Broccoli dal

I have come to love broccoli as it cooks very fast & is quite tasty with just afew spices.So for a  lazy person like me ,it is a boon !

I have tried a broccoli dish earlier from Sangeeta Khanna's blog & today I tried one more of her broccoli dishes.Her broccoli lentil soup came out very well.The original recipe by Sangeeta Khanna is here .

I changed some ingredients.I skipped using celery & garlic.I used green chillies instead of red chilly powder.Moreover ,I cooked long enough for broccoli to lose its crunchiness.

Ingredients : 1 tbsp whole masoor,1 tbsp split green mung dal,300 gm broccoli washed & cut into florets, 2 small tomatoes chopped,1 medium sized onion chopped fine, 2 green chillies chopped, 1/2 tsp ginger washed & grated,1/2 tsp cumin seeds,1 tsp ghee,1/4 tsp haldi,salt to taste.

Method : Pressure cook the dals with onions,green chillies,grated ginger & haldi.Add the broccoli stalks which have chopped fine in the pressure cooker with the dals. I pressure cooked for 2 whistles & then lowered the flame & cooked for 5 minutes before turning off the gas.After the pressure has eased,take out the cooked stew & keep aside.

Meanwhile ,heat gheee in a kadhai.Add cumin seedsWhen they splutter ,add broccoli florets & stir fry for 5 minutes.Add salt.Mix nicely.Now add chopped tomatoes & cook for another five minutes.Add the dal stew to this broccoli tomato mix & bring to a boil.Add more water if dal type consistency is needed.Put off the gas & serve with chaptis and or rice.

I loved the simple flavours.Mine was thick stew.It was unlike soup .Yet ,it is dal veggie combo which spells nutrition !

Suran cutlets

I have made cutlets with veggies like raw bananas, arbi,sweet potatoes & now I felt,I must try suran as well.

Ingredients : 1 cup peeled,pressure cooked suran,2 pressure cooked potatoes, 4 brown bread slices,1 tsp flax seed powder, 1 cup washed,peeled  & grated beetroot,1/3 cup washed,peeled & grated carrot,2 green chillies washed & finely chopped,1tsp grated ginger, 1/4 cup washed,cleaned & chopped  coriander,1/4  tsp asfoetida,salt to taste,2 tbsp oil.

Method : Break bread slices into small pieces.Put these bread pieces in mixer & run it till the bread crumbs are obtained.Keep aside.

Mash the pressure cooked suran & poataoes.Add grated beetroot,carrots,ginger,green chillies,coriander,asfoetida,flax  seed powder & salt to taste.Mix nicely.Add bread crumbs.Mix nicely & make a dough.

Grease the palms with a little oil & take a small portion of dough & flatten it into a pedha shape .Similarly make more pedhas with the dough till all dough is finished.

Take a tawa & put it on the gas.Put it on medium flame.Spread oil on it.Now put some five to six pedha shaped patties which have been made.Cover the tawa with a lid & let it cook.After two to three minutes,uncover the lid & flip over the patties.They would have browned a little.Cover with lid & cook for 2-3 minutes.Uncover lid & remove patties on to a plate.Serve cooked patties with sauce or chutni of choice.

Cook remaining uncooked pedhas similarly.

Serve  hot with chutni or ketchup.