Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:

1/2 kg Turnips (Shalgam)
1/2 kg Carrots (Gajar)
1/2 kg Cauliflower (Phool gobi)
1 cup Oil (Tel)
2 teaspoons Turmeric (Haldi)
2 teaspoons Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
6 tsps ground Mustard seeds (Rai/Sarson)
Salt (Namak) to taste

Method:

1. Clean and cut vegetables into big pieces and boil for 5 minutes.
2. Put in a basket to drain well and then dry with a clean cloth.
3. Mix ground mustard seeds, turmeric, Red chili pepper , salt and oil together into the boiled vegetables.
4. Put in a clean jar and keep it in the sun for 4 days, shaking the pickle once or twice daily.
5. Serve after 1 week

Different methods for making Tzimmes uses a wide range of different ingredients. Here is one.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds carrots, peeled and sliced into “coins”
1 tablespoon margarine (or butter if preparing a dairy meal)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup seedless golden raisins
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper

Method:
Mix all of the ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Cover, reduce the heat and simmer gently until the carrots are crisp tender, about 25 minutes. Remove the cover from the pan, raise the heat and cook the carrots until most of the liquid has evaporated and the sauce is thickened, about five minutes.

MORE OF MY PASSOVER RECIPES

Ingredients:
2 cup rice
2 onion
5 carrot
2 tsp fried groundnuts
2 tsp oil
a small piece of cinnamon
1 tsp broken block gram
2 nos cloves
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp bengal gram
a few sprigs curry leaves
Salt as per taste

For Masala:
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
3/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp grated coconut
4 nos red chillies

Method:
Heat the pan, pour the 1 tsp oil. Add red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fry till it turns brown.
Add grated coconuts and remove from the heat. Grind it after it cools down.
Grind seperately, the fried groundnuts coarsely.
Cook the rice and let it cool.
Put the carrots in warm water. Grate it without peeling the skin.
Heat oil in a pan. Add cloves, cinnamon, mustard, broken block gram and Bengal gram. Fry them.
Add curry leaves and chopped onions. Once the onion is cooked, add the grated carrots. Fry till the carrots are cooked.
Add rice and fry in a low flame. Add salt and the ground masala powder. Mix it well with the rice.
Finally add groundnut powder and remove from the flame. Serve hot.