Nutritious Vegetable rice

Toddler food can be made nutritious easily.Sometimes its not tough making them eat what they usually dont.Just infuse green veggies or brocolli with some of his favourites in small quantities. Here i have added beautiful baby spinach.You can use broccolli florets too....


Ingredients:
jeera:1tspn
onion:1/8 cup
tomato:2 medium
gg paste:1tspn
spinach:fresh leaves about palmful
carrot:1 whole medium sized
beans:1/8 cup
rice:4tbspn
moongdal:2tbsp
Method:-
In a cooker,heat oil.Add jeera and let it splutter.Saute some onions.Add ginger-garlic paste and saute till it gives away nice aroma.To this add tomato and let these become mushy.Add fresh spinach leaf and let it simmer for 2 minutes.Then add all veggies.Saute for 2 minutes and then add rice and moong dal.Add water and pressure cook it.Nutritious rice ready!

Stuffed brinjal using Microwave

I barged in through the door and sunk into the sofa stretching my legs.These are the typical saturdays after our walmart shopping.'V' just finds it awkward sitting in those carts,nevertheless his strollers too:).Hardly 10mts,he just squeezes himself to jump out.As partners ,his parents share the task of running and shopping too.
On these days i just lay hands upon some easy yet tasty recipes like this one.Hardly any time to browse ,i gave it a try recollecting the video i went through days ago.It was worth it.....
Ingredients:-
Brinjals:4nos.
Onion: half cup cut in to small sizes
coriander leaf:palmful
peanut powder:4tbsp
jaggery:1tbsp
salt to taste
ginger:1tbsp
chilly powder:1/2tbsp
tadka items:-
oil
mustard seed:1tsp
turmeric powder:a pinch
hing(asafoetide):to taste

procedure:-
Cut the brinjals criss cross.That is,remove stem,make a cut till 3/4th.turn other side and cut till 3/4th in opposite direction.
Mix peanut powder,half coriander leaves,chilly powder,salt,jaggery,ginger.apply this to both sides of brinjal.
Place this in microwave safe bowl.Mix onion and coriander leaf and add on top of these brinjals.Do the tadka separately and pour on top of this .spray some liquid on top just for conditioning it.
microwave for 10 minutes.Then ,let it remain in microwave for another 5 minutes.Take out and have a good meal with rice or chappathi.

Dal(split moong bean)

This is a comforting dish at any occassion .Whenever u need to take a break from heavy appetite you can just open your dal dabba and relish its simplicity.The whole flavour comes from the thadka,i feel.It took me many efforts in various ways.But then i had to stick to its simplicity .
Ingredients:
Dal-1cup
Onion-1 medium
tomato-2 medium
jeera-1tbsp
garlic-4 big cloves
green chilly-4 nos
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
goda masala-a pinch
cilantro
Method:
pressure cook dal with 3 cups water with turmeric powder and salt.
In a different pan add oil.Add jeera .Then garlic and green chilly.Let it shed its raw smell.Then add tomato and leave it to get mushy.Add the dal and a pinch of goda masala.Let it boil.garnish with cilantro....
Dal ready!

vegetable stir fry

Mushrooms-1cup
onion -1cup
green bell pepper-1/2cup
yellow bell pepper-1/2 cup
sesameseed-1tbsp
red chilly(coarse ground)-1tbsp
lemon juice-1tbsp

Method:
add oil and saute onion.When translusent add mushroom and capsicum.To this add
turmeric powder and saute for few minutes.Then add sesame seed,red chilly and salt.Let it fry in low heat(stirring occassionally) for 5-10mts.Let all ingredients blend and be crisp.Remove from heat and garnish with lemon juice and cilantro.
This goes well with chappathis and side dish for rice....