For a simple, healthy diet, Rice with Green Peas, Carrots and Potato very well known as Matar Baath which is served with the Kadhi, a mixture of curd, gramflour and spicies. Everyone in my family loves matar baath so here’s the quick easy and simple Rice.

For the Rice

Ingredients

• I small cup Peas
• 1 carrot chopped
• 1 potato chopped
• 2 cups basmati rice soaked in 4 cups of water
•  2 to 3 green chillies
• 3 Cloves
• 5 to 6 Black Pepper
• 1 piece of cinnamon
• 1 Bay leaf
• Black Pepper crushed
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp Ghee to be put after the mixture boils
• 1 Tbsp oil for temper
  

  Heat Oil in a Pan, add all the dry ingredients

  

  Soak the Rice for 10mins

  

  Once its aromatic add the chopped vegetables and salt, let it cook for a while

  

  Once they look like this, half cooked Add the soaked rice

  

  Soaked rice added, along with Black pepper powder & Salt

  

  Once the mixture boils add 1tbsp ghee, let it cook on a low flame with a covered lid for approx 20 to 25 mins

  

  the rice is ready 🙂

For the Kadhi (Curd Soup), the main ingredient here are the fresh curry leaves

• 1 cup curd
• 2 tbsp gram flour
• Water for the consistency of the soup
• Add grated ginger, salt, sugar and dried fenugreek seeds in the mixture
• Oil, Curry leaves and Sliced green chillies for the temper
• 1 piece of cinnamon in the mixture

   

  I usually use a whisker to mix the curd with the flour and add all the ingredients in it before tempering it. Sorry i forgot to take a picture of that.

  

  Heat Oil and add cumin seeds, green chillies and mustard

  

  Pour the mixture and stir constantly

  

  Bring one boil until it thickens and its ready! 🙂

For Aloo Matar

Ingredients

• 5 Peeled, washed and cut into medium sized cube potatoes
• 1 cup Green peas
• 2 small sized tomato paste
• Salt, Turmeric, Dhana jeera and Red chilli powder to taste
• 1 tsp each Mustard and cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp Oil

For the Pooris

• 2 Cups Wheat Flour
• 1 tsp Ajwain
• 2 tsp Salt
• 2 tbsp oil
• Water to knead the flour

Tip: Please don’t put the oil in the flour, knead it with water, then pour oil and make it shine

In a Pressure cooker, Heat oil, put mustard seeds, cumin seeds and the cut veggies, Add salt and turmeric powder and pressure cook it for one whistle

Add dhanajeera, red chilli posdwer and the tomato paste

Mix well

Bring a boil by adding water

Its ready!

2 cups wheat flour, add salt and ajwain

Knead it with water and oil

Make small portions

Press them and roll them out

Deep fry in hot oil until they puff

Golden colour and tada!!

Serve with green chillies 😛

Ingredients

• 1 Cup soaked basmati rice in 2 cups of water
• 1 medium sized potato chopped in cubed size
• Curry leaves
• Cloves, Black Pepper, Bay Leaf, Cinnamon Stick
• Turmeric Powder
• Salt to taste
• Cumin and mustard seeds

Serve with curd (Dahi)

Ingredients Needed!

Heat oil in a cooker, add chopped chillies, black pepper, CLoves and Cinnanmon Stick

Add the cut potatoes and curry leaves. Let it cook for 5mins after adding salt and turmeric powder

Add the soaked rice

Get 3 whistles done

Tada 🙂

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Green grams washed and soaked in water for minimum 2 hours
• ¼ cup Red beans washed and soaked together with it
• Should be pressure cooked for 3 to 4 whistles
• Oil for Tempering
• Cumin seeds
• 3 small sized Tomato paste
• Ginger chilli Paste
• Salt and turmeric

Serve with Plain Rice, Papad and some greens

Heat Oil in a pan

Add Cumin seeds, ginger chilli paste

Add 3 small sized tomato paste, salt and turmeric powder

Make three Whistles in the pressure cooker, this is how it looks like 🙂

Once the tomatoes leave some oil, add the boiled grams in it and mix well

Bring it to a boil , add water to adjust the thickness and salt too

Tada! thats ready with simple ingredients

Served with Rice, Pappad and Greens

Ingredients

For the Batter

• 3 Cups khichdi/par boiled/broken rice
• 1 Cup Urad dal without skin. Black Lentils without skin.
• Handful Chana dal this is to make it crispy…you can avoiding you want soft dosas
• 1tsp Methi

Wash and Soak the above for 3 to 4 hours or even overnight. After that grind them to a smooth paste and leave for fermentation for about 4 hours.

For the Sambhar

• 1 Cup Toor Dal, wash it and soak it for 1 to 2 hours, Place it in the cooker and boil it for three whistles, put turmeric and salt in the mixture before boiling it.
• 2 tbsp Sambhar masala
• Turmeric Powder
• Ginger chilli paste
• Curry leaves
• Kashmiri Chilli powder for colour.

For the Masala

• 3 Medium sized potatoes boiled and peeled.
• Cut them into medium size cubes
• 1 tsp Spilt urad dal for tempering it with oil.
• Salt, turmeric powder, curry leaves, chopped green chillies and coriander.

Ingredients Needed!

Heat oil, Add cumin seeds, curry leaves and green chillies

Add 1/2 table spoon urad dal and cook till crispy

Add the boiled cubed potatoes, turmeric powder aalt to taste

Mix it well, add coriander and cook for 5 mins

For the Dal Sambhar tadka..Heat oil add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves and chilli ginger paste one by one…as it becomes aromatic

Add Tomato paste (2tomotoes), salt and turmeric Powder

Once the tomato paste realises oil, add sambhar masala and let it cook for 5mins more

After the aroma, add the boiled dal and let it boil, you can now add the kashmiri red chilli powder for colour

Add 1tbsp oil, salt and water to the batter, mix it to give you a consistency of easily liquid spread, do not make it to thin

Use a non stick and with the round spatula, pour the mixture on the non stick and move clockwise enlargening the circle outwards

Add the masala at the centre of the Dosa

Fold the sides and they are ready to serve

Mixed veggies hotchpotch

Ingredients

• 1 cup split green grams
• 1/2 cup khichdi rice
• 1 cup chopped cauliflower
• 1 chopped carrot
• I cup chopped cabbage
• 1 tomato chopped
• 1/2 cup green peas
• 1 tsp ginger chilli paste
• Salt to taste
• Salt, turmeric, chilli powder, garam Masala and khichdi masala
• Bay leaf, cinnamon stick, black pepper balls and a few cloves
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 2 tbsp GheeMethod:
• Heat Oil and Ghee and add Bay leaf, Black Pepper, Cinnamon Stick and cloves, once its aromatic add mustard and cumin seeds, until they roast and give an arom
•  Add the chopped vegetables once the tomatoes are halfy cooked
•  Add Ginger chilli paste and chopped tomatoes, cook for 5 to 7 minutes
•  Add: Salt, tumeric Powder, Garam Masala and a pinch of red chilli powder
•  Let the veggies cook for further 7 minutes
•  Add the soaked Split green dal and Khichdi rice, Please note for 1.5 cups Add 5 cups of water
•  Let it cook in the pan for almost 30minutes, once its done Add a tablespoon of ghee to it and let it simmer for 5 minutes more, thats how it will look 🙂
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  These are how the ingredients look 🙂

  

  Heat Oil and Ghee and add Bay leaf, Black Pepper, Cinnamon Stick and cloves, once its aromatic add mustard and cumin seeds, until they roast and give an aroma

  

  Add Ginger chilli paste and chopped tomatoes, cook for 5 to 7 minutes

  

  Add the chopped vegetables once the tomatoes are halfy cooked

  

  Add: Salt, tumeric Powder, Garam Masala and a pinch of red chilli powder

  

  Let the veggies cook for further 7 minutes

  

  Add the soaked Split green dal and Khichdi rice, Please note for 1.5 cups Add 5 cups of water

  

  Lit it cook in the pan for almost 30minutes, once its done Add a tablespoon of ghee to it and let it simmer for 5 minutes more, thats how it will look 🙂