Monday, September 8, 2008

Raw Mango Chutney

You need :
Raw mangoes : 2 (finely grated)
Red chillies : 6-9 ( depending on how spicy you want it to be)
Fenugreek seeds( Menthya): Half spoon
Mustard seeds ( Saasive ): 1 Spoon
A pinch of asafoetida ( Ingu )
A small piece of tamarind
A small piece of jaggery

Method :
Fry the red chillies, fenugreek seeds and half a spoon of mustard seeds in a frying pan for a couple of minutes.
Add them together with grated raw mango, asafoetida, tamarind and jaggery pieces, salt and grind them together until it becomes a rough paste. Take care not to not add too much of water while grinding them into the paste.
Seasoning :
Take a spoon of oil and heat it on low flame. Add half spoon of mustard seeds and a pinch of asafoetida to the oil and let the mustard seeds flutter. Add it to the chutney and mix well.

Raw mango Chutney is ready! It tastes best with rice, chapathis and rotis!

A Little talk

"Om Sri Ganeshaya Namaha"

I remember the time when I started searching for receipes online.
I had often heard that my fiance (now my husband) was an excellent cook.
He had to do his own cooking when he studied in England and stayed with a couple of his friends, all bachelors, missing their mom's cooking back home. Necessity is the mother of invention, isnt it ? Since then, he has kept experimenting with food and managed to cook something delicious every single time.
This kept me on my toes. I knew it was time for me to fine tune my culinary skills to impress HIM. It had to be not just good, but be the best, since he was already ahead of me in the race.
It was then that I started to look for receipes online, trying to find out anything vegetarian, from simple to something adventurous in food! Thanks to my researching skills,(huh ?) I have managed to get quite a number of vegetarian receipes online.
This blog is an effort to bring all kinds of vegetarian food receipes together. I know there are about a couple of hundreds of them online but I havent managed to find everything under a single banner.I will try and post in as many receipes as possible, all vegetarian, I would love to hear from should you have anything new. The receipes that will be posted may or may not be tried ones, so should you try them and they do not turn out to be the best, I will say "Good luck next time".
As I mentioned earlier, this is an effort to put everything vegetarian together !

Cheers
Shalz