Preparation time – 30 minutes
Serves – 4 people
Ingredients:-
5 Large Potatoes, boiled and mashed,
1-2 Green Chilies (chopped)
1 tbsp Coriander leaves (finely chopped)
1 cup gram flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp Red chili powder
1/4th tsp turmeric powder
Oil for frying

Aloo Bonda

Method:-

1. Mix turmeric powder, chilly powder, green chillies and the mashed potatoes together, well. Add a bit of salt to taste.
2. Heat the mixture slightly in the kadai or, a pressure cooker so that the raw taste of chillie powder and turmeric powder is done away with.
3. Heat oil in a kadai.
4. In a bowl, make a batter out of the gram flour by adding water to it. Add a bit of salt to taste. Ensure that the batter is not too thick, nor too liquid.
5. Make small balls out of the mashed potato mixture and put it into the bowl.
6. Cover the mixture well with the batter and insert it into the hot oil in the kadai slowly.
7. Drain the fried potato vadas from the oil when it is slight golden brown.
8. Serve hot along with coriander chutney.

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Cooking time – 40-45 minutes
Serves – 4
Ingredients:-

• Spinach – 1 bunch
• Onions – 3 Large sized
• Garlic crushed – 1 tea spoon
• Ginger crushed -1 tea spoon
• Green chillies-2 finely chopped
• Cooking oil – 6-7 tbsps
• Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bay leaf-2
• Badi elaichi-1
• Cinnamon – 1 inch stick
• Paneer – 300 gms
• Coriander Powder-1 tsp
• Jeera Powder -1 tsp
• Turmeric powder-1 tsp
• Garam Masala Powder -1tsp
• Chilli Powder-1 tsp
• 1/2 table spoon sukhi patti of kasturi methi
• Salt to taste

Palak paneer

Method:-

1. Put the cleaned and washed Palak in a pressure cooker without water. Cook until 1 whistle of the cooker and Keep aside.
2. Let it cool then drain the water and make a puree of the spinach leaves.
3. Take oil in a frying pan, Cut the fresh paneer into cubes deep fry the paneer pieces in oil, Caution…they tend to burn off soon, carefully toss them on medium flame until light golden color and remove to a plate.
4. In the same oil when it is very hot add cumin seeds and bay leaf. When it starts spluttering add chopped garlic and chillies. After a few seconds add chopped onion and fry until golden brown.
5. Add chopped tomato, mix well and cover and cook over low heat for 5-7 minutes ,stirring in between.
6. In the meanwhile take a bowl add ginger paste,turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, salt, crushed cinnamon sticks and badi elaichi. Now mix all the ingredients with little water.
7. Now add all the mixed contents of the bowl in a pan and fry, stirring constantly on medium flame, for about 10-12 min or, until the paste turns a light brown color and the oil separates.
8. Now add fried paneer, boiled peas and water for gravy, stir for 5 minutes. Add sukhi kasturi methi, garam masala and cook for 10 minutes on medium flame.
9. Add puree of the spinach leaves and paneer with some water if required and stir for 5 minutes.
10. Remove from the fire.
11. You can add a small cube of butter to it, if you wish.
12. Goes well with Hot Chapathis, Paranthas ,Naan or, fried rice.

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Cooking time – 30-35 minutes
Serves – 4 people

Ingredients:

1 large cauliflower (about 800 gm or 1.5 lbs), cut into 10 size florets
2 medium-large potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-3/4 dice
3 Large onion -Thinly sliced
3 medium size tomato -chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/4 t mild hing (asafoetida)
3/4 knob of ginger, grated
4/5 cloves garlic (crushed or chopped)
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 1/2 tsp coriander powder
3/4 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp kitchen king masala
1/3 tsp garam masala
1/2 table spoon (kasturi methi)
1 inch stick Cinnamon
1 badi elachi
4 bay leaves
salt to taste
Cooking oil (mustard) as required

Gobhi aloo curry

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot add the washed and cut cauliflower florets and potato. Fry it on medium flame until it turns golden brown. Cover the pan intermittently so that the vegetables are cooked. Keep it aside.
2. Heat the oil in the same pan on a medium flame and add the cumin seeds,hing, garlic and grated ginger. Fry till the spluttering stops and then add the onion.Fry till they are translucent and slightly brown.
3. Add chopped tomato, cover it and cook it on a low flame for 5 minutes.
4. Add turmeric, coriander powder, red chilli powder, kitchen king and garam masala. Add the bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, badi elaichi and salt to taste and about 2 teaspoons of water and keep on stirring so that the masala is fried slightly and the tomato and onion is completely mixed in the masala.
5. On a low flame add the prepared cauliflower and potatoes and stir to mix .
6. Cook for about 15 minutes or, to desired tenderness, stirring once in between. The mixture may stick to the bottom of the pan if you have used the specified amount of oil. That is alright – just don’t stir at the moment.
7. Add water as required for the gravy and cook for another 5-6 minutes until the mixture is boiled.
8. Take off the stove, and let rest covered. Toss to mix after a few minutes. Sprinkle with fresh chopped coriander and methi and serve with a bowl of plain yoghurt with roti or, with rice or, pulao.

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