Vishakha’s Cream of Vegetable Dal Soup
Here is a quick pressure-cooker soup. The rice and legumes complement each other nutritionally and with the vegetables, seasonings and powdered spices –make a full-bodied creamy soup. Practically a meal in itself, this dish needs only a fresh flatbread and salad to make an excellent light lunch. If the vegetables listed are not available, you can substitute peeled Jerusalem artichokes, winter squash, summer squash or freeze peas...
Rava Uppama
Ingredients • Cream of wheat (Rava) – 2 cups • Buttermilk – 3 cups • Urad dal – 1 tsp • Lemon juice – 1 tsp • Green chilies, curry leaves – 4 • Grated coconut – ¼ • Coriander leaves – ½ cup • Salt – as required • Oil or ghee. • Peas and Tomatoes • Carrot- ½ cup Preparation 1. In a pot take oil, or ghee and...
Sweet Potato and Pasilla Chile Dal
Description Amazing dahl with a little sweet and a little spice! Ingredients • 1 1/2 cups dahl (your choice) • 4 medium tomatoes • 1 green chile • 1 pasilla chile • 1 dried pasilla chile • 1 sweet potato • 2 carrots • 2 tbsp ghee • 1/3 cup cream • 1/2 inch fresh ginger • 1 tsp cumin seeds • 1 tsp sugar • 1/2 tsp turmeric • 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper •...
Crispy Puffed Rice Snack with Fried Cashews and Green Peas
In Indian bazaars, it is a familiar sight to see men puffing rice. A sand-filled karai is placed over glowing coals, and when the coarse sand is hot, rice is added. Using a long paddle, the sand is patiently stirred, until one by one, the rice grains pop into long pointed puffs. With nothing more than straining it through a fine sieve, hot puffed rice, called moori, is ready to be sold in recycled newspaper bags. Like everything in...
Whole Grain Wheat Fudge
Ingredients • 3 C whole grain wheat • 2½ C confectioner’s sugar/icing sugar • A pinch saffron dissolved in 1 Tbsp warm water • 1¼ C ghee Preparation 1. Wash and soak the wheat grains in water for 8 hours or overnight. Drain. 2. Blend the grains in a blender, adding water as required. 3. Pass the blended mixture through a sieve or cheese cloth. Squeeze the mixture as much possible liquid you can get. The liquid thus collected would be...