Ingredients:

• Potato 2
• Greeb beans 4
• Carrot 1
• Peas few
• Turmeric powder 1 pinch
• Chilli powder[ according to your spice level]
• Green chillli 1
• Coriander leaves few
• Garam masala pwdr 1tsp
• Salt

Method:

1. Boil the potatos. Mash it well, once it cools.
2. Cut the vegetables to thin slices and cook them.
3. Mix the cooked vegetables with the mashed potato. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, green chilli, garam masala and salt to it.
4. From the mixture take a small quantity and make a ball shape dipping it in bread crumbs and then flatten it to a small round shape.
5. And then again, roll the round cutlet with bread crumbs and fry it in a kadai with oil or deep fry until the cutlets turns golden brown.
6. Serve hot with ketchup.

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Method:
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and urad dad. When it sputters add curry leaves and dried red chillis.
Add the grated beetroot with little water and salt. Cover it with lid.
Cook until beetroot is cooked well.
Finally, add grated coconut. Coconut is optional.
Serve with rice as side dish or chappathi.

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Ingredients:

• Green beans 2cups
• Urad dal
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Green chilli
• Coconut [optional]
• Salt as required

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan, and add mustard seeds.
• When it splutters add urad dal, fry for a minute and then add curry leaves and green chilli.
• Then add the beans and fry for a while and sprinkle some water then close the lid.
• Cook until the beans is done. Add then add the grated coconut to it.
• Serve with dal and rice.

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Ingredients:

• 4Potatoes cubed
• 1Onions                 
• 1Tomato               
• 3Green chilli       
• Urad dal
• Mustard seeds
• Ginger and garlic
• Cashews few
• Curry leaves  few
• Garam masala
• Turmeric
• Hing
• Salt

Method:

1. Boil the cubed potatoes in water with a pinch of turmeric.
2. Heat oil in kadai and add mustard seed. When it splutters add urad dal and hing.
3. Add onion and fry for a while with few curry leaves until the raw smells goes off.
4. Add finely chopped garlic and ginger.
5. Then add tomatoes and green chilli’s,turmeric powder and allow it cook for a while.
6.  Grind few cashews and 2 green chilli and add to it.
7. Now add potato, garam masala, 2 cups of water, salt and cook for about ten minutes.
8. Masala is done when it becomes thick and then garnish with coriander leaves.
9. Serve with chappathi or poori.

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Ingredients:

• Carrot
• Potato
• Beans
• Cabbage
• Beetroot
• Tomato
• Garlic
• Wholeblackpepper
• Small onion

Method:

1. To a boiling water add the above vegetables.
2. Grind garlic, whole black pepper, small onion, cumin seeds, ginger, curry leaf to a coarse paste.
3. Mix the grounded paste to the boiling veagetables.
4. Once the vegetables have become soft, mash it. Add salt to your taste. Add 2 tspn lemon juice and bread cubes for extra flavour. Ready to serve.

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a soup recipe using spinach.

Ingredients:

• Opo squash / sorakai[in tamil] – 1
• Spinach 1 bunch
• Moong dal – 3tbspn
• Whole black pepper
• Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
• Tomato 2
• Green chilli 2
• Red chilli powder
• Garlic  – 3 pod
• Curry leaf

Method:

1. Clean the spinach in running water and chop them finely.
2.  To boiling water add tomato, garlic and moong dal.
3.  Meanwhile grind chopped spinach, opo squash, green chilli, black pepper, cumin seeds, curry leaf to a coarse paste .  Add these to the boiled water and allow it cook in low flame for about 20 min.
4. Once done mash it nicely and finely add 1 tspn ghee.
5.  Add salt to your taste. Garnish with some pepper and ready to serve.

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You need:

Carrot  – 5
Milk    – 2 glasses
Cashews, Cardamon.
Sugar.

Method:

Peel and slice the carrots into small pieces and then steam it. When it is cold grind it with little sugar to a liquid state. Then again boil it for 4 to 5 minutes and then add 2 glasses of boiled milk to it. Stir well, continuously. When it is done roast the cashews and cardamon in ghee and add it to the kheer. Now its ready to serve.

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Eating a good and healthy breakfast is the best way to start off your day. Skipping breakfast is a bad habit which may in turn affect your health. There are many ideas for quick breakfast. This is one of the simpler, easier and healthier breakfast recipe as it includes vegetables and wheat bread.

Ingredients:

• Wheat bread 2 slice
• Onion
• Tomato
• Cucumber
• Salt
• Pepper
• Butter
• Green chutney
• Tomato Ketchup [optional]

Green chutney preparation:

Grind coriander leaves 2 cup, green chillies 3 or 4, mint leaf 1 cup, salt, lemon juice and onion 50 gm to a fine paste. The chutney can be stored in the refrigerator for a week.

Sandwich preparation:

• Toast the bread slices and trim the edges of bread slices. [Toasting is optional]
• Spread the butter on one slice and on the other slice spread the green chutney.
• Sprinkle some salt and pepper on tomatoes, cucumber and onions. [ Cut the vegetables into thin circles]
• Place the tomatoes, onions, cucumber slices on the slice with butter and then cover it with the other bread slice. You can also spread some ketchup if you like.

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Ingredients:

• Whole Tamarind : lemon sized ball (Soaked in hot water)
• Cumin seeds : 1tbsp
• Whole garlic : 4 to 5 (unpeeled)
• Coriander leaves : 2 tbsp
• Curry leaves : 3 to 4
• Whole Pepper : 8 to 9
• Tomato : 1(chopped)
• Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
• Salt to taste

For Seasonings :

• Oil : 1 tbsp
• Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
• Whole red chilies : 2

Method Of Preparation :

• Extract the pulp of tamarind by soaking it in hot water.
• Now grind all the ingredients (toamtoes, garlic, pepper, cumin seeds, corriander leaves, curry leaves) in to a coarse paste. And keep them aside.
• Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, after it sputters add the whole red chilies , turmeric powder,and the above ground paste in to it .
• Add almost like 1 to 2 cups of water and salt.
• When its comes to complete boil remove from heat.
• Garnish with little coriander leaves.

Now its ready to serve with rice or can have it as a soup.

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Green moong dal sprouts is one of the healthy salad and easy to prepare. This can be had daily in the evening as snack which is rich in protein and it is good for people on diet. This salad is good for children too.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of moon dal
• 1 onion [finely chopped]
• 2 green chilli [finely chopped]
• a pinch of hing
• curry leaves
• coriander leaves
• salt

Method:

1. Soak the moong dal in water for overnight. Next day drain all the water and wrap the sprouted moong dal in muslin white cloth or paper towel for one or two days [sprinkle some water on dal so that sprouts will come out well]. Next day you can see the sprouts had come out. If not keep it for some more time until the sprouts comes out.
2. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds when it splutters add onion and saute for few minutes.. Then add green chilli’s and few curry leaves. Now add the sprouted moong dal and stir for 2 minutes and then cover with lid for 4 to 5 minutes. When it is done squeeze little lemon juice and add some coriander leaves. Now ready to serve.

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