Aval Upma

Its Blog Hop Wednesday, I have been paired with Rajani of My kitchen Trails. Its interesting to note the little stories she writes as an introduction before the recipe itself and she has some unique recipes in her blog. Do check her space. I tried Aval upma from her blog for breakfast today. It tasted good and it was light. You can also add vegetables to this upma.

Ingredients

1 cup-Aval(Beaten rice flakes)

1 medium sized-Onion

Green Chilli-1

Lemon juice optional

Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp

Oil-2 tsp

Urad dal-1 tsp

Mustard-1 tsp

Curry Leaves -A sprig

Salt-to taste

Water to soak Aval

Soak Aval for ten minutes if your using the thick variety. I used the medium variety. Take oil in pan. Add mustard, wait for it to splutter. Add Urad dal, let it brown. Add curry leaves and then Onion. Let the onions turn transparent. Now take the soaked Poha from water add it to the pan, add turmeric powder and salt to taste. Let this cook for 2-3 minutes. Take off the pan, squeeze lemon juice and serve. Another keeper recipe for sure.

Scrambled Cottage Cheese Sandwich

We are in the fifth week of Blog hop Wednesday, enjoying the ride. This week I have cooked from Ramya's Recipe, the ever so popular Paneer Burji. I used the same ingredients just slathered the bread with mint  chutney and it was a perfect breakfast.Check out the ingredients.

Paneer-1 cup

Oil-1 tbsp

Jeera-1/2 tsp

Onion-1

Ginger paste-1 tsp

Turmeric-a pinch

Chilly powder-3/4-1tsp

Tomato-1

Salt-to taste

Garam masala-1/2 tsp

Coriander Leaves -For garnish

Bread slices

Mint chutney

Mint leaves- 1 cup

Coriander leaves-1 cup

Green Chilly-1

A small piece of ginger

Sugar- a pinch

Salt according to taste

Lemon juice- 1 tsp

Grind all these ingredients for an aromatic chutney. Spread this on the sandwich and top with filling of choice.

Method-Soak the paneer cubes in hot water for ten minutes. This will make it soft. Take a pan, add oil,and then the jeera, let it splutter.Add in the onions wait till it turns transparent.Next to go is the ginger paste. I have omitted garlic paste.Now add the spice powders turmeric and chilly powder and salt. Add tomato and saute it well. Now crumble the paneer with your fingers Finally add garam masala powder and cook well for five minutes. Add corainder leaves for garnish. use this as a filling for breads and rotis.

This dish is so versatile. You can try your own combinations, in the evening I cut up a raw onion finely and added chat masala to further perk this recipe up.This dish is so easy make and tastes so good. You can have it for breakfast as an evening snack or pack it up for a picnic.

Buttermilk spiked with spices

 

Blog hopping is in its third week. Have I got to know my co bloggers better? the answer is a big yes thank you Rads for this fun opportunity. This week my partner happens to be Divya. I have had the privilege of meeting her once, she is really a sweet person do check her space for a nice array of recipes. I chose to make masala buttermilk from her space. And surely this is for keeps. Its healthy and tasty and can be made in a jiffy. So check out the ingredients used and fix yourself a drink.

Ingredients
1 cup-curd

1/2 cup water

Jeera-1/4 tsp

Pepper corns-2(increase according to taste)

Fenugreek powder- 1/4 tsp( roasted and powdered)

Chilli-1

Curry and coriander leaves

Salt to taste

Take a mortar and pestle and pound the spices and the leaves into a fine paste. Add the paste to a blender along with curd and water and whip well. Add salt to taste. Let the spices and curd mingle when it sits in the fridge. You can strain and serve or drink it directly. I have made this for a single serving. The Fenugreek  powder makes this drink so aromatic. This drink is surely a match made in heaven.

Chocolate Yogurt Banana Smoothie

Radhika's Blog hop Wednesday is on for the second week. I have been paired with Priya Sreeram another friendly blogger, with awesome recipes. I would love to meet her someday. Check out her gorgeous Patiala di lassi . While I was checking out the ingredients I noticed that I have banana and chocolate syrup in the fridge. So I thought why not make a chocolate yogurt smoothie. So do check this recipe.

Ingredients

1-Frozen banana

3/4 -milk

1/2 cup yogurt or vanilla yogurt

Hershey's Syrup-4 tbsp

Peel banana skin and freeze banana in a zip lock. Mash the banana add milk yogurt and the syrup. Blitz this in a blender ensure that everything is smooth and mixed well. And your done. You can also use vanilla yogurt instead of plain yogurt.  This is an ideal breakfast drink.

Sending this also to Radhika's Scrumptious Breakfasts .

and..Any one can cook :Series 31 , " Kids Delight - no fire cooking" Event. started by Srivalli.


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Bisibele Bath

Radhika of Tickling Palates has announced a fun way to link up with bloggers with an event called the "Blog hop Wednesday". The aim is to make a lot friends who come with a recipe in tow. Sounds like fun right. I have been paired up this week with Sangeetha from Typical Indian cooking. She has a lot of recipes on the blog and a friendly person too. I chose to make bisibele bath from her blog. This is my husbands favorite recipe. I have made my version of the classic Karnataka special. So do check out the recipe.

 

Bisibele Bath

Ingredients

Rice-1 cup

Toor Dal-1/2 cup

Mixed vegetables- I used 1 carrot,2 brinjals,4-5 strings of beans)

Lemon sized tamarind-Soaked

Turmeric-1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Baby onions-10 nos

Sambar powder-1tsp

oil-for frying onions

Ghee-1 spoon

Coriander leaves for garnish

For the powder to be fried  and powdered

1-cardamom

1-clove

1-cinnamon stick

Coriander seeds-1tbsp

Bengal gram dal-1 tbsp

Red chillies-2

1-Star anise-optional

This method of mine is very simple. I pressure cook the vegetables,rice and dal with salt and turmeric powder. I use six glasses of water to be put in the cooker's container. Once this is done. I take a vessel,extract the tamarind juice,put the spice  powder and sambar powder,add the rice and other ingredients to this and let this mixture cook well. Once well done add the pearl onions(which is fried in oil) to this mixture. Garnish with coriander leaves. Add a dollop of ghee while serving. I have not used coconut, if you wish to you can use 1/2 cup grated coconut. Serve this with a raita of your choice.