Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:
1 Kg small Onions,
10 teaspoons coarse mustard powder
8 teaspoons aniseed powder
4 teaspoons white cumin powder
2 teaspoons ground spices
3 teaspoons Red chili pepper
7 teaspoons Salt  for onions
2 teaspoons Turmeric
1 teaspoon Onions seeds
Juice of 2 Lemons
4 teaspoons amchoor
5 to 6 teaspoons Salt  for the masala
1 1/2 cups Oil (Tel) (for narrow bottle)
1 teaspoons Black Salt

Method:

1. Peel the brown layer from the onions.
2. Slit into four, keeping intact at the base.
3. Rub 7 teaspoons salt on the onions and keep for 4 hours overnight.
4. Heat the oil till smoky and cool.
5. Throw the water of the onions and wet all the ground ingredients with lemon juice and 1/4 cup of oil.
6. Fill the masala in the onions and pack in a tall jar.
7. Then pour the rest of the oil over them.

Put 1 teaspoon salt on top and keep aside for 12 days and serve.

Ingredients:
1 cup rice
1 cup toor dhal (soak the dhal for 3-4 hours in hot water)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp. coriander powder
1/2 tsp chilly powder
2 tsp sambar powder
salt to taste
1 tsp tamarind paste
ghee for frying
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
a few curry leaves
a pinch of asafoetida
2 cashews (optional)
few chopped shallots (sambar onions)
a few chopped corriander leaves

Method:
Wash rice and dhal, drain away all the water, to the rice/dhal mixture add the turmeric powder, corriander powder, chilly powder, sambar powder and salt.
Add 4 cups of water to tamrind paste mix and pour into the dhal/rice mixture.
Cook in pressure cooker for 10 to 12 minutes.
Add ghee in the pan and fry the shallots (sambar onions), as it’s getting brown add the mustard seeds, cashewnuts, curry leaves.
Add this seasoning to the Sambar Bath.
Sprinkle with chopped Corriander Leaves.
Serve hot.

Ingredients:
2 cup cooked rice
1 onion sliced
2 tblsp oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds (raai)
1 green chili chopped
1 tsp chopped garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp fresh coriander, chopped
2 tsp juice of lime

Method:
Heat oil in a wok, add mustard seeds, and green chilies into it and let splutter.
Now add the garlic and fry till it turns golden brown
You should now put in the sliced onions and saute till they are golden in color
Add the salt and pepper, put in the rice and mix well.
Put of the stove and mix the lime juice well with the rice
Garnish with freshly chopped coriander and serve hot.