GOBI MANJURIAN

Ingredients:

• 1 medium Gobi (Cauliflower)
• 3/4 cup Flour (Maida)
• 1 tbsp Corn Flour
• 1 drop red food colour
• Salt to taste
• 1 Chopped Capsicum 
• 11/2 tbsp Garlic Paste
• 11/2 tbsp Ginger Paste
• 1 cup finely Chopped Onions
• Finely Chopped Coriander Leaves
• 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
• 2-3 tbsp Tomato Ketchup 
• 1-2 tsp chilli sauce
• 2 tbsp Oil

Preparation

• Make a paste of maida, corn flour and salt using water.
• Take a tsp. of ginger and garlic paste, one drop red food colour and 1/2 tsp soy suce add to the paste.
• Dip the gobi florets in the paste and deep fry till golden brown. Keep aside.
• Heat oil in another pan and add the left ginger & garlic paste, chopped onions and Capsicum  to it.
• Now add soya sauce and tomato sauce to it.
• Add fried Gobi kept aside and mix well. Garnish it with coriander leaves. 

Serve the gobi manchurian hot!!!!!!!!!

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KUMBALANGA (WINTER MELON) MORU CURRY

Ingredients:

• Wintermelon – 250gms
• Green chilly – 3
• Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
• Curd (thick) – 1 cup
• Cumin seeds(jeera) – 1/4 tsp
• Red chilly powder – 1/4 tsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
• Black Pepper Powder-1/4 tsp
• Mustard seeds- 1/4 tsp
• Dry red chilly – 2
• Fenugreek seeds (uluva) – 1/4 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Preparation :

• Chop  wintermelon into medium pieces and cook with little turmeric powder,red chilly powder,Black Pepper powder salt and water.
• Grind grated coconut with jeera, green chilly to a fine paste.
• Add beaten curd to cooked  wintermelon and stir well to avoid curdling.
• Once it becomes thick in consistency add coconut paste to it and boil for 2-3 mins.Remove from fire.
• Heat oil in a  pan .splutter mustard seeds,dry chilly and fenugreek seeds and add it to the curry.
• Garnish with curry leaves.

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MUSHROOM TIKKA MASALA

Ingredients:

250 gm Button Mushroom
100 gm curd
2 onion
2 tsp tomato paste
2 tsp ginger & garlic paste
2 tsp green chilly paste
50 gm cashew nut paste
1 tsp Meat Masala
1 tsp Garam masala
1 tsp Chilli Powder
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
salt to taste



Cut slices of Onion and keep them aside.
Cut Mushroom in Small Pieces
Mix Meat masala along with half of the ginger garlic paste with Curd.
Now add Mushroom Pieces and mix well and marinate for 15 Minutes.
Heat 1 tsp oil and Roast the above mix and keep aside
Heat oil in a pan and put ginger garlic paste and green chilly in it.
Cook for few minutes. Thereafter, add finely chopped onion and fry.
Add tomato paste and cook until oil floats on the surface.
Then add cashew nut paste and cook for 3 minutes.
Then add all the spices and cook for 2 minutes.
Lastly add Cooked Mushroom and water ( if you want more gravy) cook for 5 minutes.
Garnish with coriander (if you want ) and serve hot.

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VEGETABLE KURUMA

Ingredients:


Vegetables : Cauliflower and Carrots

1 tsp Mustard 
1/2 Cup Chopped Onion
3/4 tsp Chopped Green Chilli 
1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste  
4 to 5 Curry Leaves 

1/4 Cup Coconut Milk
1 tsp Chilli Powder
1 tsp Coriander powder
1/2 tsp Garam Masala 
1/2 Cup Grated Coconut
 4 to 5Cashew Nuts 

In a thick bottom vessel, heat oil and splutter mustard seeds. Add Onion,Green Chillies, Curry Leaves, & ginger garlic paste one by one and fry. Add the powdered ingredients and fry for few mins.Add the prepared vegetables , when the vegetables are half cooked add coconut milk and salt. After the vegetables are cooked add the Coconut & Cashew Paste and cook few minutes. Garnish with Coriander Leaves.

Note: Along with Cauliflower and Carrots you can use other vegetables as per your taste......It is an Ideal side dish for Appam and Chappathy

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ABOUT SHAD RASA

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Shadrasa - the Six Tastes

Rasa is the perception of taste by the tongue. We can perceive the taste of a something when it meets our tongue.

Every substance has a different physical and chemical composition; hence, there are so many different tastes present in the universe.

Ayurveda explains that different tastes are created by different combinations of the pancha mahabhutas (elements). Jala (water) and prithvi (earth) play a major role in the formation of rasa, and the other three mahabhutas (fire, air and space) help.

Charaka, one of the founding practitioners of ayurveda, also known as the father of anatomy said that there are six rasas:

Madhura - Sweet:

Helps to build body tissue, and is beneficial for the senses and the hair, and for those who suffer from low body weight or excessive weight loss. Madhura rasa helps to keep good tone and pitch in the voice, and extends our lifespan. If taken in excess, the person suffers from meda (fat) and kapha dosha diseases.

Amla - Sour:

Helps in digestion and increases the appetite. Amla increases taste and causes light secretions. If taken in excess, kapha and pitta dosha and rakta dhatu diseases occur, and one can suffer from vertigo, loss of sensory functions and tissue loss.

Lavana - Salt:

Relieves rigidity allows for ease of movement and intensifies taste perception and digestion. Lavana increases mucous secretions and sweat. It helps in absorption. If taken in excess, ones lifespan is reduced, hair is grayish and thinning, and a loss of strength and skin diseases occur.

Katu - Pungent:

Relieves throat and skin diseases, and helps in digestion; it is useful as an anti-inflammatory substance, helps wounds and ulcers to heal, aids in the absorption of food and reduces fat and mucous secretions. Katu increases taste perception and helps to reduce kapha. If taken in excess, bala (strength) and sukra (sperm) are reduced and one suffers from tremors, pains and cramps in the legs.

Tikta - Bitter:

Although it can taste bad, tikta can overcome bad tastes and increase taste perception. Tikta kills worms, relieves toxins, helps in drying or absorption of body fluids and reduces kapha, meda, majja, purisha and mutra. If taken in excess, vata diseases and loss of weight occurs.

Kasaya - Astringent:

Decreases pitta and kapha, purifies the blood and heals ulcers. Kasaya reduces meda, absorbs secretions, and is very useful for the skin. If taken in excess, the person suffers from abdominal dysfunction, heart pain, obstruction of secretions, severe thirst, impotency and narrowing of body channels.

Combination of Rasas:

In the universe, the pancha mahabhutas occur in their basic elemental form. Every substance comprises a combination of panchas bhutas (five elements); therefore, each substance contains all six rasas. However, one rasa will usually dominate the substance, and create the predominant taste. In total, there are sixty-three combinations of rasas that occur in the universe.

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