Kitchen and Home Making

Vegetable noodles is very easy to cook and children will love this dish more. Protein content in this dish is also mush since it contains more vegetables. And it requires no side dish at all. This entry goes for WBB#23 Express Breakfasts Event by Singing Chef . Ingredients: Noodles – 1 small packet (break it into pieces) Carrot – 2 (peel off the skin and finely chop it) French Beans – 2 0 pieces (finely chopped) Cabbage – small piece (finely grate it) Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Finely Chopped Spring Onion – 3 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste – ½ tbsp Pepper Power – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Time: 12 minutes Service for: 2 People Cooking Instructions: Add water required to cook noodles in a deep pan and bring it to boil. When the water starts to boil, add noodles and a tsp of cooking oil to it. Let it to cook for 3 minutes and not more than it. Now drain the excess water completely from the noodles. Heat oil in a pan and add onions, chopped vegetables and stir fry it for 5 min

One D - Monthly One Dish Meal Event is hosted by Archanas Kitchen . All these recipes are my entries for her event. All these recipes are an one dish meal and they cand be had without any side dish. But if we desire to have varieties in our meal, we can have side dishes, otherwise it dont require. Curd Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Tamarind Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Temple Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Bread Upma Click for the recipe HERE . Semolina Upma Click for the recipe HERE . Vegetable Noodles Click for the recipe HERE .

Temple rice is similar to tamarind rice but the way of preparing it is little different and it is very easy to cook and it requires no side dish and it itself satisfies as a whole meal. I lik to send this recipe for Mixed Varieties Rice Event hosted by SimpleIndianFood . This recipe also goes for WBB#23 Express Breakfasts Event by Singing Chef . Ingredients: Red Rice – 1 cup Water – 3 cups Lemon – 1 medium size (extract the juice from it) Salt – to taste Cooking Oil To Saute: Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Broken Black Gram – 1 tsp Bengal Gram – 1 tsp Dry Red Chilly – 5 Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp Curry Leaves – few Cooking Time: 10 minutes Service For: 2 people Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the rice and drain the excess water. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add mustard seeds, broken black gram, bengal gram, red chilly, curry leaves, and turmeric powder one by one and saute it well. Add rice and water to it and stir it well. Add enough salt and bring it boil. Once it starts to boil, clo

Chicken has 45 gms or 40% of proteins in it and it is one of the poultry food which is rich in protein content. This recipe is one of my entry for Eat Healthy - Protein Rich Contest by LetUsAllCook . I am sending this recipe also to Contest Theme for the Month of June 2008- Chicken My Favourite hosted by Cooking Up Something Nice . Ingredients: Chicken – 600 gms Briyani Rice / Seeraga Samba Arisi – 3 cups Tomato – 4 medium size (finely chopped) Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Green Chillies – 4 (cut it lengthwise) Mint Leaves – one handful Coriander Leaves – 3 tbsp chopped leaves Coriander Powder – 3 tbsp Chilli Powder – 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tbsp Cloves – 4 Cinnamon – 4 Bay Leaf – 4 Cardamom – 3 Aniseeds – 1 tbsp Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp Salt – to taste Ghee – 3 tbsp Cooking Oil Cooking Time: 20 minutes Service For: 3 People Cooking Instructions: Measure the rice in a cup. For 1 cup of rice, take 2 cups of water for cooking. Do not wash the rice with water. Heat ghee in a pan and

WBB#23 Express Breakfasts is an event conducted by Singing Chef . One of my entries for that event is Bread Upma . This is also one of my entries for Eat Healthy - Protein Rich Contest by LetUsAllCook . Bread Upma Look for the recipe HERE .

This is one of my entries for WBB#23 Express Breakfasts event hosted by Singing Chef . Ingredients: Semolina – 1 cup Water – 2 ½ cups Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Broken Black Gram – 1 tsp Bengal Gram – 1 tbsp Dry Red Chilly – 5 (broke into pieces) Curry Leaves - few Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Service For: 2 People Cooking Time: 10 minutes Cooking Instructions: Fry the semolina in a pan without adding anything to it. Keep frying it continuously till it turns little brown. Do not stop stirring it since semolina will turn to black color. Heat 6 tbsp of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, broken black gram, bengal gram, dry chillies, curry leaves and onions to it one by one in the order and stir fry it till onion turns golden brown. Add water and required salt to it and bring it to boil. Once water starts to boil, add semolina to it slowly and keep stirring it so that no lumps are found. Keep stirring it continuously and stop cooking once the water in it is complete

Tasty Palettes has announced AFAM for the month of june and this month AFAM is Coconut . My entry for this event is Khuska Click for the recipe HERE . Coconut Chutney Click for the recipe HERE .

This is my entry for WBB#23 Express Breakfasts event by Singing Chef . This recipe also goes for Frozen Yogurt - A Cool Summer Event hosted by Siri . Its also one of my entris for Eat Healthy - Protein Rich Contest conducted by Let Us All Cook . Curd Rice Click for the recipe HERE .

My entry for JFI - July Jhiva for Tamarind by Live to Eat Hope tamarind rice will best suit for Jhiva for Tamarind, since its a dish that completely use tamarind paste as a main ingredient to prepare food. Tamarind Rice Click for the recipe HERE .

My entries for the Mixed Varieties Rice Event hosted by Simple Indian Food Tomato Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Tamarind Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Venpongal Click for the recipe HERE . Curd Rice Click for the recipe HERE . Khuska Click for the recipe HERE . Lemon Rice click fot the recipe HERE .

Yesterday i was casually visiting all my buddies blog as usual as i do. When i was in asankhana's blog, i saw that she has received Giant Bear Hug Award and she has passed it to me but she didn't intimate anything about it. I thanked her in her blog itself for her award an passing that to me. Later while i was checking my mailsby evening, i had message both from Asankhana and Valli , that i have an award in Asankhana's blog but these two buddies didn't know that i already noticed it. Anyhow, Am really thankful to Asankhana for passing this Giant Bear Hug Award to me. I didn't expect it from u Priyanka. Thank u so much... I like to pass my award to my other few buddies. Sireesha SriValli JZ Madhavi Shubha

Chickpeas also are highly rich in proteins and it has about 28% of proteins in it. This recipe is also one of mt entry to Eat Healthy - Protein Rich Contest . Ingredients: Chickpeas – 1 cup Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp Broken Black Gram – 1 tsp Dry Red Chilly – 4 (broke it into pieces) Curry Leaves - few Salt – to taste Cooking oil Cooking Instructions: Soak chickpeas in the previous night or for about 6 hours. Add chickpeas, required salt and enough amount of water in the pressure cooker and let it cook for 5 whistles or until the chickpeas are well cooked. Open the cooker once the pressure is released and drain the excess water. Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds, broken black gram, curry leaves and red chilly. Add cooked peas to it and fry a while until the water in it is fully absorbed by the dish. Channa chat is ready to serve. You can have this as an evening snack since chickpeas has good content of proteins and children will love it. Side Dish: It also goes we

Samosa is a one more street food and wherever you go, you can find it. Particularly in North India, we can see samosas a lot. I tried out this recipe from easyntasty recipes blog and the original recipe is HERE . It’s also one of my entries to MBP- Street Food Contest. The variations I have made from the original recipe are I have added fresh green peas for stuffing in my recipe and have not added cashews in mine for stuffing, since I didn’t find cashews in my kitchen at that moment. Ingredients: All Purpose Flour / Maida – 3 cups Carom Seeds / ajwain - 1 tsp Potatoes – 6 Fresh Green Peas – 1/ 2 cup Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Pea nuts – 1/2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste – ½ tbsp Coriander Powder – 2 tsp Chilli Powder – 1 tsp Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp Cumin Powder – 2 tsp Garam Masala / Chat Masala – 1 tsp Cumin Seeds – 1 /2 tsp Coriander Leaves – 2 tsp (finely chopped) Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: To prepare dough, add maida, carom seeds, enough salt, 4 tbsp of oil and r

My entries for Eat Healthy - Protein Rich Contest . As we all know, chicken has rich source of proteins and it has about 45gms or 40% of proteins in it and i came to knw about this only today while am browsing in web. This recipes also goes for " Contest Theme for the month of june 2008 - Chicken My Favourite " by hosted by Cooking up something nice . Chicken Kolambu Click for the recipe HERE . Pepper Chicken Click for the recipe HERE . Chicken Chalna Click for the recipe HERE . Chicken Chukka Click for the recipe HERE

Masal Pori is one more good street food that we can found it in large number in Andhra Pradesh State of India. That tastes more tangy and spicy. It’s a good snack for evening time. I tasted it out today when I came across Seetha’s blog and her original recipe is HERE . This is also one of my entries to MBP-Street Food Contest. In her original recipe she has sauted it with mustard seeds and green chillies but I have not done it mine. And I have added lemon juice also for tanginess and karaboondhi and onion in my recipe. Actually i started to prepare this dish for Street Food Contest only. But when i came to hear about Tried & tasted Event, i started browsing Nupur's blog and her recipes. There was a surprise awaiting for me. I had spicy Puffed Rice recipe in her also but with the name Quick Bhadhang. Really interesting... its also an entry for Tried & Tasted Event hosted by BurntMouth The original recipe of Nupur of OneHotStove is Here . Ingredients: Pori / Puffed Rice