Ekpani (Centella) Chutney

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:25:00 +0530

Ekpani (‘One Leaf’ in Konkani) or Indian Pennywort or Centella is a nutritious herb found in parts of Asia and Indian subcontinent. It mostly grows in fields with water available in plenty. You can also plant it in your home garden, you must water it regularly. Plant it in a rectangular container which has enough space for it to spread. It will fill the container and you can then harvest the leaves according to your needs.

I have planted it some two three months back and it has already filled the container.

Cut the leaves just above the roots, don’t uproot whole cluster, new leaves will grow in place the harvested ones.

Now Lets get to the chutney :)

Ingredients

A hand-full of Centella or Ekpani
½ coconut grated.
8 Green Chillies (add more if you want it more spicy).
1 gooseberry sized seedless Tamarind.
¾ Inch Ginger.
Pinch of Jaggery.
Salt to taste.

Corn & Herb Pulao with Paneer

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:24:00 +0530

Today I am going to share a winter special dish; it is called Corn & herb Pulao with Paneer, This recipe highly nutritive with all the herbs and corn in it, Corn contains folic acid,Vitamin C,and insoluble fibre, along with Ajwain it helps us to tackle some common digestive problems,this recipe contains vitamin a and vitamin c , minerals such as iron, copper and calcium.

We will also put some dry fruits to make it super healthy :) . As the name says it also contains herbs like Ajwain mint etc. You’ll need roughly about 50 minutes to make this dish.

So what are we waiting for lets get started. The ingredients we will require for this dish are listed below :

Ingredients

Basmati Rice – 2 Cups (soaked for 30 minutes - this is important see note below )
Sweet corn kernels - 1/2 cup,
matar (shelled peas) - 1/2 cup,
raisin –15,
fresh Ajwain leaves two or three,
5 cashews (halves),
fresh mint leaves two or three,
Curry leaves (kadi-patta) – 10 leaves
green chillies – 6
ginger – 1 inch piece
Curd – 1 tbsp.
ghee – 2tsp.
coriander leaves 1/2 cup – chop these finely
coconut scraped – 2 cup,
1 whole lemon juice,
Garam masala powder – 1/4,
Turmeric Powder 1/2 tsp.
Green Chutney – 1 tsp.
Paneer – 1/2 cup
cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp.
mustard seeds 1/2 tsp.
salt to taste

Herbs on Kamath's Kitchen

Ekpani (Centella) Chutney

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Corn & Herb Pulao with Paneer

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