Anshu's Food Odyssey

Aloo Moongfali ki Sabzi is a mildly spiced side dish/vegetable that is perfect to go along with your meals. Being a  no onion-no garlic recipe , it also makes for a tasty contender to your fasting (upwas) platter. Additionally, it is very easy and quick to prepare and requires only a handful of ingredients. One can have it vrat ka dosa, vrat ki poori or even vrat ka thalipeeth; and if not fasting, it can be paired well with normal chapati, parantha and dal-rice. Aloo Moongfali ki Sabzi | Potato & Peanut Stir Fry | Vrat Special INGREDIENTS Boiled, peeled and cubed medium sized potatoes - 3 to 4 Coarsely crushed roasted peanuts - 1/4 cup Finely chopped green chilies -  2 to 3 Finely chopped ginger - 1 tsp Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Curry leaves - a few Rock salt - to taste Black pepper powder - 1 tsp Ghee or Peanut oil (or normal refined oil) - 3 tbsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Lemon juice - 1/2 tbsp Fresh ch...

Recently my husband travelled to Ahmedabad and while returning brought a 3-in-1 dhokla/idli/patra steamer for me. Since then, I am always in lookout for opportunities to use this versatile steamer. Well! in the past 15 - 20 days I have already tried my hands making the instant KHAMAN DHOKLA and the 3 GRAIN DHOKLA , both of which were a big hit on my blog. It was now time again to experiment something new; and because we all are observing the Navratri fasts , there was no choice but to come up with a farali dhokla . A few days back, I was just scrolling through various blogs to find a dhokla recipe for the vrat (fasting) but each one listed a recipe that called for use of either eno or baking soda. Since I did not want to incorporate any of these ingredients in my fasting recipe, I thought of  going the old-fashioned way i.e. fermenting the batter overnight so that it gets a natural rise while steaming. And to my utter surprise, it actually worked. I got a nice spongy and flu...