Monday, October 8, 2012

Punjabi Pakoda kadhi

Kadhi chawal(rice) is staple dish of north India.. Specifically in Punjab we eat so many different curries with rice, like rajma rice, chane rice kadhi rice etc.. Kadhi is usually prepared with besan (chick pea flour) and buttermilk. The proportions of flour and buttermilk vary from state to state. In Rajasthani kadhi there is more besan less buttermilk, but in Punjabi kadhi buttermilk is more than besan. In Punjab the buttermilk is easily available for free.. (: but here in Delhi we don't get free buttermilk though we get packets of buttermilk of various milk brands like Amul, Motherdairy etc. I usually use plain chach packets of Motherdairy. Or else if you don't get buttermilk you can also make it by adding water to curd.
BTW I love kadhi chawal. I just start drooling even if I hear kadhi chawal. I can eat again even if I am full up to my neck..(;
Ok now lets move to recipe.



Ingredients:

For kadhi:

Buttermilk: 500 ml.
Besan (chick pea flour): 2-3 tbsp
potatos: 1
Ginger: 1inch piece
Green chilies: 1-2
Salt: to taste
Red chilly powder: 1tsp
Coriander powder: 1tsp
Tumeric Powder: 1tsp
Garam Masala: 1tsp
Kasuri Methi: 1 tbsp
Amchoor: 1tsp.(optional)
Cumin seeds: 1tsp
Water as required
Refined oil: 1tbsp.

For Pakodas:

Besan: 2 tbsp
salt, red chilly powder and spices to taste
water
oil
Method:
1. Add besan to buttermilk. Churn it well with blender.
2. Make paste of ginger and green chilies.
3. Cut potato in small cubes.
4. Put oil in a wok, add cumin seeds. Once the seeds starts crackling, put potato and saute for 1-2 minutes.
5. Add buttermilk mix in the wok and add all the spices except kasuri methi.
6. Let it cook on simmer.
7. Add pakodas when its almost done and then when the kadhi is ready add kasuri methi.

For Pakodas:
1. Make a batter with all the ingredients.
2. Heat oil in a wok and make small pakodas.

Kadhi is ready when you get the right consistency as you like. The best consistency is when a thin layer sticks to the spoon.
While making pakodas make sure you don't put too much pakodas at once in oil, the lesser the better. Pakodas will be soft this way...
Offer to Lord and enjoy!!!
:)
Hari bol!!!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

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Shivani

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Homemade Pizza

Hare Krsna!!

Pizza is an oven baked flat round bread topped with sauce and vegetables.
We Love Pizza... But pizzas we get at restaurants contain onions and garlic and that is why many people who follow sattvic diet can not consume them. I often have cravings for pizzas so I looked for a nice and easy recipe to make the same. Hence I noted many recipes and adapted the following recipe. I hope you all will also like  this.

Ingredients:

for base:
All purpose flour(Maida): 1 1/2 cups
Whole Wheat flour: 1 1/2 cups
Olive oil: 1 tbsp
Salt: 1tsp
Sugar: 1/2tsp
Yeast: 1tbsp
Water: as required

toppings:
vegetables of your choice: 1 cup (I used corns, paneer, capsicum)
Mozzarella Cheese: 1 cup
Pizza Sauce: 1/2 cup

Method:
Warm 2tbsp water and add yeast and sugar. Let it rest for 2-3 minutes. Mix maida, whole wheat flour, olive oil and salt in a mixing bowl. Add yeast into this mixture. Now knead a dough adding small water slowly. knead for 5-10 minutes till it becomes a ball. Now grease this dough with some oil and keep this covered in a big bowl. Bowl should be big enough as the dough will rise. Now let the dough rise for minimum an hour. You will see that dough has doubled in size.

In the mean time make pizza sauce.

Preheat oven at 220 c.

Now take the dough and divide in equal size balls. With the given quantity you can make around 8 small pizzas or 4 big ones. This also depends on how thin you want your pizza. Now roll the ball with rolling pin and make a chapati like base. I made 1/4 inch thick bases. Put this base on the pizza plate.

Put a table spoon of pizza sauce and spread on the base. Put the vegetables/toppings of your choice. Sprinkle one table spoon of mozzarella cheese.

Bake at 220 c for 10 minutes.

Offer to Lord and enjoy.

Hari Bol!!!
Shivani