Potato side dish Recipe

An easy indian side dish of potato is what many people want,to quickly finish off preparing the meal.It is not at all hard to learn this recipe,and yet it is fast and healthy vegetarian food,that many prefer to eat with their chapati,roti,or naan or even Rice and sambar.

Ingredients required for this recipe are :

1. Take around 5-6 medium sized potatoes,Sliced or cut as you prefer.
2. 1 teaspoonful of chilly powder.
3. 2 teaspoonful of coriander powder.
4. 1 teaspoonful cumin powder.
5. 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric.
6. salt to taste.
7. 1-2 tablespoonful, Ginger and garlic paste.
8. 1 tablespoonful of chick pea flour(besan).
9. 1 teaspoonful lemon juice.
10. Mix all the ingredients well.

Method of cooking:

• Take 2 tablespoonful of cooking oil in a nonstick pan.
• Add the above mixture onto it and cook on medium to high heat.
• Keep turning them over until you see them turn golden brown.

Yummy, delicious and crispy potato side dish is ready for you to eat with roti, naan,etc.
I love to have this with white rice-sambar mixture or rasam mixture.

Matar Paneer or peas in cheese cubes Recipe

Indian Dishes Recipes Brings the Recipe of Matar Paneer to you.The way this curry is made is not at all uneasy.more over you will need a very few ingredients for this delicious north Indian dish.I did learn this recipe from vahchef and some other vedio and just altered it here and there.






The ingredients required for this recipe are:

1. 1 medium sized onion.
2. 9-10 almonds.
3. 1 teaspoonful dried fenugreek leaves(kasturi methi)
4. 1 teaspoonful of cumin seeds.
5. 1 teaspoonful of chilli powder.
6. 1 teaspoonful of coriander powder.
7. 2 tablespoonful of ginger and Garlic powder.
8. 2 tomatoes,finely chopped.
9. 1-2 cups of peas(canned or fresh).
10. paneer cubes(roasted with a little oil).
11. 2 tablespoonful of cooking oil.

Method of cooking:

• Take the oil in a pot and heat it.
• add the cumin seeds and the almonds.
• Add the chopped onions and fry until golden brown.
• add the spices (do not char them).
• Followed by Ginger-Garlic Paste.
• Next add the tomatoes.
• Simmer for a few minutes .
• take the above mixture and grind in a mixture to a paste.
• cook it again in a medium to low flame with the peas in it
• Crush the dried fengreek leaves between your palms and add to the above mixture .
• When the peas are soft,add the paneer cubes in it and simmer for few more mins until you see the oil coming up.

Yummy! this is your Matar Paneer and you can go ahead and enjoy this Delicious north Indian Dish with Naan ,the recipe of which, you will find in my previos blogs at indian dishes recipes.

Potato and spinach recipe for side dish

Hello everyone,today there is yet another recipe from Indian dishes and recipes.It is a vegetarian recipe and a lot of greens is added to it.
I am cooking spinach today,and it will be cooked along with its best friend,The potato.
I have a variety of cooking ways for spinach and this is one of the things you can include in your non meat meals.
With out delaying even 1 min now let me start listing out the ingredients to you,for this healthy vegetarian recipe.

1. take a bunch of fresh spinach leaves.
2. 2-3 large potatoes cut into medium sized cubes.
3. salt to taste.
4. 1/2 teaspoonful of red chilli poeder.
5. 1/2 teaspoonful of cumin seed powder.
6. 1 teaspoonful of coriander powderand a pinch of turmeric powder.
7. Ginger and garlic paste(1:1 ratio).
8. 1 medium sized onion,chopped finely.
9. olive oil1-2 tablespoonful.

Method of cooking:

• In a pot take the oil,and heat it.
• Add the chopped onions into it and fry untill golden brown.
• Add the ginger and garlic paste into it and fry .
• Add the powdered spices into it and fry a little.add the cut potatoes into it and mix well.
• Now chop the spinach well and add to the above mixture and mix well and allow to cook well.

Now you start getting the delicious aroma and it makes you hungry.
Isn't this an easy way to learn cooking a healthy vegetarian food in no time.
This side dish can be had with rice or naan bread as the main dish.A tasty delicious meal is ready to eat.

This recipe is quite healthy,it doesn't have any fat in it.It certainly is a nutritious food ,yet a tasty one,in the comfort of your home.
Apart from all that,it is a very good way of letting my kids have spinach,b'cos they love this dish.

This is for now from indian dishes and recipes,keep looking for more and posting ideas for more recipes if you please.

Pepper water or Rasam

hello everyone,this is the time when everyone wants to stay warm inside ,while it is snowing outside and feast on hot soup, be it chicken or beef or lamb or even the vegetable soup.
But there is one thing that some of the south indians would love to have in this weather,and it is called Rasam.
they have a different way of making it depending upon which part of south India it is cooked in.
I am going to just let you all know the simple and fast way of making this sour and spicy water.


For the ingredients:

1. Take 1 -2 tsp of pepper corns.
2. 1 tablespoon of cumin seeds.
   
3. 2-3 tablespoon of curry leaves(add more for more aroma and flavour) keep some for seasoning.
4. 1/2 tsp of red chilly powder.
5. 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
6. salt to taste.
7. take tamarind(size of a lemon or less if you want less sourness) soaked in a glass of warm water.
8. tomatoes 1-2(medium sized) chopped finely.
9. 1/2 medium sized onion(chopped into medium size chunks) and have some very fine slices for the seasoning.
10. 1 tsp of sugar.
11. 5-6 peices of garlic(crushed).
12. Olive oil- 1 tablespoonful .
13. musturd seeds.
14. Asafoetida(1/2 tsp or add less if you don't wnt the flavour.)
    

Method:

• blend ingredients 1 to 5 together in a coffee grinder.
• in a pan take the oil and heat.
• when hot add the musturd seed and let them crackle.
• add the finely sliced onions and fry until brown in colour
• add the crushed garlic .
• add the curry leaves and fry .
• add hing(asafoetida)
• followed by the blended dy ingredients (which you blended in the coffee blender).
• don't let these dry ingredients char(immediately add the tomatoes and onions).
• followed by the tamarind juice(made by squishing them in the water and straining out the juice).
• let the mixture come to a boil.

Our tasty Rasam is ready to be attacked along with some white soft rice to go with it and you can have the beef with mint curry of mine in my previous blog as a side dish too.

I am still waiting for some comments on my blog.Please let me know how was this dish.