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Today.s recipe for the theme Regional Dishes in Blogging Marathon #35 is Rajasthani Dhal Dhokli,a delicious and comforting one pot meal. This is a traditional dish in which wheat flour discs are cooked in a creamy dhal and topped with generous ghee,served with papad. I made this dhal dhokli for the first time and tasted awesome along papad and referred the recipe  here  and  here .Off to the recipe........................................... Basic Information Preparation time 25 minutes Cooking time 25 minutes Serves 2 Ingredients For the Dhokli Ingredient Quantity Wheat flour/gothumaimaavu 1/2 cup Oil 1tsp Carom seeds/omam 1/2tsp Red chilly powder/milgai podi 1/2tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/8tsp Salt 1/2tsp For the Dhal Ingredient Quantity Toor dhal/thuvaramparuppu 1/3 cup Onion (finely chopped) 1(medium size) Tomato (finely chopped) 1(medium size) Green chilly (finely chopped) 2 Coriander leaves (finely chopped) 1tbs R...

Thandai is a popular Rajasthani chilled drink served in summer to beat the heat and during festivals such as Holi and Sivarathri. Thandai can be prepared by grinding the nuts and spices to a ground paste or to a fine powder.Today's version is the later one and the recipe is off to the Regional Dishes for the day 2 in Blogging Marathon#35.Here goes the recipe......... Basic Information Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 20-25 minutes Serves 2 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity 1% Milk 2 cups Whole milk 3/4 cup Sugar/sakkarai 5tbs Saffron/kungumapoo 7-8 strands Sliced pistacios and almonds for garnish For the Powder Ingredient Quantity Almonds/Badam 1/4 cup Cashews/mundiri 2tbs Fennel seeds/sombu 1tsp Black pepper/milagu 10-12 Poppy seeds/kasa kasa 11/2tsp Cardamom/ellakai 5-6 Method Boil the milk in a medium flame for 10 minutes,meanwhile keep all the ingredients given for the powder in a microwave safe bowl and heat it t...

For the third week of Blogging Marathon #36 ,I chose Regional recipes and sharing some of the recipes of Rajasthan.Today's recipe is a popular flat bread in Rajasthani cuisine called Missi roti with wheat and gram flour combo.For Missi roti I added only coriander leaves,you can add freshly chopped fenugreek leaves to make it even more flavorful.This roti goes very well with simple pickle ,dhal and yogurt.It can be served with any veggie subzi or curry for a complete satisfactory meal.Off to the recipe.......................... Basic Information Preparation Time- 10-15 minutes Cooking Time-15 minutes Makes -  6 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Wheat flour/gothumai maavu 11/4 cups Gram flour/kadalai maavu/besan 1/2 cup Onion(finely chopped) 1(medium size) Green Chilly/pachamilagai 3(finely chopped) Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1tsp Turmeric Powder/manjal podi 1/8tsp Salt 1tsp Asafoetida/perungayam a pinch Amchur powder(optional) 1tsp Coriander leaves/kothamal...

For this month Home Bakers Challenge, Priya Ranjit   has chosen Christmas cookies,cakes and Jewish Challah bread. I tired the vegan version using the gram flour(besan) and it came out so delicious and soft but I couldn't braid it properly. Sangeetha  suggested to dry roast the besan as she had the feeling of besan smell,so dry roasted it.If you are using besan dry roast it for couple of minutes in a medium flame and use.As I made a braided bread for first time I scaled down the measurement and made a 10 inch loaf.Now off to the recipe.............. Basic Information Recipe Source Sweet Life Preparation time 15 minutes Resting time 1 hour+45 minutes Baking Time 40-45 minutes Makes 10 inch loaf Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour/maida 11/2-2cups Active Yeast/instant yeast 1tsp Sugar 1/4cup Gram flour/kadalamaavu 1/4cup Olive Oil 3tbs Water 1cup Salt 3/4tsp Sesame seeds/yellu 1tsp Method Dry roast the gramflour/be...

Today's recipe for Cooking from a Cook book Challenge (CCC) event is Puli Milagai,an accompaniment with a blend of spicy,tangy and mild sweet taste. Puli milgai goes very well with curd rice and the consistency is personal preference,it can be made slightly runny or pickle like consistency.As we prefer pickle like consistency I made it slightly thicker. This recipe I noted down from my sister's recipe collections,now on to the recipe........................ Basic Information Preparation time 10 minutes Cooking time 20 minutes Makes 3/4 cup Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Green Chilly/pachamilgai 20-25(sliced) Tamarind/puli small lemon size Jaggery/vellam 11/2-2 tbs Oil 2tbs Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/4tsp Mustard seeds/kadugu 3/4tsp Fenugreek seeds/vendayam 1/8tsp Salt 3/4- 1tsp Method Slice the green chillies and soak the tamarind in a cup of water,extract the juice.Set it aside. Heat a pan with oil and crackle the musta...

Today's recipe is an eggless vanilla cake made in a pressure cooker instead of oven.When I saw the sponge cake in  Divya's space  wanted to try it.As we always prefer to have eggless cake I tweaked the recipe to make an eggless cake. I wanted to use the condensed milk instead of egg but unfortunately no condensed milk in my pantry.So used the yogurt and the output was a soft and spongy cake.The only thing went wrong was it burned slightly in the bottom and while inverting the cake little portion got stuck to the pan.So I couldn't get the full cake for the picture and I was bit upset.Then all of a sudden got the idea of doing some frosting and the only thing I had in the refrigerator was the heavy so whipped the cream and frosted the cake,decorated with some strawberries.Now off to the recipe.................................... Basic Information Preparation time - 20 minutes Cooking time - 50 minutes Makes - 8 inch round Ingredients Ingredient Q...

Making one pot meal has become very easy after the arrival of pressure cooker and makes the work lot easier. For the second day of Blogging Marathon #35 under the theme pressure cooker I made Tomato Biriyani,one pot meal. This is my mom's version and she uses seraga sambha rice,here I also used the same rice.The biriyani came out very delicious and flavorful.Off to the recipe.............................. Basic Information Preparation time 10 minutes Cooking time 30 minutes Serves 3-4 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Seraga sambhaa rice/basmathi rice 11/2cups Onion(sliced) 1(large size) Tomato(finely chopped) 4(medium size) Chilly Powder/milgai podi 1/2-3/4tsp Coriander Powder/dhaniya podi 1tsp Garam Masala Powder 1/4tsp Turmeric powder 1/8tsp Ginger&garlic paste 11/2tsp Green Chilly(slit lengthy) 4 Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Mint leaves/pudina(chopped) 15-20 leaves Cashews(optional) 7-8(broken) Water 23/4cups Salt to ...