Guacamole DIP

Method
 2 ripe  Avocados
skin and mash into smooth paste
Add 3 chopped green chilllies.
Add 2 medium sized chopped tomatoes
Add 2 tbspn  chopped coriander leaves
Add 1tspn cumin powder
Add 1clove minced garlic
Add 2 tbspn chopped onion
Add salt to taste
Add few drops of lemon juice
Mix thoroughly
Serve as Dip with Tortilla Chips.

Masoor and Moong Dhal Fry with Methi leaves -

Method -
1/2 cup Masoor dhal(pink) +1/2 cup Moong dhal
Mix together wash and cook in the pressure cooker
1/2 cup chopped onion
11/2 tbspn garlic ginger paste
1 cup chopped methi leaves or ( frozen methi leaves )
1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
1/2 cup chopped tomatoes
3 to 4 tbspn oil
Heat oil in a kadai
Add onion , ginger garlic paste and fry until onion is transulent
Add coriander leaves fry for a while
Add chopped tomatoes and fry till it is mushy .
Add chopped methi leaves and fry for a while
Add little water to cook the methi  leaves and pinch of turmeric powder
Add the cooked dhal adding sufficient water
according to your consistency
Simmer for a while and add salt to taste.
Serve hot with roties or rice.

Bhendi Masala Fry

Method-
!/2 kg small frozen bindi or fresh bindi ( Okra )
1/4 cup legnth wise chopped onion
2 to 3 pods mashed garlic
 1  tabspn coriander powder \
1 tspn cumin powder
 1/2 tspn guram masala powder
1/2 tspn amchur powder
1/2 tspn turmeric powder
1/4 tspn red chilli powder
salt to taste
3 tbspn oil
 Heat oil in a kadai . Add onion
add mashed garlic
Fry for a while till onion becomes transulent
Add all the powders stir for a while .
 Add bindi (Okra )
salt to taste and stir for a while

Close it with a lid and keep on medium fire
 stirring  frequently  for some time .
 when it is cooked remove from fire serve hot with chapaties

Vegetable Fried Rice

Method:
3 cups cooked rice (basmati or Brown basmati rice )
1 cup  sliced spring onion
1/2 cup length wise sliced green capsicum
1/2 cup cut vegetables ( carrot , cauliflower , beans)
2 Fistful of peas
(Frozen vegetables can be added)
2 eggs
3 tbspn oil
Heat oil in a flat kadai
Add spring onions, then fry for a while.
Add capsicum, then fry for a while.
Add vegetables, then fry for a while.
Add little water to cook the vegetables
Add salt to taste
Add eggs and scramble in the vegetables .
Add 3 tablespoons of soy sauce + 1 tablespoon of vinegar
Mix thoroughly.
Mix the cooked rice.
Stir for a while on medium fire.
When done, serve hot.

Raw Banana Curry

Method -
1 big raw banana
skin and chop in to tiny cubes
 Wash and add salt to taste and keep for 10 to 15 minutes. after 15 minutes squeeze them and remove the water and keep aside
 chop 1 big or 2 medium size onion
Heat 3 tbspn oil in a kadai and
add 1/4 tspn mustard
when it splutters add 1/4 tspn jeera
add 4 slit green chillies

Add the chopped onion+  4 pods of garlic mashed or chopped finely+ 1"mashed or chopped ginger  and fry for a while till onion  becomes succulant
add 1/2 tspn coriander powder +1tsp garam masala powder+ a pinch of turmeric powder=if necessary 1/2 tspn chillipowder  and mix and stir
Add 3 tabspn chopped coriander leaves
Add 1 medium tomato chopped finely
stir for a while
Add the squeezed banana cubes(if necessary adding  little water )
Cook  till done . Serve with roties

Raw Banana Koot - Konkani Cuisine

Method -
1raw banana .Skin and chop in to tiny cubes
Wash and apply 1 tspn salt and keep aside for 1 hours time .
Masala - 2 tbspn grated coconut
2 tspn chillipowder
1/2 "tamarind
2 tspn coriander seeds +1/4 tsp methi seeds +little as +1 pinch mustard seeds
Grind all these ingredients with coconut +chillipowder+tamarind to a smooth paste
Heat oil in a kadai
 Squeeze the salted banana cubes to remove the salt water . Fry them  little by little on both sides  in the heated oil till it becomes crisp
Fry the remaining  banana cubes in the similar manner and
keep aside
while consuming last moment add these fried banana cubes in the masala . Add salt to taste and mix adding little water according to ur consistency
 Season with Mustard and curry leaves+ little asafoetida and serve withe rice and dhal .

Similar preparation can be made with Yam cubes ( Soorn )

Madki Usal (Mot )

Method -

! cup madaki soak in water previous night and 

 next day morning drain water and keep for sprouting for 24 hours
Chop 1 big onion or two medium onion
Slit 4 to 5 green chillies
 Mash 5 to 6 pods garlic
1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
 1 tab spn coriander powder
 1 tspn jeera powder
 1 tspn garam masala
 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tspn red chillipowder
1 chopped tomatoe
 Fry chopped onion + mashed garlic in oil
when the onion turns light brown color add chopped tomatoe
 and fry till it becomes soft
 Add all the above powders and stir
 Add salt to taste , chopped coriander leaves and mix well
 Add the sprouted madaki and stir well adding 1/2 cup water . cook till it is done adding water little by little .
Serve hot with roties .

Bread Fruit Bajas | Konkani

Method -
 Remove the skin of the bread fruit
 make this in to two halves
 Remove the hard portion from the middle
 Cut in to thin slices
Wash and keep aside
 Batter -
Take 1 cup of Besin
mix with salt , 1/2 tspn chillipowder , 1 tspn asafoetida ,
Add sufficient water and mix thoroughly to make a thick batter
 Heat 2 or 3dessert spn full oil in a kadai
Dip  the bread fruit slices on both sides to get a coating and deep fry  on a medium flame till it turns in to light brown colour. 
Serve hot with Tea or coffee. 

Idli in jack fruit leaf moulds | Konkani Khotto

 

 Method -
1 big cup urad dhal
11/2 cups idli rava wash and keep aside
 Soak the dhal  in water in the morning
for  6 hours
Wash the dhal 4 to 5 times
 Grind it in the grinder or in the mixer adding sufficient water
 when the batter becomes smooth remove it from the grinder
Wash thoroughly  11/2 cups of idli rava and add to this batter
Allow this to ferment over night
 In winter heat the oven to make it warm .
 Keep the idli batter in a vessel in the warm oven over night to ferment it
. Next morning fill the jack fruit leaf moulds and steam them in the idli  steamer for 15 minutes .
 At the time of relishing remove the idlies from the moulds and serve it with spicy coconut chatny or with mutton or fish curry .

jack fruit leaves mould -method

Pin $ equal size jack fruit leaves in the middle
pin then up in to a tumbler shape

Tapioca Curry | Kerala

1 kg Tapioca
Wash and cook in the cooker with 2 whistles

After cooling , remove the skin and cut in to 1//2"thin and  1/2" long pieces

Heat 1  dessert spn oil in  a kadai

 Add 1 tspn mustard +a few curry leaves
Add 3 to 4 chopped green chillies
Add little turmeric powder
 Add the cut tapioca pieces
 Add salt to taste and little water
 stir well
 Masala -
 1/2 cup grated coconut
 Grind in to coarse paste
   3   to4 roasted  red chillies or 2 tspn chillipowder
Add 1/2"tamarind
  Mix
 Add this paste to the cooked tapioca and mix well adding little water . Keep on the fire till water dries . Relish--  yum...