Get these things together and I will teach you how to make vegetable curry and then make vegetable upma with it.

I created the food site and recipe blog for my mother.

On this mother’s day I would like to announce a contest.

I hardly spend any time in the kitchen and my mother keeps couriering me things that will save my cooking time. My mother knows I spend all my waking hours working on the laptop and I hardly find time to cook. If I am alone at home I don’t cook at all.

My mother has been testing and tweaking ready-to-make powders, most of them add-only-water types. She is a perfectionist. More than that she is concerned about my health. So she has been experimenting in her old-fashioned kitchen. She has been inventing recipes that are easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste. She is very particular about the nutritional qualities of the recipes and the cooking time.

I am nearing 55 and my mother is nearing 80. This experiment and innovation born out of necessity has been going on for over 30 years. My mother started cooking when she was 15 and she has over 60 years of experience in churning out delicious dishes that the family loves.

We are planning to celebrate her 80th birthday. By next year I want as many people as possible to have tasted her creations. I want people who have relished her creations send her a heart-felt wish.

My uncle who has retired after putting in years of service in a national food and research institute says, “I am very proud of my sister. I wonder how she manages to do single handedly what a National Institute did with expensive machines and hundreds of employees”.

Here are a couple of sample feedback I have received.

Annabelle Loves Chutney Powder

Hi Rangoo, we tried the dosa mix two nights ago. It was great. Both my kids loved them and we had seconds. It was easy to mix and cook, and the chutney with the coconut was outstanding. Excellent, nutritious and easy, like having a little bit of Southern India at home in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thanks!!!

Annabelle Nelson

Mike Seiler Loves Instant Dosa Mix

The Instant Dosa Mix (Indian Pancakes) arrived very quickly. It was a joy to be able to make our own Dosas without having to spend a lot of time tracking down ingredients. Besides, the Instant Dosa Mix tasted better than when I put the ingredients together myself anyway.

The convenience can’t be beat!

We ran out far too soon because the mix was so delicious. The whole family is anxiously waiting for more.

- Mike and Rachel, Boulder, Colorado, USA

There are many more like this. People call me on the phone and chat with me and share with me how much they loved the instant mixes, the comfort of reducing hours of cooking time to minutes and the healthy, natural ingredients that provide a balanced diet.

Triple R Curry Recipe Contest 2008

Rukmini’s Rare Recipes Curry Recipe Contest is open to all food lovers.

Get a packet of my mother’s curry powder, all-in-one masala powder. Prepare any vegetarian or non-vegetarian dish using the curry powder. Send us your recipe with a beautiful picture. Or send us a video of how to cook your recipe.

Each month one recipe will be selected as the Best Curry Recipe of The Month.

At the end of the year, that is on Mother’s Day 2009 the best of the best recipe will be announced.

Submit the recipes at Indian Healthy Recipe

I will confirm the receipt of the recipes. Please save a copy of your recipe and the date of submission.

The entrance fee for the contest is $9.97.

$9.97

I wanted to keep this competition free. But I need to send you the curry powder packet. This amount will partly cover the shipping cost of the curry powder packet I will send you. If you are in India and would like to participate in the contest, please let me know.

Prize

1. The most important prize is the traffic you are going to get to your blogs. The winning recipe will be published with your photo and detailed information about your site or blog.

2. The second best part of the prize is the ebook that will be created with all the recipes received. All participants will get a branded copy of the ebook that you can use anyway you like.

3. In addition to these prizes I would like to give you a cash prize of $100 for the trouble you are taking to help me spread the word about my mother’s talent.

You are welcome to send me your comments, feedback and suggestions on this contest. You can post a comment on this blog or send them to my help desk.

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Aloo Bonda

Potato is called Aloo in Hindi.

Ingredients to make Aloo Bonda

Potato curry - 1 cup

Chickpea flour - 2cups

Water - 1/2 cup

Cooking oil - 1/2 ltr (for frying the aloo bonda

curry powder - 1/2 tsp

lemon juice - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Make potato curry as explained in the previous post:

Potato Curry and Masala Dosa

- Roll potato curry in small balls (a small lemon size)

- Take the chickpea flour in a bowl, add curry powder and salt

(curry powder is free with instant dosa mix)

Alternatively you can add garam masala or chillie powder.

- Add water little by little and mix the chickpea into a smooth paste.

- Add a pinch of cooking soda (optional)

- Add the lemon juice and mix well (optional)

- Warm the cooking oil over medium heat in a deep frying pan.

- Take a potato ball, dip it in chickpea paste and roll it so as to cover it completely with chickpea paste.

- Gently drop the potato balls, dipped in chickpea paste, one by one, into the warm oil.

- Deep fry the potato balls in warm oil. At a time you can fry five or six balls together.

- Roll the balls in oil so that all sides are evenly friend.

- When well fried the bondas will turn golden brown.

You can eat the aloo bondas with tomato sauce or mustard paste.

You can also eat the bondas with coconut chutney (free with instant dosa mix)

Potato Curry, Aloo Bonda and Masala Dosa

Potato curry is used for aloo bonda as well as making masala dosa.

1. How to make potato curry

Ingredients Per serving

Main Ingredient

Potatoes - 2 big ones or 3 small

Grated coconut (optional) 2 tsp

Curry Powder - 1 tsp

Cooking oil - 1 tbs

“Tadka” - Special Garnishing

(It is possible to do the garnishing only with mustard seeds. All the other ingredients add flavour and nutrition but it is possible to do without them.)

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

chickpea dal - 1/2 tsp

White lentil dal - 1/2 tsp

red chilly - 1

Green chilly - 1

Curry leaves - 3

Coriander leaves - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida - one pinch

There are two ways of making potato curry.

1. You can peel and cut the potatoes in thin slices and make the curry.

2. You can cook the whole potatoes in pressure cooker or micro oven and then make the curry.

1. Potatoes chopped

- Take a deep frying pan, place it on the stove over medium heat.

- Add a tbs of cooking oil.

- When the oil is warm add the mustard seeds.

- When the mustard seeds start popping, add the chick pea and white lentil dal as well as the red and green chillies.

- Add the curry leaves and coriander leaves.

- Add the chopped potatoes and mix well.

- Keep stirring the potato and cook it over medium heat.

(Alternatively you can do part of this process in the micro oven. After the mustard seeds pop up, you add the chopped potatoes, mix well and then keep it in micro oven for 10 minutes.)

- Add a tsp of curry powder. (you get this curry powder free with instant dosa mix)

You can also add garam masala powder if you do not have the curry powder.

- Add salt to taste.

- Add grated coconut (optional)

- Cook until the potato is soft and well cooked. You can stick a fork into it and check if it has turned soft. The fork will pass through easily when potato is well cooked.

Transfer the potato curry to a serving bowl. Decorate with coriander leaves and curry leaves.

2. Potatoes cooked whole

Cook the potatoes whole along with the skin in a pressure cooker or micro oven.

If you are cooking it in a pressure cooker you may need to wait for three or four whistles.

If you are cooking in micro oven you need to keep it at high for 10 minutes.

Peel the skin of the potatoes. If you are peeling the potato when the potatoes are hot, you may need to use cold water to cool the potatoes.

- Take a deep frying pan, place it on the stove over medium heat.

- Add a tbs of cooking oil.

- When the oil is warm add the mustard seeds.

- When the mustard seeds start popping, add the chick pea and white lentil dal as well as the red and green chillies.

- Add the curry leaves and coriander leaves.

- Add the chopped potatoes and mix well.

- Add a tsp of curry powder and salt to taste.

You can add more or less curry powder depending on how spicy you want the potato curry to be.

Cook for a minute, constantly stirring till the curry powder and the potato get mixed well.

Transfer to a serving bowl and decorate with coriander and curry leaves.

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Aloo Bonda

Potato is called Aloo in Hindi.

Ingredients to make Aloo Bonda

Potato curry - 1 cup

Chickpea flour - 2cups

Water - 1/2 cup

Cooking oil - 1/2 ltr (for frying the aloo bonda

curry powder - 1/2 tsp

lemon juice - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

- Roll potato curry in small balls (a small lemon size)

- Take the chickpea flour in a bowl, add curry powder and salt

(curry powder is free with instant dosa mix)

Alternatively you can add garam masala or chillie powder.

- Add water little by little and mix the chickpea into a smooth paste.

- Add a pinch of cooking soda (optional)

- Add the lemon juice and mix well (optional)

- Warm the cooking oil over medium heat in a deep frying pan.

- Take a potato ball, dip it in chickpea paste and roll it so as to cover it completely with chickpea paste.

- Gently drop the potato balls, dipped in chickpea paste, one by one, into the warm oil.

- Deep fry the potato balls in warm oil. At a time you can fry five or six balls together.

- Roll the balls in oil so that all sides are evenly friend.

- When well fried the bondas will turn golden brown.

You can eat the aloo bondas with tomato sauce or mustard paste.

You can also eat the bondas with coconut chutney (free with instant dosa mix)

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Masala Dosa

Ingredients

Instant Dosa Mix 1 cup

Water 2 cups

Potato curry - 2 tbs

Cooking oil - 2 tsp

Take the dosa mix in a small bowl, add water little by little.

Mix well to get dosa batter without knots.

The batter should be thin enough to easily spread.

Place a flat pan over medium heat.

Smear the pan with a little oil. (You can roll a tissue paper into a tiny ball, dip it in oil and smear the pan)

Take a ladle full of dosa batter and spread it in a circular shape on the flat pan.

Add a tsp of cooking oil around the corners of the dosa.

Cook for a minute.

Take a spatula, pass it around the corner of the dosa.

Slightly lift a corner and check if it has turned golden brown.

Spread potato curry on one half of the dosa.

Fold the other half to cover the potato curry.

Flip the dosa.

Add a tsp of oil and cook for a minute.

Now masala dosa is ready to eat.

You can eat it with chutney, dal or any other side dish such as Tomato sauce or mustard paste.

There are a number of types of Instant Dosa Mix and you can cook a variety of healthy Instant Dosa Recipes.

For example, here are a few of the Instant Dosa Powders:

1. Plain Dosa Mix

2. Masala Dosa - Plain Dosa Mix can be used for this too

3. Adai Dosa - Lentil Dosa

4. Wheat Dosa

5. Rava Dosa

If you take any one of these a variety of Instant Dosa Recipes can be prepared.

Let us take Adai Mix. This mix has rice and all the pulses in different proportions to make a nice blend and help us prepare delicious “adai”.

Take one cup of Adai Mix and add two cups of water - your batter is ready. Everything else including salt and spices are added to the mix.

Now using this Instant Adai Dosa Mix you can prepare…

1. Plain Adai

Just take a ladle full of adai batter, make a circular shape on a flat pan, cook over medium heat, add two tea spoons of cooking oil, flip and cook for haf a minute - and you are done!

2. Onion Adai

Take a ladle full of adai batter, make a circular shape on a flat pan, cook over medium heat, add two tea spoons of cooking oil, sprinkle finely chopped onion on the adai, flip and cook for a minute - and you are done! The onion will get roasted and the adai will get cooked - and the smell will make you hungry

3. Carrot Adai

Make adai in the same way as before. This time sprinkle grated carrot before flipping the dosa. This is a healthy nutritious food and good for children and old people too.

4. Cheese Adai

Grate cheese over the adai cooking over medium heat. Fold the dosa before flipping.

5. Green Adai

Take green vegetables such as peas, spinach, curry leaves, coriander, etc. Add them to the adai mix along with the water. Mix well, take a ladle full and make adai as before.

6. Mixed Vegetable Adai

You can add finely chopped pieces of your favorite vegetables to the adai mix along with water and make the adai.

Alternatively you can cook these vegetables with the curry powder and then prepare a sandwich by keeping it between two adais.

Using your imagination and creativity you can churn out a variety of dishes using the plain dosa mix or the adai mix. By adding vegetables we improve the nutritious value of the dish and it becomes a complete meal.

The curry powder adds an exotic taste to the vegetables. The chutney powder is a very tasty side dish that goes with the dosa perfectly.

Try out these instant dosa recipes and send me your questions, clarifications or feedback.

And don’t forget we have a variety of instant mixes for Indian Recipes.

Video: Tomato dal with Instant Ready Mix Curry Powder

To add more value to the instant dosa mix package we have added:

1. Free Chutney Powder

2. Free Curry Powder

3. Indian Cooking Video Tutorials CD

The video instruction includes ‘How to cook’

1. Different Types of Upma

2. Different Types of Dal

3. Different Types of Vegetable Curry

4. Different Types of Dosas

5. Desserts

Special Bonus

Special Personal Coaching on a Recipe of Your Choice

If you are our regular customer, we will prepare a special video for you. You can choose the recipe you want to learn. We will prepare the video and send it to you. You can also get personal help through email, chat and phone call.

Alternatively, you can ask us to prepare and send you a favorite recipe of your choice.