Prabha Ki Rasoi - Recipes in Hindi and English

Masaledar Makka Bathua Aloo Poori Ingredients: Makka ka Aata (Maize flour) - 2 cups Whole wheat flour - 2 cups Potato (boiled and mashed) - 5 (medium size) Salt - 1.5 tsp or as per taste Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Ajwain (carom seeds) - 1 tsp Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Green chilies (deseeded and chopped) - 2 Bathua / chenopodium (boiled and squeezed) - 4 tbsp Oil - 4 tsp Oil for frying Puris Method: 1. In a large bowl add maize flour, whole wheat flour and mix nicely 2. Now add salt, red chili powder, ajwain, cumin seeds and mix 3. Add mashed potatoes, green chilies, bathua and combine well 4. Add 2 tsp Oil and mix 5. Adding warm water little by little make a bit hard dough 6. Cover and keep aside the dough for 20 minutes 7. Apply little oil on your palm and knead the dough again to make it smooth 8. Make small balls from the dough 9. Heat oil in a karahi for frying puris 10. Take a ball and mashing between your oiled palms make it very smooth 11. Apply little oil on rolling pin and roller b...

Instant Bathua Idli Ingredients : Sooji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Eno - 1 tsp Salt - 1 tsp or as per taste Bathua (boiled and squeezed) - 1/2 cup Green Chillies (finely chopped) - 1 tsp Ginger (grated) - 2 tsp Method : 1. Take sooji in a mixing bowl, add curd, salt  and mix nicely 2. Add bathua, green chillies, ginger and mix 3. Add 1/2 cup water and mix 4. If the batter appears thick add liitle more water and mix 5. Cover it and keep aside for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes if the batter is thick add little more water. 6. When you are ready to steam the idlis, add eno and mix 7. Add batter in the greased idli moulds 8. Steam the idlis for 20 minutes 9. Take out the idli plates from steamer and wait for 2-3 minutes 10. With the help of a knife take out the idlis from the moulds 11. Delicious, healthy winter special Instant Bathua Idli is ready 12. Enjoy the hot idlis with coconut chutney Tips to Remember : Wash bathua 2-3 times nicely before boiling as it contains lot of mud Add water a...

Soya Bathua Sabji Ingredients :   Bathua - 250 gms Soya chunks - 1 cup Onion (finely chopped) - 1 cup Tomato (finely chopped) - 1 cup Green chillies (finely chopped) - 1 tsp Ginger (grated) - 1 tsp Mustard oil - 2 tbsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Coriander powder - 2 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 tsp or as per taste Curd - 1/2 cup Method : 1. Remove the bathua leaves from the stem and discard the stem 2. Wash the bathua leaves 2 times nicely with water 3. Boil 2 cup water in a pan and add 1/2 tsp salt, soya chunks to it. 4. Cook for about 5 to 6 minutes or until the soya chunks become spongy and enlarged.  5. Next, run cold water over the cooked soya chunks to rinse them well.  6. Squeeze out any excess water from the soya chunks and keep them aside 7. Heat oil in a kadahi 8. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter 9. Add finely chopped onion and saute for a while 10. Add grated ginger, chopped green chillies and c...

Bathua Aloo Kachori Ingredients : Whole wheat flour - 2 cups Bathua - 500 gram Potato (boiled and grated) - 1 cup Green chillies - 2 Ginger powder - 1 tbsp Salt - 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp Coriander Powder - 1/4 tsp Carom Seeds - 1 tsp Hing (Asafoetida) - 1/4 tsp Desi Ghee - 1 tbsp Oil for frying Method : 1.  Cl ean bathua by plucking leaves and removing sticks and grass 2. Wash it with clean water 2 times 3. Add 1 cup water in bathua, cover and boil till bathua becomes tender 4.  Remove bathua from pan and strain away the excess water and keep the water as well 5. Press with your hands and remove the water nicely from bathua  6. Coarsely grind bathua and green chillies 7. Grate the boiled potatoes 8. Take wholewheat flour in a big plate and add ground bathua, ginger powder, salt, red chilli powder, coriander powder, carom seeds, hing, desi ghee and potato 9. Mix all the ingredients and using bathua water little by liitle make a hard dough....