Veggie Dumplings

Ingredients

For Wrapper (Yields 20 Wrappers)

1Cup all purpose flour/ maida

1Tbs oil

Salt to taste

Luke warm water 

Veggie Stuffing

1/2Cup green cabbage chopped

1/2Cup red cabbage chopped

1/4Cup carrot chopped

1Clove garlic chopped

1/2Cup cooked vermicelli

Salt to taste

2Tsp olive oil

Dipping sauce 

3Tbs white wine vinegar 

3Tbs water

1Tbs chili powder 

1Tsp brown sugar

Salt 

Directions
Wrappers

- Mix flour & salt in a bowl along with water. Knead them to make a soft dough. Allow the dough to sit for 30mins.

- Divide in to 20 balls & roll out as we do for roti. You can shape them as you like. I made round & square shapes.

Making the filling

- Heat a pan with with little oil and add garlic and saute it. 

- Then add the rest of veggies along with salt and saute them for 5mins and switch of heat. 

Stuffing 

- Take a spoon full of filling & place it as shown in figure. close it as you like. I made triangles & half circles.

- Now steam cook them for 15 mins. Once removed from steam place them in a pan & fry them on each side with little oil.

Sauce 

Take a pan with above ingredients & bring them to boil. Cook it for 15 mins till it becomes thick. 

Serve dumpling along with dipping sauce & enjoy them :)

Note:

1. You can enjoy steamed dumpling with out frying them. 

2. Use sesame oil for enhanced flavor. 

Rice Salad

This year I had well spent my long weekend.. Guess why ??? We have been to Las Vegas with our friends & it was just a awesome trip. But once I'm back I was all tired & lazy to come back to blogging..

Lately today I realized that  I'm suppose to blog for Blog hop & I was searching for recipes which I could make it in no time. 

This time I'm paired with Rajani of "My Kitchen Trials" & I chose to make Rice Salad. Just to mention I was reading her blog for 2 to 3 hrs. The commentary she gave in some posts was very amusing & I just couldn't stop reading it.

Ingredients 

• 1 cup cooked rice
• 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots 
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onions 
• 1/2 cup finely chopped red cabbage
• 1/2 cup sweet corn boiled
• Cilantro for garnish  

     Dressing  

• 2 Tbs white wine vinegar 
• Black Pepper powder 
• Sugar
• Salt

 

Take a small bowl with vinegar, salt, sugar& pepper.Mix them with up.

Now take a wide bowl with rice and add all veggies to it. Mix the dressing with Rice.

Allow it to sit for 15mins.That allows all flavors to blend with each other.

Garnish with cilantro & salad is ready to serve.

** I made this for my dinner & it was just Yumm... 

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Majjiga Pulusu | Mor Kuzhambu

Long Long back say 5 yrs ago I was gearing up in moving to Korea with my husband. In the process of getting a visa & all I stayed back in India for couple of months. On one of his trips my husband asked me to learn making " Majjiga Pulusu " stressing on that he likes it a lot. Oh I just can't believe how many times I flopped (in his view). At last I managed to satisfy his taste buds with my recipe that's a different story.    
I have tasted various recipes of the same dish.My mom makes as I mentioned below with added potato cubes to it (which I ignored). But my MIL's version is quite interesting she adds steamed dal dumplings to it. I will try to post it here some time. I ignored veggies as I added lots of coconut to the dish. Coconut gives richness & flavor to this dish. 

Prep Time-30mins | Cook Time-15mins | Serves-3people

Ingredients

2 Cups thick curd  

2 Cups water
Few curry leaves

Salt 

For Grinding

1Tbs channa dal {soak for at least 1 hr}

Small piece of ginger

2Tsp coriander seeds

2Tsp jeera

2Green chili's

4Tbs grated coconut 

1/2Tsp turmeric

Seasoning

1 Tsp mustard 

1 Tsp jeera 

2 Tbs oil

2 Red chilli's cut equally 

Pinch of Hing

Curry leaves for garnish 

Directions

- Grind all the "grinding" ingredients to a smooth paste.

- Take a vessel add curry leaves, curd, water, salt & ground mixture. Mix them well.

- Heat the vessel & bring the butter milk mixture to boil & switch it off. 

- Heat a pan with oil. Add mustards, jeera & red chilli's. Once the mustard starts jumping add hing & curry leaves to it. 
- Switch off heat & add seasoning to butter milk.
Note
- You can use butter milk in place of curd.
- Adding onions, carrots & malbar spinach will bring more flavor to the dish. 
- Don't boil butter milk for too long. Butter milk will break.

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