Spicy Matar Pulao Recipe

Matar Pulao is a one pot meal. It is made in lots of variation. Its a comfort food. This dish is made with basmati rice, green peas and aromatic spices. You can use fresh or frozen green peas but I would recommend you to use fresh green peas.

Its a perfect dish for tiffin. You can serve it with raita or salad.

How To Make Matar Pulao?

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 2 Cup
Green Peas -1 Cup
Onion - 2 Large Size
Tomato - 2
Bay Leaf - 2
Cinnamon Stick - 1 Inch
Cloves - 8
Black Pepper - 1 Tsp
Black Cardamom - 2
Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 Tsp
Green Chili - 3
Red Chili Powder - 1 Tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Tsp
Salt - As Per Taste
Hot Water -3 and 1/2 Cup
Ghee Or Oil  - 2 Tbsp

Instruction

Heat a pan and add ghee or oil to it. Now add chopped onion and green chili. Cook till onion is soft and transparent.

Add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves, black pepper and black cardamom. Fry till you smell the aroma of spices.

Now add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder and red chili powder. Saute for 1 min.

Add tomatoes and mix well. Cook till tomatoes turns soft.

Now add washed basmati rice and green peas. Saute it for 1 min.

Add hot water and salt. Mix well and cover the pan with lid.. Cook till the water is absorbed completely and rice is cooked. Cook on a low flame. In case the water is absorbed and rice is still not cooked add some more water to it and cook till the water is absorbed completely.

Your Matar Pulao is ready to serve

Serve hot with raita or salad.

Spicy And Tangy Tomato Rice Recipe

Tomato Rice is a well-known South Indian dish. I got this recipe from my cousin who is a great cook. The key ingredients for this dish are tomatoes and rice. It is certainly a tasty dish. 

It is tasty and very healthy dish with a tangy taste of tomatoes. It can also be done with the leftover rice but I suggest to make it with fresh rice. It is a perfect dish for lunch box.

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 2 Cup
Tomatoes - 7 to 8
Onion - 2 Medium Size
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 Tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1 Tsp
Kitchen King Masala - 1 Tbsp
Black Peppercorn - 4 to 5
Clove (Lavang) - 4
Black Cardamom - 3
Bay Leaves (Tej Patta) - 2
Cinnamon (Dalchini) - 1

Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tsp
Hot Water - 1 Cup
Oil - 1 Tbsp
Coriander Leaves - 1/4 Cup
Salt As Per Taste 

Instruction

In a pressure cooker boil tomatoes till three whistle. Once boiled let it cool down and then peel the skin of tomatoes. Grind the tomatoes in a mixer to make a puree of it. Keep it aside. Chop onions in long and thin pieces. Wash the rice and keep aside.

Now heat pan and add oil to it. Once the oil is hot add black peppercorn, lavang, big elaichi, tej patta and dalchini. Cook it for 1 min and add onion. Cook till onions turns slightly brown.

Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, ginger garlic paste and kitchen king masala powder. Mix all this well. Cook till the raw smell of ginger and garlic goes.

Now add washed rice to it. Mix it well.

Add tomato puree and a glass of hot water to it and mix well. Now add salt to it and cover the lid. Cook till the rice is done.

Garnish with coriander leaves.

Your Tomato Rice is ready to serve.

Serve it hot with raita or salad.

Note:

If you don't have kitchen king masala you can even use sambar powder.

Spicy Powder Dosa Hyderabad Street Food Recipes

Spicy Powder Dosa is a famous street food of Hyderabad. I got this recipe from VahRehVah chef's site. You can check the complete video from VahRehVah site. It's very easy to make and a delicious dish.


It is made with normal dosa batter, upma batter and gun powder (Milaga Podi).

Ingredients

Dosa Batter - 2 Cup
Upma Batter  1 Cup (Ingredients Below)
Gun Powder - 1 Cup
Butter As Required

Ingredients For Upma Batter

Semolina - 1/2 Cup
Onion - 1
Mustard Seeds - 1/4 Tsp
Green Chili - 2
Curry Leaves - 5
Water - 4 Cup
Oil   1 Tbsp
Salt As Per Taste

Instructions

For Upma Batter. Heat a pan, add oil to it. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Now add chopped onion, curry leaves and green chili. Cook till onion turns soft or transparent.

Now add semolina (rava) and cook for 2 mins.

Now add water and salt and cook for 4 min. If it becomes dry add more water to it and cook for 1 more min.

The consistency of upma batter should not be very thin nor thick. Switch off the stove and keep it aside.

Now heat a non stick pan and pour 1 ladle of dosa batter on it. Spread it in a circular motion with the back of ladle to make a thin dosa. Cook for 30 sec.

Now put a teaspoon of butter, gun powder and 1 tablespoon of upma batter.

With the help of spatula spread it all over the dosa and cook for 1 more min or till the dosa becomes crispy.

Now fold the dosa and transfer it to a plate.

Continue the same with remaining batter.

Garnish with Onion and coriander.

Serve Spicy Powder Dosa with gun powder.

Spicy Pathrode South Indian Recipe

Pathrode is a traditional Mangalorean dish. It is made from colocasia leaves / taro leaves (alu ka patta), rice and coconut masala. It is mainly prepared during rainy season as colocasia leaves / taro leaves grow in large quantity during this season.

Colocasia leaves grow in the place where water is in great quantity such as close to well or pond. Its very important to cut the stem of this leaves as it may cause itching while eating.

Creamy Curd Rice, Comfort Food Recipe

Curd Rice is comfort food from South Indian region. It is near to the heart of every south Indian.
Their meal ends with curd rice.

You can have this as a main dish or side dish. You can serve it with pickle or chutney.

Soft and Crispy Kappa Rotti, South Indian Recipe

Kappa Rotti is a Mangalorean dish. It is made from rice and coconut. It's a kind of dosa that has crispy edges and soft and thicker in the centre. It is made in a deep earthen tawa.

Like Neer Dosa, Rava Dosa and Rava Idli this is also very common at our house. It is very tasty dish. You can have it with chutney, chicken curry or just apply little ghee (clarified butter) on the top of it and enjoy the dish.

Soft and Fluffy Rava Idli Recipe

South Indian food is recognized for its nutritious recipes and rava idli is among the easy recipe which mixes the amazing benefits of numerous dals and spices. It isn't just nutritious and irresistible but additionally quite simple to make as well.

It is certainly a well known South Indian dish which is easy to make at home. It doesn't need any prior prepration as soaking rice, grinding and fermenting such as the regular idli and could be made quickly.

Crispy Rava Dosa, South Indian Recipe

Rava Dosa is a well known South Indian crispy dish. It appears as though thin crepes. It is a tasty cookery pleasure. It is fast to prepare. It is usually served as a breakfast or snack.

It's an instant recipe and requires no earlier preparation. Because you don't have to soak the rice and dal, grind it and ferment the batter. It is quite delicious, crispy and quick but you require a minimal skill to make this dosa. It is really an excellent food to serve the unexpected guest!

Soft And Crispy Neer Dosa South Indian Recipe

Neer Dosa is a mangalorian dish made from rice. The word 'neer' means water in Tulu (Mangalorian Language). It is known as so because the batter is watery. You can have this with green chutney, tomato chutney, sambhar, non veg curry or with the mixer of jaggery and grated coconut.

Neer Dosa is different from common dosa, because it doesn't contain urad daal and there's no requirement to ferment the batter. This dosa is quite thin, light, delicate and mouth watering therefore you will need plenty of them to fill up your stomach.

Prawn Pulao / Rice

Yesterday was extremely exhausting day for me and I wasn't in a mood to cook. Regardless of how you're feeling right now about cooking this cannot hold us apart from cooking. Food cravings is usually a powerful necessity. So I decided to cook Prawn Pulao for dinner.