Friday, March 25, 2011

Cabbage Kosumbari (Cabbage Salad)

Ingredients
1 Cup Chopped Cabbage
1Cup Chopped Onions
3 tbspn Roasted Peanut Powder
2 tbspn Cumin seeds
2-3 Finely Chopped greenchillies
Salt

Procedure
- Mix chopped cabbage, onions, salt and finely chopped green chillies together.
- Add a little Ghee (1-2 tblspoon) in a pan and add some cumin seeds to it.
- Once the cumin seeds start spluttering add it to the above mixture.
- Finally add roasted peanut powder and mix everything together.

Aloo Palak (Potato Spinach Gravy)




Ingredients
1-2 Cardamom
1-2 Cloves
1 Cinnamon
1-2 Green Chillies
1-2 Garlic Grated
1/2 tbspn Ginger Paste
1 cup Chopped Onions
1 Tomato chopped
1tbspn Chilly powder
1 tbspn Cumin powder
1tbspn  Tumeric Powder
1 boiled potato
1tbspn Cream
Salt

Procedure
- Boil the Spinach for sometime and then allow it to cool
- Blend this with garlic in a blender (Adding garlic when blending spinach in the blender enhances the taste My innovation :-))
- Heat pan and add some oil to it.
- When the oil is properly heated, add cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon.When the mixture starts spluttering add onion, garlic, ginger and fry it for sometime.
- Then add tomatoes and fry until they turn mushy
-  Then add all the above powders and fry for sometime.
- Finally add the spinach puree and potatoes (pre-boiled) and bring it to a boil. Add salt to taste. Serve hot with rotis......