Kande ki Sabzi

Rajasthan is a beautiful place with a wonderful cuisine...Mostly rajasthan food is vegetarian..A typical Rajasthani dish where onions are cooked in a spicy yoghurt mixture.This is a easy subzi that calls for only one ingredient that is ONION...It is a great side dish for chappati and rice. Dont chop the onions so small,you want it in big pieces,so that the onions wont melt away in the curry.

Ingrediants:

Onions – 2 Cups sliced

Curd- 1/2 cup

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Asafoetida-1/2 tsp

Ginger Garlic and Green chilli paste-1 tblspn

Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp

Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp

Red Chili Powder – to taste

Garam masala powder-1 tsp

Salt – to taste

Oil-1 tblspn

Ghee -1 tblspn

Coriander leaves for Garnishing

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai,crackle cumin and asafetida for 30 sec.

Add in Ginger garlic and green chilli paste and fry for 1 min.

Mix curd with 1 cup of water and all the spice powders.....pour this mixture in the kadai.Let it come to a boil.

Add in the sliced onions and mix well.Let this cook for 10-15 min on a slow flame until all the curd mixture has evaporated and onion is tender.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rice or roti.

Onion Oothappam

Oothappam is a variation in dosa where all the ingredients is added into the dosa batter and then the dosa is made.Traditionally Oothappam is made with lightly sour dosa batter.But if you don’t have any of that,you could make it with regular batter or just take the dosa batter out of the fridge in the morning and make this Oothappam in night. This One i love a lot and is the master piece of my hubby.. He makes superb onion Oothappam ... So dedicating this to him....

Ingredients:

Onion-1 finely chopped

Carrot-1 shredded

Tomato-1 chopped

Green chilli-1 chopped

Ginger-1 inch piece minced

Coriander leaves-1 cup chopped

Mustard seeds(kaduku)-1 tsp

Cumin seeds(jeerakam)-1 tsp

Asafoetida or Hing(kaya podi)-1/4 tsp

Dry Red chilli-2

Salt to taste

Dosa Batter

Oil

Method:

In a kadai add oil and crackle some mustard seeds,cumin seeds,hing,red chilli and fry for 1 min.

Add onions and fry for 2 min.Throw in green chilli and ginger and mix well.Add in tomatoes,carrot and mix well.

Add in coriander leaves,salt and mix well.Put this in the dosa batter and mix well.

Now heat a tawa and pour a ladle full of dosa batter over the tawa and spread it lightly(Don’t spread it so much).

Drizzle oil on the dosa and cook on the slow flame till the bottom browns.Then turn the dosa and cook on the other side too.

Serve hot with coconut chutney,sambar or idli podi.