Veg Kurma

Kurmas are one of my favourite side dishes for pulka rotis... It can be done for any main dishes like chappathis and veg fried rices.. Variety of twists can be done in a single dish... Here comes a dish with a small twist which tastes even yummy than the original ones.

Ingredients:

Beans 10 to 12 finely chopped
Carrots 1-2 finely chopped
Capsicum 1/2 - 1 finely chopped
Paneer according to your level (if available)
Coconut Grated 1/2 cup or less
Odacha kadalai or pottu kadalai few
Green Chillies 1 - 2
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Salt acc to your taste
Turmeric Powder 1 teaspoon
Garam Masala (if needed) 1 teaspoon
Cloves 1
Cinnamon or pattai 1 small piece.
Bay leaf 1 small piece.
Ginger Garlic Paste 1 teaspoon
Kasa Kasa 1 teaspoon


Method :

Chop onion and tomato and grind them into a fine paste. Keep it aside. Grate coconut and and add pottu kadalai and green chillies (Pottu Kadalai is the twist here. In restaurants they add cashews and poppy seeds (kasa kasa). ) Add kasa kasa if u wish too. Grind them into a paste like grinding for coconut chutney by adding little water. Keep it aside. Chop vegetables finely. Add vegetables of your choice. Add green peas, beetroot etc.. By adding beetroot, kurma color will change into red. Add chopped paneer if its available. Heat cooker or a pressure pan. Add oil and add cloves, cinnamon and bay leaf if u wish. By adding them, u can feel its like restaurant style. Fry them for few seconds. Add the grinded onion tomato paste. Boil them till its cooked and oil gets separated. Add ginger garlic paste if u feel to. Mix them till raw smell of ginger garlic paste goes. Add turmeric powder. Add chopped vegetables and mix them for few minutes. Add the grounded coconut paste. Mix them well. Add water and salt and close the cooker and  let it boil and let all vegetables cook. Allow it to get two to three whistles.

Garnish it with coriander leaves.

You will enjoy the taste of this kurma with a small twist...

Pressure Cooker Eggless Chocolate Cake with Nuts

Heat pressure cooker by adding one and a half cup of salt and a stand or a ring (which u used to put it while cooking rice). Dont put weight. Pre heat it for 15 minutes. Next seive dry ingredients using a strainer. Add 2 cups of maida, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 spoon of corn flour. Seive together. In a seprate bowl, add 1 table spoon to 3/4th tablespoon of melted unsalted butter. Add 1/4th cup of powdered sugar and 1/2 cup of condensed sugar or milkmaid. Whisk together so that it becomes soft with no lumps are formed. Heat half a cup of water and add two spoons of coco powder. Mix it well. No lumps should be formed. Add the dry ingredients to the wet butter mixture and mix well.. Add the chocolate mixture and mix well. No lumps should be formed. Mix very well using a whisker till it becomes very soft. Add your favourite nuts to the mixture and mix well. Grease the cake tin either aluminum or stainless steel with unsalted butter or vegetable oil. Pour the cake mixture to the greased tin. Tap the tin so that the mixture is even. Keep it in the preheated cooker and allow it to cook fr 35 minutes. Dont put weight. After 35 to 40 minutes, remove the cooker lid , insert a tooth pick and check whether the cake is cooked. If the tooth pick comes out clean, your cake is cooked. If not, keep the tin inside the cooker and cook it for another ten to fifteen minutes. Enjoy the flavour...