One Day At A Time

An Indian Egg Omelette is generally made with onions, green chillies and cilantro/coriander leaves.  I like to add some veggies like capsicum/bell pepper, carrot etc. which makes the omelette healthy and tasty. Ingredients: Eggs Onions Capsicum/Bell Peppers Carrots Cabbage Tomatoes Green Chillies Cilantro/Coriander leaves Black Pepper Powder Salt Oil Method: 1. Finely chop onions, capsicum, cabbage, tomatoes, green chillies and cilantro.  Grate carrots.  You can use any veggies of your choice. 2. I prefer one egg at a time. Break an egg and pour it in a bowl.  Whisk/beat (with a spoon/fork) the egg till the yolk is mixed well.  Add salt, little black pepper powder, chopped green chillies, about 1 tsp each of all chopped veggies  and whisk again. 3. Heat a pan and pour this mixture on the pan and spread it with the spoon.  Drizzle little oil and flip the other side after a m...

An easy and quick, less spicy stir fry cabbage recipe with chana dal or split chickpeas. Ingredients: Green Cabbage/Kobi/Patagobhi - 250 gms Chana Dal/Split Chickpeas/Gram - 2 tbsp Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp Green Chilies - 4 Turmeric/Haldi - 1/4 tsp Asafetida/Hing - 1/4 tsp Cilantro/Coriander Leaves - few sprigs Salt Oil How to cook Kobichi Bhaaji: Soak Chana dal in water for 15 - 20 minutes. Meanwhile, wash curry leaves and green chilies. Pat them dry. Finely chop cabbage, cilantro leaves and medium chop green chilies. Wash the soaked dal well. Heat about 2 tsp oil in a kadhai/wok and add mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafetida.  When mustard seeds pop, add washed dal. Add about 1 cup water and cook it covered until dal softens.  Now add chopped cabbage and green chilies. Saute for 2 - 3 minutes. Lastly, add salt, turmeric and chopped cilantro.  Mix and cook it covered at low flame. Keep checking after every 2 minutes.  ...

Mushrooms in a creamy garlic gravy.  An easy, yet tasty and comparatively quicker recipe.

Bhadang as said in Marathi, is a light, low calorie, less oily snack made from Puffed Rice. Other names for Puffed Rice are Mamra or Kurmure or Churmure . Instead of garlic you can use mustard seeds and asafetida/hing for tempering as well. Ingredients: Puffed Rice/Mamra/Kurmura - 7 cups Peanuts/Groundnuts - 1 cup Garlic - 5 big cloves Curry Leaves - a sprig (optional) Red Chili Powder - 2 tsp Turmeric/Haldi - 1/4 tsp Powdered Su gar - 1/2 tsp Oil - 3 tbsp How to make Marathi Bhadang: Wash curry leaves and pat them dry. Heat oil in a kadhai/wok. Fry the peanuts till color changes slightly. Save the fried peanuts for later. Add more oil if required. Now, in the same kadhai, add crushed garlic and dry curry leaves. Sauté until garlic turns golden brown.  Turn off the heat and add puffed rice. Then add fried peanuts, red chili powder, turmeric, salt and sugar. Do not add the powders, salt and sugar in hot oil, it will form l...

Vaingana Kaap, Dalitoy and Rice is my favorite comfort food. Shallow fried eggplants coated with semolina is a traditional Konkani recipe. Potatoes, sweet potatoes and taro root are also cooked in a similar way, especially in North Canara Konkani Cuisine. Today I served these fritters with Black Beans and Rice. Ingredients: Eggplant/Brinjal/Aubergine - 400 gms Semolina/Sooji/Rava - 1/2 cup Red Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp Tamarind Paste - 1/2 tsp Turmeric/Haldi - 1/4 tsp Salt Oil How to make Vaingana Kaap (Phodi): Cut the eggplant into slightly thick slices. Add the eggplant slices in the mixing bowl.  Sprinkle red chilli powder, turmeric and salt. Add tamarind paste and toss the slices well.  Keep it covered for about 20 minutes so that the eggplants turn watery. Mix them again before frying. In case you don't have 20 minutes, add few drops of water and form a thick paste. Coat the marinated eggplant slices (both sides) in semolina and s...

Buns or Banana Puri used to be one of the breakfast items for Sundays in my Mom's kitchen. This Konkani recipe, also known as Mangalore Buns is a fermented sweet fried banana bread, generally served with a Coconut Chutney and/or Potato Bhaji . In addition to Bananas, you can add buttermilk/taak or curds/dahi and/or butter to soften the dough. I prefer the low calorie vegan version with just bananas. Ingredients: Whole Wheat Flour - about 3 cups Bananas - 3 Cumin Seeds/Jeera - 1 tsp  Light Brown   Sugar or Jaggery - 2 tbsp Salt Oil How to cook Banana Buns: In a mixing bowl, mash the bananas. Add sugar, cumin seeds and little salt. Mix till sugar dissolves. Add more or less sugar to suit your taste. Now add Whole Wheat flour little at a time, as much the bananas can hold. At this point, you can also add 1/8 tsp baking soda if you like the buns more fluffy. Knead to a nice soft dough.  The dough will be sticky because of ba...

There are days when you feel too lazy to cook. Plus, you have no leftovers in the refrigerator and you don't want a takeout either.   Once I was telling my colleague and friend how I have no idea to cook for today's dinner. This was when I was working in Mumbai and we were returning home. My friend started throwing some ideas and one of them was Paneer Bhurji. Back then, I knew only about Egg Bhurji. That night, I tried my friend's recipe with a few tweaks. Since then, this recipe is a regular at my place, especially when I don't have time for something elaborate.