Friday, April 29, 2011

APPLE LEMONADE

     I tried this combo once when I had apple juice left in the jar,but I was wanting some thing lemony… Loved it a lot,do try this combo yourself !! The photographer in me wanted me to click and post it here :)
Apple Lemonde

Monday, April 25, 2011

VEGETABLE CUTLETS

    An excellent way to make kids eat the vegetables as snack. You can make the pre-preparation and freeze/refrigerate too.So this is a nice idea to use this as birthday party recipe. While making in bulk,its better to deep fry as pan frying will be time consuming.

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INGREDIENTS: (Makes 8 pieces as shown in the picture)

Potato,small 2 (equivalent to 1 cup mashed)
Other mixed veggies 1/4 cup
Bread 2 slices
Garam masala 1/2 tsp
red chilli powder 1 tsp
Coriander leaves,chopped 3 –4 tblsp
Bread crumbs 1/2 cup
Maida 2 tblsp
Salt As needed
Oil For frying

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Method:

  1. Pressure cook potato in a vessel and other chopped veggies together in another vessel for three whistles. Just sprinkle a tsp of water in the chopped veggies,that is enough. For potato just cut into 4 and add little water.
  2. Peel off the skin and mash the potato and add other veggies to it. Make sure there is no water.
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  3. Tear the bread pieces and crumble it by grinding in a mixer.This step can be skipped and you can directly add to the veggies as well. But I prefer this way for even mixing.
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  4. Add it to the veggies along with garam masala,red chilli,salt and coriander leaves and mix together.
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  5. Make a thick paste(like idly dosa batter consistency) out of maida and water.
  6. Make equal and desired shapes out of the veggies and set a side,I made it simple and round. Dip it in the maida paste one by one.
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  7. Quickly take it out and coat both sides with the bread crumbs. Repeat the process for the rest and arrange in plate.
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  8. If you are pan frying then just drizzle with some oil over a hot non stick pan and arrange 4 at a time and cook in a medium flame both sides,until crisp.
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  9. Enjoy hot with tomato sauce/ketchup with tea/coffee/cool drinks.

Vegetable Cutlet

Notes:

  • Adding cauliflower gives nice flavour to the cutlets. Adding beetroot give nice colour.
  • Deep frying gives a good look with even cooking of the outer layer.
  • You can add gram flour/kadalai maavu in place of the bread crumbs in the mixing part along with the veggies. But for coating dry bread crumbs are best.
  • You can make bread crumbs by sun drying bread for some time until it turns crisp and powder in a mixer. Also you can try micro waving the bread slices.

Friday, April 22, 2011

BABY CORN SABZI | BABY CORN RECIPES

      My kid has few favourite veggies,in that baby corn is one. So weekly once this will be in the menu for him . He loves baby corn sabzi with steamed basmati rice and simple yellow dal for his lunch. So here is the recipe for baby corn sabzi.
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Monday, April 18, 2011

PANEER JALFREZI WITH VEGETABLES

     I am trying this paneer jalfrezi recipe for first time and loved its simple procedure yet a yummy dish,I love it wrapped as Kathi roll,perfect idea for kid’s lunch box/snack box. Being paneer my kid’s favourite, this recipe has crunchy carrots,capsicum and beans too in it.So make its whole some when wrapped inside roti !! I love it because its tangy !!Yumm…
Paneer Jalfrezi

 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

A TOUNGE TICKLING MANGO GINGER PICKLE | MAA INJI URUGAI

        I don’t like ginger at all, except Mango ginger/Maa inji. I tasted them only once and was amazed by its taste. No smell of ginger at all,not even 1%. It was tasting like mango,only that its crunchiness,texture was like ginger! I never got a chance to make this maa inji uruguai before. Last weekend got this pack of mango ginger in Mustafa and without second thought bought it. My hubby asked to make pickle out of it,so called my mom to get the recipe. It was very very simple.

MANGO GINGER PICKLE

 

Monday, April 11, 2011

DRY SOYA BEAN CURRY

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        My MIL made this once for me and I was surprised when I knew it was soya bean. Then every time when I go to Chennai,my MIL has a pack of this dry soya bean to pass it to me. I make this curry just like her or make it as a simple sundal with no onion or garlic. Love it either way and eat as such … I make this when I run out of veggies and the job gets easily done in the early morning,if you soak overnight, morning just have to pressure cook in a separate vessel when we keep rice and no cutting veggie part,we can easily make an accompaniment for rice. Club this with any rasam so its a perfect, comfort lunch box idea!!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

PANAKAM / PAANAGAM

      Ram Navami / Rama Navami for this year 2011 falls on 12th April,Tuesday. With Rama Navami coming up, thought of posting the traditional recipe of the drink “Panakam” here in my blog.This is how my mom/grandma used to make and I used to enjoy this a lot in my childhood days. Perfect thirst quencher for this summer too,smells and tastes D-I-V-I-N-E-L-Y !!  I always love jaggery and pachai karpooram(edible camphor) combo in sweet pongal and also in this.. My paati  adds Thulasi(Holy Basil)  though, since I dint had I omitted in this recipe. In my child hood, the temple near our home gives pankam and neer more for free. Some volunteers will provide this on the day of ram navami, radha kalyanam or even when Thai poosam when the people pull ‘ther’(தேà®°்) around the streets near by…

Panagam

Monday, April 4, 2011

EGGLESS BANANA WALNUT MUFFIN

   I have tried an eggless banana bread recipe before once,but always wanted to bake a banana muffin and vanilla muffin for a long time now. One fine day,got inspired after seeing this recipe,as it has no butter and used oil instead. So I had everything needed in hand,so just halved the quantity and tried immediately. Actually I dint expected the result to be so awesomely soft and spongy like this, I loved it to the core! I loved the walnuts very very much in the muffins…

EGGLESS BANANA WALNUT MUFFIN

Friday, April 1, 2011

MIXED VEG PARATHA / MIXED VEGETABLE STUFFED PARATHA

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      I always wanted to try this mixed vegetable paratha,and when I saw my sis in law’s post - How to make square parathas, I was way too tempted. So I tried to make square parathas with stuffing to suit my kids taste,with  spices and his favourite veggies. He loved it a lot and here after he wants ‘only’ square parathas!

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