kachha Amba(mango) sarbat

Ingredients:

1. Raw green mango-1 medium sized
2. Roasted jirra powder-1/4 tsp
3. Black salt- ¼ tsp
4. Sugar –as required
5. Mint leaves- 5 or 6 (optional)
6. Ice cubes- as required

Method of Preparation (10 mins)

1. Boil the mango in a cooker.
2. Cool and remove the cover and collect the pulp.
3.  Grind the pulp+ 1 cup water+sugar+mint leaves.
4. Add  more water  + Black salt+Roasted Jirra powder+Ice cubes
5.  serve chilled

step-1(Ingredients)

step-2(Ready sarbat)

Note:1 medium sizes mango will give 3 big glasses of sarbat.

Podo pitha

Ingredients

1. Rice- 1 ½ cups
2. Biri (Black gram)/udat dal- 1 cup
3. Jaggery/ Sugar – 500 grams
4. Cardamom (powder)- 1/2 tsp
5.  Black pepper powder- ½ tsp
6. Salt – 1 teaspoon
7. Coconut – ½ of coconut(grinded) and few cut pieces.
8.  Ground nut-15 or 20 seeds

Method of preparation:

1. Soak  Rice and  Biri  for 2 hrs and then grind to a fine paste.
2. Add salt + grinded   and few cut pieces of coconut+sugar+black pepper and cardamom  powder+ ground nut.
3. Mix well.
4. Pour the dough to kadei  smeared with little oil.
5. Bake  it for 30 mins in a very slim flame.
6. To check for pitha readiness, insert toothpick or fork. If the dough does not stick, its ready.
7. Allow the pitha to cool before cutting into pieces.

step - 1 (grinded paste of  soaked rice and black gram+ all  components added )

 step - 2(After baking in a kadei  for 20 /30  mis and removed )

 step - 3(Ready to serve)

Bingan Varta

Ingredients

1. 1 big brinjal.
2. 1 big onion(finely chopped)
3.  1 green chilli/red chilli powder
4. 6 to 7 garlic cloves(finely chopped)
5. 1 big Tomato (finely chopped or puree)
6. Few green peas(boiled)
7. 1 small  simla mirchi(finely chopped)
8. Few coriander leaves.( finely chopped)
9. Oil
10.  Salt
11. Few Mustards  
12. Few Jirra
13. Pinch of sugar

Method of Preparation

1. Smear oil over the entire brinjal so that the cover will come out easily.
2. Give  lots of small  cuts  over it  so that it will be cooked quickly .
3. Cook the brinjal  in gas flame.
4. Remove the cover and mash it properly.
5. Take little oil in a kadai. Put mustard+jirra+onion+ cloves+green chilli .
6. When it is done, add tomato+ simla mirchi+ salt.
7. After 5 mins , add brinjal+boiled green peas+ little sugar+ Coriander leaves.

STEP-1  and 2 

                                                           STEP-3

                                                                         STEP-4

                                                               
                                                                After STEP-5,6,7