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Baked Shankarpala in Marathi
Time: 1 hour
Yield: 3 to 4 cups ShankarpalaBaked Shankarpala
Before Baking
Ingredients:
1.5 to 2 cups Whole wheat flour
1/2 cup melted ghee
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup Milk
1/2 tsp baking powder
Method:
1) Take ghee and sugar into a medium bowl and beat until mixture becomes light.
2) Sieve baking powder and wheat flour through a fine mesh.
3) Add wheat flour to sugar-ghee mixture. Add milk and make a semi-stiff dough.
4) Cover the dough for 10 minutes.
5) Preheat the oven at 300 F. Keep the baking pan ready. Divide the dough equally into tennis bal sized portions. Roll it with rolling pin. It should be thick like paratha. Cut diagonally with Pizza cutter or Shankarpali cutter. Put them into baking trey (each shankarpala should be separate from each other). Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
Remove from the oven and Cool them for few minutes. Baked shankarpala is ready !!
Baby Corn Manchurian in Marathi
Time: 25 minutes
Makes: 2 to 3 servings
Ingredients:
20 baby-corns
1/4 cup green bell pepper, julienne
1/4 cup onion, julienne
3 tbsp Corn flour
1 green chili, finely chopped
2 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp vinegar
2 tsp oil + oil to deep fry
salt to taste
2 tbsp green part of spring onion, finely chopped
Method:
1) Cut baby-corns into 1 inch pieces. Take a small bowl Add 2 tbsp corn flour and little water. Make a thin paste. Add little salt.
2) Dip baby-corn pieces in corn flour paste. Deep fry until light brown.
3) Take a medium pan. Add 2 tsp oil. Saute ginger-garlic paste and green chili. Add onion and bell pepper. Saute for couple of minutes. Add 1/4 cup water, soy sauce and salt.
4) Take a small bowl. Add 2 tbsp water and 1 tbsp corn flour in it and make a paste. Add this paste very little at a time to the pan. Also add some vinegar. Mix well. Add fried baby-corns. Mix well. Make sure all baby-corn pieces are well coated.
Chili Garlic Tofu in Marathi
Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 2 persons
Ingredients:
5 oz firm tofu
1 tbsp Corn starch
4 tsp Oil
1 tsp Garlic paste
1 tsp Ginger paste
2 tsp chili garlic Sauce
1/4 cup Green part of spring onions
1/4 cups onion, medium cubes (Separate each layer of onion and then cut)
1/4 cup bell pepper, medium cubes
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp vinegar
Salt to taste
Method:
1) Gently press the tofu to remove excessive water. It shouldn't get crumbled. Cut into 1 inch cubes. Sprinkle corn starch on tofu cubes.
2) Take a medium pan. Add 1 tbsp oil and shallow fry tofu over medium-high heat. Turn tofu cubes with a tong to brown all the sides. Remove shallow-fried tofu cubes into a plate.
3) In the same pan add a tsp of oil. Saute ginger-garlic sauce. Add soy sauce, onion and bell pepper. Sprinkle salt. Saute for a minute. Onion and bell pepper should stay crispy.
4) Mix 1 tsp corn starch and 3 to 4 tbsp water. Add it to the pan. Add chili garlic paste and vinegar. Mix well.
5) Add shallow fried tofu cubes. Mix gently. Cook for a minute, serve hot.
Tip:
1) The above recipe can be prepared as a gravy dish. In step 4, mix 1 tbsp corn starch in 1/2 cup water and add it along with chili garlic sauce. This gravy can be eaten with white rice.
Carrot Pickle in Marathi
Time: 10 t0 15 minutes
Makes: 1 cup Pickle
Ingredients:
1 cup carrots, finely chopped (I had used 3 large carrots)
1 tbsp mustard powder
1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
Tempering: 2 tsp oil, 2-3 pinches of mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp hing, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp red chili powder
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt to taste
Method:
1) Mix carrots, mustard powder, lemon juice and salt together.
2) Heat oil into a tadka pan. add fenugreek seeds and fry until their color changes to light brown. Remove them using a spoon, keep it in a small steel bowl.
3) In that same hot oil, add mustard seeds, hing, turmeric powder and red chili powder. Pour this tadka into a separate small glass bowl. Add it to the carrots after it cools down.
4) Crush the fenugreek seeds with a spoon. Add it to the carrot pickle. Mix well.
Refrigerate for 7 to 8 days.
Aloo Palak in Marathi
Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Makes: 2 to 3 servings
Ingredients:
4 cups Spinach, finely chopped
3 tbsp kasoori methi, crushed
1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 tbsp oil
2 pinches cumin seeds, 1/4 tsp hing, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp green chili paste
Salt to taste
Method:
1) Take a microwave safe glass bowl. Add potato cubes in it. Add sufficient water to cover the potato cubes. Microwave for 8 to 10 minutes or till potato cubes are done. Drain the water and keep the potato cubes aside.
2) Heat Oil in a kadai. Add cumin seeds, hing, turmeric powder, garlic and green chili paste. Saute for 10 seconds. Then add onion, cook till translucent.
3) Add spinach and kasoori methi. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp salt. Saute over medium-high heat until moisture content in the spinach evaporates (for 5-7 minutes)
4) Turn the heat to medium. Add potatoes and mix well. Check the salt and add little more if needed. Cover and cook for few minutes.
Serve hot with Chapati
Tips:
1) After introducing spinach to kadai, sprinkle salt to retain the green color. Also, do not cover the pan while cooking spinach. Steam cooking affect the color of spinach.
2) Hint of kasoori Methi adds nice flavor to the sabzi. In-case, you don't like kasoori methi or you ran out of it, then its okay to skip it.
Croutons in Marathi
Makes: 4 to 5 servings
Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
4 bread slices
2 tbsp Olive Oil
2-3 pinches of salt
1/2 tsp of Garlic powder (Optional)
1/2 tsp Italian Herbs blend (Dried)
Method:
1) Brush little olive oil on each bread slice. Cut each bread slice into 12 small pieces. If you want little bigger sized croutons, then make 9 equal pieces.
2) Preheat oven at 300 F (150 C) for 7 minutes.
3) Spread bread pieces on a baking sheet. Make a single layer, sprinkle Italian Herbs, little salt and garlic powder. Pop in the oven for 15 minutes (until they become light brown and crispy). If croutons are not browning evenly on all sides, turn over after 10 minutes. Cool them on baking sheet.
Croutons can be added in Salads to give little crisp. They are great accompaniment to the soup.
Tips:
1) Croutons can be prepared in the pan. Follow the first step from the above method. Sprinkle spices and salt. Then heat a wide skillet over low heat. Saute bread pieces until crispy and golden brown. Turn them over occasionally.
2) Butter can be used instead of olive oil. (If using salted butter, limit the amount of salt)
3) If you don't have garlic powder and Italian herbs like oregano, rosemary, etc that's okay. Plain croutons taste good too.
4) You can sprinkle some red chili flakes alongwith other spices.
Bisibele Bhat in Marathi
Time: 40 minutes
Makes: 3 servings
Ingredients:
3/4 cup rice
1/4 cup toor dal
1 tbsp tamarind
1 and 1/2 cup cut vegetables (Potatoes, green beans, eggplant, carrot, cauliflower)
Spices: 1 inch piece of cinnamon, 2 cardamoms, 2 bay leaves
For tempering: 1 tbsp ghee, 1/2 tsp cumin seeds, 1/4 tsp hing, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp red chili powder
1 tbsp Homemade sambar masala
Salt to taste
Special Tadka : 2 tbsp ghee, 1/4 tsp hing, 2 to 3 tbsp peanuts, 7-8 curry leaves
Method:
Bisibele bhat
1) Wash toor dal and pressure cook upto 4 whistles.(tip 1)
2) Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup hot water. After 10 minutes, squeeze the tamarind and bring out all the juice.
3) Heat a deep pan. Add 1 tbsp ghee. Saute cinnamon, cardamons and bayleaves for 5-7 seconds. Add cumin seeds, hing, turmeric powder, and red chili powder. Add all the vegetables except eggplant. Cover and cook for 2 minutes. Now add rice and 3 cups of water. Add tamarind juice and sambar masala. Cover and cook over medium heat.
4) We need semi solid consistency. Hence, add some water and adjust the consistency. When rice is 60 % done, add cooked dal and eggplants.
5) Cook for 10 minutes or till the rice is completely done.
6) Serve the Rice in plates. Heat a tadka pan. Add 2 tbsp ghee, hing, and peanuts. Keep the peanuts moving to cook them evenly. When peanuts become brown, add curry leaves and turn off the heat.
8) Pour this tadka over served rice. This tadka is very important and gives very nice flavor.
Tips:
1) After pressure releases, take the dal out. Do not whisk it. Let it dissolve on its own. Whisked dal changes the texture of bisibele bhat.
Cucumber Soup in Marathi
serves: 2 persons
Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
2 big cucumbers
1/2 tsp green chili paste
2 pinches black pepper powder
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt to taste
finely chopped cilantro for garnishing
Method:
1) Peel the cucumbers. Cut into thin round slices. Taste both cucumbers as sometimes cucumbers have slight bitterness.
2) Heat oil into a pan. Add chopped garlic. Saute for 20 seconds. Add chopped onion and saute until translucent.
3) Add cucumber slices and salt. Turn the heat to medium-low. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, cucumber will become mushy.
4) Add chili paste and transfer the cucumber to blender. Add a tsp of lemon juice and black pepper. Blend and make fine puree. Add very little water to adjust the consistency, only if needed.
You may serve this soup when its warm or refrigerate for 2 hours and serve chilled. Garnish with finely chopped cucumber and cilantro.
Tips:
1) To make this soup creamy, add an avocado while blending.
Besan Chila in Marathi
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Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup besan
2 tbsp rava
1 tsp green chili paste, coarse
2-3 tbsp cilantro, finely chopped
1 + 3/4 cups water
1 tsp garlic paste
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/8 tsp hing
2 pinches cumin seeds
salt to taste
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Method:
1) Take a mixing bowl. Add besan and rava. Add water little at a time and make a thin constancy batter.
2) Add in chili paste, cilantro, garlic paste, turmeric powder, hing, cumin seeds and salt to taste. mix well.
3) Heat a nonstick pan over medium-high heat. drizzle some oil. Add a ladelful batter and try to keep round shape.
4) Cover and cook over medium heat till one side gets done well. Drizzle some oil and flip the side. Cover and cook till another side is cooked nicely.
Serve hot with or Dry garlic chutney.
Aliv Ladu in Marathi
Time: 15-20 minutes
Makes: 18 to 20 medium laddus
Ingredients:
4 cups fresh coconut, scraped
1.5 cups jaggery
1/2 cup Aliv seeds
15 Almonds, peeled and slivered
3 to 4 tbsp Chironji (optional)
3 to 4 tbsp Golden raisins
1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
Method:
1) Soak aliv seeds in coconut water for 2 and 1/2 hours.
2) Heat a pan. Add soaked aliv seeds, scraped coconut and jaggery. Cook over medium heat until thick.
3) Once mixture becomes little dry, add almonds, chirounji, golden raisins and nutmeg powder. Mix well and make laddus.
Tips:
1) Cardamom powder can be added instead of nutmeg powder
2) Incase, if you don't have coconut water, use normal water.
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Chocolate Trifle in Marathi
Serves 4
Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
2 cups crumbled chocolate sponge cake or crumbled chocolate brownie
20 cherries, pitted and halved
2 to 3 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup water
2.5 cups whipped cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp coco powder (unsweetened)
Milk chocolate, shaved (for garnishing)
Method:
Cherries cooked in sugar syrup
1) Take a small pan. Add water and sugar. Mix and put the pan on fire. Wait till the sugar dissolves and melts. Add cherries and cook over low heat until cherries start leaving juice and becomes little soft. After finishing, drain and reserve the juice, if any. Transfer cherries into a bowl.
Chocolate flavored whipped cream
2) Take a big bowl filled with chilled water. Take another medium sized bowl. Add whipped cream, sugar and coco powder in it. Hold the bowl in the cold water so that cream will stay chilled. Do not push the bowl hard in the water. Otherwise water will enter and mix in with whipped cream. Whisk well until sugar dissolves. Refrigerate till you are ready to serve.
Combining
Take a serving cup. Make a layer of cake at the bottom. Add whipped cream and spread it evenly. Now add cherries. Again, layer of cake, whipped cream and cherries.
Give a final layer of cake and whipped cream. Garnish with shaved chocolate. Assemble remaining Serve immediately.
Tip:
1) To make it more sweet and moist, add a spoon of sugar syrup we saved after cooking cherries.
Bhindi Raita in Marathi
Time: 5-7 minutes
Makes: 2 servings
Ingredients:
Okra 10 no. medium
2 green chilies
Yogurt 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
1 tsp oil
pinch of asafoetida (hing)
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
2 tbsp cilantro, finely chopped
Method:
1) Cut off the ends of Okra. Cut the okra into medium pieces.
2) Pressure cook okra and green chilies together upto two whistles.
3) Once the steam has released, get the okra out and crush with fingers. Add salt.
4) Take a small tadka pan. Heat oil in it. Add cumin and hing. Pour this tadka over crushed okra. Mix with spoon.
5) Once mixture is cooled down. Add yogurt and cilantro. Mix and serve as side dish in your meal.
Tips:
1) Do not add yogurt while okra mixture is hot. Heat separates the yogurt into tiny particles.
Brownie Sizzler in Marathi
Time: 15 minutes
Makes: 4 servings
Ingredients:
4 squares of chocolate brownies
Chocolate Sauce: 1 bar of milk chocolate, 1/2 cup whole milk
Pack of Vanilla Ice-cream
Sizzler Plate with wooden trey
Dry Fruits (walnut and almond pieces)
Method:
1) To make chocolate sauce, we need to melt the chocolate. Break the bar into pieces. Put in glass bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds. Stir with a whisker. Microwave for 10 to 15 more seconds if require. Work with chocolate very carefully. It gets burn if microwaved more than required.
2) Once chocolate is melted add milk and stir vigorously to get smooth, shiny chocolate sauce.
3) Microwave brownies for 10 to 15 seconds just to make them warm.
4) Heat a sizzler plate. Make it very hot. Carefully put the heated plate on wooden trey. Place brownies at the center. On top of each brownie place one scoop of vanilla ice-cream. Pour chocolate sauce on vanilla ice-cream and let it flow on the sizzler plate. Chocolate sauce will start sizzling. Garnish with walnuts and almonds. Serve immediately.
How to eat? - A small chunk of ice cream with a brownie piece and a bit of chocolate sauce.
Tips:
1) To avoid chocolate sauce from sticking to the sizzling plate. Place a piece of aluminum foil on hot sizzler plate.
2) After 30 seconds of microwaving chocolate, you will notice that chocolate has not melted and intact from the outside. Infact, it has melted from the inside. Hence, after first 30 seconds, stir the chocolate. You may need to microwave twice for 15 seconds. Each time, stir and check.
3) Eat with caution. If you spoon the chocolate sauce directly from the sizzling plate you will sizzle your tongue too !! [my own experience ;) ]
Bread Upma in Marathi
Time: 10 minutes
Makes: 2 servings
Ingredients:
10 slices of white bread (Leftover)
2 tbsp oil
For tempering: 2 pinches mustard seeds, 1 pinch hing, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder, few curry leaves
2 green chilies, slit lengthwise or 2 red dry chilies, broken
1/4 cup Onion, finely chopped
salt and sugar to taste
cilantro for garnishing
1 tsp lemon juice
Method:
1) chop the bread slices into small cubes or just mince with hands.
2) Heat oil into a pan. Add mustard seeds, hing, turmeric powder and curry leaves. Add green chiles and onion.
3) Sprinkle some salt and cook onion till translucent. Add chopped bread and mix well. Sprinkle 2 pinches sugar.
4) Cover and cook over medium-low heat for couple of minutes. Add lemon juice and mix.
Garnish with cilantro and serve hot.
Tips:
1) Bread can be crumbled in mixer instead of mincing.
2) Leftover bread makes nice upma than fresh bread.
Bean Sprouts Salad in Marathi
Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 2 to 3 persons
Ingredients:
100 to 125 grams bean sprouts
6 to 8 thin slices of cucumber (peeled), cut in half and cut in half moon slices
1/2 tsp ginger, sliced
1 scallion, sliced thin
1 small carrot, grated on large holes
1 tablespoon cilantro, minced
1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
juice of 1/2 lime
1 tsp oil
1 tsp soy sauce
1 green chili, finely chopped (optional)
Method:
1) Add 1 tsp oil to hot frying pan and quickly fry ginger pieces until crisp. Remove from the pan. Drain the oil and reserve.
2) In bowl, combine sprouts, cucumber, scallions, carrot, cilantro and green chili and mix well. Add lime juice, remaining oil from pan, soy sauce, fried ginger, and toasted sesame seeds. Garnish with sesame seeds.
Tip:
1) Sprouts are very delicate. Hence, do the mixing very gently. Also, do not over-mix, it will mush the sprouts.
Baked Vegetables in Marathi
Serves: 3 persons
Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp paste of - ginger + garlic + green chili
1 cup Cauliflower florets, small (I used 3/4 cup cauliflower + 1/4 cup broccoli)
1/2 cup carrot, small dices
1/2 cup sweet corns, (I used canned one)
1/4 cup french beans, 1 cm round slices
1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup green bell pepper, small dices
salt to taste
Spice mixture of - 3 pinches of Cinnamon pdr + 2 pinches crushed black pepper + 2 pinches cardamom powder
White sauce - Click here for the recipe
Other Ingredients:
1/2 cup Italian cheese blend
1/2 cup Cheddar Cheese
1/4 cup bread crumbs (optional)
Method:
1) Preheat the oven at 350 F.
2) Heat butter in a pan. Add ginger-garlic-chili paste. Saute for few seconds. Add onion and saute until translucent. Now add cauliflower, carrots, french beans, and bell peppers. Saute for a minute. Add sweet corns, salt and spice mixture. Mix well.
3) Put vegetables in baking glass pan. Pour in white sauce as much as needed. Mix in some cheese. Sprinkle the remaining cheese and bread crumbs, evenly on top.
4) Increase the temperature to 400 F. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or cheese on top melts and turn slightly brown.
Serve with brown bread.
Tips:
1) You may use other vegetables of your choice.
Aluchi Bhaji in Marathi
Time: 25 minutes
Yield: 7 to 8 small bowls (enough for 3 to 4 persons)
Ingredients:
7 to 8 Alu Leaves, medium size (Colacasia/Taro leaves)
3 to 4 tbsp Peanuts
2 to 3 tbsp Chana dal
For tempering: 1 tbsp oil, 2 pinches mustard seeds, 1/8 tsp hing, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder, 1/4 tsp red chili powder
3 tbsp besan
1 tsp tamarind
2 tsp Goda masala
2 tsp jaggery
Salt to taste
Method:
1) Soak peanuts and chana dal for 2 hours. Then pressure cook upto 1 or 2 whistles.
2) Soak tamarind in 1/2 cup warm water for 10 minutes. Squeeze the tamarind and extract the juice.
3) Wash and pat dry alu leaves. Separate the stems and peel them. Finely chop the leaves and peeled stems.
4) Heat oil in a kadai. Prepare tadka by adding mustard seeds, hing, turmeric powder and red chili powder. Add chopped Alu leaves and chopped stems. Add 1/2 tsp salt. Cover and cook for 6 to 7 minutes to soften the alu leaves. Sprinkle little water if alu leaves become dry.
5) Add tamarind juice and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes. Mix 1/2 cup water and 3 tbsp besan in a bowl without any lumps. Add this mixture to kadai and mix well.
6) Add cooked chana dal and peanut. Add water to adjust the consistency (not too thick not too thin).
7) Add goda masala, jaggery, little salt. Boil till besan cooks.
Serve hot with white rice or Millet roti (bhakari)
Notes:
1) Chopped Alu leaves can be pressure cook to save time.
2) Traditionally, Ambat Chuka (green sorrel) is used to give sour taste to this curry. If you want, you may use 1/4 to 1/2 cup of chopped ambat chuka. But then, do not add tamarind or add in very little amount after checking the taste. Otherwise, curry would taste very sour.
Additionally, 1/2 small raddish can be use.
3) Fresh coconut slices can be added alongwith peanuts.
4) Adjust the seasoning according to your taste
Aloo Baingan Stir Fry in Marathi
Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 3 persons
Ingredients:
8 to 10 small eggplants (tip 1)
2 medium potatoes
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
For tempering: 2 tbsp oil, pinch of mustard seeds, 1/8 tsp hing, 1/4 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp red chili powder
4 to 5 curry leaves
2 tbsp roasted peanuts powder (coarse)
2 tbsp fresh grated coconut
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp sugar or to taste
Method:
1) Wash the eggplants and cut off the stem. Cut each eggplant lengthwise in quarters. Then make thin slices. Immerse them in cold water.
2) Peel the potatoes. Cut lengthwise in quarters and make thin slices.
3) Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds, hing, turmeric, chili powder and curry leaves. Add onion and potatoes. Add some salt. Cover and cook until potatoes are 50 % done.
4) Drain water from eggplant slices. Add eggplant slices in kadai and mix well. Now, do not cover the pan as eggplants get cooked quickly. So keep stirring whenever needed.
5) When eggplants are almost done, check the salt and add if required. Add peanuts powder, sugar and coconut. Mix well and cook for couple of minutes.
Serve hot with chapati.
Tips:
1) Big eggplant can be used. In that case, for 1 cup eggplant slices use 3/4 cup potato slices.
2) Add a teaspoon of lemon juice to give tangy taste.
Stuffed Karela in Marathi
Time: 25 minutes
serves: 2 to 4 persons
Ingredients:
4 small Karela (bitter gourd)
Oil for deep frying
Stuffing:
2 tbsp roasted sesame seeds
2 tbsp roasted besan flour (roast over 1 tbsp oil)
2 tbsp roasted coconut (dry coconut)
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp Amchoor powder (dry mango powder)
1/2 tsp red chili powder
1/4 tsp Hing (Asafoetida)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp fennel seeds (saunf)
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp poppy seeds (optional) (roasted)
Salt to taste
Method:
1) Wash karela nicely. Grate the surface and make it smooth. Slit lengthwise, remove seeds. Rub little salt inside the karela.
2) Crush roasted sesame seeds and coconut together. Add roasted besan, coriander-cumin powder, amchoor, red chili powder, sugar, crushed poppy seeds and little salt(remember, we've rubbed little into karela).
3) Stuff this mixture inside karela. Tie each karela tightly with a tread. Deep fry until golden crispy.
Tips:
1) Karela can be shallow fried. Heat around 1/4 cup of oil into a pan. Prepare tempering by adding mustard seeds, hing, turmeric powder. Add karela, cover and cook for few minutes. Change the sides occasionally. Press with a spoon, so that karela gets cooked properly.
2) Always choose small karelas. They cook faster, and easy to serve (usually one karela is sufficient for one person)
Broccoli Soup in Marathi
Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 2 to 3 persons
Ingredients:
1 tbsp butter, room temperature
300 gram fresh broccoli florets (1 and 1/2 cup small florets)
1 medium onion, chopped (3/4 cup)
1 medium carrot, chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
2 cups Water (tip 1)
1/4 cup cream (I used half and half)
Croutons (optional)
Method:
1) Heat 1 tbsp butter into a deep saucepan. Add broccoli, onion and carrot. Also add salt and pepper. Saute over medium heat until onion is translucent. About 5 to 6 minutes.
2) Add all purpose flour and keep stirring for couple of minutes. Add water and bring to boil. Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
3) Pour in the cream. and give a good stir. Blend it well and make fine puree. Adjust salt and pepper. and boil for couple of minutes
Serve hot with homemade croutons.
Tip:
1) Vegetable stock or chicken stock may be used instead of water.
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