SuvaiArusuvai - Veg Recipes of India

 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.

  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.

Starter recipe posted by Shripriya Ramakrishan for party menu contest entry 1 Make the mixed vegetable curry with potato, carrot, beans, peas, capsicum etc., and make lemon sized balls. Instead of dipping it in the Besan gravy, we are going to wrap it in white bread. Remove the brown part in the bread, sprinkle little bit water on the white part, place the mixed vegetable ball on the bread, then wrap the mixed vegetable ball with the bread...if the bread is hard and you are not able to wrap, then wet your hands and try. It will work out. Then deep fry these rolls. The taste will be awesome. I made this for one of the potluck parties....and the guests were going ga-ga over this. :)

Ingredients: Lady's finger - 1/2 kg Besan flour - 1/4 cup Dhaniya powder (Coriander powder) - 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Oil for frying Method: Wash and dry the lady's finger thoroughly. Remove the ends and cut them into four lengthwise. Spread the cut pieces in a tray. Make a mixture of besan flour, red chilly powder, garam masala powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt. Mix well and ensure no lumps are formed. Sprinkle this mixture on to the cut lady's finger slices. Ensure all the pieces are evenly coated with the mixture. Heat oil in a pan, when hot add few pieces at a time. Fry them till they become golden brown. Remove and serve it with tea or coffee.

Baby corn and potato makes a great combination. Making tikkis out of it in a combination or making cutlets out of it along with a few other vegetables will be a best choice to make the kids eat a lot of vegetables. Ingredients: Potatoes - 4 nos Sweet corn - 1/2 cup Green Peas - 1/4 cup Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder - 1/4 tsp Chat masala powder - 1/2 tsp Amchur Powder - 1 tsp Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup Mint leaves - 1/4 cup Salt to taste Corn flour - 1/4 cup Bread Crumbs - 1 cup Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp Oil for frying Method: Boil and grate potatoes. Boil corn and green peas separately (if dry green peas is used, it should be soaked over night and then boiled). In a large mixing bowl, add the grated potato, salt, turmeric powder, amchur powder, red chilly powder, chat masala, garam masala, coriander leaves, mint leaves and mixed well. (Alternatively you can grind coriander leaves and mint leaves along with the other masala powders and salt and mix

Corn is one grain that is loved by almost all the ages. It can be made in a variety of forms to make the kids eat and reap the benefits in store. Ingredients: Corn Kernels - 2 cups Onion - big 2 nos Green Chilly - 1 no Red Chilly - 1 no Sambar Powder  - 1 tbsp Curry leaves - a few Coriander leaves - a few Salt to taste Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Lemon Juice - from 1 lemon. Oil - 2 tbsp Broken Urad dal - 2 tbsp Grated coconut - 1/4 cup (optional) Method: Pressure cook corn kernels for about 3 whistles using a little salt. Cut onions into small pieces. Heat pan and add oil to it, when hot add mustard seeds. When they splutter add broken urad dal, slit green chillies, red chillies and saute will. Add the corn kernels and mix thoroughly. Taste the salt and add the desired amount. Add the sambar powder and mix well. Remove from flame add, curry leaves, finely chopped coriander leaves, grated coconut and mix well. Add the lemon juice and mix well. Makes a great evening snac

Ingredients: Moong dal - 2 cups Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Saunf - 1 tsp Green chillies - 8 nos Onions - 2 nos Salt to taste Oil to fry Method: Wash and soak the Moong dal for about 2 hours. Drain and grind it along with 6  nos of green chillies and 1/2 tsp of saunf to a thick paste (it should not be watery so avoid adding water while grinding). Chop onions, remaining green chillies, coriander leaves and curry leaves finely. Mix them to the moong dal batter along with the remaining 1/2 tsp of saunf. Make vadas out of it and fry them till it becomes golden brown in colour. Serve with green chutney and or coconut chutney .

This is another method to make Masala Vada using ingredients used for Aama Vadai. Ingredients: Thuvar Dal - 2 cups Bengal Gram Dal - 1 cup Rice - 2 tbsp Fennel Seeds - 2 tbsp Asafodeita - 1/2 tsp Red Chillies - 6 nos Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Salt to taste Onion - 2 nos Oil for frying Method: Wash and soak the dals  and rice together for about 1/2 an hour. Grind them coarsely along with salt, asafodeita, curry leaves and red chillies. Chop onions finely. Crush the fennel seeds. Mix onions and fennel seeds to the ground dal. Make vadas out of the dough and fry it in hot oil. Fry untill golden brrown.

Ingredients: Potato - 4 nos Green Peas - 4 nos Cumin powder - 1 tbsp Amchur - 1 tbsp Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp Green chilly - 5 nos Salt to taste Bread slices - 4 nos (White sandwhich bread) Corn flour - 1 tbsp Bread crumbs - 1 cup Method: Boil, peel and mash potatoes and green peas. Chop green chillies finely. Chop the coriander leaves finely. Soak the bread slices in water for about 2 seconds after removing the sides. Squeeze out the water completely.  In a big bowl add the mashed potatoes and peas along with jeera powder, green chillies, coriander leaves, salt and amchur powder and mix well to a fine dough. Add the bread slices to the mixture and knead well so that the bread get mixed thoroughly. Roll the dough to cylinder shapes. In a shallow bowl, mix 1/2 cup of water and corn flour to make a thin paste. Dip the rolls in the corn flour paste ensure that it is evenly coated. Roll the cylinders in bread crumbs. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the rolls in the

Ingredients: Corn flakes - 2 cups Roasted Channa Dal - 1 cup Roasted puffed rice - 2 cups Roasted Poha - 1 cup Roasted peanuts - 1 cup Roasted channa - 1 cup Roasted green moong - 1 cup Curry Leaves - 1/2 cup Ghee - 1 tbsp Method: Heat 1/2 tbsp of ghee in a pan and fry the curry leaves in it till they turn crispy. Add all the ingredients one by one and saute them. Add the remaining 1/2 tbsp of ghee on top and mix well. Remove from flame and let them all cool. Store in an airtight container. This makes a great snack for exam going students and for dieters.

Ingredients: Maida or All purpose flour - 1 cup Ghee - 1 tbsp Salt little Oil - to fry Paneer - 200 gms Onion - 1 big Salt to taste Green Chillies - 1 no Coriander Leaves - 1/4 cup Method: Grate paneer. Grate green chilly. Chop Onion finely. Mix paneer, green chilly, salt, coriander leaves and onion. Make a dough of Maida. Let the dough set for about an hour. Make small balls out of Maida and roll them into small chappaties. Place 1 to 2 spoons of the paneer mixture inside the chappati and fold them in triangle shape. Make all the samosas and leave them in freezer for about half an hour. Heat oil and when hot reduce the flame to medium. Fry the samosas in hot oil. (You can add one or two at a time). Keep turning the samosas till it becomes golden brown in all the sides. Serve hot with mint chutney and Katta meeta chutney

Shankarapalli is a triangle shaped tea time snack which can be made very very easily in about 20 to 30 mins. Ingredients: Maida - 3 1/2 cups Milk - 1 1/2 cup Sugar - 2 cups Salt - 1/2 tsp Ghee - 3/4th cup Oil to fry Method: Seive the maida to avoid forming lumps. In a hard bottom pan add ghee, sugar and milk and boil it. When the mixture starts boiling remove from flame and let it cool. Mix the seived maida to the above mixture slowly and making a dough out of it. The dough have to be stiff enough to make be able to make chappatis out of it. Divide the dough into equal parts and make balls out of it. Heat oil in a kadai and when hot reduce the flame to medium. Make chappatis out of the balls (the chappatis should not be very thin). Cut the chappatis with a knife or shankarapalli cutter into square or diamond shape. Fry it in oil in the medium heat itself. Keep turning it till it becomes golden brown in colour. Note: If the sugar is very sweet, reduce the quantity by ha

Ingredients:   Cashew nuts whole - 1/4 kg (approximately about 50 pieces) Bengal Gram Dal - 1 cup Raw Rice Powder - 1 tsp Cornflour - 1 tsp Green chilly - 2 nos Curry Leaves - 1/2 cup Garlic - 6 cloves (optional) Saunf - 1 tsp  Salt - To taste Oil - for frying. Method: Mix besan flour, rice flour, corn flour together along with salt. Grind garlic, green chillies and saunf to a paste and add it to the flours. Add finely chopped curry leaves to the flour. Add cashew nuts to the flour and add water slowly to make a dough.  In a pan heat oil and when hot reduce the flame to medium. Add small dumplings little by little to the oil. When they turn golden brown, remove from flame, drain the excess oil.  This pakora can be stored for about two or three days. Makes a good starter and also a good tea time snack.  Note: Do not increase the flame untill, the whole consignment of dough is fried.

Ingredients: All ingredients as in  Simple Pakora Onion - 2 to 3 nos big Method: Chop Onions finely. Mix the dough as that of Simple Pakora, but before mixing the water add onions and mix well. Add water little by little and make a dough. Heat oil and fry the dough just as said in simple pakora recipe. The onions will turn brown a bit faster than the dough. (But wait till the dough turns golden brown before removing it from oil). Serve hot. Ideal snack for rainy day.

Ingredients: Sabudana - 1 cup Potato - 3 nos (medium sized) Green chillies - 2 nos Coriander Leaves - 1/2 cup Ginger - 2 inch piece Salt to taste Oil for frying Method: Boil, peel and mash potatoes. Wash and clean sabudana and soak in water for 2 hours. Deskin the dried peanuts and grind it to coarse powder. After 2 hours drain the water from sabudana and let it dry.  In a bowl, add sabudana, crushed peanuts, chopped green chillies, mashed potatoes, grated ginger, coriander leaves and salt. Mix everything well and form a dough. Make flat vadas with your hands. Press them slightly so that the vadas dont break.  Heat oil in a pan. In medium flame add 4 to 6 vadas in hot oil. Increase the flame to high again. Keep turning sides till it turns golden brown in colour on both the sides.  Remove from oil and put it on a kitchen towel to absorb excess oil. Serve with green chutney and or tomato sauce.

Ingredients: Potato - 1/4 kg Beans - 100 gm Peas - 100 gm Cheese - 100 gm Carrot - 1 no Bread crumbs - 1/2 cup OIl for cooking Powdered Ginger - 1/2 tsp Green chilly paste - 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder - 1/4 tsp Lemon - 1/2  Salt to taste Method: Boil potaotes, carrot, beans and peas and mash thoroughly. Add ginger powder, green chilly paste, salt and lemon juice to the mashed vegetables. Make a ball of the mashed vegetables and make a hole in the middle. In a small cup add cheese, salt, remaining green chilli paste, red chilli powder. Mix them thoroughly and make a fine blend. Add the cheese paste inside the hole and cover it with a piece of the vegetable mix. Dip the cheese balls in bread crumbs and arrange them in a plate and leave it in freezer for about 15 to 20 mins. Heat oil in a pan and when hot reduce the flame to medium. Fry the balls till they become golden brown in colour.  Serve hot. Kids will enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients: Cauliflower - 1 big Gram Flour - 3 tbsp Red Chilli Powder - 2 tsp Salt to taste Amchoor - 1 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 tsp Garam Masala - 1 tsp Green Chillies - 2 to 3 Oil for frying Method: Wash and chop cauliflower into florets in a big shallow bowl. Add 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp red chilli powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1/2 tsp amchoor, 1 tsp coriander powder and mix well. Add besan flour, 1/2 salt, 1 tsp red chilly powder, 1/2 tsp garam masala, 1/2 tsp amchoor, 1 tsp coriander powder, chopped green chillies and mix well with water and make a thick paste, with very less water. The paste should be thick enough that it coats all over the cauliflower.  Heat oil. When hot turn the flame to medium. Dip each and every floret of cauliflower in the besan flour mixture till the whole floret is covered with the besan mixture. Fry in oil till it becomes golden brown. At one point of time, about 6 to 8 florets of cauliflower can be fried. Repeat the same with all the florets.  Serve hot wi

Ingredients: Gram flour - 1 cup Rice Flour - 1/2 cup Ghee - 1 tbsp Green Chilly - 2 nos Red Chilly Powder - 1/2 tbsp(optional) Salt to taste Water - 1/2 cup Curry Leaves - 1/2 cup (finely chopped) Coriander Leaves - 1/2 cup (finely chopped) Oil - for deep frying. Method: Chop green chillies finely. Mix besan flour and rice flour thoroughly. Add salt, curry leaves, coriander leaves, green chilly, red chilly powder, ghee and mix well. Add water slowly to make thich dough. It should not be of batter consistency.  Heat oil in a shallow pan and when hot reduce the flame to medium. Take the dough in hand and put pieces into the oil. (no need to make the dough into perfect ball before frying). At one time depending upon the size of the pan about 6 to 8 nos can be fried. Keep turning the pieces till they turn golden brown. (Do not let it turn dark brown, for the taste of the pakoras might get altered). Drain the pakoras in kitchen towel and serve hot.  Though these pakoras need no side dishes,

Nada Pakada, Tape are the other names given to this south Indian savoury. Ingredients: Processed Rice Flour  - 2 cups Besan Flour - 1 cup Butter - 100 gms Oil to fry Salt - 2 tbsp Hing - 1 inch piece Red Chilly Powder - 2 tbsp Method: Soak hing in water. Add water to salt to make 1/5th cup of salt water. In a shallow mixing bowl, add rice flour, besan flour, butter, hing water, salt water and red chilly powder and make it a dough. Heat oil in a shallow pan, reduce the flame when hot and squeeze the ribbon using the ribbon achu. Turn it to the other side. Fry both the sides till they become golden brown in colour. Remove from flame and spread it on kitchen towel to remove the excess oil. Store it in airtight container.  Note: Do not add salt directly, it will make the ribbon pakoda to splutter and break.

Lady's finger, Okra, Bhindi, whatever name you call it, it is a big hit in any house hold if cooked properly. My This is a special method of cooking Lady's finger to make even those who dont like it. Combined with Paneer and  Tomato Puree, this dish, turned out to be an extremely mouth watering side dish for Chappati, though the kids might finish it  off as a starter dish. Ingredients: Very tender, fresh ladies’ finger - 250 gms Paneer - 200 gms ( grate) Oil - 1 tsp Tomato puree - ½ cup Red chilli powder - 1 tsp Salt and sugar to taste Method to make stuffed Lady's finger: Wash and wipe dry the Lady's finger. Cut the top and bottom end and slit it lengthwise (care should be taken, so as not to cut it into two halves). Microwave on low for just 30 seconds. Remove and spread it on a plate. Mix grated paneer with chlli powder, salt and oil. Stuff the lady's finger with Paneer mixture. In a flat bottom shallow micro bowl, spread the stuffed Lady's fin