Its been a long time I posted a recipe. Had taken a break from blogging. & am back. :-) Here is my recipe.
We always have leftover rice at home & we wonder what to make with it. Today I am sharing cabbage rice in which you can use the leftover rice. Its one of the healthy recipes. Try it soon. Me & my husband don't like cabbage sabzi. But this is a much better way to have cabbage.
Ingredients:
- Cooked Rice 2 cups
- Thinly Sliced Cabbage 1 & 1/2 cup
- Cashews few roasted
- Oil 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Mustard seeds 1 tsp
- Asafetida a pinch
- Garlic finely chopped 1 tsp
- Curry leaves few
- Dry Red Chilies 4 - 5
- Red Chili Powder 1 & 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder 1 tsp
- Garam Masala 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves for garnish
- Pomegranate Seeds for garnish
- Lemon juice while serving
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add mustard seeds. When they crackle, add finaly chopped garlic, dry red chilies, asafetida & curry leaves. Saute for few seconds.
- Add cabbage alongwith the spices - red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala & salt to taste. Cook it covered for 5 - 7 minutes. The cabbage should be cooked but not fully. We need to have a bite in the cabbage.
- Now add cooked rice to it. Add salt to taste (little as we added some salt while cooking the cabbage. So add accordingly). Mix well. Cook it covered again for 5 minutes on low heat. Once done don't open the pan. Let it rest for 10 minutes.
- While serving garnish it with roasted cashews, pomegaranate seeds, coriander leaves & some lemon juice.
- Serve hot !!
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There was a Ganpati celebration at my friends place. I had made these assorted mawa modak for Lord Ganesha. When the aarti was done, my friend offered these modaks to everyone else. You wont believe how hit these modaks were ! Every kid was later searching for these cute little modaks. But they were finished in a blink of an eye. Everyone just loved them even the adults. I was hearing my name from every corner of the house that my modaks were a huge hit. Superb looking & Super tasty as well.
Sharing my super hit recipe of assorted modak with you all as well. Try it this Ganpati Visarjan.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Mawa
- 2 tsp. Sugar or to taste
- Milk Powder 2 tbsp
- Cardamom Powder 1 tsp
- Dry Fruits(Almonds, Pistachios & Cashewnuts) chopped roughly 2 tbsp
- Coco Powder 1 tbsp.
Method:
Mix Mawa with sugar & heat. The sugar starts to melt. Heat it till all moisture is evaporated & it becomes little dry. Add Milk powder to it. Mix well. Switch off the heat & let it cool down. Once the mixture cools down, Divide the mawa mixture in 2 parts.
- Simple Dry Fruits Mawa Modak
- Take one part of mawa mixture. Add to it cardamom powder & chopped dry fruits (1 & 1/2 tbsp). Mix well.
- Now make small round balls from it almost 1 cm in diameter. Keep half of this balls for dual colored modaks aside for later use.
- Take the modak moulds. Place each ball in the mould. Close the mould & press it. Remove the extra from bottom of the modak mould. Now open it again & remove the formed modak carefully. Do this for rest of the balls.
- Chocolate Modak
- Take the other part of mawa mixture.
- Mix with it coco powder & remaining dry fruits. Mix well.
- Form small balls out of this dough around 1 cm in diameter. Keep half of this balls for dual colored modaks aside for later use (along with the left over dry fruits modak balls.)
- Take the modak moulds. Place each ball in the mould. Close the mould & press it. Remove the extra from bottom of the modak mould. Now open it again & remove the formed modak carefully. Do this for rest of the balls.
- Dual Colored Modak
- Take the leftover both colored balls which we kept aside.
- Take one white colored & chocolate colored ball together. Stick it to each other & form a ball out of it. (We don't want to mix it with each other. We want to see the dual colors.)
- Place that dual colored ball in the modak mould. Close & Press it. Remove the extra from the bottom of the modak mould. Open the mould & remove the formed carefully. Your dual colored modak is ready. Do the same with remaining ones.
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