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.  

Papaya Delights

Ingredients

I green papaya boiled and smashed
butter/clarified ghee 2 tbs
sugar 1 cup
cardamom
almond powder
raisin paste

Preparation

stir the boiled and smashed green papaya in warm ghee and mix sugar and stir until it is concentrated and sticky then mix almond powder, raisin paste and cardemom and le tit cook in a flat dish so that it may be cut in soft rectangles before serve.  

Papaya payesh

Ingredients

Papaya 1
brown sugar/normal sugar
milk 2 litre
cardamom 4
sugar 1 cup
raisins 100 gram
 crashed almond 50 gram

Preparation

Grate the papaya after peel it thickly so that no green is visible. wash it two times and squeeze to get rid of excess water.
Boil 2 litres of milk until it becomes less then  1/2 a litre then mix the grated papaya in it and pour sugar and stir. you may prepare it with on cup of condensed milk instead of milk.
sprinkle cardamom and raisins and almond finally. Let it cool in refrigerator before it is served,

Papaya Pickle

Ingredients

Green papaya 1
Lemon leaves 2/3
lemon juice 1/2 cup or tamarind pulp 3 tbs
salt 1/4 teasp
brown sugar or molasses 1/4 cup
toasted coriander power
green chili-2/3
raisins 50 gram

Preparation: 

grate the green papaya like noddles after peeling it well. mix some salt to make it tender for 3- 4 minutes. Mix lemon juice/tamarind pulp with it, and  mix sugar/molasses, raisins and coriander powder and lemon leaves, mix it with hands and when all the mixture is tender, keep it in freeze. 

To keep it for long time, prepare a thick syrup, and squeeze the grated papaya so that no water it left there, and mix it with the thick syrup and mix cardamom powder ( instead of coriander powder) and raisins with it.

Papaya Healing

Ingredients

green papaya 1
mustard seeds
bay leaves 3
salt to taste ( but less than other dishes)
green chili
oil
turmeric

preparation

in a saucepan toast 1 teaspoon of mustards seeds and bay leaves in vegetable oil very lightly, then pour 1 spoon of ginger paste then stir it again, then put the thinly chopped green papaya, turmeric and salt and stir so that all the spices are mixed. After three minutes, pour water in it and cover with a lid to bail. After 10 minutes, smash some pieces of papaya so that it looks a bit thick. Serve it with toast  for breakfast, with rice for lunch or dinner. It is a healing recipe for the people with stomach problems.  

Easy Go Vegetable Rice with Beans

Ingredients:

1 cup of - lentil, toasted mung bean, crashed yellow bean ( proportion of lentil should be lesser than the other beans)
2 cups of basmati or polao rice
Vegetables- chopped Cabbage ( I cup);
chopped potato 1/4 cup,
chopped spring bean ( 1/2 cup);
Sweet pumpkin ( 1/2 Cup)
chopped carrot ( 1/4 cup)
green chili- 2/3
red chili 3
clarified butter 2 table spoon
salt to taste
chopped coriander leaves
water - to cook and make it little porridge
clove-3
bay leaves- 3
ginger paste-1 teaspoon
turmeric- 1 teaspoon
cumin seeds- I teaspoon


Preparation

Clean all lentils and boil water. First pout the yellow bean in t since it takes longer time than the other beans and rice. Then pour all the beans in the pan and rice, and mix turmeric, salt  and let it be cooked for 15 minutes . Then mix all the chopped vegetables in it and put the lid on the saucepan and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

In a frying pan put some vegetable oil and roast the bay leaves, cloves, red chilies, and cumin seeds.  Separate the roasted red chilies. Then mix ginger paste and stir. When the aroma will come out pour this mixture into the pan and stir so that all these spices are mixture with the dish. pour the clarified butter or a cube of butter and mix. Crash the roasted red chilies and sprinkle in it.
Finally, sprinkle the coriander leaves in it and.

This dish is healthy and delicious and may be enjoyed with fried egg plant. It is thick  like porridge.

Cat Fish Soup with Green Banana and Papaya ( from Green and Executive Recipi blog post)

Ingredients

Five medium size cat fish ( also called Singi fish) ( each cut in three pieces) ( total 15 pieces)

2 green banana peeled and sliced half and cut into thin pieces like fish

green papaya slices thin like fish

1 teaspoon of cumin seeds

1 teaspoon of ginger paste ( or grated)

2 green chili

salt to taste

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1/2 teaspoon coriander power

1/2 teaspoon roasted cumin powder

2 bay leaves

1 tbspoon of oil

1 and 1/2 liter of water
2 cloves ( long)
chopped coriander leaves

Preparation

After dressing the fish, the whole fish needs to be rubbed with salt and washed to avoid smell. Marinade the fish with all spice powders and salt and keep it in a bowl. Put oil on a frying pan and roast the cumin seeds. When the seeds will spread aroma, break the bay leaves into 2 to 3 pieces each and put them in it; put ginger, cloves and green chilies, and stir all for five minutes and pour all the green vegetables and stir and mix for 2 minutes. Then pour all the pieces of marinated cat fish in the pan and stir so that all the spices mixed with fish. Don't stir more than three times or else, fish may break. After five minutes pour water so that all the vegetables and fish are covered with water and cover it. When it will start boiling cook for another ten minutes. Sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves and let it be there until the dish is served.

Then serve it in a bowl with rice.

This soup is good for health and has medicinal value.

Lentil patties Burgher and tentil patties tortilla

Ingredients: for 5-6 burghers
Soacked 2 cup of lentil
1/2 cup of chopped onion
black seeds 1/2 tea spoon
salt to taste
mint leaves 1/2 cup whole
1 pinch of brown sugar
1,2 green chili chopped


Preparation: processed the soaked lentin in food processor so that it is not so smooth. Then in a mixing bowl, mix all these ingredients and in a platter, shallow fly the pitta shape lentil patties.

Take ban and staff it with lentil patties and more min leaves. You may prepare the patties with coriander leaves, both in mixture and fresh in buggers. and serve it with lemon drinks.

Tortilla:
You may wrap this patties with hand made tortilla, and staff it with tomato slices to your taste.

lentil pakora ( piaju)

This month my junior colleague came to Tokyo. He was fasting, and I prepared some regular Iftar items. It was my time to come back home from Japan. I was wondering how he would continu his Iftar in a foreign country. So I trained him to prepare this very popular item of Iftar in he simplest way.

Ingredients:

one cup of lentil soaked in water
1/2 cup of chipped onion
1 tea spoon of black seeds, kala Zira
salt- to test
2 green chili (chopped); you may like to roast one red chili and crash with the ingredients

Preparation: blend the soaked lentil so that it is coarsely blended, mix all the ingredients and scoop the mixuture with a tea spoon and pour into boiling oil and deep fry and serve with yogurt sauce ( prepared later) as snack or rice.

Yellow Bean Soup

Some liquid food to take, when always fried dishes just stuck at mouth?


Can bean drained and washed and blended finely.
toast cumin seeds and mix it with the bean mixture, mix salt.

you may pour a dollop of yogurt or butter if you like or nothing.

this soup may be served with rice or butter toast or parata.

Quickest Food: Pasta in Avocado Dressing

Yesterday night, while I was working on laptop, I felt like taking something. I looked into the refrigerator and found a soup-bowl of boiled pasta and a deserted avocado behind a sack of potato. Then immediately, an idea clicked into my mind and I just thought, my food was ready.

You may preserve a bowl of pasta by chance and you may have an avocado at home. then you may prepare the most delicate looking dish to pamper you in 3 minutes at your table.

Ingredients:
boiled pasta
olive oil
avocado
salt
walnuts and raisins to your taste or exclude if you don't like

Preparation
Take boiled pasta in a bowl, mix olive oil and sprinkle salt after you scoop avocado and mix it with the whole pasta mix then serve it with nuts if you like or squeeze lemon juice on it.

Emergency fried rice

It sometimes happened that I have to prepare something but not rice, but I am just from office and don't have time to cook anything like Benglai polao or fried rice.
Yet, that is what I may like to suddenly treat me with a cup of my coffee, what to do. Nothing is impossible. So here is my emergency fired rice with vegg- veg plus egg. I have recently started eating eggs considering nutrition of my health. I have been a strict vegetarian for the last decade or more.

No more talk

Ingredients: 

cooked rice in fridge
eggs
butter/veg oil
frozen diced vegetables
bay leaves
cardamom 1, cinamon power 1/2 tea spoonful, salt to taste,
small diced onions, black pepper, paprika and chopped ginger

preparation:

Fry the onion and mix bay leaves, while stirring wash the frozen veggis so that they turn tender, mix all when prices of onion look tender and caramelized, and sprinkle salt and stir, keep starring and pour broken eggs and stir and pour rice,  mix rice and stir and serve.
Preparation times 7-10 min while you may drink some juices.

salmon in Greek yogurt

I am busy.
Flier Salmon with rice is a comfy staple for my daughter. However, if a visitor is at the house, such easy busy may not be comfortable any more. Here is my salmon in Greek salad in shortest possible way.


Ingredients:
Ikg Salmon in small pieces
Greek Yogurt in cup
mastered  oil two table spoon
1 whole green chili
2 cloves
2 black pepper
2 cardamom
1 stick of cinnamon
1/2 tea spoon of brown sugar
1/2 spoon of lemon juice
 1/2 tea spoonful of turmeric
coriander power
copped onion one cup
1 teaspoonful of ginger paste
2 bay leaves
salt to taste

Preparation:
Mix all with the fish and let it be in marinated situation for 15 minutes ( in case hurry, not necessary).
Put oil in the pan and fry the chopped onion until it is caramelized. mix all the other ingredients with the onion and keep starring for mixing all with the fix. Then let it be cooked for 20 minutes and squirt lemon juice and mix it with the brown sugar and pour in the fish gravy before serving.

Good with rice or parata.

hand - made pitta with pumpkin

Ingredients

I/4 of a middle size pumpkin
clarified ghee ( melted butter)
salt to taste
kala zira 1/2 teaspoon

brown flour 1 cup
water


preparation:

boil pumpkin and smash well, mix clarified butter with the smashed pumpkin and sprinkle toasted kala zira and mix it with salt and serve it with dry nuts and serve it in bowl.

make a dough with th brown flour and role it for four small size pitta.
Mix olive oil instead of butter, if you like.

Fried rice with oat

Once I bought two packets of oat and I realised, I could not eat it in ages. So I started preparing different dishes with oat. One of them was oat fried rice. -Once all the ingredients are ready, you may prepare this dish in 5 - 7 minutes.

oat 2 cups
all fried rice ingredients


Preparation:
soak the oat in water and drain it quick so that it is not smashed. Put oil in a pan and put all the ingredients of fired rice such as black cinnamon, cardamom, bay-leaf,chili, and stir, mix the soaked and drained oat in the pan and stir, and mix salt. Mix grated carrot , if you like. Mix some walnut and almond and soaked raising. If you like you may put some shopped apple in it and stir with all for 2 minutes before you serve warm.  

shrimp with tofu

Today, I had a guest whom I didn't have plan what to serve, but I know she may expect new dishes from me. So I shopped some green staff, with fruits and come back home. I have shrimp and coconut oil at home, and also Besmati rice, and pasta, both may be cooked in 15-20 minutes. this dish is new and I may forget as I do often, create and forget since don't record often. So I put it here on my blog.

It was a sunny day and my garden had a lot of dog-wood flowers.I cut off a branch and wrapped some soaked tissue paper around the cut of the stem. Here you go, I put it on the side table without any vase with water. All easy in busy time. Hope you may find this recipe  easy and funny but to your test in busy time.

Ingredients:

1/4 kg shrimp
coconut oil-- two table spoon
milk- 1 cup
sugar- 1 tea spoon, or to test
salt- to test
lemon- 1/2
cardamom 2
cinnamon- 1 stick
bay leaf - 2
black pepper- 3
tofu- 200 gram
apple -100 gram chopped


Preparation: put the coconut oil in a pan  and put black pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf, salt, and stir for while then, mix the shrimp and stir and mix it with all the ingredients and stir, and pour the milk and stir and pour the tofu ( cut or broken into pieces so that it look like yogurt),  let it boil some time, then mix it with chopped apple, a little sugar and mix the grated peel of lemon and lemon juice. Serve it with sticky rice or parata and pain bread.

Pumpkin soup

Pumpkin Soup: I understand pumpkin in good for health, but while eating, I am not very happy with it. So, why not prepare something interesting and easy to drink as soup. Let's try this.


Ingredients: 1/4 of a sweet butternut pumpkin
1 tea spoon of cumin seeds
salt- to test


Preparation: chop the pumpkin in small four or five pieces to get it cooked soft. Roast the cumin seeds. then pour the boiled pumpkin in a blender, pour the roasted cumin seeds and salt. blend it until it is smooth.

pour it is bowl and serve it.
You may put a spoon of yogurt or butter if you like.