Tomato Sev

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 4 Cup

Urad dal - 1/2 Cup

Chopped Tomato - 3 Cup

Sesame seeds - 1/4 Cup

Carom seeds - 2 Tsp

Salt - To taste

Red chili powder - to taste

Butter - 1/4 Cup

Oil - to deep fry

Method:

1) Dry roast urad dal on low medium flame till golden brown in color.

2) Let dal cool for 5 min and grind to fine powder and keep aside.

3) Chop tomato and fry in pan till they become soft.

4) Let tomatoes cool for 5 min and grind to smooth paste.

5) In a bowl take rice flour, urad dal flour and add melted butter in it.
  Tip : You can use besan(gram flour) instead of rice flour and urad dal flour.

6) Mix well and add sesame seeds, red chili powder, cumin powder and salt.

7) Add little water as required and knead a dough of stiff consistency. Do not make the dough soft.

8) Put the dough in sev maker. Make sev and deep fry in hot oil.

9) Server hot or store in air tight container.

Tomato Sev

Mirchi Thecha/Kharda

This is very famous traditional Maharashtrian chutney often made with Bhakri. It has many variants depending on the region. I am giving the recipe from villages of Marathwada which we follow in our home.

Ingredients:

Green Chili - 250 gm

Fresh Cilantro - 1 Cup

Garlic - 10 cloves

Grated Coconut - 1/4 Cup

Cumin seeds - 1 Tsp

Salt - 1 Tsp

Oil - 1 Tsp

Method:

1) Chop green chili in big pieces and keep aside.

2) Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan, add garlic and green chili and fry for 4-5 min. on low medium flame.

3) Add cumin seeds and coconut and mix well.

4) Let it cool for 5 min. Add salt and roughly grind it.

5) Serve with Bhakri or chapati.

Mirchi Thecha/Kharda

Kaju Apple

Preparation Time - 5 Min                            Cooking time - 12 min                Yield - 20 apple

Ingredients:

Cashew Nuts - 1 Cup

Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Water - 1/4 Cup

Cloves - 15

Orange food color - 1/4 Tsp

Method:

1) Grind cashew nuts to fine powder and keep aside. Sieve it if required.

2) In a saucepan take water and sugar and let it boil to make sugar syrup of one string consistency.

3) Add cashew nut powder and mix well. Fry it for 2-3 min to make a dough.
    Tip : You can add 1 tbsp of milk powder if required.

4) Let it cool for 4-5 min and make small balls.

5) Press the ball at top and bottom end with your fingers and shape it like apple and put a clove.

6) Mix food color in little bit of water. Take a paint brush and give color strips on cashew apple.

7) Decorate all apple and serve.

Kaju Apple

Dalyache Ladu/Fried Chana Dal Ladu

Preparation Time - 15 Min                                                                    Yield - 25 Small Ladu

Ingredients:

Fried Chana Dal - 2 Cup

Ground Sugar - 1 Cup 

Ghee - 1/4 Cup

Watermelon seeds - 2 Tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1/4 Tsp

Method:

1) Grind chana dal to fine powder. Sieve it and keep aside.

2) Heat ghee in pan and add fried chana dal powder in it. Fry for 2 min and switch off stove.

3) Let it cool for a minute and add sugar, cardamom powder, and watermelon seeds. You can also add cashew nuts or almonds instead of watermelon seeds.

4) Mix well and make small balls of this mixture and serve.

Fried Chana dal Ladu