Showing posts with label cumin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cumin. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2026

Air Fryer Samosas

  

Ingredients

1/4 

1/2

Preparations

Boil the potatoes and peel them. Cut them into small cubes.
Roughly grind ginger, garlic, green chillies, coriander seeds, and cumin seeds.
Chop the onion finely.
Heat a pan and add ghee. When the ghee is hot, add the mustard seeds and when they splutter, add the finely chopped onion, the ginger, garlic, green chilli mixture, the turmeric and red chilli powder.
Add the potatoes, salt, amchur powder, and mix well. Keep aside to cool.
Take the samosa dough sheets and separate them. Make a paste with cornflour in water, which is thin and runny.
Preheat the air fryer for 5 minutes at 190°C.
Fold the pastry sheet like a cone. Add the potato mixture and seal the sheet with the cornflour and water paste at all the open edges.
Brush the samosa dough sheet with very little ghee.
Place the samosas in the air fryer basket, taking care to leave enough space between the samosas to cook evenly.
Cook for 15 minutes and flip over, and brush again with very little ghee, and cook for 5 more minutes until golden.
Serve hot with tomato ketchup or chutney of your choice.

 ps- If you don't have the samosa dough sheets, don't worry, make dough with maida with little salt, like we do for puris, adding little oil.

 

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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Lentil veggie soup with garlic and cumin

Ingredients

1 cup cooked red lentils (masoor dal)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 cup mixed vegetables (carrot, spinach, beans chopped)
1–1½ cups water
Salt
1 tsp ghee or cold-pressed oil

How to make it:

Heat ghee, add cumin and garlic. Stir in vegetables and lentil, add water and simmer into a light soup.

 

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Spinach and red lentil khichdi- Anti-inflammatory food

Ingredients

½ cup rice or millet of your choice

½ cup red lentil (masoor dal)

1 cup chopped spinach

1 small tomato, chopped

1 inch ginger, grated

¼ tsp turmeric

½ tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp ghee or oil

Salt

curry leaves finely chopped 1 tsp 

How to make it:

Add the rice, lentil, tomato, ginger, turmeric, salt and enough water to a pressure cooker or saucepan. Cook until soft. Stir in the spinach and cook for another few minutes. Temper the cumin in ghee or oil, once it splutters add curry leaves, mix well and pour it over the khichdi. Serve it with amla pickle or amla raita to get most of the iron from spinach, you need Vitamin C, which amla provides.

 

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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Instant Dosa

 Ingredients

oats 1 cup

rice flour 1/2 cup 

curd 1/4 cup

water 1 1/2 cups

onion 1 finely chopped

green chili 1 finely chopped

curry leaves finely chopped 1-2 tsp

salt to taste 

 cumin seeds 1/4 tsp

 oil to cook

Preparations

powder the oats fine. Add rice flour, mix well along with salt

add curd and water, mix to make a smooth batter

add the  onion, green chili, curry leaves, cumin, mix well

heat a tawa, grease well, pour the batter, spread thin, add little oil

cook on medium heat , flip over cook till crisp or soft as desired

serve hot with coconut chutney, sambar/ milagai podi. 

 

 

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Friday, June 5, 2026

Sweet potato shakshuka helps to heal faster after injury

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If you want to replace eggs in shakshuka, the best options are silken tofu for a poached texture, chickpea flour (besan) combined with mayonnaise or nutritional yeast for a cooked yolk, or paneer / feta for a savory, creamy flavor.
These substitutes adapt perfectly to the rich, spiced tomato-and-pepper base. Here is how to use the most popular egg alternatives:
1. The Silken Tofu Method (Poached Texture)
  • Nutritional Yeast: Adds a wonderful umami depth and cheesy richness to the mock egg mixture. 
     

    Ingredients:

    300g sweet potato

    1 yellow onion

    1 garlic clove

    1 red bell pepper

    400 ml canned tomato pieces

    4 eggs

    50 gm feta cheese

    1 tbsp olive oil

    Parsley and/or coriander

    Cumin

    Za'atar

     
    Preparations
     
    Peel and square the sweet potato and steam for 10 minutes.
     
    Chop the garlic and onions and sauté in olive oil. When transparent, sauté the diced sweet bell pepper. Season with salt, pepper and cumin.
     
    Add the tomatoes and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes before adding the sweet potato pieces. 
     
    Adjust the seasoning if necessary and add the za'atar.
     
    Form 4 wells and break in the eggs. Keep covered for 4 minutes. OR when using substitute see above how to go about.
     
    Season with salt and pepper.
     
    Sprinkle with crumbled feta and parsley and/or coriander leaves.
     
     
     

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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Aloo Chana Instant Pot / Stove top

Ingredients

Chickpeas 2 cups boiled / 1 15 oz. can chickpeas drained and rinsed OR ½ cup dried chickpeas

Potatoes ½ pound/ 225 gm diced to 1 ½”, if you use a pan, boil in 1 cup water, while you prepare the rest of the ingredients

Onion 1 cup/ 120 gm sliced/ chopped from 1 medium

Green chilies 1-2 slit

Ginger-garlic paste 1 tbsp or ½” ginger peeled and 3 garlic cloves crushed/ minced

Tomatoes ¾ cup chopped, deseeded

Mint leaves 2-3 tbsp leaves chopped

Spices

Turmeric pdr ½ tsp

Garam masala ¾ - 1 tsp as per taste

¾ to 1 tsp Kashmir red chili pdr as per taste

Bay leaf 1 or curry leaves 1 sprig

Star anise 1, mace 1 strand

Cumin/ jeera OR caraway seeds ½ tsp

Green cardamoms 3

Cloves 3

Cinnamon 3” pieces

You can choose the spices as per your taste

Preparations 

If you don’t have raw coconut, you may use coconut milk. To a small grinder jar, add 1/3 cup grated raw coconut, 10 cashew nuts or 1 tbsp fried gram ( pottukadalai), 1 tsp fennel seeds and pour ½ cup water

To substitute the above ingredients, use 1/3 cup thick canned coconut milk, 1 tbsp nut butter and ¾ tsp ground fennel / saunf. Add them to a small bowl and whisk together with a fork.  Grind to a smooth paste.

Heat 3 tbsp oil in a pan or instant pot ( on saute mode) and add the whole spices. When they begin to sizzle, add curry leaves and onion.

Saute until they turn golden, add ginger-garlic paste and green chili.

Saute for a minute and add tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes break down to a mush.

Add mint leaves and saute until aromatic for 1-2 minutes.

Stir in the salt, turmeric , chili pdr and garam masala

Turn down the heat and add 1/3 cup whisked yogurt, use thick yogurt only.

Cool down for 2-3 minutes.

Mix in boiled chickpeas, potatoes and ¾ cup stock/ water/ ( Note use boiled potatoes, if using a normal pan/ pot & use raw potatoes only to cook in Instant pot.

Pour the coconut milk.

Stove top- bring to a gently boil. Cover and simmer for 6-8 minutes, until thick and aromatic. If it turns too  thick, add a splash of hot water as you cook. If it is runny, mash a few potatoes.

Instant pot (IP)- pour another ½  cup water. Cover the instant pot and pressure cook for 5 minutes. The IP beeps when it is done, press cancel and wait for 2 minutes. Gently release the pressure manually. Be careful of the hot pressure.

Aloo chana is done when the chickpeas and potatoes are tender and very soft or slightly mushy. The gravy is slightly runny at this stage but turns thick after cooling. Taste and more salt/ garam masala or Kasturi methi if you desire.

Garnish aloo chana with chopped coriander leaves. Serve with plain rice, pulao/ roti/ dosa.

TIPS

If you se dried chickpeas, soak ½ cup chickpeas overnight and pressure cook with 1 cup water till al dente. Not completely soft. In the IP you cook for 13 minutes.  Since it is pressure cooked again for another 5 minutes in the kurma. You’ll be left with ¾ cup water/ chana stock, use that when you cook the aloo chana.

Canned chickpeas- drain and rinse the chickpeas well. They should be tender and not to soft. Every brand is different. If in doubt don’t use IP to pressure cook them, instead cook them in a pot.

Green chilies & chili pdr- If you don’t use enough green chilies/ chili pdr, your kurma will taste sweet due to the coconut and nuts. Using a lot of chili pdr, alters the flavour of kurma.

Whole spices are an essential ingredient set in a kurma recipe, but you may omit them and use more garam masala. That alters the flavours because whole spices impart a delicate flavour to the kurma.

 

 

 

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