HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Happy mothers day to all lovely mothers

HAPPY UGADI
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Carrot Soup

Ingredients : 

Carrots    :  3 (large)
Tomatoes :  2
Milk         : 5 tspn
 Garlic      : 2 ttpn;
Garam masala : 1/2 tspn;
Black pepper a pinch
 Butter      : 2 tspn;

 Salt to taste

Method : 

Cook the carrots until its raw smell goes.
Boil tomatoes and blanch them in the water to remove the skin and deseed them.
Blend the carrots, garlic and the tomatoes.
If you want the soup to be real smooth you can strain it.
Take a heavy bottomed vessel and melt the butter and add the blended mixture. Let it cook for a few minutes, then add the milk and cook for sometime.
Take it off the stove and add some pepper powder and salt.
Some croutons can also be added.
Ready to serve hot.

Grated Carrot And Green peas Curry

Ingredients :

Grated Carrots          -            3 cups.

Green Peas              -            1 cup.

Onions      -     1(medium)cut lengthy wise

Green chilies     -     3

Garlic Cloves    -    4

Curry leaves

Salt as per taste

Preparation:

Heat 4 tblspn of oil in a pan.

Add mustard seeds ,jeera, chana dal fry for 1 min,then add  green chili,curry leaves.

add chopped onions fry till it transparent. Add turmeric powder and Then add green peas.close the lid .cook it for 5 mins.

(here i add frozen peas) Then add grated carrot .mix it well. Add salt and crushed garlic,mix it well.

cook it 5 more minutes.

check the taste.  If need add some chili powder and salt.

Serve with rice or chapathi

Carrot rice

Ingredients:-

2 cups      -      Rice(cooked)
4 no.         -     Carrot(grated)
1 no.         -     Onion
4 no.          -     Green chilies
4 no.           -    Cloves
4 no.           -    Peppercorns
1 small         -     Bay leaf
1 no.            -     whole dry red chili
2 tsp            -     Red chilli powder
1/2 tsp          -    Turmeric powder
1 tsp             -    Mustard seeds
2 tspn           -    Chana dal
4 tspn           -    Groundnuts.
salt as per taste
2 tspn           -     Ghee.  
1 tspn.          -    Jeera      
How to Prepare:-

• Heat ghee in a pan.Add  tempering ingredients.fry it 1 min.Add green chilies, dry red chili,cloves,peppercorns,bay leaf .
• Add in onion and groundnuts saute till they turn translucent.Add the grated carrots,red chili powder,coriander and turmeric powder and again saute till it gets cooked.
•  Mix the cooked rice(use long grain basmati) in it.
• Serve with plain curd or carrot raita
• here i am using green peas too.