Egg Curry Karnataka Style | Motte Saaru Recipe | Egg Recipes

Egg Curry, motte saaru or egg curry Karnataka style is easy, delicious egg curry which makes great side dish rice or paratha. This recipe can be made very quickly and if we have boiled eggs in hand, if you like egg and spicy food then you will love this recipe it's easy, delicious and flavorful. 

Mysore Masala Dosa | Mini Mysore Masala Dosa Recipe

Mysore Masala Dosa or mini mysore masala dosa as this one is popular breakfast recipe, popular in Bangalore and mysore. Main difference between regular masala dosa and mysore masala dosa is in Mysore masala red chutney is used and it's crispy from outside and soft inside and of course delicious as it's served in mysore, though it's very popular as breakfast, it's also good tiffin or dinner option.

Panchakajjaya Recipe | Ganesh Chaturthi Naivedyam Recipes

Panchakajjaya is Kannada specialty more of Udapi side made mostly during Ganesh Chaturthi, Janmashtami or other festive as Naivedyam. It's known as Panchakajjaya where Panch (five) means mixture of 5 element dal (lentil), jaggery, coconut, ghee and cashew nuts. This is the basic recipe and as always there are multiple variety of Panchakajjaya made with green gram (hara moong dal), roasted gram, chana dal and many more with little variations in procedure too.

Maddur Vada | Maddur Vade Recipe

It’s been ages since I took any pictures, relying on old pictures to write posts now a days.  This is again one of those recipe I made during my in-laws visit.  I ran out of ideas for evening tea snacks, how many days to make aloo pakoda, namak para, masala vada or other assorted pakodas,  So I tried this maddur vada for a change though I never ate maddur vade before.  It was a nice change and everyone liked it specially MIL and DH, I followed Prathibha’s Maddur Vade recipe which was part of her FF-TT series. 

If you want a change from usual pakoda, urad vada then have to try this and you will like it.  It easy to prepare and taste crunchy outside and soft inside.  Can you see the layers in vada from below pictures?  A wonderful tea time snack to enjoy and this is also I am going to prepare during Rakhi this year, you can try too.  If you are still looking for Rakhi ideas then check out my previous roundups, lot’s of wonderful years. 

Ingredients: [Yields 18-20 pieces]

Maida/Plain Flour - 1 Cup

Chiroti Rava/Suji/Fine Semolina - 1/2 Cup

Rice Flour - 1/4 Cup

Onion - 1 Large

Green Chillies- 3-4

Curry Leaves - 2 sprigs

Cilantro/Coriander Leaves - 8-10 sprigs

Soda Bi-Carb - A pinch

Salt - to taste

Ginger - 1/2” pieces [optional]

White Sesame Seeds - 2 tbsp

Hot Oil - 2 tbsp

Oil - For deep Frying

Water - 4-6 tbsp

Method:

1. Finely chop onion, green chillies, ginger (if using), curry leaves, cilantro.

~ Finely chopping of onion is essential if not while deep frying onion pieces will float on oil and get’s burnt! So do finely chop it.

2. Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl except oil and water and it will have crumble texture due to water in onions.

3. Sprinkle water 1tbsp at a time, until smooth dough is form, keep aside for 15mins. 

4. Meanwhile heat oil in wok for deep frying, add 2tbsp of hot oil to vada mixture and mix everything well, it will be pitiable roti dough type.

5. Divide into equal portions, take one pieces at a time, make a ball and flatten it on your palm or use a plastic sheet/zip lock bag. 

6. Drop 4-5 vadas in hot oil and deep fry until golden brown both sides in slow-medium flame, keep turning the vadas in intervals.  The frying takes little longer than normal vada to have patience. 

Our maddur vade is ready.

Serve with chutney of your choice, we had with Peanut Chutney and tea.

Notes:

~ If dough get’s soggy add little maida or suji to adjust.

~ For more taste add 2tbsp of ghee instead of oil in dough.

~ You can add 1/4 cup roasted & powder oats. 

Have a nice day ~~

Bisi Bela Bath ~ BBB

I love one pot meal, am sure most of you feel the same way and Bisi Bela Bath is one such wonder.  But the traditional way of making BBB is not really one pot meal wonder as it involves as of work ..or at least that's what I feel but then short cuts doesn't really match up to traditional taste. 

We have see many ways of making Bisi Bela Bath but for me I always hooked to Lakshmi'sBBB recipe.  Every time I try her recipe it comes out so well delicious.  Thanks LG for the wonderful recipe.  But I do make few changes to her recipe and here is my version.
 

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
Pigeon Peas/ Toor Daal - 1 cup
Vegetables - 1 cup ( I used 2 cups of chopped carrot, beans, eggplant,  cauliflower, ivy gourd, peas)
Onion - 1 large
Green Chili - 3
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Thick Tamarind Paste - 2 tbsp
Sambar Powder - 1 tsp [optional]
Oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Water
Cilantro - 2 tbsp chopped for garnish


For Tempering ~ 
Clarified Butter/Ghee - 2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves - few
Asafoetida - a pinch

For Bisi Bela Bath Masala ~ 
Channa Daal - 1 tbsp
Urad Daal - 1 tbsp
Coriander Seeds -  1tbsp
Poppy Seeds - 1 tbsp
Fenugreek/Methi Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg Powder - 1/4 tsp
Red Chillies - 12-15 [ to taste]
Cloves - 4
Cinnamon - 1" piece
Cardamon - 1 [optional]

Method: 

For Masala ~

Roast all the daals until golden brown and all the other ingredients, once cooled grind into fine powder.  
~ You can add water too, but I don't so I store the powder and use later.

1.  Wash and soak dal and rice separately for 1 hour or more and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles separately too. 
~ You can also pressure cook the vegetables separately. 

2.  Chop onion and all the other veggies. Slit green chili.

3.  Heat oil in a pan add onion and chili, add few curry leaves too and saute until onion becomes golden brown.

4.  Add cauliflower, carrot and beans and saute for 2 -3 minutes followed by all other veggies and saute for 5 minutes in medium heat. 
~ If you boil or pressure cook the veggie then avoid this step.

 

5. Add prepared bisi bela bath masala and sambar powder (if using) stir well and cook for a minute.
~ I don't add all the BBB masala but just use 2 tbsp of it. 

6.  Add tamarind paste and bring to a boil, when masala gets cooked add salt and coconut.  Add water if required.

7.  Add dal and rice and mix well.  [if required move everything to large pot].

 8. Prepare tempering using the ingredients listed and add the tempering to rice mixture.  

 9. Check for salt, cover the pot/vessel and let it stand for 10 minutes. 

Serve with Raita & chips, pappad. 



I made onion and cucumber raita.  

Chop 1 onion, 1/2 cucumber, 1 green chili, Cilantro.

Beat 1 cup curd, add chopped onion, cucumber, chili, salt and mix everything.   Garnish with little red chili, cumin powder and cilantro .  

Enjoy hot steaming bisi bela bath :)

Have good day ~~

Karnataka Style Meal

Today being the last day for the entry in SWC: Karnataka Event and yes I have manage to post this entry. I break my head so much to what to send for the event as I didn't knew much of karnataka food type but now thanks to the event I know few things :)..I wanted to make so many things but couldn't manage to do it(we always have this kind of excuse rite :P).

So today I thought let's do it. I search few recipes here and there and in the end settled with two blogs and picked recipes from there :)..since I wanted to make few things & after much of brainstorming I settled for full karnataka style meal for lunch. But the slight problem was my little index finger, I have hurt my finger on Thursday, and it became too difficult for me to do anything.

The big problem was washing dal, rice and making tamarind paste but somehow I manage to do it and now my finger is so swollen :-( but in the end of day its worth all the effect ;)

So Lets start the meal with starter or salad Carrot Kosambari from VP's Blog. Usually I do not add channa dal in this carrot salad but I wanted to make it traditional Karnataka style so just followed everything as it is there.




Next comes side dish in the form of banana fry. Here is recipe:

Method:

Raw Banana - 2
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tps
Red chilli powder - 1tps
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tps
Coriander powder - 1tps
Salt - to taste
Oil - 3-4 tbs

1. Skin the raw banana and cut in medium size circles.
2. In a pan heat oil add cumin seeds and let it splutters.
3. Add banana and fry for 3-4mins.
4. Add all the rest of ingredients, mix and cook for another 4-5mins or until banana is done.
5. Tasty banana fry is ready to eat.



Next up is Mix Vegetable Huli. I followed everything as it is in this recipe too and it was just yummy; but only thing was I didn't had any rasam powder with me so made rasam powder or as they called it Saarina Pudi too :)
A bit different from normal sambar but it came as welcome surprise to everyone at home and everyone like it too. If anyone want to try this recipe and then go ahead I have thumbs up for this :)




Next is a must rasam in South Indian meal, I have picked  and made Garlic Rasam. It was very tasty. I followed the same recipe here too & this recipes gets double thumbs up from my sis ;)




So meal without any sweet? Now how can that be I have made Kesaribath, simple and delicious recipe is this one.




Here is the full karnataka style meal which was very very yummy and delicious. I'm so glad that I have tried Karnataka style meal :)




Also sending the Mix Veggies Karwar Style for the event too.



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Mix Vegetables-Karwar Style & Award

This month theme is Karnataka Cuisine hosted by Anisheetu in SWC event which originally started by Dear Lakshmi. I wanted to participate in this event as I have missed SWC:Maharashtra , so I did some googling and settle for Capsicum-Karwar Style. I didn't know what exactly karwar style meant and how the dish look like as there was no picture in the website. But somehow I liked the recipe cause it's simple and very few ingredients.

I did few alteration, first thing, I added eggplant and cauliflower along with capsicum and added 1tps of redchili powder to suite our taste bud. I like the recipe so much, cause for a change there was no onion, green chili and tomato :)...what a relief! And lucky all the other ingredients I had at home.

Ingredients:

1/2 capsicums - cut in long strips
1/2 cup Cauliflower - cut in medium floerts
1 big Eggplant - cut in medium size
1/4 cup peanuts - roasted and skinned
1 stalk curry leaves
3-4 pinches asafoetida
1 tbsp - jaggery grated
2 tbsp - oil
1 tsp - mustard seeds
2 - whole red chillies
1tps - Red chilli powder
1/2 tps - Turmeric Powder
2 strips - tamarind Soak in water

Grind to a paste:
1/2 cup - coconut grated and roasted
2 tsp - split bengal gram
1 tbsp - split black gram
2 tsp - sesame seeds
1/2 tsp - coriander seeds

Method:

1. Cut all the veggies.

2. Roast all ingredients for paste and grind with little water (except tamarind).

3. Heat oil in pan, add asafoetida, mustard seeds, whole chillies, allow to splutter.

4. Add curry leaves, all the veggies and fry until golden brown.

5. Add masala paste and cook until rawness fades.

5. Add jaggery, salt, turmeric powder and peanuts, mix everything and cook for 1-2mins.

6. Get the purp from soaked tamarind, and add into pan and mix well.

7. Add 1/4 cup water, boil and simmer for 7-8 minutes.

8. Gravy must be thick.

9. Serve hot with roti or rice.

Mix veggies karwar style was really tasty and I'm going to prepare it few more times with different veggie :-). And Thanks to LG, now I know Karwar it's a place name in Karnataka so the veggie is karwar style. Try this curry and I'm sure everyone will love this as I did too.