FruitSaladOats

Oats helps us in reducing cholestrol. Fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals. Then isn't a combination of these two along with milk is good for health? I would like to thank  my colleagues Davameena and Aditya for this wonderful dish.

This served me today as my light lunch.

Ingredients:

• Quaker Oats - 50gms
• Pineapple - 2 small pieces
• Papaya - 4 small pieces
• Musk Melon - 2 small pieces
• Banana - 1
• Sugar - 5 cubes 
• Milk - 1 cup to 1 1/2 cup

Method:

1. In hot milk add quaker oats and sugar cubes
2. Let the oats get cooked in oven for less than 2 minutes
3. Remove and add the abovesaid fruits
4. Keep it in oven for 30 seconds (if required add extra milk)

Thanks to Sara Food which gives information on different events. Through this I found an event called "Healthy Cooking Challenge" 

hosted by Kavi, author of Edible Entertainment  for November 2011 of where the theme is Healthy Cooking Challenge - Lunch. Initially the idea of Healthy Cooking Challenge was started by Smitha



Thanks to Events-n-Roundup which gave me info about 100-day-Global-Festival on SizzlingTastebuds by Kalyani.

Read More

Sabbakivada

I was wondering what to prepare for snacks on Saturday afternoon for my children who would come home after their school with a holiday mood. I checked out and found Sabudan or Sabbaki and thought of doing Vada out of it.

I took them out, washed and rinsed for 4 hours in water. After 4 hours I was ready to prepare Sabbakivada or Sabudan vada.

Ingredients:

• Sabbaki - 500gms
• Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch
• Onion - 4
• Green Chillies -8 nos. (it can be changed according to the spicy-ness u want)
• Salt to taste
• Baking Soda - 1 tsp
• Oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Cut onion and green chillies into small pieces
2. Take the sabbaki mixture and add chopped onion and chillies, add salt and mix them.
3. Add baking soda and mix the mixture
4. Heat oil in kadai
5. Make small balls and add them into the oil
6. Leave the balls in the oil till they turn golden brown and turn it to the other side
7. Serve them hot with tomato ketchup

Uses: In Ayurvedic medicine, it is believed that sago porridge can be an effective and simple food to "cool and balance one's body heat" when taking strong medicine or antibiotics. - From Wikipedia.

This post is going to "Back to Roots!" contest going on in Archana's blog.

Read More

Christmas_NewYearEve_2011

I am very delighted to see events happening in various blogs. More people are getting connected with each other due to these events, even from different cities, remote corners of the world. 

I feel its great to see the world come closer with friends through various things, here are few of them:

• Famous Social networking site viz., facebook or twitter 
• Blog
• Email
  

Christmas is nearing, most of us are becoming busy in practicing Carols, Sending invitation for Get-together, planning to go for a long picnic accompanying two or more families with your mobile kitchen. 

During this time, I am eager to held my second event called - "Christmas NewYearEve 2011" which would end by 31st December 2011. Recipe is Eggless Cake.  

Click here for first event.

Logo:

Slogan:
    Complete the slogan "I love eggless cake because ...". This prize is apart from recipe prize.


Rules:

• Please do send me any number of entries to the event.
• For a successful entry to the contest, each entry must include logo and it must be linked to this page. The format should be:

          Your Name

          Blog Name
          Recipe Name

          Recipe URL

          Recipe Picture         

• Non bloggers can also send me their recipe along with its photo and a subject line "Christmas_NewYearEve_2011 at Hema's Blog" to my email. 
• You can participate in slogan contest also which is as above said. Its not a mandatory.
• Afraid to say that, archived items are not allowed in my contest.
• Duration for my event is from 1st November 2011 to 31st December 2011.
• Kindly link to this event page and usage of logo is better as it spreads a word.

Prize is Microwave Bowl.

Recipe Prize winner and Slogan Prize Winner would be announced on 2nd January 2012.

Winner, kindly acknowledge within 3 days of the time with your complete postal address before it reaches the other participant.

Friends, kindly make this event a grand success. 

One more  news: You can send in your same cake entries now to Pari's event. Do check it out here.

Read More

Diwali_Sweet_Savory

Diwali is a festival of lights. I remember the small story about this festival.

Story is as follows:

Once the SUN asked all the other sources of light, when I set, who would give the light to the world. Everyone was in immense silence, then a small diva light said in his low voice, i would be happy to give the light after you set. That's the reason, today we all lit small diva(s) in the night and early in the morning during Diwali and Karthika masam.

• As I was browsing thro' Saras food and events page I came across Anu's Contest for Diwali. Hence, I thought let me post my sweet and Savory and send.

Logo1:

 

• Through Google search page I came across Kirthi's Kitchen, which is also hosting Diwali contest, hence sending my recipe. Thanks to Della's Page also to host this event.

Logo2:


Besan Laddoo & Khara Boondi is my sweet and savory for this time Diwali.

Besan Laddoo:

Ingredients:

• Fried Gram - 250 g
• Sugar - 300 g
• Cashewnuts - 50 g
• Ghee for frying - 100 g
• Cardmom Powder - 2 tsp

Method:

1. Powder fried gram, sugar in food processor / mixer
2. Fry cashewnuts till golden brown and keep them aside
3. Heat ghee and add powdered mixture and cardmom powder, fry them till you get a nice aroma
4. Add cashewnuts also to the above mixture
5. If required add milk and make small balls

 25 to 30 balls can be made. Serves: 4 to 5.

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Khara Boondi:

Ingredients:

• Corn Flour (Kadala maav / flour made from fried dhal) - 250 gms
• Salt - 4 tsp
• Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp
• Oil for frying - 100 gms

Method:

1. Heat oil in kadai
2. Mix corn flour, salt and chilli powder in a vessel using water. (The mixture should be medium neither thick nor thin)
3. Use the same vessel where you filter the extra oil when you do sweets or pooris and pour the mixture. Spread the mixture throughout, such that they fall from the small holes.
4. Remove the boondis once they are golden brown
5. Repeat step 3 and step 4 till you complete all the mixture (Salt and chilli powder will vary according to one's taste)
6. Once done, remove the oil
7. Add little oil and put curry leaves and mix it with boondis

Serves:  4 to 5

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 15 to 20 mins

Submitting to:  
Celebrations 2011 event on Tastebuds, which made me happy because I am revisiting my post, surprised by her event because it such a great event which made me to revisit my post. Yep, posting new things is only not important, revisiting them is a great thing. Thanks to Smitha.

Read More

SugarSyrup

I used to think all the while, that this is really difficult, but thanks to my sister-in-law she showed me once with jaggery.

Sugar - as per the requirement to make the sweet

Water - 1/2 cup (small one)

Water to be added just to ensure that sugar doesn't get burnt off before it starts melting

1. Mix Sugar and Water and heat them in a kadai
2. Stir them occasionally
3. Check as and when the syrup has become thick (when you touch the syrup in hand a sticky thread should be formed)
4. Can add cardamom powder for taste

Once the thread is obtained, the syrup is ready for the sweet to be made.

Note: Instead of Sugar if Jaggery is used then Jaggery Syrup would be ready.

Read More

CopraPak

I was delighted to cook Coprapak on this Sunday evening. Thanks to my mother-in-law to teach me how it should be made.

This post is sent to My Diwali My Way Event announced by Kushi.

Ingredients:

• Coconuts - 2 Nos
• Sugar - 750g
• Poppy Seeds - 2 tbsp
• Cashewnuts - 100 gms
• Ghee for frying - 2 tbsp
• Ghee for grease - 2 tsp (depending on the plate size)
• Cardamom powder (optional) - for taste - 2 tbsp
• Baking Soda (optional) - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Grate the coconut
2. Prepare the Sugar Syrup
3. Fry poppy seeds and keep it aside
4. Fry Cashewnuts and keep it aside
5. Once the sugar syrup is ready, add coconut, poppy seeds and cashewnuts and stir continuously till all of them mix well into sugar syrup and it becomes thicker
6. Grease a plate with ghee
7. Pour the mixture and leave it to cool for sometime
8. When the mixture is warm cut into desired shapes

Read More

Tribute-to-jayasreeaval-BananaChips

Thanks to Jayashree aunt of Kailas Kitchen, her blog has got easy recipes too for an amateur like me. A tribute to her by this post.

I selected to make Banana Chips as it was easy and fast.

Banana Chips:

Ingredients:

Banana Chips

• 2 Bananas (used yelakka banana so it was sweet and hot)
• Oil for deep frying - 100 gms
• Salt - 2 tsp
• Chilli Powder - 3 tsp

Method:

1. Heat oil in a kadai
2. Cut the bananas and keep it ready
3. Once the oil is ready, put the bananas and fry them till they turn golden brown
4. Take them into a bowl which has holes to drain the oil
5. Sprinkle salt and chilli powder and mix them well

Serves: 2 for snacks

Raw Banana should be used to get only hot taste.

Read More

Khara Pova - An instant snack

Hot Pova – An instant snack

Ingredients:

• Pova (Beaten Rice) - 100 g
• Ghee - 4 tsps
• Groundnuts - fried - 25 g
• Fried Gram – 25 g
• Copra - 25 g
• Salt & Chilli Powder to taste

Method:

1. Heat 2 tsps ghee in a kadai
2. Put the thick Pova to ghee and fry for sometime
3. Thick Pova would turn crispy
4. Add fried groundnuts, fried gram, copra (cut into small pieces) and fry for sometime
5. Take out the mixture
6. Heat remaining ghee in the same kadai
7. Add salt and chilli powder and add the above mixture and mix well

Read More

Sweet Pova - A delight Snack

Sweet Pova - A delight snack

Ingredients:

• Pova (Beaten Rice) - 100 g
• Jaggery
• Ghee - 2 tsps
• Groundnuts - fried - 25 g (Optional)
• Cashewnuts - fried - 25 g (Optional)
• Copra - 25 g (Optional)
• Dry Grapes - 25 g (Optional)
• Dry Fruits (Optional)

Method:

1. Heat the ghee in a kadai
2. Put the thick Pova to ghee and fry for sometime
3. Thick Pova would turn crispy
4. Add copra (cut into small pieces) and fry for sometime
5. After turning off the stove add groudnuts, cashewnuts, dry grapes and jaggery.
6. Mix the mixture well
7. Serve as a snack

Read More

GunPowder (Sweet) Unde

GunPowder (Sweet) Unde:

GunPowder Unde

Instant Sweet which can be consumed as snack also.Its very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• Fried Gram Dhal - 1 cup
• Jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Copra / Dry Coconut - 1/2 cup
• Milk (as required)

Method:

1. Grind fried gram dhal, jaggery and copra into powder
2. Add little milk and make small balls
3. Serve, relax and eat them

Read More