Kitchen-Kollections

Ingredients

1 cup ginger pieces
5 slit green chillies
small lemon size ball or 2 tbs- tamarind
1/4th cup jaggery or 2 blocks of jaggery

Popu or tadka

3 tbs urad dal
3 tbs gram dal
1 tsp jeera
1 tsp mustard seeds
5 red chillies
4 fenugreek seeds
4 pinches asafoetida
Salt to taste.

Method

Add a tsp oil and add urad dal, gram dal, jeera, mustard seeds, red chillies, fenugreek and asafoetida and fry till golden brown. Add green chillies and ginger pieces. Add salt and let it cook.
After it is properly cooked, add tamarind and jaggery and mix it well. If you add jaggery well before, then ginger pieces will not cook properly.
Now grind the mixture into smooth paste once it is completely cooled off. Enjoy your chutney with hot idlis, dosas or bondas!

Ingredients

Paneer – 200gms
Tomato – 1
Red,green and yellow bell pepper – 1 cup
Onion – 1 cup
Green chillies – 2 or 3
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
turmeric powder – a pinch
coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

Method

Pre-Preparation:
Cut paneer into deisred shape(or in long rectangle shaped).
Chop ½ onion finely and remaining half chop into long thin strands.
Repeat the step2 for tomato also.
Cut green & red capsicum into long thin strands.

Heat oil in heavy pan. Add cumin seeds, asfoetida. Stir it.
Add finely chopped onion and stir it until it becomes light brown in color.
Add finely chopped tomato. Mix turmeric powder,coriender powder,salt,red chilli powder. Fry it for 3-4 mins.
Add half green & red capsicum .
Cover it and half cook it.
Now add long thin strands of onion,tomato,red &green capsicum and paneer cubes.
Cover it and cook it for 6-7 mins at medium heat.
Garnish it with chopped green coriender leaves before serving.