Methi Dal

Ingrediants:

Toor dal:1cup

Methi leaves:2cups

Tamarind :1inch ball size

Green chillies:2nos

Chilli powder:1tsp

Salt to taste

For seasoning:

Mustared,jeera,urad dal:1tsp

Broken red chilli:1nos

Turmeric:2pinches

Broken garlic cloves:3nos

Curry leaves:7nos

Oil:1tbsp

Procedure:

wash dal thoroughly and add washed methi leaves, tamarind and slit green chillies to it and cook in pressure cookerfor about 15 min on low medium.Then mash the dal and keep it aside.Take a vessel and heat oil in it and add mustared,jeera,urad dal and broken red chilli to it.Let it splatter and add curry leaves and garlic to it.Now add dal to it and cook it for about 5min .serve it with hot rice or roti.

Cabbagepeas fry

Ingerdients:

Chopped cabbage:3cups

Peas:1/2cup

Oil:1tbsp

Curry leaves:6nos

For tadka:mustared,jeera,uraddal

Broken red chilli:1no

Red chilli powder:1tsp

Garam masala:1/2tsp

Salt to taste

Procedure:

Heat oil in a wide pan and mustared,jeera,red chilli urad dal and curry leaves.Once mustared starts to splatter add cabbage and sprinkle some salt on it so that cabbage can cook in its moisture.Then add peas to it and fry it until cabbage turns light brown colour.Then add chilli powder and garammasala,fry for another min .serve it as side dish or goes well with plain rice itself.

Gutti vankaya kura(stuffed brinjal curry)

I have been thinking of posting a recipe since long,it took me a while to decide what to start with.I am going to start with wonderfull,flavourfull and versitile vegetable brinjal.(Well to me itz).May be almost everyone from andhra knows about this curry.yet every one makes it with diffrent stuffing

Ingredients:
10-12 fresh tender purple brinjals
2 onions finely sliced
1 tomato
3 green chillis
2 tbsp tamarind paste



stuffing:
4tbsp urad dal
3tbsp chana dal
3tbsp coriander
1/2 cup sesame seeds(optional)
4 red chillis
1 inch cinaminon
1/2 tbsp pepper corns
4 to 5 nos cloves
3 garlic pods
salt
1/2 inch ballsize tamarind

toast all the above ingeredients except sesame seeds.
toast seseme seeds seperately and make powder of it.
stuff the brinjals with this powder by cutting them into plus leaving stem behind

In a wide bottom pan add oil and do tadka with mustard,urad dal,cumin and curry leaves.
Add cut onions and green chillis,fry them until translusent and add tomato and cook until soft.
Now add some water and allow it to boil after this add the stuffed brinjals and cook it on medium flame while strring gently in between.
once after brinjal is cooked now add the tamarind paste , 3tbsp of the grounded powder and chill powder (if needed) to this.
let it cook for a while and turn off the heat and garnish with coriander leaves.
Best served with hot rice,goes well with roti.