Amla Curry - Healthy Curry

This is also another of those fruit which I could not think where a curry would be made but here is the ingredient of the Amla Curry, very simple very easy.

Ingredients:

1. 6 Pieces of Amla
2. Oil
3. Salt, Red Chilli Powder, Turmuric, Jeera, Hing, Sauf, Sugar all things according to taste

How to Make:

1. First we will need to steam the amla this is an important process.
2. Take a pressure cooker and then pour water in the base. Take a plate with holes in it and put it over the water. Note that water should not touch the plate.  Do not cut the Amla just drop them over the plate
3. Close the pressure cooker lid and steam the Amla till 2 whistles.
4. Open the lid you will see that Amla is all soft and broken up. Clean up the seeds of Amla.
5. Keep it to cool in room temperature. 
6. Add Oil in another Kadai and then add 1 tea spoon of jeera, sauf and hing. 
7. Cook till you hear pop sound of Jeera.
8. Then add Amla in the Kadai
9. Cook for sometime and then add Red Chilli Powder, Turmeric and Salt according to taste.
10. Cook again for sometime and then add Sugar according to the taste just to give a sweet flavor to the Amla
11. Cook for a min and remove the kadai from the heat. Put the lid over the kadai just to that the flavors mix together. 
12. You can eat with Roti or Rice. 

You will have the typical Amla Taste with a bit of sugary flavor.

Brinjal aka Eggplant aka Aubergine Salad

Ingredients:

One large Brinjal

Very little cooking oil

One brush

For salad:

Finely chopped onion

Finely chopped tomato

Curd

Finely chopped coriander
Chopped green chilies
Crushed black pepper

Jeera powder

Salt

Brush oil on one large brinjal. Roast the same on the gas directly (you could use a microwave or you can keep an iron mesh on the gas for this) for 8-10 minutes or till the covering starts cracking, Keep aside for cooling. Meanwhile prepare the salad items in a bowl. Now remove the cover and mash the white portion of the brinjal in a bowl. Use the liquid that oozes out of the cooked brinjal – don’t throw this – it adds to the taste. Mix with the ingredients for salad. Keep in fridge. Serve with bread/roti or have as it is.

Enjoy!