mixed vegetables niramish ( Sanaton style)

Ingredients:
1/2 a cup of carrot
1 cup of sweet potato
1 cup of papaya
1/2 cup of potato
1/4 cup of sweet gourd
1 teaspoonful of ponch foron ( black seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, mustard seeds and ajwain
bay leaves 2
vegetable oil 1 table spoon
water 1/2 cup
green chili 2
salt 1/2 teaspoonful
ginger crushed small piece, or 1/2 a spoonful of paste


Preparation: chop all the vegetables like 1 and 1/2 inch sticks. Put oil in a pressure cooker or a frying pan. Put bay leaves and ponch foron and when the light roasted smell of the spices will start coming out pour all the vegetable stick in the pan/cooker, stir it for three minutes and them pour water and cover with the lid. After one/two ( depending on the size of the cooker) whistle stir it again and it is cooked. If you are cooking on a pan, cover it for five minutes with water. Stir and cover it for another five minutes and it is done. Serve it with chips or porata or chapapati or rice. You can eat it without anything.

Vegetables pancake

I am a vegetarian. So I try to innovate one recipe with a variety of options.

Ingredients:

One cup of plain flour
milk 100 gram
water- 1/4 cup
1 cup of grated carrot, chopped cabbages/ ground cauliflower, potato, green chili ( 1)
salt/4 teaspoonful - or to taste
Sesame- 2 tea spoonfuls
oil- 2 table spoons
White pepper- 3 ground
Honey or sugar- optional. A small pinch is good
Egg ( optional)
Mix all the ingredients and make a dough so that it is not runny or too think to shape it with the round back of a soup ladle.

Preparation:
on a non stick frying pan pour the dough with a soup ladle and shape it moving the pan. Then sprinkle some sesame, white or black ( to your choice).
When it is dry, put drops of vegetable/ olive oil on the surface and pat it with the back of the ladle or a wooden spatula and turn it to do the same until it is cooked.
 Serve it with ketch up or pickle or coffee

One can eat it with ripe banana or yogurt

Paratha with sweet potato

I love poratha instead of plain rooti/chapati. So I try to innovate.

Ingredients:

One cup of plain flour
milk 100 gram
Water 1/2 cup - slightly different may be to make the dough to pour on the pan, but the dough will not be runny
boiled and smashed sweet potato one small and get it normal
salt/4 teaspoonful - or to taste
Sesame- 2 tea spoonfuls
oil- 2 table spoons
White pepper- 3 ground
Honey or sugar- optional. A small pinch is good

Mix all the ingredients and make a dough so that it is not runny or too think to shape it with the round back of a soup ladle.

Preparation:
on a non stick frying pan pour the dough with a soup ladle and shape it moving the pan. Then sprinkle some sesame, white or black ( to your choice).
When it is dry, put drops of vegetable/ olive oil on the surface and pat it with the back of the ladle or a wooden spatula and turn it to do the same until it is cooked.
Serve it egg fry or mixed vegetables.

One can eat it with ripe banana or yogurt

spice drink

It soothes and heals respiratory discomforts and keep your breathing healthy.
AT our home, my grandparents and my parents gave us such drinks in cold. They have learnt it from their parents and so it has family history of over four hundred years. I have learned it from my mother and grandmother. This drink is good too when you are healthy.

Ingredients:

Cloves- 3/4
bay leaves- 2
black pepper-2
ginger a small piece and crushed ( one spoon if you make it paste, I prefer crushed)
Cinnamon-  a small broken pieces of a stick
Cardamon- one ( optional)
Water- 500 ml
honey 1 spoonful/ those who don't take honey, they may add a sprinkle of rock salt


Preparation: boil all these ingredients for 10 minutes until the water becomes 300 ml or a cup.
Add some honey/ salt to drink. You may drink without honey or salt

whole meal rice of your choice

Ingredients:

Since I work full time and do all my household works by myself it is often important for me to eat healthy in the shortest possible time. Food is not only for the body but for mind and eyes.

• Besmati rice/ sticky rice/ aromatic rice- 200 gram, steamed, your may drain out or not
• chopped dates
• Toasted peanuts 25 gram to your taste/ cashew nuts 
• Walnut 25 gram
• Grated carrot 1 medium size
• Grated green papaya soaked in lemon
• Sesame seeds, black or white both are OK
• Soaked and boiled/ overnight soaked chhola boot ( chick peas with skin)- you may avoid if you don't like 25 gram
• Ground black pepper
• Lemon juice ( optional)
• Lettuce to taste ( chopped)
• grated apple ( optional)
• salt- 1/2 tea spoonful of  mountain salt ( to your taste)
• boiled and chopped potato ( optional)
• seasonal fruit to your taste, banana 1/2,  sweet mango diced 1/2 cup ( optional)

Preparation: Mix all with the boiled rice and serve with (lemon juice).

This is a flexible recipe, some ingredients are optional such as fruits.  

Mixed bean curry for good health

You may enjoy this with rice or tortilla ( parata)/ Khubus/ puri/ Luchi.
But I also like this mixed bean curry sometimes with simple toast if some days I really don't find any taste in eating.

In this recipe I used three types of beans but sometimes I try it with more.

Ingredients:

Rajma ( kidney bean) 1/2 Cup
green lentil 1/2 cup
mung bean  ( not toasted) 2/3 cup
ginger paste
red chili 2/3
green chili 3/4
cumin 1 tbs
bay leaves 3/4
salt
oil 1 tbsp
cumin
garam masala ( optional)
water 6 cups depends on the density you prefer ( it is better if thick rather than watery)

Preparation: 

wash all beans together and put in pressure cooker with salt for 8/10 whistle ( you may check it if it is already soft. Mung and lentil will mix very quickly.  

In a pan fry red chilies and cumin and then put ginger paste ( or crashed ) in oil and stir and then put this spices in the boiled mixture of beans and put 1/4 tbs of turmeric and stir for some time. It is already thick. Then put while green chili and garam masala and stir and serve. You may add 1tbs of ghee ( clarified butter), and sweet if you like when you put garam masala.


Those who like onion, may mix some of chopped onion in the oil with the other ingredients.
or chopped onions and corriander and diced tomato may be used to garnish the dish while serving.

papaya in green gravy

Ingredients

1 green papaya peeled and chopped in square size pieces

coriander paste 1/2 cup

cumin paste 2 tbs

bay leaves 2/3

salt to taste 

oil 3 tbs

turmeric 1 pinch

green chili 2

Preparation

Put the oil in a pan and put bay leaves and whole cumin seeds and stir until it gives aroma, then put all the papaya pieces and turmeric and salt and stir so that all the ingredients are mixed. Cook it in low heat so that a little moisten the papaya. After that put a cup of water and put the lid and cook in middle heat. when it is cooked put the coriander paste and stir it and serve it with tortilla/rice.