Yes, It's A Feast

Yes, It's A Feast

A mini one, at that! But it's the 9th Day of Navratri. A confession - I'm tired with the non-stop cooking.. and tomorrow I have a trial demo cooking session at the clinic. This is a preparation for our cookery show on October15.

Anyway, coming back to our feast. I wanted to try out some of the vrat recipes I had been reading on various food sites. So I made Singhara Atte Ka Poori and Aloo Sabzi. Then made my favourite Sooji Ka Halwa. 

I had a bit of pumpkin. So I microwaved it for 10 minutes, added jaggery powder to the pulp and made dough with singhara atta and wheat flour. The idea was to make sweet pooris. It turned out yummy, a variation of the Mangalore Buns, which is made with ripe bananas. That's the big poori you see in the picture. 
Singhara atta cooks really quick and gets a nice dark brown colour. It gives a nice dark brown, burnt look. But be careful, if you fry it any longer, it will turn black.

The last item was Appe. 
Now hold your breath. I pureed sweet corn in the mixer, added sugar and jaggery and made a mixture with rawa and wheat flour. I had warned you about my fascination for buying sweet corn kernels.

So enough of this cooking details. Let's get on with our recipes. Except for these two vrat recipes, the rest have been prepared using approximation like an experienced chef.

Vratwale Aloo

Ingredients

Boiled Potato – 4

Ghee – 1 tbsp

Oil – 1 tbsp

Jeera – 1 tsp

Roasted Dhaniya powder  – 1 tbsp

Roasted Jeera Powder – 1 tsp

Red Chili Powder – 1 tsp

Amchur – 2 tsp

Salt

Method

Boil, peel and chop potatoes. 

Heat oil and ghee

Add Jeera and let it splutter

Add dhaniya powder and mix

Add chopped potatoes and sauté for 2 minutes

Add chili powder, Jeera powder, Amchur, salt and mix everything well

Serve hot with singhara puri 

Singhara Puri

Ingredients

 Singhara Atta – 1 cup

Boiled potato – 1

Green Chili Paste  – 1 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Salt

Method

Boil, peel and mash potatoes.

 In a bowl add singhara flour, mashed potatoes, green chili paste, salt,  oil

Add water to make dough

Roll out carefully to make small poories