Vegetable Kootu One Pot

 All You Need

• Kootu Masala - 1/3 cup coconut, 1 green chilli, 1 red chilli, 1/4 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp jeera,small piece of ginger, 1 tsp dhaniya seeds (optional) and 2 tsp Putnalu (optional)
• Veggies of your choice - Alu, Carrot, Peas, Tomatoes
• Tadka - Avalu, Curry leaves, Hing
• 2-3 tbsp oil
• Turmeric powder
• Salt
• Washed moong dal 1/2 cup

The Recipe

• Heat pressure cooker with oil and add tadka ingredients
• Then add tomato and cook for a minute
• Add mixed veggies, turmeric powder, salt, water
• Add the washed moong dal and kootu masala
• Cook on low pressure for 4 whistles

Homemade Pizza

 All You Need (This recipe yields 2 12 inch pizzas)

• 2.5 to 3 cups '00' pizza flour
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1.5 teaspoons coarse salt
• 1 cup lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• Toppings of your choice - onions, bell peppers,basil etc
• Pizza sauce

The Recipe

• In a large bowl, combine the yeast with the sugar, salt, lukewarm water and the oil
• Add the flour and use your hands to incorporate it all together, knead until it is fully combined (2-3 mins)
• Turn onto floured countertop and knead for 20-30 secs. If it feels too sticky add a bit more flour. It should be smooth and elastic and not sticky at this point
• Grease a large mixing bowl or a pressure cooler (works better) with olive oil. Place dough in the bowl, cover with a clean kitchen cloth and let it sit and rise. Put it in an oven with light on so its warm. This takes 1-2 hrs and it becomes very puffy (1st rise)
• Split dough in 2 halves, and keep them in bowls and let them rise again (2nd rise)
• Cover with a plastic wrap and you can keep it in the refrigerator for upto 48 hrs
• Roll out each ball into a pizza. Brush with olive oil and bake for 7-8 mins at 500 degrees F. Take it out, put pizza sauce, toppings and cheese and bake for another 7-8 mins at 500 deg F.

Dry Chilli Paneer

 All You Need

• Giner Garlic paste 1 tsp
• Tomato Ketchup 2 tbsp
• Vinegar 1 tsp
• Soya Sauce 
• Red Chilli Sauce
• Spring Onions
• Onions, Red, green and yellow capsicums cut in square pieces
• Paneer cut in big cubes
• Black Pepper powder
• Salt
• Chopped garlic
• Green chillies
• Corn Flour

The Recipe

• Cut paneer into big cubes. Add black pepper powder, salt, ginger garlic paste, soya sauce, chilli sauce. Mix.
• Add 3 spoons of corn flour and mix again with a spatula (make sure its not wet. if wet, add lil more corn flour)
• Shallow fry paneer in oil on medium heat. Keep aside.
• Cut onions, red capsicum, green capsicum, yellow capsicum into big square pieces.
• In a pan heat oil, add choped garlic,green chillies, onions and veggies - all on high flame for just 30 secs (veggies shud be crunchy). Then add salt and pepper powder, tomato ketchup, vinegar and soya sauce (v lil), red chilli sauce (1 tbsp). Cook for a min.
• Make a slurry of corn flour in water and add that to the gravy.
• Add paneer pieces in the end and in the end add spring onions. Cook on a high flame for 1 more min.

Nuvvula Karam Podi

 All You Need

• 1/2 cup sesame seeds
• 8-10 kashmiri red chillies
• 10-12 regular red chillies
• 1/4 cup dry coconut
• 1/4 cup chana dal
• 1/4 cup urad dal
• 1/2 tbsp jeera
• 10 small garlic pods (no need to peel)
• 1 tbsp jaggery
• Small tamarind pieces

The Recipe

• Dry roast sesame seeds first on a very low flame. Keep aside. The entire recipe needs to be cooked on a low flame. 
• Roast the red chillies together
• Dry roadt the dry coconut, chanadal, uraddal and jeera
• After 10 mins, add the garlic pods and salt and roadt further.
• Let al ingredients cool down completely.
• Grind the red chillies first followed by the dals mixture. Grind softly. Then add sesame seeds, jaggery and tamarind in the end. Keep few sesame seeds aside and you can add them in the end.

Pudina Pachadi (Mint Chutney)

 All You Need:

• Fresh mint leaves (discard stems)
• 2 tsp Urad dal
• Avalu
• 1/2 spoon menthulu
• 10 red chillies
• Chinthapandu
• Hing
• 1tsp sugar

The Recipe:

• In a spoon of oil, fry pudina lightly. DO NOT overfry. The leaves should still look green. Keep aside
• Heat oil in a separate pan and add urad, avalu,menthulu,red chillies,hing
• Grind tadka first along with chinthapandu, salt, pasupu
• Add the pudina leaves in the end and grind coarsely

Lemon Pickle (Nimmakaya)

 All You Need:

• Lemons (yellow 25 small size) cut vertically not horizontally
• Salt 1 tea cup
• Pasupu 1 spoon
• Karam 1.5 cups
• Menthi pindi 3 tbsp
• Peanut oil 1.5 cups
• Hing 3 tsp
• Mustard Seeds 2 spoons
• Fenugreek seeds 1 spoon
• Dry chillies 6

The Recipe:

• Cut 20 lemons vertically, not horizontally like we usually cut
• Squeeze juice from the remaining 5 lemons and keep aside
• Mix the lemon pieces, salt, pasupu, lemon juice in a plastic container and keep aside for 3-4 days
• Mix well on the 5th day and again keep aside for 2 days
• If the pieces still do not shrink in size, keep it aside for a few more days
• Next day, mix Karam, Menthi pindi,hing
• Add popu - avalu,menhulu, red chillies,hing. Let the popu cool down and then add to the pickle

Baked Zuchchini Sticks

 All You Need:

• 2 large Zuchchinis cut into long strips (not too thin, not too thick)
• 3 tbsp Olive Oil
• 3 tbsp Corn Meal or Almond flour
• 3 tbsp Grated Paneer
• Chaat masala or Aaamchur
• Red chilli powder
• Salt

The Recipe:

• Preheat oven at 420 degrees F
• Mix all ingredients together and spread without crowding on a baking sheet
• Bake for 30 mins or until crispy
• Serve with Tsatziki sauce for that extra yumm

Mirchi Bajji

 All You Need:

• Mirchis
• 3/4 cup Besan
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• 1 tsp Red chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp soda
• 1 tsp oil
• Salt
• Stuffing - Imli paste, Jeera or Vamu, Dry coconut powder.

The Recipe:

• Mix the flours and sieve them. This is a very important step to get crispy bajjis
• Grind the stuffing
• Add salt, karam, soda and 1 tsp oil and mix together
• Now add water and make a semi-thick batter
• Cut the ends of the mirchis and cut the middle and take off the seeds.
• Add the stuffing 
• Fry them in hot oil

Sponge Dosa

 The Ingredients

• 1 cup Sooji fine
• 1 cup Curd
• 1 tbsp soaked Poha
• salt as needed
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp soda or eno
• 1/4 cup water

The Recipe

• Wash poha couple times until it is soft
• Add Curd, salt, sugar, water slowly. Rest for 10 mins
• Gring everything together
• Add Eno and 1 spoon water to activate it. You could also add soda.
• Make dosas...no oil needed. Do not flip. You will get meshy texture

 

Green chillies chutney

 Grind green chillies, tamarind, a spoon of jeera, salt, garlic cloves , very little jaggery. Grind kacha pacha.

Then add chopped onions and grind again in a chunky consistency