Ingredients:
7 to 8 saru (Taro)
3 medium sized tomato cut into small pieces
2 green chillies chopped into pieces
1 tsp punch-phutana
3tsp mustard paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste(1 clove finely crushed Garlic)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp of oil
Salt to taste
Some coriander leaves
Process:
1.Boil Taro in water properly(Like potato) and peel them
,cut into pieces.
2. Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
and fry the taro for 5 mins and keep aside.
3.Heat a frypan and put tomatos with turmeric, salt and
little bit of water.
4.Allow them cook and then add mustard and garlic paste.Cook
them for 7-8 mins.
5.Add taro and water(1/2cup) and cook them for another
5 mins .
6.Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
7. Add the punch-phutana and let them splutter
8. Then add green chillies and mix it and
fry.
9.Add them the besar in step 6.
10. Add the cut coriander leaves and serve
Ingredients:
15-20 Vadi
3 medium sized tomato cut into small pieces
2 green chillies chopped into pieces
1 tsp punch-phutana
3tsp mustard paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste(1 clove finely crushed Garlic)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp of oil
Salt to taste
Some coriander leaves
Process:
1. Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
and fry the vadi for 5 mins till they turn brown and keep aside.
2. Heat a frypan and put tomatos with turmeric, salt
and little bit of water.
3. Allow them cook and then add mustard and garlic paste.Cook
them for 7-8 mins.
4.Add fried vadi and water(1/2cup) and cook them
for another 3 mins .
5.Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
6. Add the punch-phutana and let them splutter
7. Then add green chillies and mix it and
fry.
8.Add them the besar in step 4.
9. Add the cut coriander leaves and serve
Lau besara(Louki)
Ingredients:
1 small louki (lau) peeled and cut into small pieces
1 potato cut into small pieces
2 green chillies chopped into pieces
5-6 vadi(optional)
1 tsp punch-phutana
3tsp mustard paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste(1 clove finely crushed Garlic)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp of oil
Salt to taste
Some coriander leaves
Process:
1.Boil louki and potato in water properly
2. Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
and fry the vadi for 5 mins and keep aside.
3.add mustard and garlic paste.Cook them for 7-8 mins
with turmeric, salt and little bit of water.
4.Allow them cook
5.Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
6. Add the punch-phutana and let them splutter
7. Then add green chillies and mix it and
fry.
8.Add them the besar in step 4.
9. Add the cut coriander leaves and serve
Sajana Chhuin (Munga) besara
(Drum stick)
Ingredients:
7-8 drum sticks cut into 3 inch pieces
10-15 Vadi
3 medium sized tomato cut into small pieces
2 green chillies chopped into pieces
1 tsp punch-phutana
3tsp mustard paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste(1 clove finely crushed Garlic)
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp of oil
Salt to taste
Some coriander leaves
Process:
1. Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
and fry the vadi for 5 mins till they turn brown and keep aside.
2. Again heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the
oil and fry the drum sticks 5 mins till they turn brown and cover
it
till it is cooked.
3. Heat a frypan and put tomatos with turmeric, salt
and little bit of water.
4. Allow them cook and then add mustard and garlic paste.Cook
them for 7-8 mins.
5.Add drumsticks and water(1/2cup) and cook
them for another 7-8mins and then add fried vadi and cook them for
3 mins.
6.Heat a fry pan in medium heat and then add the oil
7. Add the punch-phutana and let them splutter
8. Then add green chillies and mix it and
fry.
9.Add them the besar in step 5
10. Add the cut coriander leaves and serve
Chhatu besara (Oyster Mushrooms)
Contributed By Jhili from North Carolina
Ingredients:
250 gms of oyster mushroom canned or fresh ( fresh will be better)
1 patato washed & sliced in to small pieces
1 Dried mango slice ( ambula ) or tamarind ( tentuli )
1 tsp punch-phutana
3tsp mustard paste( grind 3 tsp mustard+1 red chilli+1 clove
garlic )
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
3 tsp oil
salt to taste
Process:
1) make slices of the mushrooms in hand & dip them in water
with some
turmeric powder for a while.Then squeeze the mushroom from water
& keep aside.
2) Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan & fry the squeezed mushroom in
medium flame. Add
some salt in to it.
3)Again heat some oil in a pan & add punch-phutan then the
sliced patatoes.
Add turmeric power & salt as required , then add the mustard
paste with some
water .
4) cover up the pan for 10 to 15 mins then add the fried mushroom
& dried
mango slice.Wait for all the water evaporates from the pan .
After that ur
chattu besara is ready for lunch or dinner table.
Bhendi besara (Okra cooked with
mustard)
Contributed By Sushreeta Barpanda from Detriot, MI
Ingredients:
1 pkt frozen / 1 lb Fresh okra(bhendi)
2 cups yogurt (thick)
2 tbs of mustard paste
3 tomatoes cut into peices
1 medium onion (cut into halves and sliced lenghtwise)
1 sp panch phutan( mustard, methi, sauf, ,jeera ,fenal)
1 sprig of curry leaves
1 sp gram flour (besan)
salt to taste
turmeric
oil
1 sp of garlicand ginger paste
Process:
1 First wash, dry and fry the
okra in an open pan with some oil till they are soft and keep it
aside
2 Then in a deep dish put some
oil and add panch phutan and curry leaves. When they start
to
splatter add onion and fry till translucent. then add
tomatoes and cook till they leave oil.
3 Mix well yogurt, besan, mustard paste
& ginger garlic paste and pour it into the dish. Let it boil ,
add
salt and turmeric . then add fried okra bring to a boil and
switch off heat
4 Bhendi besara is prepared . Serve with rice
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