Friday, 30 September 2016

AMBULA RAI

"Ambula Rai"










earlier what people were doing probably house wives they eat their lunch with khata(pickle or any type of sour ingredient)whether it is tamarind or dry mango or kandhia because it happens most of the time guests arrive at home after the lunch hour without any information and their arrival is very sweetly accepted by the ladies of the family  because in our Indian society women's happiness is attached with the persons with whom they have got married..... Normally in our society Guests are like God so if they come they will be treated like family...so its very obvious  if they reach before lunch then the ladies of the families have to sacrifice their portion ....... because they wont let the guests go without  food.....
and later the ladies of that house have to do some thing about their own food .....









Ambula rai is one of the very delicate recipes of odisha which is loved by every odia even loved by the people out of our state odisha...
it is a non cooked dish  of odisha but very delectable in taste....





I have assembled the ingredients for this non cooked recipe===
5/6 dry mangoes
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
1/4 th teaspoon whole cumin
1/2 green chilly
1/2 cup yogurt
2 strings of curry leaves
1 tbl spoon grated coconut
salt to taste
1/2 tbl spoon sugar
1/4th tbl spoon whole wheat flour






How to make this ===
first soak dry mango pieces in water for 8 hrs
the next moment just drain out water
make a smooth paste of mustard seeds,whole cumin and green chilly
add this masala paste in soaked dry mango
add salt,sugar,grated coconut in soaked dry mango
and cover it ......
and leave it for 4 to 5 hrs
so that the raw taste of masala paste will be adjusted in ambula...






serve with chilled or normal room temperature with plain rice or anything..
The 9 ingredients can make a recipe heavenly taste....


Friday, 9 September 2016

"MOHAN BHOG/MEETHA SOOJI/SOOJI HALWA





mohan bhog is a very traditional sweet dish of odisha
surprisingly this is a sweet dish which is prepared in almost all states in our country but
spells in different names.......





ingredients are required for this ====
2 cups semolina/sooji
2 cups milk
1/cup pure ghee
1/ cup sugar
1/4th teaspoon green cardamon powder
salt to taste
cashew is optional for decor
2 bay leaves



method====
heat ghee in a wok add bay leaves
add semolina
fry in low flame till it becomes little golden brown
add sugar and again fry in low medium flame
then slowly add milk and in low flame keep stirring
till it becomes completely dry..
finally add cardamon powder and switch off the gas...



Thursday, 8 September 2016

BADAM CHITAU





"BADAM CHITAU PITHA"
A very authentic pitha of our state of odisha
it is offered to Goddess laxmi during the manabasa gurubar
the festival which falls during the month of December
and this particular pitha is prepared in every households in odisha at the time of "chitalagi amabasya"
which falls  during "shravana month krushna pakshya amabasya tithi"
The main ingredients of this pitha are
rice,coconut salt
and coconut ,jaggery stuffing is optional
it is best eaten with hot milk and sugar
here i have brought a little twist to our regular chitau by adding peanuts
so i called it badam chitau




ingredients required for badam chitau====
1 cup rice
1/2 cup roasted peanuts
1/4th tea spoon eno sachet
how to make it =====
first soak rice and peanuts together for around 2 to 3 hrs
again make a smooth paste out of it...
add 1 and half cup of water in it...
add eno sachet
and mix it well...
and leave it for 10 to 15 mns
then heat a iron kadhai..
grease oil...
pour 1 ladle of batter
cover it with a steel or aluminium plate
put hand full of water around the plate
and bring your gas flame to simmer
leave it for 2 mns...
then uncover it and take out the pitha...
accordingly make one by one.....
then dip them in hot milk and serve with any bhaji....







"TAMPA"
as i have said in my old posts odisha is a very beautiful state and with having beautiful districts...
every district has lots of changes in food and each has unique taste of food...
here now let me share with you an awesome instinct sweet dish of south odisha called Tampa








ingredients required for this sweet delicacy of south odisha=====
2 cups millet/mandia
1/2 cup pure ghee
1/2 cup grated coconut
salt to taste
jaggery/gur to taste
2 cups boiled milk
green cardamon powder 1/4th teaspoon









method to proceed=====
first heat a wok with ghee
add millet and
keep stirring in low flame
as the base wont burn
add jaggery
keep stirring till the raw smell of millet disappears and a beautiful aroma comes up
add slowly coconut and milk together
and again keep stirring till it becomes little semi liquid
add green cardamon powder for flavour
grease a stainless steel plate
pour this semi liquid batter on that plate
leave it for 15 mns
then cut and give them into shapes accordingly....