Easy Kadai Vegetable

     It was a dinner night, was struggling and banging my head to prepare a very SIMPLE but tasty sidedish for roti. Literally surfed net for more than 30 mins. I couldn't find any which suits my tag word "SIMPLE and TASTY". Suddenly an idea flashed and concluded on this tasty crunchy Kadai Vegetable. Luckily had all veggies in stock and even the masalas. To be frank, it was a super dooper hit for roti. Here comes my SIMPLE & TASTY dish for your views.

ALL YOU NEED:

Mixed Veggies	2 cups
Chopped Onion	2 Nos.
Chopped Tomato	1 No.
Garam Masala Powder	1/2 spoon
Ginger Garlic Paste	1/2 spoon
Coriander Powder	1 spoon
Coriander Leaf	To garnish
Chilly Powder	3/4 spoon
Cumin Powder	1/2 spoon
Cumin Seeds	1/4 spoon
Red Chilly	1 No.
Mustard	1/2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	2 spoons

METHOD:
     Clean the chopped veggies( i used beans, carrot, mushroom, potato and finally capsicum). Heat 2 spoons of oil in pan, add mustard, cumin seeds and red chilly. Saute. Now add chopped onion, saute by adding pinch of salt. Once it becomes translucent, add ginger garlic paste, once the raw smell goes off, add all the powders (coriander, red chilly, garam masala and cumin powder). add all veggies except capsicum, saute well by sprinkling some water. Cover the pan with lid. Let it be in medium flame, until all the veggies gets cook. Once done, open the lid, saute it by adding diced capsicum and let the excess water goes off. As a final touch, garnsih with coriander leaf and serve hot with roti.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Dahi Samosa

     Am a crazy fan for all dahi based chaat. As mentioned in my previous post, using store bought frozen samosa, here is the another chaat dish, which is my all time favorite. To be frank, whenever i buy this, my plate will be complete clean. I mean, will completely lick all those tangy dahi which they serve along with this chaat. :D Think my plate condition, when i prepare this at home :P

ALL YOU NEED:

Samosa	1 No.
Chopped Coriander Leaf	2 tsps
Tamarind Sauce	1 tsp
Red chilly Powder	Pinch
Chopped Onion	4 tsps
Thick Curd	1/4 cup
Sugar	1/2 tsp

METHOD:
     Take a wide serving bowl/plate. Crush the samosa, pour 1/4 cup of thick curd mixed with sugar. Now pour the tamarind sauce. Now add chopped onion and chopped coriander on top of it. As a final touch, sprinkle some red chilly powder. All done. Now its time to taste.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Samosa Chaat

     Here in my new location, its very very difficult to find chaat shop. So, if am craving for chaat, only thing i can do is, i need to prepare it at home :( Recently during my grocery shopping, i got a pack of frozen samosa. I was super excited and immediately bought a pack. As soon as i reached home, opened the pack, heated and tasted it. It was super yum. Using that frozen samosa, i tried this super delicious, easy and tasty chaat.

ALL YOU NEED:

Samosa	1 No.
Chopped Coriander leaf	1/4 cup
Chopped Onion	4 tsp
Peas Kurma	1 laddle

METHOD:
     Take a wide serving bowl/plate. Crush the samosa, pour a laddle full of Peas Kurma. Add chopped onion and coriander leaf on top of it. All done. Its time to eat. Just a one-liner description. So easy to prepare and even to write the description. But the taste was yum yummmy !!!

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Garlic Butter Naan

     Am very big fan of all roti/chapathi/paratha items. I can live only by eating this. Sometime even without by sidedish. Being a such a huge lover, planned to try some variations in my usual dish. Then got flashed a dish which "Naan". Even in that, i didn't want to try a regular. Again i started my hunting for Garlic naan. Finally got a perfect recipe and tried too.

ALL YOU NEED:

Maida	1 cup
Baking Soda	1/4 spoon
Baking Powder	1/2 spoon
Coriander Leaf	2 twigs
Butter	As needed
Garlic	3 Nos.
Sugar	1 spoon
Milk	To Knead
Curd	1 1/2 spoon
Salt	To taste
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Do fine chopping of garlic and coriander leaf and keep aside. Take a wide bowl, add maida, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar. Mix all the dry ingredients. Now add milk and curd, knead well by adding only with milk. Once done, add a spoon of oil and rest it for 4 hours. After 4 hours, make equal round shaped balls, roll it to oval shape. Once done, just sprinkle few chopped garlic and chopped coriander leaf. Place the rolled dough on top of garlic and coriander leaf. Make a gentle roll on top it. Meantime heat a tawa, apply water here and there on other side (not the garlic and coriander leaf side) of the rolled dough. Once applied, place water applied side on the tawa and immediately close it with lid. Now you can see the bubbles. Toss it on other side until it gets cooked. Brush with butter on garlic side. All done now, serve with some spicy curry.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Papdi Chaat

    I am a huge huge big fan of all chaat items. My most favorite among all is bhel pori and dahi poori. But till now, never tasted/tried this papdi chaat in stores. Recently it somehow caught my taste bud while am surfing my co bloggers space. Since i didn't get this in store here, as usual without had any second thought tried a simple version at home using Home made Papdi. That version comes for your views here.

ALL YOU NEED:

Papdi	6 Nos.
Chopped Onion	4 spoons
Chopped Coriander Leaf	3 spoons
Tamarind Chutney	3 spoons

METHOD:
     Take a plate, arrange all 6 papdis in it. Add half a spoon of tamarind chutney on it. Then layer it with chopped onion and coriander leaf respectively. Now its time to enjoy. You can also add omapodi and green chutney if you have. Eventhough i prepared this with minimum amount of ingredients, it really had a heavenly taste.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Dhokla - Microwave method

     "Dhokla" - Have tasted this recipe in many places but never tried at home. Actually i planned many times to try it at home but unfortunately it was keep on skipping. Finally Dhokla (preparation) day has come but unfortunately(again), it was a complete disaster dish which made me to HATE dhokla. I decided not to try dhokla at home. One of my north indian friend is much expert in preparing it so, atlast decided to keep her next to me and had a safe try. OMG! FORTUNATELY it came out very well and it was a super-blaster dish finally.

ALL YOU NEED:

Rava	1 cup
Besan Flour	1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Eno salt	1 tsp
Sugar	1 1/2 tsp
Salt	1/2 tsp
Curd	1/2 cup
Hing	Pinch
Water	1/2 cup
Oil	1 1/2 tsp

To Garnish

Coriander Leaf	3 Twigs
Green Chilly	1 No.
Mustard	1 spoon
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl. Add rava/sooji, besan flour, curd, Turmeric powder, sugar, hing, salt and oil. Give hard stir until it all get mixed up by adding required water. Let it sit for 10 minutes. After 10 mins, add eno salt, give a stir and add water if the batter is very thick. Take a microwave safe bowl, grease it with oil and pour the batter into it. Now microwave it for 5 mins by covering the bowl partially. Meantime, keep a pan, heat a spoon of oil, add mustard, once it splutters, add slited green chillies. Once it sauted, Put off the flame.

     Now check the microwave, if it is done, let the dhokla cool dowl. Once its done, replace it to a flat plate, cut into small square shape (If its not in a proper square, let it cool down for somemore minutes.) and toss the dhokla in the pan (in which we have prepared the garnished ingredients) by adding chopped coriander leaf.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Pani Poori

     Actually, the best person to fill this space is my Hubby. Yes, he is a big big fan of this snack. Wherever the place is, if it is a road side shop or snack shop or even in star hotel, this will be his immediate eye-catcher. When i was an office goer, i used to buy store bought poori's, since am a homemaker now, thought of making this at home. Actually, the main reason is am not getting it in my new location :P I use to prepare this atleast biweekly and used to enjoy with store bought pani.

   

ALL YOU NEED:

Maida	1/2 cup
Atta	1/2 cup
Sooji	2 spoons
Water	3/4 cup
Green Pani	1 cup
Salt	Pinch
Oil	To deep fry

For Filling:

Boiled Potato	2 Nos.
Red chilly Powder	Pinch
Chopped Onion	1 No.
Salt	Pinch

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl. Add maida, atta, sooji and required salt. Make it as a dough by adding required water. Let it sit for a while. After 15 mins, roll the dough as small pooris. Meantime, heat oil in a pan for deep frying. Once done, deep fry all the poori.

     Now take another bowl, add boiled potato by peeling off is skin. Add pinch of red chilly powder, salt and chopped onion. Now take a poori, make a small hole, add the potato stuffing, add a spoon of pani. Nowwwwwwwww ! OMG ! am mouthwatering here :P Enjoy the snack.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬