Parwal is popular vegetable in Northern India. This recipe is dedicated to my Mom. She used to prepare it for our lunch boxes along with paratha. This is supper easy to cook and goes very well with daal -rice and roti or parathas. There are varieties of recipes made using Parval like aloo-parwal gravy, stuffted parwal dry, aloo-parwal fry and dum aloo-parwa.
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Mix Daal Khichdi
Khichdi is a light comfort food. It is very easy to prepare. Khichdi has many varieties and many of them are without vegetable basically only pulse and rice. In this recipe I have use vegetables and mixed pulses to give a different taste. You can tweak in with the vegetable of your choice.
Veg Stuffed Ragi Paratha
Veg Stuffed Ragi Paratha is made from Ragi and mix of vegetables. Ragi is very healthy for any meal. This recipe can be made only from Ragi flour however it’s comes out better if you add other flours like jowar flour, bajra flour and wheat flour. It goes very well with curd.
Sabudana Khichdi
Sabudana Khichdi is a Maharashtrian dish and mainly used during fasting. However this recipe is a variant from what is used during fasting. You may not want to use some ingredients from this which is not eaten during fasting. Please tweak in based on your tradition. It is also used as breakfast and also as snacks.
Homemade Curd( Yogurt)
Homemade curd is very easy to make and tastes awesome as well. Traditionally in villages it used to be made in clay pots and the taste of that used to be fresh with a nice aroma. Making curd at home is a simple procedure. In summer its made easily but in winter sometimes curd won’t come out good because of the cold temperature. You can find clay pots in Indian grocery stores. Curd is used as ingredient for many recipes.
Litti & Chokha
Litti (also called as bhouri in eastern India) & chokha is very popular and traditional dish from Bihar and Jharkhand. Traditionally litti is made on heat from coal or goyetha. Traditional food always give satisfaction to our taste buds. Litti is made with wheat flour and a filling prepared using sattu and some spices. This is very tasty and healthy dish. It can be made either by Frying or baking. It goes very well with baigan bhartha or potato and tomato chokha or simply with curd.
Stuffed Gobhi Paratha
Stuffed Gobhi Paratha is a delicious Indian bread prepared by stuffing spicy cauliflower mix in wheat flour dough and cooking it on a iron tava. The stuffed parathas are generally heavy and go well with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Serve it with curd or pickle and it tastes awesome.
Veggie Bread Pizza
Veggie bread pizza is great appetizer,snack or kids lunch boxes item as well. In this recipe I have used homemade pizza sauce but you can use store bought.You can use any kind of bread and veggies based on your liking. Kids love it when served with their favorite veggies and cheese.