Sprouted Green Gram Salad

Ingredients:
Sprouted green gram - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1/2 chopped
Green chilles - 2-3 chopped
Ginger - 1/2 tbsp chopped
Carrot - 1 grated
Coconut - 3 tbsp grated
Salt-to taste
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Asafotedia - a pinch
Oil - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds and curry leaves- for seasoning


Method:
To make sprout:
Wash the green gram and soak in water overnight. Next day morning drain it and cover it in a wet cotton cloth. By evening sprout will be ready.

To make salad:
Take a pan and pour oil and put mustard seeds and curry leaves and asafotedia. Then add the sprout to it and salt. Cover it for few minutes and switch off the gas. Keep it aside to cool.

Then add all the chopped ingradients to it. Mix the contents well. Salad is ready!

Chole Masala (Chenna Curry)

Ingredients:
Chenna - 1 cup
Onion - 1 chopped
Tomatos - 1 chopped
Home made garam masala - 3/4 tsp
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds and curry leaves for seasoning

Method:
Soak the chenna overnight and pressure cook it for 4-5 wistles. Keep it aside.

Take a pan and heat oil in it. Add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Then fry the chopped onion and tomatoes. Add the chilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and masala, and add salt. Fry it for some time.

Then add the previosly cooked chenna. Mix it well. Chole masala ready!

To make home made masala:
Take a pan and put cardomom, cinnamon, cloves, bayleaves, sombu, khuskhus. Heat everything. Be careful not to burn the ingradients. Then put it in a mixer and powder it.

Kootanchoru

Ingredients:
Rice - 1cup
Toordhal - 1/2 cup
Carrot - 1 (cut into length wise)
Brinjal -1
Drumstick- 1/2
Cucumber- 1/2
Potato - 2
Asafotedia - a pinch
Grated cocounut- 1/2 cup
Tamarind water- 1/4 cup
Chilly powder- 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1/2tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Salt, Cocnut oil and curry leaves

Method:
Wash the rice and dhal separately and cooks separately in pressure cooker. Keep it for 5 whistles. Cut all the vegetables into length wise.

Take a pan pour 1-2tbsp oil(coconutoil optional). Put curry leaves and all the cut vegetables and shallow fry for sometimes and add tamarind water and salt . In the meantime grind coconut, turmeric powder, chillypowder, jeera by adding water. Once all the vegetables are halfcooked add the grinded paste. If u need u can add some water or tamarind juice.
check whether the vegetables are cooked. Then switch of the gas and add the rice and dhal.
Mix it very nicely. Now the Kootanchoru is ready.

Tips:
If ur making Kootanchoru for lunch make it two hrs before lunch. So that it will be very tasty.

Pepper Coffee

Ingredients:
Pepper - 1 tablespoon
Garlic - 4 pieces
Coriander seed - 1 teaspoon
Sugar - 2 teaspoon

Method:
Take 1 cup water. Boil the water. When boiling, add pepper seeds, garlic, coriander seeds and sugar. Allow it to boil for 3 minutes.

Pepper Coffee is ready.

Note: This is a medicine and not to be taken as a regular drink. Prepare and take it in small quantity to get rid of throat pain. Add more sugar if required.

Potato Curry

Ingredients:

Potato - 5nos (medium size cubed)
Onion - 2nos (cubed)
Ginger & Garlic paste - 3/4 tsp
Green chillies - 3 nos
Chilly Powder - 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil, Mustard Seeds, Curry leaves and 2 Red chilly

Method:

Heat the pan and fry chill powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder until an aroma smell comes. Then keep it aside and let it cool and grind it.

Pour oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves, Red chilles, once it starts to splutter add onion, green chilles and ginger garlic paste. Fry it until the raw smell goes. Add cooked potatoes and fry for a minute and add grinded masala, garam masala. Add some water and salt to taste. Allow to boil and garnish it with corainder leaves.

This curry will go with Chappathi, Parotta, Fried Rice.

Tips: Instead of water u can add Coconut milk.

Carrot Salad

Ingredients:
Grated Carrot- 1
Chopped Capsicum - 1
Chopped Onion - 1/2
Grated Coconut -2tsp
Grated Ginger - 1/4 tsp
Chopped greenchilly - 2nos
Chopped coriander leaves
Asafotedia - a pinch
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves
Salt to taste and oil for seasoning

Method:
Mix grated carrot, chopped onion, capsicum, ginger, green chilly, coriander leaves and salt.
While seasoning add asafotedia.

Beetroot salad

Ingredients:
Grated Beetroot - 1
Chopped capsicum - 1
Sprouted green grams - 1/2 cup
Grated coconut - 2tbsp
Lime juice - 1tsp
Salt, coriander leaves
oil, mustard seeds, and curry leaves

Method:
Cook the grated beetroot and keep it aside. Allow it to cool. Mix all the ingredients to the cooked beetroot and season it.