Ingredients:
1 cup Roasted Peanuts
1 tbsp chopped onions
1 tbsp chopped tomatoes
2 tsp lemon juice
a pinch of salt
1/4 tsp of chat masala or pepper powder
1 tbsp nylon sev (any other will do)
1 tbsp coriander leaves (optional)

Preparation:

1. In a mixing bowl, take peanuts, add onions and tomatoes, lemon juice, salt, chat masala and mix well.
2. Garnish it with coriander leaves n sev.

Tips:
you can also make this chat with sprouted kala chana. cook the chana in the cooker till 3 whistles and then it is ready for making chat.

Green Rice

1 cup sona masoori rice or basmati rice (cooked or left over)
¼ cup zucchini finely chopped
8-10 leaves of spinach chopped
½ small onion finely chopped
1 garlic clove finely chopped
Few cashew nuts
½ tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
salt
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp butter
2 tsp garam masala
¼ tsp red chili powder preparation:

1. Heat butter in a pan, add cumin seeds. Add cashews and roast them till they turn light brown.
2. Sauté onion till they are translucent. Add garlic and sauté.
3. Add spinach and cooked till it reduces its Quantity.
4. Add zucchini and sauté till its cooked.
5. Add cooked rice to it. No lumps should be formed.
6. Add garam masala, red chilli powder, salt and lemonjuice and mix well.

Serve Green rice with coriander chutney and carrot raita.

Coconut barfi

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh or frozen coconut
1 tsp cardamom powder
3 tbsp sugar
1 cup whole milk or condensed milk
1 tbsp ghee
almonds coarsely powdered

preparation:
1.Heat ghee in a pan, add coconut to it and roast till its completely dry.
2.Add sugar and milk to the coconut and mix well.
3. Let it boil on a low flame till its done. Milk evaporates and the coconut becomes sticky.It should be thick mixture but soft.
4.Grease a plate with ghee, spread the mixture on the plate evenly and let it cool down.It becomes easy to cut into pieces after its dry.
5.sprinkle cardomom powder and almond powder on it.

Idli fries

Ingredients:

8 left over idlis cut into long pieces
1/2 tsp red chili powder
salt
1/2 tsp saarin pudi
oil for frying

preparation:
1.heat oil in a pan, fry idlis till light brown.
2.sprinkle salt, red chilli powder n saarin pudi.
Serve with coriander chutni or tomato sauce.

Banana Halwa

ingredients:
2 ripe bananas mashed
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
1/2 cup sugar
8 oz whole milk
1 tbsp clarified butter
chopped cashews n almonds

preparation:
1. Heat butter in a pan, fry cashews n alomonds and fry till brown.
2. add mashed banana and cook for 5 mins.
3. Add sugar and milk and mix well. let it boil till all the milk gets evaporated. keep stirring so that halwa doesnt stick to the bottom of the pan.
4.Sprinkle cardamom powder on the halwa.
Refrigerate. Serve cold.

Zucchini palya (with besan)

1 zucchini peeled n chopped
½ onion
1 garlic clove
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp udid dal (split black gram dal)
1 tsp chana dal
½ tsp red chilli powder
A pinch of garam masala
2 tsp gram flour
salt
1 tbsp oil

preparation:

1.heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, split black gram dal
2. add chopped garlic clove n onion n sauté them till they are cooked.
3.add zucchini and let it cook. It reduces to half of its original quantity.
4.after its cooked, add red chilli powder, salt, garam masala n besan n mix it well.
5.let it cook for another 2 mins n turn off the heat.

Dal palak

ingredients:

1 bunch Spinach (Palak) finely ch0pped
1/2 cup toor dal
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 pinch asafetida
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp red chilli powder
salt
1 garlic clove finely chopped
1 inch jaggery

preparation:

1. cook dal in a cooker.
2. heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, asafetida, garlic and saute till garlic emits strong aroma.
3. add spinach to it and saute till spinach reduces to 1/5 of its original quantity.
4. add dal to it and let it boil.
5. add salt and jaggery in the end

Tips:
1. you can also cook spinach in the cooker in a seperate vessel.
2. grated garlic emits strong aroma than coarsely chopped.

Gojju avalakki

ingredients:
2 cups Avalakki (Thick flattened rice)
1 tsp udid dal
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 cup peanuts
1 medium size stuffed dried chili (menthe mensinkaay) broken into two parts
3-4 curry leaves
2 tsp powdered jaggery
2 tsp tamarind paste
fresh or frozen grated coconut
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
salt

preparation:

1. keep avalakki soaked in water for 10 mins.
2. heat oil in a pan,add mustard seeds, udid Dal, peanuts, stuffed chili and curry leaves
3. add tamarind paste and jaggery to it .
4. when it boils, add avalakki and grated coconut and mix well.
5. Garnish it with coriander leaves. Serve hot.

Veg kurma

ingredients:
1 cup vegetables(potatoes, beans, carrots, pumpkin, peas, capsicum, cauliflower)
2 tbsp grated coconut(fresh coconut)
2 tsp tamarind paste
1/2 inch cinamon
3 cloves
1 clove of garlic chopped coarsly
1 tsp ginger paste
1/2 onion finely chopped
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tomato chopped
3-4 curry leaves
1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
salt

preparation:

1.grind coconut, cinamon, cloves, red chilli powder adding water.
2.heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds,curry leaves, ginger, garlic and onions and saute them for a while.
3.add all other vegetables and saute and let them cook.
4.add little water and pour the coconut mixture on the vegetables and mix well. let it cook for 3-4 mins.
5.add salt in the end.garnish it with coriander leaves.

Potato bhaji with gravy (Ras palya)

ingredients:
2 medium size potatoes peeled and chopped
1 small onion chopped
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp udid dal
1 pinch asafetida
4-5 curry leaves
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp oil
water
1/4 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp garam masala
1/2 tbsp powdered jaggery
salt

preparation:

1.heat oil in a pan, add all temepering items(mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, turmeric, asafetida)
2.add chopped onion and saute them till they are cooked.
3.add potato cubes and water and let it cook.
4.after potatoes are tender,add red chilli powder, garam masala, jaggery and salt and mix well.boil for another 2 mins.
serve with chapatis, rotis or pooris