Everybody loves baked beans. It goes well with bread, buns, pastas, and whatever not. Now, let us make the baked beans a bit more special by perking it up with onions, garlic paste, curry powder, etc. The resulting Curried Beans is much more exciting to the palate, and can be served with bread toast to make a satiating snack or even a quick meal!
Chole, a traditional Punjabi dish, is usually made using a lot of fat. But this easy to make recipe is lower in calories and is just as tasty. The oil does not contribute much flavour, it is the spices that create this dish. Instead of bhature (deep fried puris) serve it with Nutritious Garlic Naans, which are healthy, nourishing and just as tasty. It is important to soak the chick peas overnight to improve its digestibility and nutritive value by enhancing the protein, calcium and vitamin C levels.
This 'chatpata' treat should be accompanied with steaming hot puris. The chole masala imparts a zesty flavour to this dish, and is commonly available at most provision stores.
Ghassi is a special Mangalorean curry that is flavoured with a freshly-ground masala paste, made of coconut, onions, roasted spices, and other ingredients.
This special masala instils abundant energy into the dish, which may be made of varied veggies or pulses like green gram, chana, potatoes, cauliflower, etc.
Here is a delicious Sprouted Green Gram Ghassi, in which the rustic flavour of green gram mingles with the zesty masala to give you a totally irresistible taste.
The overtones of garlic make this quick and easy curry all the more delicious. Serve it with hot rice.
Also try other dishes from the Mangalorean region like Mangalorean Tendli and Chana Masala or Vegetables in Coconut Milk . Tomatoes stuffed with protein-rich sprouts and then baked, so as to make it healthy and rich in vitamins and minerals.
The mouthwatering and quick rajma masaledaar (Jain)recipe of cooking rajma or chickpea beans in a spicy thick tomato based gravy. Serve the rajma or chickpea curry, cooked in Jain style without any onion or garlic with steamed rice. Enjoy and learn many vegetable recipe, rice recipe, lentil or dal recipe at tarladalal.com
Shahi methi rajma tastes best with fresh methi or fenugreek leaves but can also be prepared with kasuri or dried methi.The cooked beans blend perfectly with the methi flavour and makes for a lovely side dish with chapatis or rice.
Baked rajmah delight presents a protein and calcium rich baked beans recipe with the cooked rajmah beans topped with chopped capsicum and grated cheese and then baked till the cheese melts. Enjoy with toasted french bread.
Chana dry chilly is an awesome spicy chana or chickpeas recipe prepared with a hint of soya sauce, chilli sauce and vinegar. The boiled chanas are thrown in the pan and then stir fried with the sweet and sour chinese sauces to create the lovely lentil preparation, chana chilly. This recipe was tried by Tarla Dalal’s team and has been standardized and made accurate.
The classic north indian dish full of indian spices. Serve with parathas or puris.
A very healthy and tasty dish. Quick and easy to make. I frequently make this dish for my office lunch or sometimes even have it as a snack.
Besan chola is a quick reciep of cooking up the cholas or chickpeas with besan or gramflour, onion, tomatoes, garlic and then serving it up with bhature or puris.
Black eye beans - chowlai punjabi sabzi is a vegetable recipe with beans in true Punjabi style of cooking. The black beans are cooked together with chowlai greens in a spicy masala mix and served with roti or paranthas.
Nice creamy treat for taste buds and also nutritious.