Channa dal with bottle gourd

This is very quick and nice recipie which can be served as a vege and dal.... so two in one.....

Ingredients

1 cup split gram (channa dal)

1/2 small bottle gourd- peeled and chopped

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/2 tsp chilli powder

1 tomato sliced

1 onion sliced

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 green chilli sliced

1/2 tsp garam masala

1/2 tsp dry mango powder

1/2 tsp coriander powder

1/2 tsp red chilli powder

1tbsp oil

Salt to taste.

Method

1. In a bowl mix split gram, bottle gourd, slat, turmeric, 1/4 red chilli powder and 4 cups of water and pressure cook.

2. Remove from fire.

3. While the dal and bottle gourd are getting cooked on another side heat oil add jeera and ones it changes colour add onions.

4. Cook onions till brown and then add tomatoes. Cook for 2-3 min and then add coriander powder, garam masala, dry mango powder and cook for another min.

5. Remove from fire and add green chillies and red chilli powder. Mix and then pour it on the hot dal. Mix gently and serve hot with steamed rice/chappati/puri etc........

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Sujee Cookies

These cookies are mostly made during the Id festival here in Singapore... Had taken the recipe from one of my friend.. and wanted to prepare since long time... Actually when I had it at her place I liked it a lot..So I asked her the name of the recipe.. She said its Sujee Cookies... Then I asked her the ingredients... to my surprise sujee cookies do not have sujee as a ingredient at all... I even asked her why do you call it sujee cookies then... she told me its the name to those cookies since her mother used to prepare... :) Any ways herego the ingredients and the recipe for this wonderful cookies......












Ingredients
500gms Self raising flour
250gms icing sugar
250gms melted clarified butter(ghee)
1tsp vanilla essence (optional) or cardamom powder (optional)


Method
1. Melt and cool the ghee.
2. Sift the flour and icing sugar and mix them together.
3. If using vanilla essence or cardamom powder add it in the ghee.
4. Mix the ghee slowly in the flour and sugar mixture.
5. Make a nice soft dough and then make small round balls (marble sized) of the dough.
6. Place these balls on the greased baking tray at a little distance.
7. Preheat the oven at 170 degree celcius for ten minutes.
8. Place the baking tray in the oven and bake the cookies for about 15 to 20 min.
9. Cool completely and then store them in a air tight container.

You can serve them immediately but if served one or two days later they taste much nicer as the sugar gets dissolved and blended in the cookies nicely.....



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Chakli

Again back after a long break... routine was making me really tired and I was desparately waiting for this long weekend... took the weekend to finish off the pending house work... and then prepared Chakli... I mean here everybody calls it murukku... an all time favourite snack......ofcourse i could not make or get the traditional flour which we use in India (Maharashtra) for making Chakli... but bought the readymade Baba's Murukku flour and prepared these chakli's.....

Havent done anything special as the instructions are given on the packet itself... just followed them.... and added a little turmeric and chilli powder to give it a little Maharashtrian taste.... though it doesnt taste like those chakli's... I wanted to do inauguration my new chakli maker :)... So enjoy making and eating these wonderful Chakli.....

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