Saturday, June 5, 2010

Watermelon Sharbhat and an award




Ingredients:-

Watermelon - 1/2 (small)
Ginger - small inch
Lemon - 1/2
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Some icecubes

Procedure:-

  • Deseed the watermelon and cut it into pieces and add it into the juicer.
  • To it add 1tsp crushed ginger juice, sugar, Squeezed lemon juice, Icecubes and grind it.
  • Now serve it chill. :)




I have received this Honest scrap award from my blogger friend Sayali of Treat your Tongue. Im very thankful for such a lovely award from her. She has a wonderful blog with nice presentation and supeb fantastic recipes and hope you all love it too. Please do check it out. Thanku so much once again....
As per the rules of the award:
  1. I must brag about it.
  2. I have to display the badge on my blog and link to the one who tagged me to prove that i din't tag myself (See links above)
  3. Share 10 things about myself.
  4. Pass the award to other fellow bloggers by visiting thier site.
I want to share this with my fellow bloggers sweet friend Viki's Kitchen, Divya's Recipes, Binge on Veg !!!, ♥LOVE2COOK♥ ...Food & Life..., My Singapore Kitchen........ , Hamaree Rasoi
So here are the 10 things about me......
  1. Most important persons in my life and whom i love the most is my sweet Hubby and my caring Brother.
  2. I give so much importance to relations and my weak point is that too.... :(
  3. My greatest strength is my friends.
  4. Im very much passionate about music.
  5. Love sketching at times. Can check out some of them here. (not a professional artist type but just for timepass and to relax myself)
  6. I love cooking and like to experiment new dishes specially our old traditioned and simple ones.
  7. I become angry very easily.
  8. Love to be with friends, chatting, enjoying with them.
  9. Love to travel any cold snowy places and beaches.
  10. I go crazy for icecreams, chocolates, colour lavender, ..................so on....:)

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Masala Roti with Carrot Raitha

Now it has become very common in every house to eat chapati's daily. So i alwz like to experemnt on different types of roti's, paratha's and so on. But for preparing different variety of roti may take some special time for us to spare on it. But when we want to eat something spicy and yummy without much stress and there is lack of time then in no time you can just go with this combi of Masala Roti and Carrot Raitha within mins... :) Its very healthy, tasty and easy way too. I alwaz prefer to do very simple and quick dishes which make us comfortable in our day to day life specially..... Enjoy..!!!!


Ingredients :-

Wheat flour-1cup
Chilli powder- 1 tsp
Pepper powder- 1tsp
Jeera powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Ajwain/Vamu - 1tsp
Milk - half small cup
Oil - little for frying
Salt to taste

Procedure:-
  • Mix all the ingredients except oil by adding little milk (mix milk along with some water and use it for mixing) at a time and make a smooth dough and keep it aside.


  • Now make it into small balls and prepare chapati's and fry it on the tawa by adding little oil by frying on both sides evenly.
  • Repeat the process with the remaining dough and serve it hot with the carrot raitha.




Carrot Raitha:

Mix 1cup of yogurt, 1/2 cup grated carrot, 2 chopped green chillis, pinch of chaat masala, Salt to taste and mix well. Serve it with rotis.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Aloo Corn Tikkies

The other day when me and my friend who is a neighbor discussing about some snacks. Then she told about these patties and she said that she will prepare it for me. But as she is busy with her kids she told me the procedure and both together prepared this snack item for evening that day. So i thank my friend for such a nice recipe.

Ingredients:-

Aloo/Potatoes - 4
Corn - 1/2cup
Peas - 1/2 cup
Coriander - 1/2 small bunch
Maida/ All purpose flour - 3 to 4tsp
Bread Crumps - 1cup (or) Bread slices- 4
Chillis - 4
Oil as needed for frying the patties
Salt to taste

Procedure:-

  • Potatoes boiled, peeled, mashed and kept aside. Boil peas and corn separately and keep aside.
  • Now take the mashed potatoes, peas, corn, coriander, chopped chillis, salt and mix well.


  • In a small bowl add the maida and make it a thin paste by adding water to it and keep aside.
  • Now make small balls (lemon size) of the potato mix and lightly press it in the middle and make it like patties.
  • Dip this in maida mix and roll it in the bread powder and keep aside.
  • Repeat the process with the remaining aloo mix and keep them aside.


  • Now heat the tawa and on it spread oil and fry these tikkies on both sides till golden brown colour and serve it with tomato ketch up.




Note :
If you don't have bread crumbs then can use normal white bread. You just need to remove the edges of the bread and make it a powder and use it as crumbs of bread.
If people not that cautious about oil can deep fry these patties and serve it for more taste.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Dry Fruit Laddu

Hi friends!!!! So how was ur weeknd??? After a long weekend break and a fresh start for the month here is my recipe starting with a sweet.... :)
So i think everyone had a great time with all the trips and all.... Now got the time to visit and come with more and more recipes i think.... So today's recipe is my sisters recipe that she prepared recently. Here we have used some dry fruits that are readily available at home and no need for any special purchase.

So i think everyone is very tired with the trips and needs some energy now... ;) Dry fruits are good for health and it gives energy, also a good way to make our kids have some energetic food in this form. Almonds are the nuts which eliminate the bad cholesterol from the body and dates increase the hameoglobin levels in our body. So the whole family can have these laddus. Try it once buddies!




Ingredients:

Dates – I cup (seedless)
Almonds – ½ cup
Cashew nuts (kaju) – ½ cup
Raisins – ¼ cup
Sesame seeds – 1 tsp
Ghee – 2 tsp

Procedure:

  • Deseed the dates and grind them in little pieces.
  • Fry the almonds , cashew nuts and raisins in the ghee.
  • Now add the dry fruits along with the ghee and 1 tsp of sesame seeds with date pieces. Mix them well.
  • Now make them into small balls or laddus.The yummy and healthy easy laddu is ready.


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