Mixed vegetable rice – 6+ months

Ingredients:
1.  Mixed vegetables (potato, carrot, beans) – 1/2 cup chopped
2. small onion – 1
3. Salt as reqd
4. oil – 1/2 tsp
5. Ghee – 1/2 tsp
6. Mustard seeds – 1/6 tsp
7. Pepper pwdr – 1 pinch
8. Turmeric pwdr – 1/4 tsp
9. curry leaves – few
10. Garlic  – 1 pod
11. Moong dal or toor dal – 1 [...]

Chicken fry (semi dry)

Ingredients:
1. Chicken – 1/2 kg
2. Onion – 3 med size
3. Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbsp
4. Shallots (small onions) – 7 or 8
5. Chilli pwdr – 1/2 tsp
6. Chicken masala pwdr – 1/2 tsp
7. Chilli chicken pwdr – 1 tsp
8. Salt as reqd
9. oil as reqd
10. Ghee
11. Dry red chillies – 5 or 6
12. Fennel [...]

Toor dal rice – 6+ months

Ingredients:
1. Toor dal – 2 tbsp
2. Salt as reqd
3. oil -1 tsp
4. Ghee – 1/2 sp
5. Mustard seeds – 1/5 tsp
6. Curry leaves
7. Garlic – 1 pod
Method:
1. Pressure cook toor dal with salt, 1/2 tsp oil, garlic and a pinch of turmeric pwdr.
2. Pour oil in a pan n splutter mustard seeds n curry leaves.
3. [...]

Tomato rice – 6+ months

Ingredients:
1. Tomato – 1 small
2. Rice – 1/4 cup
3. salt as reqd
4. turmeric pwdr- 1/6 tsp
5.  mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp
6. oil – 1/2 tsp
7. Ghee – 1/2 tsp
8. Garlic – 1 pod
Method: 1
1. Boil tomatoes n garlic together. Remove the skin n grind it to a fine paste.
2. Pour oil in a pan, splutter [...]

Egg rice – 6+ months

Ingredients:
1. Egg – 1
2. Rice – 1/4 cup
3. Salt as reqd
4. Ghee – 1/2 tsp
Method:
1. Boil the egg n seperate the yellow yolk.
2. Break the yellow yolk into fine pieces with a spoon.
3. In a bowl, smash the rice n add salt n ghee to it.
4. Then add the smashed yellow yolk n blend it together [...]

Green rice (Keerai rice) – 6+ months

Ingredients:
1. Any keerai – 1/4 of the bunch, cleaned n chopped finely.
2. rice – 1/4 cup
3. Moong dhall – 1 tbsp
4. Salt as reqd
5. Ghee – 1/2 sp
6. turmeric pwdr – 1/5 tsp
7. Garlic – 1 pod
Method:
1. Clean n boil moong dhall in water with salt, garlic n turmeric pwdr, until it is semi cooked.
2. Then add [...]

Chicken rice – 7+ months

Ingredients:
1. Rice ( cooked) – 1/4 cup
2. Chicken – 1 piece (2 inches)
3. Small onion (shallots) – 2
4. Pepper pwdr – 1 pinch
5. salt as reqd
6. Turmeric pwdr – 2 pinch
7. Ghee – 1/2 tsp
8. Garlic – 1 pod
9. Ginger – 1 cm piece
10. Fennel or mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp (optional)
11. oil – 1/2 tsp
Method:
1. Grind together [...]

Carrot rice (6 – 12 months)

This is SAMz favourite !!!
Ingredients:
1. Rice (cooked) – 1/4 cup
2. Carrot – 1 small
3. Garlic – 1 pod
4. Ghee – 1/2 tsp
5. Turmeric pwdr – 2 pinch
6. Salt as reqd.
Method:
1. Peel the skin n cut the carrot into small pieces.
2. Add salt, 1 cup water, turmeric pwdr, carrot in a pan (or pressure cook) until the [...]

Vegetable Biriyani – I

I learned this recipe from my Mom.
Required:
1. Basmati / zeera rice : 2 cups
2. Onion : 2 big (sliced)
3. Tomato : 1 small (sliced)
4. Ginger : 2 inch
5. Garlic : 10 Shallots
6. Cloves : 2
7. Cinnamon : 1 inch
8. Chilli powder : 1 tbsp
9. Salt n oil n Ghee : As reqd
10. Coriander leaves : [...]

Chicken Masala

This Chicken recipe is a combo derived from my and my preparation. And then a variation added from my dear friend Bhony’s Mom.
It goes well with rice, Chappathi n Biriyani.
Required:
1. Chicken : ½ kg
2. Onion : 2 big
3. Ginger : 2 inch
4. Garlic : 10 Shallots
5. Cloves : 2
6. Cinnamon : 1 inch
7. Pepper Corn [...]