Lettuce and Cucumber soup (Microwave)

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ettuce soup? Really? What will you do if you have 3 heads of lettuce sitting in your fridge and you don't want to waste it. Quite frankly, we were amazed  at how how good it tasted. I was thinking that it will taste bland so I included vegetable stock with seasoning. That worked great!


Ingredients
Chopped Letuce leaves - 1 cup
Sliced Cucumber - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1 tsp
Cornflour - 1 tbsp
Salt - per taste
Pepper powder - per taste
Vegetable stock - 1 cube


Method

• Take the lettuce leaves in a microwave safe bowl and put in the microwave for 1 minutes.
• Add butter and cucumber slice in the bowl and microwave for 30 seconds.
• Take out and mix well.
• Microwave high for 2 minutes.
• Dissolve the cornflour in 1 cup water.
• Blend all this in a mixer.
• Crush vegetable stock cube in a microwave safe bowl. Add 1 cup water and microwave for 3 minutes stirring in between.
• Add vegetable stock and the blended mixture to the bowl, add salt and pepper and microwave for 2 minutes.
• Serve immediately.

This goes to MEC started by Srivalli and 100-day-global-food-festival

Aloo Yam Chat (Microwave)

If you mix Boiled potatoes and yam and toss some masala it will become a mouthwatering chat. It can be served as a starter or a tea time snack.

Ingredients
Potatoe and Yam cubes - 1 cup
Onion - 1/4 cup
Cilantro leaves - for garnish
Mint leaves - 1 tbsp
Butter - 1 tsp


Masala
Salt - per taste
Kala Namak - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Rosted cumin powder - 1/3 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Chat masala - 1/2 tsp
Method
Take the potato and yam cubes in a microwave safe bowl . Put 1 tbsp water in it and butter. Cover and microwave for 5 minutes. Stir once in between. Check after 5 minutes if the cubes in bowl are soft enough.
Add masala and chopped onion. Add chopped cilantro leaves and mint leaves. 
Ready to serve.
Goes to MEC started by Srivali.

Potluck Party #11

 The link for potluck party will be up every week on Thursday (according to Indian time) and it will be up till Thursday in USA. I'll request you to join and make it sucessful. This time we have a new logo to use.
Rules to link the post

• Click Enter Here on the Potluck post, and follow the directions. The post you enter must be published on your blog, before you join the potluck.This post shouldn't be older than one week.
• Please vegetarian dishes only. Eggs are not allowed.
• Include a link in your blog posting back to this page using my logo. This way, whoever visits your blog, will know about this event and will be encouraged to join it.
• Please become a follower of my blog, if you haven't done so already.
• Please like my facebook page, the button is in the right side.(not mandatory but I would love it)
• Visit at least one other link from the party and leave some comment love for that person. (Come on! We all love a nice comment!
• Only one blog post per person per party, please.
• Please leave me a comment after uploading the recipe.

THIS LINKY PARTY IS TO SPOTLIGHT

YOUR BEST RECIPE  OF THE WEEK.

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1. Nankhatai

2. Biscuts finger pudding

Whole Wheat Kesar Nankhatai for Blog Hop Wednesday

This is the time for another round of Blog Hop wednesday. This time I'm hoping Taste of Pearl City. I tried Nankhatai from that blog. I followed the recipe except that I used whole wheat flour instead of All porpose flour. The result was tasty but it was crunchy like a cookie. For recipe follow the link

This goes to Potluck Party.

and Bake Feast and Snack Mela , Serve It - Savory Baked

Bread Roll filled with Kaju Katli

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 had a kaju katli box sitting in my fridge from a long time and no one was taking interest in them. I thought a lot that how can I utilize them and came up with these bread rolls. These are super yummy to eat and easy to make. How do you use left over sweets from Deepawali? Here I'm sharing my idea, please share your ideas too.

Ingredients
White Bread - 2
Kaju Katli - 4-6
Grated Coconut - 1/2 tbsp
Oil to fry


Method

• Take kaju katli in a microwave bowl and microwave it for 30 sec.
• Crush them with a fork, add coconut and mix well.
• Place one bread piece in the water bowl for few seconds and squeeze the water by pressing between the palms. 
• Now fill the Kaju and coconut stuffing, cover the filling with the bread and seal the edges with little pressure. The filling should not be visible, it should be covered by bread all around otherwise the filling may come out in the oil.
• Heat the oil in a pan. Deep fry these Bread rolls till golden and crisp all around.
• Remove from the oil and drain on a paper towel.
• Ready to serve.

This goes to CC Festive Food


Kids Delight -Dressing Up Left Overs


Winter Carnival

Potluck Party #10

 The link for potluck party will be up every week on Thursday (according to Indian time) and it will be up till Thursday in USA. I'll request you to join and make it sucessful. This time we have a new logo to use.
Rules to link the post

• Click Enter Here on the Potluck post, and follow the directions. The post you enter must be published on your blog, before you join the potluck.This post shouldn't be older than one week.
• Please vegetarian dishes only. Eggs are not allowed.
• Include a link in your blog posting back to this page using my logo. This way, whoever visits your blog, will know about this event and will be encouraged to join it.
• Please become a follower of my blog, if you haven't done so already.
• Please like my facebook page, the button is in the right side.(not mandatory but I would love it)
• Visit at least one other link from the party and leave some comment love for that person. (Come on! We all love a nice comment!
• Only one blog post per person per party, please.
• Please leave me a comment after uploading the recipe.

THIS LINKY PARTY IS TO SPOTLIGHT

YOUR BEST RECIPE  OF THE WEEK.

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1. Mal pua

2. Cottage Cheese with cream

Mal pua

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alpua or Amalu (in Oriya) is an Indian pancake which is a traditional dessert.  This is popular throughout the India. Although every region has its own version but few ingredients are same in every version, that is all purpose flour, Suji and milk.
I learn to make these malpuas from my friend who is from Bihar. So here I'm writing the Bihari version of this mouth watering dish.

Ingredients
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Suji - 1/2 cup
Ripe banana - 1 small
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Coconut cut in small pieces - 1 tbsp
Milk - 1 1/2 cup or as required
Oil for deep frying
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Water - 3/4 cups
Cardamom powder - 1/3 tsp


Method

• First make the sugar syrup by adding sugar and water in a heavy bottom pan. We need one string consistency. Add cardamom powder in the sugar syrup.
• To make malpuas, mash a banana in a mixing bowl, add all the remaining ingredients to it and mix thoroughly.
• Heat oil in a wide flat bottom pan. Pour a ladlefull of batter at a time to make a round disc like a pancake.
• Cook on slow to medium heat.
• Flip it and let it cook from the other side.
• When it is light brown from both the sides, its time to take it out from the oil.
• Drain the excess oil and immerse it in the sugar syrup.
• After a minute remove it from sugar syrup and arrange in a plate and garnish with chopped nuts.
• Malpuas can be served with rabri to.

This is on its way to CC- Festive Food

Stuffed Tomato Salad

Who wont love the salad full of flavors and packed with nutrients. This ia a great salad recipe which used fresh and hard tomatoes. Tomatoes, beans and fruits are full of nutrients and flavor. This is a simple and light salad which has delectable taste. 

Ingredients
Tomatoes
Boiled beans
Pomegranate seeds
Sliced Apples
Chat masala
Salt
Method

• For this salad choose firm tomatoes.  Put on a cutting board stem side down and cut a cap from it. Take out the pulp from inside. 
• Mix the beans, salt, chat masala and little tomato pulp.
• Reserve the left over tomato pulp for some other vegetable.
• Fill it in the tomato.

• Next layer is pomegranate.

• Now small pieces of apple and decorate it with few seeds of pomegranate.
• You can top it with Mint leaf too.
• Place it on the lettuce leaf.
• Ready to serve.

This platter goes to LGSS-Tomato to Anu's Healthy Kitchen.

LGSS-Tomato hosted by Anu's Healthy Kitchen

Hi Friends,
This month Anu from Anu's Healthy Kitchen is hosting LGSS with the theme Tomato. She has awesome recipes and some other wonderful events and a giveaway too. Please browse through her site and send your entries to  make the events successful.

LGSS is open for hosting by others too. If you want to host for a month, please leave me a comment with your Email-id or write me @events_showandtell@yahoo.com

Bumps and Bruises - Tips

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ost bruises that turn black and blue go away on their own, but you can speed the healing process-and reduce the swelling and bruising-with the Mayan remedy. Cut a lemon in half, and rub the pulpy side over the bruises once an hour for several hours. Avoid cut and broken skin.

Event Announcement - Microwave Easy Cooking

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m sure that most of you must be aware of Microwave Easy Cooking Event started be Srivalli and guest hosted by many blogger buddies. I'm happy to announce that this month I'm hosting Microwave Easy Cooking.

Please read the following rules before sending your entries. 

1.This time the event doesn't have any theme, that means any dish which you have cooked in microwave is accepted. Use of food processor or other gadgets is allowed but no stove top cooking please.

 2. You can send multiple entries. Your entries can be from your archives. All you need to do is repost it with a link to this announcement and orignal MEC post.

3 Using the logo is mandatory.

4 The entries should be vegetarian. No eggs allowed.

5 Non Bloggers need not to get upset. Email your recipe along with the picture. We will post it on your behalf and include it in the round up. Send me your entries @ events_showandtell@yahoo.com 

6 Please send me a pic not more than 400px

7 Last date to send your entries is 30 Nov. 

                                                      

Looking forward to all the wonderfull recipes.

7. Aloo Matar Paneer in MW

 

1. Apple Jam

2. Masala Peanut

8. Lemon rice

3. Potato and Yam Chat

Aloo Gobhi In MW

4. Blanching Almond in Microwave

9. Cashewnut Peda

10. Eggless Marble Cake

5.  Micro Mango Cake

6. Microwave Tomato Soup

11. Green Moong Dal MW

12. Store Curry Leaves MW

13. Make chilli Flakes MW