Gobi Manchurian, one of the best indianised chinese dish.. I tried to prepare this today and it turned out quite well. I didn't have chinese vegetables hotel guys use and I don't even know where can I get them, so I made gobi manchurian completely indianised. And here is the recipe


Ingredients
1 medium sized Gobi
5 spoon corn floor
4 spoon maida
2 spoon red chilli powder
3 spoon Garlic-ginger paste
3 spoon tomato ketchup
1 beans
2 finely chopped green chillies
2 spoon hot and sweet tomato ketchup
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Chop the gobis to make eatable sized pieces
• Mix 4 spoon corn floor, maida, red chilli powder, 2 spoon garlic ginger paste and salt with water to form thick batter
• Heat oil on high flame
• Add gobi pieces to the batter so that the batter covers it from all sides
• Deep fry the pieces on medium flame till they are golden brown
• Heat Oil on low flame
• Add remaining garlic ginger paste and let it sputter
• Add in chopped onion, green chillies and let them cook
• Once onions are cooked and start turning little brown add in both ketchups
• Mix remaining corn floor with water and add it to the manchurian
• Garnish with finely chopped beans and green chillies

Notes
You can optionally use soya souce also but I didn't have that either
If you want to prepare this as gravy, add more corn floor with water to the gravy while mixing ketchups

Sabudana Khichadi is something very very tasty and typical maharashtrian dish.. I cook it very often and many times take it even for lunch because I just love it :) So here is how I prepare it.


Ingredients
1 cup sabudana
1 cup groundnut powder
1 tea spoon sugar
3-4 green chillies
3-4 spoons corriander leaves
1 spoon jeera
5 spoons grated coconut (optional)
Salt to taste
ghee

Method

• Soak Sabudana atleast for 3-4 hours with 1/4 cup of water
• Mix soaked sobudana, groundnut powder, sugar, salt, finely chopped green chillies and corriander leaves (finely chopped)
• Heat ghee in a pan
• Add jeera and let it sputter
• Add the sabudana mixed with other ingredients
• Cook by putting a lid on the pan, stirring the khichadi often and on low flame
• After around 5 min of cooking khichadi would be ready
• Garnish it with grated fresh coconut

Notes
Cooking on low flame is must, otherwise khichadi won't be soft.
Use thickes possible pan to prepare khichadi, or you can also try putting pan on tava, Since I have thick kadhai I don't use tava
Also as discussed earlier in Sabudana Wada recipe, soaking sabudana in correct amount of water is also important to get soft khichadi

Again this recipe is inspiration from bangalore. We use to go to restaurant called Treat on 80 feet road . The restaurant serves amazing food. I love the cucumber raita they make and when I tasted it I decided to make this at home. I was able to get the taste similar to their's. Raita goes with almost everything, its so easy to prepare and its so tasty that I sometimes like to eat it like a sweet dish - kheer after dinner :)


Ingredients
1 cup thick curd
1 cucumber
1/2 spoon jeera powder
Salt to taste

Method

• Grate the cucumber
• Add salt and jeera powder
• Mix with curd

Notes
Using thick curd is important as I do not throw the water that gets generated by cucumber after mixing it with salt. So If you do not have thick curd make sure you remove the water.

When I was in bangalore I started my cooking experiments with ready made masalas (not ready to eats :D). Now I have started using my own masalas (to be precised my mom made :D) for almost everything. But there is this one recipe which I still prefer and love with MTR Pulav masala.. It tastes awesome :) Over a period, I have made some changes compared to what the pack mentions it and here it is.


Ingredients
6 Cups of cooked rice
1 finely chopped onion
2 spoons of MTR Pulav Masala
1 spoon garlic-ginger paste
1/4 cup boiled muttor
4-5 spoons ground nuts
4-5 cashews
4 spoons ghee
Salt to taste

Method

• Keep 3 spoons of ghee in a pan for heating
• Add onion and groundnuts
• When groundnuts are half done add in cashews and garlic ginger paste
• When cashews turn brown add in pulav masala and let it cook for 1 min
• Add cooked rice and muttor and mix well
• Put in remaining 1 spoon of ghee on the pulav and place lid on the pan and let it cook on low flame for 2 min.
• Add salt, mix pulav well and again let it cook for 2-3 min

Notes
Add cashews later than groundnuts so that they don't burn as cashews turn brown faster than groundnuts.
Using Basamati rice gives nice aroma and taste to the Pulav