Sunita's Easy Cooking

Goad Dashmi / Sweet Dashmi Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Sunita) — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:15:00 -0800

Goad (Sweet in marathi) Dashmi is a flatbread, a chapati made using jaggery and milk instead of water. This is a typical Maharashtrian dish. I remember when I was kid studying in hostel, my mother used to prepare it and get it for me during the visit as these chapatis could stay longer compared to the regular ones as we add milk into this. This is very easy to prepare and can be considered an alternate option for chapatis if your kid is fond of sweet items. It's healthier as we use jaggery in it.

Lets see the procedure to prepare it.

Ingredients:
Milk - 1/4 cup
Wheat flour - 2 cups
Salt - pinch of
Jaggery - 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - Pinch of (optional)
Ghee - 3-4 tsp
Ghee / Oil - Toasting

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl add the boiled and cooled milk. grated jaggery, ghee, pinch of salt and cardamom powder.Mix all together well and break the lumps if any.

2. To this add wheat flour carefully. Mix this well and form it to a smooth dough (a bit thicker compared to chapati so that it would be easier for rolling). Allow it to rest for around 10-15 mins.

3. Take small lemon sized dough, roll out on a board to small circle. You can add oil/ghee and make folds as we make for chapatis as shown in the below pics and then roll to bigger circle. (If you are not comfortable rolling this way you can directly roll the dough to bigger circle shapes)

4. Toast this on frying pan using ghee / oil on both the sides.

5. Serve this hot with pickle / potato stir fry which is a good combination with it.

Notes:

You can also add a pinch of nutmeg powder for the additional flavour.
You can adjust the jaggery quantity based on your requirement.
You can also add milk cream along with the milk.

Onion peanut Chutney

noreply@blogger.com (Sunita) — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:36:00 -0800

Today I am almost back after an year with a recipe. It's going to be a very simple quick recipe for the day. As it's a weekend, generally we grab a pack of dosa batter for the quick breakfast and suppose you do not have coconut with you for the chutney and almost bored of preparing potato sabzi. In case you need the recipe for potato sabzi you can go with this link. We can go through the simple quick chutney recipe which you can prepare in 10-15 mins.

Ingredients:
Onion - 1 roughly chopped
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Roasted peanut - 1 tbsp
Roasted bengal gram - 1/2 tbsp (optional)
Tamarind paste - 1 tbsp
Salt - required
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Ginger - 1/2 an inch (optionla)
Green chili - 1 or 2
Coriander - 1/8th cup
Dried red chili - 1 (optional)

For tempering:
Oil - 2- 3 tsp
Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp

Procedure:
1. Heat 1/2 a tsp oil in a pan, add cumin seeds roughly chopped onion, curry leaves, ginger piece, green chili and roast for 2-3 mins.
2. Allow the roasted mix to cool down. Add it to the mixing jar followed by peanuts, roasted bengal gram, salt, sugar, tamarind / tamarind paste, coriander and grind it to smooth paste. Add 1/4 glass of water to the mix.

3. Temper the mixed paste on a tsp of oil along with the mustard seeds and dried red chili.

4. The quick chutney is ready to be served with dosa. You can also serve a lemon rice together with it to make the sunday brunch complete! You can find the recipe for lemon rice here.

Notes:

You can adjust the salt, sugar , tamarind quantity based on your need.
The given measurement is as per 2 servings, you can increase the quantity of onion & peanuts base don your need.

Instant Pohe Chivda

noreply@blogger.com (Sunita) — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 03:51:00 -0700

Instant Chivda is a very simple Maharashtrian snacks recipe. I planned to make a video of my recipes, since it's festival season I thought of starting with a simple festive recipe which could be useful for people. The things that came immediately into my mind was Chivda. As we already know there are various ways of preparing chivda, a savory snack ex: using flattened rice, murmura, bundi / sev mixture, sabudana chivda to name few. I have already posted the recipe for Pohe Chivda earlier that was using thin poha. This recipe is using the same poha that we use for making kanda pohe and can be prepared easily with all the available ingredients in your kitchen.

Ingredients:Pohe/ Flattened rice (medium sized) - 1 cup
Oil - 2 tbsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1/2 tbsp
Ground nut - 1 tbsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 3/4 tsp
Green chili - 2
Red chili - 2
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - 3/4 tsp
Citric acid - pinch of

Preparation:
And here goes my first video :)

1. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, when heated add items to temper like cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves, ground nut. Saute for few seconds.

2. When it splutters add chopped green chili,red chili, turmeric powder, coriander seeds. Mix well.

3. Add flattened rice, salt, sugar , pinch of citric acid and mix well. Saute for few minutes.

4. After its done allow this to cool down and store it in airtight container.
5. A perfect tea time snack is ready.

Notes:
You can also add dried coconut slices, roasted gram to this.
Adding citric acid is optional.