Kitchen Diaries

 The vegetable pulav is frequently prepared at home. This is my mom's recipe and popular as Shailakka's pulav in the area in our town. My mom had learnt it from her aunt from Mumbai before her marriage. Below are the ingredients and steps for vegetable pulav. You need to first make pulav powder and start with it  - Ingredients for pulav powder : Coriander seeds - 3 tbsp Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp Cloves - 7 Cinnamon - 2' piece Cardamom - 2 whole Pepper corns - 5 Ingredients to make a paste : Ginger - 2' piece Garlic cloves (peeled) - 7 to 8 Green chilly - 1 or 2 based on hotness Ingredients  (vegetables) : Cauliflower - 1 handful cut into pieces Carrot - 2 cut into long very thin pieces Cabbage - Longitudinally cut 1 handful Green peas - 1 handful Onion - Longitudinally cut 2 med sized Tomato - 1 small size chopped Coriander leaves - 1 handful chopped   Other ingredients : 1 cup (200 gm) - Basmati rice or normal sona masuri rice 2 cups (400 ml) water Salt - 1 tbsp Ghee -...

There a various chutneys prepared to have for lunch. Currey leaves chutney is one such side dish along with rice. The spiciness and the taste of curry leaves activates the taste. My grand mom used to make varieties of chutneys. When I saw a bunch of fresh curry leaves in super market, I remembered and made it this weekend after a long time. The curry leaves is believed to have multiple health benefits such as anticancer effects, prevent weight gain and reduces body cholesterol. Satiate the taste buds with this appetizing curry leaves - coconut chutney. Below are the ingredients and steps curry leaves chutney  - Ingredients : Curry leaves - 4 - 5 sprigs Red chilly powder - 1 tsp or can be increased as per taste Green Chillies - 1 or 2 based on the hotness Fresh grated coconut - 1 big handful   Asafoetida / Hing - half a pea size (if you use hard crystal hing) / 1/4 tsp (powdered hing) Tamarind - one pea size Salt - less than 1/4 tsp Coconut oil - 2 tsp   Water - 2 to 3 tbs...