ಮೆಂತೆ ಬೇಳೆ ಕಡಬು / Menthe Bele Kadabu

Menthe Bele Kadabu is an easy to make, tasty, filling and healthy North Karnataka dish usually served for supper or dinner.

Ingredients:
a. Wheat flour
b. Tur dal
c. Fenugreek leaves
d. Coriander seeds
e. Jeera
f. Onion
g. Green chilly
h. Garlic
i. Dry coconut
j. Oil
k. Salt

Procedure:
1. Cook dal
2. Grind jeera, coriander seeds, garlic and dry coconut
3. Mix wheat floor and water to make soft dough
4. Flatten dough and cut into pieces (see picture 2)

5. Heat oil in thick vessel, add onion and chopped fenugreek leaves and stir lightly
6. Add jeera, coriander seeds, garlic and dry coconut mixture and stir lightly
7. Add cooked dal and salt
8. Add sufficient water

9. When the mixture begins to boil, add 2 tea spoonful of oil + pieces of flattened dough
10. Boil until the dough pieces become soft
11. Garnish with coriander leaves

Serve hot with ghee. Enjoy!!

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Corn Chat

Ingredients:

Boiled Corn (Salted) – 1 cup

Butter -2 tbsp

Grated Carrot – 1 medium size

Finely Chopped Garlic – 1 tbsp

Finely Chopped ginger – 1 tbsp

Finely Chopped Onion – 1

Salt to taste

Red Chilly Powder – as per requirements (or you can use Chat Masala also)

Lemon Juice – 1tsp.

Method:

Heat a frying pan, add butter, and then add garlic pieces fry till golden brown.

Add finely chopped ginger and onion, put salt and fry till golden brown.

Add grated carrot fry till it cooks. Now add boiled corns and chilly powder (Chat Masala) mix well & stir for 5mins. Add lemon juice and turn of the fire. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves. You can also add finely chopped onion, tomato and sev

Eat when hot.

Recipe by Mahathi.

Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients:

• Vegetables- beans, carrot, capsicum, cabbage, onion, cauli flower
  
• Cashew nuts 10 to 20
  
• Garlic & ginger paste
  
• Rice
  
• Lemon, Pepper
  
• Sugar & salt
  
• Garam masala
  

Preparation method:
Fry the chopped beans, carrot, capsicum, cabbage, onion, cauliflower.
Add suitable amount of sugar and salt.
Fry cashew nut in oil.
Add garlic and ginger paste,garam masala, little bit lemon, pepper.
Add the fried vegetable mix and fry again for some time.
Add rice according to the quantity of spice.

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Spicy Egg Curry

Egg curry is a curry which works every time, its easy and simple to preapare. Try today at home, you can preapare curry without egg. If you are a pure vegeterian, you can substitute eggs with boiled potatoes.

Ingredients for Egg Curry..

• 4 hard boiled eggs, peeled and halved lengthwise
  
• 3 small onions, chopped finely
  
• 2 tomatoes, chopped finely
  
• 1 tbsp cream
  
• 1 cup water (as much as required)
  
• 3 garlic flakes, chopped finely
  
• 1/4 tsp ginger paste
  
• 1/4 tsp cummin seeds
  
• 1/2 tsp coriander seeds powder (Haviz powder)
  
• 1/4 tsp garam masala
  
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  
• 1 tsp red chilly powder
  
• 2 cloves
  
• 2 cardamoms
  
• 2 bay leaves (tez patta)
  
• 1/2 cinnamon
  
• 3 tbsp oil
  
• Salt as per taste
  
• For garnish Chopped coriander leaves
  

Preaparing the curry-

1. Heat oil in a pan and put cummin seeds and let it splutter

2. Add bay leaves, cloves, cardamoms and cinnamon

3. Fry onion till golden brown, add ginger paste and garlic and Simmer for a minute

4. Add chopped tomatoes and simmer for 2 minutes, Add red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder

5. Add tomato puree and let it cook for 5 minutes

6. Add water and salt and let it cook till gravy gets its consistency

7. Add cream and stir for a minute.

8. Add halved eggs and let it cook for 5 minutes

9. Garnish with coriander leaves and server with rice , roti

Pumpkin Bhaaji

This one’s a simple recipe, quick and easy to make and completely fat-free. To begin with, peel and chop pumpkin into a little lesser then one inch size pieces. If you can get some pumpkin leaves as well, that would be great [not frequently available, check out your neighbors garden too :) ]. You need to draw out some fibrous strings from the pumpkin leaves and then wash the leaves well. Chop the stems to about one inch size pieces. Chop the leaves to about 1 cm size pieces. Slit about 3 green chillies. Grate a handful of coconut. So that's all with chopping... let's get on to real cooking now.

Take a vessel and mix together, the pumpkin pieces, chopped stems and leaves, green chillies, coconut, salt as per taste, 1/4 tsp of sugar and 1/4 cup or less of water. Cover the vessel and leave it on a low flame for 10 mins. Stir well and leave covered for another 10 mins. Once the pumpkin is cooked, it's ready.

This goes best with rice as an accompaniment.