Instant Peas Dhoklas

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh green peas
1 cup besan (gram flour)
4 tbsp rawa (Suji/Semolina)
1 tbsp Eno (1\4 packet)
4 long green chillies
1 small piece of ginger
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp oil
Salt to taste

Ingredients for temper:
11/2 tbsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp sesame seeds
6-7 curry leaves
A pinch of asafoetida

Method:
Step 1: Grind the peas, green chillies and ginger in to mixer. Do not add water in this paste.

Step 2: Make a smooth paste.
Step 3: Take big vessel and add besan(gram flour) in it.Step 4: Add rawa, lemon juice, sugar, salt, and oil in it.Step 5: Mix all this ingredients very well with spoon.
Step 6: After that add crush green peas paste in it.Step 7: Add 1\3 cup water and mix this material very well. For water use same cup as you use the cup for besan.

Step 8: Spread the oil in those dish which you can use for steam.

Step 9: Lastly add the Eno. When you add Eno (1\4 packet) or fruit salt then you can see like fragmentation in flour.

Step 10: Mix very well.

Step 11: Quickly spread this material into prepared dishes.

Step 12: Steam this about 10 minutes.
Step 13: After steam it looks like this.

Step 14: Cut this into triangle shapes.

Step 16: Place it into another dish. When you turn on into another dish it is come out nicely.
Step 15: Heat the oil in a small vessel.

Step 16: Add asafetida, mustard seeds, and sesame seeds and curry leaves.

Step 17: Fry for a while and after that turn off the flame immediately.

Step 18: Pour this mixture over the dhoklas.

Step 19: Serve hot with tomato ketchup or chutney.:) If you like without oil than you can also serve as it is with tomato ketchup.:)

"God desires that his temples be built from LOVE.
Men raise brick-built towers to the sky above."
-Stray birds fireflies

Sev Usal

After long time I was post recipe here. I miss my all blog friends and I would like to come back regular in my blog. This pink rose is for my entire blog friends and all those people who search my recipe on line and also give me GOOD feedback here. Thank you very much for your pleasant words. I am really grateful to all.

Sev Usal- Hot and Spicy healthy dish with less oil.

Ingredients for Sev-Usal:
1 cup green peas
2 medium size potatoes
3 medium size onions
2 medium size tomatos
2 tbsp grama masala
2 tbsp red chilli powder
1 tbsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp grated ginger
2 tbsp grated beet rout
4 tbsp lemon juice
1\2 tbsp sugar optional
2 tbsp oil
Salt to taste
To serve:

Yogurt

Coriander leaves

OnionTomatoTamarind chutney (Optional)

Sev (made up of besan(Gram flour)). Click here for recipe.

Method for making Sev-Usal:
Step 1: Chopped the onion into very small pieces.

Step 2: Cut the tomatoes into small size.

Step 3: Peel the potatoes and cut into medium size cube. Pressure cooks the green peas with potatoes cube with half cup water.

Step 4: Cook them for two whistle or until it is soft enough.

Step 5: Mash it just like we do for Pau Bhaji.

Step 6: Mash very nicely.

Step 7: Heat the oil in a frying pan in medium flame and add cumin seeds and cook for 1\2 second.

Step 8: Add grated ginger in it.

Step 9: Next add finely chopped onion.

Step 10: Let onion cook until they are golden brown. Then add grated beetroot for reddish color.

Step 11: Then add tomato and let it cook until it turns into thick tomato gravy. Then add red chilli powder, and turmeric powder.

Step 12: Now in add into this mashed peas and potatoes.

Step 13: Add a cup of water for making like gravy.

Step 14: All these cook together until it forms a good mixture with thick gravy.
Step 15: Finally add garam masala powder, salt and lemon juice to it. (If you like then add sugar also.)

Step 16: Cook for a minute and turn off the flame.

Step 17: Here our Usal is ready and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Step 18: Place in serving bowl.

Step 18. Add begal gram sev and decorate with lemon and onion slices. So it is called as Sev-Usal. Serve hot.

Step 19: This Usal also goes well with bread with taste of yogurt; we try it that way to for a change sometimes or otherwise sev is not at home and bread is ready to it………….:)

"Everyone is not fortunate to do great things, but everyone can write love on some human hearts & that would make him or her feel great."

Have a cheerful day to my entire buddies. :)

Raita marcha & Red Chilli chutney

Happy Valentine Day to My all Blog Friend!!!



History & Traditions
The holiday of Valentine's Day probably derives its origins from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. In the early days of Rome, fierce wolves roamed the woods nearby. The Romans called upon one of their gods, Lupercus, to keep the wolves away. A festival held in honor of Lupercus was celebrated February 15th. The festival was celebrated as a spring festival. Their calendar was different at that time, with February falling in early springtime. One of the customs of the young people was name-drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man drew a slip. The girl whose name was chosen was to be his sweetheart for the year Legend has it that the holiday became Valentine's Day after a priest named Valentine. Valentine was a priest in Rome at the time Christianity was a new religion. The Emperor at that time, Claudius II, ordered the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius believed that as married men, his soldiers would want to stay home with their families rather than fight his wars. Valentine defied the Emperor's decree and secretly married the young couples. He was eventually arrested, imprisoned, and put to death Valentine was beheaded on February 14th, the eve of the Roman holiday Lupercalia. After his death, Valentine was named a saint. As Rome became more Christian, the priests moved the spring holiday from the 15th of February to the 14th - Valentine's Day. Now the holiday honored Saint Valentine instead of Lupercus

HISTORY OF THE VALENTINE'S DAY SYMBOLS
History of Valentine's Day Roses'Oh, my love is a red, red rose' ~ Poets and scholars have likened the beauty of their sweethearts to that of roses. Rose, as the queen of flowers, symbolizes peace and war, love and forgiveness. Valentine's Day is a time to send flowers and gifts to your loved ones but beware! Some of these beautiful messengers may transmit wrong messages. Take the most common flowers, roses for instance. There are formal meanings of different coloured roses in some cultures. Each of these meanings is still used in society today, so choose your colour with care.

• White roses are for true love and purity of the mind.
• Red roses are for love and passion.
• Yellow roses are for friendship.
• Black roses mean farewell.
• Pink roses mean friendship or sweetheart.
  History of Valentine's Day Cupid
  Cupid, the mischievous son of the Goddess of Love, Venus, is supposedly responsible for people falling in love. According to the myths, anyone being hit by Cupid's arrow falls in love with the first person he/she sees. His mischievous intentions have led to some entertaining situations in various legends. Cupid in the Roman mythology has Eros, the son of Aphrodite, as his counterpart in the Greek Myths. The names of both these Gods are used synonymously with the concept of love today.
  
  History Of Love Knot
  Young women in strict Muslim households used to send their pledges of love to young men through messages woven through the knots of a carpet in an Arab tradition. This tradition of sending messages through the knots gave birth to the concept of love knots that continues to this day.
  
  History Of Valentine's Hearts
  To a beloved, there is no symbol as important as the heart. To give someone one's heart means to give to him or her one's whole being, for the heart is at the center of one's existence. The heart stands for the most profound and noblest of human emotions- that of love. Through ages, it has inspired millions to rise above the mundane cares and to get lost in the thought of their beloved. Thus a heart, pierced by the cupid's arrow, has become the most famous of the valentine's symbols.
  

Spicy Achaar…………… I made this for my mom-dad who love this Pickle too much!!!

I am sending this as my entry for Pooja's theme of the week- Valentine's Day .:))

This is our traditional side dish of Gujarati. you can find this lovely and spicy dish in each home of gujarat , so this goes to Mathy who is hosting RCI- Gujarati this month.

This goes as well to Coffee for her JFI-Lemon this month.

Raita Marcha(Red chilli Pickle)

Ingredients:
500gm red chillies

100gm mustard seed powder

7-tbsp lemon juice

2-tbsp haldi powder

4-tbsp oil

Salt to taste
Method:

Step 1: Wash the red chillies and cut off the tops.

Step 2: Remove the seeds of the red chillies and cut in to long thin pieces.

Step 3: Heat the oil till smoking; add the mustard seed powder and haldi powder in it. Turn off the flame.Step 4: Cool at room temperature and add lemon juice and salt to taste.Step 5: Then add chopped red chillies.Step 6: Mix well so that all chillies get coated with the mustard seeds masala.Step 7: Take clean glass jar and place the red chilli pickle in the jar.

Red Chilli Chutney

Ingredients:

500gm fresh long thick green chillies

100gm sugar
Salt to taste
Method:
Step 1: Wash the red chillies and dry towel to absorb all the moisture. Cut these chillies in to long slices. Remove all the seeds very nicely.
Step 2: Crush the red chilli into mixer to make fine paste.Step 3: Place this mixer in to big vessel. Step 4: Add salt and sugar in it.
Step 5: Mix very well and place it for whole night.Step 6: In the second day morning cover the top with a muslin cloth and leave in the sun to dry for 2-3 days.Step 7: Take clean glass jar and place the chutney in the jar.Step 8: Close the lid of the jar and this should be remains as it is for one year.
I am sending this as my entry for Pooja's theme of the week- Valentine's Day .:))