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.

Basil Penne Pasta

1.  Penne Pasta  - 200 gram

2.  Oil + butter – 2tspn

3.  Chopped onion, medium – 1

4.  Chopped Garlic  - 3 cloves

5.  Chopped Green chilli  - 1 no

6.  Sugar – 1 pinch

7.  Del monte tomato paste – 1 tbspn

8.Basil - to taste

9.  Del monte tomato ketchup – to taste 

Method

1. In Pressure cooker, Add enough water and boil it.

 Add ½ tspn salt, ½ tspn oil, cook the pasta and strain  the water keep aside.

2. In a wide pan, heat butter + oil.

3. Add the Chopped the onion, garlic, sugar, green chilli,basil, del Monte tomato paste and sauté for two minutes.

4. And then, add the cooked pasta and cook it well for 2 minutes.

5. Serve with Del Monte tomato ketchup

This pasta is very perfect for kids morning breakfast and night dinner

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Italian Chicken Spaghetti

Spaghetti is pasta, all age groups like this dish. It is an Italian food and Filipinos favourite dish also, they are prefer to make with beef.This quick recipe for Breakfast and dinner

Kids like this spaghetti much and delicious for party.  We can prepare more varities with cheese, egg,chicken, mutton,beef,vegetable etc

Ingredients

1.       Spaghetti  - 200 gram

2.     Boneless chicken – 100 gram

3.     Del monte tomato paste – 3 tspn

4.     Del monte tomato ketchup – 3 tspn

5.     Chopped Onion, medium – 1

6.     Soy sauce – 1 tspn

7.     oregano -  to taste 

8.     Chopped Garlic  - 3 cloves

9.      Sugar – 1 pinch

10 .     Oil + butter – 2tspn

Method

1.Break  the Spaghetti to desired size.  

Add enough water.   Add ½ tspn salt,  ½ tspn oil to Spaghetti  and cook.

2. In a wide pan, heat  butter+ oil

3. Add  the Chopped the onion & garlic.   sauté for two minutes.

4 .  Add the chicken, red chilli powder, salt,  soy sauce,  Del Monte tomato paste, Del Monte ketchup ,oregano and  sugar.

Stir well and keep the flame low and  cook .

5. Now add the cooked Spaghetti  and stir well.

6. Serve with Del Monte tomato ketchup.

You can substitute chicken pieces with eggs, cheese, mutton or beef. 

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30.04.2013

Rajma Sundal

Rajma (Red Kidney Beans) is very popular in North India. We can prepare rajma in many ways such as rajma gravy, rajma masala, Rajma salad, rajama rice,rajma sundal etc..) Rajma is mostly used by panjabian peoples
I made a very simple recipe Named Rajma Sundal (Red Kidney Beans Sundal) Preparing with Canned Rajma is very quick and it can be used as an Evening Snack.

Rajma Sundal:

Ingredients:

Del monto canned (260 gr)Rajma – 1 can 

Grated coconut – 3 tbspn

For Tempering:

Oil – 1 tspn

Mustard seeds – ½ tspn

Urad dal – ½ tspn

Whole red chilli – 1 

Curry leaves – few

Sugar – 1 pinch

For Garnishing 

Grated coconut : 1 tspn

Method:

Wash and drain the water from canned Rajma.

Heat oil in a pan and temper the above-said ingredients for tempering.

Add grated coconut and sugar.  Toss well.

Garnishing  with grated coconut.

Serve hot with Ginger mint tea.

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Cinnamon Honey Tea

Cinnamon Honey Tea

Ingredients

Water - 200 ml

Lipton Tea Bag - 1

Honey - 2 tspn

Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tspn

Mothod

Boil the water and dip the tea bag for 2 minutes.

Add honey with cinnamon and mix well, then drink.

Tips:

Cinnamon has more medical cure. It helps to reduce wait and cholesterol. It cures women’s bladder infection.

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