TAKING A BREAK :)

Hai to all my blogger friends out there. Hope all are doing good. First of all sorry guys for not posting my recipes regularly as I am very busy these days with my completion of my new home. Due to this, I am not able to concentrate on writing blog nor am I able to visit every one's blog :( Hope all could know my excitement how it would be for me :)

I am so thrilled and very much involved in home decor, interiors, buying new things, shifting from here to there. Hmmm you all know, that's a real real hectic job phewww. On other side, its indeed a great feeling to have all my family members around specially my parents, my uncle, my sisterinlaw, relatives, and most specially my brother and bhabhi who are coming from 'Netherlands' to attend my 'Gharpravesh' ( house warming ) Yuppeee....

So guys, I am gonna miss all ur recipe and will try to keep on eye once I get settled to my new place. Hey hey don't forget to miss me too huh ;) Till then,

''HAPPY BLOGGING'' AND ''MY ADVANCE HAPPY DIWALI '' to all. Have a safe festival.

Love U all :)

Enjoy!!

GONGURA PICKLE

Hey all. Hope everyone had shuub navarathri. Mee too. Now skipping to the recipe. Gongura pickle is one of the famous pickle in Andra side. I can have it any time. When therez gongura pickle, believe me guys, I don't prefer any gravy with hot steamed rice. What I need is just a spoon of this pickle. Awesome meal I would say. This is one of my fav pickle, prepared by my mom when I visited my place during vocation. And the taste was just unbelievable and obviously it will be na when our mom cooks something special for us adding extra ingredients of love and care. Isn't? So here's the recipe.



INGREDIENTS.


1 Bunch Gongura leaves.


1 tsp Mustard seeds.


1 tbsp Urad dal.


5 Red Chillies.


3 Green Chillies.


1/2 tbsp Methi seeds.


1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder.


1 tbsp Gingelly Oil.


Hing as per taste.


Salt to taste.




METHOD.


Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds. Wait till it splutters. Then add urad dal and methi seeds and fry them till the colour changes slight brown. Add red and green chilli and finally the leaves. Saute it well till the leaves looses its raw taste. Remove from flame and allow them to cool for a while. Blend them with salt and turmeric powder for about 2 min without adding water.

Serve with rice or chappati etc.



Enjoy!!

PANEER MASALA DOSA

Paneer masala dosa sounds pretty interesting right? hahaha well it is. U know guys this paneer masala dosa recipe I call it as 2 in 1 because I did the masala the previous night for dinner with chappati and the next day I ended up stuffing them in dosa naming paneer masala dosa :) So its indeed a good idea to cover up all the leftover items into delicious unique yummies. I served this dosa with ''SWEET POTATO UMMAN'' which was a very good combination.

Paneer masala dosa is somthing unique one I tried from normal masala dosa which are very popular breakfast in South India. They have it with chuntney and sambar. Yumm what a comfort breakfast right? So below is the ingredients that I have used for my paneer masala dosa :)

INGREDIENTS.

Dosa Batter.

500 Grams Paneer.

1 Big Chopped Onions.

1 tbs Chopped Ginger and Garlic.

1 tsp Jeera.

1 tsp Red chilli powder.

2 tsp Coriander powder.

2 tsp Garam masala.

1/2 tsp Turmeric powder.

1 tsp Amchur Powder.

1 tsp Oil.

Salt to taste.

Coriander leaves for garnish.

METHOD FOR PANEER MASALA.

Grate the paneer and keep aside. Heat oil in a kadai, add jeera, ginger garlic and onions. Fry them till the onion are translucent.

Now add red chilli pdr, coriander pdr, turmeric pdr, garam masala and amchur powder. Saute it for a while. Add grated paneer and lastly garnish with coriander leaves and keep aside.

METHOD FOR PANEER MASALA DOSA.

Place a non stick tava.

Pour the dosa batter onto the center of the tava and spread in a circular motion. Put oil on the edges to make the dosa crisp.

Soon as u c the dosa turning slight brown, place few spoon of paneer masala on one side and flip the other side dosa over the masala.

Make sure it is fully covered.

Serve with ur fav dipping.

AWARDS TIME:

''SAVITHA from SAVITHARAJ'S SPICE LAND'' had passed me one award named ''BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER AWARD''. I am so happy to receive from u savitha. U just made my day so good. Really flattered. Thanks again for this precious award.

I would like to pass on this award to all my blogger friends because each an everyone's blog is soo beautiful and perfect with yummy recipes that all deserve this award for sure. So come on guys just grab ur awards :)

Enjoy!!

GINGER LEMONADE

Lemonade, perfect drink almost everyone would die for. I love it soo much when it comes with the mint flavour or with addition of ginger flavour. Mint flavour I have already. Just click 'here' to refer. This time, I was craving to have Ginger lemonade. These 2 are almost visible ingredients that are daily used at every one's home. And there are enormous benefits of lemon juice like its a rich source of vitamin C and also contains proteins and carbohydrates. Its good for the cold, dental care, weight loss, throat infections, controls high blood pressure and many more where as ginger cures stomach problems, cures food poisoning, migraine relief, reduces nausea and the list goes on. So mixing these 2 ingredients in the form of juices results in healthy, perfect and refreshing drink. What u say? This is the different process of making ginger lemonade under blending method. I learnt this unique version from my Bhabhi. I can say its a real energy booster. I can have any time all by myself.

One thing to keep in mind is as soon as u prepare this, make sure to serve them immediately because keeping them for more, may leads into bitterness later because of addition of lime along with skin as it is.

INGREDIENTS.

2 Lemon.

3 Cups Water.

1 tbsp Grated Ginger.

Sugar as per needed.

Crushed Ice cubes.

Pinch of Salt.

METHOD.

Cut the lime into halves. In a blender put everything and grind them for about 20 sec. Strain and serve cold.

I love them with a floating piece of lemon on the top. Want to have a chill sip?

Enjoy!!

KOZHUKATTAI

Kozhukkatai are nothing but the sweet dumplings made of rice flour with a jaggery coconut stuffing inside. Its is also meant as 'MODAK' . But some of konkani ppl specially we make it with wheat flour with a addition of banana ,coconut and jaggery which is entirly different from the current recipe. You could find the ingredients amd method here.

People make this during the festival of ganesh chaturthi as he is very fond of modaks / kozhukattai. It is very delicate and tender. I too tried this time referring one of talented blogger ''SUKANYA RAMKUMAR'' I really admire her clicks which are very neat with awesome presentation. Thanks for this recipe dear. Also to mention I loved ur kozhukottai moulds so much. Next time will try buying that and make it :)

The one which we have made is without using moulds. I must thank my hubby 'RAJESH' for turning out kozhukattai into a perfect cute shapes. I used fork for making designs on it which is slightly seen I guess hehehe :)

For ingredients used please click ''here'' .

CHANGES I MADE :

I tryed adding kishmish, cashews, and badams into the coconut jaggery stuffing which came out soo delicious and yummy in taste.

Enjoy!!