Vidya Baindur's Home Thali specials

  Batata Soang.... Recipe..  Boil the 4  potatoes in the cooker .. Remove skin.make pieces.  Chop 2 onions finely . Take 3 to 4 tabsps of coconut oil or any other oil in a pan. add chopped onions.fry till light brown . Add 1/2tsp.of haldi, 2 tabsps.of kashmiri red chilli powder,.add1 tabsp.of tamarind (imli)  juice. Add salt,as per taste...add pinch sugar if you like (this is optional)..fry for 2 minutes.. Add potato pieces..mix it..add little water ..boil  it till potatogets mixed with masala. Potato Soang is ready to serve.  Vaali n Dal Ambat ( Mangalorian Curry with Toor Dal n Malabar Spinach or Mayalu or Basale ) Recipe.... Boil washed N chopped Green Vaali bhaji with some salt and water.  Cook1cup Toor Dal in pressure cooker till very soft. then mash it. add cooked bhaji in it. In tadka pan fry less than 1/4 methi seeds in few drops of oil add 3-4 whole red bedgi  chillies in it. grind together fresh 1 cup grated coconut,small piece...

 Batata Talasani... Recipe.. Peel the Potatoes.. Make long n thin Pieces like we make for Finger Chips or French Fry.. Make Tadka with Oil , add lots of Crushed Garlic, Whole Red Chilli, fry it till brown . Add Haldi , red chilli powder, salt ,little of gud or sugar to taste (optional).. mix it nicely...keep the lid.. cook it till Potato get cooked.  Then saute it till it become slightly crisp.  Talasani is ready to  serve. Methi Batata Bhaji.. Recipe. In a pan heat oil .add some  rai,3 crushed garlic  fry little,add hing,haldi,red chilli powder. add green chillies,then add 1finely chopped big   onions,fry for few seconds   add potato pieces.add sugar,salt and cover the  pan . cook till potatoes get cooked.add methi  leaves.cook for few minutes.use little water if  you need . Cook for 2to 3 minutes.. Methi potato bhaji is ready to serve. Rajasthani Dahi Kadhi... Recipe ..posted in separate post in this same  blog.. pl...

 Rajasthani Dahi Kadhi.. Recipe... Ingredients... 1.Dahi 1n1/2 cups to 2 Cups. 2. Besan 4 tabsps. 3.Green chillies 3 to 4  4.Ginger..1 inch piece. 5.oil..3to 4 tabsps. 6.Rai.. 1tsp. 7.Methi seeds.. 1/4 tsp. 8.Jeera.. 1tsp. 9.Whole Red Chillies.3 10.Hing.. 1/2 tsp. 11.Haldi..1/2 tsp. 12. Saunf..1/4 tsp. 13. Dhania seeds..1/4 tsp. 14.Red chilli powder..1/2 tsp. 15. Ghee ..1tabsp. 16.dhania leaves..for Garnishing. 17.Curry patta.. 10 to 12 18. Salt as needed.. 19.Water as needed. 20. Kasuri Methi..1/4 tsp. Method.. Whisk Dahi in a bowl.. add chilli powder, Haldi n  little of salt,n then add water atleast 4 to 5 cups. Make tadka in kadhai.. add oil in it.heat it. Add rai, Methi seeds, Jeera, dhania seeds, saunf chopped green chillies, n chopped ginger, saute .. Then add hing,n curry patta in it..  When tadka is ready ..add dahi mixture in it.. n  keep stirring till it gets boil.. stirring  continuously avoids dahi curdling. Keep boiling till besan gets cooked p...

  Parathas... This is very tasty , yummy Parathas ...we can stuff anything which is available  at home..very quick recipe.Everyone likes to have it for lunch , dinner or as a breakfast..  We can eat it with Tomato Ketchup, Curds or any Chutneys..we can enjoy without any  side dish. We can make these Parathas with only any Veggies n without using Chicken.. Recipe...  Knead Chapati Dough with wheat flour, salt, little of oil n water as needed. Then keep it covered for 15 minutes. Chop finely 1 Onion. Grate 6 to 8 Garlic cloves. Chop greens of spring onion.. Chop 2 Green Chillies Finely. Chop finely Dhania leaves. Chop finely 1 small capsicum. In a bowl take coed Chicken Kheema 1/2 cup..you can use left over dry kheema if you have .  Mix in Steamed 2 Chicken Sausages n chop in to small pieces. Then add onion, green chillies, garlic paste,pinch of  pepper powder, Haldi, Red chilli  powder as per taste, Add Mozzarella Cheese 3 tabsp.or as much as you l...

  Radish n Onion Sukke...  Recipe.. This is a Mangalorean dish..  Peel the Radish. make big pieces of it. add 1 Onion big pieces,add salt & water ..then cook it till soft. You can cook it in pressure cooker for 2 whistles. then in a tadka pan fry 1\2 tabsp. of dhania seeds, 1/2tsp of white udid dal,7-8 methi seeds.t,& 3-4 red whole chillies in few drops of oil. then grind fresh grated coconut, above fried things,haldi,&little of chinch wtth water & make paste.  then add it in cooked Radish...add little gud,some salt.& boil it.. keep very little gravy..it shud be sukka. then add tadka with coconut oil,rai,currypatta n  hing in it..  sukke is ready to serve. Dudh Pithle ( Milk Pithle )   This is a Simple Maharashtrian side dish..It is very different but very easy and quick  to make ..It tastes good with hot hot rice and any pickle and papad.. Ingredients... 1.In a kadai add 1tabsp.oil..when heated add1/4tsp. jeera,5..6..chop...

 Palak Gargatta... This is  a Maharashtrian Side Dish which goes very well with Rotis,   Steamed Rice, or Bread. Recipe.. Ingredients....  Fresh Palak (Spinach )...1 Bunch or 1.1/2 to  2 cups of finely chopped. Toor Dal... 3/4 th cup. Chana Dal.. 2 tabsps. Ground nuts...1 to 2 tabsps..as per taste. Green Chillies.... 4 to 5 as per taste. Garlic... 7to 8 cloves. Salt.. as per Taste.or 1/2 tsp. Haldi..1/2 tsp. Tomato....1 Medium..chopped Gud.. Small piece. Besan..1 tsp.full. Oil ..1n 1/2 tabsps.for Tadka. Rai.. 1/2 tsp. Jeera.. 1/2 tsp. Curry patta.. 8 to 10  Hing... 1/4 tsp. Method... Wash both Toor dal n Chana dal properly.. add groundnuts in it.. then add chopped  Tomato in it..  Take it in 1 separate vessel of pressure cooker. Add water as needed to cook it. Then in another pressure cooker vessel take Chopped palak. Dont add any water..  Then both vessels keep it in pressure cooker.. keep  chopped Palak vessel above dal ...

 Puffed Spring Onion Masala Poori. Recipe... Spring Onion.. chopped Finely ..1cup..as per   taste. Wheat Flour.. 1 to 1/2 cup Besan...1 to 1/2 tabsps. Haldi..1/2 tsp. Red Chilli Powder..1/2 tsp.or as per taste. Salt..1/2 tsp or as per taste Sugar.. Pinch.or little more. Hing ..Pinch. Garlic.. Grated 1 tabsp. Green chillies ..1  chopped n crushed. Jeera.. 1/2 tsp. Water as needed to kneat Dough. Oil..In dough..1tabsp. and as needed to deep fry  Pooris. Method.. In a bowl take take fresh Spring Onion  chopped Finely . Add salt,haldi, pinch sugar ,  Add hing or Grated Garlic, crushed green chillies n jeera,1tab sp oil... Mix it nicely. then add wheat flour n Besan.. and knead dough with water as needed. keep dough aside for 5 to 10 minutes. then heat oil...deep fry rolled round Poories.. n serve with any sauce which you have.