Author: ashashenoy

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Breakfast Lunch OnePot

Rice and Moong Dal Chitranna

Rice and Moongdal Chitranna

Tired of adding masalas to your rice preparation? Want a easy dish which can be #breakfast as well as #lunchbox ready? Give a try, this simple yet flavourful rice preparation is less known but surely going to impress you!

There are a number of ways in which #chitranna is made. Usually people hate it as it is most commonly made. But this one my mom makes and there are no haters so far at #home 🙂

Ingredients –

  1. Rice -1/2 cup
  2. Moong Dal – 1/2 cup
  3. Oil – 3tsp
  4. Mustard – 1/2tsp
  5. Jeera – 1/4tsp
  6. Curry Leaves – 1strand
  7. Ginger – small piece
  8. Green chilly -3
  9. Turmeric – 1/2tsp
  10. Salt
  11. Freshly Grated coconut- about 5tsp
  12. Lemon

Method of preparation –

  1. Wash 1/2 cup rice(I used sona masuri) and half cup moong dal.
  2. Take a pan add 3tsp oil. Add mustard seeds and 1/4tsp jeera. Once spluttered and curry leaves, a small piece of finely chopped ginger and 3 finely cut green chilli. Add 1/2tsp turmeric.
  3. Then add rice and dal. Mix everything well.
  4. Add sufficient water to cook the mixture(3/4th of the pan). It will take 15-20min to cook. Keep the gas on medium flame and also add salt to taste. Once it is cooked completely top it with freshly grated coconut.
  5. While serving add lemon juice and enjoy.

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Breakfast

Taushe/Cucumber Muddo/Gatti/Dumplings

Taushe/ cucumber muddo

Started our deepavali celebration by having this healthy breakfast made by mom. She picked up huge cucumber and very aromatic turmeric leaves on her way back from Goa temple visit.

These steamed dumplings can be made in 2 ways. The base remains the same and in one version jaggery is added and in other ginger and green chilly is added. I like the mixture of a little bit of both.

The ingredients required are-

  1. Cucumber – about 1kg
  2. Coconut – half
  3. Jaggery – as per taste(about 50grms or more)
  4. Salt
  5. Rice powder(idli rava) – about 1.5 cup
  6. Turmeric leaves

Method of preparation –

  • First make tiny pieces of cucumber as we cut for salad.
  • Grate the Coconut and jaggery(this can be more if you like sweet) and mix with cucumber.
  • Add salt to taste and squeeze well
  • Next add rice powder and mix well
  • Keep it aside for sometime for rice flour to absorb water
  • Now take the turmeric leaves. If the leaves are big cut then in the middle.
  • Keep 2 pieces in the cross shape and place the mixture.
  • Fold from all the 4 sides
  • Keep in the steamer and steam for about 20min.

Note :

To prepare spicy version in place of jaggery finely chopped ginger pieces and green chilly has to be added.

Alternatively you can add ginger and green chilly to this mixture itself to make it sweet and spicy.

Cajun Potatoes

This is a starter made using baby potatoes. We tasted it in barbeque nation. When we craved it, found that we don’t have baby potatoes. So made using regular boiled potatoes. Below is our simple recipe which definitely tasted yummm.

Cajun Potatoes

List of Ingredients required –

  1. Boiled potatoes – 3-4
  2. Corn flour – 3-4tsp
  3. Maida – 3-4tsp
  4. Salt
  5. Pepper powder
  6. Water
  7. Oil to fry
  8. Mayonnaise- 7-8tsp
  9. Tomato ketchup- 5tsp
  10. Mixed herbs
  11. Amchur powder
  12. Milk
  13. Onion

Method of preparation –

  •  First take 3-4 boiled potatoes, peel it n mash it. Add salt and pepper powder. Make small balls(just like baby potatoes)
  •  Next make a batter of corn flour and maida in equal portions. To this add salt and pepper powder. Make thick batter by adding required amt of water.
  •  Dip the potatoes in the batter and deep fry in oil.
  •  Now prepare mayonnaise sauce. Take about 7-8 spoon mayonnaise and to this add about 5 spoon tomato ketchup. Also add mixed herbs, pepper powder and amchur powder. Finally add little milk to dilute the mixture. 
  •  Now dip the potatoes in this mixture and serve. Top with finely chopped onions.
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Lunch Side Dish

Gulla(brinjal) Puddi Sagle

Gulla Puddi Sagle

A powdered(puddi) masala is filled in whole(sagle) brinjal. Hence the name. It is usually prepared using mattu gulla(a famous variety of Brinjal available in coastal Karnataka region). Now it is not in the season so we prepared using purple brinjal.

Ingredients –

1. Brinjal – 6-8
2. Urad Dal – 2tsp + 1tsp
3. Coriander seeds – 2tsp
4. Coconut – half
5. Tamarind – gooseberry sized piece
6. Red chilly -6-7
7. Salt – to taste
8. Jaggery – lemon sized piece
9. Oil – 3tsp
10. Mustard seeds – 1tsp
11. curry leaves
12. Water – as required

Steps to prepare are as below-

  •  Make horizontal and vertical cuts in the brinjal to make cavities to fill the masala. Keep them in water for sometime.
  •  Meanwhile roast 2tsp urad dal and 2tsp coriander seeds with little oil till aromatic.
  •  Next grind them with grated coconut(half), small piece of tamarind and red chilly(6-7). Add salt to taste and a piece of jaggery. Grind with minimum water.
  •  Now remove brinjal from water. Fill this masala in the cavities.
  •  In the pan take 3tsp oil. Add urad dal, mustard seeds and curry leaves to prepare a tampering.
  •  Keep these stuffed brinjal in the pan. Can add little water from cleaning mixie. This is optional. Since brinjal is kept in water, it will cook even without adding water.
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Lunch Salad Side Dish

Taushe ulal/ Cucumber Salad

Now it is the season of cucumber and we are preparing a number of dishes using this #veggie which has lots of water content. This is most widely used in salads and eaten raw. Here is a simple and quick side dish. There’s another way of preparing ulal where a masala is ground and added. We prepare this as explained below-

1. Cucumber – 1 medium
2. Coconut – 1/4
3. Salt – to taste
4. Oil – 2tsp
5. Mustard -1/2tsp
6. Curry leaves
7. Urad dal -1/2tsp
8. Hing – pinch
9. Red chilly -1
10. Green chilly -1
11. ginger – small piece

Taushe Ulal / Cucumber Salad
  •  Cut cucumber into very tiny pieces. If it is a mature one you may remove skin n seeds as they might be bitter. Tender ones will be a little sweet.
  •  Also finely chop a small piece of ginger and 1 green chilly.
  •  Grate 1/4 Coconut.
  •  Mix all the above and add salt to taste.
  •  Now prepare a tadka/tampering with oil, mustard, curry leaves, urad dal, hing and one red chilly.
  •  Add the tadka and mix well.
  • Preferably prepare this just before serving else cucumber will release water.