Onion peanut Chutney

Today I am almost back after an year with a recipe. It's going to be a very simple quick recipe for the day. As it's a weekend, generally we grab a pack of dosa batter for the quick breakfast and suppose you do not have coconut with you for the chutney and almost bored of preparing potato sabzi. In case you need the recipe for potato sabzi you can go with this link. We can go through the simple quick chutney recipe which you can prepare in 10-15 mins.

Batatyachi Bhaji / Potato Stir Fry

Batata - Potato stir fry is one quick side dish option for which you can go for when you hardly have any vegetables left in your refrigerator. You need not have to boil the potato unlike we do for the Poori potato sabzi. It's just to chop the potato into small sized slices so that it gets cooked fast, add the required amount of red chilli powder, add the roasted groundnut powder (Shengadanyach koot -  a must ingredient for Maharashtrian dish ;)) and give a stir. Cook it well with the closed lid and server it hot with Chapati/roti.

Raw Mango Rice

Mango Rice! I never had it before. It's only after coming to Bangalore I came to know about Mango rice from one of my neighbor who is from near by place. Whenever we meet we usually discuss about food. I like to collect information about many traditional recipes from her, so I keep asking her about the recipes and she explains me very well. In some ways I like the south Karnataka food, they use coconut & tamarind in almost recipes. The "Gojju" is very common here, mix it with rice and serve it. I have learned to prepare capsicum gojju, puliyogare, coconut rice, mango rice all from her. For Puliyogare I have already shared the recipe in the initial days. When it's mango season lets go through the mango rice recipe procedure first.

Ghee Rice

Ghee rice is one of the quick recipe and a best option for one pot meal. It's always good for kids,  addition of cashew nuts, ground nuts and raisins makes it even more tastier and healthier. This is the most simplest yet flavorful rice with pleasant fragrance. This rice is prepared by sauting the spices like bay leaf, clove, cinnamon, star anise along with green chilli and onions in ghee. This can also be a quick lunch box recipe on a busy day for all the working women.Lets see the procedure for it.

Shenga Hindi / Shengadanyachi Chutney

Shenga Hindi is a dry peanut chutney which is served along with the side dishes in complete North Karnataka / Maharashtra meal. It is served along with Bhakri (Jowar), chapati, dosas, rice. It's a dry chutney which goes best with curd. This chutney is must at our home. My mom used to make this and give when I was in hostel since I used to get bored with the same hostel mess menu.

This is not a difficult recipe, can be prepared with minimal number of ingredients easily available at home. Lets go through the procedure.

Methi Pulao

Methi rice/ fenugreek Pulao is an healthy option for one pot meal. We already know how useful the methi is and also different ways of using it in our day to day life like preparing methi sabzi, methi paratha, methi dal and thepla. This is a very quick and different option for the surprise guests that you can offer at your home :) I add lemon juce and sugar for balancing the bitter taste of methi. I also add potatoes, onion and groundnut, you can add vegges of your choice like tomato, green peas etc.

Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice is an easy bachelor recipe and such a simple one pot meal that it can be prepared by anyone :) We have already seen the recipe for Kanda Pohe. It is the same procedure, instead of soaked poha we need to add cooked rice, along with it we can also add nuts. This can also be prepared with the left over rice that you have in your kitchen. I usually prepare phodni bhaat with the left over rice using red chilli powder and tamrind paste instead of green chilli. But this one is very simple yet tasty.