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Hi Friends, This Palak Paneer recipe for Eat Healthy Calcium Rich event hosted by Sangeeth, has been shortlised in TOP 15 entries. I request everyone to vote for my recipe and my recipe to win!!! VOTE HERE Polling is there on the right hand top side of the page. Please give your votes for me! So please caste your votes soon!!! Voting closes by Sep 30th and so hurry up!!! Ingredients: Palak / Spinach – 1 bunch Paneer Cubes - 6 Onion – ½ (finely chopped) Green Chilly – 2 (finely chopped) Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp Red Chilli Powder – 1 tbsp (adjust it according to your taste) Garam Masala – ¼ tbsp Sugar – ¼ tbsp Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Salt – to taste To Grind: Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Tomato (Medium Size) – 1 (finely chopped) Garlic Pods – 6 Ghee – 1 tbsp Cooking Instructions: Heat a tbsp of ghee in a pan and fry the paneer cubes until it turn golden brown and keep it aside. Wash and clean the spinach and chop it coarsely along with the stem. Add this spinach an

Ingredients: Boiled Eggs - 4 (cut into halves) Onion – 2 (finely chopped) Tomato – 3 (finely chopped) Garlic Pods - 6 Coriander Powder – ¼ tsp Chilly Powder – ¾ tsp Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt – ½ tsp Cooking Oil Service For: 2 People Cooking Time: 10 minutes Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and add onion, tomato and garlic pods and stir fry it until all the items is mashed well and the oil separates from the dish. Now add all the other remaining ingredients and fry it well. Add required amount of water to it and bring it to a little thick consistency. Now add egg slices to it and stir fry it until the gravy coats well on the egg slices. Side Dish: It goes well with hot rice, lemon rice, and chapatis

Ingredients: Milk – 600ml Water – 750ml Sugar – 150gms or to taste Lime – 1 (extract juice from it) Cooking Instructions: Heat the milk in a heavy bottomed pan on a high flame. Once the milk starts to boil, add the lemon juice slowly and stir the milk gently. The milk will start to curdle slowly and keep stirring it in a slow flame for 3 minutes, until the milk fat is separated completely from the whey. Now strain the paneer in a thin muslin cloth. Pour some cold water over the paneer to take out the flavor of the lemon juice. Now strain the water out, squeezing the cloth. The water in the paneer needs to be squeezed just enough so that the paneer is not too dry. To check if enough water is out of the paneer, take a little piece of paneer on your palm and rub with your fingers. After rubbing the paneer for about 15-20 seconds, you should be able to make a firm but smooth ball. If the paneer is too dry, add a few drops of water, using the water squeezed from the paneer. Once the paneer

Ingredients: White Pumpkin (peel off the skin and remove the seeds in the centre part and cut into small cubes or rectangles) – 1 cup Curd – 1 cup Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Green Chillies – 2 Coriander Leaves (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp Mustard Seeds – 2 tsp Oil – 1 tbsp Salt – to taste Cooking Instructions: Add chopped pumpkin cubes, 2 pinches of salt and a cup of water in pressure cooker and close the lid. Let it to cook in a high flame for 2 whistles. Wait until the pressure escapes from the cooker and open the lid and drain the excess water completely and let it cool well for 5 to 10 minutes. Once it is cool, squeeze the cooked pumpkins gently and remove the excess water in the vegetable. Add this in a cup of curd. Add required amount of salt and chopped onions in the curd and mix well. Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard seeds and green chillies and transfer this in the curd. Garnish the raitha with chopped coriander leaves. The taste of this pumpkin raitha will be really y

Ingredients: Vermicelli – 50 gms (crush it to small pieces) Milk – 400 ml Sugar – 10 tbsp or to taste Cardamom – 4 (grind it to fine powder) Ghee – 3 tbsp Cashew Nuts – 12 Silvers of pistachios Service For: 2 People Cooking Time: 15 minutes Cooking Instructions: Heat ghee in a pan and fry the vermicelli till it turns golden brown and keep it aside. Heat a tbsp of ghee and fry the cashews and keep it aside. Bring the milk to boil in a pan. Do not add water in the milk. When the milk starts to boil well, add fried vermicelli to it and keep stirring it for a while or for about 10 minutes in a simmer flame. Now add cardamom powder and required amount of sugar and mix it well and stir for some more 5 minutes or until it gets thick / payasam consistency. If it becomes very thick in consistency, add some more boiled milk to it. Switch off the stove and transfer it to the serving bowl and garnish it with fried cashews and silvers of pistachios. One more closer look of the Kheer

Whenever I go to restaurants, I love to order basundi/basandhi/ basandi, whatever it may be. Its my favorite dessert ever. My dad use to get sweet, every Sunday evening, in my childhood days. I ever order a cup of basundhi for me. Really I can’t forget those days. During my college days also, I go with my friends to hotels for taking basundhi beofre attending the computer classes. When i take the last sip of basundhi, really I feel too sad. I like to have some more but it is little bit costly in hotels. So no way, I have to walk out from there. A week before, my hubby has brought basundhi for me. Really, it tempted me to do at home. After a long while, I prepared it in my home. That’s awesome. The taste was really perfect. And now am very happy to do it at home, since I can have any amount without any limit. And fortunately, when i saw the visitors hit of my blog, it has crossed 20000 and wow! this post has become something special for me with my favorite Basandhi. Let’s come strai

Ingredients: Dosa Batter – Required Amount Onion – 3 (finely chopped) Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat dosa tawa / pan or a flat tawa and take a ladleful of batter. Spread the batter in a circular motion from the centre of the tawa to the sides of the tawa. Spread the batter little thicker and small enough. Spread 5 tbsp of onion on the dosa and press it with the ladle. Pour 1 tsp of oil on the edges of the dosa. When one side is cooked well (turns little brown), Flip the dosa to the other side and let it cook well. Once it is cooked remove the dosa from the pan and transfer to the plate. Side Dish: Coriander Chutney, Coconut Chutney and sambar Madhavi and Sathya has awarded me "Perfect blend Of Friendship Award". This is the blend of Trust, Kindness, Honesty, and Caring. Thank you so much Madhavi and Sathya for your friendship!!! I have already passed this award to my good friends and check it here for more information!

Ingredients: Dosa Batter – Required Amount Onion – 3 (finely chopped) Carrot – 4 (finely grated) Coriander Leaves – ½ bunch (finely chopped) Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat dosa tawa / pan or a flat tawa and take a ladleful of batter. Spread the batter in a circular motion from the center of the tawa to the sides of the tawa. Spread the batter little thicker and small enough. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of onion, 1 tbsp of carrot and ½ tbsp of coriander leaves on the dosa and press it with the ladle. Pour 1 tsp of oil on the edges of the dosa. When one side is cooked well (turns little brown), Flip the dosa to the other side and let it cook well. Once it is cooked remove the dosa from the pan and transfer to the plate. Vegetable Oothappam served with Onion Chutney Side Dish: Onion Chutney and Sambar Onion Chutney Ingredients : Big Size Onion – 4 (chopped lengthwise) Tomatoes – 3 (finely chopped) Dry Red Chilly – 6 Asafoetodia – 1 tsp Curry Leaves – 1 tbsp Mint Leaves – 1 tbsp Salt – to ta

Ingredients: Raw Rice Flour(Pulungal Arisi) – 1 cup or Rice Flour (Pacharisi Maavu which is available in stores) – 1 cup Milk – 600 ml Sugar – to taste (10 to 12 tbsp) Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the raw rice and dry it well. Grind it to a fine powder using your food processor or mixie. You can store this flour in an air tight container and can use whenever you require, if you prepare in large quantity. We can prepare this dish using the rice flour available in stores also but it will be little hard when cooked. Or else otherwise the taste will be same. Take a cup of flour and mix enough water gradually to make it dough. The dough should be very thick in consistency like the chapatti dough. No need for fermentation. Wrap the dough in a clean towel for about 15 minutes so that the excess water in dough will be absorbed by the towel. Sevi dough is shown in the picture. Now make number of small balls from the dough and press it a little by keeping the ball in your

Ingredients: Watermelon Cubes (peel off the skin and deseed it) – 1 cup Sorbet (Sugar Syrup) – 1 small ladleful or 50 ml (adjust according to your sweetness) Lemon – 1 (Extract the juice) Water – 1 Glass Ice Cubes - 8 Service For: 2 People Preparation Method: Blend all the ingredients together in a juicer and serve it in a glass. The taste of watermelon sorbet will attract all the kids to have more and more. Instead of drinking, we can freeze the prepared drink for about 6 hours and then we can serve it to eat in an ice cream bowl. To prepare sugar syrup, take ½ cup of water and ½ cup of sugar and boil it in a sauce pan till you get one string consistency. Anisheetu has passed me this cute "The Booky Meme", a long back and Curry Leaf has also tagged me the same. The rules of the tag are as follows: * Pick up the nearest book * Open to page 123 * Find the 5th sentence * Post the next three sentences * Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you The nearest book i

Ingredients: Mushroom – 200gms Onion – 1(finely chopped) Medium size Tomatoes – 2 (finely chopped) Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp Chilly Powder – ½ tbsp Pepper Powder – 2 tbsp Cloves – 4 Cardamom – 4 Aniseeds – 1 or 2 tbsp Bay Leaf – 2 Cinnamon - 2 Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the mushroom and cut it into cubes and keep it aside. Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and add onions and tomatoes and sauté it well. Let this mixture cool a while and then grind it to a smooth paste. Heat 4 tbsp of oil in a pan and sauté it with cloves, cinnamon, aniseeds, bay leaves and cardamom. Add grind paste and ginger garlic paste to it and stir fry until the raw smell leaves off. Now add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chilli powder and pepper powder and stir fry it well. Now add the mushroom pieces to it with required amount of water and salt and close the pan with a lid. Let it cook until the mushroom is well cooked. Open the lid of the pan after

Poori Ingredients: Wheat Flour – 4 cups Water – 2 cups or as required Salt – to taste Sugar – 1 tbsp Semolina / Rawai – 4 tbsp Cooking oil Cooking Instructions: Mix all the ingredients together except cooking oil and knead well to get soft dough. Do not add more water to the dough to make it too soft since poori will soak more water while cooking. So it is good if dough is little hard. Make small balls of the dough and cover them with damp cloth. Take one ball of dough and dip a corner of ball in oil and roll it out into 4 to 5 inches round. Repeat the same process to roll out all pooris. Spread all the rolled out pooris in a cloth or a large plate and do not stack one above the other since it will stick to each other. Heat oil in a deep pan. The oil should be of perfect temperature to get perfect pooris. The oil should be one stage before the oil starts to smoke. Slide a poori dough slowly in hot oil. If the poori rises immediately, then the oil is in right temperature to cook. Press

Ingredients: Watermelon (seeded and cut into Cubes) – 7 cups Simple Sugar Syrup – 1 cup Fresh Lemon Juice – 1 cup Ice Cubes - few Preparation Instructions: To prepare sugar syrup, take ½ cup of water and ½ cup of sugar and boil it in a sauce pan till you get one string consistency. Blend all the ingredients together in a juicer for a while and strain the juice in a bowl and serve it in tall glasses topped up with few ice cubes. You can adjust the sugar level according to your taste.

Ingredients: Watermelon – ¼ from its whole size ( deseed it and cut into cubes) Lemon – 1 (extract the juice from it) Ginger – 50gms (remove the skin and finely chopped) Sugar – to taste Ice Cubes - few Cooking Instructions: Blend the watermelon cubes and lemon juice together in a juicer. Mix sugar, ginger in a cup of water and bring it to boil in a pan and cook it in a simmer flame for about 10 to 15 minutes. Once it is cooled, strain the syrup mixture in a bowl. Mix the watermelon juice and the strained syrup together in a bowl and serve it in a tall glass. And its award time! Sireesha and Easy Crafts has passed me the " Good Job Award " and I feel honored to receive it from both of you! Thanks a ton sireesha and easy crafts! I love to pass it on to Vanisri , Priyanka , Ramya , Usha , Cynthia , Meeta , Bhawana , Paru , Archy and Jeena Vanisri has passed me " A Perfect Blend of Friendship Award "! Vani is really a nice friend of mine in this blogger world and i

I thank all my blogger friends first of all, who wished for my son Amiitesh's birthday and he enjoyed a lot on that day with all my relatives and particularly during the function time. Amiitesh got up by 5.15am itself on that day and went to bed only by 11pm and he don't want to miss to play with his grand parents and uncles. He was very eager to cut the cake from the time we received it from the bakery. He looked so smart on that day and we had a blast of happiness. He was more eager to see the gift packs he received for his birthday and started playing with them immediately as soon as we unpack the gifts. And thank you all again who showered my son with their blessings. Feeling very happy again today in Announcing the event for the month of September and the theme is "Chicken" , which is all time favorite for everyone of us. So, come out with all your chicken recipes and am awaiting eagerly for your spicy entries. Last month during Ice Creams and Milkshakes Event, i