Monday, August 22, 2022

Spring onion egg fry

This is a quick dinner and nutritious recipe. 

Preparation Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

3 cups of spring onion

6 eggs

1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder

1/2 teaspoon chili powder

1/2 garam masala

salt as needed

Steps to prepare:

  • In a large pan, fry spring onion. Add black pepper and stir fry.
  • Add eggs and mix with fried spring onion
  • Add chili powder and garam masala
  • Add salt and mix well.
  • Serve hot either with chapati or hot rice
                                                           



Sunday, August 21, 2022

Yogurt Rice

 Preparation Time: None (Provided we have cooked rice and Yogurt)

Cook Time:  10 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked rice

1 cup yogurt

2 teaspoons of oil

Tempering: Jeera, mustard seeds, curry leaves

2 green chillies

1 red cilli

1 teaspoon grated ginger

Salt as needed

Steps to prepare:

  • In a bowl, mix yogurt and cooked rice. Add salt and keep it on side.
  • In a pan, heat oil and add all the tempering ingredients
  • Add red chili
  • Add 2 green chilies
  • 1 teaspoon of grated ginger.
  • Add it to Rice bowl and mix well. Serve it with your favorite pickle.
                              



Oats and Cinnamon Waffles

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups oats flour

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup walnut powder

2 eggs

2 cups almond milk

1 ripped banana

Pinch of baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

1 cup maple syrup

Steps to Prepare:

  • In a bowl, keep eggs and whisk them with Banana and cinnamon powder/Baking soda/salt
  • Add oats flour, all-purpose flour. Add Almond milk and mix well. Until we see Batter consistency. (Tip: I use hand blender to make it quicker)
  • Now, spray Olive oil on waffle maker and put 2 spoons of batter
                                          

  •       Repeat the step to make more waffle. Serve hot with banana slices.
                                  
                                                 

Pesarattu (Moong Dal Dosa)

 Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups green moong dal

1/4 cup yellow moong dal

Ginger slice

2 green chilies

1 cup of finely sliced onions

1/2 cup oil

salt as needed

Steps to prepare:

  • In a blender finely grind green moon dal/Yellow moong dal along with ginger and green chilies. Add salt. Transfer it to a container and keep it on side.
  • Fry the sliced onion in half spoon of oil and keep it on the side.
  • Start the Dosa griddle and evenly spread the Dosa batter on the Dosa griddle.
  • Put some fried onions on the Dosa and allow Dosa to turn little brown.
  • Gently turn the Dosa to other side.
  • Wrap the Dosa and serve hot with ginger chutney/upma/peanut chutney

Variation:

For extra sweetness, along with onion we can also keep grated carrots

we can add finely chopped coriander leaves.



Saturday, August 20, 2022

Peanut Salad

 Preparation Time: 5 minutes

 Cook Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups of raw peanuts

1 small cucumber

3 baby tomatoes

1 teaspoon of lime juice

1/4 cup cilantro

Salt as needed

Steps to Prepare:

  • Soak Peanuts in water and leave for 5 minutes
  • In an instant pot or pressure cooker boil peanuts.
  • Allow peanuts to cool and add sliced cucumber, lime juice, cilantro and diced tomatoes
  • Peanut salad is ready for serving.

                                                                

              



Spanish Omelette

 Preparation Time: 25 Minutes

 Cook Time: 30 Minutes

 Ingredients:

8 eggs

2 cups of finely sliced potatoe cubes

1/2 cup cabbage

1/4 cup spring onion

3 teaspoons of oil

Pinch of black pepper

Salt as needed

1/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence

Steps to prepare:

  • In a pan, put oil. Add sliced potato cubes, sauté for a minute and then close the lid. Allow potato to cook for 5 minutes.
  • Add Cabbage and spring onion, cook for 2 minutes. Transfer the stuff to a bowl.
  • In a separate bowl, beat eggs and add salt and Black pepper.
  • Add Sautéed ingredients and Vanilla essence to beaten eggs and mix well. Now the batter is ready to prepare Spanish Omelette.
  • In a pan, put a tablespoon of oil and add the batter. close the lid.
  • Allow the Omelette to cook completely on one side before turning it to other side.
  • Turn the omelette (Tip: I generally use a plate for turning the omelette)
  • Cook until omelette is well cooked. Spanish omelette is ready for serving. 

                                                                   


 Variations:

Add onions instead of spring onions.

Instead of Vanilla essence we can also use almond essence.



Onion Pakoda

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time:  30 minutes

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Ketch up

2 cups Besan (Chickpea flour)

2 teaspoons rice flour

3 cups sliced onions

1 green chili

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon Ajjwain

Salt as needed

Sunflower oil

Steps to prepare:

  • In a frying pan, put sunflower oil and allow the oil to boil.
  • In a bowl Mix onion, chickpea flour, rice flour, chili powder, 1 teaspoon Ajwain, salt as needed. Now the Onion batter is ready.
  • Put little batter in oil to make sure, oil is hot enough to fry pakora.
  • Slowly, put little of onion batter evenly in oil.
  • Fry the pakoras until they are golden brown.
  • Serve immediately with ketch up.

                                                 


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