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Mushroom Risotto

Priya loves risotto! She loved it the first time we had it together while we were in Vieques.. I know she will order it at a restaurant if its on the menu. It got me thinking about how difficult would it be to make… Looking at recipes I found out that the rice used to [...]

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Chole

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Green peas and corn in spicy garlic sauce (Indo Chinese)

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Moong dal

I made this dish in two ways,
1. Jeera chounk
2. Pyaaz and tomato chounk
So I am writing both styles. Picture is of style 2, I forgot to take picture of style 1.

Style 1 (Jeera chounk)
This one is the original method of cooking moong dal. In cooker, cook dal (add turmaric and salt) outcome [...]

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Baigan ka bharta

Ingredients:

One big brinjal/egg plant roasted (should have little burnt flavour)
green peas (optional)
2 chopped onions
1 chopped tomatoes and crushed tomato
2 teaspoon ginder and garlic paste
1/2 teaspoon red chillie powder
1 teaspoon correinder powder (dhaniya)
1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
salt
1/4 teaspoon turmaric

Method

Heat oil in wok add some cumin seeds (tel mein thoda jeera dalo)
After the cumin seed [...]

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Methi Mattar Mushroom Malai

This dish is a little modified than what you normally get in the restaurants. Ihave the added twist of also having mushrooms in it. One reason I tried out this dish was to impress my would be wife as it is one of here favourite dishes! It came out really well! I suggest you eat [...]

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Aloo Gobi Mutor

Ingredients

Chopped potatoes
couliflower broken in tiny pieces
green peas
2 chopped onions
2 chopped tomatoes
2 teaspoon ginder and garlic paste
1/2 teaspoon red chillie powder
2 teaspoon correinder powder
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
salt
1/4 teaspoon turmaric

Method
Heat oil in wok, after few minutes when oil is hot add the chopped onions, and ginger garlic paste, stir it till light brown, then add two chooped [...]

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Rajma / Red kidney Bean Curry

I made one of my favorite north indian dish. This is actually my mom’s receipe. when i was a kid i watched a movie Super Snooper (Terence Hill) a lot, here the hero loves the red bean curry.I wanted to be like him so i got hooked to this dish.

Ingredients:

boiled Rajma / red beans
chopped [...]

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Eggplant in Onions and spices

This is one of my favourite dishes. I love the flavour of onions with eggplant. The cilantro also enhances the taste and smell of the dish. This is something one should have with rice and goes well with Sambar.

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons oil
1 Eggplant chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
2 onions, grated salt to taste
1 teaspoon red chilli [...]

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Sambar

Sambar is part of any major meal at home. We have it plain rice, dosa’s, Idli’s or wada’s. I got this recipe from my mom.

Ingredients:

1 cup yellow split peas (tuvar dal)
2 cups water
2 onions, sliced in big pieces
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
3-4 dried red chilli
6-7 curry leaves
6-8 Fenugreek Seeds
2 tomatoes, [...]

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