Palak Poori / Palak Puri / Spinach Poori

We have already seen a recipe for Poori bhaji, there is slight difference in this recipe. Adding spinach will make it more healthier. Ususally poori is prepared with the combination of wheat flour and multi purpose flour. But I have used multi grain flour here and that's why you can see the color difference.. You can use wheat flour alone. I had to blanch palak before using.

Modak Recipe

Ganapati Bappa Morya!!! When it's Ganesh Chaturthi festival we will surely not forget about one of the most favorite dish of our own Ganesha :) There are various ways a Modak can be prepared, steamed, fried, chocolate, khava,with coconut stuffing, with Puran stuffing etc.. The one I am listing here is the basic form which can be prepared using coconut filling with vary less number of ingredients available easily at home.

Fried Ice Cream

How about an ice cream which is cold inside and super hot outside on this rainy season?? Yes you got me right it's "Fried Ice Cream". The thing with opposite combinations tastes very unique like a hot Gulab Jamun in an ice cream or a ice cream on a hot cake. Mangalore being a place famous for the ice creams, there is a hotel by name  "Cherry Square" and it was indeed very famous for the desserts they served. They served a dessert called "Some Like it Hot!" where cold ice cream scoop is placed on hot chocolate cake with hot chocolate sauce on it. It was heavenly! Similar way the other day  was searching for such recipes over the internet and came across this fried ice cream recipe. You need not require much ingredients for this. I prepared it and it was a great success! In fact hardly got anything to taste since everything was finished by my son :) Hope you try it and like it.

Kadubu Recipe

Before starting I would like to wish everyone a very "Happy Ugadi". Ugadi/Gudi Padwa is considered to be a start of new year in Hindu culture. So to start a fresh year early in the morning the first thing that we have is "Bevu Bella" which is a mixture of Neem leaves and Jaggery, which signifies that our life is both the combination of joy and sorrow and we should accept it happily.

  At our place my mom usually makes "Puran Poli" on this day which I have already shared the recipe. But since I yet to buy the 'Puran machine' and that requires lots of experience I tried the other version of sweet with same ingredients i.e "Kadubu" which looks like karanjikai / Ghujjia  and is deeply fired but with puran as stuffing inside. 

Puri Bhaji

Puri - Indian flat bread deeply fried made from all purpose flour /wheat flour, along with Bhaji a side dish to accompany is a traditional and must served dish in all the restaurants in India. The only difference is its called with different names based on the region and the side dish, like Puri bhaji, Kurma puri, puri chole and so on. The one that is served in Maharashtrian hotels is the "Puri Bhaji" which has a side dish prepared from authentic potato sabzi which turns to be an awesome combination. 

Instant Jalebi

Jalebiiiiiiii!! I never thought that even I could prepare it. Since its a Valentines day I decided to prepare a sweet item, as I am scared of baking and never tried so had to choose something which can be prepared in instantly, Jalebi was the option that came to my mind. I saw few videos on internet most of them were to soak the batter overnight and I had not done that, finally came with the site which explained the instant jalebi steps and followed the procedure accordingly. I had to make the Jalebi's twice because I was not satisfied with the Jalebi shapes that I made for the first time and the problem was due to the piping paper hole that I had made for the polythene bag. I had to send my husband again to market to get the piping paper. But unluckily he dint find it, so instead he got a sauce bottle which was too bigger in size. I had no option than cutting the polythene bag again. I took a polythene bag which was not folded at the sides, basically a square shaped bag, had cut a small hole at one corner. Added the batter and then made jalebi's, they came very well in fact one of the jalebi came out in a heart shape size ;) may be it was due to the practice as well :)

Palak Pakoda

Crispy Palak/spinach Pakodas in this chilly weather is a wonderful combination. I always had a thought of preparing the palak pakodas but again the mission of shedding weight always kept me away from this..
But this day I could not resist as I had palak in my kitchen and luckily had got some free time, so came up with these crispy pakodas. This is not time consuming at all, just needs maximum of half an hour. Addition of rice flour made the pakodas crispy.

Dhapata Recipe

This is a spicy puri which is made from jowar, wheat and gram flour. This is one of my most favorite Maharashtrian recipe which goes very well with curd. Every time I go to my native during my holidays my mom definitely prepares this, My job is to spread the dough and make small puri sized dhapata and my mom does deep frying Hence I learned this recipe from my mom :)

                  The usual Thalipeeth which is done on Tava as explained earlier in my previous posts is most common and authentic kind. This is little bit different, we do deep fry in this. The procedure of kneading the dough is almost same, but the size of dhapata is smaller similar to puri. We can also prepare this with multi grain flour. We will see below the steps to prepare Dhapata.

Kothimbir Mutka / Vadi

Coriander is called as Kothimbir in Marathi. Coriander can also be used to prepare recipes other than for garnishing. Coriander is said to be good for cleaning skin disorders and mouth ulcers.
     Kothimbir vadi /mutka is the most healthiest recipe that can be prepared out of coriander, it’s typical snacks of Maharashtra. This recipe was taught to me by my sister when I had been to my native for the holidays. She lives in core Maharashtra region (Nasik) and knows lot about cooking, I still have to learn many more things from her