Batate mosaru gojju[Potato raitha]

This is a tradition and a easy recipe.Its very easy to prepare fully loaded with flavours and very rich recipe.One of my husbands all time favorite recipe.




Ingredients:-
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Cooked potatoes - 2 large
Curds - 2 cups
Greenchilles - 2
Ginger - small piece
Coriander leaves- 1 tsp
Onion - 1/2 cup
Mustard -1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Cumin - 1/2 tsp
Hing - 1 pinch
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - 5-6
Ghee - 1 tsp
Dry red chillies - 1
Salt

Method:-
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1.Break the cooked potatoes into tiny chunks and keep aside.
2.Chop up the onions ,ginger and chilles very finely and keep aside.
3.Take the above in a vessel, add curds to it.Season with salt as per your taste.
4.Take ghee in a small pan add mustard, jeera, urad dal and red chilly and just when the mustard splutters add curry leaves hing and stir it then add the chilly powder to it when its still hot and pour this into the potato mixture.
Garnish with coriander leaves .
5.Refrigerate for atleast 1/2 hr ,or you can it immediately.
6.Good when served with rice and even with parata's.

Radish salad/mooli salli

Here is a simple and very quick recipe for sides or even can be used as main course.Raddish is a very comman vegetable which you get almost throughout the year and remain fresh for many days.Easy to store too...so here is a recipe which i'm gonna write up .I liked it a lots when i had it in a hotel for the first time and wondered how did they remove the dirty smell of raddish because of which i use to avoid buying it.Its the best vegetable suitable for winter mainly as it keeps the body warm and very helpful in cold and cough.Believe me friends it simply tastes so good that, i just ended up eating only this.You even can't makeout its radish and that too raw????....so lets get started.

Ingredients:
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White raddish- 1 large
Green chillies- 2 large fresh
Cilantro - 3 tsp
Coconut grates- 3 tsp
Lime juice - 3tsp
Veniger - 1 tsp
Salt -3/4 tsp


Method:
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1.Wash and peal the skin of the raddish and cut them into 4 pieces lenthwise, then slice them thinly and keep aside
2.Chop up all the chillies very finely and add it to the sliced raddish
3.Add vineger and lemon juice to the raddish bowl season with salt and allow it to absorb for about30 mins .Then add chopped cilantro and fresh coconut grates and nicely saute it.
4.This is ready to be served.Enjoy.

Capsicum Raitha

Raitha's are the most commenest dishes prepared in our places.They can be prepared out of any vegtables according to me.So here i have come up with a different kind of raitha.Its very crunchy and creamy at the same time.Looks great with the gorgeous colours of the fresh capsicum and tastes better because of the richness of peanuts and cococnut added to it.Well this is really a new creation Of mine and my family liked it a lot.

Ingredients:
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Red Capsicum - 3/4 cup
green capsicum- 3/4 cup
Coconut grates - 2 tsp
Green chillies - 2 large
Curds [thick] - 1 cup
Cashews - 2 large /whole
Cumin -1 tsp
Butter - 1 tsp
Pepper - 1/2 tsp

Method:
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1.Chop up the capsicum into small squares .
2.Melt about a spoon full of butter in a pan add add cumin and wait till it splutters.
3.Then add the dices capsicum and season it with salt and pepper and allow it to get crispy.allow it to become black at the edges then remove it and keep it seperate.
4.Add coconut,green chillies and peanut and make a paste of it aand keep it aside.Beat up the thick curds a little bit season with salt and pinch of cumin and pepper ,then keep aside.
5.Just before serving mix all together and serve fresh.This keeps the capsicum fresh and crunchy.
6.Enjoy with rice or any parata's.

Manglore style cucumber raitha

Here is a recipe from south India.This is a recipe which is prepared in all the functions in mangalore.Its a side dish which has the crunciness of cucumber and creamy yogurt and richness of coconut in it.

Ingredients:
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Cucumber - 1 small[2 cups]
Coconut - 2-3 tsp
Green chillies- 2 finely chopped
Thick yogurt- 1 cup
fresh cream - 2 tsp
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Cumin - 1 tsp
Dry chillies - 2


Method:
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1.Chop finely or grate the cucumber and keep aside.
2.Now make a paste out of coconut,curds,chillies,mustard.
3.Now mix the paste , cream,salt to the cucumber
4.Take 1 tsp ghee in a pan add cumin and chillies to it and wait till it splutters.
5.Then add the cumin to the cucumber and give a gentle stir.

Vegetable Raitha

This a good side dish for any type of rice dish.Its cool and regulates the spicy taste s of main dish.

Ingredients:
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Tomato - 1/2 cup
Cucumber - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1/2 cup
Curds/yogurt[plain ]-1 cup
Coriander leaves -2 tsp
Greenchillies -2 tap
Chilly powder -1/2 tsp
salt -1 tsp


Method:
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1.Take a bowl
2.Add all the chopped vegetables.
3.Mix 1 tsp salt,red chilly powder to the vegetables.
4.Add thick plain yogurt just before 5 mins to serve.
5.Enjoy it with pulav or other rice dishes.

Beetroot Raita

Here is a simple side dish which requires very less afforts.Its a complete dish with the combination of all tastes in it.It looks too good with the pretty pink colour of the beetroot and the creaminess of the fresh yogurt which is blended into it.

Ingredients:
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Beetroot - 1 grated
Onion - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Green chillies - 2 finely chopped
Yogurt/plain curds - 1.5 cups
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
salt - as per taste
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1 tsp
Oil -1/2 tsp
Dry chillies - 2
Curry leaves - 4-5

Method:
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1.Take grated beetroot & greenchillies in a bowl add a bit of salt ,chillypowder and cook in microwave for 3 mins.
2.Now mix the onions to the bowl
3.Take some oil in a pan and put all the other remaining ingredients and just when the mustards starts spluttering add it to the bowl with beetroot and mix everything uniformly.
4. Now add curds and mix properly.The dish is ready to be served.