Macaroni

Ingredients:
Spices:
-salt
-mustard seeds
-basil
-oregano (optional)
-chilli powder
-garam masala
Other:
-Macaroni
-oil
-water
-tomatoes
-onions (optional)
-mixed vegetables

Preparation:
1) In a mixer-grinder, make tomato puree with fresh tomatoes and keep it aside.
2) Simlarly make onion puree in mixer-grinder and keep it aside.
3) In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds.
4) once mustard seeds crackle, heat onion puree or paste prepared earlier for 5-7 minutes.
5) Put tomatoe puree prepared earlier and mix it well and let it cook for 5-7 minutes.
6) Add your chopped mixed vegetables in the pan with very little water, and let it cook with closed lid for about 10-15 min depending on vegetables you added.
7) While vegetables cook, take macaroni in separate container and heat/boil it with water as mentioned in macaroni box.
8) Once vegetables are cooked, add chilli powder, salt, basil, oregano and garam masala in it; mix it well.
9) Add cooked macaroni from another container to first pan(pan with vegetables, purees and spices) and mix contents well. Let it heat for 3-5 min.

Note:
Similarly pasta can be made. Just substitute macaroni with pasta.

Arbi paranthas and puris

Ingredients:
Spices:
-Salt
-Coriander powder
-Chilli powder
Other:
-Arbi
-oil
-Wheat flour
-water

Preparation:
1) make a medium to hard mixture of water and wheat flour, and give it 15 min before using.
2) Cook whole arbis(do not cut or peel) in plenty of water in cooker. Give about 4-5 whistles.
3) discard the water once cooker is cooled down.
4) let the arbis cool down; peel them
5) grate the cooked arbis in plate
6) add salt, coriander powder and chilli powder in the grated arbi and mash the mixture
7) make balls of previously prepared wheat flour mixture.
8) make flat paranthas or puris with the stuffing of arbi mix in wheat flour balls.
9) make puris or paranthas using oil.

Note: See attached video.

Channa Masala/ Punjabi Chole

Ingredients:
Spices:
-Salt
-Cumin(zeera in hindi)
-Channa masala
-Garam masala
-Asafoetida(heeng in hindi)
-Chilli powder
Other:
-Channa/Chole (soaked for about 10-12 hrs in water with baking soda)
-Tomatoes
-Ginger
-Onions(optional)
-Garlic(optional)
-Coriander leaves(optional for garnish)
-oil
-water

Preparation:
1) In a cooker, cook chole with plenty of water(for about 8-10 whistles). Give more whistles if not cooked.
2) In separate pan, heat oil, and add very little asafoetida, cumin seeds, chopped onion, chopped ginger and garlic paste.
3) Once onion turns ligt brown, add chopped tomatoes
4) Keep mixing/frying the contents in pan for 5-10 min on medium heat. When done add chilli powder and mix it.
5) Once Channa is cooked, mix the contents from pan into cooker.
6) Add salt,channa masala and garam masala in the cooker.
7) Add coriander leaves for garnishing the dish.

Note: Raw onion can also be added in channa masala if onion is not used in frying. It give different taste and that also tastes excellent, especially with bhature.

Plantain fry

Ingredients:
Spices:
-Salt
-mustard seeds
-big dry red chillies
-chilli powder
Other:
-plantain
-oil
-little water

Preparation:
1) cut plantain in small pieces.
2) in vessel heat oil and add mustard seeds and big dry red chillies.
3) once the mustard seeds crackle, add plantain pieces to cook with salt and chilli powder.
4) add very little water if needed
5) let it cook on low flame with closed lid.

Sambhar Masala

Ingredients:
Any combination of vegetables:
-guard
-beans
-carrot
-pumpkin
-eggplant
-etc.
Spices:
-Salt
-cumin seeds
-methi seeds
-mustard seeds
-big dry red chillies
-turmeric powder
-coriander powder
-sambhar powder
-chilli powder
Other:
-toor or Arhar daal
-water
-vegetable or corn oil
-onion
-tomatoes

Preparation:
1) cut the selected vegetables, onion and tomatoes in small pieces.
2) put the toor daal with cumin seeds, salt, turmeric pwder and water to cook in cooker. Give lot of whistles in order to over cook /or totally mashed daal.
3) in another vessle, put oil, mustard seeds, methi seeds, big dry red chillies and fry onion.
4) when onion is light brown, add tomatoes and make puree kind of it.
5) put the spices- salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and sambhar powder.
6) put all the vegetables and mix it well.
7) put water and let it cook with closed lid for 20 minutes. Or these can be cooked in cooker after 3-4 whistles
8) when the vegetables are cooked, open the lid. There should be good amount of water as Sambhar should not be very thick.
9) remove the cooker lid of daal and mash it with big spoon.
10) add cooked daal in vegetable vessle and let it simmer in low flame or heat.
11) add more spices if you find spices less or something.