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Friday, July 25, 2008

Egg Chilly

This is the simplest recipe that can be prepared using boiled eggs and my brother who had picked up the recipe from the roadside vendor near his college gave it to me (he loves eating there), tastes best with roti or chapathi.

Time taken: 20-25 minutes
Serves about 3 people

Ingredients required:
3 hard boiled egg
1 medium sized onion chopped
1 medium sized tomato chopped
1 tsp ginger & garlic paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp of red chilli powder
1 tsp cumin (jeera) seeds
2 Tsp oil
Handful of chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Method of preparation:
Heat oil in a kadai. Add cumin seeds and wait till it splutters. Now add onions and the ginger & garlic paste and fry till the onions turn pinkish. Add tomatoes and fry. Once the tomatoes is mashed and cooked properly, add the turmeric and the chilli powder and fry till the raw smell of the chilli powder is gone. Now add salt and half a cup of water and bring it a boil. Once it starts boiling, peel the eggs and add the whole eggs into the kadai, and mash with the spoon so that the egg whites are broken into pieces and the yolk mashes and mixes with the gravy making it thick. Once the gravy is thick and starts boiling switch off the gas, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with roti or chapathi.

Labels: boiled, chilly, dry curry, Egg, Simple, Tasty

Monday, June 30, 2008

Guvar(Cluster Beans)Curry

I have noticed that many people don't like cluster beans. Preparing its curry in the style mentioned below, almost nullifies the weird taste that guvar gives in curries made using it the normal way. Being one of the important sources of proteins, it could be included atleast once in a while in our diet, to substitute the normal beans. The first time I had this dish was at my sister's place, where, the cook had prepared it along with rotis for our meal. We all loved it...

Time taken: 20-25 minutes
Serves 2 people.
Ingredients Used:
1/2 a kg cluster beans
1 medium sized onion
1 medium sized tomato
4-5 cloves of garlic
2 tsp oil
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
a sprinkle of turmeric
1/2 tsp coriander powder
a pinch of garam masala(optional)
Salt to taste

Method of Preparation:
Destring the cluster beans and cut them into small pieces. In a cooker, take 2 tsp oil and warm it. Crackle cumin and mustard seeds in the oil and add finely chopped onion and garlic. When they turn pink, add the powders(except garam masala) mentioned above and stir for a few seconds. Then, add finely chopped tomato and let it form a gravy sort of a mix. Finally, toss in washed and chopped cluster beans, 1/10 cup water and pressure cook(till 1 whistle) with required amount of salt and a pinch of garam masala if you wish. Wait for the cooker to cool down and savour with hot hot rotis.

Labels: Chatpat, Chatpat. quick, cluster beans, dry curry, dry sabzi, Easy, Guvar, Jhatpat, Tasty