Vegetable Pulao

VEGETABLE PULAO

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tab oil
4 cloves
4 sticks of cinnamon
3 cardamoms
onions 200gm sliced
vegetables cut according your choice- like carrots, potatoes, cauliflower
curd 1 tab
chillies4
ginger garlic paste
salt to taste
rice-basmati or ordinary

Method:
Heat oil and add the cloves, cardamom and cinnamon and when it is fried add the sliced onions and saute the onions till 3/4th done then add the vegetables and add the GG paste and curd and chillies, all this in low heat. Then add the rice and for every one part rice add two parts water for ordinary and for basmati rice add 1 1/2 parts water. and allow to cook covered (dum) for 10 min covered and on high heat.

Serve with raitha or any side dish you deem fit. I like to have potato chips or chicken along with veg pulao, yummilicious :D

Nethili Fry

Nethili in Tamil and Commersons Anchovy in English, is a great tasting small fish. Who hasnt heard of the legendary 'nethili meen kulambu'? Alternately, you could even fry them for a different kind of tingle on your taste buds

Nethili Fry
Ingredients:
nethili meen-500 gms

mix with a little water and make a paste of:
ginger garlic paste-1tsp
red chilli powder 1tsp
coriander powder-2tsp
turmeric powder-1/4tsp
kala namak-1tsp
red colour powder-optional
pepper powder-1tsp
vinegar or lime juice-a few drops

Mix the nethili and the paste well so that the masala paste coats the fish well. Deep fry in hot oil and garnish with coriander and mint leaves and serve.

Milk Puris

Milk puris for 12

Ingredients:
Maida 3 cups
wheat 3 cups
salt 1 tsp
oil 3 tab
enough milk to mix
cumin seeds 2 tsp

Sieve the maida and wheat flour and rub in the oil into the mixture and add salt and cumin seeds and mix with enough cold milk to make a firm dough. Keep aside covered for 30 mins and then make medium sized balls and roll out in uniform circle and deep fry in hot oil till golden color and serve with side dish. The side dish shown here is a variant of the channa masala.