Mix Fruit Poori

This post is a total dedication to my grandmother whom we called Akka lovingly, who was an excellent cook. We all loved the savories and the sweets made by her.  Not only family but even friends would vouch for this. She will be always loved and missed. The memory goes... in my house the fruits which were bought would get all over when freshly bought and then a lone fruit would lie uneaten even after several pleas from her to finish it off. She would finally get fed up and mix some flour and semolina in it and make sweet rotis from it. This would just be polished off within minutes loaded with smear of fresh home made clarified butter...ghee...toop, call it what you want. The same happened with me too, 1 banana, 1 strawberry and 1 fig remained after all the rest were eaten. Then Akka came to my mind. Here comes my recipe with a little addition and a little indulgence!!

Ingredients

1 ripe banana, the big green variety mashed well
1 fig, grated
2 strawberries, the big variety, grated
1 tspn honey
A pinch of salt
2 tspn ghee
1/2 cup semolina
Whole wheat flour as required
Ghee or oil for frying, as per your wish

Method

In a mixing bowl take all the ingredients except the flour, mix all well, add flour bit by bit to make a firm dough for frying pooris. Do not keep the dough for long else it will get watery with the juices released. Now in a pan take either oil or ghee, heat it and make pooris like we would normally. The taste is awesome with the sweetness of the fruits and the little bites of the seeds from the strawberries and fig. These taste great as they are, better with a smear of ghee rolled, another option is to eat it with lemon pickle.

                                                     Lady Finger In Yogurt Marination

This is a dish which I watched on some cooking site and sorry to say that I forgot the name. Truly, the credit for this amazing preparation goes to that particular site. i tried it and loved it so sharing the recipe with you people. I felt it was very different and innovative. The recipe as below.

Ingredients

1)
250 gms of ladies finger chopped into medium sized pieces
1/2 cup of yogurt
2 tspn of ginger garlic paste
A pinch of salt

2)
2 onions finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
2 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp dry mango powder
1 tsp garam masala
Salt to taste

Method

Marinate the chopped ladies finger in the ingredients given in 1) for about fifteen minutes and in apan take oil, add the marinated ladies finger, cook for about ten minutes and keep aside.

Now in a pan take oil and add the chopped onions, saute till golden, add ginger garlic, cook till the raw smell goes. Now add the ladies finger, chilli powder, dry mango powder, garam masala too. and cook till almost done, add salt carefully since there was salt in the marination. Add the tomatoes almost at the end and cook the vegetable for some more time, garnish with chopped coriander. Best eaten with pooris but you can eat with roti and parathas too.  

                                                                    Paneer Masala

A delicious cottage cheese curry, creamy, spicy and rich in taste. Great with roomali roti and naan. My recipe coming below.

Ingredients

a)
 250 gms of malai paneer cut into small sized cubes and sauteed for just a bit and kept aside

b)

1/2 an inch of chopped ginger
10 garlic cloves
10 cashews
2 green chillies
4 onions chopped fine
2 cloves
1 small cinnamon stick
8 peppercorns
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp coriander seeds
Fresh coriander for garnishing

c)
3 tomatoes 

d)
1 tsp kasuri methi
3 tbsp of fresh cream

Method

In a pan take some oil and add the ginger, garlic, green chillies and cashews, saute till done, keep aside, now the onions and all the other spices mentioned need to be roasted well in the same pan, put all the above ingredients in a mixi jar to make a smooth paste remove and keep ready. In the same mixi jar take chopped tomatoes, make puree and keep aside.

In a pan take some oil, add the onion spices gravy, cook well, will not take too long since all the stuff has been roasted already, add the tomatoes, this will take a little time since it is raw, once cooked add the paneer, stir well, add the cream and the kasuri methi. Do not cook for too long because the paneer can tend to become rubbery. Your gravy is ready to be savoured now.