Friday, March 14, 2014

Radish Greens Dal

Radish Greens


Ingredients

Channa Dal         - 1/2 cup
Toor Dal             - 1/2 cup
Radish Greens  - 1 bunch
Tomato               - 1 (chopped)
Green Chili         - 2
Garlic                  - 3 cloves
Turmeric             - 1/2 tsp
Lemon Juice       - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds     - 1 tsp
Red chili             - 2 broken
Curry Leaves      - few
Hing
Salt



Method :

Pressure cook dal with 2 cups of water with tomatoes, garlic, green chili and little turmeric.
Once the pressure is released, mash the dal if necessary. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds to the pan and once it crackle, add broken red chili, curry leaves and hing. Add the chopped green and saute it briefly and add it the dal. Add salt and let it boil for some more time . Squeeze some lemon juice to the dal before you serve.
      
Enjoy the dal with rice or as a soup.






Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Mushroom Gravy










Ingredients
Mushroom - 2 small boxes
Onion - 3
Tomato - 3
Chili powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tbs
Amchur powder - 1 tsp
Garam Madala - 1tsp
Cashews - 3 tbs (powdered)
Cracked pepper - 1/4 tsp
Coriander Leaves - Handful chopped
Salt
Oil



Method.
Slice the mushrooms. Cut the onions and tomatoes into small pieces.Keep oil in a frying pan
and sautee the onions till it is translucent. Add the tomatoes and little salt.
Cook the tomatoes till the oil oozes out . Add chili powder, coriander powder, little amchur powder
and pinch of garam masala and let all the masala marry well with the gravy. Add chopped coriander leaves and the sliced mushrooms to the gravy. Let it cook for 5 minutes . Add Garam masala. As mushrooms let out lot of water add water only if necessary. Finally add cashew powder and freshly cracked pepper and let it cook for few more minutes and switch off the flame.






Serve mushroom gravy with roti or with pulao .