Lime n' Mint

Today i thought to make some thing simple and tasty. My husband is having lunch meeting in office. So i had to prepare something myself. This is the result....... tasty Basmati vegetable rice feast!!! Ingredients: Basmati Rice                 1  cup(clean rice and soak it in water for 20min.) Water                            2  cups Chopped Vegetables     1 cup (here i used 1 small carrot,1 floret of cauliflower,small piece of cabbage,1 small onion,few mint leaves) Ginger and garlic paste   1/2 tea spoon Garam masala                1/2 tea spoon Black pepper                 1/2 tea spoon Salt                                1 tea spoon Vegetable oil       ...

Once i tasted Garlic and Basil Brushetta as a starter in one of the restaurents in Singapore.Usually Brushetta is  made with French loaf. Suddenly today evening an idea flashed in my mind .Why not make the Brushetta with multi grain bread!!! So this is the my evening innovation!!!! For this recipe i have taken Ingredients: Multi grain bread                                 2 slices Garlic                                                  3 clove(finely grated) Mint(pudina)                                       5 leaves(cut into small pieces) Low fat cheese or Cheese spread        2 spoons Salt butter               ...

Today's my evening snack special American sweet corn bhel puri. Really it came out very tasty....... This recipe source is from TV food shows.  Ingredients for this recipe: American corn              1 Onions                         1 (cut into fine dices) Tomato                        1 (cut into small dices) Lemon                          1/2 Green chilli                    1(cut into small pieces) Chilli sauce                    1 tea spoon Salt                               1/2 tea spoon Haldiram's Aloo bhujia  for topping Puffed rice   ...

Toady Ugadi means New Year for some States  of India. Happy Ugadi to all.  According to Hindu mythology beginning of New era.In this auspicious day people eat jaggery,neem flower as a mark of happiness(sweet-jaggery) and sorrow(bitter-neem) so that both are taken eqaully. I don't like to boring you.......  Today's my recipe is Healthy Spinach Paratha  and Spicy Pomegranate raita.

Puri is savory made with whole wheat flour(Aata) or All pupose flour(Maida or refined wheat flour).Here i used Whole wheat flour(Aata).In this recipe dough making is  like  Indian bread - Roti or Tava chapathi. But the difference is pressed dough has to deep fried in vegetable oil.

Now  is the season for tender mangoes and tender cashews and time for harvesting pineapples and jack fruits and many more tropical fruits in our country. My parents had a couple of orchards that had beautiful mango and cashew trees. During my childhood, we used to get tender green mangoes and tender cashews from these orchards every year between February  and April. Now-a-days i am not getting the opportunity to visit my parents' place due to work and other exigencies. So i miss the spring/summer festivities associated with crop harvests and resultant jubilant moments with my brothers and cousins and all the family members of my parerntal home. I got suddenly relived  all those memories this week. Few days ago, we visited a nearby village and spent a day at a health resort thats just 60 km away from where we live. To my utter surprise and excitement,  that resort is built in the middle of a fruit orchard with many fruit-bearing trees including cashew...

Healthy and tasty Beans and green gram(dal)  dry curry It is a very simple and tasty side dish with rice or roti. For this recipe we need green gram and beens and some spices and little oil. Here Ingredients  i have taken small cup of green gram,100g of beans. For tempering   a pinch of mustard and cumin seeds. For spice 1 green chilli and little amount of ginger(make it like paste) and for taste little salt .Liitle amount of water for cooking.