Carrot chutney

Ingredients

Carrots-2
Coconut- 1 small cup
Green Chillies(4-5)
Onion (1/2 )
Ginger- small piece
Garlic- 2 cloves
Coriander leaves- very little
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1/2 tsp

(Add 1 or 2 red chillies instead of green chillies if required)

Method
Grind all of above ingredients together . Add little water when grinding . Tastes well with mustard and curry leaves tadka too.

Theple- Methi Paratha

Ingredients:

Wheat flour(about 200 gms)
Rice flour(2 tbsp)
Maida(2-3 tbsp)
Green chillie (3-4)
Red chillie powder(1tsp)
Ginger - small piece
Garlic (2-3 cloves)
Coconut (small cup)
Curry leaves(5-6)
Coriander leaves(little)
1 boiled potato
1 small onion
Methi leaves (1/2 or 1 small bunch)
Salt to taste,water
Vegetable Oil

Mehtod:
Grind Green chillies,red chillie powder, ginger, garlic , onion, coconut and salt in the mixer. Wash the methi leaves and chop it into small pieces. Mix the paste, methi leaves and the crushed boiled potato with wheat flour, rice flour and maida . Knead the dough as soft as required for making chapati. Add water only if required. Divide the dough into parts. Roll each piece of dough by pushing the rolling pin from the center of the dough out to the edges like chapatis.














Grease the tave with some oil. Put the paratha on the tava and bake it.














Turn the paratha to the other side and grease it with some more oil as well.
Now its ready to serve. Makes 6-7 parathas.














Serve hot with ghee or butter. Tastes well with coconut chutney or carrot chutney.

Diwali Special--Padar-Peni

I have been waiting to write a blog on some of my cooking interests since long. This would be the best occasion to start . Its Diwali time and I miss being in India. I miss all the fun , all the sweets mom made, new dresses we go to wear , distribute sweets to neighbours and lots of things. If you think I have missed mentioning about crackers, then you are wrong. I have stopped bursting crackers long back :).

I have made an attempt to make a sweet dish called Padar-Peni which my mom made for Diwali. I would love to share my experience. Here is the receipe for the dish.


Ingredients

Maida (All purspose flour)- about 300 gms (enough to make 6 or 7 chapatis)
Ghee-4-5 tbsp
Powdered sugar- about 250 gms
Elaichi-2
Water- suffecient to knead maida into a dough
Salt- very little
Vegetable Oil

Method

Mix Maida with very little salt,water and 2 tbsp of oil. Make a dough as soft as the dough of a chapati. Knead the dough properly. Divide the dough into 6 or 7 parts. Roll each piece of dough by pushing the rolling pin from the center of the dough out to the edges like chapatis. These should be much thinner than a chapati. Keep the first indiviual cake make aside. Similarly roll the second one with the rolling pin. Brush the first cake with little ghee(5-6 drops), sprinkle some maida flour and spread it evenly. Put the second cake on the first one so that it clings to the first one without allowing any air gaps. Similary put the 7 cakes one upon the other using ghee as a gelling agent.
Now roll them together in tightly such it looks like a pipe. Cut the pipe into small pieces. Press them indiviually into a small circle. This is how it looks when cut and pressed into a small circle.














Roll each small piece into the size of a puri. Fry this in a kadai of vegetable oil. This will not puff up as its got layers.

Powder sugar along with 2 elaichis in the mixie. Prinkle this powdered sugar on each of the small puri as soon as it is removed from the kadai after frying. The powdered sugare clings to it. This is how the end produch looks :). 25-30 pieces can be made