Tawa Pulao Recipe

Tawa Pulao Recipe

Ingredients :
¾ cup Rice
1 Cup Finely chopped Mixed Vegetables (Carrot, Bean, Potato, Peas, Bell Pepper)
1 medium sized Onion Chopped into small pieces
1 medium sized Tomato Chopped into small pieces
2 tsp Ginger, garlic, green chili Finely chopped or crushed or paste
1 tsp Cumin Seeds
½ tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi)
2 tsp Pav bhaji masala Powder
1 Tbsp Fresh Coriander Leaves
1 Tbsp Spring onion Chopped
Salt to taste
Water As required
1 Tbsp Oil
1 Lemon cut into 4 pieces

Preparation :
1. Wash rice 2-3 times and soak it in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water.
2. Boil 5-6 cups of water in a pot. Once water starts to boil, add rice and cook till 90% cooked. Drain the rice and keep aside. Make sure you do not overcook rice.
3. Heat oil in a pan. Usually tawa pulao is a street food in India and it is fried on a huge tawa. As, we do not use that kind of huge tawa at home, we are using pan to fry the pulao.
4. In the oil, add cumin seeds. After 30 seconds, add onion. Sauté till onions are light brown
5. Add ginger-garlic-chili paste and saute for another 1 minute.
6. Add tomatoes, chopped vegetables(bell pepper, potato, green peas. carrots, beans) and salt. Sprinkle a few drops of water and cover it for 5 minutes or till vegetable are cooked well. You may use any choice of vegetables and cut into very small pieces, so it gets cooked soon.
7. Add cooked rice, salt, turmeric powder and pav bhaji masala powder. Mix gently and cook for 2-3 minutes.
8. Turn off the heat. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves, spring onions and a piece of lemon.
9. Serve immediately.

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Til Gud Ladoo Recipe | Sesame Seeds Ladoo Recipe

Til Gud Ladoo Recipe | Sesame Seed Ladoo Recipe

Til gud ka ladoo is a winter sweet and is generally made during sankrant / Pongal. This is a simple recipe made with til and jaggery. Til is sesame seeds and jaggery or gud is unrefined cane sugar. You can also enjoy them as Sesame Brittle. Til gud kha aani goad goad bola is also a famous phrase used by Maharashtrians.

Ingredients:
1 cup sesame seeds ( til )
1 cup jaggery or gud broken in small pieces.
3 Tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp crushed cardamom
1/2 cup water

Preparation:
1. Roast the Sesame seed (Til) in a frying pan on medium heat while stirring continously till they become light golden brown in colour. It should take about 4-5 minutes. Now keep the sesame seeds out in a bowl and keep aside.
2. Now take some water and Jaggery in the frying pan and simmer over medium heat till it starts melting and caramelising. Keep stirring for 4-5 minutes.
3. Now check the melted jaggery if it forms a ball when a drop of it is put in cold water. If it does lower the heat to low.
4. Add Roasted Sesame seeds (til), Ghee and Cardomom to the melted jaggery and mix it thoroughly.
5. Now grease a plate and take out the mixture on this greased plate.
6. Take one tablespoon of this mixture in your palm and try to make them in the shape of round balls. They should be roughly 1 inch in diameter.
7. Make all the ladoos from the mixture while it is still warm.
8. Til gud Ladoos or sesame seed ladoo can be stored in an airtight container for months.

Tips :
For a little variation, you can also add little crushed Peanuts or Daliya to the mixture before making ladoos.

Along wih Til Gud / Sesame Ladoos, Peanut Chikki / Sing chikki / Peanut Brittle is also prepared.

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Tandoori Roti without Tandoor

Tandoori Roti without Tandoor

Ingredients:
Wheat flour
Salt (Optional - i don't use it)
Water to knead the dough

Preparation:
1) Knead the dough of regular roti. Keep it a little sticky.
2) Heat a thoroughly scrubbed tawa (or cooker) on high flame.
3) Roll oval shaped (just for effect, in any shape they will taste equally good :) ) rotis using as little flour as possible.
4) Wet your hands and brush the roti with water.
5) Now take roti in one hand and shift it to the other hand with little pressure. keep flipping between hands 4-5 times.
6) Now carefully put the roti on tava and by applying little pressure everywhere stick it to the tawa. Sticking the roti is very important.
7) Now flip the tawa, so that roti is facing the flame.
8) Cook the roti properly and then flip the tawa to get it back to it's normal position.
9) Using a chimta (forceps) pick up the roti from the tawa, cook it directly on the flame on the other side also.
10) Apply Ghee/butter if you want to and have Garam Garam Tandoori roti with gravy of your choice.

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