Cabbage curry

Ingredients:

250 grams cabbage, chopped
3 red chillies broken n seeds removed
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp asafoetida
salt to taste
1 tbsp grated fresh cononut (optional)
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp oil

method:

1. heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and add red chillies.

2. Put the cabbage in it and saute in high flame for a minute

3. Add asafoetida, alt, turmetic powder and mix well and saute in high flame for 3 - 4 minutes.

4. Add water to cover the cabbage, bring it to boil, simmer and cook with lid closed.

5. once cabbage is 3/4th done, open lid and cook till remaining water evaporates, in high flame.
 (keep it 3/4th done else it wil be too soft, it tastes if its crunchy a bit)

6. Once all water evaporates, saute it for 3 more minutes, (optional, add grated coconuts, saute for 1 minute) and remove from flame.

This tastes yummy with any rice, can be eaten with hot plain rice nd ghee too, as cabbage rice, its so tasty.

Eezee curries

Eezee curries

The speciality of these curries is that all the curries are made with as simple procedure as possible not compromising on taste. Most recipe books and on the net gives some long methods to make curries that makes some think that the only way the vegetable will taste is by making it  like that. but no. all vegetables can be made as simpla as possible and yummy too. try these eezee curry recipes.

Chole masala

Chole masala

Have tou always made chole masala by boiling the chick peas, grinding masals, etc etc etc such a lenghty process... and bored of it? here is such a easy substitute of making delicious chole masala or channa masala, however you call it. this way, the masala sticks better with the chick peas too.

Ingredients:

200 grams chick peas (soaked overnight)
100 grams onions chopped well
100 grams onions grinded into paste
2 green chillies cut in two
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
150 grams tomatoes grinded into paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tbsp garam masala
salt as reqd
2 tsp corn flour (optional as thickening agent in case your gravy is too thin after boiled)
coriander leaves to garnish


method:

(If you have pressure cooker at home in which you are used to fry directly you can fry in it, or else fry in a pan and later put the ingredients in a pressure cooker oe electric rice cooker)

1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add chopped onions, green chillies and ginger garlic paste and saute well.

2. Add onion paste and cook till smell is gone.

3. Add tomato paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala and salt and cook till oil seperates.

4. Add the soaked chick peas saute for a minute, pour water to cover the peas and check for salt. The water must be salty.

5. Close the lid and pressure cook for 4 whistles.

6. Open the lid, if the gravy is thin, add corn flour mixed with little water and cook for 3 minutes till gravy thickens.

7. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

This way, all the masala and salt seeps in the chole and tastes better than when first boiling it and then adding masalas. this saves lot of time too.

Chicken 65

chicken 65

Are you a chicken lover? love chicken 65 but keep visiting hotels to taste them? hmm, here is the very easy recipe of 65. Just hop into a departmental store, buy some chicken 65 masala or chilli chicken masala and store it at home. it will come in handy. Now for the way to do it.

Ingredients:

200 g boneless chicken cubes
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 heaped tbsp chicken 65 masala or chilli chicken masala (no need to add salt the masala has enough salt and spice)

or you can use garam masala nad red chilli powder wwith salt instead but taste wont be as effective as the chicken 65 masala

2 tbsp fresh thick curds (optional but gives great rich taste)

Method:

1. Just mix all the ingredients together, marinate in fridge for an hour (No need to keep in freezer), or you can keep outside too for 2 hours.

2. take the chicken out, heat oil in pan enough for a shallow fry. put the chicken pieces along with masala if some paste is in the pan. Fry it in simmer mode till the chicken is done inside and crispy  outside. keep turning it once a minute so tat it doesnt stick in the pan.

yummy 65 is ready to eat. something irresistable.

Raita??

Hmm, are you new to the world of cooking? dont know to make raita?
its soooooooo simple.

1. chop onions finely, or grate it, which ever you feel like doing.
2. Add it to a cup of fresh curds.
3. Add required salt.

Tasty raita is ready to serve with fried rice, biriyanis, chapathis, parotas, paranthas, noodles and what more......

Egg rice in minutes

Hai,
are you lazy today to make a meals? here is a very simple dish which you can have with just onion raita or even plain.. only thing you havr to do is cook rice.

Egg rice

Ingredients:

2 cups boiled rice (any rice will taste good)
2 eggs
2 onions, grated
1 small tomato, finely chopped
1 capsicum (optional, thin slices)
4 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 small bay leaf
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
2 green chillies slit in two
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste

method:

1. heat oil, add cloves and cinnamon stick and let it splutter.
2. Add onions, ginger garlic paste and green chillies and saute for 2 minutes.
3. break the eggs in the onion and fry till the eggs are scrambled.
4. Add capsicum and saute for 2 minutes.(optional)
5. Add tomatoes and saute for another 2 minutes.
6. Now add turmeric powder and salt and saute for 2 minutes.
7. Add the cooked rice, mix well and simmer with lid closed for 3 minutes.

tasty egg rice is ready to eat with raita or just plain.

eezee dosa

hai, are you so hungry? dont have the patience to cook a long meals? no stock of food left at home? here is a very easy recipe that you can make in just 5 minutes and relish.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup wheat flour
salt to taste
1 tsp asafoetida
1 tsp mustards
1 tsp cumins
1 long green chillie slit and cut in two (which makes 4 pieces)
few curry leaves
1 med size onion chopped finely (optional)
Method:

1. Mix rice flour and wheat flour into a thin batter as thick as milk, add salt to it as per taste.

2. Fry asafoetida, mustards, cumins and green chillies in little oil and add to the batter.

3. Add curry leaves and onions if you want. Mix well.

4. Take a flat pan and pour the batter in shape of dosa and fry both sides with little oil till it turns golden and crispy.

Tasty easy dosa is ready to eat. The speciality of this dosa is that it tastes good even without any side dish.

Welcome to eezee recipes

Unveiling my blog to all those who love to eat!

U know what! Only those who love to eat are the best cook.

Am not joking. Just by tasting a person's food you can easily find out if he/she loves to eat.

How? Simple. if you love to eat, tour taste buds will be soooooo active that you will seek perfection in whatever you eat.

The result??!! You will cook everything perfectly, not compromising even a teeny weeny bit on taste.

But lo! Not all those who love to eat have the patience enough to cook complicated foods... Some lazy sods like me.... hehe...

I didn't want you guyz suffering there breaking head what to cook easily, and tastily too. Hence, here I am opening the secret of my cooking, sharing eeeezeeeeeeee recipes of even some foods that may appear complicated, so that, you too like me, can prepare good round meals, within an hour and stretch your legs at eaze, relishing the yummy result.

Happy meals!!!!

PS: In most of my recipes i wont put the quantity for some main ingredients, which will mean that you can try putting any amount in as per your wish.

Cauliflower vada

Having lot of cauliflower at home? here is a very easy recipe to spend your cauliflower in a way everyone at home from kiddoos to oldies (with teeth of course!) will like.

Ingredients:

1 cup Cauliflower - cut (or torn) into tiny florets
1 cup grated onions
1 cup Bengal gram dhal - soak for an hour
3 red chillies (dont break the tip) - put it in the dhal while soaking
2 tsp asafoetida
1 tbsp gingre garlic paste (easily available readymade in markets)
A pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp (not a pinch more) garam masala
A handful of bengal gram flour
1 tbsp rice flour
salt to taste
A strip of curry leaves (torn roughly with hands)

Method:

1. Boil cauliflower florets in salt water for five minutes and drain.

2. Grind the soaked dhal and chillies along with asafoetida and salt. While grinding dont add water. just sprinkle a spoonful of water in which the dhal was soaked. Grind the dhal coarsely. (Add proper amount of salt here itself cuz you wont be adding any salt later on).

3. Heat a tsp oil in a pan and semi saute the onions till half cooked along with turmeric powder and garam masala.

3. Now is a step you all will like. The masala mix.. Add the cooked cauli, sauted onions, fresh ginger garlic paste and curry leaves to the dhal and mix well.

4. Add the bengal gram flour and rice flour to the mixture while sprinkling little water in between to get a proper dough that wont break when the balls are made. (if you have earlier made masala vadas or aama vadas then you will know the right consistency. the tips are for those who are trying this dhal vada for first time)

5. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, the depth enough to drown the vadas three-fourth.

6. While the oil is getting heated, make small balls the size of lemons, out of the dough. touch water in between if the balls tend to break.

7. Once oil is heated, mid simmer the stove, (dont keep in high or full simmer) flatten the balls with your palms, touching water to shape it right and put it in the tava and deep fry both sides till golden brown.

Crispy, tasty vadas are ready to eat alone or along with curd rice too!!!

Hey, wait. its not yet over. You can try this recipe with any left over cauli curry too. In such cases just add the cauli curry to the ground mixture. no need to add anything else. even add little less salt while grinding the dhal. this will taste as yummy as the above vada.

Dhal vadas can be made plain too without any vegtable, or with onions alone too. And why dont you try this with what ever vegetable you wish to like cabbage, carrot, potato, or any thing else and share with me!!!