Pumpkin Soup | Winter Recipes!

I am posting a recipe after a long time, my inlaws are here and with the baby I am not able to blog. But still will post when I find time.

This week it was a bad weather in singapore, it was raining daily so all of us fell sick with cold, cough and flu. My father in law got more cold and fever. My son also has school holidays and he loves soup.

So I prepared this simple soup for the weather. They just loved it. 

Ingredients
Sweet Pumpkin - 200 gms or 1 cup chunks
Pepper - 1/2 tspn(adjust as per taste)
Spring onion -2 tblspns
Salt
Water 1 to 2 cups
Cream - 1 tblspn(optional)

Preparation method
Pressure cook or steam the pumpkin.
Allow it to cool a bit.
Transfer it to a mixie, add 1 cup water and blend to smooth paste.(it should not be too thick or too thick just soupy consistency)
Add spring onions, salt, pepper.
Boil it.

Garnish with cream.) I have not used

Serve hot with garlic bread or as it is. I like spicy.

PS - Adjust salt n pepper according to your taste.

Gojju Avalakki | Puli Aval Upma | Karnataka style

Gojju Avalakki is one of my favorite tiffin, I just love the flavours. A little tangy and sweet.

Here is the recipe

Ingredients
Avalakki/Aval/Poha/Rice flakes - 250 gms
Tamarind water - 2cups
Groundnuts - handful
Sambar powder - 1 tspn(As per your taste)
Oil -  tblspn
Mustard - 1/2 tspn
Turmeric powder - 1 tspn
Curry leaves - few
Hing - 2 pinches
Jaggery - a small piece
Salt
Coriander for garnish

Preparation Method
Pulse in mixie the avalakki to fine powder.
Take a wide bowl, add tamarind water, turmeric, sambar powder, jaggery and salt. Mix well. Add the powdered avalakki to this mix and leave.
Heat a kadai, add oil, mustard(wait till its pops out, then add hing, curry leaves and groundnuts. Let the raw smell go of the groundnuts.
Now add the avalakki slowly and mix everything.
Cook for 10 mins. Check on salt.

Off the stove and serve.

This can be had as it is or with chutney or curds.

Easy Olive Dosa | Kids Snack box recipe

From the day we brought Olives from Mustafa my son is back of this bottle. He wants all his food with olives imagine sambar with olives:). This morning I was packing his snack box and created this recipe. yeh he finished and told it was very delicious.

yesterday was Olive rice, could not take photo in the morning. So will be cooking with olives this week.

Serves - 1
Makes - 2 nos

Ingredients
Dosa maav/batter - 2 laddles
Black olives - 2 tablespns
Ghee - 1 tspn

Preparation Method
heat a tawa, pour 1 laddleKarandi maav/batter spread little bit. Immediately arrange olives on it.
Pour 1/2 tspn ghee.
Cook both sides till slight brown.  He did not want too brown.

Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

PS - Batter is not fermented as olives are sour.
If you are serving at home can add cheese too.

Batata Poha | Masala Aval Upma | Gujarathi Special!

I discovered this Batata poha (Potato Aval) recently when one my friends mom prepared this. Batata is also known as potato. Its very different from our usual South Indian Aval Upma.

Just loved it and now often I am preparing this everyone at home likes it.

Ingredients
Aval/Poha/Rice flakes - 250 gms(thick/medium)
Potato - 2 nos
Peas - 1 cup
Tomato - 1 no
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - 2 tblspn
Sugar - 1 tblspn
Oil - 2 tblspns
Salt

Masala powders
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn(as per taste)
Dhaniya powder - 1 tblspn
Turmeric - 1/4 tspn


Preparation Method
Wash, rinse the poha/aval twice. Drain the water. Add little of red chilli powder, turmeric and dhaniya powder. leave it as it is.
Chop tomato and potatoes.
Heat a kadai/wok, add oil, add chopped tomato and sauté.
Add potato and sauté. let it cook.
Add peas, and masala powders and sugar.
Let it mix well and cook.
Add poha/aval and salt. Mix well.

Serve for dinner or breakfast/tiffin.

Garnish it with coriander leaves, Fried Groundnuts and Raw onion(optional)

Notes - You can prepare with onions. I have served with raw onions.

Kathirikkai Roast | Crispy Eggplant/Aubergine| South Indian Curry Recipe!

Kathirikkai Roast | Crispy Eggplant/Aubergine is very easy and delicious sidedish. This goes well with sambar rice, rasam rice or curd rice.

 

Ingredients
Kathirikkai/Eggplant - 2 nos
Curry powder - as required(For recipe click here)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt
Olive Oil as required

Preparation method
Wash and cut the  kathirikkai/eggplant to medium size round shape.
In a plate, put rest of the ingredients mentioned above and make a paste.
Heat a tawa/pan/skillet on medium flame.
apply the paste on both sides of the vegetable place on the tawa and cook both sides until done.

Do the same with rest of the vegetable.

Delicious Kathirikkai Roast is ready to enjoy.

Notes - If you don't have curry powder you can also use red chilli powder or garam masala powder as per your choice.

Poondu Podi | Garlic Powder | Post Natal Recipe!

Poondu Podi | Garlic Powder is a special post for my dear friend Savitha. This is a Post Natal Recipe that is food after delivery for about 2 to 3 months.

You can have this alternate days with rice and ghee.

Ingredients
Garlic - 15 nos
Black pepper - 1/2 tblspn(As per your taste)
Urad dal - 2 tblspn
Ghee - 1 tspn
Salt as required

Preparation Method
Remove skin of garlic and keep aside.
Heat a kadai with ghee, add urad dal saute till brown. Transfer to plate.
Roast the garlic, you can even chop it. Fry till brown.
Roast black pepper in the same kadai till it pops out.
Allow it to cool.
Now grind these with salt to coarse powder.

Enjoy with hot rice and ghee.

This generates heat in the body so it is good for the baby.

# Photo to be updated soon.

Mathan| Sweet Pumpkin Curry | Type 2 ! Recipe by him

Pumpkin/Mathan curry is delicious and tasty. This recipe was told by my hubby. Since he also loves cooking I am adding one more label His Recipes, so whenever he cooks that will be posted here.

Until my hubby told me, I never used to do pumpkin curry with skin. When the skin is tender you can prepare with it. At home, now this is often in our menu. Here in the market we get such fresh and small pumpkin. Looks so colourful, so just took few photos.

Now lets go to the recipe.

Ingredients
Sweet pumpkin/Mathan - 1/2 no(Med size)
Oil -2 tspns
Mustard - a pinch
Asafoetida/hing - a pinch
Turmeric - a pinch
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn(As per your taste)
Curry leaves - few
Salt as required

Perfect chunks by my hubby. Thank you:)
 Preparation method
Wash, remove seeds and cut the vegetable in medium size chunks.
Heat a kadai, add oil, mustard, asafoetida. Let it crackle. Then add curry leaves and sauté.
Put the vegetable and mix.
Sprinkle a little water.
Add salt, turmeric and red chilli powder.
Close a lid and keep the flame on medium.
Stir occasionally.
Once the vegetable is cooked, slightly mash and mix well.

Mathan | Sweet pumpkin Curry is ready.
  You can have as a sidedish with hot rice /Sambar/Rasam/Curd Rice. 

Do participate in my event Cooking with Love - Cousins guest hosted by Amrita.

Homemade Bisibelebath Pudi/Vangibath Powder | MASALA POWDER | PODI RECIPES| AMMA'S RECIPE

Homemade Bisibelebath Pudi is one of the most requested recipe among my readers.

Today I am sharing Amma's recipe here. Bisibelebath (BBB) is one of the popular rice delicacy from Karnataka. Its very flavourful and healthy. This recipe is one to be bookmarked. It is also a multi use powder.

Ingredients
Whole daniya seeds - 2 cups
Channa Dal - 3/4 cup
Urad dal - 3/4 cup
Red chilli - 15 nos or as per your spice level(round and badgi)
Pattai/Cinammon - 1 stick
Cloves - few
Dry coconut - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1 tspn

Method
Heat a kadai on medium flame. Dry roast to brown all the ingredients separately except dry coconut.
Allow it to cool and grind to coarse powder with dry coconut.

Store it in air tight container and can be used in the following recipes:

Bisibelebath
Spinach Soyabean Bisibelebath
Vangibath
Venthayakeerai Sadam
Capsicum Bath

PS - Your feedback is appreciated. Do try recipe from (http://www.sarascorner.net/) take picture and send it to me through Facebook message or mail me at simplysara07@gmail.com. Will be glad to add in my page Tried & Tasted album on FB or post on my page. Thank you for your encouragement.

This recipe is going to WTML event by Gayathri hosted by Manju.

Veggie Wrap | Mexican Wrap Indian Style !

After posting Tacos recipe, next week hubby wanted to eat wrap and bought me all ingredients. My parents really enjoyed the wrap for the first time:-)

Ingredients
Tortilla - 8 nos(store bought wrap) I got Old Elpaso from Giant
Capsicum -  all colours 1no each
Onion - 1 no
Garlic - 1 tblspn
Cherry tomato - 15 nos/1 box
pav bhaji masala - 1 tspn
garam masala - 1/2 tspn
Olive oil - 1 tblspn
Lettuce or Chinese Cabbage - few leaves
Salt

Preparation Method
Cut all the vegetables to thin slices.
Heat a pan, add oil, add garlic, sauté for a min. Add onion and sauté till transparent. Add tomatoes
Add capsicum and sauté till its done.
sprinkle salt.

Off the stove.

Now take a tortilla spread one cabbage spread the veggie in the center. You can also top with cheese.

Roll and enjoy.

Notes - You can also put some salad dressing or tomato sauce.

Lady's Finger Pakora | Vendakkai Pakoda | with and without Onions

Lady's Finger Pakora | Vendakkai Pakoda| Bajji I had prepared Bitter Gourd crisps last time, since my kid loves lady's finger I added. This was delicious and tasty.

Without Onion

Ingredients
lady's finger/Vendakkai - 25 nos
Besan/Chickpea Flour/Kadalai Maav- 1 cup/till the veggie is covered
Corn Flour/Chola Maav - 2 tspns
Rice Flour/Arasi Maav - 2 tspns
Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn (As per taste)
Oil for deep frying
Salt to taste

Preparation Method

Wash, wipe and cut lady's finger into 2" pieces.
Take a  wide bowl, add Arasi, Chola and Kadalai maav and mix well. Add chilli powder and salt. Sprinkle very little water and mix well.
Deep fry in oil until brown and crispy.

With Onion

The above ingredients are same.
Chop onions and mix with the batter.

I slit the vegetable and filled little chopped onion and deep fried it.

Serve immediately as it is or Green chutney or tomato ketchup. Coffee/Tea time snack.

Creamy Dal Makhni | North Indian sidedish for Steamed Rice and Rotis!

Dal Makhni is a north Indian sidedish. It is also called Maa ki Dal. last weekend was craving for something different and tried this. It was very delicious with steamed basmati rice or rotis/chapathis

Ingredients
Split Urad dal with skin - 3 cups
Black eye bean/Karamani (white)- handfull
Onion - 2 nos
Ripe tomato - 2 nos
Garlic - 1no
Ginger - 1 tablspn
Cream - 2 tblspns (Nestle)
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
Garam Masala powder - 1 tspn
Kasoori methi - 2 generous pinch
cinnamon - 2" piece
Oil - 2 tblspns
butter - 1 tblspn
Salt

Preparation method
wash, rinse, soak urad dal and black eyed bean over nite.(see notes)
Pressure cook with 1tspn of salt for 4 whistles.
In a kadai, add little oil, fry 1 chopped onion, garlic and 2 tomatoes till raw smell goes. cool it. grind to fine paste.
Now in the same kadai, add 1/2 tspn butter add cinnamon, rest of the finely chopped onion, ginger and sauté till the onion are slightly brown.
Add the grounded mixture, red chilli powder, garam masala powder mix boil well. Now add the dals. crush kasoori methi and add now. The consistency should be not too thick or thin, it should be pouring consistency.
Add 1/2 tspn butter.
Add the cream and mix well. Just boil once.
Off the stove.
Finally garnish with love.

Serve hot with basmati rice/rotis.

Notes: If you forgot to soak at night, you can soak morning in hot water.
You can use whole urad dal and Rajma for this.
I have used more cream, you can use cream to just garnish.

Eggless Milo Cake Loaf | Eggless Baking| Easy Kids Recipe!

I am into baking after very long time. Since its summer holidays for the elder one, he has been asking me to bake muffins, but then when I saw this Eggless cake in Sangee's blog, just changed a few things and tried. It was delicious. Still I am amateur baker, this was a good one. 

Ingredients
All Purpose Flour/Maida - 1.5 cups
Milk powder - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking Soda - 1 tspn
Baking powder - 1/2 tspn
Curds - 3/4 cup
Vanila essence - 1/2 tspn
Milo - 2 tblspns
Olive Oil - 1/2 cup
Salt - generous pinch
Hot water - 1/2 cup(if required)

Preparation Method

Preheat the oven to 350 F, grease the baking tray I used bread tin.
Seive/sift APF, milk powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, milo and sugar. Mix all well in a bowl.
Now beat the yogurt/curds to smooth, add vanilla essence, mix well.
Add the dry ingredients and mix slowly in one direction.
Finally add olive oil give a quick stir.
Pour in the tray, if you wish you can add chocochips or nuts.
If the batter is too thick add little milk or hot water.

Bake for 30 mins or till the tooth pick comes out clean. I just added gems since my son wanted it.

Eggless Milo Cake Loaf is ready to eat. Serve it for Breakfast with Coffee/Tea.

Notes - Milk powder and Milo are sweet. You can reduce a bit of sugar if you want.