I saw this recipe on showmethecurry.com and bookmarked it long back. I decided to try it out this weekend. This can also be a wholehearty lunch as it contains daliya or cracked wheat and it keeps your tummy full for a while. Here is what you need -
Ingredients -
1) 1/2 cup daliya
2) 1 small onion chopped finely
3) 1 small tomato chopped into cubes
4) 2-3 green chillies chopped finely
5) 1 small bell pepper chopped into cubes
6) 5-6 almonds sliced finely
7) 1 tspn pine nuts
8) 1 tbspn dried apricots or dried cranberries or raisins
9) 1/4 tsp black pepper
10)Salt to taste
11)Cilantro chopped finely
12)Olive oil
Method -
1) Pressure cook the daliya with 1 cup of water.
2) Heat pan and dry roast the sliced almonds and pine nuts lightly. Keep aside.
3) Heat 1 tspn olive oil in the same pan. Add onions and green chillies and saute them till the onions are light brown.
4) Keep aside in a mixing bowl and let the onions cool down completely.
5) Add daliya and all the other ingredients - tomatoes, bell pepper, black pepper, salt, roasted almonds and pine nuts, dried apricots and cilantro.
Serve cold.
My grandmon makes pohe the south indian style. She has stayed in Karnataka for a pretty long time and hence she has hands on all the South Indian dishes and
I simply love them. She had made this dish when my husband first visited her place before our marriage. He loved it. We both have a liking towards south indian food. i make this style of pohe very often. Can you guess what is the main ingredient in this dish? Well, thats the rasam powder and tamarind paste. Here is what you need -
Ingredients -
1) 2 cups thick pohe
2) 1 tbspn rasam powder
3) 2 tbspn tamarind paste
4) Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, asafoetida turmeric powder and curry leaes for seasoning
5) 1 tspn urad dal and chana dal each.
6) Oil and salt to taste
7) Fresh shredded coconut and cilantro for garnishing
Method -
1) Wash the pohe nicely. Apply the tamarind paste and rasam powder to it. Add salt. Mix well and keep it covered for around 15 minutes.
2) Heat oil in a kadhai and do the seasoning.
3) Put the pohe mixture and give it a nice toss. Cover and cook for a few minutes.
4) Garnish it with fresh coconut and cilatro. Serve hot.
The rasam powder makes the magic. Try this out and I am sure you will love it.
This salad is my mother-in-law's recipe. I loved it the moment i tasted it. It's healthy and very tasty. The magic part in this is the tamarind paste with the mint leaves. This combination tastes awesome. Here is what you need -
Ingredients -
1) 1 cup mixed sprouts (I used matki, green moong and masoor)
2) 1 small onion chopped finely
3) 1 tomato chopped finely
4) 2-3 green chillies chopped finely
5) 2 tbspn tamarind paste
6) a handful of mint leaves washed and chopped finely
7) Salt to taste and cilantro for garnishing
Method -
1) Sprinkle very little water over the sprouts and pressure cook it just for 1 whistle.
2) Mix all the ingredients in the sprouts nicely and its ready to serve.
Enjoy this healthy salad. I am sure you will like it.
Daliya(Cracked Wheat) Upma is a very healthy dish. You can have it as a whole meal adding some veggies to it or as a weekend brunch. It tasted great. Here is what you need -
Ingredients-
1) 1 cup daliya or Cracked Wheat
2) 2 cups water
3) mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and turmeric powder for seasoning
4) 1 cup veggies of your choice (I used mixed vegetables like carrots, green beans, peas and sweet corn)
5) 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
6) 1 inch ginger grated
7) 1 small onion finely chopped
8) Oil and salt to taste
Method -
1) Pressure cook the daliya until 3-4 whistles.
2) Heat oil in a skillet and do the seasoning. Add green chillies, ginger. Saute and add onions. Fry them till light brown.
3) Add the veggies. Mox well. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.
4) Add salt and cook for few more minutes.
5) Now add the cooked daliya. Mix well. Cover and let it cook for some more time.
6) Garnish it with cilantro and serve hot.
It was our 3rd Marriage Anniversary yesterday. These have been wonderful years and I wish it lasts forever and ever. Thank You for all our well wishers. Its such a good feeling to get pampered by your loved ones, parents, relatives, friends and specially your husband on this special day.
We enjoyed our day. Since it was a weekday and the climate getting more colder and colder, we decided to be just at home this time. I decided to cook a nice hearty wholesome dinner and baked a cake. Well, but my husband's demand was Chicken Curry and Chicken Biryani. So, i was all set the whole day making it. My husband loved it and couldn't stop resisting the Biryani.
This was my first experience with frosting and icing the cake. It turned out to be just great but still i have to get a hand on it. Fortunately it was not a disaster. Thanks Madhura, for guiding me with it.
The New Year is approaching. Just 15 days to go and we would be stepping into 2010. We all make New Year resolutions. This time, I have decided to make a resolution before the New Year. I am going to post or atleast try posting one recipe everyday till the New Year. That means total 15 recipes. The recipes which i learned from my mom-in-law, some bookmarked recipes which i wanted to try since long and some experimental ones. Lets see how far I go. So, please do visit my blog everyday to find something new.
Thank You!!
Fresh Green Beans and Sprouts combination is interestingly an healthy and amazingly wonderful dish. My mother-in-law makes it this way and I loved it. We all know that green vegetables should always be included in our meals and when the sprouts are added to it, it becomes a wholesome healthy meal.
I have a sprout maker in which i can make 3 different types of sprouts at a time. I had matki(moth lentils), moong(green moth lentils) and masoor sprouted. I added little of all the 3. Here is what you need -
Ingredients -
1) 2 cups finely chopped green beans
2) 1 cup sprouts of your choice
3) 3-4 green chillies
4) 2-3 garlic cloves
5) mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and turmeric powder for seasoning
6) Salt to taste
7) 1 tsp jaggery grated
8) Shredded coconut and finely chopped cilantro for garnishing
Method -
The Method is very simple. Heat oil in a wide skillet. Do the seasoning. Add the green beans and sprouts together. Add salt and jaggery and cook them till tender. Garnish it with fresh coconut and cilatro.
Thats it!!
Hi All....I am back. First of all,Sorry for its been a long long time since I last posted and a big Thank-You to all those who visited my site. We were enjoying the past 3 months with our parents and hence no time for blogging. My in-laws were here with us and we had a great great time with them. Ofcourse, there was a lot of cooking and lots of eating, We had decided to keep our dietary plans aside and just Enjoy!!!
I am back with Rice Flour Thalipeeth. This is my grandmom's recipe. This can be a wholesome weekend brunch or any weeknight dinner. Here is what you need -
Ingredients -
1) 2 cups Rice Flour
2) 1 small onion finely chopped
3) 4-5 green chillies finely chopped
4) a bunch of cilantro finely chopped
5) salt to taste
6) Oil
Method -
1) Mix all the ingredients except oil together and knead it nicely.
2) Grease a non stick pan with little oil.
3) Take a portion of the mixture and spread it on the pan with your palm making it into a circle.
4) Moist your hand with water if it starts sticking to your hand.
5) Make 3-4 small holes in it and drop few drops of oil.
6) Cover the pan and let the thalipeeth cook from both the sides.
7) Serve hot with chutney or pickle.
I served this with garlic chutney and mixed pickle.
I saw this recipe on showmethecurry.com and bookmarked it long back. I decided to try it out this weekend. This can also be a wholehearty lunch as it contains daliya or cracked wheat and it keeps your tummy full for a while. Here is what you need - 
