Jolly Homemade Recipes

How to make Gajar Matar ki Sabzi - This Gajar Matar ki sabzi is so simple to make and an ideal side dish with roti or paratha. This is punjabi style dry sabzi made with very few spices and fresh peas, and winter red carrots. This is purely No Onion No Garlic recipe.

This healthy and yummy sabzi is normally made during winters time in the Northern parts of India.

This simple sabzi have a great taste,when cooked in winters time because winter carrots are sweeter in taste and together with fresh peas they taste best.

Why winters? Since red winter carrots and green peas both are fresh and seasonal veggie that we get during winter time in India. Well frozen peas are also easily available in markets throughout the year but they are no match if you compare their taste to the fresh one. You can also use orange carrots in it.

The gajar matar sabzi is staple food at my home. It is an exotic Punjabi delicacy, which is sauted and cooked in tomato with flavorful and aromatic Indian spices.

This recipe is adapted from my mother's kitchen. She prepares very well and too delicious. It is very popular North Indian dish especially in Punjabi families.

This is our lunch on last monday - I made this soulful sabzi as a side accompaniment with roti, pickle, and ofcorse curd. Curd is must for me with all dry sabzi's.

Sometimes I added potatoes in it, then that become aloo, gajar and matar ki sabzi. Addition of aloo in sabji tastes great. I always make some extra sabzi so that I can use leftover Aloo gajar matar sabzi to make Stuffed Paratha.

You can try end number of easy punjabi curry recipes like
aloo matar paneer curry, black chickpeas curry, kaddu ki sabzi, easy potato curry, black eyed bean curry

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Punjabi | North Indian
Total time : 30 minutes
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Fresh Red carrots / gajar - 1 cup
Peas shelled / hare matar / frozen peas - 1/2 cup
Tomatoes - 1 to 2 small tomatoes
Finely chopped ginger - 1 tsp (its optional)
Cumin seeds/ jeera - 1 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp as per taste
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Cooking Oil - 2 Tbsp
Fresh Coriander leaves for garnish

Preparation Method :

1. Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and chopped ginger. Cook for a minute till they start to pop a little.

2. Now add peeled and cubed carrots and shelled peas.3Add all spices turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and salt to taste and mix well.
3. Cover the pan/kadai with a lid, cooked the veggies with 1 minutes, so carrot and peas cooked well.

4. Once you check the veggies is cooked 60%, then add chopped tomatoes. Cook tomatoes for 6-7 minutes and add 2-3 tbsp water if required.

5. Cover the pan/kadai with a lid and cook for few minutes till tomatoes are well cooked and combined with veggies.

6. Keep stirring it in between so that it does not stick to the bottom of pan.When carrots are done sprinkle garam masala and mix well.

7. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with chapati paratha or poori.

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Funfetti Mug Cake Recipe - It's a light, fluffy, simple vanilla cake overflowing with colorful sprinkles that comes together in just a few minutes — a perfect way to celebrate a birthday, anniversary, or any special occasion!

Mug cakes are impeccable when you're a home and wanting for some cake. Rather than heating a whole cake, which can take up to two or three hours, a mug cake takes under 2 minutes, and you can make single serving as well!

Funfetti Mug Cake is my latest microwave mug cake incarnation, and this one is super yummy. I made this cake two times till today first on valentine day for my tiny valentine i.e my toddler aarush. and second time last weekend for my elder valentine ;) my husband. This is so delish mug cake, both of them really liked it.

What is Funfetti ?

Funfetti is a homemade sprinkle cake. The sprinkles cake was created in 1989 when the Pillsbury Company introduced a new type of cake that is called "Funfetti Cake". This is also called Confetti Cake. This was a white cake mix with multicolored sprinkles mixed into the batter and bake as usual.

Most recipes call for 1 min on high in the microwave, if the cake is still not baked yet, put it back on high in the microwave at 30 seconds burst until the top of the cake is dry.

You don't need to wait for any occasion when you're craving for cake or sweets, this is the better way to enjoy your cravings.

This mug cake batter takes only a couple of minutes to stir together, and then the cake bakes up in the microwave in another minute or two. That means you’re less than five minutes away from your own personal vanilla cake studded with happy, colorful sprinkles!

And if you want to make several mug cakes at once, simply multiply the recipe accordingly, stir up the batter in one bowl, divide it evenly between the appropriate number of mugs, and microwave them one at a time.

I just double the ingredients and used the batter in one mug and two wide microwave safe bowl. Looks like a party to me! HaHa

What You'll Need
- a mug
- measuring spoons
- fork/spoon

You can even try other easy snack recipes from my blog
eggless carrot cake
marbled coffee muffins
breakfast egg muffins
fudgy walnut brownie

Author : Jolly Makkar
Serves : 1 mug
Course : Dessert/ Cake
Cuisine : American
Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Total time : 5 minutes

Ingredients :

All-purpose flour / Maida- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons
Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Baking powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Milk, at room temperature - 1/4 cup
Salted butter, melted and cooled - 2 tablespoons
Natural vanilla extract - 1/2 teaspoon
Rainbow sprinkles - 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon

Preparation Method :

1. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, and baking powder until thoroughly, completely combined, with no streaks of any ingredients remaining.

2. Blend in milk, butter, and vanilla extract until batter is smooth. Quickly stir in 1 tablespoon of sprinkles.

3. Pour batter into microwave-safe mug or bowl with straight sides. Top with remaining 1 teaspoon sprinkles.

4. Microwave on high for 1 and 1/2 minutes (give or take 30 seconds depending on the strength of your microwave), or until cake is done to your liking.

5. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes before serving.

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Homemade Sambar Powder recipe with step by step photos - This is a combination of aromatic spices dry roasted and ground together to prepare this flavorsome powder. This powder is used to prepare a popular South Dish – Sambar.

Sambar powder is the essential spice mix that you will always find in every south Indian homes. Every homes has their own version of making it, and today I am sharing my mom-in-law recipe and my blogger friend recipe. So its a combo of both the recipes. This is also called sambar masala or podi.

Homemade spices are always best,very easy and quick process. Well, the answer is simple – it’s

No preservatives,
Unique Aroma and
WONDERFUL taste

I made this sambar powder this single jar which you seen in pictures. Because at my we usually don't eat sambar regularly, once in a week. If you are making in a regular base they you may consider make a larger batch of sambar powder.

Just store in a air-tight container. For that, you can just double all the quantity of ingredients.

This recipe is very simple just dry roast all the ingredients except turmeric powder, hing and blend it into a blender and keep it in a air-tight container for future use. You can use this masala with up to 8 months. Till 7 to 8 months month, it stays fresh.

I made this recipe as part of Recipe Swap challenge, where we get one partner blogger every alternate month...we visit so many blogger pace and we try to bookmark their recipes but never really find the time to try it.

In this challenge, we have chance to try their bookmarked recipes.... This month my partner is Renu Agrawal who blogs at cookwithrenu.com

She is just awesome baker and a very sweet person, she has lots of bread & cakes recipes in her blog which I really liked it..loved so many baking recipes, Do check her blog for more delicious recipes. Thanks Renu for this wonderful and aromatic sambar masala recipe.

This is my 4th recipe under this challenge
First recipe - Green Gram Dosa with peanut chutney
Second - Eggless Carrot Cake
Third - Shortbread Jam Thumbprint Cook

I have just added mustard seeds more on this recipe and rest of the ingredients are same with my partner recipe. I love mustard seeds in south-indian dishes, so I added into my masala recipe.

Check out other homemade spice powders recipe

barbeque masala
tandoori masala
chole masala
thandai masala

Author : Jolly Makkar
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Course: Masala / Indian spice
Cuisine: South-Indian
Recipe adapted from cookwithrenu

Ingredients :

16 whole dry kashmiri red chilli / lal mirch, adjust to your spice level
Coriander seeds / dhaniya seeds - 1/2 cup
Toor dal/Arha ki dal(Pigeon peas) - 1/4 cup
Chana dal(Split Yellow Lentils) - 1/8 cup (approx 2 tbsp)
Urad dal(Split White Lentils) - 1/8 cup (approx 2 tbsp)
Cumin seeds / jeera - 1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds / Methi dana - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds / rai - 1/2 tsp
Handful of curry leaves / kadi patta
Black pepper / whole kali mirch - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder / haldi - 1 tsp
Asafoetida / Hing - 1/4 tsp

Preparation Method :

1. Firstly gather all the ingredients, measure it out using with measuring cups or spoons and then we need to dry roast all the ingredients one by one.

2. Start with coriander seeds, take a thick bottomed pan add 1/2 cup of coriander seeds. Dry roast on low-medium flame till they turn aromatic. Stir constantly till they are aromatic and you notice a slightly change in color.

3. Remove in a bowl and allow to cool completely.

4. Next roast the dried red chillies, keep stirring till they are slightly dark in color. Remove in above same bowl and cool it out.

5. Next roast the chana dal, keep stirring and roasting for even browning. Remove them to the same bowl.

6. Next roast the curry leaves till they are crisp and no more moisture left. Remove them to the same bowl.

7. Next roast the toor dal, keep stirring and roasting for even browning. Remove them to the same bowl.

8. Next roast the urad dal, keep stirring and roasting for even browning. Remove them to the same bowl.

9. Next add mustard seeds to the pan. Once they start popping, remove it.

10. Then add fenugreek seeds(methi dana) till light brown.

11. Next add black peppercorns. Roast till they are aromatic and remove from the pan.

12. Next the cumin seeds, till they are aromatic. Do not roast too much.

13. Add turmeric powder and hing. Mix all the ingredients together.

14. Once cooled, transfer to the blender and now blend to fine and smooth powder.

15. Remove that powder in a bowl, while grinding it may become slightly warm and allow to cool completely.

16. Finally, sambar powder is ready, store in a air tight container and use to prepare sambar recipes.

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