Avni's Indian Kitchen

When you are lazy some days and bored of cooking, you can have this chutney powder with rice and ghee.. Prepare before hand and keep and you can store it for a month in a air tight container and enjoy whenever required!! Ingredients Grated coconut - 1 full coconut Horsegram or Chana Dal - 1 small cup Red chillies - 10 Tamarind - small piece Curry leaves - 1 bunch Salt to taste Method 1. Roast all ingredients seperately one after other except salt and keep it for cooling. 2. Mix the salt and grind to smooth powder.

When you feel bored of eating the same dal roti and sabzi daily, add life to your meal by making this chutney.. This is the easiest chutney you will find.. It will take about 10 minutes of your time!! Ingredients Grated coconut - 1 cup Raw Mango - 1/2 size Green chilli - 2 no Garlic pod - 6 no Salt to taste Water Method 1.Blend in all the ingredients together and your chutney will be ready to serve!!

When you have festivals around, sweets are a must in every household. Why try the same old sweet every time? Try something new this season. Make this yummy Badam katli at home that tastes exact like the store brought one. So lets see the recipe now!! Ingredients Badam/Almonds - 1 bowl Milk - 2 tbsp Sugar- 1 cup Elaichi powder- 1/2tsp Kesar- 2 strands Ghee-2 tsp Water- 2 cup Recipe 1. Take a saucepan and add 1 cup of water, let it boil, then add 1 bowl of badam, boil for 5 min, switch off flame and soak it for around 1 hour. 2. After 1 hour peel the almonds. 3. Take a blendee add the peeled almonds, milk and blend into smooth paste. 4. Keep it aside. 5. Now take a pan and sugar and water (2:1 ratio) and keep stirring. 6. Till it becomes thick and you get 1 string consistency. 7. Now add kesar and elaichi powder and mix well. 8. Add almond paste, ghee and keep stirring till it becomes thick. 9. When it becomes like chapati ball, switch off the flame and keep ...

Try this restaurant style Mushroom pepper fry!! I am sure you will like it.. Ingredients Mushroom- 1 packet Capsicum- 1 thinly chopped Onion- 1 thinly chopped Garlic - 5 to 6 finely chopped Green chilli - 1 slit Curry leaves - 7 to 8 Pepper powder -1 tsp Oil - 2 tsp Salt to taste Method 1. Take a pan and add oil and heat it up. 2. Add garlic, green chilli and curry leaves and saute for a min. 3. Add onion and saute for a min. 4. Next add capsicum and saute for 2 min. 5. Add mushroom and cook them for 3 min. 6. Now add salt and pepper powdee, mix well and cook till water evaporates. Your mushroom pepper fry is ready to serve.

We all love eating in temples right? Especially we Mangaloreans just love that temple food, that mouth watering rasam, Amchi Kuldev Dalitoy, Chane Ghashi, and some Godshe like Khichdi. But sometimes there are other variety of curries which are super tassssty and I call it tasssty because It gives extra taste without using Onion and garlic. One such recipe is our favourite Batato Batani Vagu. There are variety of recipes for this too.. some make it only with potatoes, some potato and peas, some add cauliflower to it but my ultimate favourite is combination of batani and batato ( peas and potato). So now lets check out the recipe. Ingredients Potato- 3 medium sized Peas- 1 small cup Tomato- 1 small Grated coconut- 1 tbsp Coriander seeds - 1tsp Red chilli - around 5 Tamarind - small piece Coconut oil- 3tsp Mustard seeds -1 tsp Curry leaves - 10 Hing - 1/2tsp Salt to taste Water as required Method 1. Take a pan and dry roast red chilli and coriander seeds. 2. ...

Our own Pumpkin or Dudhi is widely available in India.. And People from all states prepare different variety of Dudhi.. Some prepare sabzi, some curry and some sweet like halwa. This recipe is authentic Mangalore style. I hope you all will like it!! Ingredients Pumpkin - 15 pieces Rice flour- 3 to 4 tbsp Red chilli pow - 2 tsp Hing pow - pinch Salt to taste Rava or Semolina - 4tbsp Oil for frying Water for making paste Method 1. De Skin pumpkin, make into slices and keep. 2. In a bowl add rice flour, red chilli powder, salt, hing, water and make a paste of it. 3. Dip pumpkin pieces into the paste and apply rava to it and keep. 4. Take a pan and grease oil to it. 5. Tava fry the pumpkin pieces to crispy one and serve. To see the video see the link!!

Maggi is almost everyone's favourite, especially when you are hungry and want something instantly. To enhance the taste we add vegetable and it becomes healthy too. So give it a try and enjoy!! Ingredients Maggi Noodles - 1 packet Oil- 2 tsp Onion - 1 chopped Tomato -1 chopped Carrot- 1 chopped Beans - 5 chopped Mushroom - half cup Chilli pow- 1 tsp Turmeric pow Coriander leaves for garnishing Water as required Method 1. Take a pan and add oil, once oil heats up add onion and saute till golden brown. 2. Next add tomato ans saute till it becomes mushy. 3. Add remaining vegies, saute well for 10 min. 4. Add red chiili and turmeric pow, maggi masala, mix well. 5. Add water and cook vegies for 5 min. 6. Add noodles, some more water and cook for 5 more min. Garnish with coriander leaves. To watch video click the link

Bharleli Vangi is authentic Maharashtrian dish full flavours of Peanut as main ingredient. You see various recipe for Bharleli Vangi but this recipe is a recipe I followed from a Maharashtrian Friend. Do check it out!! Ingredients Brinjal - 6 slit Peanut Powder - Half cup Onion - 1 roughly chopped, 1 finely chopped Garlic - 6 flakes Tomato - 1 finely chopped Grated coconut -  Half cup Ghoda Masala - 2 tsp Red chilli pow - 2 tsp Turmeric pow- pinch Salt to taste Coriander leaves for garnishing Oil- 3tsp Method 1. Take a pan and dry fry roughly chopped onion, coconut and garlic flakes. 2. Take in a pan, cool it and blend to a smooth paste. 3. Slit the brinjals and keep aside. 4. Take a plate, add peanut powder, ground masala, ghoda masala, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt. 5. Mix well and stuff the brinjal. 6. Take a pan, add oil and once it becomes hot add onion and fry till golden brown. 7. Add tomato and saute till mushy. 8. Place b...

To see the recipe detaily, check the video link given below! This recipe is authentic Andhra style pappu which my mom's friend used to make. We liked it a lot and asked the recipe from her and from them on I make it regularly and it is both mine and husband's ultimate favourite!! Try it atleast once and I bet you cant stop making it again and again!! Ingredients Raw Mango- 1 cup Boiled Dal - 1 bowl Green chilli - 1 slit Red chilli - 2 slit Garlic flakes - 8 to 10 crushed Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Cumin - 1 tsp Curry leaves - 10 Salt to taste Water as required Ghee- 2 tbsp Recipe 1. Boil dal and green chilli with salt and water and keep aside. 2. In a wok, add ghee and let it melt. 3. Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, rdd chilli broken, garlic flakes and curry leaves and fry for a min. 4. Now add raw mango pieces, saute for a min. 5. Add water , cover lid and cook the raw mango for 6 min. 6. Now add boiled dal, salt as required mix well and cook for about 1...

To see the procedure detaily, check the video!!   This Sambar powder Recipe ia authentic Mangalore style..Please do try this one and see the magic in your sambar. Ingredients Chana dal - 2 tsp Urad Dal - 2 tsp Cumin seeds/ Jeera - 1tsp Coriander seeds - 1tsp Methi Seeds - 1/4th tsp Dry Red chilli- 5 Hing powder - Pinch Grated coconut - 1/2 cup Turmeric powder- A pinch Method 1. Dry roast all the ingredient for 10 min and let it cool. 2. Blend it into smooth powder and use in sambar.

Ingredients Ridgegourd - 1 chopped Ghee- 1 tsp Mustard seeds- 1 tsp Red chilli - 2 broken Salt to taste Method 1. Take a pan and add ghee 2. Once ghee becomes hot add mustard seeds and red chilli 3. As mustard crackles add Ridgegourd and salt, mix well and close lid and cook for 10 min. 4. Ridgegourd will reduce its size and will become the way it is in pic. Note: Do not add water, Ridgegourd will leave water and ghee will enhance its taste. To watch recipe in youtube please click the link below

Ingredients Potato -1 cubed Carrot -1 cubed Beans - 5 chopped Brinjal -1 cubed Drumstick -1 cut into pieces Onion -1 cubed Tomato -1 cubed Green chilli -1 slit into 4 pieces Coriander leaves for garnishing Boiled Dal- 1 cup Mustard seeds - 1tsp Red chilli -2 no Curry leaves - 5 to 10 Haldi powder - A pinch Hing powder - A pinch Home made sambar powder - 3 tbsp Tamarind water- 2 tbsp Oil- 3 tsp Salt to taste Water as required Recipe 1. Take a wok and add oil 2. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter. 3. Add curry leaves, red chilli and green chilli and saute for a min. 4. Next add some hing powder and mix well. 5. Its the time to add all vegetable and saute for 5 min. 6. At this point add add turmeric powder and homemade sambar powder. 7. Mix well, add water and cover lid and let vegies cook for 5 min. 8. After 5 min add salt to taste and again let them cook for 10 min. 9. Now add boiled dal and tamarind juice, give it a mix and cook for 5 min. 10. Last...