Spinach Kadhi March 26, 2009

Mom is in town. Yipee!!! So enjoying all the good food and learning some new recipes as well. This one is a soothing and nutritious kadhi. Tasted wonderful with hot rice and warm chapatis too.

Ingredients:

1. Spinach – 1 cup frozen

2. Buttermilk – 3 cups

3. Garlic – finely minced - 1 huge clove

3. Sugar – 1 tsps

4. Besan (Chana daal flour) - 2 tsps

5. Green chillies – 3 – fine paste

6. Asefotida – 1 pinch

7. Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsps

8. Jeera – 1 tsps

9. Oil – 1 tbps

10. Ginger – 1 cm cube – fine paste

Method:

1. Pour the oil in vessel. Add asefotida, mustard seeds and jeera seeds when the oil is hot.

2. Add garlic over the oil, and add spinach leaves, chilli paste and ginger paste just before the garlic turns brown. Cook the spinach leaves.

3. In the mean time, mix the buttermilk, salt, sugar and besan.

4. When the spinach leaves are cooked, add the seasoned buttermilk and salt.

5. Reduce the heat and warm the kadhi through. It is now ready for you to enjoy.

You absolutely have to try this nutritious, wonderful recipe.

Muli (Radish) Parathas March 1, 2009

Muli Parathas – don’t you hear the name splashed all over Hindi movies? Heroine to hero – “Maine tumhare pasand ke Muli ke parathe banaye hain. Aur saath main Gajar ka halwa bhi.” So I decided to see what the hype was all about. I did not go hunting for a recipe, but tried this one with my regular Methi Paratha recipe, and it turned out great!

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup grated radish

2. Wheat flour – 2 and 1/2 cups

3. Besan (chana flour) – 2 tbps

4. Kasoori Methi – 1 tbps

5. Chilli powder – 1/2 tsps

6. Jeera powder – 1/2 tsps

7. Dhania (coriander) powder – 1/2 tsps

8. Salt – per taste

9. Oil – 1/2 tsps

Method:

1. Knead to dough with all ingredients to consistency of chapati dough. Set aside for half an hour.

2. Roll the parathas and roast on tava with ghee

Enjoy the hot and soft parathas with dahi.