Sooji Toast

Contributor: Anuradha
Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 5minutes
Serves / Makes : 5-6

Ingredients
1 Cup Sooji
bread slices 6-7(sides removed)
1 onoion chopped
1 shimla mirch chopped
1 tomato choppped
2 tbsp malai
1pinch salt
1 pinch black pepper powder
3-6 tbsp oil/butter/ghee.

Steps:
remove the bread sides.
cut them into desied shapes.
apply oil on i side .
keep aside.
mix in A BOWL...
sooji, chopped tomatoes, onion, shimlamirch, malai, salt, blackpepper powder,
apply on the side where oil is not applied
heat a pan
fry the bread slices with the mixture on it from both the sides
serve hot with tomato ketchup or chutney as u desire.

Green Chutney

Contributor: Anuradha

Ingredients:

1 bunch of Coriander(dhaniya)
1 tbsp lemon juice
4-5 greenchillies
2 pinches of heeng
salt to taste
1tsp jeera
small piece of ginger
1/2 tomato
1 clove of garlic

Steps:

Remove the stem of dhaniya
Then cut the bumch of dhaniya in 2 pieces.
Put all the ingredients in the blender and blend.
Add 1tbsp of water to grind if required.

Palak Paneer

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Contributor: Snigdha

Cooking Time: 1 hr

Ingredient:

1 Spinach Packet(Fresh)
2 Onions
2 Tomatoes
1 tbsp Coriander Powder
1 tbsp Cumin Powder
Salt and chilly powder to taste
1 whole packet of Paneer
Cumin Seeds
Pinch of asafoetida.
Crushed Bay leaves
Small cinnamon stick
cloves
Crushed Garlic
Butter
Kasuri Methi
Whipping Cream

Steps:

Boil the Spinach in water in an open vessel.
Once the palak is boiled, grind it in a blender.
Heat oil in a kadai and add cumin seeds, hing, bay leaves, crushed garlic, cinnamon stick and cloves.
Add the chopped Onions in the kadai.
Once the onions are cooked, add the tomatoes.
Cook the onions and tomatoes.
Add salt , cumin powder , coriander powder and red chilly powder.
Add 1/4th stick of unsalted butter.
Once the butter melts, add the palak paste.
Do not put the lid on at any point of time.
Let the Palak boil so that the rawness is completely gone.
Add Kasuri Methi and some whipping cream.
Now add the paneer pieces.
Cook the paneer for sometime.

Goes well with: Rotis, Naan bread and Rice.

Tomato Bhurta

Contributor: Gayatri

Ingredients:

2 green chillies chopped

5-6 pods of garlic chopped big

2 small onions chopped

4 tomatoes chopped

5 table spoons chopped corriander

5 table spoons chopped pudina
Sugar to taste

Salt to taste

cumin seeds

oil

Steps:

heat oil in a kadai.

add cumin seeds.

add green chillies and garlic.

after 1/2 a minute, add onions.

let the onions fry till they are transparent.

add little salt after 3 minutes of adding onions.

Now add the chopped corriander and pudina

After frying the above for 2 more minutes, add tomatoes.

Let the mixture fry till it becomes dry and all the ingredients are mixed well together.

Now adjust the salt.

add 21/2 cups of water.

let the mixture boil well on medium flame.

add sugar.

mix well.

adjust salt and sugar according to taste.

Goes well with: Rice and khichdi

Spring Onions and Besan curry

Contribution From : Gayatri

Ingredients:

2 bunches of spring onions(available in walmart)

1/2 tea spoon of cumin seeds

1/2 a tea spoon of mustard seeds

1 table spoon of cumin powder

1 table spoon of corriander powder.(alternatively u can use rasam powder in place of cumin and corriander powder)

red chilly powder according to taste

5 table spoons of Besan

salt according to taste

1.1/2 table spoons of oil.

Steps:

heat oil in a pan.

Add cumin and mustard seeds

let them crackle.

now add the chopped spring onions.

let the spring onions fry. you can see the quantity reduce.

Now add salt and fry until u smell the raw flavor of spring onions disappear. now add the red chilly powder corriander and cumin powders. Mix well.

Now sprinkle besan in the above mixture.

Adjust salt.

if needed add very little water and mix.

do not cook the curry for more than a minute or two after adding besan.

serve with white rice. Best if served immediately after cooking.

Goes well with: Rice