Fruit Salad Recipe / Chocolate Salad Recipe

Fruit Salad Recipe

My daughter wanted to skip her breakfast so my mom suggested that we give her some cut fruits , hence the result ended in this healthy fruit salad .

Ingredients:

Water Melon
Banana
Cherry
Few Chocolate pieces
Honey

Method :

Mix all the cut fruits in a mixing bowl .
Transfer the contents  to a serving bowl  add honey and few chocolate pieces and serve .

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Picnic Recipe Ideas / Picnic Menu Ideas

Last week end we drove down to Niagara falls, which is about 7 -8 hours drive from my place . My parents and my grandparents love the home made food . We planned to stay there for a day and we planned the menu accordingly  .When it was time to have food , we pulled off to the nearest service area and had them at the picnic tables at those plazas . It was just fabulous and a perfect picnic food  Here are the recipes that we carried to the trip .

Morning Breakfast :

Idly

Mint Cilantro Chutney

Lunch :

Curd Rice

Lays Potato Chips


Lemon Rice

Pickle

Chicken Masala

Dinner:

Tomato Chutney 

Chappathi 

Day 2 - 

Morning Breakfast :

The hotel served us with the continental breakfast , Apart from that we had few idlys and tomato , mint chutney  remaining which we reheated in the Microwave oven and used it .

Lunch:

We took our rice cooker , and rice to the hotel and we cooked the steamed rice in the hotel and packed it in the box .

Steamed Rice

Ready Made Vathal Kulambu Mix - From India

Potato Chips

Pickle

Dinner :

Came back home and had it @home .

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CARROT PORIYAL | CARROT STIR FRY RECIPE

Carrots is an all time favorite food for my family . So we made this simple Carrot Poriyal and had it with sambar and steamed rice . It made a perfect lunch for us . The summer Vacation have started for my Kids here and we have my parents and Grandparents  at my place . I am having a lot of fun with them and we are planning to visit a lot of places .My dear friends and dear bloggers i will not be able to comment on your blogs till the end of August , so pls bear with me . In between i shall try to post a few recipes in my spare time . Thanks for all your Kindness and Support .So now off to Today's post Carrot Poriyal Recipe

CARROT PORIYAL | CARROT STIR FRY RECIPE

Ingredients: 

Preparation Time : 10 minutes | Cooking Time : 15 minutes | Serves : 4
Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

• Carrots - 250 grams ( Chopped or Grated )
• Onion - 1 number  , chopped
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
• urad dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
• Oil - 2 teaspoon
• Red Chiili powder Or Curry Powder  - 1 teaspoon ( Click here for the recipe of curry Powder )
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Salt - to taste

Method:

Heat oil in a wok  . Now add the mustard seeds and allow it to pop and add the urad dhal and add the chopped onions and cook till it becomes translucent .

Now add the Chopped Carrots .( I used my Chopper to Chop the carrots )

Add salt , turmeric powder and chilli powder Or curry Powder  and sprinkle little water and allow it to cook .

Cook till the carrots become tender . Serve hot with Steamed rice .

Yummy Carrot Poriyal is ready to serve .

Click the link below to View some Poriyal recipes :

• Carrot Bean Poriyal
• Beetroot Poriyal ( Beetroot Stir Fry )
• Peerkangai Poriyal
• Drum Stick Leaves Fry ( Murungai Keerai Poriyal )
• Radish Pods Poriyal
• Vendakkai Kovakkai Poriyal ( Okra Gherkin Fry )
•  Kothavarangai Poriyal

Click the link here to view all the Poriyal ( Side dishes ) in the blog here .


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Appam Recipe / South Indian spongy Pan cake ( No Yeast ) / ஆப்பம்

Appam Recipe / South Indian spongy Pan cake ( No Yeast ) / ஆப்பம்

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 3 cups
• Boiled Rice / Idly rice - 1 1/2 cup
• Urad dhal - 1/2 cup
• Methi seeds - 3 tsp
• Cooked rice - 2 fistful
• Salt - to taste

Recipe :

Soak the raw rice , Boiled rice , urad dhal and Methi seeds overnight or soak it in water for a minimum of four hours . Transfer these contents to a wet grinder, add cooked rice, salt   and grind it in to a smooth paste by adding water .

 The consistency should be similar to the dosa batter ( Not too watery nor too thick ) .

Allow it to ferment for 8 - 10 hrs .

In a appam Chetti or any shallow pan  ( I used a shallow pan that fix in my electric stove ) spray some oil  , Pour a ladeful of the fermented batter in the middle .

 Hold the sides of the pan and swirl the batter in circular motion in such a way that the batter spreads on all the sides of the pan .

Cover it with a  lid and allow it to cook .

Now spongy Appam is ready to serve .

Serve this with any stew , chicken curry or Egg curry .

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Katharikai Puli Kulambu | Eggplant Curry | Brinjal curry

Eggplant Curry / Brinjal curry / Katharikai Puli Kulambu

Ingredients:

Eggplant - 1 no , Chopped ( I used 1 big black beauty eggplant )
Onion - 1 no , chopped
Tomato - 1 no , chopped
Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Methi seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Garlic pods - 3 no, crushed
Tamarind juice - 1/2 cup
Salt - to taste

Recipe: 

Heat oil in a shallow pan , add the mustard seeds allow it to pop and add methi seeds , urad dhal and crushed Garlic . Cook till raw smell goes away .

Now add the chopped onions and Tomatoes and cook till they become soft .

Add the chopped brinjal and add the sambar powder , turmeric powder , salt and mix .

Now add the tamarind juice and bring the contents to boil .

Cook till the oil seperates out from the gravy .

Serve hot with steamed rice .

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EGGPLANT MASALA | BRINJAL MASALA | YENNAI KATHARIKAI PORIYAL

Eggplant Masala is a easy and a tasty recipe made with Eggplants cooked with some aromatic spiced ingredients .  we cook the this dish using  Sesame oil to give the nice flavor to the dish . So now off to today's post Eggplant Masala Recipe

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EGGPLANT MASALA | BRINJAL MASALA | YENNAI KATHARIKAI PORIYAL

Ingredients:

Preparation Time : 10 Minutes | Cooking Time : 15 Minutes | Serves : 4 

• Eggplant - 1 number , chopped ( I  used big  black beauty eggplant )
• Onion - 1 number , chopped
• Salt - to taste
• Red chilli powder Or Curry Powder - 1 teaspoon ( Click here  for the recipe )
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Sesame Oil  - 1 tablespoon
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
• Urad dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon

Method :

• Heat oil in a shallow pan , add the mustard seeds and allow it to pop . Now add the cumin seeds and urad dhal an fry for few seconds . Now add the chopped onion and fry till it becomes translucent .

• Now add the chopped Eggplant , turmeric powder , red chilli powder Or Curry Powder  , salt and sprinkle little water and allow it to get cooked in medium flame .

• Cook till the Eggplant becomes soft  and cook till the oil separates out from the Eggplant masala .

• Eggplant Masla is ready . Serve hot with steamed rice  and Curry of your choice .

• Yummy Eggplant Masala is ready to serve !

Check out some of the  Eggplant recipes in the blog below :

• Eggplant Capsicum Curry
• Eggplant Curry ( Puli Kulambu Recipe )
• Baingan Bharta ( Roasted Eggplant Gravy )
• Eggplant Drumstick Masala

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