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ekadasi cooking
Guru-nistha Das - May 2, 2010 12:56 am
What do you all eat on ekadasis? I'd like to build up a good stock of recipes for ekadasi preps and I'd love to get some recipes from you. We make quinoa kitchari too often, some variety is needed.
Braja-sundari Dasi - May 2, 2010 1:10 am
What do you all eat on ekadasis? I'd like to build up a good stock of recipes for ekadasi preps and I'd love to get some recipes from you. We make quinoa kitchari too often, some variety is needed.
I guess you can make famous Madhuvan plantain subji (you can substitute plantains with unriped bananas I suppose). Do you have this recipe? I think you invented it...
Platains are great for Ekadasi- they can be boiled, fried, deep fried
Matt - May 2, 2010 1:14 am
What do you all eat on ekadasis? I'd like to build up a good stock of recipes for ekadasi preps and I'd love to get some recipes from you. We make quinoa kitchari too often, some variety is needed.
I too am trying to build up a recipe catalog, but I have been enjoying a good number of sweet potato fries on ekadasi. You can make them like french fries or just cut them in fry-like shape and roast them with oil and a bit of salt like you would with any other veggie. It is super simple but they are really good.
Madan Gopal Das - May 2, 2010 1:17 am
palak paneer, sour cream subji, curd steaks(!), potato pancakes, buckwheat muffins(!!!), grilled veggies with pesto, 1/2d potato/sweet potatoes baked in ghee masala, pan fried/steamed beets, mashed potato pizza... that's off the top of our heads. Call Gaurangi, she'll hook you up with recipes.
If you're in a hurry or out on the town and can't prepare, we've been having potato chips dipping in cottage cheese mixed with avocado... yum!
Hari Bhakti - May 2, 2010 3:53 pm
Adiraja's maha brinjal with the addition of some paneer with quinoa, I am also a big fan of the cottage cheese/fruit combo.
also Prema mentioned to me a tomato/curd soup, the base made from whey of the paneer...maybe she'll post the recipe for us?
Prema-bhakti - May 2, 2010 4:24 pm
Adiraja's maha brinjal with the addition of some paneer with quinoa, I am also a big fan of the cottage cheese/fruit combo.also Prema mentioned to me a tomato/curd soup, the base made from whey of the paneer...maybe she'll post the recipe for us?
Yes, maha brinjal is great. Audarya already does a great version of that soup recipe. I learned mine from a devotee named Kaulini.
It seems Madan and Gaurangi are the hook up here. Those ekadasi muffins are delish.
Gauravani Dasa - May 3, 2010 12:27 am
What do you all eat on ekadasis? I'd like to build up a good stock of recipes for ekadasi preps and I'd love to get some recipes from you. We make quinoa kitchari too often, some variety is needed.
Maybe she already has passed this on to you (and maybe it is the same as Prema's) but I have Vrndaranya's recipe for tomato & curd soup:
6 cups milk
2 cans of tomato paste (6 oz each)
1/2 t curry
1/2 t pepper
1/2 t dill
1 t salt
1/2 cup sour cream (or 1/3 cup powered milk)
1/4 t hing
1/4 cup sugar
Mix. Bring to boil.
(serves 6)
I haven't made this in a while but I think the milk curdles in the tomato soup. I remember that it was amazing!
Honestly, I'm posting to request the tapioca kitchari recipe :Big Grin:
Syamasundara - May 3, 2010 1:08 am
Funny you should ask. We've been having such feasts every Ekadasi that I thought I would compile a little cookbook. Of course, we are blessed by the abundance of the tropics, but you can still do re-fried potatoes (nothing special, you steam them and then stir fry them with salt and pepper, but the crust they make is to die for. Make sure they are cold; if you fry them steaming they'll take forever).
You could also make pizza style griddled eggplant. You cut big slices, roast them in a pan with a veil of oil and then you smear some tomato paste with salt, hing and oregano on top, drizzle with grated mozzarella and wait for it to melt.
Once GM liked some fried patties I made with curd, grated cabbage, ground pumpkin seed in a tomato cream gravy.
You could make banana pancakes with just bananas/plantains and a few spoonfuls of potato starch or similar binder.
For example last Ekadasi we had breakfast with refried potatoes, herbed cottage cheese with diced bell pepper and griddled eggplant strips.
Potato starch is great. All glories to Brajasundari's mother and her packages.
When Nama-cintamani was here we had tomato soup with some mashed potato dumplings kept together with potato starch, salad, baked cubes of potato, ayote (pumpkin) and plantain with olive oil and rosemary, pineapple cucumber lemonade (ok all drinks are good for Ekadasi, I guess 
) and even a cheesecake with a base of ground walnuts, sugar and potato starch and curd mixed with plantains and ayote, topped with chocolate sauce.
I should have really kept a journal. Now the book would have been half done.
Oh, let's not forget patacones (puh-tuh-CO-nays 
) which are fried slices of green plantains that get squashed and refried.
Thank God for plantains, really. And thank God we never once had to have quinoa or tapioca kitchri :Big Grin:
Gauravani Dasa - May 3, 2010 3:43 pm
Has anyone tried making karhi without the chickpea flour?
Any kind of spiced yogurt mixed with veggies and/or curd would probably make a good ekadasi dish.
Guru-nistha Das - May 4, 2010 3:22 am
wow, this thread turned out to be an active one. Thank you all for the ideas.
Once I made these small baked winter squash cut into half, carved out and stuffed with quinoa pesto with a cheese topping. They were definitely a hit here.
Vamsidhari Dasa - May 4, 2010 3:00 pm
What do you all eat on ekadasis? I'd like to build up a good stock of recipes for ekadasi preps and I'd love to get some recipes from you. We make quinoa kitchari too often, some variety is needed.
Some water and a piece of lettuce. :Big Grin:
Gauravani Dasa - May 7, 2010 1:57 am
As a general source of recipes, Lisa's Kitchen has some good ones. She frequently adapts recipes from Yamuna.
Scroll down to the "Culinary Blogroll" on the left-hand side for more potential sources.
Guru-nistha Das - May 7, 2010 3:24 am
Here's a great bay area blog that I use pretty often:
www.101cookbooks.com
Lots of good recipes.
Hari Bhakti - May 8, 2010 4:23 pm
Cold Quinoa Salad
1 1/4 veggie broth
3/4 water
1 cup red quinoa
boil water and broth add quinoa reduce to low heat ~15 mins
broil asparagus and red/yellow peppers (or other veggies you like) with olive oil, salt and pepper ~10mins
cool quinoa and veggies, add olive oil, lemon juice, salt & garnish with sliced avocado and cilantro
