour will start to form lumps. Add 4 cup of water. Stir and let it simmer on low heat. After 3 minutes, add the okra. Cover and let it simmer for 10 minutes or till the rawness of the gram flour disappears. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.

Fresh Fruits and Dry Fruit Cake Loaf

Fresh Fruits and Dry Fruit Cake Loaf
This is an extremely healthy cake with no sugar and no oil at all. It's gooey and yummy...
Ingredients
4 tbsp of chopped Pineapple
1 small Apple chopped
1 Plum (not very ripe) chopped
10 to 12 Red Grapes seeds removed and chopped
6 Longan / Vietnamese Litchi seeds removed and chopped
1/2 cup Curd
1 cup Oats
1/2 cup Water Chestnuts Flour
6 Almonds
2 Walnuts
Few Black Raisins
Few Dry Cranberries
Few Dry Blueberries 
Few Almond Flakes
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Soda bicarbonate
Oil spray
P. S. If required then add 3  to 4 tbsp Honey. 
Method
Take Pineapple, Apple, Red Grapes, Longan (keeping few chopped fruits for garnishing), honey (optional),  almonds, walnuts, black raisins, baking powder, soda bicarbonate, curd, oats and water chestnut flour. Blend all the ingredients in a blender. Add milk if required to make it into a thick dropping  consistency. If it is watery then add more oats. Take take a bread loaf tin. Spray oil in the tin. Add the batter, garnish it with chopped fruits, almond flakes, cranberries and blueberries. Bake it in a preheated oven for 1 hour and more  at 160 degrees. Check it by pricking a toothpick. If it comes out clean then it is done. Let it cool and then slice it.

Thursday 15 October 2015

Multi Grain And Coconut Laddu.....

Multi Grain And Coconut  Laddu.....
Ingredients
1/4 cup of each
Jawari Flour
Bajra Flour
Soya Flour
Sattu Flour
Amarnath Flour
Water Chestnut Flour
Oats
Brown Flattened Rice
2 to 3 cups Desiccated Coconut
4 tsp Ghee
2 or more cups of grated Jaggary as per the sweetness required
1/4 tsp Cardomom powder
2 Pinch of Salt
1/2 cup Milk
Handful of Raisins
Handful of Almond Flakes

Method
Take a wok, add all the types of flours, Oats and Brown flatten rice. On a low flame stir it for 10 minutes, till a aroma spreads in the kitchen. Add 1 tsp ghee, salt, Cardomom powder, 1 cup coconut, raisins and almond. Keep on stirring it for another 10 minutes. Now switch off the gas and let it cool a bit. Add the grated Jaggary and mix it properly. Put the wok back on a low flame. Stir for 2 minutes, add the remaining ghee. Stir for 2 minutes, add 1 tbsp milk at a time and keep on stirring, after the mixture is dried up, add 1 tbsp of milk, keep stirring, keep adding milk till and stirring till the mixture will become moist and gradually the mixture will bind together into a dough. Take if off the gas. Apply ghee on the palms, take little portion of the mixture and make lemon size ball. Roll the ball in the remaining coconut and serve once it is in room temperature.