Spinach Kuzhi Paniyaram

Kuzhi paniyaram is one of my favourite dish when paired with the yummm tomato or pudhina chutney.Basically i prepare these paniyaram's instatly with left over idli batter. By now most of my fellow bloggers would know that i am a health freak and i peep deep in to the nutrition fact of each food i cook at home. So this time i have added spinach / palak to make the simple paniyaram a more healthier one !!!

Preparation Time : 10 Minutes
Cooking Time : 10 Mins
Serves : 2

Ingredients :

Left over Idli Batter : 3 cups
Spinach - 1 cup - finely chopped
Onion - 3/4 cup - Finely Chopped
Green Chilli - 2 - 3 or accordingly - Finely Chopped
Mustard - 1 tsp
Urad Dal - 1 teaspoon
Salt -a pinch if required (as there is already salt added in the idli batter )

Method :

Heat a teaspoon of oil in a tadka pan, add mustard, let it splutter, now add urad dal fry until golden brown. Finally add a pinch of asafoedita. Mix all the ingredients together along with the mustard tadka and mix well and keep it aside.
Now heat a paniyaram pan, grease it with little oil, pour a spoonful of the batter to the pan and cook covered on medium flame until it turns golden brown, similarly turn the other side and cook untill golden brown. Serve hot with any chutney of your choice.
This can be served as a snack or as breakfast !!

Sprouted Moong Dal Chutney

These days all of us are so health conscious that what ever we eat or we feed our kiddos , we ensure that there is right nutrition in every bite of food. One such nutritious chutney recipe is sprouted moong chutney, which tastes awesome packed fully with nutrition.

Preparation time : 2 days ( for making sprouts)

Cooking Time : 3 Minutes

Serves : 3

Ingredients :

Sprouted Moong dal - 1 cup

Onion - 1/2 cup - Finely Chopped

Tomato - 1 small - finely chopped

Tamarind - peanut sized

Red chilli - 1

Green Chilli - 1

Salt

Oil - 1 teaspoon

Method :

Saute all the ingredients in a pan with one spoon of oil for 2 to 3 minutes. Let it cool, blend it with salt in a mixer with required amount of water. Tasty chutney is ready. Serve it along with idli, dosa or rotis.

Luv

Lavanya :)

Strawberry Pyaali

This is one of the most rich and delicious recipe i have ever tasted,Recently we happened to walk in to a restaurant at pune called Juice world which is near camp area in pune. After having a tangy pav bhaji we wanted to have some desserts, when we scanned the menu, we could find loads of fruit creams, you name any fruit they had cream made of it. one such dish was strawberry pyali or cream of strawberry. I immediately wanted to try the same at home, to my surprise it did come out very well, here's sharing the same with you all :) 

Serves: 1

Preparation time: 45 Minutes

Cooking time : none

Ingredients:

Thick Fresh Cream - 1 Cup

Strawberries - 1 Cup

Sugar - According to taste

Method:

Beat the fresh cream with required quantiy of sugar and keep it aside. Wash make a pulp with 4 to 5 straberries and cut rest strawberries in to thin slices. Now mix the pulp with the fresh cream. Take a serving bowl, pour one layer of fresh cream mix and layer them with sliced strawberries, similarly keep repeating the steps until you finish 4-5 layers. Refrigirate them for an hour or two and serve chilled. You can also use differents fruits of your choice like banana, custard apple, guava, kiwi etc.

Tip:

you can even prepare this the previous day and can refrigirate for it to set well.

Love

Lavanya,

Dal Kichdi

Hi fellow bloggers,

its been indeed quite a few months since i logged in to my blog, though tried to catch up other bloggers, i missed many of your posts. Life has been hectic for past few months with work, home and kid.So wanted to take a break from blogging, but my mind always thought about the numerous contests and awards which would be shared every now and then, missed all those participation in the contests, reading nice reviews and congratulating each others, never mind priorities keep changing :))  let me cheer up my self and start my blogging once again with a very simple recipe which i would often end up doing when my vegetable tray is completely out of stock

Preparation Time : 5 Minutes

Cooking Time: 20 Minutes

Serves : 2 

Ingredients :

Rice : 1 cup
Toor Dal : 1/4 cup
Moong dal - 1/4 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Green Chilli - 1 - slit
Pepper Corns - 4 - slightly crushed
Mixed vegetables - 1 cup ( purely optional)
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1 teaspoon
Coriander leaves - 1 tbps - finely chopped
Salt - to taste
Oil - 2 tbps
Ghee - 1 tbps

Method :


Heat oil in a small pressure cooker , add cumin seeds and let it splutter, then add ginger garlic paste and green chilli, saute for half a minute. To this add the washed rice , dal, 2.5 cups water, turmeric powder, pepper, mixed vegetables, ghee and salt. Close the lid and pressure cook for 3 - 4  whistles. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with pickle :)


Love

Lavanya !!

Mini Pizza Crackers

I always have cravings for Pizza flavour, so is my husband, we end up eating pizza atleast once in 15 days, while trying to satisfy our cravings, i came up with this quick snack option which is very ideal along with a hot cup of coffee or tea. The crunchy crackers with the soft veggies along with cheese is really a tempting snack. This can also be a finger food or snacks to fussy kids, unlike pizza its not junk. You have all the raw healthy veggies topped with cheese.Yumm yumm delicioso :)

Servings : 2

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Ingredients:

Crisply Salted Crackers - 10

Mixed Vegetebales - 1 Cup - Cut in to small cubes)

(Capscicum, onion, tomato,cabbage etc)

Grated Cheese - 1/2 cup

Pizza / Pasta Sauce - 2 tablespoon

Salt

Pepper

Method:

Mix vegetables and pizza sauce together with little salt and pepper. Place a tablespoon of it on a cracker, sprinkle grated cheese over it and place it in microwave for 2 to 3 seconds not more than that. Serve hot with beverage of your choice !!

Tip: Do not keep in the oven for more than 3 seconds as it will become soggy if kept for long.

Lavanya :)