Orange Peel Gojju/ Curry with gravy

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Days are getting hotter. Summer is round the corner. We tend to have heaps of oranges to quench our thirst, but what do we do we do with the peel. Throw it?

Well! You need not; you can reuse the orange peel to prepare a delicious dish like this

Today’s recipe is about the same. I shall be presenting recipe of orange peel gojju / liquid sabzi in this blog.  This is extremely tasty, tangy recipe which is healthy as well.

So never ever waste the orange peel, re-use it to prepare something yummy.

So here I go..

Orange-Peel Gojju/ Liquid Sabzi

Ingredients

• Orange Peel – 1 cup
• Curry leaves – 10 leaves
• Tamarind – 1 lemon sized
• Rasam powder / Menasin pudi (saarin pudi) – 3-4 tsp.
• Mustard –2 tsp.
• Hing – ½ tsp.
• Haldi – ¼ tsp.
• Jaggery – ½ cup
• Chop orange peel this way.

Steps

• Chop orange peel this way

• Microwave the orange peel for four minutes.
• Soak the tamarind in water & then extract approximately 2-3 cups of tamarind juice.

• Take 3-4 tsp of oil in a kadai, add mustard & hing to it. After mustard sputters add curry leaves to it.

• To this add the chopped orange peel & haldi.

• After sauteing it for 1-2 mins. Add the tamarind juice, Mesin pudi/ Rasam powder, Jaggery to the kadai & allow it to boil till oil separates this way.

•  Serve it with chapathi/rice/any dish of your choice.

This is how yummy orange-peel gojju looks like.

 

Pav Bhaji

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🙂 🙂 🙂 A very happy new year to you and your family. May god shower you with all the happiness & good health throughout your life 🙂 🙂 🙂 Today I shall present to you recipe of pav bhaji.
Pav bhaji, listening about it itself makes our mouth water. Me being an old time mumbaikar I am an ardent pav bhaji fan. But I am pretty sure there are other folks who not from Mumbai but still love this street food. Hence, Pav Bhaji was one of the first recipes I ever learnt. I realized one thing about the same i.e. though it tastes so awesome but it is extremely easy to prepare.
Astonished!! Don’t be. Try this recipe and impress yourself and your family members in 2014 and provide your valuable feedback..
Now moving on to the recipe. This recipe serves 4- 5 people.
So here I go..
Pav Bhaji
Ingredients:
• Onions – 2-3
• Capsicum – 1
• Potatoes – 4
• Carrot – 1
• Cabbage – ¼ cup
• Peas – ½ cup
• Beans – 10 pieces.
• Tomatoes – 3 to 4
• Butter
• Ginger paste
• Red chilli powder
• Pav bhaji masala
• Salt & Sugar
Steps:
1. Keep kadai on stove, Add 1 tspn of butter, 3 tspn of oil, finely chopped onions, ½ tsp. of ginger paste & ½ tsp. of sugar. Fry till onions become soft.
2. Add ½ tsp. of red chilli powder, 1 ½ tsp. of pav bhaji masala, and fry on low flame for 1 minute.
3. Add tomato puree (which is made of 3 tomatoes). Continue frying till oil leaves the sides.
4. Chop all the vegetables (except peas ;)). Boil them & mash it slightly. Add it to the kadai.
5. Add salt, little butter, little water & pav bhaji masala.
6. Cook it on low flame for five minutes.
7. Add chopped coriander leaves before serving.
8. Serve it with roasted pav.
Note:
• Vegetables used in the recipe can be varied. One can use cauliflower and hence potatoes, onions, capcicum & tomatoes are the only mandatory vegetables required to prepare Pav bhaji. Rest all are optional.
• While serving one can add sev on pav & serve it with bhaji. I got this idea from my close friend’s mom

This is how yummy Bhaji looks like

& it can be served this way….