Fried Mushrooms and Cashew quick bite

Cooking is a refresher for me and it helps me to over come any tiredness. I was studying for an exam and felt hungry  I went straight to kitchen and started hunting for some thing to eat. Luckly, I found some mushrooms, Fresh green peas. Hear me out when I narrate the story of another interesting 15 mins snacks. 

Yummy Masrooms

Did you know?

Not every one like eating mushrooms. 

How to clean mushroom?
Click here to look at the great 5 mins video on the detailed process of cleaning mushrooms.

Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:.
1. Button mushrooms. (one cup, please ref picture)
2. Green Peas (1/4th of a cup)
3. Hand full of Cashews 
3. Green chilies (according to your taste, chop them as you like)
4. Olive oil (to deep fry)
5. Salt

Method:

1. Keep a pan over a flame with oil in it.

2. Once Oil is heated up, put green chilies and let them get cooked for 2 mins. Be careful they should not turn brown. 

3. Now pour all the green peas and cashews in the oil and let it cook for 4 to 5 min.
4. Once you think that your green peas are done the last one will be the mushrooms to be deep fried, until they turn golden brown in color. 
6. In case you like some color you can put read chilly powder and turmeric powder and let them cook for 2 mins.
7. Take out every thing from the pan.
8. It must be looking tempting.
9. Sprinkle salt to taste, Red chili flakes, black pepper - According to your taste. And you are ready to serve and eat together.

Sharing food is one of the best thing in the world. So please share while you eat.

Want to try hot poories in lunch. Click below to look at poori's recipe

Rice Kheer (Rice Pudding)

In India we call it Kheer. Some parts of the country this is also known as payasam. Well in the world it is known as rice pudding. Kheer is little different then pudding. So i am gonna call it kheer. 

Did you know?

We are going to prepare kheer now..(PJ)

Preparation Time: 60 mins

Ingredients:.
1. One liter of whole milk.
2.  Four table spoon rice. You can use any kind of polished rice. It is not necessary to use basmati rice,
3. 1 spoon condensed milk.
4. One whole green crushed cardamom.
5. Two table spoon sugar (Please use as your taste)
6. 1 chopped dry date (khajoor)
7.  4 to 5 kesar (saffron) threads.
8.  2 sliced almonds

This is going to be very easy, but not quick. if you want to make it yummy please have patience while you prepare. Because you tend to read the whole recipe in 5 mins and when you go for cooking it will test your patience.

Method:

1. Boil the water in vessel and pour rice in that.

2. Keep the rice in boiled water for 30 mins and keep it aside.

3. Pour the milk into a heavy-based pan and boil it for around 25 mins. 
     3.1. In between when the milk is boiling pour Saffron and crushed cardamom.
     3.2. Stir your boiling milk after some interval, else it will stick on the surface of vessel and     
             chances are it will get burnt..
4. After approx 25 mins, add rice to the boiling milk.
5. Cover the pan and let the rice cook with the boiling milk.Once the rice is easily breakable, it means your rice is cooked.
6. Add condensed milk to your boiling milk. 

7. Well the kheer preparation is done, sprinkle the sliced almonds and serve it hot. 

Want to try kheer after hot poories. Click below to look at poori's recipe

Poori or Puri

Poori or Puri, I will spell this as Poori. Poori's is special and when I say special it means that these are cooked  on a special occasion. It is liked by all the age group and loved by kids. I too love it and tried making this at home last Sunday (well this blog was in my draft from long time, so now do not remember when I made it) and it just came out perfect. Poori goes best with Potato gravy (in Hindi it is called as alloo ki sabji or alloo palya in kannada).  The dough of Poori can be of wheat/maida or a mix of wheat and maida, this depends on state to state in India. I have learned this from Namrata. Indeed I can never be as perfect as she is but I can try.

Did you know?

The name poori is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘purika’. Though, its origin is mystifying, but it is believed that it is originated in North India, especially in the Uttar Pradesh. In other Indian regions as well, it is called by different names. For example, ‘Luchi’ in Bengal. A bread in Georgian is also called ‘puri’.

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Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:.
Wheat, 

Water and Salt to taste

edible Oil

Well I am going to assume you know how to make a dough for chapati.  You can either use your hands or food processor for making Poori dough. Just remember the douch of Poori will be little hard then chapati dough. The reason for this is we need to fry them in Oil and the harder dough prevents the Poori's to absorb more oil. If you drop 2 to 3 drop of oil while making poori dough, the poories will absorb less oil. Your dough should like below:

Method:
1. Make a dough.

2. Once your dough is ready make small round balls. Apply little oill on the round balls.

3. Roll out the balls in circle, please do not make them too thin or thick.

4. Heat Oil in Pan.

5. Verify of your oil is properly heated up.- Put a very very size tiny (equivalent size of an mustard) piece of dough in heated oil, if your tiny piece of dough come up then your good to fry poories.

6. Now turn your flame in Medium.

7. Drop the rolled dough in the oil. (Be careful)

8.  Shake them continuously and take them out once the poori top crust turn little brown in color.

9. Hey we are done, You can serve them with potato gravy or any thing which you love it. Poori goes with any thing.

Want to try poories with some dry mashrooms

Sweet - White Bread

This is a creation from Namrata and my one year son loves it. He hates milk but we are happy this recipe increases his milk intake. Any one who loves sweet will like it. 

Did you know?
The history of white bread

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

1. 3 Slice of white bread (preferred).
2. 2 Cup whole milk.
3. 1 table spoon sugar - as per taste
4. Ghee for frying.

Method:

1. Mix Sugar in milk.
   
2. Pour Milk on a flat pan/or a broad bowl (hence we can dip the white bread).
3. Put some ghee on the pan and let it heat. Make sure you spread the ghee to the size of bread on the pan.
4. Dip the white bread in the milk. Let white bread soak the milk.
5. Carefully lift the bread and place it on the pan.
6. Once brown from side 1, then let it cook for some time on hot pan till it gets some good golden colour.
7. And you are ready to eat. Best when eaten hot.

Want to try akki roti  

Aaki Roti/Rice Roti

Now a days summers in Bangalore are also hot. Twelve years back in year 1999 when I first came to city it was a hill station. Time has changed. In these 12 years I've learned a lot from this city. I am going to share a recipe which is named as Aaki roti or rice roti and i learned this from kanadigas. Sindhi's too make rice roti. I tried this recipe because my one and a half year old son Aarav was not eating the regular wheat chapati and i have to try something different and unique for him. Aarav loved it and had two akki roties. That made my day.

Did you know?

• Rice is the second highest worldwide production after maize (corn). Since maize is mostly grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain for human consumption.
• There are more than 40,000 varieties of rice that grow on every continent except on Antarctica.
• Some research shows that rice may have been indigenous to India over 4,000 years ago and moved eastward to Indochina and to Southeast Asia.

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Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour (a cup for each dodo)
2.  One medium size finly Chopped onion
3.  Chopped Green chilly/es as per taste
4.  Chopped Coriander leaves 1 spoon for each
5.  Chopped one spoon of caraot
6.  Salt to taste
7.  Oil 2 tsp for each dodo
8.  Cumin seeds

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients except water in a bowl.
   

   

   
   
   
   
   

   
   
2. Now add water little by little, mixing it properly to get a soft manageable dough. Add a spoon of oil in the dough as this will make our bread soft.
   
   
3. Pick up one polytheen or plastic sheet and grease it well with oil. Keep it aside we will need it in next step.
4. 

   Now bring together the dough and shape it in a round ball. Place the dough on the greased plastic sheet and expand it gently by your fingers.
5. Then carefully place  it on  hot pan. Remove the plastic sheet.
6. 

   Aaki roti should be cooked in medium flame on both sides. Apply  some oil  after flipping sides, so as to make it crisp
7. Akki roti needs to be hot when served and eaten else you may not like it as it will become hard.
8. You can have this with any vegetables, dal, pickle or curd.

Want to try akki roti with dry mushrooms,

Grape Juice

Grape Juice
I never had grape juice and I have no reason why I never had. Today at office during lunch time I asked a question to my co-worker as why  grape juice for only red or black grapes. He told me it is very easy to prepare this. And I thought let me try this.

Did you know?

• In the Bible, grapes are first mentioned when Noah grows them on his farm (Genesis 9:20-21).
  Instructions concerning wine are given in the book of Proverbs and in the book of Isaiah, such as in Proverbs 20:1and Isaiah 5:20-25. Deuteronomy 18:3-5,14:22-27,16:13-15 tell of the use of wine during Jewish feasts. Grapes were also significant to both the Greeks and Romans, and their God of agriculture, Dionysus, was linked to grapes and wine, being frequently portrayed with grape leaves on his head.^[45]
• Grapes are especially significant for Christians, who since the Early Church have used wine in their celebration of theEucharist.^[46] Views on the significance of the wine vary between denominations. In Christian art, grapes often represent the blood of Christ, such as the grape leaves in Caravaggio’s John the Baptist. Source

How to clean Grapes?

Click here to know the process of cleaning your grapes.

Preparation Time:

45 Mins

Ingredients:

Red Grapes (seedless)- 1/2 kg

Sugar - 1 cup (as per taste)

Water - 2 cups

Method:

1. Wash grapes and boil with 2 cups of water until grapes start floating on top.
2. Remove off heat and let it cool.
3. Separate the skin of grapes from the pulp. The skin will float on top.
4. Squeeze lightly to separate the pulp which is still holding onto their skin.
5. Filter your juice from pulp
6. Serve it chilled.

Yummy dry mashrooms, click here