ALOO CAPSICUM

Ingredients:

Potatoes ..... 4 small

Capsicums .. 2 small

Tomato ....... 1 sliced

Asafoetida .... a pinch

Cinnamon ... 1 inch piece

Turmeric powder ... 1/4 tsp.

Cumin seeds .......... 1 tsp.

Cumin powder ...... 1 tsp.

Salt ............... to taste

Oil.

Method:

1. Slice the potatoes, rub a little salt and deep fry till done.

2. Slice the capsicums.

3. In a pan heat a little oil and add cumin seeds, cinnamon and asafoetida.

4. Put the sliced capsicums, a little salt and stir fry for a minute. Add the tomato slices and simmer for a minute again.

5. Now put the fried potatoes, turmeric and cumin powders. Mix well.

Serve with puris or rotis.

PALAK DAL

Ingredients:

Toor dal or Chana dal ...... 1 cup

Palak (spinach) ............... 1 cup

Onion ................... 1 small (sliced)

Green chillies ...... 1-2

Tomato ........... 1 (chopped)

Tamarind juice .... 2-3 tbsps.

Jaggery ........... a small piece (optional)

Turmeric powder ...... 1/4 tsp.

Salt ...... to taste.

For tempering:

Garlic ............ 6-7 cloves (crushed)

Curry leaves .... 1 sprig

Dry red chillies ... 2 broken

Asafoetida ...... a pinch

Cumin seeds .... 1 tsp.

Mustard seeds ... 1 tsp.

Red chilli powder. 1/4 tsp.

Method:

1. Heat a little oil in a pressure cooker. Add the sliced onion and stir fry. Now add the Palak and saute for a minute. Now add the washed and soaked dal, tomato, green chillies, salt, turmeric powder and 1 cup water. Pressure cook it for 3-4 whistles. Alternately you may cook it even in a pan on low fire until done.

2. Mash the palak dal coarsely. Add the tamarind juice and jaggery piece.(if you like it)

3. Heat oil for tempering. First add a pinch of hing and then the seeds.When they crackle add the dry red chillies and curry leaves. Finally add the crushed garlic and let it become pink in colour. Switch off the gas and add the red chilli powder and immediately mix this into the prepared dal.

(Any other greens could be used instead of palak)

STIR FRIED GOBHI

Ingredients:

Cauliflower .... 1

Garlic ............. 1 pod (crushed)

Ginger .......... 1 tsp. (grated)

Green chillies ... 2-3

Coriander leaves ... 1/2 cup

Methi leaves .......... 1/4 cup

Turmeric powder ... 1/4 tsp.

Cumin powder ...... 1/2 tsp.

Coriander powder ... 1/2 tsp.

Salt .... to taste

Oil

Method:

1. Cut the cauliflower into small pieces. Boil water in a pan, add a little salt and put cauliflower pieces into it. After one boil switch off the gas and leave the cauliflower in hot water for 10-15 minutes.

2. In a pan heat a little oil and add the ginger, garlic paste and saute. Add the coriander leaves and methi leaves and stir fry.

3. Now add the cauliflower and all the dry masalas. Check the salt and add a little if needed. Keep stirring it till the masalas and gobhi are blended well.

This sabji goes well as a side dish with dal chawal.

PANEER BHURJI

Ingredients:
Paneer ..... 1 cup
Green peas ... 1/4 cup
Onion .......... 1 small (finely chopped)
Garlic paste ... 1 tsp.
Ginger paste ... 1 tsp.
Tomato puree .. 2 tbsps.
Turmeric powder .. 1/8 tsp.
Coriander powder .. 1 tsp.
Cumin powder ....... 1 tsp.
Red chilli powder ... 1/2 tsp.
Salt ......................... to taste
Kasoori methi ....... 1 tsp.
Oil.

Method:
1. Heat a little oil in a pan and stir fry the onions.
2. Add ginger-garlic paste and saute for half a minute and add the green peas and tomato puree. Sprinkle a little water and simmer for 3-4 minutes until the green peas is done.
3. Crumble the paneer and mix it with the green peas. Add the salt and all the masalas. Simmer for a minute.
4. Sprinkle the dry roasted and crushed kasoori methi.
Serve with rotis or nans.

The Final Countdown.

First of all, sorry for being a bad blogger the last few days, and sorry for the days that are coming; my mom is here and I want to spend sometime with her; but don't worry, next thursday you'll recover the normal activity of my blog :)

Some changes are coming in my life; I need a work so much and I'm searching for it... so cross your fingers for me, please!

In other ways, and with this epic title I write here today to announce the theme of my final work of the postgrade. Finally, we're changing it, and I'll not do the work about Barcelona. Istead of it, I'll treat something that it's quite interesting:

How fashion bloggers influence the current fashion world?

As you all may now by now, Forever 21 has made a collection of t-shirt inspired in some bloggers. Modcloth creates a dress inspired in their devotes bloggers. Tavi changes the rules of being a fashion blogger too... so I think this phenomenon is quite interesting.

And of course, I WANT YOUR OPINIONS about this. So if you have any idea, suggestion or whatever you want to say, please; e-mail me or write it here. I'm quite busy this days and I've got some correspondence pending of an answer, sorry! But I promise I'll write you all back as soon as I can.

Do you think this is an interesting report? I think so!