Broccoli Senagapappu

Ingredients:

Broccoli one medium sized cut in florets
Chanadal/Senagapappu 1 cup
1 large Onion finely chopped
salt to taste
Geen chilliies sliced/red chilli powder(as per ur taste)
turmeric
for tempering:
oil 2 tb spoons
mustard seeds
cumin seeds
curry leaves
asafoetida

Method:

1. Clean the chanadal/Senagapappu and cook them.They should neither become too mashy nor undercooked. (They cook faster if they r soaked in the water for 20 to 30 mins. Strain the remaing water after cooking the dal and u can use this water in rasam. It defenitely tastes gud. )
2. Give tadka/tempering in a wok and add the chopped onions, fry them till they r golden brown.
3. Add the cleaned broccoli florets and stir fry for 2 mins. Add turmeric and little salt to make the florets sweat and cook faster.
4. After the florets r tender and gets rid of any raw smells, add the cooked dal and chilli powder and salt to taste. Stir fry for 5 mins. Don't worry if the dal is mashed. It still looks gud with the green broccoli showing off its bright green color.

I have made this from the broccoli paruppu usili from here with some variations I like. I have replaced the tuvar dal (kandi pappu) with the chana dal becoz it tastes better than tuvardal. And we loved it. And I tell u would'nt hate broccoli after having this.

Enjoy.

Just like Junnu (looks like and tastes like)

Junnu is dessert made from cow's lactating milk. It is a telugu word. But where r we going to get the cow's lactating milk(జున్ను పాలు) from?

Don't worry. We can do it without junnu paalu. I am not saying that. Some body who has experimented on it said that. I have read that and tested and tasted that. You may also try that if u r impressed.

Oh sorry my dear pure vegetarians. There is some other recipe for u. But there is some other recipe for u. I have not tried it. It replaces eggs with yoghurt. I think yoghurt is thte correct one for junnu making.

I wonder if yoghurt is prepared inside the cow itself and junnupaalu come out. Any way u can try vegetarian way. Hope it comes out gud.

Ingredients:

Milk 3 cups

Milk powder 1+1/4th cups

Eggs 2 to 3

Sugar/Jaggery 3/4th cup

Water 1/2 cup

Pepper powder 1 tspoon

Cardamom powder 1 tspoon

Method:

1. Mix water with milk powder.
2. Microwave it for 30seconds to 40seconds.
3. Add powdered jaggery or sugar to the above,and stir well until dissolved.
4. Cool it and keep aside.
5. Beat two eggs well in a bowl.
6. Add milk,and the product of step 1,pepper powder,cardamom powder and mix well.
7. Take the entire mixture into a steel container and steam cook it covered with a lid on medium heat for an hour in a pressure cooker without whistle (.i.e., pour 2cups of water in the pressure cooker,place this steel bowl with lid in the pressure cooker and close the cooker lid and cook on medium flame for 1hour.)
8. After 2-3 minutes open the lid.(If u find the same is still watery consistency,steam cook for some more time until done.)
9. Ready to serve or refrigerate for overnight and serve chillied.

Note:- Please cook it on medium flame only..or else the egg will break and the junnu will be like crumbled texture.

I have experimented it from the actual recipe from here.

This recipe will give junnu for 4 to 5 people. But I have prepared just for me, becoz I am experimenting. Also I have made everything in microwave including steaming. This saved time. The box in the picture with junnu is microwavable.

My microwave version:

1. I have done it with 1 cup milk and remaining ingredients in the same proportion.
2. I have followed the same steps in the above recipe upto step6 but with a microwave safe box as shown in picture. It had a lid aswell though I didnot show it in picture.
3. I have filled 2 cups of water in in another but bigger microwave safe bowl with lid (This bowl should hold the box gud) so as to do the same job as a pressure cooker does. I have placed the box with the mixture (close the box with its lid) in the bigger bowl with water and microwaved on half power for 7mins. If 7 mins doesn't cook junnu for u then continue untill it gets cooked.

Yummy it tasted the same except the feeling that it is not not from junnu paalu.

hey please dont ask me why microwave in half power. I am afraid if I may burn it and also in order to give the steam effect.It is called an experiment now.

Good luck.Enjoy.

Majjiga chaaru / Spiced yoghurt and vegetable stew.

By the title u might have imagined this dish to be spiced creamy sauce with vegetables. You just got it right. If u still have any doubt have a look at the pic.

Ingredients:

sour Yoghurt/curds 2 cups
Gram flour/Besan 2 tbsps


Vegetables:
1 medium sized Carrot sliced
2 shallots/sambar onions
6 Drumstick pieces(cut into 2 inches)
1 medium sized Potato/sweet potato cut into 1 inch cubes
4 Green chillis (slit)
1 tomato

For tempering:
Mustard seeds
Cumin
Fenugreek seeds
Dried Red chilli
Curry leaves


Method:

1. Seive the gramflour and add it to the buttermilk (dilute the sour yoghurt with 1 cup water) slowly so that no lumps r formed.Don't worry if any lumps r there just pass it through the seive.


2. Put this buttermilk in a thickbottomed saucepan and simmer it till it raises(ఒక పొంగు రానివ్వాలి ). Keep stirring in between to avoid burning and curdling.


3. While the buttermilk is in its business steam all the vegetables. (I do this in microwave oven by adding a little water and some salt. 5 mins is good enough. )


4. Add the vegetables to the raised/boiled buttermilk.


5. Add salt, turmeric and chilli powder if u like it spicy.


6. Give it tempering.


7. It is ready to serve.

Tastes gud with rice.

Enjoy.