Butter Chicken - 1

Butter Chicken

Serves –  3

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking time : 20 minutes

Ingredients

For marinate

Boneless Chicken  - 250 grams

Kashmir Red Chili Powder - 1/2 tspn

Salt - 1/2 tspn

Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 tspn

Egg white - 1

Maida - 1 tbspn

cornflour powder - 1 tbspn

oil - for frying

For Tempering - 1

Butter + Oil - 1 tbspn

Chopped Spring Onion - 3 tbspn

Kashmir Red Chili Powder - 1 tspn

Del Monte Tomato Paste  - 2 tbspn 

Ripe Tomato medium  - 2 nos

Roasted Cashew nut - 50 gram

Roasted Cumin powder - 1 tspn

Dry kasuri methi (methi leaves) – 1 tbspn

salt - 1/2 tspn

sugar - 1 pinch

Nestle Cream - 1/2 tin

For Tempering - 2

Butter - 50 gram

chopped green chili -2 nos

chopped coriander leaves - hand full

For Garnishing

Capsicum 

Method

1. Marinate the chicken with the above masalas keep aside for 10 minutes and fry it

2. Grind Tomato along with cashew nut in a mixie

3. In a wide pan heat butter +oil and add Spring onion fry for 2 minutes. Add ground tomato+cashew nut, Del Monte tomato paste,salt,kashmiri red chili powder,cumin powder,sugar, methi leaves, nestle cream Boil for 5 minutes, and keep the flame medium heat and add enough water, boil for 10 minutes.

5. After 10 min boiling, the raw smell goes away then add the fried chicken pieces.

6. Finally temper the above said Tempering - 2 and add it to chicken. 

It is a rich gravy ,  suitable for Naan , parotta, Fried rice.

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Pumpkin Bitter Gourd Sambar

Pumpkin bitter gourd sambar

Linking to magic mingle Two Ingredients Pumpkin and whole red chilli., 30 minutes meal mela , Nithu's Healthy food for healthy kids - combo meal for kids.

Serves: 3
Preparation Time : 10 min
Cooking Time: 20 min

For dhal:

Toor dhal + moong dhal - 100 grams

turmeric powder - 1/4 tpsn

big Onion – 1

methi seeds – ½ tspn

tomato – 1

garlic – 3 pods

for cooking the vegetables :  

small onions - 2 ( chopped)

onion big - 1

tomato - 2  (chopped)

pumpkin -  150 gram

bittergourd – 3 slices

carrot – 3 slices

salt to taste

sambar powder - 3 tspn

turmeric powder – ½ tspn

water – 2 cups

tamarind pulp - 3 tbspn

for tempering: 

Oil - ghee - 1  1/2 tbpn

mustard seeds - 1 tspn

whole red chilli – 2 pieces

curry leaves - few

asafetida -  2 pinches

For garnishing

Coriander leaves

Method

1. Wash and cook the dhal in a pressure cooker, mash well and keep it aside.

2. In a wide vessel,  cook all the vegetables with the masala  for 10 minutes.  Add the  tamarind pulp.  Stir well.   Add enough water and  cook for 5 minutes on low heat.

3.Finally,  add the mashed dhal and stir well.  Heat on medium heat for 3 minutes. 

4. Heat a vessel.  Temper the above said ingredients and add it to sambar.   Stir well .  serve it hot with Plain rice.

Sambar goes well with plain rice, idlies, dosais and vadais.   It can be prepared in different variations and the taste differs as per the different methods. 

Chickpeas Mixed fruit Salad

Chickpeas fruit salad

Ingredients

Del Monte Canned white chickpeas 25 gram

Plums - 1

Pears - 1

Watermelon – one big piece

For Dressing

Lemon Juice – 1 tbspn

Honey – 1 tbspn

Salt – to taste

Dry Ginger powder – ½ tbspn

Method

ü   Cut the watermelon and make sure to remove the skin and seed of it.

ü   Cut the watermelon, pear, plums in desire shape.

ü   Mix the above said dressing ingredients in a bowl.

ü   Add fruits and mix it well.

ü   Keep the salad in the fridge for ½ hour and serve it immediately

    Eye catching, attractive salad very perfect for party.

Tips: Adding dry ginger powder to this salad will prevent cold.

Hint: Plums fruit will be sourer and if you eat by making it into salad like this, it won’t taste sour.

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Pumpkin Poriyal/Thoran/Stir Fry

Pumpkin Poriyal/Thoran/Stir Fry

Serves: 3
Preparation Time : 7 min
Cooking Time: 10 min

Ingredients

1.   Yellow pumpkin -  250 gram

2.   Red chilli powder   - ½ tspn

3.   Salt – to taste

4.   Turmeric powder – ¼ tspn

5.   Grated coconut -2 tbspn

6.   Water - tbspn

For tempering

1.      Oil – 2 tspn

2.      Mustard seed – 1 tspn

3.      Whole red chlli – 2 no

 Urad dhal – 1 tspn

 Channa dhal – 1 tspn

 Garlic – 2 pod

 Curry leaves – few

 Chopped tomato – 1 tbspn

 Green chilli – 1 no

Method

•       Cut the Pumpkin in to small cubes.
•   In a wok, heat the oil and add the mustard seed, red chilli, channa dhal, urad dhal, curry leaves and saute for one minute.
•   Then, add chopped onion, garlic, and green chili fry 3 minutes.
•   Now, add pumpkin cubes. Stir well and add salt ,red chilli powder and  turmeric powder.
•   Sprinkle 1 tablespoon water and close it with lid.
•   Cook on low fire about 5 minutes.
•   Finally, add grated coconut and stir well.
•   Remove from the heat.
•   Serve with plain rice or chappathi.

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Event Announcement - My First Event

Event Announcement: Healthy Diet - Steam Food

I am inviting you all to participate in my event.

I am happy to announce you all that I am hosting my first event, started by priya, Healthy host line up - steam food. Thank you so much for this opportunity to host the event Priya.

Please check out Priya's site, she is having thousands of followers and she has posted different varieties of recipes, there are more than thousands of recipes on time to time with her jet speed.

Steamed foods are very good for all age groups, this steam food is very useful for dieting and those wish lose their weight

Examples of steamed foods are idli, idiyappam, puttu, dumbling (kozukkattai), Egg pudding, etc….

Rules of the Event.

1. Post any vegetarian or non vegetarian healthy ,breakfast Lunch or dinner recipes. Multiple entries are allowed

2. Give to link to this announcement and Priya's event page. Logo usage is appreciated as it helps spread word.

3. Archived posts should be updated with the link to this announcement page and Priya's event page.

4. Send your entries to cookbookjaleela@gmail.com with the subject line as 'Healthy Diet – Steamed Foods' with the below details.

Your Name :
Blog Name :
Recipe Name :
Recipe Url :
Picture of the Recipe :

5. Non Bloggers are welcome to send their recipes. Send recipe in full with the picture and the same line as ’Healthy Diet – Steamed food'

6. Rush in your entries, share with me, I am eagerly waiting for the steam food recipes.

7. Event starts from 11^th September 2012 to 11^th October 2012.