Sunday, March 18, 2012

KHAMANG KAKDI

Koshimbir

No. of Portions

100

Ingredients

QTY

Unit

FOR MIXED VEGETABLES

Carrots

1

Kg

Tomatoes

2

Kg

Onions

1

Text Box: Standard Neatly chopped vegetables, seasoned with salt and limejuice, flavoured with cumin tempering.   Kg

Cucumber

2

Kg

Capsicum

750

Gm

FOR CUCUMBER (khamang kakdi)

Cucumber

6

Kg

FOR TOMATO

Tomato

6

Kg

COMMON INGREDIENTS

Green chilly

75

Gm

Green coriander

1

Bunch

Lime

20

No.

Salt

To taste

Peanuts

500

Gm

Coconut

2

No.

Pure ghee

500

Gm

Cumin

25

Gm


Method

1.

Prepare vegetables- peel and grate or chop carrots, onions, and cucumber finely. Chop tomatoes, capsicum, and green chilly, green coriander finely.

Prepare limejuice. Broil and peel peanuts.make a coarse powder. Grate coconuts.

Mix all the ingredients and add seasonings.

Heat pure ghee, add cumin and pour this tempering over the koshimbir. Mix well.

Serve at room temperature.

NOTE:

When this preparation is made with only cucumber, it is also known as ‘khamang kakdi’. Here the word ‘khamang’ means ‘flavourful’ and it indicates that specific flavour which is imparted by the tempering with pure ghee and cumin seeds.

CHAWLI USAL

Chawli beans usal

No. of Portions

100

Ingredients

QTY

Unit

Chawli beans

5

Kg

Mustard seeds

100

Gms

Curry leaves

1

Bch

Hing (safoetida)

75

Gms

Onion

3

Kg

Green chilli

100

gms

Tomato

2

Kg

Goda masala see masale bhaat

400

Gms

Tamarind

300

Gms

Jaggery

500

Gms

Green coriander

1

Bch

Salt

To taste

Oil

500

Ml

Prepreps

1. Clean, wash and soak chawli beans overnight.

2. Chop onions, green chillies.

3. Chop tomatoes.

4. Clean curry leaves.

5. Cut, melt and strain jaggery. Keep aside.

6. Extract tamarind pulp.

7. Clean and chop coriander.

Method

1. Boil the chawli beans with salt.

2. Heat oil add mustard seeds when they crackle, add green chillies, add curry leaves and hing.

3. Add to the above tempering the onions and sauté till light brown.

4. Add tomatoes and then the goda masala, little water and cook till it forms a thick gravy.

5. Add chawli beans and allow to simmer till all is mixed well.

6. Mix in the tamarind pulp and the jaggery.

7. Add salt.

8. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Standard: Brown in colour with red flecks of tomatoes and green coriander. Good aroma and flavor of spices. Sweet and sour in taste. Medium thick consistency and garnished with coriander leaves.

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AAMTI

Aamti

No. of Portions

100

Ingredients

QTY

Unit

Toordal

3

Kg

Salt

75

Gm

Turmeric

10

Gm

Goda masala:

Coriander seeds

100

Gm

Cumin

50

Text Box: Standard Maharashtrian speciality dal, medium thick, sweet and sour in taste, with a predominant flavour of ‘goda masala’.   Gm

Sesame seeds (white) (til)

50

Gm

Cinnamon

10

Gm

Cloves

10

Gm

Dry coconut

75

Gm

Mace

5

Gm

Cardamom

5

Gm

Peppercorns

5

Gm

Bay leaf

2

Gm

Mustard seeds

10

Gm

Asafetida

5

Gm

Poppy seeds

50

Gm

Fenugreek seeds (methi)

2

Gm

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Tomatoes (opt)

1

Kg

Green chilly

50

Gm

Tamarind

500

Gm

Jaggaery

500

Gm

Coriander

2

Bunch

Coconut

2

No.

Oil

500

Ml

Mustard seeds

20

Gm

Curry leaves

1

Bunch

Asafetida

10

Gm

Prepreps

1.

Pick, wash and boil toordal till tender. Add salt and turmeric.

Roast, cool and powder all ingredients for goda masala. Chop tomatoes and coriander. Slit green chillies. Grate coconuts. Boil tamarind and prepare pulp. Cut jaggery into small pieces.

Add goda masala, tomatoes, green chillies, tamarind pulp and jaggery to the dal. Adjust salt.

Method

Heat oil. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafetida and pour this tempering over the dal. Boil for 5-10 minutes more.

Serve hot garnished with coriander and coconut.

MASALA VANGI

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Masalyachi vangi

No. of Portions

100

Ingredients

QTY

Standard

Well-cooked brinjals in a thick, red spicy coconut flavoured gravy, slightly sweet and sour in taste.Adequately seasoned. Brinjals must retain shape (quarters) and not be overdone and mashed.

Unit

Brinjal

8

Kg

Onions

3

Kg

Coconut

5

No.

Peanuts

1

Kg

Turmeric

20

Gm

Red chilly powder

150

Gm

Ginger

150

Gm

Garlic

150

Gm

Oil

3

Lt

Salt

150

Gm

Tamarind

1

Kg

Jaggery

1

Kg

Green coriander

4

Bunch

Goda masala

400

Gm


Prepreps

1.

Cut brinjals into quarters lengthwise.

Grate coconuts, chop onions, prepare ginger-garlic paste. Prepare tamarind-jaggery pulp. Roast, peel and crush peanuts coarsely. Chop green coriander.

Method

Heat half of the oil. Sauté brinjals with salt and turmeric.

Mix together onions, ginger-garlic paste, goda masala, chilly powder, turmeric, salt, remaining oil, 3/4th of the green coriander, peanuts and coconut. Place it in a heavy bottom degchi and cook over medium flame till oil starts oozing out.

Add brinjals and continue cooking till brinjals are done.

Adjust salt and add tamarind-jaggery pulp. Serve hot, garnished with the remaining green coriander.

MOONG DAL KICHDI

Moongdal khichdi

No. of Portions

100

Ingredients

QTY

Unit

Pulav rice

5

Kg

Moongdal

2

Kg

Fat

2

Kg

Cinnamon

25

Gm

Cloves

25

Gm

Peppercorns

25

Gm

Turmeric

10

Text Box: Standard Well cooked rice and dal, (slightly overcooked) and moist. Light yellow in colour with a mild flavour of whole  garam masala. Served hot with pure ghee over it.   Gm

Salt

To taste

Pure ghee

150

Ml


Prepreps

1.

Pick, wash and soak rice and moongdal separately, for half an hour. Drain.

Method

Heat fat with whole spices. Add rice & dal. Fry well.

Add turmeric, salt and littlew more than twice the quantity of boiling water.

Cover the vessel and cook until rice and dal are slightly overdone.

Serve hot with a generous helping of pure ghee.