Megha's Cooking

Aloo Chole Gravy Ingredients: White Chick Pea boiled - 1 cup Med Sized Potato boiled and diced - 2 Big Onions sliced - 2 Medium Tomato -3 pulped Green Chilles slit -3 Ginger / Garlic Paste - 1tbsp Chana Masala Home Made:  Spices to dry Roast and Grind :  Each 1 tsp - Cumin, Pepper, Coriander Cinamon a stick, Elaichi -3, Black Elaichi - 1, Fennel, Anardhana - 1tsp Alternatively you can use store available Chole Masala. Method: Saute onions till golden brown, add ginger garlic paste fry for a minute. Then add tomato pulp, 1 tsp curd, 1tsp turmeric powder, 2tsp red chilli powder, 2tsp garam masala powder, 2tsp chole masala and saute in low flame till oil seperates. Then add boiled chick pea and potato add salt to taste, add 1/2 cup water (preserve water while cooking chick pea and add). cook in low flame for 10 minutes. Finally add 1 tbsp fresh cream, 1 tsp chaat masala. Garnish with onion rings and coriander or cliantro. Serve hot.  ...

Kadugu Maanga Authentic Mango Pickle Recepy that blends along with the smell of summer. Pickling is a difficult art and getting the right blend of salt and spices is really a challenge, even for experience hands. Here is my first Vadu Maanga or Kadugu Maanga recepy. The real taste comes from the choice of sour mango variety. .the mangoes take at least a month to be ready for eating. Atlast I need to wait... Ingredients: Raw Tender Mangoes - 4 cups Crystal Salt - 1/4 cup Red Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp Turmeric Powder - 2 tsp Mustard Seed Powder - 1tbsp Gingelly Oil - 2 tsps Method  : In a large bowl mix mangoes and salt with the use of a spatula and leave it aside for 4 days. In between everyday morning and evening tumble the bowl to give it a nice mix. You can see the water starts appearing when the salt actually starts melting. The mangoes changes color here. On the forth day mix all the ground spices like red chilli powder. turmeric powder and mustard seeds...