Dry Peanut Chutney

Peanuts are available in almost everyone's kitchen. This dry chutney is often eaten over plain boiled rice with ghee drizzled over it.  This is the chutney which is also used for the famous mumbai street food Vada Pav. As I love the flavour of garlic I have added lots of it you can adjust to your taste. 

What you need:

1 cup Roasted Peanuts
10 cloves of Garlic Peeled
1 Tsp Red Chilli Powder
Salt to taste

How to prepare:

Grind all the above ingredients into coarse powder .

Aloo Potala Rassa : without onion Garlic

Potala is the pointed gourd in English and Parwal in Hindi  and has a very special place Odia Thali. Sometimes as a simple stir fry and as well as in Dalma and in Curries. As a kid, I never used to fancy this vegetable and was a favourite of my sister. So my portion of potala was always sneakingly shifted to my sisiter's Plate. But now it has found a place in our dining table loved by every member of my family including me. This is one of my favourite authentic odia recipe.

What you need:

2 Medium Sized Potatoes Cubed
Potala / Parwal / Pointed Gourd -12
Coconut Milk - 1 Cup
Tomato-1
Cumin Seeds- 1Tsp
Coriander seeds- 1 Tsp
Red chilli - 2
Turmeric Powder-1/2 Tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 1 Tbsp
Cardamom -2 no
Cinamon- 1 inch

How to prepare:

Make a paste of coconut milk, tomato, cumin and coriander seeds, red chilli,cardamom and cinamon.

Heat oil in a pan fry potatoes and Potala with salt and turmeric. cook covered till the vegetables are cooked.Now add the masala paste and cook for 10 minutes.
Enjoy with steam rice or roti.

Beet and Moong Salad

What you need:

1 Beet boiled and chopped
1/2 Cup yellow moong dal soaked for 2-3 hrs
1/4 Tsp Cumin seeds
1 Dry Red chilli
Salt to taste
1 Tsp Lemon juice
1 Tsp Dessicated coconut
1 Tsp Olive oil

How to Prepare:
Heat oil add cumin seeds and red chilli to it.Fry till all the seeds crackle and red chillies are browned.
Now add the boiled beet and moong dal to it. Add salt and lemon juice to it and cok for 5 minutes.Add the dessicated coconut to it.
Your Healthy and easy salad is ready to enjoy.

Note: If you like spicy food , you can also add few chopped green chillies.