Onion Chutney

Onion-Chutney:

"Weekend Herb Blogging" was started by Kalyn and after 3 years Haalo took over to continue this. This series is on and continuing since 7 long years and it has reached #318 series this week. This week series is hosted by Cindystar here.

Onions are often chopped and used an ingredient in various hearty warm dishes, but are often used as a main ingredient in their own right, for example in French onion soup or onion chutney. They are also used raw in cold salads. Onions pickled in vinegar are eaten as a snack. These are often served as a side serving in fish and chip shops throughout the United Kingdom and Australia, often served with cheese in the United Kingdom, and as "pickled onions" in Eastern Europe. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion)

Ingredients:

Onion - 2

Oil - 2 tsp (for frying)

Oil - 1 tsp (for tadka)

Tomato - 2

Groundnuts (roasted) - 1 handful

Green Chillies - 4

Ginger - 1/2 inch

Coconut - 1/2 cup (grated)

Salt to taste

Curry leaves - few

Cilantro - few

Method:

Fry onion, tomato, green chillies and ginger in a kadai with hot oil

Allow it to cool for sometime

Using a blender blend all fried ingredients along with roasted groundnut seeds, coconut, salt and cilantro or coriander leaves

Heat little oil, once it becomes hot, add a tsp of mustard seeds and wait till it splutters

Add curry leaves and pour this tadka on to the onion chutney.

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Dark Chocolate Milk Shake

Dark Chocolate Milk Shake:

I planned to prepare puriundai (might be my next recipe) but ended up preparing dark chocolate milk shake in office. :(.

Great thing I did yesterday is, I informed my hubby somehow stating that I like my blog which motivates me to cook/make/bake new things and asked him to cooperate my work. Reason is, my little son has become a nightmare for me, he doesn't sleep nor he lets anybody sleep (including my older son). As my mom-in-law would have cooked something in the afternoon and very rarely I  get a chance to cook something, great thing I do is cook rice in the evening which will hardly take 5 minutes. I need to put this guy to sleep and then prepare whatever I would have planned.

In the early morning, once I got up, my little son also got up and as it was just dosa chutney had to be done. Good my mom-in-law did a new chutney and the recipe will be out shortly.

In the office today I was supposed to have some training and instead of keeping my blog readers wait i just thought a dark chocolate milk shake can also serve as a sweet as we had sugar to it. Please pass your valuable comments if it can be considered under sweet or not.

This is going to be my 3rd day in Blogging Marathon under 2nd week event. As you are aware my group is "Kid's Delight - Something Sweets" for this week.

Ingredients:

B&W Photo

• Dark Chocolate - 4 pieces (one chocolate will have 8 pieces)
• Butter - 1 tsp
• Milk - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1
• Fruits of your taste (just to make you have a good breakfast)

Method:

• Melt butter in microwave
• Add dark chocolate to them and melt them in oven
• Add milk, sugar and heat it for a  moment so that chocolate mixes well with milk
• Take a bowl for fruits add your desired fruits. I have added musk melon and pineapple.
• Click a pic and have the milk shake with fruits. :)
• Post it after tasting the milk shake.

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This also makes an entry to

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by Srivalli in her blog.

Bake Fest @ Pumpkinfarmfood by Pradnya started @ Zesty Palette by Vardhini.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

MEC series by Kalyani started by Srivalli on Cooking4allseasons. 









Breakfast Club Jan'12 series hosted Aimée @ Food, Je t'Aimée which was started by Helen
 

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AlmondBreadGolls

AlmondBreadGolls:

It gives me immense pleasure to treat my blog readers who are making me successful in a very short time from the time I restarted my blog.

Golls or balls made out of almond and cashewnut powder and kept inside bread and baked for 2 minutes in microwave oven.

Ingredients:

• Wheat Bread Slice - 4
• Maida Bread Slice - 1
• Almond - 4
• Cashewnut - 2
• Sugar - 4 tsp
• Ghee / Clarified butter - 2 tsp
• Spraying Oil (to spray on the bread so that it doesn't get burnt)

Method:

• Blend almond, cashewnut to a coarse powder 
• Cut the sides of a bread (bread crumbs) and put little ghee on both sides of it
• Keep the ghee in microwave for 1 minute so that it would become thin 

• Add blended powder, sugar to ghee and mix and keep it for 1 minute so that it gets mixed well

• Now take the bread as a cup shape and put the mixture on to it

• Nicely cover the bread with little water or with ghee and spray some oil on the bread
• Keep it in oven again for 2 more minutes so that the bread gets roasted. 

• Take it out from the oven and allow it to cool
• Take the bread crumbs into a glass, add some milk and sugar

• Serve both the dishes almond bread golls and bread crumbs mixture

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

Submitting this also to:

Bake Fest @ Pumpkinfarmfood by Pradnya started @ Zesty Palette by Vardhini.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

MEC series by Kalyani started by our BM preacher Srivalli on Cooking4allseasons.

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Rasayana-Sekarni

Rasayana/Banana Sekarni:

It gives me immense pleasure to participate in this week of BM also. It’s my second week of blogging marathon. And my group is and this time my group is “Seven different sweets”. Chey, that was the name given by me, but the group name is "Kid's Delight - Something Sweet". Why only kids will sweets is it, not me :), I mean elders.
 

When it comes to sweet, I am mad of all sweets but my hubby doesn’t eat so I prepare it only at times. L But as blogging marathon is giving a new shape to my blog and its posts. I thought let me take up this challenge. And this time I don’t want to miss any day including Saturday and Sunday.

Ingredients:

• Ripped Bananas (chopped) – 2
• Coconut (grated) – 1/2
• Sugar – 3 tbsp
• Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp
• Honey – 1 tsp
• Milk – 50 ml (optional) or according to your taste

Method:

• Chop the bananas and put it in a bowl
• Grate the coconut and add it to bananas along with sugar, cardamom powder, honey
• Pour milk and mix them nicely
• Leave it for atleast half an hour, so that it would nicely mixed and tastes better
• Serve it with puris/chappatis or eat directly

Additional Info:

• This sekarni can be made it of mangoes also. Add little custard powder and one more taste is ready.

NOTE: Sweets are healthy when it is prepared with Jaggery, as it is unrefined one, Sugar is a refined one, and it should be less used in sweets. 

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This is also submitted to:

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by again our BM heroine - Srivalli in her spiceyourlife blog.







Banana Event @ Easy to Cook Recipes by Dr.Sameena Prathap. 

Cook, Eat Delicious - Desserts @ Veggie Platter; this series was started by Raven.

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Facial Powder using Dhals

Facial Powder using Dhals:

Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday will be more hectic than the weekdays due to so many works in the house. Inspite of having support from maid servant for cleaning the vessels, washing clothes using washing machine, sweeping, wiping the house still there will be lot of work at home viz., cooking, taking care of kids, making children do something new instead of stupid TV, taking care of ourselves, cleaning almirah, oh my god so many things. Only when we complete them we will find a great charm on our face. If friends/relatives visit us then the whole day is spent in gossiping. But as we plan for a project earlier we should plan our day so that we can make ourselves time for each and every activity. It’s great to tell but when will I plan, “God knows”. I knew that it was the last day of Blogging Marathon #12 so decided to post something new. I prepared for it but couldn’t post it. 

My dear blog readers, my sincere apologies for yesterday due to unavoidable circumstances. My bluetooth has become slow since two days no idea if it is either laptop problem or mobile problem. Hence I will put a picture later. Inconvenience is regretted. My bluetooth is working and including pictures.

 

Coming to the seventh day of BM12, as you know my group was “Seven Days of Delicious Dhals” I am posting this facial powder, which is made of dhals. Facial Powder, dhals?? Before all surprises start let me just put it this way: Yep, dhal is not only used in cooking, it can also be used in making facial powder.

Ingredients:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

• Moong Dhal – 1 cup
• Urad Dhal – ¼ cup
• Masoor Dhal – 1 cup
• Almond/badam - 10
• Channa Dhal – 2.5 cups (or kadale maav or besan – 1.5 cups)
• Lemon powder - 2 tsp
• Orange peel powder - 6 tsp
• Lavangam(cloves) - 2
• Tulsi powder - 6 tsp

(You can consider 1 cup = 100 gms, but I have taken a lesser quantity)

Method:

• Keep all dhals and badam in sunlight more than 2 hours, so that they all will become warm or hot. (use a sunny day)
• Add all ingredients and grind it
• It well suits the whole family, can give a try instead of soap. Just add rose water or/and curds to the powder.
• For Ladies, kindly add manjal, rose water and/or curds along with the powder.

NOTE: You can also use rose petal powder instead of rose water and just add water or curds. Curds will remove the dirt and yields to a better glowing skin and keeps moist body.

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

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MoongDal-Balls

Sweet made out of Moong Dal. This is my recipe for BM 12 6th day.

After a long research on internet on Moong Dal Sweet I got this recipe.

Ingredients:

• Moong Dal - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Cardmom Powder - 2 tsp
• Milk - 3 tsp (i have used more and it has become halwa :))
• Ghee - 1/2 cup
• Nuts (almond, cashewnuts) - roasted few

Method:

• Roast the nuts and keep it aside

Add moong dal, sugar and cardamom powder fry them for sometime in medium flame

Add ghee to the mixture

Fry for some more time, add nuts and little milk to get the consistency

Once you feel ghee coming out from sides put it on to the greased plate

Cut once it is cool

Info: After adding milk wait till it becomes thick, else it would turn out to be halwa instead of balls.

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

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GreenGramDalFruitsSalad

Green Gram Dal - Fruits Salad:

Today is an ultimate day. So many things to complete it today. As there is a saying "Things which have a deadline apart from that day itself is called important things, but on the deadline day it would be urgent thing". 

a. Tax - Today was the last date to submit all papers for Tax.

b. Children - As Aditya has not picked up with his heath still and my little son, Aadya is not at all sleeping properly tough time to manage to sleep and early in the morning rush for a breakfast.

c. I ended getting up late today but i thought i can cook sundal from green gram dal in the morning and soaked it overnight. :(. You know what thanks to office admin who has kept microwave in office. This was done using the same.

So, ended up with fruits + green gram salad, it turned out to be good, healthy and delicious.  This is my 5th day recipe in blogging marathon.

Ingredients:

• Green Gram Dal - 1 cup
• Milk - 1 cup
• Sugar to taste
• Some fruits

Method:

• Cook green gram dal in a microwave with milk (i know it is preheated but don't what's it is 195C or so on). 

• I tried it out for 2 minutes and again increased to 2 minutes, finally to one more minute. As I have burnt two small boxes I doesn't want to take any chance with microwave. I have used a melamine cookware, which was available in office.

• It was half cooked for 5 minutes, so i added sugar and kept it for one more minute.

• Finally added fruits (musked melon, papaya and yellakik banana/banana which is small; yellakki means cardamom)

• Today is my 5th day without lunch in the afternoon and staying only on cookies and today it is salads. Reason I have put on more weight and want to reduce.

Comments:

While i was preparing this, one of my friend came and said you should use a sprouted one, because non-sprouted one might increase gastric. :)

I gave to my friend and found out, she gave a comment usually green gram salad is had with vegetables. :)

My comment: It was good to eat and I feel filly after eating a box full of this.

Let me implement the first comment from next time.

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

Promises: 

I am feeling so good today that I could keep up my promise atleast for few.

• Promise to a colleague: My colleague asked me to come in saree today, i promised her "yes" yesterday. If you would have read my earlier comments you will definitely think how is this managed. I came in dress to office and changed into saree in rest room, because our office has a big space for us to get ready in our ground floor rest room. :) looks funny but at times could be managed.
• Promise to my blogging marathon group/readers: Definitely I will come with a post on "Seven Delicious Dal".
• Promise to my Christmas-NewYearEvent prize winner, Archana Toshniwal.: Unfortunately I don't know which courier to use to send gifts to people in remote places. I tried with DTDC and sent the consignment in 1st week of jan but it couldn't reach the person and came back to me only yesterday. Today again I have sent with Professional Couriers. Hope so it will reach her and she will feel happy.
• Promise to myself to file up tax: Atlast I could complete it today.
• Promise to my hubby: Will shop bedsheets for him, completed.

Hence, I told today is an ultimate day.

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MasoorDal-MysoreDal

Hi All,

I am back again on 4th day of blogging marathon with a simple dal called masoor dal. As per the understanding some sweet/savory should be  cooked using different dals, but I couldn't do anything due to the following reason:

Red Lenthils

My older son is not well due to throat ache and fever, and once I reach home @ 7pm my little son will be waiting at the door step to hug me and play with me. My mom-in-law would have become so tired bcoz of my naughty little son, so once I go to home, she will handover the kitchen and this little rascala to me. 

Yesterday she had prepared only rasam in the afternoon and my turn was to prepare something for dinner along with rice. I have a super doper brain and I thought of preparing this easy Masoor Dal which will give me a post in the morning. Masoor Dal is also called as Mysore dal or red lenthils. 

Inspired by the posts of Aarthi's blog  I thought let me copy atleast  the method of naming my pictures.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of Masoor Dal
• 1 tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds

And the other ingredients as shown in picture:

• 2 chopped onions
• coriander leaves - few 
• curry leaves - few 
• 2 tsp salt and
• 1 1/2 tbsp sambar powder

 

Method:

• Cook Masoor dal with tomato and 1 tsp of turmeric in cooker for 3 to 4 whistles
• Heat Oil in a kadai
• Add mustard seeds and wait till it splutters, add curry leaves, salt and onions and sauté till they become translucent.
• Add sambar powder allow it to boil for sometime 
• Finally, add cooked dal and allow it to boil for some more time

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