Doskaya Pachadi(yellow cucumber chutney )

I know I made a resolution and it seems like I have forgotten about it. Per my resolution, I should have written 6 posts but it's just 3.

Here comes one more recipe from Andhra - Dosakayya Pachadi. Dosakayya (yellow cucumber or lemon cucumber) comes from the family of cucumber and tastes somewhat like cucumber and musk melon.

Ingredients - 

1 small Dosakayya (cut into cubes)

1/2 tsp Cumin seeds

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds

1/4 tsp Urad Dal

2 dry red chilli

Curry leaves

5-6 cloves garlic

1 tsp oil(preferably mustard oil)

Hing(asafoetida)

1 tsp tamarind paste 

Heat oil in the pan, add the tadka stuff - mustard seeds, cumin seeds, hing, urad dal and let it crackle. Add garlic, curry leaves, red chilli. Once they are done and add Dosakayya cubes and sauté then for 5 min. Cool the mixture, add tamarind paste and grind to make fine paste.

Dosakayya pachadi goes well with rice. 

What else you guys have made with Dosakayya ?

Mushroom sabji

I am not sure when I started loving mushrooms but these days they are one of my favorite among veg. Last week my cousin has visited us and I asked him if he likes mushroom ki sabji. He said he likes mushroom in toppings and do not know how it's sabji will taste, so I decided to make it. Just when I had started my daughter woke up and we were already late for lunch so the only option I left with was asking my cousin to make it and he made his first sabji under my guidance ;)

Ingredients

1 packet button mushroom sliced

1 medium size onion

1 medium size tomato

1 tsp ginger garlic paste

1/2 tsp Corriander powder

1/2 tsp to 1 tsp red chilli powder (per taste)

Pinch of turmeric powder

Salt 

Oil

Pinch of cumin seeds / cumin powder

Corriander to garnish

1. Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds

2. Add finely chopped onions and ginger garlic paste and fry till it runs red.

3. Add coriander powder, red chill powder, turmeric and salt, mix it well and add finely chopped tomatoes

4. Once the tomatoes start leaving oil , add mushrooms and let it cook for minimum 5 mins. If you want semi gravy, then small amount of water can be added(I generally avoid it as it tastes best without water)

5. Once the mushrooms are cooked, garnish it with Corriander leaves.

My cousin loved this mushroom sabji :) 

This gravy recipe I use for other veggies as well like - baby corn, aloo - gobi, etc and to whatever new veggies I want to try but not sure of how to make it. Also, I add capsicum some time to this sabji.

Dal in Konkani style

Once when I was surfing through the channels(usually I watch star plus serials, movies or music channels), I came across one of the show - Mummy ka magic on Food Food channel and watched the recipe that was shown. I found it very simple and easy to try, though it's another story that I did not actually try it out. But surely I got addicted to this channel :D 

These days I am full time mom and hence, I am using some time to try out with my culinary skills :) and yesterday when I again stopped at Food Food channel, it was showing recipe for toor dal in Konkani style in the show 'Ma ki dal'. Looking at the ingredients, I felt I am surely going to love this dal and tried it today. You know what even my hubby liked it a lot. So, the recipe is as follows - 

Ingredients

1 cup boiled toor(arahal) daal

2 tsp oil

4-5 thinly sliced garlic

1 small tomato finely chopped

1/4 tsp cumin powder(jeera powder)

1/4 tsp black pepper power

Chilli powder as per taste 

 Turmeric

Salt

1 tsp Tamarind paste

-Heat oil in a pan, add garlic and fry till it turns brown

- add tomatoes and fry it till it cooks

- Add cumin powder, black pepper powder, turmeric powder , chilli powder, salt and mix it well.

- Add cooked dal , water and tamarind paste and simmer it for 5 min

I had this dal with rice and it tastes very nice :)