Showing posts with label gram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gram. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014
Oats pongal oats cooked with green gram
Sorry friends Im posting oats pongal again as I deleted the orginal post by mistake.
Oats are my favorite for all seasons, I love having them in all seasons. It is considered as heart food and also I read some where in net that oats will provide us the good cholesterol for our body. They are rich in fiber content especially soluble fiber, I know the difference between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber in our body. Soluble fiber is "soluble" in water. Soluble fiber has many benefits, including moderating blood glucose levels and lowering cholesterol. The scientific names for soluble fibers include pectins, gums, mucilages, and some hemicelluloses. Good sources of soluble fiber include oats and oatmeal, legumes, barley, fruits and vegetables . Sometimes Oats is considered as heart food because it lowers the cholesterol levels in blood, which lowers the risk of heart attack.
On a whole oats with protein pulses is the best combo for the diabetics and heart patients. Im a science student, I have studied many subjects including cancer, diabetics, etc., every where I found about the importance of oats. From then I thought Oats is such an important food why we are avoiding it? Lets have it once in a three days. what do you say?
Now for the Oats Pongal you will need
Oats-3cups
yellow moong dal/Split green gram/pesara pappu-1/4cup
Onions-1/4cup chopped
Green chili/ pepper corns chopped-2ts
salt to taste
water as needed
make a paste of 2 garlic cloves and 2-3 black peppers
Procedure:
- Cook Moong dal with enough water and little salt, mash it and keep aside.
- Take a pan and heat 2ts of vegetable oil/olive oil.
- Add cumin seeds and allow them to splutter
- Then add Onions and green chili cook until onions turn transparent.
- Now add turmeric+ salt as required + garlic pepper paste and cook until raw flavor of garlic goes away.
- Add 1cup of water and boil.
- Now add oats slowly by stirring.
- Oats get cook very fast finally add the mashed moong dal paste and mix well.
- Cook for few min under medium flame, add water if required.
- Finally garnish with cilantro oats poha is ready to serve.
Monday, March 3, 2014
CHHOLAR DAL PHUL KOFI Bengal gram dal with Cauli flower
But today it was bit tough to decide because I wanted to post the last recipe of the year. ...So I picked up a curry patta and started plucking leaves...veg to post ..non-veg to post, twice it came non vege and it was not in line with the desired outcome. ( Like if it ends with loves me not...you start all over again....by the way if you are using a coke straw of standard length, always start with the result you dont want . But it was tough in childhood days , the length of an actual straw varies..so I used to keep on trying until I got the desired results..after all who wanted to be caned in the class,
Same was the case today...I was biased to post a vege ( Jain dish) for all, including my vege friends, we non veges have the advantage of eating vege as a delicacy and non-veg as a day to day staple diet..
After plucking several sprigs I arrived at " Vege dish". Now the kitchen counter is littered with curry leaves. So I have picked up many sprigs of curry leaves, plucking and chanting " SOME ONE will shout at me, shout at me not,,,,,"
The reason for posting a vege dish at the end of the year, is simple...all of my blog followers, which are few, can cook it in 2010....and it is a great dish I tell you...
THE RECIPE
It is a traditional Bong dish, having a strong note of cumin, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. ( I have spared our much loved spice, the clove, in honor of my maternal grand mom, (who never used clove in this dish, as a respect to cinnamon flavor). I shall also share a secrete of thickening the Bengal gram dal without over boiling the gram dal. The flavor of souted Cauli flower, gram, cocnonut and the spices is just too good. It always figures as a party dish when there is a mix of Bongs, Malayali, Punjabi and Gujarati, Jain, Tamil etc friends.
INGREDIENTS
Chana dal ( bengal gram) 1 cup
Moong dal 1 tbsp ( This is the secrete of thickening chana dal , every body knows it and every body says it is secrete , open secrete :-). Dont be tempted to add more; 1 tbsp is 1 tbsp per cup.
Cauli flower -1 about 8 inch dia, 8-12 florets
grated coconut 3 tbsp ( originally 8mmX6mmX4 mm pieces were used, you can use too)
oil/ ghee for stir frying Gobi 1 tbsp
For boiling dal
broken green chili 2
Turmeric 1 tsp
Bay leaf 1
Cinnamon 1 inch, broken into pieces.
Cardamom 2 smashed
Black pepper 6-8 smashed
spices
for seasoning
bay leaf 1
dry chili 2
Cumin 1 tsp level.
cinnamon 1/2 inch broken into big pieces
Cardamom 4
Black pepper 10 number
Ghee 1 tbsp
other spices ( mixed together and soaked in water, thin paste)
cumin powder 1 tsp level,
Red chili powder 1 tsp level ( more the merrier),+1 tsp Kashmiri mirch
Ginger paste 1 tbsp
Garnishing
Ghee 1 tbsp
Garam masala powder 1 tsp ( made from cinnamon and cardamom. No clove to be used)
Roasted cumin powder 1 tsp
Sugar 2 tsp level ( for taste) , ( for Bong and Gujarati friends 2 tbsp or more, for sweetening)
PROCESS
Wash gram and Moong dal and soak for 2 hrs or more.
In a pressure cooker take dal and soft water ( or bottled mineral water); just sufficient to soften the dall, may be around 2 to 3 cups.
Add spices given under "for boiling dal" and pressure cook. Normally chana dal will take 6-7 minutes if it is soaked for 2-3 hrs or more.
In a thick bottom Kadhai , put 1tbsp oil or ghee and stir fry Cauli flower . This is just to ensure that few brown spots develop on Gobi at random and you get the aroma of fried Gobi. This step can be eliminated too.No dip frying is to be done.
Remove Gobi and add 1tbsp of ghee for seasoning , when hot add seasoning followed by the coconut , reduce flame and soute for 1 min
Add spice paste soute and you will get the cumin aroma ( dont burn)
Add water just to soften Gobi and mix well.
Add the Cauliflower, salt and mix. (caution there is salt in dal already)
cover and boil.
When Gobi is done, drive off water if necessary. ( It may not be necessary as you may need to add water in dal if it is too thick.)
Add sugar as given above and transfer the dal to the Kadhai. Adjust salt and water if needed.
Bring to boil.
Add 1 tbsp ghee, garam masala and roasted cumin powder, mix and cover immediately.
Eat with rice, vege Pulao, famous Kanika Pulao of Orissa or with roti, Paratha. I generally eat one small bowl full straight from the pan.
Try this in 2010.
Variation
I also cook roasted Moong dal in the same way. You can try too.
Happy New year and Happy cooking and happy feeding of near and dear ones through out 2010. See you next year
Flowers for my dear foodie friends
The reason for posting a vege dish at the end of the year, is simple...all of my blog followers, which are few, can cook it in 2010....and it is a great dish I tell you...
THE RECIPE
It is a traditional Bong dish, having a strong note of cumin, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. ( I have spared our much loved spice, the clove, in honor of my maternal grand mom, (who never used clove in this dish, as a respect to cinnamon flavor). I shall also share a secrete of thickening the Bengal gram dal without over boiling the gram dal. The flavor of souted Cauli flower, gram, cocnonut and the spices is just too good. It always figures as a party dish when there is a mix of Bongs, Malayali, Punjabi and Gujarati, Jain, Tamil etc friends.
INGREDIENTS
Chana dal ( bengal gram) 1 cup
Moong dal 1 tbsp ( This is the secrete of thickening chana dal , every body knows it and every body says it is secrete , open secrete :-). Dont be tempted to add more; 1 tbsp is 1 tbsp per cup.
Cauli flower -1 about 8 inch dia, 8-12 florets
grated coconut 3 tbsp ( originally 8mmX6mmX4 mm pieces were used, you can use too)
oil/ ghee for stir frying Gobi 1 tbsp
For boiling dal
broken green chili 2
Turmeric 1 tsp
Bay leaf 1
Cinnamon 1 inch, broken into pieces.
Cardamom 2 smashed
Black pepper 6-8 smashed
Salt.
spices
for seasoning
bay leaf 1
dry chili 2
Cumin 1 tsp level.
cinnamon 1/2 inch broken into big pieces
Cardamom 4
Black pepper 10 number
Ghee 1 tbsp
other spices ( mixed together and soaked in water, thin paste)
cumin powder 1 tsp level,
Red chili powder 1 tsp level ( more the merrier),+1 tsp Kashmiri mirch
Ginger paste 1 tbsp
Garnishing
Ghee 1 tbsp
Garam masala powder 1 tsp ( made from cinnamon and cardamom. No clove to be used)
Roasted cumin powder 1 tsp
Sugar 2 tsp level ( for taste) , ( for Bong and Gujarati friends 2 tbsp or more, for sweetening)
PROCESS
Wash gram and Moong dal and soak for 2 hrs or more.
In a pressure cooker take dal and soft water ( or bottled mineral water); just sufficient to soften the dall, may be around 2 to 3 cups.
Add spices given under "for boiling dal" and pressure cook. Normally chana dal will take 6-7 minutes if it is soaked for 2-3 hrs or more.
In a thick bottom Kadhai , put 1tbsp oil or ghee and stir fry Cauli flower . This is just to ensure that few brown spots develop on Gobi at random and you get the aroma of fried Gobi. This step can be eliminated too.No dip frying is to be done.
Remove Gobi and add 1tbsp of ghee for seasoning , when hot add seasoning followed by the coconut , reduce flame and soute for 1 min
Add spice paste soute and you will get the cumin aroma ( dont burn)
Add water just to soften Gobi and mix well.
Add the Cauliflower, salt and mix. (caution there is salt in dal already)
cover and boil.
When Gobi is done, drive off water if necessary. ( It may not be necessary as you may need to add water in dal if it is too thick.)
Add sugar as given above and transfer the dal to the Kadhai. Adjust salt and water if needed.
Bring to boil.
Add 1 tbsp ghee, garam masala and roasted cumin powder, mix and cover immediately.
Eat with rice, vege Pulao, famous Kanika Pulao of Orissa or with roti, Paratha. I generally eat one small bowl full straight from the pan.
Try this in 2010.
Variation
I also cook roasted Moong dal in the same way. You can try too.
Happy New year and Happy cooking and happy feeding of near and dear ones through out 2010. See you next year
Flowers for my dear foodie friends
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