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Archive for November 26th, 2008

Potato,cauliflower and peas subji

Posted by Geetha on November 26, 2008

Potato is the easiest subji and we can make by different varieties. We can also include other vegetables with potato so that it gives more taste to the dish. Here goes potato, cauliflower and peas. This dish very well goes with sambar rice, chappathi and other rice.

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Ingredients:-

Potato – 2

Cauliflower – 1 cup

Peas – ½ cup

Onion – 1

Tomato – 1

Coriander leaves – 2 springs

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Chili powder – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – 2 tsp

Cumin powder – ½ tsp (optional)

Garm masala – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Ginger & Garlic paste – 1 tsp

Hing – a pinch

Salt – to taste

Oil – 2 tsp

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Method:-

Cut the vegetables into small equal parts. Once it is done, cook potato and cauliflower (Don’t cook too much, so that potato will be mashed) separately and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and once it is heated up add cumin seeds and allow it to splutter. Then add hing and ginger, garlic paste, fry for a min and add onion. Once onion fried add tomato and fry till it becomes soft. Then add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chili powder, garm masala and salt, fry these masala till the raw smell goes. If needed add little water and cook it. Once it is done add potato to the mixture and mix well. Fry these mixtures for 2-3 mins and add cauliflower and peas and mix all the vegetables to the masala. Finally garnish it with coriander leaves.

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Bread Biji

Posted by Geetha on November 26, 2008

This is a quick biji recipe and it tastes very good. We need only less ingredients and it’s very simple. This goes very well with ketchup, Red chili chutney. Here the recipe goes

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Ingredients:-

Bread – 3

Gram flour – ½ cup

Chili powder – 1 tsp (depends on your taste)

Salt – to taste

Oil – to fry

Water – to mix it

Method:-

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Cut the sides of the bread and keep the white portion in it. Again cut into triangle shape or length wise.Mix all the above ingredients except oil. It should be batter form (not too thick or too watery). Pour oil to ½ ‘inch to a pan. Once the oil is heated up, dip the bread into batter and dip to the oil.

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Allow 1 -2 mins on each side and flip it to other side. Once it is been brown take it out and serve hot.

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