Ukadiche Modak(kankiche) - Sweet Dumplings

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Ingredients

1. Wheat flour dough kneaded
2. Dry/Fresh grated coconut(desiccated coconut will also do) 1 cup
3. Jaggery grated 3/4 th cup
4. Roasted seasame seeds (powder /tilkut will also do)


Following are the steps

1. Dry roast grated coconut, when starts turning golden, add grated jaggery to it and stir continuously.
Make sure jaggery does not stick to bottom of vessel.

2. When the jaggery melts completely, turn off the heat and add roasted seasame powder and mix well.
You can add cardamom powder if you like.

3. Now make small balls of dough and roll small puris out of it. Roll puri on oil. Do not use
wheat flour while  rolling.

4.Now, put the stuffing on puri and close to form dumplings as in pic.

5. Heat water in pressure cooker and if you have idli stand, put all dumplings on idli stand or in cooker vessel. If you use cooker vessel, remember to cover the vessel with lid, so water does not go inside dumplings.

6. Remove weight from cooker lid and let it cook for 10-15 minutes on high flame. (cook just like idli).

7. Turn off heat and let it cool off for 5 minutes. when pressure is gone, remove the lid and take out
modaks.

Yummy and tasty modaks(dumplings) are ready.

Vegetable Soup - easy and nutritious

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Ingredients

1. Spring Onions leaves  1.25 cup and its onion chopped
2. Shredded cabbage 1.25 cup
3.  Carrot pieces 1 cup
4. Garlic chopped 1 tsp
5. Black pepper powder 1/2 tsp
6. Butter/ghee 1 tsp
7. Green chillis 2/3 (as per hotness required)
8. Salt
9. Ginger 1 inch chopped (optional, if you like the taste)

Following are the simple steps.

1. Pressure cook all vegetables i.e spring onion leaves and cabbage(1 cup of each, keep remaining half cup ) , carrot pieces ,ginger and  green chillis for 1/2 whistles.

2. Make a puree in grinder of cooked veggetables.

3. Heat butter/gheein saucepan/vessel, add chopped garlic and saute till raw smell of garlic goes away. Add black pepper, then add chopped onion(from the spring onion), remaining leaves of spring onion and remaining cabbage . Saute for 1 minute,make sure crunchiness of leaves and cabbage remains.

4. Add puree of vegetables and add salt. Now cook for about 2 minutes. And yummy vegetable soup is all done.

Tip : You can add bell pepper to vegetables while cooking,it will add to flavour of soup.

Paneer Balls / Khobra paneer pattis

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Ingredients

For Balls
1. Paneer 1 cup grated
2. Boiled and mashed potatoes 1 cup
3. Grated fresh coconut / Desiccated coconut 1/2 cup(optional, but adds crunchiness)
4. Coriander chopped 1/2 cup
5. Green chillis chopped 5/6
7. Grated/chopped ginger 2 tsp
8. Salt

For coating and frying
1.All purpose flour/cornflour/rice flour 3 tsp (any one is fine as needed just for binding, i made it using rice flour).
2. Salt
3. Black pepper powder 1/4 tsp
4. Bread crumbs 1 cup
5. Oil

Following are simple steps.

1. Mix all the ingredients as required for balls and mix well together and form a soft dough like the one for chapati. There should not be any lumps of paneer or potato.

2. Roll balls on hand from the mixture.
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3.Mix flour,salt,black pepper powder and add water to it to form very thin consistency batter. Now, dip the
balls into the batter.

4. Now roll the wet ball in bream crumbs so ball is coated with bread crumbs completely.Press crumbs on ball to make sure all bread crumbs stick properly to ball, remove excess crumbs if required.
Repeat step 3 and 4 for all balls. Then let the balls sit for 15 minutes.

5. Now heat oil and on high flame itself, fry all balls till golden brown. Do not reduce heat, as if you reduce heat, balls will consume more oil.

Thats it. Yummy Balls are ready. Enjoy with ketchup / sauce / chutney.

Tip : You can add kaju pieces / kismis in balls for tasty surprise :)

Veg Kadhai

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Ingredients

Vegetables
1. Mushroom 250 gms
2. Capsicum(simla mirch) 1 cup diced into sqaures
3. Peas 1 cup(optional)
4.Paneer(optional)

You can use any combination of above vegetables.

For Masala
1. 1/2 cup onion diced
2. 4/5 green chillis (accordance with hotness you like)
3. 1 inch ginger cut
4. 4/5 big cloves of garlic
5. 1Cup tomato diced
6. 8/10 cashews

For Tadka
1.Oil/ghee 2 tsp
2.Jeera 1 tsp
3.Haldi 1/4 tsp
4.Coriander powder 1 tsp
5. Garam Masala 1 tsp
6.Salt
7. Red chilli powder 1 tsp.
8.Little cream

For garnish
1. Coriander
2.Cream/Malai.

Grind these all these ingredients  together to form a paste.

Following are the simple steps.

1. Heat oil/ghee. Add hing(asfotedia),jeera and haldi. Then add the paste made above and saute for
2 minutes.

2. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and continue saute for 1 more minute.

3. Now add capsicum and green peas and saute till masala becomes greasy that is starts leaving oil.

4. Now add mushrooms and continue cooking. Add salt. Because of mushroom's internal water and salt, masala will start getting watery. Check consistency you want or add little water.

5. When mushroom is almost cooked, add garam masala and cover the lid to cook for 2 minutes.

6. Then add little cream ,mix thoroughly and cook for 1 more minute.

Your Veg Kadhai is ready. Dont forget to garnish with coriander and little cream. :)