Ingredients:
Cherries:- 1 cup
Raspberries:- 1 cup
Black berries:- 1 cup
Blue berries:- 1 cup
Cream:- ½ cup
Procedure:
In a bowl, mix all the fruits and add cream to it
03-12-2009
Fruit salad
Category : Salad and Raita
03-12-2009
Banana Shake
Category : Healthy Drinks/Juices
Banana shake is easy to prepare and health drink too.
Ingredients:
Banana:- 1 cup
Orange juice:- 1 cup
Yogurt(low fat):- 2 cups
Skimmed milk:- ½ cup
Procedure:
In a blender mix all the ingredients and serve it chilled.
03-12-2009
Pasta Primavera
Category : Health & Diet
Pasta Primavera is good for heart as it contains low fat and cholesterol levels.
Ingredients:
Pastas:- 2 cups
Snow peas:- 1 cup
Baby Corn:- 1 cup
Onions:- 3 (chop into thin strips)
Asparagus:- 1 cup
Red Pepper:- 1
Baby Carrots:- 1 cup
Cheese(low fat):- 2/3 cup
Yogurt(low fat):- 2/3 cup
Lemon juice:- 1 table spoon
Salt to taste
Black Pepper to taste
Procedure:
- Partially boil red peppers, green peas and asparagus for 3-4 minutes.
- Partially boil baby corn and carrots.
- In a cooker, boil pastas and drain excess water.
- Take a blender and mix cheese, yogurt and lime juice till its smooth.
- Make the sauce dilute with water or skimmed milk.
- In a pan, mix vegetables with pasta and add sauce, salt and pepper.
- Gently heat and serve.
NOTE: This recipe contains 6 grams of fibre, saturated fat, 0.4 grams of saturated fat and 3 grams of cholesterol.
03-12-2009
Creamy Prawns Curry
Category : Sea Food Recipe
Prawns cooked with coconut milk and with spices is very yummy.
Ingredients:
Prawns(cleaned):- 500grams
Coconut milk:- 2 cups
Onion paste:- 1 cup
Ghee:- 2 table spoons
Red chilli powder:- 1 table spoon
Ginger paste:- 1 table spoon
Turmeric powder:- ½ table spoon
Cinnamon:- 1piece
Bay leaves:- 2
Garlic Cloves:- 4
Curry leaves:- 2 stalks
Salt to taste
Procedure:
- Add some salt to prawns and wash them well.
- Add turmeric powder and keep them aside for 5-10 min.
- Take a heavy bottomed pan, heat 1 table spoon of ghee and saute prawns.
- Strain prawns, add bay leaves, green cardomoms, cloves and cinnamom and saute them.
- Add onion paste to above mixture and fry on medium flame until the paste changes to golden brown .
- Add ginger paste and red chilli powder and fry till the oil gets separated.
- Add prawns and coconut milk.
- Add salt and stir gently.
- Mix gently on low flame for 2min.
- Add rest of the ghee and cover tightly with a lid.
Serve it with hot plain boiled rice.
02-12-2009
Veg Manchurian
Category : Chinese recipes
Ingredients:
Cabbage – 2 cups (grated)
Carrot:- ½ cup (grated)
Green Chillies:- 4 (chopped)
Onion:- 1 medium sized
Garlic:- 1 table spoon(chopped fine)
Ginger:- 1 inch piece( chopped)
French Beans:- 10
Spring onions:- 3( finely chopped)
Refined flour(maida):- ¼ cup
Cornflour:- ¼ cup
Pepper:- ½ table spoon
Soya Sauce:- 1 ½ table spoons
Salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
Procedure:
- Take a bowl and mix carrot, french beans and cabbage.
- Add green capsicum, spring onions, corn flour and refined flour to the above mixture .
- Mix it well and make small balls.
- Take a fry pan, heat sufficient oil and deep fry balls until they turn golden brown in color.
- Place them on absorbent paper.
- Take 2 table spoons of oil in a pan and fry ginger and garlic pieces.
- Take fried balls in a plate and garnish them with spring onion and fried ginger n garlic pieces.
02-12-2009
Cucumber Juice
Category : Healthy Drinks/Juices
Cucumber is good for those who plan to reduce their weight.
Ingredients:
Cucumber:- 2
Sugar:- ¾ cup
Water:- 2 cups
Cheese Cloth:- 1
Procedure:
- Peel cucumber and grate cucumber.
- Boil water and sugar in a sauce pan.
- Add grated cucumber when sugar gets dissolved completely.
- Boil it for 10min in simmer.
- Turn off stove and let it cool.
- Take strainer and line it up with cheesecloth over bowl.
- Strain mixture and freeze it for 1hr.
Serve in glasses with ice.
02-12-2009
Apple Juice
Category : Healthy Drinks/Juices
Ingredients:
Apples:- 12
Lemon juice:- 2 table spoons
Sugar to taste
Water
Procedure:
- Slice apples and boil them add water until they are covered and becomes soft.
- Strain juice and add sugar to juice.
- Stir it well until sugar gets dissolved.
- Chill it.
- Add water to make it dilute.
- Add lemon juice before serving.
01-12-2009
Banana Chutney
Category : Pickle
Ingredients:
Banana:- 1
Garlic cloves:- 5
Curry Leaves:- 1stalk
Udar dal:- ½ table spoon
Mustard Seeds:- 1 table spoon
Red chilli Powder:- 4 table spoons
Oil:- 3 table spoons
Cumin Seeds:- ½ table spoon
Salt for Taste
Tamarind for taste
Procedure:
- Cut banana into 4 pieces and boil it.
- Let it get cooled and add salt, garlic cloves, tamarind, 1/2 table spoon cumin seeds and grind it.
- Later add banana and grind it well.
- Add some luke water to make it paste.
- Take oil in a pan and heat it, add curry leaves, udar dal, mustard seeds, cumin seeds and fry them.
- After the mixture is fried add banana paste to it.
01-12-2009
Coconut Rice
Category : Rice Recipe
Ingredients:
Rice:- 1 cup
Coconut milk:- 1 cup
Cashew pieces:- 1 tablespoon
Green Chillies:- 3 (slit)
Curry Leaves:- 1 stalk
Mustard Seeds:- ½ table spoon
Cumin seeds:- ½ table spoon
Urad dal:- 1 table spoon
Fresh Coconut(grated):- 4 table spoons
Coriander(chopped):- 1 table spoon
Oil:- 4 table spoons
Salt for taste
Procedure:
- Wash rice properly and soak it for 30min in salt water.
- Rice are to be drained in a colander and store the water so that it can be used later.
- Take a sauce pan add oil and heat it.
- Fry urad dal, cashew pieces, mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Later fry chilli pieces and curry leaves.
- Add rice and stir it with a spatula.
- Add coconut milk and the 1 ½ cup of drained water.
- Now add salt remember that the water is salted.
- Boil it on medium flame and stir it.
- Boil rice on medium flame and mix it gently till water evaporates completely.
- Add water if required
Garnish it with coriander leaves and grated coconut and serve it hot with raita
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Drumstick Pickle
Category : Pickle
Ingredients:
Drumsticks:- 3
Oil:- 2 cups
Garlic:- 1
Red Chilli Powder:- 3 tablespoons
Salt:- 3 tablespoons
Fenugreek powder:1 table spoon
Mustard powder:- 1 tablespoon
Turmeric powder:- 1\2 tablespoon
Lemon:- 1
Procedure:
- Wash drumsticks and dry them completely.
- Cut the drumsticks into pieces.
- Mix red chilli powder, salt, fenugreek powder, mustard powder and turmeric powder.
- Take a pan add half a cup of oil and heat it.
- Add drumstick pieces and fry them for at least 8min.
- Before these pieces boil completely add garlic cloves and fry them.
- Turn off the stove and let the pieces get cooled.
- After 5min, add the powders that prepared earlier.
- Take another bowl, add rest of the oil and heat it.
- After it cools, add the pickle mixture.
- Add lemon juice to the pickle and store it in a dry container.
Serve the pickle after 12hrs. This pickle lasts for 7days
NOTE: If prepared in large quantity store it in refrigerator.