Dahi ki idly...

this is a yum preparation...takes very little time , whenever you make idly this can be a side recipe and everyone likes it for the garlic flavour with raw coconut gives it a different touch. Try this....

Will  post the pic soon

• Make mini idlies of approx. 200 gms batter ( To prepare approx 500 gms batter soak 1 cup urad dal, 1 tspn methi dana and 2 cups boiled rice over night. Grind it coarsely and keep it in warm place to ferment for 7-8 hours)
• Take 2 cup curd, beat it, add salt to taste.
• Mix in curd: 5-6 flakes of garlic (crushed), 3 tbspn grated raw coconut and idly in curd.
• Temper: heat 1 tbspn oil, add 1 tspn mustard seeds to splitter, 1 chopped green chilly, and 7-8 curry leaves.
• Put the temper on idlys, mix well and keep for 30-40 minutes for idlies to soak in curd.
• Serve.

Pasta Lasagne with vegetables and cottage cheese

I have been trying to share this recipe for long..but just couldn't get a chance. Here it goes..

You need:

6 sheets of lasagne (3'X6")

walnuts: 3 tbspn

olive oil: 2 tbspn

cottage cheese (paneer): 100 gms

bread crumbs: 3 - bread slices

walnuts: 2 tb spn coarsely crushed.

Tomato puree: 3-4 medium sized skinned tomatoes blended (for skinning dip in hot water 4-5 mins and remove skin)

tomato sauce: 3 tbspn

capsicum, carrot, cabbage, sweet corn kernels: 3 cups chopped (all in equal quantities)

grated cheddar cheese: 100 gms

black pepper crushed: 1 tspn

oregano: 1/2 tspn

salt to taste

• Boil lasagne sheets in hot water in a large vessel for 5-7 minutes. When cooked, remove from water and place on cotton cloth separately.
• Heat oil, add vegetables and cook for five minutes.
• Add tomato puree and cook covered till vegetables are cooked properly and it thickens to a sauce.
• Add salt, oregano, 1/2 tsn black pepper, tomato sauce.
• Mesh cottage cheese, add 1/2 tspn pepper powder and salt 
• At the bottom of the vessel place vegetable sauce.
• Put a layer of lasagne sheets (two side by side). Put a layer of cottage cheese on top.
• Put alternate layers of lasagne sheets, sauce, lasagne, cottage cheese.
•  Top it up with bread crumbs and walnuts. Garnish it with a layer of cheese.
• Cover it with tin foil and grill it for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot.