Baby Corn Poriyal with Coconut

If you want to try Baby Corn in fresh way, then dont miss this version. With Grated coconut, Green chilli's, corn's tasted yummy, i would call it as a perfect starter. And if you are in diet, but craving for food's just to snack, these baby corn will satisfy your taste buds. morever a side-dish or starter within 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

Baby Corns: 10
Oil: 1tsp
Grated Coocnut: 2 tsp's
Mustard: 1/4 tsp
Green Chilli: 1(finely chopped)
Garlic:2 cloves(finely chopped)
Salt: as per your taste

Method:

Cut the baby corn's into 3 pieces

Chop the Garlic and Green chilli finely.

Heat the oil in a pan, add the mustard, when it pop's, add the garlic and green chilli's and fry them till you could feel a nice smell of garlic.

Add the Corn's and fry for a minute. add required salt and fry them.

Add the grated coconut and mix well. switch off the flame and serve.

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Vegetable Soup

My default picks in Veg-Grocery shop would be Carrot and Beans. I use them in my kurma,veg pulao or making poriyal/curry. In the end of the week, the left out carrot and bean's have to be used to save them. There this Vegetable Soup took a chance to take them in.

This soup is not of veg-clear soup type. It has potatoes and milk as the thickening agent. Is'nt it Different?

Ingredients:

Carrot-1

Beans- 5

Potato-1(Boiled & Skin Peeled)

Milk- 1/2 cup

Corrinader- To garnish

Ghee- 1tsp

Garlic- 1tsp(finely chopped)

Pepper- as Required

Salt-as Required

Method:

Pressure Cook the vegetables untill 2 whistles.

Have milk and half of the boiled potato in a blender and grind it into a paste.

In a pan, heat ghee, add garlic & saute it. Now add boiled vegetables and the grinded paste.

Add Milk to get the required consistency.

Add salt and pepper as required, and remove from the flame after one boil.

Garnish it with corriander leaves.

Serve Hot.

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A Small Tutorial for Blogger's on Using Blogger Draft to make comment form appear below the post

When i started blogging, i wondered a lot on many of your blogs, like what is RSS. whatever i saw was an unsolved puzzle for me. later googling helped me to learn many stuffs. Today iam driven by some instinct in me to post a small tutorial that would help you out. If you already know about this..ignore it.

The feature iam gonna speak about is Blogger in Draft. This is under test and even we can use the features of this. so let's get started..

We login to our blog , with the screen that look like as shown below, with blogger.com


In Blogger Draft, you can login thru clicking on here draft.blogger.com where you could see a screen like this.

after logging on, your dashboard will look like this...

On your top right corner of the screen, there will be a blue box, stating make blogger in draft as default blogger. you can check in the box, if you want to login always with blogger in draft.
there are many features on this..you can explore there. the feature i used from blogger draft is my comment form. earlier if someone wants to comment on my post, a pop-up window will appear and it takes time to load the profile pictures of the blogger's who already commented. and we need to go under a test, to check whether we are robot's:)

so here in this new comment form feature in blogger draft, bloggers can comment easily without all those hassle's. The comment form will look like those of in wordpress blogs. try this for a change.

How to do:

1. Go to your Settings Tab

2. Select Your Comment's Sub Tab

3. Stop at the third bold heading...Comment Form Placement

4. Choose the Embedded below post (To see the preview of the comment form, scroll down this page and look at my comment form.)

5. Save it

6. Check the blog post which has comments. and check by posting a comment.

7. If you are not happy or if it is not working...continue the steps from 1 to 3 and select the pop-up window and save.

Hope this tutorial help's you my friends..If you really liked it just share a word with me.
You can also request for a tutorial on particular aspect here.

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Carrot Thuvaiyal(Chutney) & Carrot Rice

My Mom used to prepare this thuvaiyal/chutney for us to make us eat the carrot atleast in this form. she also makes coconut thuvaiyal, which is my favourite one. the taste of it will stay on my tongue even after eating.

Coming to this Carrot Thuvaiyal/chutney, i prefer this Carrot Thuvaiyal along with Rasam and Pappad. it used to be my simple and light meal. also i prepare this thuvaiyal and mix it with Rice and pack it for my hubby lunch box.

Coming to the Ingredients:

Carrot-2
Urad dall-1tbsp
Red chilli-2
Tamarind-Half-inch size
Salt
Oil-2 tsps
Mustard-half a tsp
Curry leaves-6

Method:

Peel the outer skin of the carrot and Grate them and keep it aside .

Now in a kadai add 1 tsp of oil. fry urad dall till it becomes golden color. also fry the red chilli's.

Add the fried urad, chilli and tamarind to the grated carrot and grind it into a thick coarse paste by adding little water and required salt. Grind it coarsely.

Now add 1tsp of oil in the kadai, add mustard seeds..when it crackles, add curry leaves and add the grinded paste to it.

Fry it till the raw smell of the carrot leaves and the color changes to darker, when it starts sticking to kadai remove it from the flame.

It also Suits for Dosa's.

This can be mixed with rice...name it as carrot rice.. I just seasoned it with ghee fried cashews.

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Semiya Upma

Semiya upma is my favourite break-fast, as it could be done in minutes, and also taste's yummy. On the other hand, i also love to have Rava Upma, but the thing is i feel sleepy on eating it. so i shifted from rava to cracked wheat rava.

Here is my Recipe...

Ingredients

Semiya-2 cups
Ghee 1 spoon
Green chilli-1
Dry Red Chilli-2
Oil- 2 spoons
Onion-1 (finely chopped)
Mustard- 1 spoon
Urad Dal- 1 spoon
Curry leaves-8
Water- 1 and half cup
Salt for taste.

Method

Fry the Semiya in a spoon of ghee for a minute or two,
till they get wrapped in ghee.keep them aside.

In a kadai, heat 2 spoon's of oil. add the Mustard seeds, Urad dal, slitted green chilli, red chilli and Curry leaves.

Now add onions,salt and fry them well. when they are fried, add the semiya and mix well.

Now add the water and let it boil. when it boils, add a spoon of ghee or oil and let the semiya cook.

after cooking the semiya, close it with a lid and let it rest in the stove for 5 minutes.




You can add Carrot, beans, capsicum, peas to the upma.

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