Monday 16 March 2015

Today's Tip


Wrap the onions individually in a newspaper and store in a cool and dark place to keep them fresh for a long time

Pomegranate Milkshake

This is a tasty and healthy milkshake which is made with pomegranate. It requires only few ingredients to prepare but tastes awesome. You can have it as a healthy drink in this summer. The name pomegranate derives from the French word “pomegranate” or seeded apple.Pomegranate has a lot of health benefits too. Drinking pomegranate juice benefits our health and skin in a number of ways. It is one of the few fruits whose juice is as beneficial as the fruit itself.  This is because the peel contains the maximum amount of antioxidants which are released in abundance when the fruit is squeezed while juicing. So lets see the recipe now

Preparation Time :15minutes

Cooking Time : -

 

Ingredients:


Preparation:

  • Take the pomegranate out of the shell and keep
  • If you have ice cream use it, else make home made ice cream

Procedure:

  • Take pomegranate, milk, sugar in a tall mixer jar and blend
  • Strain it using a strainer 
  • Add this in a mixer and add ice cream and blend again
  • Pomegranate milkshake is now ready!!!

Step by Step Procedure:

Take pomegranate, milk, sugar in a tall mixer jar and blend
Strain it using a strainer . Add this in a mixer and add ice cream and blend again
Pomegranate milkshake is now ready!!!




Easy Pasipayir Sundal without coconut/Easy whole green gram sundal

This is an easy recipe and you can have it as a healthy snack when you feel hungry. It involves very less cooking time and involves no soaking too. Instead of having junk foods like pizza, puffs as a evening snack you can have healthy snack like this. The green gram is one of the healthiest pulses. It is rich in proteins, fiber, minerals, calcium, phosphorus, iron. It can be used in sprouted form also

Preparation Time :5minutes

Cooking Time :20minutes

 

Ingredients:

  • Whole greem gram/ Pasi payir -2cup
  • Big onion -1
  • Red chilli -3
  • Mustard seeds/Kadugu -1tsp
  • Curry leaves -A spring
  • Salt -2tsp or as required
  • Oil -2tsp or as required
  • Water -3cups or as required

Preparation:

  • Chop onion into small pieces

Procedure:

  • Take whole green gram in a cooker and add water to it and pressure cook it for 2whistles in high flame and in low flame for 10 minutes
  • Pour oil in a pan
  • Add mustard seeds and after it crackles add red chilli, curry leaves and onion and fry till it becomes golden brown in color
  • Then add the boiled green gram and mix well
  • Green gram Sundal is now ready!!!

Step by Step Procedure:

Take whole green gram in a cooker and add water to it and pressure cook it for 2whistles in high flame and in low flame for 10 minutes
Pour oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and after it crackles add red chilli, curry leaves and onion and fry till it becomes golden brown in color
Then add the boiled green gram and mix well
Green gram Sundal is now ready!!!
  

Friday 13 March 2015

Today's Tip


To cut grease and odour on dishes, add a tablespoon of vinegar to hot soapy water

Capsicum Rice/Green Bell Pepper rice

This is a quick, flavorful and colorful rice which is made very easily. It is an easy dish which can be made when you are in a hurry or when you have some left over rice you can make variety rice like this. This is a dish which is done very quickly and you can pack it easily as a lunch for school going children. It requires only few ingredients which is easily available in the kitchen. In US and Canada, they are called bell peppers. In Australia and Asia, they are known as Capsicum. Capsicums come in a variety of colors: Green, purple, red, orange and yellow. Green and purple are little bitter to taste.  Red, orange and yellow are milder flavored, sweeter, and pleasant to the taste. The red peppers are really green peppers which have been left to ripen on the vine.

Preparation Time :25minutes

Cooking Time :15minutes

 

Ingredients:

  • Cooked Rice -1cup
  • Big Onion -1
  • Capsicum -1
  • Green chilli -1
  • Pepper powder/Milagu thool -1tsp
  • Cumin powder/Seeraka thool -1tsp
  • Salt -2tsp or as required
  • Oil -1tblsp or as required

Preparation:

  • Cook rice and keep
  • Chop onion, capsicum and green chilli into smaller pieces

Procedure:

  • Pour oil in a pan
  • Add onions and fry till they become golden brown in color
  • Then add capsicum and fry
  • Then add green chilli and fry
  • Then add pepper powder, cumin powder and salt and mix well
  • Then add rice and mix well
  • Capsicum Rice is now ready!!!

Step by Step Procedure:

Pour oil in a pan. Add onions and fry till they become golden brown in color
Then add capsicum and fry
Then add green chilli, pepper powder, cumin powder, salt and fry
Then add rice and mix well
Capsicum Rice is now ready!!!
  


 

Thursday 12 March 2015

Today's Tip


Chop the vegetables only when you are ready to use them. Don`t cut them in too advance because it would spoil their food value.