Low Calorie Gobi Masala
Stir fried cauliflower cooked in tomato and onion based gravy with spices. It is a medium spicy dish and I have tried to make it with less oil or ghee, thereby making it a low calorie dish.
Serves: 3 to 4
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower (florets) – 1 small size
- Onion – (Sliced) 2 medium size, (chopped) 1 small size
- Tomato (Chopped) – 2 medium size
- Green chilly – 1 finely chopped
- Ginger garlic paste – 1/2 tsp
- Kitchen king masala – 1 tbsp
- Coriander powder – 1/4 tsp
- Cumin powder- 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
- Kasuri methi -1/4 tsp
- Kashmiri mirchi powder – 1/2 tsp
- Regular chilly powder – 1/4 tsp
- Cumin seeds -1 tsp
- Cashew nuts – 3
- Oil – 2 tsp
- Ghee – 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar to taste
- Coriander leaves – for garnishing
Procedure:
- Heat 1tsp oil in a kadai.
- Add cauliflower and stir fry.
- Simultaneously, heat 1 tsp oil in a pan and add sliced onion to it.
- Saute onion.
- Once onion turns translucent add tomatoes.
- By now cauliflower will turn slight brown and change its flavour. Sprinkle little salt and little water, cover and cook.
- Add cashew nuts to onion and tomatoes, allow it to cool.
- Make a fine paste of onion, tomatoes and cashew nuts.
- Heat ghee in a pan and add cumin seeds.
- Add chopped onion before cumin seeds crackle.
- Add ginger garlic paste and green chilly.
- Stir fry for few seconds.
- Add all the dry spices, stir fry for few seconds.
- Add ground paste and stir well.
- Add cauliflower, kasuri methi, salt and sugar.
- Mix well.
- Add required quantity of water. Simmer for 5 mins.
- Add coriander leaves and it is ready to serve.
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