Monday, March 11, 2013

Tulsi Green Tea Pistachio Ice Cream







Tulsi Green Tea pistachio Ice Cream






Magic Mingle March - 13 , 15 Edition.
Every month I enjoyed the magic mingle of two ingredients, Sizzling Taste buds kalyani's Event, and this month kalyani has suggested this two ingredients, Tea and Pista.

Really I was thinking very hard and i don't know which recipe to cook, by the time i get the idea about some recipe it happens that it got posted already by someone, and when I referred the Google it’s all muffin and cake which I was not much interested.

I want to cook something different in my own way and suddenly i got an idea which is my long time wish of making an ice - cream. Here in Dubai we are getting variety of ice creams, so i have not thought so long about making ice cream. So with these ingredients I decided to prepare ice cream.


I don't have Matcha Tea Powder.I used here Tulsi Green Tea Bag.




This is Japanese special; often they use to make Matcha Green Tea ice cream.

 
Ingredients
Tulsi Green Tea Bag - 3 nos
whipping Cream - 100 ml
milk - 100 ml
pista and ilachi essence - 2 drops
pista flakes - 3 tbspn
sugar - 70 gram
salt - 1 pinch

Method

First prepare green tea.

In a tea kettle add 200 ml water and separate the tea powder from the tea bag and keep it aside.

When the water boils add the tea powder, allow it to boil till the water reduces to 1/4 .and strain it.


Now make pista and sugar into a fine powder.



In a bowl add strained tea, whipping cream, milk and beat well.


Add pista-sugar powder, salt, pista ilachi essence and beat well with electric beater (or) in mixer.


Transfer the ice cream mix into a container close it with a lid and keep it in the freezer  for 2 hours.











After two hours take the mixture from the freezer and beat well again and keep it inside the freezer once again for 5 to 6 hours.




Tulsi Green Tea Pista ice cream is ready to serve.









 Here I used for Garnishing
Pomegrante , Black Grapes
Normal Corn Flakes, Ragi Corn Flakes.
Pista Flakes and Honey for drizzling .
Really I enjoyed this recipe.Thank you Kalyani.




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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Happy Moments - Award Rain

Divya and cooklike priya's 60 days Chritsmas Event

Award for Best Seafood Curry









Participation award form Divya .




Thank you Divya and Priya






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Participation Award From Shree Kanneppay's Hot beverages & dessert


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Participation Award from - Nithu bala's - Healthy food for healthy kids - Paneer Recipe


Jagruti's Know your sweetness Jaggery Hosted by Acchu





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 I won My Maida Dosa in walk through memory lane Gayarthiri's cookspot hosted by Nithu
Tarla Dhala's Street Food cook book ,
Thank you Gayathir & Nithu.


Thursday, March 7, 2013

Homemade - Common Garam Masala Powder



Simple & Common Garam Masala Powder


Spice powders are the ones which add good flavour and taste to our cooking...many variety of masala powders like rasam powdre,sambar powder,kuthu powder,kulambu powder,idly powder,diet powder are available in the market..instead of buying them outside we can make them fresh in our home itself.....


Ingredients

Cinnamon    – 50 gram

Clove            – 25 gram

Cardamom   – 12.5 gram


Method:


In dry grinder grind everything in ¾ coarse powder.

Put it in an air tight container.






We can use this powder for Garam masala cake  mutton fry,King fish fry, chicken fry and veg curry, vadai kari, methi paratha Cauliflower pes kurma, Methi Diet chappathi ,aloo paratha , cake etc.,

It gives a nice aroma flavour to our dishes.


Nutty Garam Masala Cake



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Monday, March 4, 2013

Omani Halwa - 3 with Bread Sandwich




Halwa is a fundamental part of daily life in Oman, often served at special occasions like weddings, funerals, or other social gatherings. It is the standard food when greeting guests, regardless of class or social distinction, along with bread Arabic coffee, which is known as qahwa.




Ingredients

Corn Flour - 50 gram

Water – 100 ml

Brown sugar – 100 gram

Roasted Soji (rava) - 1 tbspn

egg - 1/2 of 1 (optional)

Water – 100ml

Saffron – 1 tbspn

Cardamom pwd – 1 tbspn

Rose water – 1 tspn

Cashew nuts – 50 gram

Pista flakes – few

Salt – pinch

Butter – 50 gram

Ghee – 1 tbspn





Method

In a wide nonstick pan heat the ghee and fry the cashew nuts keep aside.

In the same pan, boil the water along with brown sugar and cardamom powder. Boil for 5 to 10 minutes.

In a bowl of 100 ml water, add flour mix well and add it to sugar syrup stir continuously without any lumps.

Add butter ,saffron , cardamom powder , sprinkle the soji and stir continuously.

finally add fried cashew and pista Flakes. Omani halwa is ready to serve.





Omani Halwa with bread Sandwich

Slightly Butter fried bread slices - 12 nos

Prepared Omani Halwa

 
 
Serving suggestions: Slightly Butter fried bread or bun with Omani halwa or With Biriyani.
Usually we have this halwa (beet rooot,carrot , pumpkin)  with bread or roti. we can give this type of halwa to children they love to eat.




Omani Halwa - 1











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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Beetroot Salad






Beetroot Salad

Servers : 1

Ingredients

Trimmed 2 “beetroot  - ¼ cup (medium 1 no)
Olive oil
Cumin pwd – ¼ tspn
Red chilly pwd – 1 pinch

For dressing

Lemen juice
Peper
Salt
Oregano & thyme – ½ tspn


Method

Cut the beetroot 2’ in lengthwise thin pcs, Cook the beetroot with pinch salt
In a pan heat olive oil and add cooked beetroot, cumin pwd, chilli pwd toss well
Remove from the heat mix well above given dressing ingredients in a small bowl
Add it to cooked beetroot mix well and let it cool
 refrigerate for ½ hour.

It’s  good for pregnant women who are very anemic during pregnancy period. Regularly taking this beet salad it will increase the hemoglobin level.



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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Ramja (Red Kidney Bean) with Raw Mango Salad


Health Benefits of Kidney Beans-Rajma Kidney bean (aka common beans) is a highly nutritious variety of herbaceous plant that is very popular in countries.
Kidney beans are known for their high folate, protein and mineral content. Consumption of kidney beans gives you a healthy heart. 
Benefits Good source of potassium.





//Sometimes for morning breakfast I will eat this salad. Its a great filling and very light food. Eating salad every day giving us many health benefits. Salad helps to prevent from many diseases like heart problem and blood pressure, it helps to reduce our weight, control the cholesterol It also helps in weight gain, It is a high energy low fat snack too//


Servers : 1

Ramja (Red Kidney Bean) with Raw Mango Salad


Ingredients
Raw Mango  - Small – 1 no
Cooked (or) Canned Rajma (kidney Bean) – 2 Soup Spoon

Dressing
Lemon Juice, Honey,Pepper, salt – Each ¼ Tspn
Method
Slice the Mango 2” length add rajma
Mix dressing ingredient and add to rajama & mango mix well
Refrigerate for ½ hour.Now healthy salad is ready to eat in morning diet








Its good for weight loss. 
It purifies our blood.
It eases the nausea during pregnancy.
For cancer patients, it is good to have this Salad when they lose their sense of taste   after chemotherapy. 


Good For Brain This pulse offers outstanding benefits for brain. It contains high amount of vitamin K which provides essential nutrition for both brain and nervous system. Kidney beans are also a good source of vitamin B, which is essential for brain cells. It nourishes the brain nerves and cells which prevents age related disease like Alzheimer's.

Recipe for Pregnant Women

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