Easy vegetable Macaroni

This recipe is for my non- bengalee friends. We need only few ingredients. They are as follows:-

Paturi, Stemed dish in banana leaf packet

This can be made as a vegetarian dish or a non-vegetarian dish . It goes very well with steamed rice.

1...main ingredient                 .................200 gms
     cottage cheese or paneer/
     soaked lentils/ flat beans/
     soft leaves of gourd/
     prawn/ hilsha fish/
     bhetki fish
2...mustard seeds               .....................3 tbs
3...poppy seeds                ......................1 & 1/2 tbs
4...grated coconut            ........................1/2 cup
5...green chillies              .........................3- 6 ,as per taste
6..turmeric powder         .........................1/2 ts
7...salt                            ..........................as per taste
8... mustard oil               ...........................2tbs
9...banana leaves           ........................... 6 (5'' x 5'') pieces
10..twine or thread         ...........................6  (12'') pieces

First grind ingredient no.  2, 3, 4,5,6,7  to make a paste with little water. If you are making lentil or dal paturi then make coarse paste of the soaked lentils. If you are using any other material of 1 , then make 2''x 2'' pieces of them & mix with above paste nicely .Add the mustard oil mix again & marinate for 10 mins.
Now pass the banana leaf pieces over high flame for two second to make them non-brittle. Next put 1 tbs of marinated paste of lentils  or 1 piece of marinated any other main ingredient you have taken along with some marination paste in a piece of banana leaf & fold the leaf neatly into a packet & tie with a piece of twine.
In the meanwhile boil water in a steamer or a big vessel with cover. When the water starts boiling , decrease the flame to sim   & put the steamer plate or a smaller vessel in the steamer pan with your prepared leaf packets. Put cover and steam for 10 minutes.Your paturi is ready.
Serve each packet with hot steamed rice . You should take out the twine or thread but can serve the pieces in the opened leaf packets. Banana leaf adds a wonderful leafy flavor to the paturi pieces. You can use cabbage leaves in place of banana leaf and ccan eat the cabbage leaf too along with the paturi. "pata" means leaf in Bangalee. That is why this dish is called "paturi".