Spicy Shells

Spicy shells is an delicious snack recipe make using all purpose flour. These shells can be made in two varieties sweet and hot. Today lets see the spicy version making process.

Spicy Shells

Ingredients: Serve - 4

• All purpose flour – 2 cups
• Rice flour – 2tspn
• Hing powder -  1/4tspn
• Ghee / Dalda – ½ cup
• Salt – 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Red chilly powder – 1tspn
• Water – as required
• Oil –  for deep frying
• Shells  Stick

The following picture shows the step by step process for spicy shells:

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Method:

1. Take a mixing bowl, add all purpose flour, rice flour, hing powder, salt, red chilly powder and mix well. (figure 1 & 2)
2. Heat ghee /dalda in a medium flame and add to the powder prepared in above step. Mix well.(figure 3)
3. Add required water and make a dough.(figure 4 & 5)
4. Make small balls and do shells with shell stick.(figure 6 & 7)
5. Heat oil in a medium flame, add shells and roast until its color changes to golden brown. (figure 8)
6. Continue same process for remaining shells and transfer into paper towel to excess oil.
7. Serve in a bowl.(figure 9)

Yummy and Spicy Shells are ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step 3, make a dough as little soft not very soft.
• In step 5, while roasting shells be careful some times it might get broken if you saute faster. 

Oats Upma

Oats Upma is one of the easiest and healthy Indian break fast recipe using oats. 

Oats Upma

  Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Oats -1 & ½ glass
• Onion - 1(medium size)
• Green chilli-4
• Curry leaves-few
• Mustard seeds-1/2tspn
• Urad dhal -1tspn
• Channa dhal - 1tspn
• Cashews - 4
• Water – 1 & 1/4 glass (use oats measured glass)
• Salt  -1tspn (adjust to taste)

The following picture shows the step by process for Oats Upma:

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Method:

1. Take a pan, add oats and roast for 5 minutes in medium flame. Transfer into the plate and keep aside. (figure 1)
2. Take a pan, heat oil in medium flame  add mustard seeds wait for crackle then add channa dhal, urad dhal, cashews, green chillies, curry leaf and saute for 2 minutes. (figure 2)
3. Add onions, salt and saute until onions become soft. (figure 3 & 4)
4. Add water and cook for 5 minutes in medium flame by closing with lid. (figure 5 & 6)
5. Now add roasted oats and mix well. Cook for 3 minutes in low flame. (figure 7 & 8)
6. Serve in a plate. (figure 9)

Healthy Oats Upma is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step 1, ensure that oats is not getting burned if so then upma taste will get spoil.
• In step 3, we can also add vegetables like carrot, beans to make upma for healthy.

Dhal Papad Curry

Dhal Papad Curry is an main course recipe made with channa dhal and papad. It makes good combo with rice and chapati.

Papad Curry

Ingredients: Serve- 4

• Papad  - 15
• Channa dhal – 1 cup
• Water – 2 glass
• Oil – as required for frying
• Mustard seeds – ½tspn
• Cloves– 4
• Cinnamon – small inch
• Cumin seeds – 1/2tspn
• Garlic – 5 pieces
• Curry leaves –as required
• Coriander leaves –as required
• Coconut  -  small piece
• Onion – 3 (medium size)
• Tomato – 2 (small)
• Turmeric powder – 1/4tspn
• Red chilly powder – 2tspn
• Coriander powder – 1/2tspn
• Salt – 1tspn(adjust to taste)

The following picture shows the step by step process for Dhal Papad Curry:

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Method:

1. Wash and soak channa dhal for 10 minutes.
2. Take pressure cooker add soaked channa dhal, turmeric powder, onion, tomato, garlic pieces, 1 glass of water. (figure 1& 2)
3. Close the lid and cook for 3 vessels in medium flame.(figure 3)
4. Mean while, take a mixer add coconut pieces, cumin seeds, 2 garlic pieces and make a smooth paste by adding little water.(figure 4)
5.  Now open the cooker slowly, mash the dhal add 1 glass of water, red chilly powder, salt, coriander powder and cook for 5 minute in medium flame.(figure 5)
6. Take a pan, heat oil in medium flame add mustard seeds wait for crackle then add cinnamon, cloves, curry leaves, saute for 1 minute and transfer into the dhal.(figure 6 & 7)
7. Take the paste prepared in 3rd step and add into dhal, close the lid and cook for 5 minutes in medium flame. (figure 8 & 9)
8. Mean while, take a pan heat oil for deep fry, add papad and roast until its color change to golden brown. (figure 10)
9. Add roasted papad into the curry and cook for 1 more minute. (figure 11)
10. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve in a bowl.  (figure 12)

Spicy and tasty dhal papad curry is now ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step 4, mash the dhal half way and not fully. i.e. have a look at the figure 12, you can see few dhal half broker and not fully mashed. 

Crab Fry

Crab Fry is a very delicious sea food recipe. There are various styles of making crab fry, today lets see the famous Nellore style were crab is mixed well with masala paste, fried and served hot. 
 

Crab Fry

Ingredients: Serve -2

• Crab – 1/2 kg
• Oil – 5tspn
• Coconut – ½
• Pepper – 3tspn
• Green chilly – 3
• Cloves – 4
• Cinnamon – medium piece
• Fennel seeds – 1tspn
• Onion – 2 (medium size)
• Tomato – 1 (medium size)
• Curry leaves – as required
• Turmeric powder – ¼tspn
• Red chilly powder – 1/2tspn
• Salt – 2tspn (adjust to taste)

The following picture shows the step by step process for Crab Fry:

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Method:

1. Clean the crab well with water and keep it aside.
2. In a mixer, add pepper, green chilly,1/2tspn fennel seeds, 2 cloves, small piece cinnamon, coconut and make a powder. (figure 1)
3. Now add onion, tomato and grind them as smooth paste.(figure 2)
4. Take a pan, heat oil in medium flame add 2 cloves, small piece cinnamon, 1/2tspn fennel seeds, Curry leaves and saute for 1 minute.(figure 3)
5. Add paste which has been prepared in step 3 and saute for 1 minute.(figure 4)
6. Add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt and saute for 1 more minute.(figure 5 & 6)
7. Now add crab, mix well and cook for 15 minutes by closing with lid in medium flame. The crab color changes to orange, it indicates that it is cooked perfectly well (figure 7 & 8)
8. Serve in a bowl. (Figure 9)

Tasty Crab Fry is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• If you want more gravy then add 1 more onion and tomato in step 3.
• Serve them when they are hot to enjoy the nellore style taste.

Methi Pakoda

Methi Pakoda is a healthy and tasty snack recipe. It is made with methi leaves and gram flour. The steps involved in making this recipe is very straight forward and simple.

Methi Pakoda

Ingredients: Serve - 4

• Methi leaves -  ½ cup
• Gram flour – 1 cup
• Red chilli powder – 1/2tspn
• Turmeric powder – 1/4tspn
• Salt – 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Soda Salt – 1/4tspn
• Garam masala – 1tspn
• Cumin seeds – 1/2tspn
• Green chilli – 1
• Garlic  - 3 pieces
• Onion – 1 (small)
• Spring onions – ¼ cup
• Water – as required
• Oil – for deep frying

The following picture shows the step by step process for Methi Pakoda:

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 Method:

1. Wash and cut the methi leaves as small pieces.
2. Take a bowl, add gram flour, salt, soda salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cumin seeds, garam masala, onions, spring onions, green chilli pieces, crashed garlic, methi leaves and mix well. (figure 1 & 2)
3. Add required water and make a thick paste. (figure 3)
4. Take a pan, heat oil for deep frying in a medium  flame.(figure 4)
5. Now take some amount of paste, make a pakoda in oil and fry until its color changes to golden brown.(figure 5)
6. Continue for remaining pakoda’s and transfer into paper towel for removing excess oil.
7. Serve in a plate. (figure 6)

Methi Pakoda is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In case if you like eating spring onion then can use both onion and its leaves in step 3 instead of normal onion.
•  In step 3, ensure that paste should be thick or else pakoda will not come.