Monday, May 31, 2010

Reposting for Event Participation

I am reposting the following for event participation.

1) Pom Agave Whole Wheat Cake  : This recipe goes to Healing Foods : Pom Event hosted by Apu and   started by Siri .


2) Pineapple Strawberry Granola Smoothie : This  recipe goes to Show Me Your Smoothies Event hosted by Divya.

3) Oats and Fruits Smoothie with POM Smoothie : This recipe goes to Show Me Your Smoothies Event hosted by Divya.

Barley Jaava/Barley Kanji

As the summer sun starts to show it's intensity it is necessary for us to take foods that can keep our body cool and help us to beat the heat of the sun.One such healthy and traditional drink is Barley Jaava or Barley Kanji.Every summer my mother used to make this kanji almost everyday in our house.Barley has a very cooling effect on the body and help us from dehydrating and keeps the body cool .We used to like taking it with buttermilk which is again a nice coolant.

This recipe goes to CWF-WG:Barely Event hosted by me.

Let us see how this simple Barley recipe is made--------------

Main Ingredients :
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Barley................................1/2cup
Water................................2cups
ButterMilk.........................3cups

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Salt....................................to taste

Preparation :
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Rinse the barley and pressure cook it with water for 3 whistles.

Once the pressure settlees down remove the lid and cool the barley water.

Once the barley water is cooled pour the cooked barley and water into a blender and blend well.So that the barley pearls are nicely broken.Now add butter milk and blend one more time.

Now add some salt to the barley jaava/kanji and pour it into the serving glasses and serve.

This is a very good remedy to beat the heat and as well a very healthy food for anytime of the day.

Note :
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If you like you can add few drops of lemon juice to this kanji and enjoy it.


I am sending this to Home Remedies III Event hosted by Jagruti and started by Sadhana & Muskaan

I am sending this to ThandaMela event hosted by Srivalli.

Simple Sooji Upma

Andhrites are known for their love for Upma and Pesarattu.Last week DH Jay has volunteered to make this simple and delicious upma.Let us see how he made this recipe in his words-----------


Main Ingredients :
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Cream of Wheat/Sooji..........1.5 cup
Water ..................................3 cups
Onion...................................1
Ginger..................................1inch
Chilli....................................3

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Canola Oil........................3tsp
Ghee................................1tsp
Cumin seeds.....................1tsp
Mustard Seeds.................1tsp
Chana Daal......................1tsp
Cashews..........................1tbsp
Curry Leaves....................1sprig
Salt..................................to taste
Lemon Juice.....................few drops


Garnish :
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Cilantro..........................few leaves
 
Preparation :
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Pour oil into the pan and make it warm,  then add mustard seeds,cumin seeds, chana dal and wait for then to splutter and add cashew,ginger,chilli, and onion.

Stir for 2 to 3 min and then add water to the pan and wait a few minutes until the water comes to a boil. Then add salt and ghee and stir it once.

Now take sooji and add to the water slowly while continuously stirring the water so that no lumps are formed .

Once sooji is completely added let it cook covered for 3 minutes and garnish with cilantro.

Now delicious UPMA is ready to be serverd topped with few drops of lemon juice.You can have it as is or with a chutney or pickle of your choice.

I am sending this to His Cooking Event by hosted by Priti.

I am sending this to Cooking with seeds : Cumin event hosted by Sara and started by Priya.




Beets and Mixed Vegetable Curry

This is an other woderful recipe from my brother Seri.Long before I posted a tri-color yogurt rice recipe that I made following his recipe.He sent me his recipe last week.Let us see how this curry is made.Here it is in his own words-------------


My Recipe Requires :
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Beets....................2
Onion...................1
Frozen beans.........100 grams
Frozen peas............half-cup
Frozen mix of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower...........250 grams

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Oil...........................................................................2tbsp
Minapappukaram/Spiced Lentil Powder....................1tbsp(Recipe is here)
Salt..........................................................................to taste

Preparation :
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First I put oil in the pan, then added onions and fried them a bit then added beets and slow cooked them for 10 mins and then added my frozen vegetables and cooked them until they reached the right consistency and then added salt and minapa pappu karam and cooked everything for 15 mins more.
 
Well, I also garnished the curry with some shredded carrot and mint leaves on top, as is obvious from the pictures :)


I am sending this recipe to His Cooking Event hosted by Priti.

Cabbage-Tomato Curry

This is a very tasty and delicious cabbage dish.This entry is very special on SUMADHURA as this recipe comes from my dear husband Jay(A man of many talents and few words). Enjoy this recipe . In his words this is how this recipe goes.....................


Main Ingredients :
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Cabbage...............1 med
Tomato.................1

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Oil..........................2tbsp
Mustard..................1tsp
Cumin.....................1tsp
Turmeric.................1/8tsp
Paprika...................2tsp(to your taste)
Salt..........................to taste

Preparation :
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To make this curry cut /shred cabbage into fine pieces.Dice the tomato and keep it aside.

Place a pan on the stove on medium high heat add oil .Once the oil is heated up add mustard,cumin and turmeric.Once the seeds splutter add diced tomato to the pan and stir.

After 2minutes stir it and add shredded cabbage to the pan.Stir well and cook covered.After 5 minutes check if the cabbage is done  and add salt and stir well.

Cook for 2 more minutes and add paprika chilly powder.Stir it cook for 1 more minute and turn off the stove.

Delicious cabbage tomato curry is ready to be served with rice or roti.

I am sending this recipe to His Cooking Event hosted by Priti.

I am sending this to Cooking with Seeds : Cumin event hosted by Sara and started by Priya.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Healthy Vegetable Couscous(Low Fat Or Fat Free)

This is a very simple,healthy,delicious and quick to make dish. A very healthy combination of colorful vegetables and couscous.Done in under 15 minutes can be had for breakfast,brunch,lunch or dinner.Whole family will enjoy this healthy couscous dish.

Let's see how it is made---------------


Main Ingredients :
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Whole Wheat Couscous...................1/2 lb
Yellow Zucchini................................1(small)
Green Bell Pepper............................1(medium)
Onion...............................................1(small)
Tomato.............................................1(medium)
Mushroom........................................6 oz
Olives..............................................1/4 cup

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Minapappukaram/Lentil Powder............................1tbsp or per your taste(Recipe for this powder is here)
Canola/Olive Oil.............................1.5tbsp
Red Pepper Flakes.........................1tsp
Salt.................................................to taste

Garnish :
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Dried Sweet Cranberries.................1tbsp

Preparation :
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Place a pan on high heat and add oil.Once the oil is hot add onion,zucchini,green pepper and mushroom and fry on high heat for 3 minutes .You don't want the vegetables to get soggy or over cooked.


Now add olives and tomatoes and fry for a minute.You can see that this dish is almost fat free,if you look at the pictures you can see that I used oil to just coat the pan.


Now add crushed red pepper,salt and minapappukaram/spiced lentil powder to the vegetables and stir well.


While the vegetables were cooking I boiled water in the microwave and added couscous to it and covered it.After 5 minutes I fluffed it up and added to the vegetable mix and stir well .


Finally garnish with dried sweetened cranberries.


Voila ! Healthy and delicious vegetable couscous is ready to be served.


We enjoyed this with home-made cauliflower pickle and seasoned green chilly.Will soon post the recipe for seasoned green chilly.

Note :
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1) I cooked on high heat as I did not want the mushroom ,zucchini and tomatoes to get soggy.

I am sending this to CFK-WWF event hosted by Priya Mitharwal and started by Sharmi.

I am sending this to Twenty-20 cooking event hosted by Niloufer .

Tasty and Healthy Juices on Thursdays: Juice Recipe 3 & Juice Recipe 4

Today is Thursday and I am back with 2 more juice recipes that we have tried and tasted at home.As I stated earlier these juices tasted good for us and we enjoyed them but before you try them at home check if all these ingredients and combinations are fine for you or not.

Let's get introduced to them----------------

Juice Recipe 3 :
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I told my son that he gets to choose what fruits and vegetables go into the juicer so that he enjoys every drop of the juice when he drinks it and he did . He really came up with this yummy and healthy combination of  fruits and vegetables that the juice was outstandingly delicious.Thanks to him we had a delicious treat for the day.


These are his choice of fruits and veggies-----------------
Oranges.........................4
Pears.............................2
Apples...........................2
Carrots..........................2
Yellow Zucchini.............1
Lemon Juice..................1tsp

Rinse all the fruits and veggies under cold water . Peel the oranges and cut the tips of the fruits and veggies.Now juice the soft fruit followed by hard fruit so that you can squeeze every bit of juice from the soft fruit.Once you are done juicing all of them add lemon juice mix well and serve the juice immediately.This juice was super-duper delicious.

This yielded 4 large glasses of juice.It was yellow in colour.


Juice Recipe 4 :
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This was a recipe that my daughter wanted to try . When she was asked to choose the fruits and vegetables she would want to be in the juice she got all the fruits that were in her sight and opted for beetroot and carrot. When asked why she wanted beetroot--she says "purple is my favorite color so I would like to add beetroot as it is purple".


These are her chioice of fruits and veggies in the juice---------

Grape Fruit.....................2
Oranges..........................2
Apples............................2
Pears..............................2
Carrots...........................2
BeetRoots.......................2
Ginger.............................1inch
Lemon Juice....................1tsp

Rinse all the fruits and veggies in cold water.Peel the grapefruit , orange and beet root . Juice soft fruit followed by hard fruits and veggies.Finally juice the ginger.Now add lemon juice to the squeezed juice mix and serve.

This yielded 5 large glasses of juice.The juice was purple in color.

Note :
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1) This juice was nice to taste but I would avoid combining beets and grapefruit together.Next time I would add either one of them and try .

I am sending Juice Recipe 3 and Juice Recipe 4 to ThandaMela Event hosted by Srivalli .

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Pear and Pom Whole Wheat Cake(Eggless and Vegan)

This yet another healthy cake with whole wheat and as usual eggless.Again thanks to my daughter for being behind me till I made this cake.As I mentioned earlier clearing the oven(as I use it for storage) for baking is a big task but my daughter makes sure that I keep baking once in a while as she loves cake.

Today I had to come up with something with the ingredients in hand and I ended up making this healthy cake with pear fruit , pom juice , flax meal and whole wheat flour as main ingredients.

Let us get started----------------

Dry Ingredients :
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Whole Wheat Flour..........................2cups
Flax Seed Meal................................1/2 cup
Baking Powder.................................1tsp
Baking Soda.....................................1/2tsp
Sea Salt............................................1/2tsp

Wet Ingredients :
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Pom Juice........................................1&1/4 cup
Canola Oil.......................................1/2 cup
Agave + Raw Agave Nectar............2tbsp + 2tbsp
Pear Fruit.........................................1 finely diced

Garnish :
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Toasted Unsalted Cashews...............1/4cup
Butter/Ghee......................................for greasing cake pan

Preparation :
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Turn the oven to 350 F.While the oven is preheating let us get the cake batter ready.Grease a cake/loaf pan and keep it ready.In a bowl take 2 cups of whole wheat flour(atta flour).Add baking powder , baking soda and salt and mix well or sift them together so that all the powders mix in well.

Now add the flax meal to the above dry ingredients and mix well.

In an other bowl take oil , agave nectar and pom juice and mix them well with the hand mixer.

Now pour the wet ingredients  into the dry ingredients and blend with the hand mixer.To this batter add the finely diced pears and whisk one more time so that the fruit blends in.
Now pour this batter into the greased pan and top it with roasted unsalted cashews and place it in the oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes.Each oven is different so check in between.Mine took 60 minutes.
 After 50 minutes test the cake with a tooth pick to see if it is done ,if not continue for few more minutes and check again.If the tooth pick comes out clean it's done.


Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool. It took more than 30 minutes for this cake loaf to cool down.I thought it must be because of the fresh fruit(pear) I used in it.


My daughter couldn't wait so long and made me cut it after 10minutes.It was still hot and moist whereever there were pieces of pear.It tasted very good.Once cooled it tasted more yum.


Note :
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1) This cake will  be good for 2 to 3 days if kept outside(without refrigeration) I guess as there are fresh fruit pieces in it.

2) Will surely make it again.Next time I will make it by using pasted pears instead of adding them as pieces.

3) I forgot to take a picture after adding the pears to the batter.You can see that in the cut cake piece there are some white spots, that white spots are pear.

I am sending this recipe to BakeOff Event hosted by Champa .

I am sending this to CFK-WWF Event hosted by Priya Mitharwal and started by Sharmi.

I am sending this to Healing Foods: Pomegranate Event hosted by Apu and started by Siri.


Awards from Love 2 Cook and Thank You Card from Creative Sanyukta

Love 2 Cook has shared  these wonderful awards with me.Thank you dear friend for keeping me in your thoughts and for sharing these lovely blog awards.



 Creative Sanyukta has shared a Thank You card on occassion of her blog's 1st Month Anniversary.Thank you Sanyukta.Wish you many more successes.

Reposting for Event Participation

People in old age are like little kids.They should not be deprived of delicious food.Instead they must be provided with right kind of nutritious food that helps them maintain their health and digestion and at the same time it should be delicious.The recipes I have posted here are all good for all ages of life and equally can be enjoyed by people in old age.All these foods below are low fat/fat free and low sugar/sugar free recipes and less in chilly spice too .

 These are some of the recipes I am reposting for participation in the following event :



Food for Ailments and Old Age event hosted by RV and Sudeshna .

01) Baked French Fries

02) Vegetable & Papaya Pizza

03) Apple Banana--Honey--Walnut Yogurt Cake

04) Bittergourd/Karela Chutney

05) Bottlegourd/Dudhi Paratha

06) Spinach-Cranberry-Bottlegourd Sambar

07) Broccoli Paratha

08) Broccoli-Yum-Yum

09) Pom-Agave Whole Wheat Cake

10) Cauliflower Stirfry

11) Cranberry Coconut Chutney

12) Plantain Peel Chutney

13) Kale Cranberry Drumstick Kootu

14) Cranberry Daal

15) Simple Tomato Cucumber Daal

16) Stuffed Eggplant

17) Quinoa Idly

18) Quinoa Kheer/Porridge

19) Quinoa Moong Daal Dosa

20) Oil Free Quinoa Dosa

21) Healthy Juices(2 Recipes)

22) Whole Moong Kheer

23) Instant Multi Grain Idly

24) Oats and Fruit Smoothie

25) Oats and Sooji Dhokla

26) Oats and Legumes Dosa/Oil Free Adai

27) Papaya & Yogurt Parfait

28) Healthy Porridge with Greens

29) Moong Daal Rasam

30) Tomato Yogurt Chutney

31) Potato Yogurt Chutney

32) Plantain Yogurt Chutney

33) Simple Poha

34) Banana-Strawberry-Granola Smoothie

35) Pineapple-Strawberry Smoothie

36) Cucumber Daal

37) Mango Daal


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tried and Tasted on Tuesdays(3T's) : May 25 2010

Hello everyone  it's Tuesday and here are the Tried and Tasted  dishes of the day.I thoroughly enjoyed making them and at the same time me and my family Tried and Tasted these delicious recipes from our blogger friends and these recipes get Two Thumbs Up.

1) Carrot Rice from Nithu's Kitchen by Nithu Bala.

I followed the recipe as is in the original recipe and this carrot rice tasted very delicious.Thank you Nithu Bala for this delicious rice.



Swathi gave two versions of this chutney and I followed the milder version.This onion chutney tasted very yummy.Thank you Swathi for sharing this delicious recipe.


3) Paneer Bhurji from Creative Saga by Sowmya.

Sowmya posted this recipe today on her blog and I really got tempted with the look of it and tried it immediately as is.Thank you Sowmya for this simple and delicious recipe.


These are the recipes that I tried and tasted and will soon try some from your blogs too.Till then enjoy these recipes and visit their blogs for more delicious and tasty recipes.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Awards from PriyaMitharwal and Divya

PriyaMitharwal from Mharorajasthan's Recipes has shared with me these wonderful awards a few weeks ago.Thank you very much Priya for keeping me in your thoughts and sharing these blog awards with me.I am sorry for posting them late.Do visit her blog for wonderful and tasty authentic recipes from Rajasthan.




 Divya from Divya's Recipes has shared with me the following awards.Thank you Divya for thinking of me and sharing your blog awards with me.Do visit her blog for her delicious and tasty recipes and step-by-step presentation.


I share these awards with all my blogger friends.
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