Category: Gujrati Recipes

Trevti Dal Recipe – How to make Trevti Dal

By Suman Jain, August 31, 2009

Ingredients

1/4 cup Chana dal
1/2 Inch Ginger
1/4 cup Moong dal
1/4 cup Tuvar dal
2 Grated Green chillies
3 chopped Garlic cloves, minced
1 chopped Onions
1 chopped Tomatoes
1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
Salt To taste
1 Pinch Turmeric powder
2 tablespoon Oil
3 tablespoon Corainder leaves
Seasonings

2 Dry red chillies
2 Broken Cloves
2 Bay leafs
1 Pinch Asafoetida

How to make Trevti Dal

  • Soak all the dals for one hour and pressue cook the dals. Keep aside.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add the seasonings. Fry until they turn brown.
  • Add chopped ginger, garlic, chillies and fry for 4-5 minutes.
  • Add onions and tomatoes, salt, turmeric powder and cook until done.
  • Mash the dals. Add the dals with 2 cups of water. Simmer the flame and let the dal boil for few minutes.
  • Add the lemon juice, corainder leaves and stir well.
  • Serve hot with rice and papads.

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Shrikand Recipe – How to make Shrikand

By Suman Jain, August 31, 2009

Ingredients

1 kg thick curd
3/4 cup powdered sugar
A few strands saffron
1 tablespoon warm milk
2 tablespoon cardamom powder (elaichi)
For the garnish

Pistachios and Almonds

How to make Shrikand

  • Hang the curds in a muslin cloth in a cool place for approximately 3 hours until all the liquid (whey) has drained off.
  • Rub the saffron into the warm milk until it dissolves.
  • Mix together the hung curds, sugar, saffron mixture and cardamom in a bowl and churn using a hand blender.
  • Place in the refrigerator.
  • Serve gujarati shrikhand cold garnished with slivers of pistachios and almonds.

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Masala Puri Recipe – How to make Masala Puri

By Suman Jain, August 30, 2009

Ingredients

1 cup Wheat flour
1 pinch Asafoetida
2 teaspoon Oil + Frying
1/2 teaspoonRed chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon Ajwain
Salt to taste

How to make Masala Puri

  • Sieve the wheat flour and salt.
  • Mix all the ingredients and knead to firm dough adding enough water.
  • Cover and keep the aside for half an hour.
  • Take small lumps of dough and roll into small puris.
  • Heat oil in a kadhai and deep fry the puris.
  • Serve masala puri hot with curry of your choice.

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Gunda Recipe – How to make Gunda

By Suman Jain, August 30, 2009

Ingredients

500 gms gunda (a kind of berry)
oil as required
1/4 cup salt
150 gms mango pieces
3/8 cup turmeric powder
1/8 cup mustard seeds coarsely grounded
3/8 cup fenugreek seeds coarsely grounded
A big size pinch asafoetida
1/4 cup red chilli powder

How to make Gunda

  • Cut the gunda and scrape the seeds with a salted knife.
  • Mix in a little salt and turmeric powder.
  • Wash the mangoes completely and wipe them completely dry.
  • Cut into cubes and take off the soft seeds.
  • Mix everything fenugreek, mustard and turmeric powders.
  • Heat up 2 cup oil in a pan.
  • Set it aside till it cools down to lukewarm.
  • Pour out the oil over the powders and mix well.
  • Heat up salt slightly in a dry pot on low heat.
  • Take it off and in the same pan, heat up red chilli powder similarly.
  • Mix in both these ingredients to the oil masala.
  • Mix in the gunda and the mango pieces cubes to the masala mixture and mix till all of them are well coated with the masala.
  • Transfer into a dry ceramic or a glass jar.
  • Set it aside for 4 – 5 days without mixing.
  • Heat up enough oil to completely cover the pickled gunda and mango cubes.
  • When the oil has cooled down completely mix in to the jar.
  • Keep the jar covered tightly.
  • The pickle will be ready to serve in about a week.

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Chhundo Recipe – How to make Chhundo

By Suman Jain, August 30, 2009

Ingredients

1 kg mangoes (raw and deseeded)
2 teaspoon red chilli powder
2 teaspoon cumin powder
2 teaspoon turmeric powder
600 grams sugar
25 grams salt

How to make Chhundo

  • Take off and grate the mangoes.
  • Combine the grated mangos with rest of the ingredients evenly.
  • Spread the mixture in a shallow wide mouthed jar and cover with a thin cloth.
  • Keep the mixture in the sun for 5 days till the syrup attains a single thread consistency, stirring thrice daily.
  • This pickle lasts for a very long time.

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Tindora Nu Shaak Recipe – How to make Tindora Nu Shaak

By Suman Jain, August 29, 2009

Ingredients

2 tablespoon oil
250 gms gherkins (tindora)
1 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
2 tablespoon jaggery grated
A pinch asafetida
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
Salt to taste

How to make Tindora Nu Shaak

  • Wash, dry and slice the tindora thinly.
  • Heat up oil in a kadhai, mix in mustard seeds and asafoetida.
  • When it starts to crackle mix in tindora slices and stir fry on low heat up for 5-7 minutes.
  • When cooked mix in all the masala and jaggery and stir fry on high flame heat up for 2-3 minutes.
  • Take off from heat up when crunchy and serve hot.

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Sukavni Recipe – How to make Sukavni

By Suman Jain, August 29, 2009

Ingredients

Oil for frying
20 green chillies
1 cup yogurt
1/2 teaspoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
1 cup string beans (chawli)
1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder
1 1/2 cup cluster beans (gawar)
Salt to taste

How to make Sukavni

  • Wash the vegetables and pat them dry.
  • Make buttermilk by adding 1 cup water to the yogurt and churning it well.
  • Soak these vegetables in the buttermilk and leave it for 1 or 2 days.
  • Remove out and sun dry these vegetables.
  • Deep-fry these vegetables just before serving.
  • Remove and sprinkle with salt, coriander powder, cumin powder and red chilli powder.
  • Serve hot.

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Ringan Nu Oloo Recipe – How to make Ringan Nu Oloo

By Suman Jain, August 29, 2009

Ingredients

6 green chillies chopped
4 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
A pinch asafoetida
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
8 sprigs spring onions chopped
2 medium tomatoes chopped
1 kg brinjal
12 sprigs green garlic chopped
salt to taste

How to make Ringan Nu Oloo

  • Roast the brinjals till the outer skin is charred.
  • Put them in water and then take off the skin.
  • Mash the pulp.
  • Heat up oil.
  • Mix in cumin seeds and stir fry for a while.
  • Mix in cut green garlic, spring onions and green chillies.
  • Stir fry for 2 minutes.
  • Mix in cut tomatoes, turmeric powder, asafoetida, salt and the pulp of brinjals.
  • Stir fry for few minutes and serve hot.
  • The color of this bharta is green.

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Osaman Recipe – How to make Osaman

By Suman Jain, August 28, 2009

Ingredients

150 gm Red Gram (Masoor Dal)
2 tablespoon Jaggery (Gur), grated
2 tablespoon Peanuts, roasted
2 tablespoon Tamarind Pulp
½ teaspoon Cumin Seeds
4 Green Chilies (sliced)
½ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
A pinch of Asafetida
½ teaspoon Mustard Seeds
¼ teaspoon Fenugreek Seeds
Water (as required)
6 to 8 Curry Leaves
Coriander Leaves, finely chopped
Salt to taste

How to make Osaman

  • First add four tablespoon of water to tamarind pulp and make a dilute solution without lumps. Keep it aside
  • In the meanwhile, boil masoor dal in 2 cups of water.
  • When nearly done, add tamarind water, jaggery, roasted peanuts, salt and green chilies.
  • Allow it to simmer, until the dal is completely cooked.
  • Now, heat oil in a separate pan and add mustard seeds. When the seeds sputter, add asafetida, cumin seeds, curry leaves and fenugreek seeds.
  • Now, add the dal and cook for a while.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.

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Khajoor Na Ghugra Recipe – How to make Khajoor Na Ghugra

By Suman Jain, August 28, 2009

Ingredients

1/4 cup milk
Ghee for frying
1/2 cup ghee
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoon poppy seeds ground
200 gm dates (seeded and coarsely grounded)
6 green cardamoms powdered
1/4 cup coconut desiccated
1 cup refined flour
Salt to taste

How to make Khajoor Na Ghugra

  • Rub 1/2 cup ghee into the flour.
  • Mix in a pinch of salt and milk and prepare dough.
  • Smoothen and knead the dough well for 15 minutes.
  • Make small balls and keep covered.
  • Prepare a smooth mixture of poppy seeds, desiccated coconut, ground dates, green cardamom powder and sugar.
  • Make small balls of even size.
  • Roll out maida balls into small rounds.
  • Put the date stuffing on one side, fold to look like semi circle and seal the edges.
  • Cut edges with fluted cutter.
  • Make all the ghugras similarly.
  • Heat up ghee in a pot and deep fry in batches till golden brown.
  • Drain and Serve as sweet snack.

Popularity: 1% [?]

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