Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Narali Poha(Photographs)


Time 10 min
Low Calorie Snacks

Ingredients
.. 1 bowl poha thin/thick
.. 1 bowl grated fresh coconut.
.. 1 tea spoon minced Ginger.
.. 1 tea spoon green chilly paste
.. cilantro
.. 1 lemon juice
.. salt
.. sugar
.. cumin seeds
.. Hing

Procedure

1.. Soak poha into water and immediately put them on seaw to drain water.
2.. Add grated coconut,ginger,chilly paste,salt sugar,lemon juice .
3.. Mix well
4.. Take some oil in a separate pan, add cumin seed and hing.
5.. Pour this hot oil into poha mix.
6.. Mix homogeneously.

Garnish with cilantro and serve chilled.

#..Suvali

Ingredients

..1 bowl wheat flour
..1 tspn sesame
..2 tspn oil
.. Salt

Procedure

1..Make a dough like puri by adding sesame,oil and salt.
2..Make small puris.
3..Spread them to dry on a paper.
4..Deep fry them .

Khandvee/Surali Chya Wadya

Ingredients

..Besan flour/Graham flour
..Mustard
..Oil
..Sour butter milk
..cilantro
..Salt
..Grated dry coconut
..Turmeric
..Sugar

Procedure

1..Mix water,besam evenly..make a fine paste.
2..Heat it up ,add salt,little sugar,turmeric,adjust water content..It should be like a paste.
3..Spread on a plate. allow to cool.cut into strips .
4..Garnish with tadka of oil,mustard,coconut,cilantro.
5..make rolls

(#)..Kothmeer Wadi(Photographs)


Total Time : 15 min
Low Fat Snacks.

Ingredients

.. Chaana Daal
.. Cilantro
.. Salt
.. Turmeric
.. Hing
.. Soda

Precedure

1..Grind chaana daal along with lots of cilantro .Make a thick paste.
2.. Add salt,hing,turmeric,Soda in a paste.
3..Steam it in a plate.Use Dhokla steamer.
4..Cut into square pieces.
5..Deep fry them.
6..Serve hot with tamarind chutney or ketchup or oil.

Note : I didnt had a dhokla steamer so i used idli steamer.Thats why the wadi is circular :)..You can try any desired shape.


Chaas Na Pooda

Chaas na pooda
Buttermilk omlete.

Ingredients

.. 1 bowl wheat flour
.. Sour butter milk
.. Cumin seed
.. Garlic paste
.. Green Chilly paste
.. Cilantro chopped
.. Salt

Procedure

1. Mix water,flour and all spices including cilantro.
2. Make liquid paste.
3. Make a omlet.

Serve hot with lemon sweet pickle.

Tomato Chutney(Photographs)


Ingredients

..Red tomato finely chopped.
..Curry leaves
..Red chilly
..Green chilly
..Onions finely shopped
..Fineel seed (sauf)
..Tamarind
..Salt
..Sugar
..Cumin
..Mustard
..Oil
..Turmeric.
..Hing

Procedure

1. Oil in a hot pan.Splutter mustards,cumin,feenel,chillies and curry leaves.
2. Add onions,Stir till they become golden brown.
3. Add tomatoes,tamarind,salt,sugar/jaggery.

Note:- Fineel seed,sugar and tamarind are important ingredients .

Methi na Thepla

Ingredients

..Fresh methi leaves
..1 bowl Wheat flour
..1 tbl spn Besan flour
..2 tbl spn Bajra Flour
.. Sugar/jaggery
.. Salt
.. Cumin seed
.. Oil.
.. Hing
.. Turmeric
.. Green Chilly powder.

Procedure

1.. Add all spices in a flour.Mix all flours together.
2.. Steam methi leaves add into the flour
3.. Pour 1 tbl spn oil
4.. Make a dough
5.. Keep it aside for some time

make parathas.
Serve them hot with tomato chutney or lemon pickle.