Ragda Patties | Chaat Recipes

Ragda Patties is one of the popular street food or chaat item in North India and it’s one of the chaat items that I make the most and never really got the chance to post the recipe for the simple reason that it’s get’s over so fast before any clicking can be done!  So this time I made this for a friend and decided to post the recipe.  Slowly ragda pattices has been one of our favorite chaat cause it’s works perfect as a chaat/snack and also as a meal, I mostly do this for dinner. List of ingredients looks long but it's actually quite easy to prepare and if we have the chutney ready then it's quick too.


Bursting with so many flavors and spices, ragda pattice is a treat.  I have made this couple of times for guests and they started to love these too.  Ragda here is almost same as sundal that we get in Chennai from street hawkers, it was fun to eat hot piping sundal on raining days! I do the same some times too just make the ragda/sundal and relish it.  And ya ofcourse I did disappear for some time now but that’s was not a planned break, let's checkout the recipe now.



Ingredients:

For Ragda: [Serves 3-4 people]
White Dry Peas/ White Vatana - 1 1/2 cups
Water - 4 cups or as required
Salt - To taste
Oil - 2 tbsp
Asafoetida/Hing - 1/4 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
White Sesame Seeds - 1 tsp
Crushed Peanuts - 2 tbsp [optional]
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
Fresh minced ginger-garlic - 1 tbsp [or ginger-garlic paste 1 tbsp]
Onion - 2 medium
Green Chillies - 2
Tomato - 1 large
Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp
Coriander Seeds Powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Amchur/Dry Mango Powder - 1 tsp Or Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cilantro - to garnish

For Patties (Aloo Tikki)
Please refer the recipe here

For Serving:
Green Chutney - To taste
Sweet Chutney - To taste
Chopped Onion
Chopped Cilantro
Sev



Method:
1. Wash and soak vatana/dry peas over night.

2. Drain, rinse and pressure cook vatana with water and salt for 2 whistles.
 
3. Meanwhile finely chop onion, green chillies, tomato and cilantro, keep aside.

4. In a pan or wok heat oil add Asafoetida/Hing, cumin, mustard seeds and allow to splutter. Followed by peanuts (if using), curry leaves and sesame seeds, allow it to pop. (keep a lid handy, after adding sesame seeds over the pan or it will pop all over) Add ginger-garlic and sauté until light brown.



5. Now add onion, green chillies and fry until onion becomes translucent, Add all powder spices except amchur powder and give a good stir.



6. Add tomato and  cook until tomato mashes well or oil starts to leave side of pan.  Now add boiled vatana/peas and mix everything well.



7.  Add more water if required and adjust salt, add amchur powder or lemon juice, bring it to good boil and simmer in slow for 5 minutes.  Garnish with cilantro.


Our ragda is ready.



To Assemble/Serve
1. In a bowl or flat plate keep 2 pattices/tikki and pour radga over. 
2. Add green and sweet chutney, sprinkle onion, sev and cilantro.
Have it warm and enjoy. 



Have a nice day ~~

Urad Dal Bada | Ulundu Vadai Recipe

Urad Dal Vada, ulundu vadai, bada is medhu vada or vadai popular snack all over time with different names. Made with urad dal batter and deep fried into delicious vada or vadai is treat either as snack or served along main course specially during festival treat. Like Medhu vada or urad dal bada cabbage vada is made in similar way with just extra addition of finely chopped cabbage which I have posted some time back.

Wagh Bakri Tea Review

Yes, it’s a review! A plan that was overdue for years now.  I wanted to write reviews for so long but it didn’t materialize until few friends forced me to do it.  I am starting with Wagh Bakri Strong CTC Leaf Tea review, I am tea person and like to have tea more than coffee.  Only recently we started using Wagh Bakri tea and totally loved it, love for wagh bakri started from having plenty of tea @ Mumbai Domestic Airport. 



Product: Wagh Bakri Strong CTC Leaf Tea

Price: SGD 6.90 for 500 gms

Product Claim: A legendary brand with extraordinary brand loyalty built and preserved painstakingly for more than 5 years.  It’s the best selling brand in Western India.  Customers are known to carry along supplies on long and overseas journeys!
A blend of select Assam teas, WaghBakri is high on strength and instantly refreshes a person.  Consistency of quality through the years is another feather in our cap.  It is available in Leaf, Dust and Fanning varieties.

About Wagh Bakri: Waghbakri tea house is a premium tea house in inception since the year eighteen ninety two. The tea baron, Sir Narandas Desai started the company in Ahemadabad being experienced in the art of blending and tea growing which he learned while owning a tea estate in South Africa. Sir Narandas Desai was praised by Mahatma Gandhi for his commendable work. The generations that followed gave boost to his pioneering efforts and developed the business to its present status of being one of the largest tea houses in India.
During childhood days  Wagh  Bakri ads used to be famous.  This is the first tea brand that we liked very much and so quickly. The quality is consistent, the blend is just right for the aroma, for the taste and strength well balanced.  



Aroma of this tea is very good, rich & refreshing and it’s taste like  tea we get in hotel, restaurants which is always different from homemade tea.  The tea base is a granular CTC black tea.



This is pure Assam tea/chai in blend and bring a wonderful colour to the tea too, brew the tea with milk and it will be same colour as shown on Wagh Bakri website. Just a little tea leaves and it does the trick, I have reduced the amount of tea leaves I used while brewing by 1tsp and the tea comes more strong and better than all the tea brands I have been using so far, isn’t that wonderful?  Now my tea pack will run for long. 



A side note is if you making black tea/laal chai don’t boil it for long as just a minute or 2 and it becomes very strong and might give little bitter taste but if you add milk then it’s perfectly fine. 

Overall I would rate it 3.5/5

Note:  This is not a paid review and all views expressed here are my personal thoughts. 

Eid Ul Adha Mubarak with Aloo Tikki | Potato Patties Recipe | Chaat Recipes

Wishing Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating.

Now a days there is no festive for any particular Religion, most of us celebrate everything or at least enjoy the holiday coming along with festive.  I wanted to do a sweet post for today but then it didn’t happen, never the less I am here with Aloo Tikki, one of the easy chaat recipe.  The good thing about these tikkies is; it can be a dish by itself or compliments any other chaat items so well, if you ever notice any road side chaat wala hot smoking tawa, there will be always aloo tikki align so beautiful in the corner.  Aloo tikki or patties makes a good party appetizer, a quick snack or breakfast and perfect for kids snack/lunch box. 

Ingredients: [Makes 6 medium size patties]

Potato - 3 medium size
Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Corn Flour - 2 tbsp
Cilantro Chopped - 2 tbsp
Mint Chopped - 1 tbsp [optional]
Salt - to taste
Oil - For pan fry
To Serve
Green Chutney
Sweet Chutney



Method:
1. Wash and pressure cook potato for 3 whistles or boil in water until cooked.
2. Once pressure released from cooker, remove potatoes, rinse in tap water and remove skin.
3. Mash potato (avoid any lumps).  Add all the ingredients except oil and mix well to form a smooth dough.  Add more corn flour if needed. 
4. Divide the dough in equal portion and make medium size tikki/patties.


5. Heat a tawa or pan and drizzle little oil around 1 tsp, place patties and cook until golden brown in medium flame.  Flip to other side, drizzle some more oil and cook until golden brown.



Serve hot with Green or Sweet chutney or with tomato sauce/ketchup.  Enjoy these with hot tea or coffee or as breakfast. 


Have a nice day ~~

Keema Matar | Matar Keema | Minced Mutton with Peas & Spices | Bakrid Recipes

Keema Matar or Qeema Matar is traditional Indian Meat dish which is nothing but minced mutton curry with peas.  If keema matar is made properly then the people who don’t like mutton would also eat it. Popular during Eid and Bakrid, this recipe calls for the main ingredients call Patience's but then it’s paid off in the form of delicious keema matar or matar keema whatever we may like to call it.  Not only as side dish but keema matar can be used as filling for naan, paratha, samosa or even serve with pav.  DH made this for a get together with my help of only chopping onion, tomato and it was highlight of the menu. The only other effective recipe was Chicken Masala again made by DH and Dahi Bhalla done by me.  DH tried to find the recipe online but he was not happy with anything, in the end he did it his way which was super delicious, list of ingredients looks long but it’s a simple recipe. 


Ingredients: [Serves 5-6]

Minced/Grounded Mutton - 1/2 kg
Peas - 1.5 cup
Onion - 2 large
Tomato - 2 medium
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
Bay Leaf -1
Cinnamon - 1” piece
Cloves - 2
Red Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Seeds Powder - 1 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Salt - To taste
Chopped Cilantro - 3 tbsp
Oil/Ghee - 4 tbsp
Red Food Colour - a pinch [if required]
Water - 1 Cup


Method:

1. Wash minced mutton few times and keep aside.  Finely chop onion, tomato and cilantro.
2. In a pressure cooker heat oil/ghee add bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves and sauté for 30 seconds.  Add onion, ginger-garlic paste and sauté until onion becomes transparent. 
3. Add turmeric, red chilli, garam masala and coriander seeds powders, mix everything well and sauté for 2-3 minutes. 
4. Add mutton and stir well and sauté for 5-7 minutes on slow to medium flame or until oil starts to ooze out.  Add peas sauté for another minute. 
5. Mix colour with 1 tbsp of water and add to mutton along with salt and cilantro, add 1 cup water give a stir, close the cooker and pressure cook for 1 whistles and then simmer for 10 minutes in slow flame.  Let the cooker cool down and then mix well, if there is any water left then put the cooker back to flame on slow heat and simmer until water dries without closing the cooker this time. 
Our Keema Matar is ready, have it naan, parata, pulao or anything of your choice. 



Variations:
~ Use ghee for rich and flavour keema matar.
~ Thaw peas if using frozen.
~ Use mined chicken and do the same if you like.
~ Discard all whole garam masala before serving.

Have a nice day ~~

7 Links Game

Hope everyone had a great Diwali celebration, it’s time to take break & relax now and I am just going to do the same.  It’s been long I am tagged by Prathibha and Prema for this 7 link games and it’s time for me to look through the blogging journey.    Thank You guys for tagging me, here I go

My Most Beautiful Post: Apple Compote Financiers.  I think you all will agree with me on this one, don’t you?  The name is complicated but the recipe is very simple and the end result you see for yourself.  I have received lot of compliment for this post and few people did try this too. 


My Most Popular Post: Prawn Masala. This recipe was 1st non-vegetarian recipe on my blog which was done by Sis and BIL, so far this is one post that tops high number of hits for each month and top in search too.  This is one recipe where I got maximum feedback from readers, few have commented in blog and lot of people mail me with full appreciation for this recipe.  Some times simple things makes big difference and this masala prawn is true example of that.


The Post I Am Most Proud Of: Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie, These cookies I baked for my nephew, after eating these cookies my BIL, Sis and nephew declared I am good baker it’s so difficult to get compliment from them. Them n my colleague both said these cookies taste just like shops one’s, what else to make me happy.  Few of my friends tried it and loved too. 


Most Useful Post:  Chawal Ki Roti.  This is one of the best use to use leftover rice and prepare a tasty dish.  Most of the time I do this,  lot of readers and friends has tried this and loved it.


Surprise Success Post:  Aloo Gobi Ki Sabji.  One of my another popular post, it’s easy, delicious and very authentic recipe.  And this is one recipe for which I get lot of compliment every time I make this.  Again received good feedback for this recipe too. 


Another post surprise successful post is Murkku Sandwich.  I never expected to get the huge response I received from this post, lot of query and lot of people tried it.  


Most controversial post: None so far


Post Which Deserves Attention, But Did Not Get As Much:  I have lot of posts which needs attention If I have to point now I would say Marmer Cake, It’s a very simple recipe with a tasty result, it looks so pretty still didn’t get much needed attention !



I would like to tag Lubna, Ramya, Indrani, Ramya Bala, Sapthna, Faith & Priya.

Have a nice day ~~

Diwali Wishes

Wishing all readers Happy & Prosperous Diwali.  May this year be bring fun, joy and happiness in all your life's.

May This Diwali be as bright as ever.
May this Diwali bring joy, health and wealth to you.
May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives.
May this Diwali bring in u the most brightest and choicest happiness and love you have ever Wished for.
May this Diwali bring you the utmost in peace and prosperity.
May lights triumph over darkness.
May peace transcend the earth.
May the spirit of light illuminate the world.
May the light that we celebrate at Diwali show us the way and lead us together on the path of peace and social harmony
"WISH U A VERY HAPPY DIWALI"

Broccoli Raita Recipe

What’s your favourite raita recipe or say which one you make the most?  I often make onion and/or cucumber raita followed by boondi raita cause these are most simple to make and takes less time.  But then once in a while I do little experiment here and there and this broccoli raita is one such recipe.  I get bored of making same broccoli soup, broccoli stir fry, broccoli thoran etc so I try new recipes and this broccoli raita fitted my bill for a Saturday lunch. 

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1/2 cup chopped/grated
Yoghurt/Curd - 1 Cup
Green Chillies - 2
Minced Ginger - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - 3-4
Salt - to taste
Oil - 1 tsp
Chopped Carrot - 1 tsp [optional]

 

Method:

1. Wash and grate or chop broccoli.  You can use chopped, food processor what ever that fancy you. [In the picture it’s not half cup of broccoli ]

2.Finely chop green chillies and mince ginger well. Beat curd and keep side.

3. In a wok or pan heat oil add cumin seeds and allow it to splutter. Add ginger, chillies curry leaves and sauté until ginger becomes light brown.

4. Add broccoli, salt and sauté for 3-4 minutes in medium flame or until broccoli gets cooked but still crunchy.

5. Add cooked broccoli to curd and mix well.   Adjust salt if  required.  Serve as it as or chilled.

Garnish with chopped carrot if you wish, I do that to add colour and crunchiness to the raita. 

We had it with pulao, you can try this with any parata, pulav, variety rice.

If you are looking for something different either for raitha or for broccoli then this is for you, how about giving a miss to the usual raita this Diwali and try this broccoli raita for a change? Does this sounds interesting to you?

Variations ~

~ Ginger adds nice flavour to the raita so try not to skip.

~ Chopped fresh cilantro is fine too.

Have a nice day ~~

DIY: Diwali Home Decoration Ideas | Themes

I guess most of you will be busy with Diwali shopping, cleaning and with all the sweets & savoury preparation, among all this busy things we also need to think how to decorate our home, what new things to try.  My sister does this so well, each year she will choose one colour and theme, she will plan well and do the work effortlessly on the D day.  So I thought I shall share some of the Diwali home decoration ideas with you to give you guys little ease.  Do let me know if you liked the post.

We shall start with Rangoli as most of us do that whether it’s outside of house or inside.   

Here is simple rangoli and a diya on centre, on entrance.


Or go simple with rangoli or say it’s kolam using colour chalks


You can also try Pookalam or flower arrangement.  A simple and quick design also bring lot of festive mood.



Floating Candles arrangement is very attractive and inexpensive idea and it’s looks very pretty.  Keep it any where around the house and made the area looks special.  You can match the candle’s shape, colour with your theme.

A simple floating candles arrangement, used here fresh flower petals with few pebbles and candles of different colours. 



Or go little detailed and do this decoration with fresh flowers.  Fresh flowers arrange on top of water with just one candle in the centre, looks pretty isn’t it? 



After lighted up it looks like this, very festive what you say?



Oh you notice the change of candle?   That’s cause the candle was sinking so I replaced it with diya/oil lamp and I think this looks much better. 



Show you guys dinning table decoration.   You can keep fresh flowers for a simple and elegant look and that’s bring freshness or go little elaborate like the below picture.

You can use a table runner, if you don’t have one at hand it’s fine.  Use your dupatta or sari ( I am not responsible if you end up having any strain on your favourite saree or dupatta )  so be careful while serving or eating.    This is a saree in light cream colour with flowers petals along a centre piece arrangement.  A light colour table runner is used cause the backdrop wall is dark colour of red.  Keep few candles in dinning table too if you have the space. 



And this is the centre pieces on the dinning table, a very simple arrangement with a candle on side.



I am going to sum up the post with some pooja place decoration idea.  My mom would make a simple rangoli or kolam around the pooja area, you can do that.

Here my sister used a new saree and dupatta to decorate the wall and bring some Indian look.



No, this is not your cup of tea?  Never mind we go simple with just some floating candles and fresh flowers.



Or try with some simple rangoli design, flowers, diyas, and some Christmas decoration items.



Hope you liked the ideas, have a nice day ~~