Meat and Bottle gourd Curry

 Ingredients:

Mutton or Chicken: 500 gms

Bottle Gourd: 1 medium size

Onion: 1 cut into small pieces

Green chillies with medium spice : 2   slit long and deseeded

Ginger Garlic paste: 1 table spoon

Coconut grated: 3/4 th cup

Cashewnuts :10

Cooking Oil : 2 tablespoon 

Pepper powder: 1 tea spoon

Salt : as per taste

Method of Cooking:

1.Grind the coconut with cashewnuts with water and keep it aside.

2. In a cooker/ insta pot... Add 1 tablespoon oil add onions fry till it's transculent on medium flame then add Bottle gourd pieces fry for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove and keep it aside.

3. In the same container add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil add the slit green chillies fry for a minute add g&g paste and fry for another minute & add the meat and turmeric powder and add 3 cups of water and cook till meat is soft.

4. After the meat is cooked add the fried onion and bottle gourd along with  coconut mixture and salt. Cook for 1 whistle. Once steam goes down open the cooker lid add 1 teaspoon of black pepper powder, cut coriander leaves and 1 table spoon lime juice.

All done Enjoy with Hot Rice or Rotis 😋😋

Tutti Frutti butter Cakes.

 Ingredients:

Medium sized Eggs: 4 ( around 260 gms)

Butter: 200 to 230 gms.

All purpose flour: 250 gms

Organic brown palm sugar: 170 to 180 gms

Baking powder: 1 tea spoon.

Vanilla essence: 1 tea spoon

Salt: 1 big pinch

Tutti Fruity: 1/2 tea cup

Carraway Seeds: 1 tea spoon

METHOD:

1. First thing...Leave the butter in the room temperature.

2. Powder the Sugar.

3. Keep all the other ingredients ready

4. Seive the flour with baking powder and salt.

5. You can use the Hand mixer or you can also use common mixer grinder Jar..to grind sugar and butter.After butter and sugar blends well... Add the yellow and white of the eggs to the mixer and blend it well.

6. Transfer it to a bowl & fold in the flour which is mixed with salt and Baking powder. Mix everything lightly.

7.Add Vanilla Essence,Carraway seeds & Tutti Fruity.

8.Transfer the Cake mix to your convenient greased or butter papered baking tray.

9. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 375 degrees.

10. Enjoy your freshly baked Tutti Fruity butter cake😋😋 and leave your comments 😀

De- Skinned split Green Gram steamed cakes/Idlis

 Ingredients:

Moong Dal: 1 Cup

Rice.          : 1/4 Cup

Soak both for 2 to 3 hours

Grind coarsely and add 1/2 cup curds.

1/2 Cup Fried  Rava/ Semolina 

Add Salt  as required.

Mix well and  Keep aside for 20 minutes. 

Other Ingredients:

Oil: 1 table Spoon

Ghee: 1 table spoon

( replace ghee with another spoon of oil)

Mustard : 1/4 tea spoon 

Cumin: 1/4 tea spoon 

Split Black gram: 1 tea spoon 

Split Chickpea : 1 tea spoon 

Asafoetida 2 to 3 pinches

Cashew nut pieces : 2 table spoon

Green chilies: 2 small ( cut into small pieces)

Carrot: 2 medium size grated 

Curry leaves: 5 to 6 cut small pieces 

Coriander: 1 small bunch cut finely.

Desiccated Coconut: 1 to 2 table spoons.

After 20 minutes....

Heat a pan... Add Oil and ghee

add mustard seeds,cumin... let it splutter. Add  Asofedita powder, Chenna dal,Urid dal and Cashew fry on medium flame when roasted add the green chillies,curry leaves, grated carrots... fry for sometime and add it to the batter  lastly add cut Coriander & desiccated Coconut... mix well and  fill the greased idli plates and steam for 10 to 12 minutes.

Enjoy with Chutney of your choice or Tomato pickle. We Enjoyed the tasty Moong Dal Steamed Cakes/ Idli with Home made Tomato pickle 😋😋😋😉