Chawal Aloo Paratha w Bondi Raita - Leftover Magic

I didn't had much in my pantry except little leftover rice, some mashed potato. After lot of thinking I endup with Chawal Aloo paratha and it did tasted good with Boondi Raita as I used fresh sweet curd. Best way to use leftovers what say?

Festive Food: Raksha Bandhan Event last date for entry is 16th Aug 09 so send you entry soon.
Also can you guys give me some suggestion for Birthday get together dinner menu? Indian food, simple and fast to prepare?

For Paratha
Serving : 8 medium size parathas

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice - 1/4 cup
Boiled Potato - 3 tbs [ mashed]
Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup
Redchilli Powder - 1tsp
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Oil -
Water

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients except oil and make dough. Do not use too much of water, keep it to minimum. [Refrigerated rice works just fine]

2. Make medium size balls, roll and cook in hot tava both sides, apply oil/butter or ghee. [Do not keep the dough for long it will become very sticky..make paratha immediately]

Bondi Raita
Serving : 1cup

Ingredients:

Curd/Yoghurt - 1Cup [ beaten]
Bondi - 2 tsp
Redchilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Water - if required.

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients, add water if required. Garnish with bondi, chilli and cumin powder. Serve immediately.
Note: Add bondi just before serving raita or it will become soggy.

Broken Wheat Halwa

This post is for Priyanka's FestiveFood: Onam Celebration. I'm finally managing to send across my entry for the event. There is so much written about Onam in many blogs that I do not wish to write anything further ;). This is a simple wheat halwa recipe and made with only few ingredients.

Ingredients:

Cracked/Broken Wheat/Dahiya - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Ghee/Classified butter - 3-4 tbs
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Cardamom - 3-4
Fry fruits - optional

Method:

1. Make powder of sugar and cardamom by grinding them together.
2. In a pan heat ghee, add broken wheat and roast until wheat color changes to golden brown.
3. Once the aroma start coming, add water and mix well. Cook for 2mins.
4. Add the sugar powder and mix well. Mix briskly the halwa and cook for 5-7 mins or until the ghee start floating on top.
5. Yummy halwa is ready, garnish with fry fruits of your choice.




Also checkout Broken Wheat Halwa with Jaggery.

Aloo Tari

Yes its aloo tari this time. We all love potato, yes I know that. How much ever we try to avoid potato (okie few of us do try to avoid) but it's never really possible I guess. Most of the cuisines all over world use potato and in every Indian household must have potato at home are some of the unspoken rules :-).

So, coming back to the aloo tari, this is one of those sabji which I'm eating from my childhood. The best thing is, it's good for breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch box or party. Easy to make and tasty to eat. So here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

Potato - 2 large boiled
Onion - 1 large chopped
Tomato - 1 large chopped
Redchilli powder - 3tps
Turmeric - 1/2 tps
Salt - to taste
Cumin seeds - 1/2tps
Oil - 3 tbs
Water - 1-2 cup

Method:

1. Boil potatoes, remove the skin and cut in cubes. (Mash few cubes)
2. In a pan heat oil, add cumin seeds & fry until splutters.
3. Add onion and saute it, after this add tomato and cook for 2mins.
4. Add turmeric and red chilli powder, salt mix everything and cook for 2 mins with lid on.
5. Add 1 to 2 cup of water (depending on cup size) and bring it to boil.
6. Add the potatoes now and mix well. Cook for 5mins with lid on.
7. Gravy should NOT be thick but watery. It goes well with roti/paratha.

Prepared chawal ki roti to go along with aloo tari.

Besan Puri & Mint Chutney

The other day I was alone at home enjoying myself, sofa and tv when the clock tick 7.30pm! Oh dear time to make dinner as everyone will be coming back from their ventures to disturb me, my sofa and tv mood :) I was really not in a mood to cook anything but something simple, easy and FAST! After lot of thinking I decided to make Besan Puri, my mom use to make these for our lunch box during school days. Most of my classmates use to bring besan pori as lunch box too and we use to have fun sharing, eating! Ahh good old school days.

Whenever I use to visit my friends place they will make this for me and I use eat lovely, hot besan puri happily. I started my own version of besan puri very long back but that was not really my mom’s type. I use to make besan puri for my other sis, whom always asked me to cook whenever she wanted to eat besan puri or besan gatta and now she is pro in both the dishes and makes better than me!!

Some time back when I went to Chennai I stayed at my sis place for 1week and daily she use to make different dishes or whatever I wish for ..hehe. One day she made besan pori and taught me the proper way of making it.(that’s why I said I have this sisterly feeling towards Vani cause she is just like my sisters …always pampering ) And ya my Jiju will also prepare dishes for me :).

Ingredients:

Beasan/ Gramdal flour - ½ cup

Saunf - 1/2tps (a must for this dish)

Redchill powder - 1tps

Salt to taste

Oil - 4-5 tbs to mix filling

Oil - for making parathas

Flour - 1cup

Water

Method:

1. Mix besa, saunf, chilli powder, salt and oil together well. Rub the besan mix between palms to make it fine powder.

2. Use 2-3tbs of water only if required, I didn’t use any water for the filling mix.

3. Make dough from flour and water as for any paratha we make.

4. Make small balls of dough, make a cup shape from the balls and fill 1tbs of besan mix in that, seal it and roll them into thin roti.

5. Heat a tawa or griller and cook the roti both side until golden brown apply oil/ghee.

6. Hot, Spicy besan puri is ready to eat.

7. Server with curd, pickle, any vegetable, curry, chutney or with tea.

Closer Look...

I have made Pudina/Mint chutney and here is the recipe.

Chawal Ka Gatta & MEME

I have made chawal ka gatta after very long time. As there was left over rice I thought of making chawal ki roti but I was not really in a mood to make rotis, then the thought stuck my mind why not make gatta but I had my reservation, I was thinking whether Kedar and BIL will like this but then I decided if they don't like there is instant roti :-). Once the gatta got boiled Kedar gave me a looks and said I'm not going to eat this. I asked him to try it and if he doesn't like then I will make something else (kya kya karna padta hai!) after lot of sweet talking he did try and loved it I guess, that's why he ate heartily chawal ka gatta! In fact everyone did liked it...so don't worry go ahead and try this recipe :-)

This gatta makes a good breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack item & can be server with pickle, tea, any sabji or chutney.

For Ingredients refer chawal ki roti recipe, it's the same ingredients additional things required are:

Semolina/Sojji/Rava - 2-3 tbs
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tps
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tps
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves chopped - 2-3 tbs
Green chill chopped - 4-5 (according to taste)
Oil - 3-4 tbs
Water - 4 cups for boiling

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients (as per chawal ki roti exclude oil and water), Semolina. Add water only if required to make hard dough. I have added 2-3tbs of water.

2. Make medium size balls of dough and roll them between palms to make sausage kind of shape.

3. Boil these rolls in hot water for 20-25mins until it's gets cooked nicely.

4.Use a knife to test. Once done, nice aroma will start coming.

5. Drain the water and cut the rolls in to small pieces.

6. In a pan heat oil, add cumin, mustard seeds, greenchilli, curry leaves. Add the boiled gatta and mix well. Sauté for 8-10mins until gatta pieces turns in the brown colour, garnish with chopped coriander leaves

7. Chawal Ka Gatta is ready.

8. Server with mint chutney (will post chutney recipe later).

Now coming to MEME:

The gud things is everyday I'm learning new things today is MEME (thought I still don't know what does it stands for) or tagging. So the rule is someone will tag you, you have to answer all the questions and tag other people.  VP wants to know more about me it seems ;) but first I want to put the disclaimer that I don't keep favorite(s) :-) so some of the answer will be generic. Here it goes:

1) LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATER?
Iron Man

2) WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
World is Flat.

3) FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Chess

(4) FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
No favorite, currently reading Reader's Digest July edition.

5) FAVORITE SMELLS?
Rain's, Mud smell during rainfall, any flower smell

6) FAVORITE SOUNDS?
Bird’s sounds, Sea waves sounds

7) WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
(mm thinking...) (..still thinking....)

8) WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN U WAKE?
Let's sleep for 5 more minutes :-)

9) FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
Pizza Hut, KFC, MAC in Singapore, Anand Bhavan, Saravan Bhavan, Hot Chips in Chennai, Any chat wala in Delhi, Hyderabad

10) FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
No Idea

11) FINISH THIS STATEMENT—’IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I’D’
Let the money come, then will think about that.

12)DO YOU DRIVE FAST?
I don't drive

13) DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
Nope

14)STORMS-COOL OR SCARY?
Scary

15) WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
Don't have a car

16) FAVORITE DRINK?
Water..hehe..I told ya..no favorite

17) FINISH THIS STATEMENT-IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD…
Spend more time on me, Cook all the lovely dishes from various blogs, spends more time with friends and family.

18) DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
Sometimes

19) IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY OTHER COLOR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
Brown

20) NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS U HAVE LIVED IN?
Chennai, Hyderabad, Singapore

21) FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
F1, Cricket (WWF used to be)

22) ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Her blog has all this amazing and different recipes with wonderful pics trying to get to know her better. Shall we start with your name first ;p

23) WHATS UNDER YOUR BED?
Nothing

24) WOULD U LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN??
Yes

25) MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Always night Owl

26) OVER EASY OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Both

27) FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX?
Drawing Room sofa watching tv

28) FAVORITE PIE?
Nothing, but like Pineapple pie

29) FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Butter scorch, banana, raspberry, Strawberry, Vanilla

30) OF ALL THE PEOPLE U HAVE TAGGED, WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
This is the first time I was tagged.

Chawal ki Roti | Leftover Magic

I have made something gud after a while (exactly after the gobi paratha :-)). I was totally busy with work including on weekends :-(....no rest for long time now feeling so tried and looking forward to the weekend which going to hectic again I know. Coming back to the post, y'day night I have made Chawal ki roti. Preparation is very simple and result is tasty paratas.  The recipe is call Chawal ki Roti cause it made with rice and flour. It's a Rajastani recipe and generally the roti is made with leftover rice. Here is the recipe goes...