[Ekadesi] Sabudana Kichdi

Ingredients:

Sabudana - 1 cup

Potatos - 2 small to medium size

Roasted peanuts - 1/2 cup

Curry leaves -  1 string

Grated Ginger - 1 tsp

Green chillies - 2

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp.

Salt as needed

Method:

1. Soak sabudana overnight or for 4-5 hours. Water should just cover the sabudana. Otherwise Kichdi will be soggy.
2. While cooking, drain the water and wash it well under the running water to remove the starch.
3. Boil the potatoes, peel and chop them.
4. Coarsely grind the roasted peanuts.
5. Mix the peanut powdered peanuts, salt and sabudana.
6. Heat oil in a kadai and add cumin seeds.
7. Once it splutters add the curry leaves and green chillies.
8. Fry them for few seconds and add ginger.
9. Fry it till raw smell goes off and then add chopped potatos and saute it for few minutes.
10. Now add and keep stirring it.
11. When the sabudana becomes translucent, take it off the stove.

Now it is ready for offering to Krishna.

[Ekadesi] Pizza

Thanks Narottam Prabhu for the wonderful recipes and Vidya Mathaji for the step by step pictures.

Ingredients:

Pizza Base:

Boiled Potatoes - 1 can
Potato Starch Powder - one handful
Olive Oil - 1 tbsp.
Salt - a pinch

Tomato Sauce:

Cooking tomato base
Olive Oil - 2 tbsp.
Italian herbs - few pinches
Chilli flakes - few pinches

Toppings:

Vegetables of your choice
Shredded cheese - as needed
Parmesan style cheese - as needed (IMP: Parmesan cheese has rennet. We should not use it. we should use parmesan style cheese)
Italian herbs - few pinches


Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients given under the Pizza ingredients and prepare the dough same as chappathi dough

2. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C
3. Spread it evenly in pizza tray and bake it for 15 minutes

4. After 15 minutes take it out from the oven and let it cool down

5. In the mean time prepare the tomato sauce
6. Heat olive oil in a kadai
7. Add Italian herbs, tomato base, chilli flakes and salt

8. Take it off the stove once it starts boiling
9. Turn the pizza base and apply the prepared tomato sauce

10. Spread the shredded cheese

11. Spread the vegetables like capsicum, tomatoes

12. Again spread the shredded cheese on top of it
13. Now spread the Parmesan cheese



14. Sprinkle some Italian herbs
15. Bake the pizza for few minutes till the top layer of cheese becomes brown



Now the pizza is ready for offering to the Lord.