Green Peas and Pudina Vadai

 Ingredients:

  

    Green Peas - 1 cup

    Onion - 1 finely chopped

    Pudina leaves - 1 cup

    Ginger - 2 inches

    Green chillies - 3

    Gram flour - 1 tbsp

    Salt - to taste

    Oil - to fry

  Grind the green peas coarsely. Grind pudina leaves, green chillies and ginger. Mix the ground green peas and pudina,ginger, green chillies and chopped onion . Add gram flour just to bind the mixture. Add salt and sprinkle little water in case required and mix well. Take small balls and make it in vada shape and deep fry it in oil.

Pudina Pakoda

 Ingredients:

  

   Potato - one small grated

   Carrot - one grated

   Beans - 4 to 5 chopped finely

   Pudina leaves - 1 cup

   Gram flour - 1 cup

   Rice flour - 1/4 cup

   Bombay Rava - 1 tsp

   Green chillies - 3

   Ginger - 1 to 2 inches

   Salt - to taste

   Oil - to fry

Grind pudina,ginger and green chillies together. Mix it with gram flour, rice flour, rava, salt.Add the grated vegetables to the mixture. Use very less water to sprinkle on the mixture and mix it well. Make small balls and deep fry it. Pakodas are ready.

Green Idly

 Ingredients:

  

   Pudina leaves - 1 cup

   Coriander leaves - 1 cup

   Green chillies - 2

   Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp

   Idli batter - 1 cup

   Grated carrot - 1/2 cup

Grind all the ingredients to a paste except idli batter. Mix the paste well with the idli batter. Put one or two spoons of grated carrots into the idli plates .Pour the mixed batter into the idli plates on top of the grated carrots and cook it with steam. Serve hot with Vadai curry.

Pani Puri by Shrividhya

Ingredients:
          
           For Pani:
           Pudina leaves -  one bunch
           Coriander leaves - 1/4 bunch
           Tamarind - one small lemon size
           Ginger - 2 to 3 inches
           Garlic - 2 pods
           Green chillies - 4  
           Black Salt - 1 to 2 spoons  

     Soak tamarind and make it soft so that it is easy to grind. Grind all the above ingredients except black salt to make a fine paste. Then take a glass of cold water and add 1 to 2 spoons of the ground paste. Then add black salt to it according to your taste requirements and mix it well.
Now the pani is ready.       

        For the stuffing in the Puri:
        Potato - 1 big
        Green Moong dal - 1/4 cup
        Onion - 1 small chopped
        Salt
        Jeera powder - 1 tsp
        Dhaniya powder - 1tsp
        chilli powder - 1 tsp
        coriander leaves - little
        Chat masala or garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Boil the potato and peel the skin.  Pressure cook the green moong dhal . Smash the potato nicely and add the cooked green moong dal.Add the chopped onion. Then add all the masala powder and salt and mix it well.
Now the stuffing is ready.
Take the puris and break it in the middle. Put little stuffing in the puri and then fill it with the pani. Eat and enjoy.

Pudina Lassi

 Ingredients:

   Buttermilk(little thick) - 1 glass
   Pudina leaves - 10
   Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
   Green chilli - 1
   Chat masala - 1/2 tsp
   Salt - to taste
Put everything except buttermilk in the mixer and grind. Then finally add the buttermilk and grind it for few seconds just to mix everything with it.
 Yummy Pudina lassi is ready.