Stuffed Brinjal

Ingredients

6-7 small brinjals
handful of roasted peanuts
1 big onion  - cut and keep aside
Chilli powder - 1 and half tspns
Dhania powder - 2-3 tspns
Turmeric - a pinch
salt
Corriander leaves - quarter bunch (handful)
Tamarind juice - little (soak marble sized)

Recipe

Cut the brinjals in a cross, it should not fall apart - and keep in water. Heat 10-12 spoons oil in a kadai, and drop the brinjals in it. Close. Cook it in sim until it becomes soft (half cooked) - turn over once a while. Remove it from the kadai and keep in a plate.

Grind together - peanuts, onion, chilli, dhania, turmeric, corriander, salt - and make a thick paste - do not add much water. Just sprinkle some water.

Put Jeera in oil, and some onion and curry leaves. Fry onions for 2-3 minutes until they become brown. Then add the paste in the kadai and immediately add the brinjals. Add little water if the paste is too thick. Let it cook for 5 minutes. Add the tamarind juice.

Taste to check chilli, salt etc. Can add water if required.

Radish poriyal

4-5 normal sized radishes
1 potato - medium
slice both in same sized tiny pieces
2 onions
3-4 green chillies - cut small rings

mustard in oil , onion, chilli - fry until onion is translucent
Add radish and potato, and salt
Put in sim and close

after 5  min, mix, and check if done

Mutter-Paneer

1 packet paneer
250 gms green peas

Two big onions - cut

Two big tomatoes - cut

Jeera

Ginger garlic paste

Turmeric powder

Chilli powder

Corriander

Cream - 1 spoon

Recipe

Take 2-3 spoons oil in a kadai. Once hot, put Jeera, let it sputter. Add the onions, and some salt. Let it fry for a bit. Add 10-15 green peas. Toss them around, and then add the tomatoes. Fry until the water drains.

Turn off stove, and let it cool.

Once it's cool, put all of it in a mixie and make it a fine paste.

In the same kadai, put some oil and pour this masala. Add 1 and half spoon chilli powder, 2 spoons dhania powder, and a pinch of turmeric. Add 1 small spoon of ginger garlic paste. Fry it well, for at least 5 mins until the raw smell goes. (If using induction, fry at 350).

Add the green peas, salt, and quarter glass water. Cook until peas become soft.

Now add paneer pieces (cut them small). Paneer takes about 5 minutes to cool. (continue cooking at 350).

At the end, add quarter spoon garam masala. Some coriander, and a spoon of cream. (Just take some cream from the milk and whip it)