Drumstick Leaves Curry - iron & fibre! Fresh tender drumstick leaves - 2 cups Chopped onions - ¾ cup Grated coconut - 2 tbsp To temper: Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Red chillies - 2, broken to bits Urad dhal - 2 tsp In a shallow MW bowl, take oil, mustard seeds , red chillies & urad dhal. MW Hi for 2 mts. Add onions & cook for 3-4 more mts on Hi. Finally add leaves MW Hi for 3 mts. Do not add water if the greens are fresh. Add coconut & salt & mix thoroughly.
MW Mango Madhuri - mango pulp & coconut combination! If done in MW, 2 tsp ghee is enough. If done on stove top, a little more ghee must be added to prevent sticking to the bottom. Mango pulp - 1 cup Freshly grated coconut - 1 cup Milk powder - ½ cup Sugar - 2 cups Cardamom powder - 1 tsp In a micro-bowl, take pulp & ghee. MW Hi for 5 mts. Add all other ingredients & MW Hi for 10-15 mts, till it becomes a mass. Stir every 4 mts to prevent overflowing. A tsp dropped in cold water should be able to be rolled. Remove, stir for sometime and empty on a greased plate. Cut into squares when cold.
MW Tinda Sabji - no oil; hence low in calories! Onions, thinly sliced - ½ cup Tomatoes, sliced - 1.2 cup Tinda, peeled & thinly sliced - 1 cup Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Red chilli powder & dhaniya powder - 1 tsp, each Roasted jeera powder - ½ tsp Salt, haldi, hing Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp, chopped In a micro bowl, take onions & tomatoes. Cover & cook for 3 mts. Open, add ginger-garlic paste & MW Hi for 1 mte. Add spice powders & MW Hi for 1 mte. Add tinda slices & 2-3 tbsp of water. Cover & MW Hi for 5 mts, stirring once in between. Leave for 5 mts. Open add salt, mix well & garnish. Serve with rotis.
MW Banana Kadubu - a South Canara Delicacy ! I learnt this from a Konkani friend. Rice flour - ¾ cup Maida - ¼ cup Baking powder - ½ tsp One medium ripe banana – mashed Jaggery - ½ cup (melted with ¾ cup water & strained) Finely grated coconut - ½ cup Ghee - 2 tbsp Cardamom powder - ½ tsp Mix all ingredients & rest for 10 mts. MW Hi for 5 mts. Give a standing time of 10 mts.
MW Yummy Chocolate Toffee - savvy & chewy! 1 tin condensed milk 2 cups milk 1 heaped cup sugar 3 tbsp white butter 30 gms cocoa powder 30 gms Drinking chocolate 1/2 cup chopped cashew(optional) Mix all the ingredients except cashew to a homogenous mixture in a BIG Micro bowl , if necessary, with a hand beater. Micro Hi first for 10 mts and Micro Med for about 40-45 mts., stirring very frequently in between. Test by soft ball method. Remove add nuts. Cool ,stirring in between. Using greased hands ,roll into balls , keep in paper cups. Best kept refrigerated.
MW Custard Apple Phirni - very easy to make. Full fat milk - 1 ½ cups Basmati or any thin long grained rice - 2 tbsp Powdered sugar - 4 tbsp Cardamom powder - ½ tsp Deseeded sitapal - ¾ cup (need not be mashed) Grind the rice to a fine powder in mixi. In a large MW bowl, combine 1 cup of milk, ground rice & mix well. MW on Hi for 4 mts, stirring thrice in between. Add remaining milk & MW on Hi for 2 more mts. Remove & allow to cool. Add sugar, cardm powder & fruit pulp. Mix well, chill very well & serve. You can grind the soaked rice fine and do this recipe. Artificial sweetener can be added instead of sugar.
MW Ridgegourd Curry - healthy & delicious!! Select tender ridgeourd & peel off only the sharp ridges, leaving the flavour & nuitrition intact.. Thinly slices vegetables - 2 cups Freshly grated coonut - 2 tbsp Lime juice - 1 tsp Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp Haldi, salt, sugar (optional) MW on Hi for 2 mtes in a micro bowl: Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Crushed ginger+green chillies - 2 tsp Remove, add vegetable, haldi, salt & mix well. Cover with a lid & MW Hi for 5-6 mtes. This time can be less if te vegetable is very fresh. If it is still moist, continue to cook on medium till dry. Add coconut, sugar & lime juice; Serve hot garnished with coriander. Goes very well with rotis & a dhal!
MW Healthy Churma Laddu - different &very tasty! Grind in a mixi good quality jaggery (gur) & use. Buy lapsi used for upma – as small a variety as you can get. Lapsi, wheat flour - ½ cup each Powdered jaggery - ½ - ¾ cup (can be your choice) Milk - 3 tbsp Melted ghee - 3-4 tsp Desiccated coconut - 1 tbsp White Seasame seeds - 1 tbsp Cardamom powder - 1 tsp Khs Khus - to roll the laddus Take lapsi & wheat flour in a MW bowl. Add 1 tbsp milk, mix well & MW Hi for one minte. Remove, add 2 tbsp milk,mix & MW Hi for 3 mtes. Remove, mix & powder in a mixi. Sieve through a rava sieve. Mix powdered jiggery, sesame seeds, desiccated coconut & cardamom powder. Add ghee in tablespoons & mix to get a dough. Roll into balls & roll in khus khus.
MW Muthiyas - ideal jiffy snack!! This is made with white jowar flour + cabbage. Finely chopped cabage - 1 cup jowar flour - 1 cup Green chilli - ginger paste - 1 tbsp curds - just enough to bind Cooking soda - a pinch Salt & sugar Lime juice - 2 tsp seasame seeds - 2 tsp Oil - 2 tsp To temper; oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp hing & curry leaves. Knead the ingredients to a dough & form into rolls. Steam on MW Hi for 6-7 mtes. Cool completely & cut into 1 cm slices. In a shallow bowl, add tempering ingredients & MW Hi for 2 mtes. Now add sliced muthiyas & cook on combo mode ( MW + grill) for 7-8 mtes, till lightly browned. You can use radish or bottlegourd or methi also. The last [photo is with bottlegourd. Please go to Muthiyas to make on stove-top with wheat flour & besan.
MW Rava Sheera - ideal Prasad for sathyanarayan puja. This has less sugar & least ghee Ghee - 1 tbsp Rava - ½ cup Miilk - 2 cups (mixed with ¼ tsp powdered saffron) Sugar - ½ cup Raisins (plumped in water) - 1 tbsp Cardaom powder - 1 tsp Sliced almond & cashews - 1 tbsp, each MW ghee on Hi for 1 mte. Remove,add rava & mix thoroughly. MW on medium for 4-5 mtes, stirring twice till light golden. It may take 2-3 mtes more, depending on the individual oven. Remove & add saffron milk, stirring to prevent lumps. Add sugar, raisins, nuts & mix well. MW on Med heat till the water dries up & the mixture is soft. Spread on a greased plate & garnish with saffron, raisins, badham & cashews – press lightly. Cool & cut. I pressed into moulds & hence this shape.