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Aug 2, 2014

SPINACH / PALAK CHAPATHI (GREEN CHAPATHI)


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                                        Palak chapathi is one of our family’s favorite dish . It is colourful and  a healthy dish. It serves 8 to 9 chapathi.
Ingredients
Wheat flour – 2 1/2 cups
Spinach – 1/2 bundle
Green chilli – 2 to 3
ginger – a small piece
Oil – 1 to 2 teaspoons
Water – 1/2 cup (to boil spinach)
Salt – as needed
Method
Remove stems and wash the spinach. Boil water in a pan and add spinach.Let it boil for 3 minutes.Drain the water and cool it. Use the remaining water separately to make a dough if needed.
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Grind the spinach,greenchilli and ginger with little salt to make a puree.
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Take the wheat flour in a mixing bowl add a teaspoon of oil and mix it well. Add the spinach puree  little by little and  make a soft dough.
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Close it with lid and keep it aside for 20 to 30 minutes.Then make small balls.
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Dust the wheat flour and roll the balls to thin chapathis.
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Heat the pan and cook the chapathi till it gets brown spots on both sides. Apply ghee or oil over the top of the chapathi.
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Palak Chapathi / Spinach Chapathi  is ready to serve with yogurt and pickle.
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RADISH (MULLANGI) SAMBAR

IMG_0236          Radish sambar plays major role in south indian dishes. Radish contains rich pottasium and it is good for our health. Radish comes with Red color and White color.

Ingredients

Toor dal – 1 cup
Radish – 2 (Medium size)
Tomato – 1 (Big size)
Small onions/shallots – 6 to 7
Green chili – 2
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
hing –1 tsp
Chili powder – 1 tsp
sambar powder – 1 tsp
Tamarind – Golf ball size

To Grind

Scrubbed coconut – 3 tsp
small onion  – 3 nos
Cumin seed – 1 tsp

To Temper

Oil – 1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Curry leaves- few

Preparation Method

1.First clean and cut radishes into round round pieces and pressure cook it with toor dal.
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2.Soak tamarind in a cup of water.Grind all the things mentioned below “To Grind”
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3.Chop onion,tomato and green chilies as like shown in the figure.
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4.Heat oil in a pan.Add onions first.Saute it till turns to pink color.
5.Then add green chilies,tomatoes one by one.Then add turmeric powder, and hing.Saute it well for 3 min.
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6.Then in a vessel add salt (i add 2 tsp),Chili powder and sambar powder(optional).
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7.Take cooked dal along radish.Separate radish from it.
8.Extract the tamarind water and mix into the above.Add radish and 1 cup water into it.
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9.Mix this into the pan.Allow to boil till the raw smell goes out.
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10.Then smashed the cooked dal well.Mix the dal with the above.
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11.After 3 min,Add the ground paste.Allow to boil for 5 min.
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12.Heat oil in a pan.add fenugreek seeds,mustard seeds.When it spluttered,add curry leaves.
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13.Mix this into the sambar.
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14.Now radish sambar is ready to serve.
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