#satvik food – Nandini's Blog : Spice & Secret

Ducks in a row is one of the simplest recipe for a kids party to make it even more fun filled and exciting. These edible ducklings were always there for our birthday party and was enough to bring a big smile on our faces along with an everlasting memories. These potato and sabudana chops are made by my mother herself for my blog as she was here with me to escape the harsh winters of North India and the craft has to be it’s best if it is by the master herself.

I am sure this simple recipe with sabudana and potato would definitely win your child’s heart and is worth million expensive gifts and ideas.

Ingredients

Potato : 2 boiled and mashed

Sabodana : 50 gms soaked overnight

Cummin powder : 1 tsp

Garam masala powder : ½ tsp

Corriander powder : 1 tsp

Grated ginger : 1 tsp

Chat masala : 1 tsp

Lemon juice : 1 tsp

Red chilli powder : ½ tsp

Clove : 8 to 10

Carrot : ½

Salt : as per taste

Corriander leaves

Oil : for frying

For slurry

Maida : 2 tsp

Water : 4 tsp

Salt : a pinch

Step 1

Take all the masalas along with mashed potatoes.

Step 2

Combine them all together.

Step 3

Grease your hand and give them a shape of a cutlet.

Step 4

Take small balls of the potato mix and place the clove and small rectangular shaped carrot as its eyes and beak respectively.

Step 5

Next with the help of toothpick fix the head over the cutlet.

Step 6

Now gently apply the slurry over the upper body of the bird and evenly spread the sabodana over its top

Step 7

In a thick bottom frying pan add oil and once medium hot gently place the duck and shallow fry them. Do not flip it but gently pour the hot oil over its head and upper body until the sabodana fluffs up and appears like feather.

Step 8

Take it out gently in an absorbent paper.

Step 9

Dish out the ducks in a row and enjoy it with sweet and tangy tamarind chutney.

Tip

Since it is a kid friendly recipe,the spice level is low but one can easily adjust it as per your taste.

या देवी सर्वभूतेषु शक्ति-रूपेण संस्थिता। नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः॥

Ma Durga, the Divine Mother is one of my favourite deity and all throughout the year I eagerly wait to welcome my ma during the festival of Dussehra. It retrieve my childhood memories of Durga Puja celebration in our ancestral temple. It was all about family reunion, food, devotion and joy. Although, I belong to a non vegetarian family, but it is only during this period that we happily embrace the vegetarian food and that also without onion and garlic. Something is there about this festival that makes the surrounding so devotional and pious. And so it’s the perfect time to go for a special satvik food and the recipe of ghant is indeed a must try food for such special occasions. Ghant is our family recipe of mixed vegetables along with few specific masalas. It tastes so delicious that you might definitely not miss the crunchy onion and flavourful garlic. Enjoy it with puri and wish you all a very happy and blessed dussehra.

Ingredients

Chole : 2 tsp soaked overnight

Potato : 2

Yam : 1

Pumpkin : 100 gms

Brinjal : 1 small

Doodhi : 100 gms

Radish : 1 small

Parwal : 2

Panch foran : ½ tsp

Aestofatid : ¼ tsp

Turmeric Powder : 1 tsp

Bayleaf : 3 to 4

Curd : 2 tsp

Ginger : 1 tsp

Salt : as per taste

Oil : 3 tsp

For dry powder

Coriander seed : 2 tsp

Cumin seed : 1 tsp

Peppercorn : 8 to 10

Fenugreek seeds : ¼ tsp

Saunf : ¼ tsp

Whole red chili : 2

Step 1

Soak the chole overnight.

Step 2

Cut all the vegetables in equal size.

Step 3

Dry roast the whole masala and make a masala powder out of it.

Step 4

Pressure cook the vegetables and chole along with salt, turmeric and bay leaf . ( Just two whistle)

Step 5

Take a pan and 4 tsp of oil. Once hot add hing and panch foran.

Step 6

Add grated ginger and saute it. Next add coriander powder, turmeric, red chilli powder along with salt.

Step 7

Once all the masala comes together add curd and stir them all together until the oil leaves the side of the pan. Then turn the vegetables in the pan and give them all a good mix and let it come to a boil.