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Ingredients:
1 cup Black gram dal.
1 1/2 cup Raw rice.
1 1/2 cup Boiled rice.
Salt to taste.
Method:
1) Clean and soak dal in water for 2 hours.(soak dal about 2 hours before grinding.)
2) Clean and soak both the rice together for 4-6 hours.
3) Place half the dal in grinder. Add little water. Grind till smooth.
4) Add some more water...
Sweet Poha Rcipe
Ingredients:
1/3 cup thick poha.
2 tbsp chopped jaggry.
1 small banana.
1/3 cup warm milk.
1 tbsp greated coconut.
Method:
1) In a small strainer rinse poha for couple of time.
2) Peel and slice the banana in a small bowl.
3) Add jaggry, add grated coconut.
4) Add poha and 1/3 cup worm milk...
Minestrone Soup Recipe
Soups are delicious, nutritious and easy to prepare. A bowlful of soup at the beginning of a meal helps to stimulate the appetite.
Minestrone soup is a classic Italian vegetable and pasta soup. Having bowl of this soup have lot of health benefits as you get more vegetables full with nutrients. Especially kids love this kind of soups and it is very healthy for them.
I use small macaroni but...
Curd Cheese Salad Dressing Recipe
Curd cheese salad dressing is a good substitute for mayonnaise especially for a people who are vegetarian or wish to reduce oil and fats in their diet.
I use this salad dressing while making Apple Coleslaw.
Serves - 1 cup
Difficulty - Easy
Time Available - Up to 15 mins.
Ingredients:
1 cup hung yoghurt/curd (chakka).
2 tsp. sugar.
Salt to taste.
Method:
1) In a bowl, take hung...
Apple Coleslaw Recipe
Green vegetables and salads plays an important role in our daily diet. Salad supplies necessary vitamins and minerals. A traditional Indian thali also consists raita or kachumber. These Indian salads plays a role of side dish with main course.
Coleslaw is a traditional German Salad & there are so many ways to make it. The main ingredients of this salad are Apple, Cabbage, Capsicum and Onion.
I...
Sprouts and Mushroom Rice Recipe
Rice is a almost everyone's favourite food. It is a high source of carbohydrates than other major staple foods. But other nutrient contents are less in amount in it. Hence, if we can add different pulses, veggies etc. in rice then it will improve its taste and the nutritional value of the dish.
Sprouts and mushroom rice, in this dish I use sprouted green gram. Instead of green gram, you can also...
Aloo Bonda Recipe
Aloo Bonda is a typical South Indian snack. It is quite similar to maharashtrian batata vada. The only major difference is that aloo bonda is more spicy than batata vada.
This is a deep fried snack made with spiced mashed potato coated with gram flour batter.
There are some more variations to make bonda such as sweet potato or topica bonda, mutta bonda, vegetable bonda, mysore bonda,...
Banana Orange Smoothie Recipe
Banana orange smoothie is one of the quick and simple recipe. It is thick blended beverage made from banana, orange and yoghurt. All these natural protein & vitamin rich ingredients make this drink extremely healthy. Yoghurt serves as binder and banana gives a rich creamy texture to your smoothie. I use honey instead of sugar which gives nice sweetness to it. This is my husband's favorite...
Dalma Recipe
Dalma is quite popular in Odisha. It is made from toor dal and vegetables like potato, green papaya, unripe banana, eggplant (brinjal), pumpkin, gourd, arvi etc.
You can add any 3-4 vegetables from this list or either best way is, add whatever the veggie are available in your refrigerator. At the end, choice is yours. Hence, there are so many ways to make this dal.
In a tempering, they uses Panch...
Kothimbir Vadi Recipe
Kothimbir vadi (coriander and gram flour fritters) is a very popular snack in Maharashtra. Kothimbir is the Marathi word for coriander and vadi means fritter. Coriander is the main ingredient of this dish.
This vadi made with fresh coriander, gram flour and some spices. These fritters first steamed then shallow fried.
My mother make this vadi very tasty. As everyone in my family...
Kashmiri Rajma Curry Recipe
Kashmiri rajma (red kidney bean) curry, The name itself indicates that this dish belongs to kashmir. First time I ate this dish when I went to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, Katara with my friend sunita and group.
As we were so much hungry that time after long pilgrimaged around 14-16 kms. of trek, we went to their bhojanalaya and ordered this rajma curry and white boiled rice. The food was...
Steamed Rice or Plain Rice Recipe
Rice is the staple food of all the coastal region of India. In Gujarat, Konkan, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra pradesh rice is the main ingredients of most of the dishes.
I'm inborn konkani. So as any konkani person, I have also fond of steamed rice with fresh fish curry and with tasty fish fry. It is a complete meal for me, no need of anything else.
In my mother's house chapati...
Cashew Nut Paste Recipe
Some Indian gravies do required cashew nut paste for a rich and creamy texture. You can also add this paste to your soups, baked dishes, vegetable curries and even sweets.
Serves - 1 cup
Difficulty - Easy
Time Available - Upto 15 mins.
Ingredients:
1 cup milk or water.
1 cup unsalted cashew nuts.
Method:
1) Heat the milk or water till warm.
2) Add cashew nuts to the warm water or milk....
Tips For Cooking Rice
Every homemaker knows how to cook rice but below given tips may useful for further improving its quality.
1) Many homemakers are habitude to roughly wash the rice. Remember never rub the rice much while washing it. Due to that all of those proteins, vitamins and minerals in rice washed away. Wash the rice for 2-4 times or until the water runs clear.
2) After washing, let it soak in water for...
Salted Lassi Recipe
The heat of the summer has been intense here in India. The temperature reached high up to 45 degree C. So beat the heat with this simple, tasty and cool Indian drink. Salted Lassi.....
This is...
Sweet Lassi Recipe
Lassi is one of the popular Indian traditional drink, originated from Punjab. The popularity of lassi is not remained within Punjab but now days you can see it everywhere across India.
Lassi is generally taken along with lunch. A big glass of lassi and lunch is daily ritual in Punjabi customs.
There are some more variations of lassi, such as Salty Lassi, Mango Lassi and Mint Lassi.
This yogurt...
Jal Jeera Recipe
Jal jeera is famous traditional mint flavoured lemonade. This is popular summer drink in northern part of India due to hot climatic conditions.
Generally served as an appetizer but personally...
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