Alu Bonda

Day 4 : Alu bonda

Ingredients:
Potato : 1
Besan / Gram Flour : 1 cup
Rice Flour : 1/4 cup
Red Chilli Powder : 1 to 2 tsp
Ajwain Powder : 1/4 tsp(optional)
Garam masala powder : a pinch (optional)
cooking soda : a pinch
Salt As per taste
Water
Oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Wash and peel the potato. Slice them and keep aside.
2. In a bowl mix all the other ingredients expect oil and water.
3. Add water to the ingredients and make a semi solid batter.
4. Heat the oil .
5. Dip each potato slice in the batter and deep fry them until brown in color.
6. After removing from oil place them on paper towel, so that extra oil is absorbed.

Serve with even tea and enjoy!!

Spicy peanut chat

Day 4 : Spicy peanut chat

I'm posting whatever I'm preparing this week.So here is an easy and crunchy chat recipe.

Ingredients:
Peanuts (Ground nuts) : 1/2 cup
Carrot - 1 grated
Cucumber - 1/2 grated
Tomato - 1 small chopped
Onion - 1 small chopped
Coriander leaves - 1 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Temper:
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seed - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Hing - a pinch

Method:
1. Dry roast the peanuts and peel the skin and split them
2. Mix all the other ingredients in a bowl expect lemon juice.
3. Heat the oil and add mustard seeds. Once they splutter add urad dal and hing.
4. Add this temper to the mixture and add lemon juice and mix well

Serve with evening tea..

Chocolate chip cookies with dry nuts

Whats better than a chocolate?? I love chocolate in any form.Be it a chocolate,cake or a cookie.I found this eggless chocolate chip cookie recipe from this site. I made it with few modifications. I added cocoa powder for rich color and also added almonds.

Ingredients:


All purpose flour - 1 cup
Butter - 1/2 cup
Cocoa - 1/4 cup
Walnuts - 1/2 cup chopped
Almonds - 1/4 cup chopped
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 150 C. Sift all purpose flour,cocoa, baking powder and keep aside.
• In a bowl add softened butter and sugar and mix until it become creamy.
• Now add flour mixture, almonds, walnuts, choco chips and knead into a dough. If dough is dry add few drops of milk. 
• On the baking tray line a baking sheet or apply butter
• Now divide dough into small balls (roughly in the size of a lemon) and place them on tray and flatten a bit.(If you need a crunchy cookies flatten the dough more).
• Bake this in the pre-heated oven for 20 mins and after that allow it to cool completly on a wire rack.

Hesaru Kaalu Usli (A Spicy Moong snack)

Moong is known as hesaru kaalu in Kannada.We can make many dishes out of this. Here is recipe for usli. It is an easy and healthy snack.

Ingredients:

Moong (Green gram) - 1 cup
Onion - 1 medium
Green chilli - 1
Coriander (chopped) - 2 table spoons
Curry leaves - few
Coconut - 2 table spoons (optional)
Lemon juice - 1 table spoon
Salt - to taste

Tempering:
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tea spn
Urad dal (black gram) - 1/4 tea spoon
Oil - 2-3 table spoons

Method:

1.Soak moong for 7-8 hrs.
2.Cook it in pressure cooker (1-2 whistles) with little water and salt.
3.Chop onion, green chilli, coriander and keep aside.
4. Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan/vessel. Once oil is hot add mustard seeds.
5. After the mustard seeds splutter, add urad dal.
6. Add onion, green chillis, curry leaves and cook till onions become translucent.
7. Now add cooked moong, grated coconut and mix lightly (over mixing could make the moong  mushy). Turn off the stove.
8. Add lemon juice and mix once again.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot..

Indian Spicy bun (Khara bun)

One day one of friends had posted about the spicy buns that are available in Bangalore on Facebook. Though I have never tasted them in Bangalore, I had eaten them in my place as a child when my grandfather brought it for us. So I thought of giving it a try. To my surprise it came out well. So here I'm posting the receipe of the Indian spicy buns.

Spicy buns:
Ingredients:
1. All purpose flour - 4 cups
2. Active dry yeast - 2 table spoons
3. Milk - 1 cup
4. Butter - 3-4 table spoons
5. sugar - 1 table spoon
6. Salt  - 1 1/2 table spoons (or to taste)


For Masala:
1. Onion - 1 Medium size
2. Geen chillies - 2
3. ginger - 1 table spoon
4. Mustard seed - little
5. Coriander
6. Jeera - little
7. Oil

Method:
Preparing Masala:
1.Cut the onions, green chillies.
2.Heat one table spoon of oil and put mustard seeds and jeera and allow them to sizzle.
3.Add ginger,chopped green chillies, onion and fry till onions get transparent and add coriander.
 Keep this aside.

Preparing buns:
1. warm the milk (it has to be slightly warm. If its too hot would kill the yeast).
2. Add yeast, sugar into the milk and keep aside for 5 mins.
3. Take a large bowl and put the all purpose flour, salt, melted buttter into it and mix well.
4. Now add the yeast mix into the flour bowl and kneed well (for about 10-12 mins). The dough has to be soft.
5.Make well inside the dough and place the above prepared masala and mix well.
5. Place this dough into a bowl coated with butter and cover with a wet cloth and keep it aside for 1 hour.
 After an hour the dough would have doubled in size.
6.Punch the dough a little and make small round dumplings .
7.Keep these dumplings for another 30 mins by covering a wet cloth.
8. Now take a brush and apply little milk on the bun dumplings (this gives the buns a nice color).Its called milk wash.(you can also do same with egg).
9. Preheat the oven at 225 C  and bake these for 20 mins. (keep checking in between).
10. After 20 mins remove the buns from oven and allow them to cool for 20 mins.

Serve them with the evening tea and enjoy..

I know its a long procedure, but if you love cooking it gives a great pleasure in preparing.. Enjoy..