Tomato Rice

Ingredients:

1) Basmati rice (or) plain rice - 2 cups
2) Tomato paste – 4 or 5 tsp
3) Oil – 2 or 3 tsp
4) Red chillies – 2 or 3
5) Bay leaves – 2
6) Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
7) Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
8) Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
9) Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
10) Ginger and garlic paste – 1 tsp
11) Coriander leaves for garnish
12) Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

• Cook rice separately & after cooking rice spread separately in a wide bowl. Make sure that rice shouldn’t be sticky.
• Add tomato paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder & salt to the cooked rice. Mix it well.
• Take a bottomed kadai, heat oil & add mustard seeds along with cumin seeds, red chillies and ginger garlic paste, bay & curry leaves.
• Add tomato mixed rice to it and fry for 5 minutes, mix gently.
• Keep stirring & make sure the rice shouldn’t be break.
• Once it is done, remove from heat.
• Garnish with coriander.

Simple isn't it, but taste is too tasty.

Short term Tomato Pickle

Ingredients:

1) Tomatoes – 1kg
2) Oil – 1 cup
3) Thick tamarind juice – ½ cup or 100 gms
4) Mustard seeds – 1tsp
5) Cumin seeds – 1tsp
6) Fenugreek (methi) &Cumin seeds powder – 1 ½ tsp
7) Curry leaves – few
8) Rock salt – 2tsp
9) Ginger garlic paste – 3 tsp
10) Red chilli powder – 1 cup (adjust according to spice level)
11) Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
12) Red chillies – 4 or 5
13) Salt to taste or ½ cup

Method of preparation:


 Chop the tomatoes. Take tomatoes into bowl and add 2 tsp of rock salt & mix it well.
 After mixing, put all tomatoes in wide tray & keep it outside to dry 5 to 6 hrs before preparing the pickle.
 Heat oil in a pan, add mustard & cumin seeds.
 Add ginger garlic paste, red chillies, turmeric powder & curry leaves.
 Fry the above all till the chillies & curry leaves turns crisp.
 Then add tomato pieces & stir till the tomatoes half cook.
 Add tamarind juice & keep stirring, followed by red chilli powder & salt.
 Cook the mixture till the tomatoes cooked well & add fenugreek & cumin seeds powder.
 When it is done, remove from heat & keep it aside.
 When the mixture is warm, then put in a glass jar for storage and store it in fridge.

It’s great with hot steaming white rice.

Cauliflower Pickle

Ingredients:

1) Cauliflower - 1 medium sized
2) Oil – ½ cup
3) Mustard seeds – 1tsp
4) Cumin seeds – 1tsp
5) Lemon - 1
6) Red chilli powder - 3 tsp (adjust according to spice level)
7) Garlic cloves – 2 or 3(crushed)
8) Cumin powder – 2tsp
9) Mustard powder – 2tsp
10) Fenugreek(Methi) powder - 2tsp
11) Curry leaves - few
12) Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

 Cut florets and soak in salt water for half an hour, then dry them on cloth/tissue paper.
 Mix above all powders including salt and add dried florets to it.
 Take oil in pan/khadai and heat it, when oil gets heated add mustard seeds and cumin seeds to it.
 When it gets roasted, add crushed garlic and curry leaves to it.
 Remove from the heat and pour this to florets and mix well.
 Finally add lemon juice to it. Let it stay it for one day so that all spices and lime juice gets into it which makes pickle tasty.

Egg Capsicum

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 2 capsicums
• 2 onions
• 2 green chillies
• 1 sized tomato
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp garam masala powder
• 1 tsp chat masala
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 cup oil
• Salt to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Boil the eggs and remove their shells. Cut the capsicums into 1.1/2 inch long pieces. Cut Onions and the tomato into long, thick slices. Chop green chillies finely.
• Heat little oil in the frypan. Fry the eggs till golden brown and remove them from the frypan.
• Heat some more oil. Add green chillies, onions and Capsicums to the oil. Add garam masala, salt, turmeric powder.
• Fry them till medium tender then add the sliced tomatoes. Cut the eggs into four long pieces.
• Sprinkle salt, black pepper and chaat masala over the eggs, adjusting to the salt already added to the Capsicum.
• When the Capsicum is done and mix well, remove from fire.


Serve hot with puris or parrotas.

Aloo zucchini fry curry

Ingredients:

1) Potato (Aloo) – 3 medium size
2) Zucchini – 2 medium size
3) Oil – 4 tsp
4) Green chillies – 5 or 7 (adjust according to spice level)
5) Chopped onions – ½ cup
6) Ginger & garlic paste – 1 tsp
7) Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
8) Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
9) Coconut powder – 1 tsp
10) Curry leaves – few
11) Coriander & Mint leaves for garnishing


Method of preparation:


 Wash potatoes, each potato cut into 4 cubes or according to your preference.
 Boil potatoes 10 to 15 mins.
 After boiling take out the skin on potato & keep it aside
 Peel the zucchini skin & cut into medium size.
 Heat oil in a pan & add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, ginger garlic paste followed by chopped onions & green chillies. Let them fry till onions get cooked.
 Add zucchini & close the lid. Once zuccini gets half cook then add boiled potatoes & keep stirring.
 Let them cook for 10mins, add salt & followed by coconut powder.
 If you wish, you can add coriander powder.
 Once it is done, remove from heat and garnish with coriander & mint leaves.

I hope you all like this recipe. It’s great combination with chapatti & hot steaming rice.

Bottle gourd chutney

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peel of bottle gourd
• Oil – 3 tsp
• Turmeric powder - pinch
• Tamarind – ½ inch
• Tomato – ½
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Green chillies – 5 or 6
• Red chilli – 1
• Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
• Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
• Coriander powder – ½ tsp
• Coriander leaves - few
• Mint leaves - few

Method of preparation:

• Wash bottle gourd and peel nicely & keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard & cumin seeds.
• Add ginger garlic paste followed by red chilli, green chillies, turmeric powder, tamarind and chopped tomatoes.
• Let them fry for a while.
• Add peel of bottle gourd let fry for 5 to 6 minutes keep stirring, add mint & coriander leaves.
• Finally add coriander powder & salt. Mix it well.
• After that remove from heat & place aside till it turns to cool.
• And make it fine paste.

Finally, you can add fine chopped onions.

Bread Upma

Ingredients:

• Bread – 7 or 8 slices
• Chopped onions - 3/4th cup
• Tomato - 1
• Red Chilly powder – 3/4th tsp (adjust according to spice level)
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Butter milk - 1 cup
• Green Chilly - 2
• Minced ginger & garlic - 1 tsp (or) 1 tbsp of paste
• Butter - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves for garnishing
• Salt to taste

Method of Preparation:

• Cut the bread slices into 6 pieces each or according to your preference.
• Take butter milk in a wide vessel. If you don’t have butter milk, take 1/2 cup of curd and mix it with 1/2 cup of water.
• Add chilli powder and turmeric powder to the butter milk and mix it well.
• Each and every piece has to be soaked, use a wide container. Let soak the bread in it for 5 or less than 5 minutes. Make sure that the bread slices should not be smashed.
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard & cumin seeds, add minced ginger & garlic followed by onions. Let them fry till onions get cooked.
• Now add the chopped tomatoes, green chilies and salt. Stir well. Let the tomatoes get cooked. Add butter to it and mix them well.
• Add the soaked bread and keep on tossing. Bread should get toasted and combined well.
• Once it is done, remove from heat and garnish with coriander leaves.