Corn Thalipeeth

Thalipeeth is a multi grain mildly spiced pancake usually served for breakfast or snacks. Adding corn to this just enhances its flavour as well as nutrition.

Ingriedients:
1 Corn
Haldi powder - 1 tablespoon
Chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
Wheat flour
Salt
Green chillies - 2
Water
Ajwain
Oil
Corainder leaves
Boiled tur dal - 2 tablespoon

Procedure:
1. Boil and grate the corn and keep aside.
2. Mix the wheat flour, grated corn, haldi powder, boiled tur dal, chilli powder, chopped green chillies, chopped corainder leaves, ajwain and salt.
3. Add water and knead to form a dough.
4. Make small balls from the dough.
5. Take a pan and sprinkle and pat each ball with fingers to roll out the thalipeeth.
6. If patting it directly on the pan is difficult, a thick plastic cover can also be used.
7. Make a small hole at the centre of the thalipeeth and pour 2-3 drops of oil. Additionally sprinkle oil from the sides.
8. After it turns golden brown, turn it over to the other side.
9. Repeat the same with the remaining balls.

The delicious Corn Thalipeeth is ready to be served.

Serve it with Pudina Chutney and Curds.

Pav Bhaji

The roadside Mumbai Pav Bhaji is everyone's favourite. This delicious pav bhaji can be made healthier by preparing at home, customised just to suit our taste buds.

Ingriedients:
1 Capcicum - chopped
Cabbage - chopped
Cauliflower - 300 gms
3 potatoes - chopped
Green peas - 100 gms
2 onions - chopped
2 tomatoes - chopped
Pav bhaji masala (preferably Everest)- 2 tablespoon
Turmeric powder - half teaspoon
Chilli power - 1 tablespoon
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tablespoon
12 Pav buns
Butter
Corainder leaves - chopped
Lemon
Oil
Salt

Procedure:
1. Boil the veggies like chopped capcicum, cauli flower, potatoes and cabbage with 1 tomato with a little salt. Mash and keep aside.
2. Take a vok, add 2 tablespoon oil and fry the chopped onions and green pead with pinch of salt till they turn golden brown. Next add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 mins.
3. Add the Pav Bhaji masala, turmeric powder, chilli powder and fry for another 2 mins.
4. Next add 1 chopped tomato and fry for 2 mins.
5. Finally add the mashed veggies.
6. Add a blob of butter and let it cook for another 10 mins.
7. Garnish it with chopped corainder leaves.

The delicious Pav Bhaji is ready.

Serve it with hot buttered Pav, lemon and chopped onions.

Notes:
1. You can also add veggies like carrot, corn to make it more healthy.

Sweet Potato Fry

Fry or Fodi as it is called in Konkani is one of the simplest delicious recipes that I have come across till now. It is prepared in Goan houses almost everyday and served with rice. In this blog, I have added the recipe for sweet potato fry. In the similar way, we can also make potato fry, brinjal fry, bhindi fry, karela fry (bitter gaurd), etc. Its really easy to prepare and yet tastes awesome.

Ingridients:
Sweet potato - 2 medium
Turmeric powder - 1 tablespoon
Chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
Salt - as per taste
Oil for frying
Rava - 4 tablespoon

Procedure:
1. Wash the sweet potato and peel off its skin.
2. Cut it into two pieces and then cut each half vertically into thin slices.
3. Sprinke turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt and mix it well so that the masala is applied almost equally on both sides of all sweet potato slices.
4. Take a non stick pan and sprikle little oil and spread over the pan.
5. Next dip each of the sweet potato slices in rava. Rava should cover both the sides of the slices completely. Then place it over the pan.
6. Similarly finish the other slices and place them one by one on the pan.
7. Once all are done, Sprinkle oil from top. Keep it on a low flame and cover the pan.
8. After 5 mins, turn the slices other way round and then again cover the pan. Continue to keep it on a low flame.
9. After 5 mins, it should be done.

The delicious sweet potato fry is ready to be served.
It can be served with rice.
It can also be served as starters with tomato sauce or chutney.

The below picture shows potato fry (which is made in the similar way).
The potato is cut into thin circular slices as shown in the picture.