Fruit Saasam

This is a Konkani dish. First we tasted this in Sarathy-Sucheta's wedding. This is a side dish with chapathis or puris.

INGREDIENTS:

• Fruits:- Banana 2, Mosumbi -1 or Oranges 4-5 (small), Apple - 1, Pineapple pieces- 1 small can, grapes -black or green-1 big bunch.
• To grind: 1Tbsp mutard, 2 red chillies, 1/2 cup coconut, little haldi, a piece of jaggery to taste.

METHOD:

• Cut all the fruits into 1 inch pieces and mix them ina bowl.
• Grind the spices to a fine paste with little water.
• Mix the paste with the fruits in the bowl.
• Add little salt to taste, and toss the salad uniformly.

This dish looks very delicious and goes very well as an extra dish with rotis. It is nice to eat as salad also.

SABHUDANA KICHADI AND POTATO RAITA

This is popular dish in Pune. Maharashtrians make this specially for fasting days.


Ingredients:
2 cups Sabhudana (Sabbakki)
1 cup peanuts
1 potato (big), boiled and cut onto cubes.
Seasoning: 2 tablespoons oil, 2 tsp jheera, 2 green chillies chopped.
Coriander leaves- chopped.

Method:

1. Soak Sabhudana in a microwavable bowl in water. Microwave for 2 mins. Then let it soak for 15 mins. Drain the water, and spread the sabhudana in a plate. Keep it for 30-45 mins, till the grains get soaked and separates out.
   
2. Roast peanuts, powder them very coarsely.
   
3. Mix peanut powder with the sabhudana in the plate evenly.
   
4. Keep a pan on the stove, add oil , when the oil is hot put jheera and green chillies and fry them for few secs.
   
5. Pour sabhudana mix in the kadai and keep mixing it with the seasoning slowly, Keep mixing carefully, so that NO LUMPS ARE FORMED. Add salt as per your taste. Sabhudana is very sticky, so keep separating the grains so they are cooked nicely and till all the grains are transparent.
   
6. Now add the potato pieces and Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
   
7. Remove from the stove.

Batata Raita

Ingredients:

2 cups plain yogurt,

2 medium size boiled potatoes and

seasoning-mustard and red chillies.

1. Mash potatoes in a bowl.
   
2. Beat the yogurt and add it to the potatoes.
   
3. Season with mustard and red chillies.
   
4. Garnish with khadi patta and coriander leaves.
   

Serve hot kichadi with raita, and a piece of lemon.
I hope you will enjoy this Marathi dish!!