Recipe of Onion Paratha

Paratha is a very handy food to have it for any meal - breakfast, lunch or dinner.  It is also very filling.  You can have paratha with tea, hot drinks or coffee for breakfast.  or some fruits along with it. I have a very simple recipe here today - Onion Paratha.  

Onion Paratha

Ingredients:

It is made out of stuff available at any household all the time.  

• Whole wheat flour - 2 cups
• Onion - 2 medium sized
• Green chili - 2 / 3
• Salt to taste
• Cooking Oil

How to prepare:

• Take flour, add salt in it, mix little water and make dough.
• Chop onion and green chili finely and mix with little salt.
• Take a portion of the dough in hand and make like small ball then press middle of that ball with fingers and make a deep space in that ball 
• Add a portion of mixed onion and chili inside that whole of the small dough.  Then cover and make it like the ball again and then roll it with dry flour along with it to make a paratha.

  

  Made Onion Paratha

• Heat oil on a flat pan and put that paratha on the pan.  
• Let it cook for 2 minutes in medium flame.  
• Then turn other side and let it cook until it is golden brown.
• It is ready to serve.

Onion paratha served with Mangoes

Recipe of Snake Gourd fry with eggs / "Chichinga aar dim bhaji"

Snake gourd is a very tasty vegetable and you can have nice recipe made out of it. It is called chichinga in bengali.  Here I am adding one of my favourites dishes - Snake gourd fry with eggs.

Snake Gourd Fry with Eggs 

Ingredients:

• Snake gourd - 3 Medium sized gourd
• Eggs -  eggs
• Onion - 2 medium sized
• Green chili - 2/3
• Cooking oil - 3 / 4 tablespoon
• Salt to taste
• Turmeric powder

How to Prepare:

• Scrape the skin of the snake gourd and wash it.

  

  Snake Gourd

• Then chop it in two along the length and slice it finely.

  

  Chopped Snake Gourd
• Add little salt and mix and squeeze it with hand then steam it with cover until it is soft.  Drain excess water after taking out from fire and keep aside.
• Heat little oil on pan and scramble egg, fry it and keep aside
• Then Heat oil, add sliced onion, green chili and cook for 2 minutes then add half cooked snake gourd and stir it then cover and let it cook in low flame.
• Once it is cooked add fried scramble egg in it and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes.
• It is ready to serve with rice, roti or chapati.

Nutrients value:

Snake gourd has many nutrients value which we need to be aware of and add it into our daily diet for betterment of our body and health. It boosts our immune system, helps in diabetes control. It also helps in growth of new hair.  It is high in protein.  It is rich in Vitamins (A, B, C) and minerals 

(potassium, magnesium,iron, iodine, calcium and manganese).  

Recipe of Saag / Greens fries

Green leaves are very healthy food.  It is very easy to make saag.  I have very simple recipe here for all.  Here I have the recipe of "Chawli" leaves which is called Amaranth leaves in english and notei shaak in bengali.  It could be eaten with roti / rice / chapati.

Chauli Saag

Ingredients:

• Amaranth Leaves / Chauli / Chawli leaves / Note shaak.
• Onion
• Green chili
• Garlic
• Cooking Oil
• Turmeric powder
• Salt to taste

How to prepare:

• Clean and wash the leaves and drain water.  Then chop it and keep it aside.

  

  Chopped greens

• Slice a medium size onion, green chili and smash 4/5 cloves of garlic.
• Heat two tablespoonful oil in a pan
• Then add sliced onion and fry until the onion is golden brown.

  

  Onion frying

• Add garlic and fry for few seconds.
• Then add chopped leaves, salt to taste, little turmeric powder, and green chili mix it and cover on low flame for  few minutes.
• Occasionally stir it and keep on low flame until it is cooked.
• Take it out from fire and it is ready to serve with bread, roti or rice.

Nutrients Value:

Amaranth or chauli leaves are rich in vitamins (vitamin A, B1, B2, C) and minerals (potassium, magnesium, iron, calcium, manganese, sodium).  It has no cholesterol.  It is good for pregnant lady and for the baby too. It helps in increasing flow of breast milk.  It also helps in bleeding from nose, gums and excessive menstruation.  

Recipe of Salted Pancake

It is always good to have varieties for breakfast.  Nobody likes having same food everyday.  Here I am adding a healthy breakfast item.  It's tasty and healthier too.  It can be used as main course also with vegetable curry along with it.  

This recipe is of pancake, not the old fashioned pancake as sweet but salted.

Salted Pancake

Ingredients:

• Pure wheat flour - 1 cup
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Green Chili -2
• Cooking Oil
• Water

How to prepare:

• Slice onion and chili and keep aside.

  

  Cut Onion & Chili

• Take flour in a bowl then add onion, chili and salt to taste.

  

  Flour with Onion & Chili

• Then add water to make batter, whisk it to make the batter smooth.

  

  Batter with Onion & Chili

• Heat a pan and pour little oil to spread all over the pan then heat it and pour 3 tablespoonful batter on the pan and keep the spoon on top of the batter and spread over the pan in round way.
• Let it cook for two minutes and then turn it over and let it cook on other side for two minutes.

  

  Pancake on Fire
• It is ready to serve simply alone or with tea.  

Recipe of Dal Bora / Wada

Red split lentil is known as Masoor dal in India.  I am going to share  recipe of snacks made out of the red lentils / masoor dal. 

Dal Bora/ Wada

Ingredients:

• One cup of masoor dal
• Onion - 1 medium sized
• Green Chili - 1 or 2
• Cooking Oil 
• Salt to taste
• A pinch of turmeric powder

How to prepare:

• Soak dal for minimum 30 minutes.  Then grind it and make paste of it.
• Cut Onion very finely and green chili.  Add it in the paste and mix it nicely.
• Add salt to taste.
• Now heat a pan then pour 5/6 tablespoon oil in it and heat the oil.
• Take small portion of the mixture in hand and put on the heated oil to fry.
• Keep the fire in low flame and let it cook from inside.
• Once it is cooked take it out of oil and put on a plate on a tissue paper so that the extra oil get soaked in the tissue paper,
• Now it is ready to serve hot with tea or just to eat as starter or as side dish with main course.

Nutrients Value:

It is a source of protein for people with vegetarian diet.  It is also rich in Vitamins and minerals.  

Recipe of Soyabean Curry

Soya bean's chunk is very healthy and tasty food.  There are many varieties of recipe on soya chunks. Here I am adding a recipe of Soya chunk curry.

Soya chunk Curry

Ingredients:

• Soya bean - Two cups.
• Potato - 2 medium sized
• Papaya -2 cup medium size diced papaya
• Onion -2 medium sized 
• Chili - 2 / 3
• Tomato - 2 medium sized
• Ginger - one spoon paste
• Garlic - 5/6 cloves
• Turmeric powder
• Two cloves of cardamom/ elaichi
• One stick of cinnamon
• Cookin oil
• Salt to taste

How to prepare:

• Boil water and soak the soya chunks, diced potato and diced raw papaya in warm water for few minutes until it's soften.  Then drain the water and squeeze the excess water out of soya chunk.

  

  Boiled vegetable and soya chunk

• Heat a pan and then pour oil in it.  Then add sliced onion cook for a minute.
• Add potato and papaya into the pan, keep the flame in medium and salt to taste.  let it cook until it's half cooked.
• Then add  ginger garlic, green chili paste and tomato puree, in the pan and cook.
• Boil water and keep a side earlier to add for gravy in this curry.
• Then put soya chunk in it and mix with masala and let it cook.
• Also add Elaichi, cinnamon paste in it now.
• As required add little boiled water for gravy and cook.  Keep in low flame for 5-8 minutes.
• Soya chunk curry is ready to serve with rice, pulao, roti, chapati or bread.

Nutrients value:

Soybean is full of whole protein and minerals.  It has many food value.  Soya Chunk also is good for health issues. Research shows that it lower the risk of breast and prostate cancer.  It also helps in lowering cholesterol in human body.  It is easily available in every food store in India.

Recipe of "Kancha Aam Makha" / Raw Mango Sauce

Thinking of raw mango pickle and my mouth is already feeling watery.  Ladies and girls love to have sour product be it tamarind, raw mango or some other fruits. It gives a tingling taste in your tongue.  

This recipe which I am going to write here now can be used as a sauce with fries or can be eaten alone.  

"Kacha Aam makha"

Ingredients:

• Raw mango - 2 medium sized
• Salt to taste
• Sugar to taste
• Master seeds -1/3 of a teaspoon
• Green Chili -1

How to prepare:

• Peel mangoes and cut into pieces, then grate it and keep it aside.
• make paste of chili and mastered seeds together.
• Then mix the paste with grated mango and add salt and sugar for taste and mix it nicely.
• Raw mango sauce / pickle is ready to it.