Aloo Bonda/ Batata Vada

Aloo Bonda is one of the popular snack / appetizer. It is also known as batata vada in Mumbai and it’s a famous street food.

It is a deep fried savory snack stuffed with potato spices mixture.  There are a lot of variations in making this potato stuffing. Aloo bonda is soft inside and crispy outside.  These are simple to make and delicious to eat.

Potatoes are my favorite vegetable and are very rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.

These can be served with sweet chutney or tomato ketup.

  

Ingredients:

Potato – 3 no medium

Onion – 1no small

Green chillies chopped – 2 no

Curry leaves – 4-5 no

Jeera – 1 tsp

Coriander leaves chopped – 2-3 tsps

Salt As Required

Chilli powder – 2 tsps

Turmeric powder -1 tsp

Hing a pinch

Ginger grated – 1 tsp

Besan – 1 cup

Baking Soda – ¼ tsp

Vamu/ Ajwain – 1 tsp

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Oil for deep frying

Preparation

• Boil potatoes in microwave for 5-6 mins and mash them and keep aside.
• Heat one tsp of oil in a pan.
• Add jeera and after they splutter add chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves, ginger.
• After onions get soft add mashed potatoes, turmeric powder, salt, chilli powder and mix well.
• Cook for 5 mins and add hing and coriander leaves.
• Lastly add lemon juice and keep the stuffing aside.
• In a mixing bowl, add besan, baking soda, red chilli powder, vamu and salt.
• Add enough water to make thick batter.
• Heat oil on medium heat for deep frying.
• Make potato stuffing into small balls.
• When oil gets hot, dip the balls into besan batter and coat with thick batter.
• Slowly drop the coated balls into the hot oil
• Deep fry them until they turn light golden color all over it.
• Serve with sweet chutney

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Radish Tomato Curry

Today for dinner I prepared Radish Tomato Curry. Radish is a root vegetable grown in many varieties and color. I prepared this curry by using white radish and tomato. This curry is very diet friendly and simple and easy to make.

My mom used to make this curry regularly and I used to like the flavour of this dish. This goes well with rotis, chapthis and rice.

Ingredients:

White radish – 1 large

Tomatoes – 2 no

Onion -1 small

Green chillies – 2 no chopped

Curry leaves – 4 to 5 no

Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp

Jeera – ¼ tsp

Chilli powder – 1 tsp (based on spiciness)

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt As Required

Preparation 

• Gently scrape the skin on the radish and wash it
• Grate the radish and keep aside.
• When we grate the radish we get water from it. Keep this water also aside.
• Add oil in a heated cooking vessel, allow mustard seeds and jeera to splutter and then add chopped onions, green chillies and curry leaves

• Saute till the onions turn slightly brown
• Add grated radish and mix well to give an even coat of all ingredients
• Add some radish water and cover with lid and cook for 15-20 mins
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt and mix well
• Once the radish is almost cooked add the chopped tomatoes and mix well
• Keep mixing periodically and sprinkle more radish water if required
• Cook for another 10 mins or till the radish absorbs tomato flavour.
• Add finely chopped coriander leaves just before remove from heat.
• Serve with rice or rotis.

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Nutty Chocolate Coffee Brownies

Yesterday Evening I spent a relaxing day baking Brownies with Chocolate and Coffee. Brownies are an American dessert that is half cookie and half cake. They’re easy quick to make and are so moist and chewy.

I made them with the instant coffee and semi-sweet chocolate chips which really brought out the chocolaty and coffee flavor. Added nuts on top of the brownie mixture. The brownies puffed up more than what I expected. They were incredible and inside were just what I love in a brownie.

Here is the recipe for the Nutty Chocolate and Coffee brownie!!!!

Ingredients:

Semi sweet chocolate chips – 3 tsps

Unsalted butter – 2 tsps

Instant coffee Nescafe ( ur choice of coffee) – 1 ½ tsp

Sugar – ½ cup

Eggs – 2 no

Baking powder – ½ tsp

Vanilla extact – 1 tsp

All purpose flour – ½ cup

Walnuts –1 tsp (optional)

Salt a pinch

Preparation

• Melt the butter, chocolate chips and coffee in microwave for 1min by stirring occasionally.
• In a large bowl take sugar, salt, baking powder, vanilla extract and mix well.
• Add eggs and mix well for 2-3 mins
• Add Flour to the eggs mixture and beat until fluffy.
• Now Add the chocolate, coffee mixture and mix well.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees

• In a square cake pan line with a parchment paper.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared pan
• Garnish with walnuts on top of the batter of brownie.
• Bake for 20minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the brownie comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and let them cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
• Cut them into squares.

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Tindora Rice/Dondakkaya Rice

Tindora Rice is a Simple and Easy to make. This is a big favorite of mine and likes to have it in my lunch box daily.

Tindora rice has a true flavor of Tindora in each bite, mild spicy due to green chillies, red chilli powder and nice crunchy texture with coconut and vegetables.

For this, Tindora are fried separately and then added to rice preparation. This way Tindora not only has its crispness but also enhances the flavor of the rice by imparting its flavor.

Ingredients:

Tindora/Dondakkaya chopped – 1 cup

Rice – 1 cup

Jeera – ½ tsp

Onion chopped - 1 small

Shredded coconut – ½ cup

Boiled potatoes, mixed vegetables ( carrot, peas, corn) – ½ cup

Chillies chopped – 2 no

Red chilli powder – ½ tsp

Curry leaves – 4 no

Coriander Powder – ½ tsp

Lemon Juice – 4 tsps

Salt As Required

Oil - 4 tsp

Preparation

• Wash and Cook rice with 2 cups water and cool
• In a cooking pan heat oil and add jeera after it splutters add onion, green chillies, curry leaves
• After onion gets soft add tindora.
• Add salt, coriander powder and cook by covering the pan with a lid
• Meanwhile boil potatoes, mixed vegetables in microwave for 5 mins
• When tindora gets almost cooked add above boiled vegetables and shredded coconut.
• Cook for 5 -10 mins.
• Add red chilli powder if required. Lastly add the lemon juice and mix well.
• Add cooked rice and mix well till the tindora mixture mixes well with rice.
• Serve with raita.

Shrimp Egg Fried Rice

After today’s superb match against Australia my husband wanted kangaroo fry biryani lol !!! Instead I made Shrimp Egg Fried Rice.

Fried Rice with Shrimp and Egg is very simple and quick dish made with shrimp, eggs, and chopped vegetables.

Ingredients:

Rice – 2 cups

Onion – 1 no chopped fine

Eggs – 5 no

Mixed Veggies ( Peas, Carrot, Beans, Corn ) – ½ cup

Shrimp peeled and devined– 1 cup

Chilli sauce – 6 tsp

Ginger and garlic paste – 2 tsp

Oil – 4 tsps

Salt As Required

Spring Onions chopped – 2 tsp

Corinder leaves – 2 tsps

Green chillies chopped – 1 tsp

Preparation

• Wash and cook rice (sona masoori or long grains) with 4 cups of water and cool.
• In a cooking pan heal oil and add onions and sauté  till soft
• Add green chillies and ginger garlic paste
• Mix well till raw smell goes away for 1 minute.
• Add washed shrimp and add salt and cook shrimp for 10-15 mins with a closed lid until shrimp is cooked well. (If required add very little water)
• After shrimp gets cooked add mixed vegetables, chopped spring onions, chopped coriander leaves.
• Beat eggs and mix well with shrimp mixture.
• Next Add the cooked rice and chilli sauce.
• Mix well and serve with any spicy sauce.