Vegetarian Kheema(Soya curry)

Ingredients:

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Soya granules 1cup
Tomatoes 2 to 3 meduim size
Onion 1 medium size
Ginger & Garlic paste 1tsp each
Turmeric powder 1tsp
Chilli powder 2 tsp
Salt a/c to taste
Dhaniya or Coriander powder 1 tsp
Garam masala 1/2 tsp (optional)
Fresh cilantro 1/2 cup
Lime juice 1/2 tsp (optional if not adding garam masala)
Oil for cooking

Method:
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1. Wash and soak granules in warm water for 1/2 hr
   
2. Menawhile, cut tomatoes into thin slices or make puree and keep aside
   
3. Cut onions into thin slices
   
4. Take a wide pan, heat oil and add onions and fry till light brown in color
   
5. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry for 1 min
   
6. Add turmeric powder and fry for few seconds, add soya granules by squeezing all water from it into the pan and mix well.
   
7. Fry for 2 minutes. Add all other masalas including salt and mix well (if needed very little water ) and allow to cook with closed lid on medium heat for 5 minutes.
   
8. Now add tomatoes and mix well. Again allow to cook for 5 more minutes or untill tomatoes are cooked completely. (Here if you are adding tomato puree, then add it after 5th step.
   
9. Finally add cilantro and lime juice and mix well and sim for 2 minutes.
   
10. Remove from heat and serve with hot chapathis or plain rice.
    

Simple Sabudana Upma

I had tried making this dish so many times but was totally unsuccessful until the day Veena made it in from of me in my kitchen and proved that this was an extremely easy dish to make!

Here goes :

Ingredients
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2 cups of Sabudana
6 to 7 green chillies (make a cut in th middle of each one or else into small pieces)
1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
2 medium sized potatoes, cut into small cubes
2 tsp lime juice

2tsp groundnut powder
2 to 3 tsp of oil
salt (as required)

Method
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1. Wash Sabudana 2 to 3 times.Fill water upto its Sabuddana level or little less and soak for over night.

2. Heat the oil in a wok, add cumin seeds and fry for few seconds, then add green chillies and fry for a minute or two.

3. Now add potatoes and fry until it is cooked

4. Then add sabudana and salt.

5. Mix all the ingredients well on medium heat.Once mixed well add lime juice or peanut powder .Mix well and keep on low heat for a minute.

Palak Corn

Ingredients :
Palak (Spinach) roughly chopped
Tomato 1 medium size chopped into cubes
Corn (I used frozen corn)
Onion 1 medium size chopped
Green chillies 1 ( depends on how spicy you want your curry to be)
Milk 2 table spoon
Ginger paste
Garlic paste
Corriander Powder 1 teaspoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder (to taste)
Salt (to taste)
Sugar (a pinch)
Hing one pinch
Amchor powder


Heat one table spoon oil in the pressure cooker. When it is hot add green chillies, ginger and garlic paste, tomatoes, coriander powder and then add the palak/spinach.Cook for one whistle till the spinach leaves wilt.
Blend it to a paste after it cools down.

Now again take a pan heat a little oil and sputter jeera, hing, onions, haldi, red chilli powder, saute for a minute then add the corn. Saute for another few minutes, then add the palak paste. Add pinch of amchoor, sugar and milk.

Cover the curry and let it simmer for about 5 mins in low heat. Serve hot with chapattis or phulkas!