Orange Peel Pachadi

Orange Peel Pachadi

Orange Pachadi is a South Indian special recipe with sweet, tangy and slightly bitter in taste. This is prepared with orange peel. 

For this pachadi we need to remove the white covering from the orange peel as it gives a bitter taste. Wash and chop the orange peel.

Ingredients:

Orange peel chopped - 1 cup

Tamarind juice - 1 cup (thick juice)

Jaggery - 1/2 cup

Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Methi / Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp

Channa dal - 1 tsp

Asafatedia - 1/2 tsp

Red chillies - 2 nos

Oil - 1 tsp

Salt - according to your taste

Method:

# Pressure cook orange peel for 2 whistles.

# In a pan add oil...once heated add mustard, fenugreek, red chillies, channa dal. Let it spluter well.

# Add cooked orange peel, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt, tamarind juice. Mix and  let it boil well.

# Add jaggery and simmer the stove.

# It will thicken in 10-15 minutes. Add asafatedia and switch off the stove.

Orange Pachadi is ready to serve. You can store in refrigerator for more than one month.

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Brownies (whole wheat flour & eggless)

Brownies

These brownies are chewy, fudgy, chocolatee... An eggless version with whole wheat flour and brown sugar.

Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup

Powdered Brown sugar - 1 cup

Chopped chocolate - 1 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Curd - 1/4 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup 

Baking powder -1 tsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Cocoa powder -1/4 cup

Vanilla essence - few drops

Chopped walnuts - few

Method:

# Sieve whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder for 4-5 times. ( dry ingredients )

# Melt chocolate, butter (double boiler method) add powdered brown sugar and mix well. Let the mixture rest for few minutes...then add vanilla essence, curd milk and mix well. (wet ingredients)

# Mix wet and dry ingredients together in small batches. Batter will be very thick.

# Grease the baking tin with butter or oil and dust some flour.

# pour the mixture in baking tin add chopped walnuts and some chopped chocolate.

# Preheat your microwave convection oven @ 160'c.

# Bake at same temperature for 25- 30 min.

# Check with a knife it should be slightly sticky.

# Let it cool on wire rack... slice your brownies.

* Before slicing your brownies you can keep it in refrigerator for 1 hr then slice.

* Pressure cooker - Place some salt preheat for 15 minutes... place a ring mould then keep your baking tin. Close cooker without gasket & whistle.

Bake on a medium flame for 45-50 minutes.

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Ragi Roti (gluten-free)

Ragi Roti

Simple, healthy, super soft, gluten-free rotis which is easy to make for breakfast... can be served with raita, gravy, kootu or even with any chutney.

Ingredients:

Ragi flour - 1 cup

Water        - 1 cup

Oil              - few drops

Salt to taste.

Method:

# Boil water add 2 drops of oil, salt and ragi flour and stir well on low flame.

# In 3-4 minutes it will come together. Switch off the stove and cover it well. (allow it to cool)

# After 20 minutes apply some oil in your palm and start kneading. In few minutes it will become soft dough. Make marble size balls.

# Heat tawa... coat ragi balls with ragi flour and start rolling. You can roll a thin chapati. (as we do for our normal wheat flour chapati)

# Once tawa is hot add the chapati...in few seconds you can flip and cook the other side.

Once cooked add some oil and make ragi roti. 

You can also make like pulkas. It will puff up well. Apply some ghee to pulkas. These ragi rotis are super soft even you can pack for lunch box.

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