Pav Bhaji

Ingredients:

Pav bun – 6

Onion – 2 chopped

Tomato – 3 boil, peel & paste it

Potato – 3 – 4 boiled

Dry peas – soaked overnight & boil it

Butter – 150 gm

Pav bhaji masala – 2 tblspn

Chilli powder – ½ spn

Kasuri methi – ½ spn

Salt – as per taste

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbl spn

Lemon – 1

Coriander leaves – few

Preparation:

Boil potato and peas keep aside.

Heat pan add 3 tbl spoons of butter let it melt, add onion, sauté it.

Add ginger garlic paste cook till raw smell goes. Add tomato paste cook till oil separate.

Add pav bhaji masala, salt and chilli powder mix well. Then add boiled peas and potato mash well and required water, cook for 3 mins .

Add kasuri methi mix it. When oil separates switch off the flame. Sprinkle chopped onion and coriander leaves.

Heat a dosa tawa add some butter place pav bun. Cook for 15 secs both side.

Serve with lemon wedges, butter and some chopped onion.

Tomato Rice

Ingredients:

Seeraga samba rice – 1/2kg

Onion – 1 big sliced

Mint leaves – few

Coriander leaves – few

Green chilli – 2 or 3

Ghee –30 ml

Oil – 15 ml

Salt – as per taste

To grind 1:

Tomato – 8

To grind 2:

Mint leaves – ½ cup

Coriander leaves – ½ cup

To grind 3:

Ginger – 6 pieces

Garlic – 6 pieces

Green chilli – 3

To temper:

Bay leaves – 2

Cinnamon – 4

Cardamom – 4

Stone flower – 2

Star anise – 3

Cloves – 3

Fennel seeds – ½ tspn

Preparation:

Grind tomatoes & keep aside, grind mint, coriander leaves & keep aside, grind ginger, garlic, green chilies keep aside.

Heat cooker add ghee & oil, add tempering spices , then add green chilli, onion sauté well, then add mint & coriander leaves sauté for 30 secs.

Pour ginger garlic chilli paste sauté till raw smell goes. Add salt, tomato paste & mint coriander paste mix well . boil for 2 mins.

Add rice mix it well , add 600 ml water. Boil it till water reduces. close and cook it . 1 whistle in full flame and 3 mins in slow flame. Open and mix .

Serve with onion raita or with any gravy.

Tomato chutney

Ingredients: 

Tomatoes – 5 roughly chopped 

Onion – 1 big roughly chopped 

Garlic – 10 

Red chilli powder – 2 table spoon or more 

Curry leaves - few 

Poppy seeds – 1 table spoon 

Cashew nuts – 10 

Cinnamon – 1 

Cardamom – 1 

Star anise - 1 

Salt – as per taste 

Oil – 150 ml 

Preparation:

Soak poppy seeds and cashew nuts in water for about 30 mins.
Grind tomatoes into puree, and grind onion, poppy seeds, cashew nuts and garlic into fine paste.


Heat a cooker (use long cooker to avoid spaterring), add oil and temper with cinnamon, cardamom and star anise, reduce the flame and then add chilli powder, after that increase the flame add grinded pastes immediately mix it, add curry leaves, salt then boil well . 


Then slow down the flame and boil it till oil separates. Stir occasionally.


Serve with idly, dosa and chapathi.