Corn,peas and capsicum in spinach gravy

Hello friends! I am sure you all would wonder, not another spinach dish...well, it is healthy to have greens in our diet, isn't it? I am sure everyone has come across many versions on how to use spinach or what to include with spinach. For me this was  just a change from a normal spinach dish. I am sure you all would love this dish too.

Let me begin now.

Ingredients:

• 2 bunches spinach
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 1 cup of mix ( corn, chopped green capsicum and green peas)
• 1 tbsp grated ginger
• 1 tbsp of chopped garlic
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 2-3 green chillies
•  1tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp  kasoori methi

Method:
Chop spinach leaves and blanch it.  Make a puree of spinach and keep aside. In another vessel blanch corn, peas and chopped capsicum. In a pan heat oil, add cumin seeds. Once it splutters, add chopped onions and saute  till it gets pinkish. Add grated ginger and garlic and saute till raw smell of garlic is gone. Add tomatoes and cook for few more mins.  Add all the masalas except kasoori methi. Cook for a min and add spinach puree.  Adjust salt here and add the blanched veggies now.  Add water to get required consistency and boil for few mins. Your spinach with corn, peas and  capsicum is ready.

Garnish with kasoori methi and serve hot.

Notes: I had earlier made a different version of mix vegetables in spinach gravy and made mild changes in this one..

Kasoori methi is for enhancing flavour.


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Sweet corn and paneer rice--- a guest post

Hello everyone! Hope you all had fantastic Diwali. My today's guest in this series is Priya Sateesh who is wonderful friend and holds a amazing blog with tasty dishes. Do visit her space to know more. For now lets hear what Priya says about her recipe. Over to you Priya.

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Very happy to send this recipe as my guest post to one of my fav blogger....Got her friendship recently coz of Divys Pramil's SNC challenge.... Sweet and very helping person...Thanks meena for this lovely opportunity... I am Priya Satheesh, home maker who loves cook n food :) Love to try n taste all types of cuisines..Tried this very simple and easy lunch box variety for Meena's guest post..Hope that you all enjoy this recipe :) You can reach me @ Food Lovers...

                                                           Sweet corn n Paneer Rice :

Ingredients:

•     1 Cup Rice, cooked
•     1/2 Cup Frozen sweet corn kernels
•     50 gms Paneer, grated
•     1 Onion, Finely chopped
•     1 Green chilli, chopped
•     1/2 Tsp Jeera
•     1/2 Tsp Pepper powder
•     Salt to taste
•     1 Tbsp Oil / Butter

Method :

    Heat oil in a pan and add jeera followed by chopped onions.
    Fry till it turns translucent and add the chopped green chilli.
    Fry them together for a minute and add the frozen sweet corn.
    Add salt, cover and simmer the flame for couple of minutes.
    Now add the grated paneer. Mix well and add the pepper powder.
    Cook for a minute and add the cooked rice.
    Mix well and remove from flame.
    Serve hot with Raita or Tomato sauce.

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Thank you Priya for a wonderful simple and easy to cook dish. What would you like to say friends?

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Corn and potato paratha

Hello everyone! I guess you must be wondering whats cooking today! Well, as the title suggests I would be showing you my latest experiment with corn and potato. My blogging friend Kalyani at Sizzling Tastebuds is hosting event Magic Mingle which consists of two main ingredients. I  wanted to participate but after knowing combo of wheat and corn I gave up as I had absolutely no clue what to make. My friend Hema encouraged me to try something and while talking to her I thought ok why not try this. Believe me, this was my first attempt at this combo. And end result was my son who loves all types of food loved it too much. So without further ado lets begin.

Ingredients:

2 cups wheat flour

2 tbsp ghee or oil

salt to taste 

water to make dough.

Filling:

1/2 cup sweet corn

2-3 boiled potatoes

2 green chillies cut in small pieces

1/2tsp  amchur powder

1/2 tsp  coriander or dhaniya powder

1/2 tsp  red chilli powder

1/4tsp garam masala powder

salt to taste

few coriander leaves cut

Method:

Make  paratha dough in pot mixing flour salt oil and slowly adding water. Make it bit soft. Keep it aside.

For filling first boil corn, let it cook and mash it roughly. Add potatoes and other masalas with coriander leaves and mash them all properly. 

Make small balls of atta. Here its bit tricky so I suggest make small balls and make two chapatis out of each ball. On one chapati add the filling and cover it with other chapati sealing the edges. Slightly roll out a bit more. Make all parathas same way.  

On a tawa  roast paratha in usual way till both sides are done.

Enjoy corn potato paratha with dahi, chutney or sauce.  I added potatoes so the corn would stick and not fall off.

Let me know what you think of this or could I have bettered this even more?

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