Dahi Papdi Chaat !

Hope you all had great diwali and enjoyed. I had a nice diwali, but due to unavoidable circumstances I was not able to post recipes and visit your blogs. Will visit them soon. Also will post my diwali recipes.

Dahi Papdi Chaat is a popular in North India Chaat. My hubby's favourite and I like it without curds.

Ingredients
Papdi - 8 nos (For recipe to make papdi at home click here)
Boiled potato - 2nos

Onion - 1no chopped
Tomato - 1no chopped
Chaat Masala - 2 pinches
Fresh Curds/Plain yogurt - 8 tspns
Green Chutney as per your taste(click on name for recipe)
Sweet Chutney as per your taste (click on name for recipe)
Salt
Freshly chopped coriander
Omapodi/Sev

Preparation Method
Arrange Papdi on a plate.
Add one by one above ingredients in the same order on the papdi and enjoy.

Dahi Papdi Chaat is ready to serve.

Notes - You can also add boiled green gram instead of onion.

Instant Dhokla/Steamed Savoury Cake and Award!!!

My Eggless Chocolate Cake won the Best Cake Recipe in Crazy for Cake Event hosted by Priya Mahadevan. Thanks Anitha for choosing my recipe from so many entries and its a big surprise. Thanks Priya for hosting such a wonderful event and for the award. I feel very happy and it motivates to bake frequently. You guys have made my day:-)

My Dad asked me to prepare Dhokla since the time he came here, I somehow couldnot do. Today prepared for evening snack as they are leaving back to India. This time it came out perfect.

Dhokla is a popular Gujarathi dish. Its very delicious and tastes like savoury cake.

Ingredients
For Dhokla
Kadalai Maav/Besan - 2 cups
Thair/Plain curds/Yogurt - 2 cups
Manjal/Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
Eno fruit salt - 1/2 tablespoon
Water as required
Salt as required

For Seasoning
Oil - 3 tspns
Mustard - 1/2 tspn
Hing/Asafotida - 1/4 tspn
Green Chilli -2 nos
Grated coconut - 2 -3tspns
Chopped coriander - 2tspns

Preparation Method
In  a vessel, add Kadalai maav/besan, curds, water, salt, turmeric and mix well with a help of a karandi/laddle or whisk to dosa batter consistency.
Finally add Eno salt and mix. Leave it.
In a pressure cooker, fill little water.
Grease a flat vessel with oil. Transfer the batter.
Steam it for 10-15 mins without whistle.
Season it with the above ingredients except grated coconut and coriander.
Pour it and allow it to cool and cut into desired shapes.

Serve with Green chutney with the seasonings on top.

Delicious Dhokla/Steamed Savoury Cake is ready to serve. Serve with Green Chutney or as it is.

Anitha and Priya this is for you:-)

Notes -You can also use Idli plate and steam like idlis.

Mutter Paneer(Green Peas with Cottage Cheese)

Mutter Paneer is a very delicious gravy/sidedish. Its cooked with Green Peas, Cottage Cheese cubes with spices. Its an North Indian dish.

Hope you all enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients
Paneer -200gms or 20 cubes (Homemade or Readymade)
Mutter(Patani/Green Peas) - 2 cups/1 small can(Frozen or fresh)

Onion - 2 nos
Tomato - 2nos
Garam Masala - 1 tspn
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn (As per your taste)
Spices - Cinamon, Black cardamom - small pieces just for taste.(optional)

Thick curds - 2 tspns
Oil as required
Ghee 1 tspn for taste.
Salt

Preparation Method
Chop onion and tomato to medium size cubes.

In a Kadai/pan, put little oil and fry paneer till brown and keep aside.

In the same Kadai, put little oil and spices and saute onion and tomato till its soft. Allow it to cool and grind to a fine paste.

In the same Kadai, put little ghee, oil, spices and fry for a minute. Add onion and tomato paste with little water. Add salt to taste. Keep it in low flame. Keep Stirring.

Once its cooked well, add green peas, garam masala and red chilli powder mix well. Keep it in low flame. Add curds and mix.

Once its boiled, check for salt and add paneer and mix well. Allow it to boil once and off the stove.

Mutter Paneer is ready to serve. This can be a side dish for Chapathi, Naan, Kulcha and Rotis (Indian Breads)

This recipe is going out for my Say Cheese event with Palak Paneer.

Palak Paneer

Palak Paneer which I made last weekend at home. This is a very tasty gravy prepared with fresh spinach and Paneer(Cottage Cheese). This dish Palak Paneer is speciality of Northern India. We had this with chapathi as side dish. It was very tasty and yummy.

Seeing fresh spinach in market made me to buy, usually I prepare Keerai Kootu a South Indian gravy and for a change I prepared this dish.

In my recent post you might have read how to make paneer at home, if not click here. Here I go with the recipe. Hope you all enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients
Palak(Spinach) - 1 bunch
Paneer -200gms or 20 cubes
Onion - 1 no
Tomato - 1no
Garam Masala - 1 tspn
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
Spices - Cinamon, Black cardamom - small pieces just for taste.(optional)
Salt

For seasoningOil - 3 tspns
Mustard - 1/2 tspn
Cumin seeds(Jeeragam/Jeera) - 1 tspn
Dry Red chilli - 2 nos

Preparation MethodChop onion and tomato to medium size cubes.
Separate spinach leaves from the stem and wash thouroughly.
In a vessel keep water for boiling, keep sufficient water to drop spinach in it. Once its boiling off the stove, put these spinach and leave it till you are doing other things.

In a Kadai, put little oil put spices and fry for a minute. Then put onion and fry till its transperent. Then add tomato and fry till it cooks well. Add litte salt. Keep it in low flame.

While this is cooking,

Filter spinach and grind in mixie to a fine paste. Mix the paste with onion and tomato mixture and boil it. Add salt, garam masala and red chilli powder. Keep it in low flame.
In a sauce pan, put 1 tspn oil and fry paneer for few minutes. Mix this with the gravy. Let it cook for few minutes in low flame.
In the same sauce pan, put 2 tspn oil, mustard wait till it splutters, add red chilli and cumin seeds. After 2 minutes its done. Mix all the above with Palak Paneer.

Palak Paneer is ready to serve. This can be a side dish for Chapathi, Naan, Kulcha and Rotis (Indian Breads)

Dahi Sev

Dahi Sev is very tasty. You can say it a chaat or salad. Its from North India. Its a mix of Dahi called yogurt(curds) in Hindi and Sev a fried savoury. It is very simple and easy to prepare.

Ingredients
Sev (Oma Podi) - 1 cup
Dahi(Thair, Plain Yogurt/Curds) - 1 cup
Chopped Onion - 1 no
Chopped Tomato - 1no
Chaat masala - 2 pinches
Chopped Kothmir(Coriander leaves/Cilantro)- 1 tspn
Salt a pinch

Preparation Method
In a bowl mix onion, tomato with a pinch of salt.
Then beat dahi to smooth then mix.
Top it up with Sev, chaat masala and Kothmir.

Yummy Dahi Sev is ready to serve. Eat immediately after mixing before sev becomes soggy.

CHANNA MASALA

Channa Masala is very tasty gravy for Bhaturas, Puris or chapathi. Its a North Indian dish.

REQUIRED INGREDIENTS

KABUL CHANNA(CHICKPEA) - 1 CUP
ONION - 2 NOS
TOMATO - 2 NOS
GINGER GARLIC PASTE - 1 TSPN
SPICES - CLOVES, CINAMON, BLACK CARDAMOM - 2NOS
OIL
SALT

PREPARATION METHOD

SOAK KABUL CHANNA OVERNITE AND COOK TILL SOFT.
IN A KADAI, PUT LITTLE OIL ADD SPICES, 1 CHOPPED ONION, 1 CHOPPED TOMATO AND FRY TILL ITS SOFT. THEN GRIND IN MIXIE.
HEAT OIL IN PAN
ADD GINGER GARLIC PASTE
ADD THE GRINDED MIXTURE AND COOK FOR FEW MINS.
ADD CHANNA MASALA POWDER AND RED CHILLI POWDER ACCORDING TO TASTE
NOW ADD COOKED CHANNA, LITTLE WATER, SALT AND MIX WELL. ALLOW IT TO BOIL FOR 10MINS.

CHANNA MASALA IS READY TO SERVE.

NOTES - IF REQUIRED YOU CAN ALSO ADD CHOPPED ONION, TOMATO AND BOIL.

Pav Bhaji

Ingredients

Tomato – 4 big
Potato - 4 big
Cauliflour – 1 small
Capsicum – 1 big
Green Peas – 1 cup
Onion – 2 nos big
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
Pav bhaji masala – 3 tsps
Red chili powder – 1 tsp
Salt – 2 tsp
Butter – 2 bars


Preparation method - Bhaji


1. Boil potato, cauliflour and green peas
2. In a pan add little butter or oil then add ginger garlic paste
3. Add chopped onions
4. Then chopped tomatoes
5. Fry for sometime till raw smell goes.
6. Add boiled potatoes, cauliflour and green peas
7. Press all with potato masher
8. Add butter sticks
9. Then add pav bhaji masala and red chilli powder
10. Add salt and water
11. Allow it to cook for 5mins


Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with hot paav, raw onions and lemon juice.


This serves for 4 persons.