Bhindi Capsicum Masala – Okra Capsicum dry curry

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped bhindi (Okra)

½ cup chopped capsicum

¼ cup chopped onion

2 tsp garlic paste

1 tsp garam masala

2 tsp red chili powder

1 tbsp dhania jeera powder (cumin seed and dry coriander seeds powder)

Pinch of asafoetida (hing)

2 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

Method:

Heat the oil in a pan add asafoetida, garlic past, onion and sauté for second. Add okra and salt, cook for 5 minutes on law flame. Stir occasionally. Add capsicum and cook for another 5 minutes or till okra tender. Add red chili powder, garam masala and dhania jeera powder mix it well. Serve hot with phulka roti.

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Vegetable Biryani

Ingredients:      

2 cups basmati rice

2 cup mixed vegetable (potato, carrot, green peas, cabbage)

1 finely chopped green capsicum

2 finely chopped onion

2 cinnamons (dalchini)

4 cloves (laung)

2 cardamoms (elaichi)

1 chakri phool (Star Anise)

1 tsp cumin seeds

1 dry red chili

1 tbsp biryani masala

1 tbsp red chili powder

2 tbsp oil or butter

3 tbsp fry cashew nuts

1 cup water

Salt to taste

Method:

Wash basmati rice well and sock for ½ hrs. Heat the oil in  pressure cooker and add cumin seeds , dry red chili, cinnamon, cloves ,cardamoms, star anise, onion, cook it till onion turn slightly brown, than add capsicum and vegetable mix it well. After that add basmati rice and water, fry cashew nuts, red chili powder, biryani masala, salt to test and close the lid and cook for 3 whistles on high flame. Garnish with cashew nuts and coriander leaves. Serve hot with curd.

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Birthday special event , Fast!Fresh!Simple ,Raksha Bandhan'event , 

Celebrating Friendship Day, 

ONLY’ Food For Pregnancy ,  Foodabulous Fest Event page and my  and      Sowmya's page ,"Walking through the memory lane" event  and Avika's page, my guest hosting event and Cooking with Love at Sara's , krithi's kitchen and  Dish It Out announcement 

Event Announcement - Cooking With Love Sister

Hi friends, today I am here with wonderful event “Cooking with love”. This is very famous event organized by Sara's Cooking with love series. This is a family series event and theme of this month is cooking with love Sister.

Sister is source of love with whom you fight most, cherish all good and bad moments of your life. She is the friend for life time. Let's cook favorite dish of your sister or your favorite which you want to dedicate to your Sister. This is an opportunity to bring back great moments of childhood when you and your sister prepared the dish together or enjoyed eating together.

Please see the guidelines of the event and send your yummy recipes.

1. Post any vegetarian recipe from starter to desserts between 1 August to 31 August 2013 with this event announcement. Egg are not allowed.

2. Please link your entries below, and if you have any problem do drop in an email at gujaratizaika@gmail.com with your entry.

3. Non-bloggers too can participate in this event, send in your recipe by email to me with a photograph.

4. Recipes must be linked to Gujaratizaika's event announcement page and Cooking with Love at Sara's Corner. If sending an old entry, it needs to be re-published with the links.  Multiple entries are accepted.

5. Use of logo is mandatory as it promotes the event.

Looking  forward to your yummy entries.