Healthy Mix Vegetable Soup and another Award.

For Raaga's MBP: Soup and Salad event I am trying Manasi's Mix Vegetable and Coconut Milk Soup. I love this healthy soup. I made little bit changes to original recipe. I did not use beet root and instead of pressure cook all vegetables I chopped them very fine. Here is my version

Ingredients

• Cauliflower Florets: 1 Cup
• Cabbage: 1/2 Cup
• Large Tomato: 1
• Medium Size Carrot: 1
• Green Beans: 10 - 15
• Green Peas: 1/2 Cup
• Chopped Onion: 1/2 Cup
• Coconut Milk: 1 Cup
• Ginger Paste: 1 tsp
• Red Chilli Powder: 2 tsp
• Bay Leaves: 1-2
• Coriander Powder: 2 tsp
• Cloves: 3-4
• Olive Oil: 2 tsp
• Salt and Black Pepper to Taste
• Water as needed

Procedure

• First of all finely chopped all vegetables in food processor and keep aside.


• Heat olive oil in a sauce pan. Then add the garlic paste, cloves, bay leaves and saute the chopped onions until light golden brown.


• Then add chopped vegetables to the pan. Mix all ingredients very well. Cover and cook them for 4-5 minutes, then add all other spices. Then add chopped tomato. Cover pan with lid and let them simmer for 6-7 minutes. Then add half of the coconut milk and cook for another 5 minutes.


• Then remove the pan from flame. Let it cool for a while. Then remove cloves, bay leaves by hand. Then blend all mixture in a blender to fine paste. Add remaining coconut milk while blending. Add water to achieve the desired consistency. Then add salt, pepper of needed.


• Garnish this soup with finely chopped coriander and serve hot.

Today one of my blogger friend JZ of Tasty Treats gave me another award. This award is 'You make my day'. I am so happy. I am truly honored and I really appreciate your gesture!

I would like to pass this award to

• Manasi of Fun and Food
• Red Chillie of Red Chillies
• Asha of Aroma
• Suganya of Tasty Platter

Enjoy your awards.

Carrot Sandwich and Two Awards

Ingredients

• Bread Slices: 4
• Finely Grated Medium Sized Carrots: 2
• Soya Sauce: 1 tsp
• Red Chillie Powder: 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
• Finely Sliced Onion: 1/2
• Ginger Garlic Paste: 1/2 tsp
• Oil: 1 tsp
• Dry Peanut Chutney or Dry Ridge Gourd Skin Chutney
• Salt to Taste

Procedure

• Heat oil in a small kadhai. When oil warms add onion slices.
• When onion slices become translucent add finely grated carrots and stir fry them for 3-4 minutes.
• Add soy sauce, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, ginger - garlic paste and salt. Mix well. Stir fry on a medium flame till the mixture becomes little sticky. Switch off the flame.
• On two bread slices sprinkle some dry chutney, then put some carrot mixture, again sprinkle some dry chutney and then cover with other bread slice.
• Put this sandwich in the sandwich maker. When they are done serve hot with any sauce.

This is my entry for Anupama's ' The Sandwich Festival 2008 ' event.

Now about my awards :). Last week Skribles of Food With Pinch Of Love gave me 'Yummy Blog Award' . Thank you Skribles for this award.

Now here are some of my yummy recipes

There are lot of blogs that I like but according to rules I have to pass this award to 4 fellow bloggers. So I would like to pass this award to

• Pooja of Creative Pooja
• Srivalli of Cooking 4 All Seasons
• JZ of Tasty Treats
• Sagari of Indian Cooking

Now about my second award. Today Lakshmi of 'Taste of Mysore' gave me 'Rockin' Girl Blogger' award. Thank you Lakshmi for giving this award to me.

I would like to pass this award to

• Meera of Enjoy Indian Food
• Pearlsofeast of Any One Can Cook
• Ranji of Ranji's Kitchen Corner
• Vanmala of My Kitchen World

Enjoy your awards.

Ratalyachi Ghari (Sweet Potato Roti) For Roti Mela

Ingredients

• Sweet Potato(Boiled & Mashed): 1 Cup
• Shredded Jaggery: 1 Cup
• Cardamom Powder: 1 tsp
• Wheat Flour: As required
• Salt to Taste
• Oil or Ghee

Procedure

• Mix boiled, mashed sweet potato, jaggery, salt, cardamom powder very well so that jaggery will almost dissolve in sweet potato.
• Then add wheat flour slowly. Mix all ingredients very well. Add wheat flour till you get nice dough. Don't add any water. Knead the dough very well by adding little oil or ghee. Cover this dough with wet cotton cloth. Keep aside for atleast half hour.
• Then make small ping pong ball size balls. Roll them with rolling pin just like regular roti.
• Heat tava on gas. Apply some ghee or oil on tava. Transfer roti on tava. Cook roti from both sides on medium flame.
• Serve this hot roti with warm milk or pickle.

Tips

• Instead of sweet potato you can use rippen bananas, pumkin, potato.
• Don't use sugar instead of jaggery otherwise roti will become very hard to eat.
• If you want you can make these roti puri size and dip fry it.
• These rotis remains good for 7-10 days so these are good for travel.

This is my another entry for Srivalli's Roti Mela

Chane Jaiselmer Ke For RCI - Rajsthan

Ingredients:

• Black Bengal Gram (Kale Chane): 1 Cup
• Medium Sized Onion: 2
• Chopped Green Chillies: 3-4
• Chopped Coriander Leaves: 1 Cup
• Yogurt: 1 & 1/2 Cup
• Garam Masala Powder: 1 tsp
• Coriander Powder: 2 tsp
• Red Chilli Powder: 1 tsp
• Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
• Chaat Masala: 2 tsp
• Besan (Gram Flour): 4 tsp
• Hing (Asafoetida): 1/4 tsp
• 2 inch Cinnamon: 1
• Cumin Seeds: 1 tsp
• Black Cardamoms: 2-3
• Cloves: 5-6
• Pure Ghee: 2 tbsp
• Oil: 2 tbsp
• Salt to Taste

Procedure

• Soak bengal gram overnight in 4 cup water. Drain, mix in 6 cup of water and pressure stir fry till done. Then mash the grams slightly.
• Heat up ghee and oil, add cumin seeds, when they crackle mix in the whole garam masala, fry for 1-2 minutes. Mix in asafoetida and chopped green chillies, sautae.
• Then mix yogurt, gram flour, 1 cup water and dry spices very well in a bowl.
• Then add this yogurt mixture in sautaed whole garam masala. Keep stirring till it boils.
• Then mix in the grams along with the water they were boiled in. Mix in salt to taste. Mix well. Cover and simmer (boil slowly at low temperature) for 8-10 minutes.
• Serve hot decorated with cut coriander leaves and onion .

This is my entry for Padmaja's RCI- Rajasthan.

Source:
IndiaFoodForever

10 Picture Meme - Tagged by Anjali

Anjali of 'The Big Bite' has tagged me for 10 Picture meme. So here are my top 10 photos of my blog (Hope you all agree with me) . Thanks Anjali.

1. Banana Raita


2. Palak - Paneer Neer Dosa

3. Puran Poli

4. Sabudana (Sago) Ladoo

5. Begun Bhaja (Bengali Eggplant Fry)

6. Veg Lollipop

7. Suralichi Vadi (Khandwi)

8. Tilachi Wadi (Sesame Squares)

9. Bagara Baingan

10. Besan Ladoo


I would like to tag

• Miri of 'Peppermill'
• Medhaa of 'Cook With Love'
• Bhags of 'Crazy Curry'
• LG of 'Taste Of Mysore'
• Archy of 'Archy's Recipe Book'

Apple Strawberry Milkshake

Ingredients

• Strawberries: 5-6
• Apple: Half
• Cold Milk: 2 Cups
• Sugar: 2 tsp
• Almonds: 2
• Cashew: 2
• Cardamom Powder: 2 Pinch

Procedure

• Wash strawberries with water very well. Cut strawberries and apple into small pieces.
• Blend all above ingredients into blender till it you get very smooth mixture.
• Serve this shake in glass.

Tips

• Instead of apple, strawberries you can use fruits that you like.
• You can use ice -cream of your choice in this shake.

Puran Poli, Tandlache Thalipeeth and Gulachi Poli

You all must be wondering why I am posting these recipes again. There is a good reason behind this. When I read that Srivalli , the one who hosted Grand Dosa Mela last month is hosting Roti Mela this month, I thought I will send her my previously posted Indian Bread recipes first. So I am writing this post. Puran Poli & Tandalache Talipeeth are my favourite Indian bread varieties.

Puran Poli (also known as Obbattu, Baksham ) is a traditional Indian Bread prepared in Maharashtra, Gujrath & South India. Mostly this Poli is served during auspicious occasions and important festivals. There are different variations according to region. In Maharashtra we mostly use Chick Pea & Jaggery stuffing. Here is the recipe of my version of Puran Poli

Tandlache Thalipeeth which is also known as Rice Flour Roti. Just like rice flour, you can use any type of flour and make roti. You can add different types of chopped vegetables or leftover sabjis in it. So here is my version of Tandlache Thalipeeth (Rice Flour Roti)

These are my first two entries for Roti Mela. I am going to send more entries so stay tunned. You can also send your entries. The last date of recipe submittion is 20th June

Update:
I want to add one more my favorite indian bread here which is already posted. This one is Gulachi -Shengdana Poli (Jaggery - Peanut Roti). We usually make this Roti at the time of Sankranti. This roti is useful in winter weather. You can make these rotis for long travel.