Pepper-Garlic Rasam

Diposting oleh adiba
Kamis, 09 Oktober 2008
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My craze to Rasam started just a year back. and its because of this rasam recipe. a simple rasam without any rasam powder. This will make you feel fresh and its very good for digestion and for cold.


so if any rasam haters reading this, try this. sure you will like it.




Ingredients for Pepper-Garlic Rasam:

Pepper- 10 corns
Garlic-5 cloves
Cumin- 1 tsp
Ghee- 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder- a pinch
Tomato-1
Water- 1 and half a cup

Method:

arrow_42 Crush the pepper, garlic and cumin in a mixer grinder, without adding water.
arrow_42 Cut the Tomato into 4 pieces and put to the mixer along with the crushed and hold the pulse button for a second. (Tomato should not grinded into paste. it should be minced).
arrow_42 In a kadai, add ghee and heat it. add cumin seeds and roast it.
arrow_42 Now add the crushed pepper-garlic-cumin-tomato minces into the kadai.(Dont miss to smell the nice aroma).
arrow_42 Add water and turmeric powder, asafoetida a pinch and salt. let the rasam just get heated(do not boil) and switch off the flame.
Serve with Applams..

My Lunch Today

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Baby Corn Poriyal with Coconut

Diposting oleh adiba
Minggu, 28 September 2008
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If you want to try Baby Corn in fresh way, then dont miss this version. With Grated coconut, Green chilli's, corn's tasted yummy, i would call it as a perfect starter. And if you are in diet, but craving for food's just to snack, these baby corn will satisfy your taste buds. morever a side-dish or starter within 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

Baby Corns: 10
Oil: 1tsp
Grated Coocnut: 2 tsp's
Mustard: 1/4 tsp
Green Chilli: 1(finely chopped)
Garlic:2 cloves(finely chopped)
Salt: as per your taste

Method:

arrow_42 Cut the baby corn's into 3 pieces

arrow_42 Chop the Garlic and Green chilli finely.

arrow_42 Heat the oil in a pan, add the mustard, when it pop's, add the garlic and green chilli's and fry them till you could feel a nice smell of garlic.

arrow_42 Add the Corn's and fry for a minute. add required salt and fry them.

arrow_42 Add the grated coconut and mix well. switch off the flame and serve.

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Soups and Starters

Diposting oleh adiba
Kamis, 18 September 2008
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Tomato soup                                                                                                     Veg clear soup













Baby corn soup                                                                                                
                                                                                                                           Mixed Bean soup



Cream of tomato soup                                                                                            Broccoli soup










Sweet corn soup                                                                                                   Pumpkin soup


Starters:


Potato Paneer Kofta'sGarlic Bread Exotica                                                                 


Garlic bread                                                                                            Aloo paneer kofta


Veg Cutlet

Veg Cutlet




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A Small Tutorial for Blogger's on Using Blogger Draft to make comment form appear below the post

Diposting oleh adiba
Sabtu, 13 September 2008
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When i started blogging, i wondered a lot on many of your blogs, like what is RSS. whatever i saw was an unsolved puzzle for me. later googling helped me to learn many stuffs. Today iam driven by some instinct in me to post a small tutorial that would help you out. If you already know about this..ignore it.

The feature iam gonna speak about is Blogger in Draft. This is under test and even we can use the features of this. so let's get started..

We login to our blog , with the screen that look like as shown below, with blogger.com


In Blogger Draft, you can login thru clicking on here draft.blogger.com where you could see a screen like this.

after logging on, your dashboard will look like this...


On your top right corner of the screen, there will be a blue box, stating make blogger in draft as default blogger. you can check in the box, if you want to login always with blogger in draft.
there are many features on this..you can explore there. the feature i used from blogger draft is my comment form. earlier if someone wants to comment on my post, a pop-up window will appear and it takes time to load the profile pictures of the blogger's who already commented. and we need to go under a test, to check whether we are robot's:)

so here in this new comment form feature in blogger draft, bloggers can comment easily without all those hassle's. The comment form will look like those of in wordpress blogs. try this for a change.

How to do:

1. Go to your Settings Tab

2. Select Your Comment's Sub Tab

3. Stop at the third bold heading...Comment Form Placement

4. Choose the Embedded below post (To see the preview of the comment form, scroll down this page and look at my comment form.)

5. Save it

6. Check the blog post which has comments. and check by posting a comment.

7. If you are not happy or if it is not working...continue the steps from 1 to 3 and select the pop-up window and save.

Hope this tutorial help's you my friends..If you really liked it just share a word with me.
You can also request for a tutorial on particular aspect here.

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Carrot Thuvaiyal(Chutney) & Carrot Rice

Diposting oleh adiba
Rabu, 10 September 2008
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My Mom used to prepare this thuvaiyal/chutney for us to make us eat the carrot atleast in this form. she also makes coconut thuvaiyal, which is my favourite one. the taste of it will stay on my tongue even after eating.

Coming to this Carrot Thuvaiyal/chutney, i prefer this Carrot Thuvaiyal along with Rasam and Pappad. it used to be my simple and light meal. also i prepare this thuvaiyal and mix it with Rice and pack it for my hubby lunch box.



Coming to the Ingredients:

Carrot-2
Urad dall-1tbsp
Red chilli-2
Tamarind-Half-inch size
Salt
Oil-2 tsps
Mustard-half a tsp
Curry leaves-6

Method:

arrow_42 Peel the outer skin of the carrot and Grate them and keep it aside .

arrow_42 Now in a kadai add 1 tsp of oil. fry urad dall till it becomes golden color. also fry the red chilli's.

arrow_42 Add the fried urad, chilli and tamarind to the grated carrot and grind it into a thick coarse paste by adding little water and required salt. Grind it coarsely.

arrow_42 Now add 1tsp of oil in the kadai, add mustard seeds..when it crackles, add curry leaves and add the grinded paste to it.

arrow_42Fry it till the raw smell of the carrot leaves and the color changes to darker, when it starts sticking to kadai remove it from the flame.

It also Suits for Dosa's.


This can be mixed with rice...name it as carrot rice.. I just seasoned it with ghee fried cashews.

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Semiya Upma

Diposting oleh adiba
Senin, 01 September 2008
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Semiya upma is my favourite break-fast, as it could be done in minutes, and also taste's yummy. On the other hand, i also love to have Rava Upma, but the thing is i feel sleepy on eating it. so i shifted from rava to cracked wheat rava.



Here is my Recipe...

Ingredients

Semiya-2 cups
Ghee 1 spoon
Green chilli-1
Dry Red Chilli-2
Oil- 2 spoons
Onion-1 (finely chopped)
Mustard- 1 spoon
Urad Dal- 1 spoon
Curry leaves-8
Water- 1 and half cup
Salt for taste.

Method

arrow_42Fry the Semiya in a spoon of ghee for a minute or two,
till they get wrapped in ghee.keep them aside.

arrow_42In a kadai, heat 2 spoon's of oil. add the Mustard seeds, Urad dal, slitted green chilli, red chilli and Curry leaves.

arrow_42 Now add onions,salt and fry them well. when they are fried, add the semiya and mix well.

arrow_42Now add the water and let it boil. when it boils, add a spoon of ghee or oil and let the semiya cook.

arrow_42after cooking the semiya, close it with a lid and let it rest in the stove for 5 minutes.


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You can add Carrot, beans, capsicum, peas to the upma.

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Corn's in Chapathi

Diposting oleh adiba
Sabtu, 30 Agustus 2008
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I just want to add some healthy stuff''s to my Chapathi flour before kneeding them. When i had corn's, how could i leave them. Here along with the corn, i added some Jeera Powder and Corriander leaves for easy digestion.

Ingredients:
Wheat Flour- 2 cup's
Warm Milk- 1/4 cup(approx)
Salt- as required
Jeera Powder- half a spoon
Corriander Leaves(finely chopped)-2 spoon's
Steamed Corn's-1/4 cup

Method:

Have all the ingredients except milk in a large bowl and knead it by adding milk. Have more flour to roll the dough ball's so that it dont get broked. It is hard to roll, as the corn's will break out. and cook these chapathi's in low flame, to avoid the corn's getting burned.

Try this for your kid..hope they will enjoy having this.

When I read about Corn Curry from Sujatha's Spicykhazana, i just want to try, to know how it would have tasted. Well it was really a different delish side-dish for chapathi. I added some Kasuri Methi to it. It tasted absolutely different.

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