Brinjal Rice

Ingredients:Oil
Brinjals
Asofoetida4 to 5 cloves
2 spoon coriander
7 and 8 dry chilly
2 glass rice
½ tea spoon turmeric
Tamarind little quantity
Curry leaves
1 spoon mustered
Salt and sugar
1 spoon mathi
Preparation method:Initially, fry the asafetida, mathi, cloves, coriander, dry chilly, turmeric in little bit oil . If you want garlic you can add it also. Then grind it with some tarmorind. In the next step, pour some oil and put one spoon of mustered and curry leaves, then fry brinjal with that. After some time, pour prepared spicy with that and again fry it for some time. After that, add sugar and salt according to your taste. At the last, you can add 2 glass of rice with that.

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Jeera Rice

Ingredients:

• Onion 4 to 5
  
• Pepper ¼ table spoon
  
• Coriander ½ table spoon
  
• jeera ½ table spoon
  
• Ghee 4 tea spoon
  
• Oil 1 table spoon
  
• 2 glass rice
  
• Salt and sugar
  

Preparation method-
First of all, make powder of pepper, jeera (½ table spoon) and coriander and mix them. Pour oil into a dish and fry one spoon of jeera. Then fry chopped onion add the mixture of pepper-jeera-coriander. Fry some more time, then add little ghee, sugar and salt to your taste. Add this masala to cooked rice and mix well. Serve with raitha or tomato ketchup.

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Evening snack: Cucumber-Roast Papad

Cucumber-Roast Papad combination makes a good starter or a light evening snack.

Roast Lijjat Papad on open fire. Cut cucumbers into long pieces (thin round slices loose water fast) and sprinkle little pepper/salt.

Plain club soda goes well with this snack.

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Simple Spicy Sandwich

This is a result of an experiment when I realised I did not have tomatoes or cucumbers for my sandwish.

I used an ordinary bread from Kamat Bakery (opposite KC Park). I'm particular about this bread since it's not sweet, the taste is little on the salty side. Buttered the slices with Amul Butter and sprinkled chilly powder. There you are- it's done. Tastes good but this cannot not be a regular item on your table.... raw chilly powder is not good on the stomach.

I tried with pepper also. It tastes better than chilly powder.

You can try with chat masala or Haldiram's moong dal in it, might be interesting.

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Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice or 'Chitranna' is a common in Southern parts of Karnataka and many parts of South India. It's an item, what you can call a poor man's dish. The ingredients and steps are almost the same as in Avalakki... the only difference is soaked cooked rice replaces soaked Avalakki.

Prepare vaggarni as explained in Avalakki post and mix it to the rice. However, the rice needs to be cooked well in advance so that it's cool and the grains are separate.

You can add peanuts into the vaggarni or add thin mango or carrot shreds as a topping to give chitranna a different flavor.

Chitranna can be had for break-fast, lunch or dinner or even evening snack. It's light on the tummy. Try it out once.

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