Showing posts with label spices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spices. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Tomato soup pulao...




Hello everyone! How have you all been. My today’s recipe is very simple and easy to make plus everyone loves it. Pulao is eaten a lot and lovingly in my home and I am sure everyone  enjoys it. There are many variations all the mommies come up with and I am no exception. I made this pulao using tomato soup powder and well end result was it was finished off with happy satisfied feeling in tummy.

So lets begin our pulao.  Again the measurements I give here are just for indication and you can adjust it your way.

Ingredients:

1cup rice washed and soaked
½ cup tomato soup ( I use the knorr ready soup)
½ cup mix vegetables of your choice ( I have used here peas, cauliflower, carrots and potatoes)
1 onion sliced
1 dalchini/cinnamon stick cut in small pieces               
 2-3 cloves
1 cardamom broken                               
Salt to taste
1tsp garam masala powder
 2tsp  red chilli powder
2 tbsp ghee
1tsp jeera/cumin seeds
Water as required

Method:

Take a pan, add 1tbsp ghee. Let it heat then add jeera. Once it splutters add onions and sauté till they turn bit pink. Add dalchini, cloves and cardamom and stir them. Add mix vegetables, stir them for a min and add salt. Be careful with salt as it would be used later also. Put little water and cook them. Add other masalas and cook for a min more and it should be dry, not watery. Keep it aside.

In another pan heat the remaining ghee and add rice. Stir the rice nicely and softly for a minute. Add the tomato soup and if needed some water and add salt. Don’t put too much water or your rice would get too soggy.  Cook the rice for few minutes. Once rice is done take it off the gas.  Add your cooked vegetables to rice and stir it slowly till rice and vegetables are mixed. Your tomato soup pulao is ready.

Serve it hot with any raita. I have used boondi raita here.

P. S. Tomato soup should not be cooked if its in powder form. just mix water and add this soupy water to rice to cook.





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Monday, December 19, 2011

The great spice route------------



Hello everyone! Today's topic is giving quick easy pictorial guide to some basic spices,seeds and lentils or dals which I am sure many would find useful as they cook and can differentiate one from other. Specially bachelors would find this useful, I hope.

I am listing the basic ones which are used in daily cooking.  Please use 1/4 or 1/2tsp of these seeds depending on quantity of your dish.






Methi dhana or fenugreek seeds. Good for digestion but bitter in taste.









Jeera seed or cumin seed.










  mustard seeds or sarson  or  rai










  coriander seeds  or dhaniya seeds








The above items are used in tadka. Not all use dhaniya seeds but some do like that.


Basic spices or masalas to be used in cooking.


Turmeric powder or haldi powder.











  Red chilli powder










      Amchur powder or dry mango powder .







  Dhaniya powder or coriander powder






Above are the basic spices used in any dish and of course salt is important. Some people also use garam masala powder which is mixture of many spices like clove, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom.




Dals or lentils.






Tur dal or arhar dal









Chana dal or bengal gram dal










   Whole moong.. It can also be used sprouted.












Moong dal






 There are many more but I have listed just the basic everyday used  lentils or spices so its easily recognisable. Have fun cooking.

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