Ah…….. at last I have been able to take time out of my busy office schedule and write a post… this was a veryy simple soup that i made some time back..it is also called the Classic Russian Borscht… I have made the vegetarian version on this soup…here goes..

Ingredients:

Potato : 1 nos med sized
Beet root: 2 nos med sized
carrot: 1/2 cup chopped
Tomatoes: 2 nos med sized
Spring onions with green stalk: 1 nos
butter: 1 tbsp
salt and pepper: according to taste
Sour cream : 1 tbsp per bowl ( since i did not get sour cream, i used very thick creamy curd) (for garnish)
Finely chopped cabbage : 1/2 cup
Bay leaf: 2 nos
Coriander leaves : 1 tsp (finely chopped per bowl)

Method:

1. Pressure cook all vegetables, bay leaf etc with little water ( 3 whistles at least)
2. In a food processor grind the vegetables and butter (remove the bay leaf while grinding).
3. Add the required amount of salt and pepper and pour equal amount in soup bowls.
4. Garnish with sour cream or in my case thick creamy curd and chopped coriander leaves and wolla a purpleish pink soup is ready to eat….

Whenever i saw bloggers meeting up and sharing their experiences…i used wonder when i will meet up people in Bangalore…..so i thought let me start to coordinate meeting of the Bangalore Foodie Bloggers (don’t really know if people have already met up)…

So guys & ladies…if you stay in Bangalore or will be shifting to Bangalore in the near future or anyone who wants to come to Bangalore ( i know i have put too many or’s) let me know…lets try and meet up…i am very sure it will be fun planning and meeting up…

Leave me a message as a comment or mail me at : priyah3(at)yahoo(dot)com

Happy Cooking !!!

 The day that i heard of Mango madness, i knew i had to make the lovely crepes and post it….the king of all fruits was an obvious choice as a stuffing for the crepes…

Ingredients:

Mangoes: 1 nos: skin peeled and chopped into small pieces
strawberry: 5-6 nos, sliced thinly
maida: 1 cup
eggs: 2 nos
salt : 2 pinches
sugar: 1 tsp
Milk: 1/2 cup
water: 1/2 cup
butter: 1 tbsp: melted

Method:

1. Mix the maida, eggs, salt, sugar, water, melted butter and milk to form a nice batter.
2. To make the stuffing, heat a little butter (1 tsp), add 1 tsp sugar and add the fruits and let the sugar-butter liquid quote the fruits. mix it once and set aside….
3. Take a non stick tawa, coat the tawa with little butter and pour the batter on the tawa with a ladle.
4. Smear it to make a thin dosa out of it…
5. Cook on one side and then flip it to cook on both sides….
6. Stuff the fruits and present it warm or cold to one and all…

 This is my contribution to  WBB#22 May Mango Madness by Arundati 

Yipppi…my very first blog award…

I would first like to thank Soumya  for presenting me this Yummy Blog award….i am so thrilled…

Here are the some rules for the ‘Yummy Blog’ award Receiver:
The person who receives the award should display the “Yummy Blog !” logo on their blog and also the meaning of the award which is “Yummy blog award is the award given to the blog with most yummy recipes/photos”.

The receiver should also quote their favorite yummy-licious dessert(s) that they have ever prepared/eaten. Don’t restrict yourself to any dessert, chocolate bars also welcome.· Also the receiver should pass on the award to four other bloggers whose blog they find “yummy” and let them know about the rules.

As per the rules , my favourite sweets are as follows: Rasmalai, kala jamun, chocolate mousse, vanila ice cream and my all time favourite..Jalebis…

I would like to pass on this award to:Athisaya Divya, Srivalli, Kalai and Nags… congratulations to all you fellow bloggers…

Happy Cooking everybody!!!

When i came to know about RCI-Rajasthan, i knew what I wanted to make and post…my all time favourite sabzi… Gatte ka sabzi ..a sabzi made up of besan, tomatoes and onions….

Ingredients:

For the gatte/ :

Besan :1 cup

turmeric powder : 1 tsp

Saunf : 1 tsp

red chilli powder & salt : according to taste

Dhania and jeera powder: 1-2 tsp each

ajwain: 1/2 tsp

For the gravy:

Onions: finely chopped: 1 nos med size

tomatoes : finely chopped: 2nos med size

curd : niclely beated: 1 cup

Jeera: 2 tsp

Dhania powder: 1 tsp

girnger-garlic paste: 1 tsp

Turmeric powder: 1 tsp

Salt & chilli powder: according to taste

Method:

1.Mix all the ingredients for the gatte and make it into a dough using water.

2. Leave the dough closed in a vessel for 15 minutes.

3. Make balls out of the besan mixture and shape them in an elongated fashion as shown in the picture.

4. To cook the gatte there are two methods:

a. steam the elongated shaped gatte like idlis in a pressure cooker for 15 mins or

b. Take some water in a kadai and let it boil, drop these gatte in the boiling water and remove them from the boling water only when they start floating on the surface of the water.

5. For the gravy, heat oil in a kadai, add jeera to it and let it splutter.

6. Add the finely chopped onion and ginger - garlic paste to this and saute till both the ingredients loose their raw smell.

7. Add the tomatoes and cook them for some time.

8. Parallely, make pieces of the gatte ( appprox 1 inch in size) and fry them in oil.

9. Add the fried gatte to the tomato gravy, add curd and 2 cups of water and let the whole thing simmer for about 20 mins

10. Add salt, chilli powder and dhania powder, turmeric powder to the gravy…

11. Granish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with phulkas…

This is my contribution for RCI-Rajasthan hosted by Padmaja

Chila…hmmmm….what do i say….should i say dosa of gujarat or just besan ke gol snacks. Well… i prefer to continue with chila besan wale…here goes….

Ingredients:

Besan: 2 cups
Sour curds : water ratio (for making the batter) : 1/4 : 3/4
Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
ginger-green chilli paste: according to taste
sesame seeds / til: 2 tbsp
finely chopped coriander leaves: 1 1-3 tsp
salt: according to taste
Finely chopped onions: 1 nos
oil for frying

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and set aside for 15 mins.
2. Add water little by little if the batter is too thick
3. Heat a tawa, pour a ladle of the batter and spread it nicely…
4. Add little oil to the sides of the chila and let it cook on one side.
5. Once one side is cooked, flip and cook the other side.
6. Once cooked nicely on both sides, serve hot with chutney or sauce…

Come summer, mangoes are available in all sizes and shapes…& before we start eating the ripe mangoes, we get the raw ones…well this is the time of raw mango pickles …yummm isnt it… this mixed rice variety is a one of my favourites….

Ingredients:

Raw mango: 1 nos (medium size)
Onion: finely chopped: 2 nos (medium size)
Roasted Peanuts: 1/2 cup
Cooked rice: 4 cups or rice required for two people
turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds: 2 tsp
channa dal: 2 tsp
Ginger:1/2 inch: finely chopped
coriander leaves: for garnish
Green chillies: finely chopped: according to taste
salt: according to taste

Method:

1. Wash and grate the mango and keep aside.
2. Heat oil in a kadai, add the mustard seeds, channa dal and saute till the mustard seeds splutter and channa dal becomes brown…
3. Add the onions, green chillies and ginger and saute till the onions turn pink in colour.
4. Add the grated mango, turmeric powder and saute till the mango is cooked nicely.
5. Once the mango is cooked, add the roasted peanuts, salt and rice & mix well…
6. Cook on sim flame for another 1 min…
7. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot…

This variety of dosa is also called as ‘pisrat’…..an andhra dosa variety, it is very healthy and tasty…

Ingredients:

Moong sprouts: 400 gms
Sambhar onions / small onions:6-7 nos
Garlic clove: 1-2 nos
Green chillies: according to taste
salt:according to taste
oil: for making dosa

Method:

1. Grind all the ingredients into a fine paste ( ensure that the batter is of the right consistency).
2. Heat a dosa tava, pour a ladle of the batter and spread it on the tava.
3. Make a small hole in the middle with the back of the ladle, add oil on the sides and cook on one side.
4. Once one side is cooked, flip it over and let it cook nicely…
5. Serve hot with chutney or raw onions… (my favourite is this dosa with tomato sauce)..i made around 8 dosas…

This is my entry for …..
Mansi’s : WBB#20 Balanced Breakfast

and Sri’s : Dosa Mela

I love this particular dish…usually i have used ready to make pad thai packets where we just need to mix the ingredients and vola it is ready…but this time i decided to make it from scratch…and it turned out quite nice…

Ingredients:

Flat rice noodles: 300 gms
Brown sugar: 2 tsp
white sugar: 2 tsp
Soy sauce: 3-4 tsp
Chilli flakes: according to taste
Tamarind concentrate: 2 tsp
Green onions: 5-6 nos
Onions: 2 nos med size
Bean sprouts: 1 cup
Tofu: 200 gms
Peanuts: 100 gms
salt: according to taste
coriander leaves; chopped finely for garnish
oil for frying
Method:

1. In a bowl mix sugar, tamarind extract, soy sauce and chilli flakes and set aside.
2. Take a vessel and boil water in it (such that noodles immerses completely in it). Once the water boils, add the noodles and cook till they are al dente… Once the noodles are cooked, remove them in a strainer and wash them in cold water and set aside…
3. Take a non stick kadai or wok and heat oil in it…once the oil is heated, add chopped onions to it.
4. In the wok now add the tofu pieces and fry it till it is fried & well done…( at this one could also add 1 egg and scrable it nicely)
5. Once done…Add the noodles and mix nicely.
6. To this add the sugar/ soy mixture, salt and mix well…cook till the liquid is absorbed well…
7. Switch of the gas and add green onions and bean sprouts and mix well.
8. Garnish with roasted peanuts & coriander leaves and serve hot…

Last saturday around 6.00 PM D (my sis) and M (my hubby) anf me (of course) got hungry and had a craving to eat a snack..something out of the usual and crunchy… so i went to the kitchen and got out whatever was there in my fridge and as my luck would have it on a weekend…not much..but i did have a little dosai maave (Dosa batter)..and by little i had only a couple of table spoons worth..so what to do..well we did manage to have a snack and this is how i made it….hope people like it…

Ingredients:

Dosai batter: 3 tablespoons
Onions: Chopped finely : 1 med nos
Ginger: chopped finely: 1 inch
green chillies: chopped finely: according to taste
Curd: 1 tbsp
salt: according to taste
Sooji / rava: a cup
Chopped corriander leaves: 2 tspTwist: 1 tsp of lemon juice
Oil for frying
Twist: 1 tsp lemon juice…
Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and let it stay for 10-15 minutes..
2. If the batter is too thick, some more curd could be added to get the correct consistency.
3. Heat oil in a kadai, meke take small portions of the batter (either by hand or tsp) and deep fry it.
4. Once the vadai is fried till golden brown remove them on a tissue paper….
5. Serve the tangy rava vadai with hot with chilli/ tomato sauce…