Kollu Kale Gravy (Horse Gram)

 Posting after a long time! Randomly mixed 2 recipes and came up with this, feel free to use kale or spinach, both goes well.

• Add ghee to tava, add cumin, half onion chopped, 2 tiny tomatoes
  
• Add Few curry leaves and 3 or 4 garlic pieces, 2 green chillies
• Saute few mins, let it cool
• Pressure cook half cup Horse gram dhaal (kollu), then let it cool
  
• Boil in half cup water..chopped Kale or Spinach and let it cool
• Then coarse grind all of the above...add salt, boil few mins, turn off!
• Goes well with Idli, Dosas and Rice.

Broccoli Soup

 

Thoroughly enjoying Broccoli soups these days...

• Add butter/ghee/oil to a pot or cooker and few pieces of garlic, half onion chopped
• Saute few mins, then add chunks of poosani/zucchini/potato/crushed almonds
• If needed pressure cook the above based on the veggies u used so far
• Then blanch broccoli chunk and add to the above pot with water
• Open cook 5mins and then hand blend with electric blender
• Add one cup milk, pepper, boil few mins
• Yummy Green Soup is ready!

Hand Blender Soups

 

Recently got hooked on to my hand blender soups! One pot, no oil, no ghee recipe!

• Add 2 spoons toor daal to pressure cooker,turmeric,1 spoon salt,4 cups water,dont cook yet
• Add to the above big chunks of medium onion, 2 tomatoes, 1 carrot
• Add 3 other veggies if you have - red bell pepper, pumpkin, poosanikkai, squash, zuchinni
• Pressure cook, and in 15mins open and hand blend using the electric blender
• Boil 5mins, turn off with pepper powder and cilantro topping!
• Yummy Yummy Soup is ready!!!

Traditional Okra Soup (Alt. Cauliflower)

 

Winter days...enjoying soup atleast 3 days a week..so wanted to share these recipes in my blog...

• Pressure cook a spoon or 2 spoons of toor dhaal and one medium sized tomato, turmeric
• Blend it well with hand blender
• Add 2 spoons ghee to a pot, saute sliced onions and one g.chilli
• Add cinnamon stick, pepper, saunf if you like..in above saute
• Once onions are tender add the veggie you like, add one cup water, half spoon salt
• Cook few mins and then add the dhaal water
• Cook few mins, turn off with pepper powder and cilantro toppings!
• Veggies Options - Beets or Cauliflower or Okra - one of these!