Onion Tomato Pepper Fry

Onion Tomato Pepper Fry is a delicious side dish goes well with rice, roti, chapathi, bread etc.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Onion Tomato Pepper Fry.

Ingredients:-

Onion.                        -1 large
Tomato.                      - 4 medium size
Green chilly.               -1
Curry leaves.               -1spring
Black Pepper powder. -1tsp
Mustard seeds.             -1tsp
Cumin seeds.                -1/2tsp
Coconut oil.                  - 2tsp
Salt.                               - to taste

Instructions:-

1). Peel, wash and chop Onion into thin lengthy slices and keep aside.

2). Wash and chop Tomato into large pieces and keep aside.

3). Wash and half slit Green chilly and keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat Coconut oil in a pan and splutter Mustard seeds and Cumin seeds and saute well.

2). Add half slit Green chilly and add Curry leaves. Saute well in oil for a second.

3). Add thinly chopped Onion slices and saute well.

4). Add required Salt and saute well on low flame till the Onion slices become translucent.

5). Add Black Pepper powder into the pan and saute well and mix with Onion slices.

6). Add chopped Tomato pieces into the pan and saute well. Cover and cook the Tomato pieces on low flame for 2 minutes or till soft but not mushy.Saute in between and switch off the flame.

A tasty Onion Tomato Pepper Fry is ready to serve with rice, roti, chapathi or bread.

Milk Powder Peda

Milk Powder Peda is a sweet dish made with milk powder, sugar, desiccated coconut powder, water and ghee.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Milk Powder Peda

Ingredients:-

Milk Powder.                        - 1cup
Sugar.                                    - 3/4 cup
Water.                                    - 1cup
Desiccated Coconut powder. -1/2cup
Ghee.                                      - 2tbsp +1tsp

Instructions:-

Grease a steel plate with little ghee and keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat 2tbsp of Ghee in a wide bottom steel pan and add 1cup of water into the pan and boil on low flame.

2). Add Sugar into the boiling water in the pan and stir well till the Sugar dissolve in water.

3). Add Milk powder into the pan and mix well. Keep on stirring the Milk powder Sugar mixture on low flame.Add desiccated coconut and mix well (optional).

4). When the mixture change its colour and become little thick, add little ghee. Stir well and switch off the flame.

5). Transfer the mixture to a greased plate and keep aside to cool.

6). When the mixture cooled to room temperature, apply little Ghee on your palm and make small round shaped milk pedas. Milk Powder Peda is ready to serve.

Note:-

1). You can store the Milk powder Pedas in the refrigerator for a week.

2). Instead of 1 cup of water, you can use 1 cup of boiled milk to make Milk powder Peda. Adding Desiccated coconut is optional.

Ambo Piyava Karambi

Ambo Piyava Karambi is a delicious Green Mango Salad made with grated raw mangoes, adding shallots, green chillies, hing powder and coconut oil, goes well as a side dish with steamed rice.Mango is called Ambo and Shallot is called Piyavu in Konkani.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Ambo Piyava Karambi /Green Mango Salad.

Ingredients:-

Raw Mango.   -2
Shallots.          -2
Green chillies. -2
Hing powder.   -1/2 tsp
Salt.                  - to taste
Coconut oil.      -1tbsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash raw mangoes and remove the outer skin. Then grate the raw mangoes using a grater and keep aside.

2). Peel shallots, wash well and chop into very thin lengthy pieces and keep aside.

3). Wash green chillies and chop into thin roundels and keep aside.

Method:-

1). In a mixing bowl add the chopped green chilly roundels, chopped shallots, required salt and hing powder. Mash all the ingredients in the bowl thoroughly using hands.

2). Add grated raw mangoes into the mixing bowl and gently mix with all the ingredients using a spoon.

3). Pour 1tbsp coconut oil over the raw mango shallot mixture and mix well with a spoon.

4). Transfer the Ambo Piyava Karambi /Green Mango Salad to a serving bowl.

A delicious Ambo Piyava Karambi / Green Mango Salad is ready to serve as a side dish with steamed rice.

Dudhiya Morgelu

Dudhiya Morgelu / Duddiya Morgholu / Morgolu is a sweet Konkani dish made with yellow pumpkin, jaggery and coconut.A simple and delicious Morgelu recipe is explained with step by step method and photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Duddhiya Morgelu.

Ingredients:-

Yellow Pumpkin (Duddhi). - a small Pumpkin
Grated Jaggery.                    - 3 tbsp
Grated Coconut.                  -1/4cup
Urad dal.                              - 1tsp
Mustard seeds.                     - 1tsp
Dry Red chillies.                  - 2
Coconut oil.                          - 1tsp
Salt.                                       - to taste

Instructions:-

1).Chop and remove the outer skin of the Yellow Pumpkin. Then chop the Pumpkin into medium thick pieces and keep aside.

2). Crush Jaggery and freshly grate Coconut and keep aside.

3). Keep aside Urad dal, Mustard seeds and broken dry Red chillies for seasoning.

Method:-

1). Heat 1tsp Coconut oil in a steel kadai and add Urad dal, Mustard seeds and broken dry Red chilly pieces into the kadai.

2). Splutter Mustard seeds and saute well till Urad dal changes to golden colour and the Red chilly pieces roasted in oil on low fame.

3). Add chopped Pumpkin pieces and required Salt into the kadai and saute well.

4). Add grated Jaggery and 1/4 cup of water into the kadai and boil and cook till the jaggery melts in water.

5). When the Pumpkin cubes are half cooked add grated Coconut and saute well.

6). Mix well the grated Coconut with the cooked Pumpkin pieces.

 7). Boil on low flame till the water evaporates and the dish becomes little thick.Then switch off the flame.

8). Transfer the Dudhiya Morgelu to a serving plate.

Dudhiya Morgelu is ready to serve as a sweet side dish.

Vaingan Mashinga Sange Upkari

Vaingan Mashinga Sange Upkari /Brinjal Drumstick Stir Fry is a Konkani curry made using brinjal and drumstick, goes well with rice.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Vaingan Mashinga Sange Upkari / Brinjal Drumstick Stir Fry.

Ingredients:-

Brinjal.            - 5
Drumstick.       -3
Green chilly.    -1
Garlic.              - 6
Dry Red chilly. - 4
Hing powder.    -1/4tsp
Mustard seeds.  -1tsp
Coconut oil.      -1tsp
Salt.                   - to taste

Instructions:-

1). Remove the stem and wash the brinjals and chop into 1/2 inch thick lengthy pieces and keep aside.

2). Chop both the ends and remove the outer fibre like skin of the drumstick and chop into 1 and 1/2 inch lengthy pieces. Wash well and keep aside.

3). Peel and chop garlic into thin lengthy pieces and keep aside

4). Wash and half slit green chilly and keep aside.

5). Broke dry red chillies into halves and keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat coconut oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and saute well

2). Add chopped garlic and fry in oil.

3). Add half slit green chilly and broken dry red chilli halves into the pan and saute for a while.

4). Add chopped drumstick pieces, required salt and 3/4 cup of water into the pan. Boil and cook the drumstick pieces for 3 minutes on low flame.

5). Add chopped brinjal pieces into the pan and mix well. Cover and cook on low flame.

6). When drumstick pieces and brinjal pieces become soft and the water is absorbed, switch off the flame. Transfer the brinjal drumstic stir-fry to a serving bowl.

A tasty Baingan Mashinga Sange Upkari / Brinjal Drumstick Stir Fry is ready to serve with rice.