Mash Potato(Indian Style)

This is one of my favorite dishes. I have grown up eating this. This is an easy side dish which takes 20-30 mins to make. And this is also a healthy dish which everyone can eat. Hope you like my mom’s recipe. Here are the ingredients and the process to make this dish.

Ingredients:

3 medium sizes potato.

1tsp mustard seed.

½ tsp whole urad dal.

½ of an onion thinly sliced.

1 green chilly.

1tbs mustard Oil.

Salt to taste.

Preparation:

·   Peel the potato and cut it into half.

·   Put the potato into boiling water add salt to it.

·   After 15-20 mins when you insert a toothpick/ fork the potato must be break.

·   In pan heats up oil, add mustard seed and urad dal.

·   Add onion and green chilly.

·   Fry until the onion are translucent.

·   Add potato to the pan and break those with the spatula.

·   Add salt and fry for few more minutes.

·   Serve with rice and dal.

Chingudi Besara (Shrimp curry in mustard paste)

This is how my grandma cooked ,my mom cooks,& this is how I cook. Anyway, you can make any additions to it like adding some other spices like fish masala or curry masala. You can add some tomato to it. You can either use Fish instead of Shrimp.  It all depends on your taste. Keep trying out dishes. Cook safely.Thanks for your patience. Here are the list of ingredients you need and the process to make this recipe.


Ingredients
For Mustard Paste:
2tbs Mustard seed
1tbs cumin seed
5-6 Garlic cloves.

For Curry:
1lb medium size Shrimp (Prawn)
2 tbs Mustard oil.
1/2 medium size Onion Sliced.
1tsp mustard seed.
1tsp cumin seed.
1tsp Turmeric.
1tsp  Red Chilly Powder.
1cup Water.
1potato Sliced.
2 Dry Mango.
Salt to taste.

Preparation:
Mustard  Paste
Soak the mustard seeds and cumin seed  in small quantity of water water for 10-15 mins.
Place the mustard and cumin to a blender along with small amount of water.
Grind until its is the consistency of a paste, with seeds remaining visible.
This may take 5-7 mins.
Add small amount of water if it needed.
Add garlic cloves to the paste. Grind it to a fine paste.
The paste must be thick in consistency.

Curry:
Add some salt and turmeric to Shrimp.
Fry the shrimp in  mustard oil  until it changes its color. Remove the shrimp from pan and keep aside.
In the same pan add mustard oil. 
As soon as the oil heats up add mustard seed and cumin seed .
Add sliced onion . Saute it until they are translucent.
Add 6-7 tbs of mustard paste to it and stir it gently.
Add turmeric and chilly powder to it.
Add little water time to time and fry it for about 10-15 mins.
As soon as the oil starts to leave the mixture add water to it.
Let the water comes to boil. Then add potato. 
Cover it and cook until the potato are half done.
Then add dry mango to it. Let it boil for another 2-3 min. 
Add shrimp to curry.
Then add salt. Remember dry mango has enough salt so check before adding any salt to it.
Let the curry boil for another 5 -10 mins on low flame.
Serve the curry with steamed rice.

Suji Ladoo (Rava Ladoo)

Ingredients
1 cup semolina 

1/2 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 tbs raisins 

1/4 cup grated coconut
3 tbs cashew nuts
3 tsp pure ghee

Preparation
Heat up a little ghee and lightly fry cashew nuts and raisins then keep aside. Heat up ghee in a deep pot and fry the semolina on low heat till it turns light brown in color. Keep aside. 
In the same pan boil milk add sugar and coconut to the milk.
Slowly add semolina to it. Stir the mixture until it becomes sticky.
Add cashew nuts and raisins to it. Give it a good mix.
Take off the pan from heat and form the dough make small balls.
Serve when cool and dry.