Gravies

Brinjal Vepudu

This was a recipe from my friend.

It is kind of semidry, which can used as a side dish for rotis or just like a palya.

Ingredients

Serves 4 adults

Salt – as per taste

Long green brinjals – 8 (medium sized)

Oil –  4tbsp (as much as required for brinjal to get cooked as we do not use water)

Vangi bath powder – 2tbsp

Chilli powder – ¼ tsp

Tamarind juice – 2tbsp 

Onion – 1 small  sliced

Curry leaves and mustard for seasoning

Procedure

• Slice the brinjal into thin long pieces and add it to water for 5 mins and keep aside.
• Heat oil in thick bottomed kadai and add the mustard and curry leaves and sliced onion and fry for 2 minutes.
• Then remove the brinjal from water and add to the above and add little salt and close the kadai with a lid.
• After few minutes add the vangi bath powder and chilli powder and tamarind juice and again close the lid and cook for sometime.After every 2 min keep mixing.
• Cook till the brinjals get cooked.
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Cauliflower green curry

It is kind of semidry, which can used as a side dish for rotis or just like a palya.

Ingredients

Serves 4 adults

Salt – as per taste

Oil –  2tbsp

Onion – 1 small  sliced

Curry leaves and mustard for seasoning

Cauliflower florets – 2 cups (cleaned by soaking in warm salted water for 10 mins and washed in cold water)

Green peas –  ¼ cup

To grind to a paste

Chilli powder – as per taste

Dhaniya powder – ¼ tsp

Clove and cinnamon powder – ¼ tsp

Coriander leaves – few

Ginger – ¼ inch

Garlic cloves – 6

Turmeric powder – 1 pinch

Green chillies - 1

Procedure 

• Cook the cauliflower florets along with green peas till it is cooked and drain the water and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a kadai and the seasoning and add the onion and fry for few minutes.
• Add the boiled the cauliflower and green peas and fry for sometime.
• Add the grinded masal and salt and fry for sometime.Add very little water and close the lid and cook for some time and serve it hot with rotis  or as a side dish

 

 

Kadai Vegetables

It is a northindian gravy.It goes well with any indian breads like chapathi,roti etc

Ingredients:
Serves 5 people

Ingredient

quantity

Vegetables (carrot,beans,green peas)	2 cups
Capsicum	1
Garam masala powder	½ tsp
Dhaniya powder	½ tsp
Turmeric powder	1 pinch
Red chilli powder	1 tsp ( as per taste )
Kasturi methi	Few strands
Oil	2 tbsp
Butter	1 tbsp
Salt to taste	as per taste
Water	As per consistency
Coriander leaves	For decorating

To grind to paste

Ingredient	quantity
Cashew nut	10 pieces
Tomatoes	2 big
Onion	1 medium sized

Method :

1.     Cut the vegetables into small square shaped like pieces and boil and keep it aside.
2.     Cut also the capsicum into suare shaped pieces.
3.     Grind the ingredients mentioned above to grind to paste and keep it aside.
4.     Heat oil in a thick kadai and fry capsicum for some time and then add the boiled vegetables and fry.
5.     Add the grinded paste (3) and add water and salt as required.
6.     Add turmeric powder and dhaniya powder.
7.     After 5 min add the garam masala and close the lid for simmer the stove till the oil separates out.
8.     Add the kasturi methi and remove from the stove and serve by adding the coriander leaves on the top.

  Mushroom fiesta

It is a very simple and easy recipe.It is a simple side dish . It is one my college days inventions.Which I tried @ my friends place when we had a SALAD group get together.My friend Lux named this dish.

Ingredients:

Ingredient	quantity
Mushrooms	1 packet of 200 gms
Green chillies long pieces	3-4
Pepper crushed  with hand not fine powder	12 peppercorns
Garlic sliced	8 cloves
Onion sliced long pieces	1 medium sized
Capsicum sliced long pieces	1 medium sized(optional)
Spring onion	4 strands (optional)
Salt	As per taste
Oil	2 tbsp
Vinegar	1 tsp
Soya sauce	1 tsp

Method:

1.      Heat oil in a pan, add little garlic and mushroom and salt and fry. The mushroom leaves out water.

2.      Fry till mushrooms cooked and keep aside.

3.      Heat oil in the pan, add remaining garlic, onion and fry. add green chillies, capsicum and fry.

4.      Add add mushrooms, spring onions, salt vinegar and soya sauce and pepper powder and fry for 2 minutes and then serve it hot.