Summer dinner means something very comforting, healthy food ,which is easy to digest and st same time it has more nutritional value too.
About Santula:
Santula is a vegetable dish from the state of Odisha in eastern India. It can be either fried (Bhaja Santula) or boiled (Sijha Santula). Ingredients include potatoes, brinjal, papaya, and Tomato, which are first boiled together, then fried in oil with diced onion, panch phoran, garlic, and green chilies.
Benefit:
The dish is said to be easy to digest as it is not spicy and good for people suffering from stomach disorders. For one prescribed with fresh green vegetables, without spices and oil, nothing could be better than Santula. It's best for women in post pregnancy stage (specially when tempered with loads of garlic)as it's loaded with nutrition, less spicy, less oil!!
Vegetables in 'bhaja' may vary. Here, there are potatoes and pointed gourds seasoned with spices. This lunch is often preferred to beat the summer heat in Eastern India.
Roti Chapati, phulka, roti – no meal in India is complete without this quintessential flatbread. It's as much an Indian cuisine table essential as rice.
For Santula - Put all vegetables along with water, turmeric powder and salt in a pressure cooker add give 2-3whistle(all veggies should be cooked, tender and little mushy)
Heat oil in fry pan, add punch phoran and red chilli to it
When mustard seeds splutters add crushed garlic and green chili to it. Sauté for 2mins,till the raw smell goes off. Now add boiled veggies with the stock to it and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
Potala Aloo bhaja/pointed gourd and potato fry-Peel the skin and cut them lengthwise and clean and strain it
In a frypan put oil and cumin, mustard and red chili
Once mustard seeds spelters add chopped onions and fry till it's translucent
Add potola, salt and turmeric powder and cook till it is half done. Add potatoes and cook in low flame with the lid on, till they become tender. Now remove the lid and cook it in medium flame to get the crispiness (approx. 7 mins) keep stirring in inter
Divide it into equal portions. Make smooth ball and flatten it out between your palm.