Chivda

Today I'm doing my first post for Blogging Marathon.I opted for traditional recipes & for this day I made " Chivda " as my recipe.

Ingredients: 

1 Cup thick poha

2 Tbs Peanuts 

2 Tbs fried channa dal ( Veyinchina senaga pappu)

1 Tsp Mustard 

Few curry leaves 

Pinch of turmeric

2 Tbs ghee 

1 Tsp Mixed chilli powder (Chilli+Fennel+Coriander seeds)

1 Tsp sugar

Salt

Heat a pan with oil and add mustard & curry leaves.Once the mustard starts jumping then add peanuts & fried channa dal.

Keep stirring them for 3mins.Then add the poha to pan & stir fry them till they are crisp. To that add turmeric,salt, chilli power & sugar. mix them well for 2 mins and switch of heat.

Quick & Easy Recipes

As the name says I'm hosting an event for "Quick & Easy Recipes". I have couple of reasons on hosting this event in that the first one is " somedays I just want to kick back & relax my day with less work on my head" & the second is  

"about all the women who are busy with household work & professional life".So I came up with this event to make a collection of all possible easy recipes here at my blog & make all our life a little easier.

Here are the simple rules for the event :

• Vegetarian dishes only.
• Post it in your blog and link back the recipe to my event.
• Use of logo is appreciated.
• Can send in multiple entries.
• Event starts from 26th of Nov 2012 & ends on 26th Dec 2012.
• For any questions you can mail me to ammaji.recipes@gmail.com or you can just leave a comment to my Facebook page Ammaji Recipes.

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Tomato Noo Perugu Pachadi | Tomato Sesame Curd Chutney

I'm sharing a easy breezy recipe for people with busy life style.A familier chutney for many of us still I wanted to make a post of it in my blog. 

Ingredients: 
2 Tomatoes sliced
2 Cups of curd
2 Tbs of grounded sesame powder (Nuvvula podi)
1 Tsp oil
Pinch of turmeric
Salt 
Seasoning 
1 Tbs oil 
1 Tsp channa dal 
1 Tsp urad dal 
1 Tsp mustard 
1 Tsp jeera
3 Green chilli's (Slit them in middle)
Few curry leaves
Pinch of hing

Heat a pan with oil and add tomatoes to it. Sprinkle turmeric & salt to pan.Cook tomatoes in a low heat. When tomatoes turn soft switch off heat & allow tomatoes to cool.
Now add curd & sesame powder to tomatoes.
Seasoning 
Heat a pan with oil add channa dal, urad dal to pan fry them for few sec's. Then add mustard,jeera & Green chili.Once the mustard starts jumping add hing & curry leaves to pan. Switch off heat & add the seasoning to chutney.  

Note: 
1.  You can replace sesame power with mustard powder or you can just serve simple without the powders. 
2. Replace tomatoes with any water based vegetable. 

Serve it with rice & njoy it.