PIZZA -II

Click here for pizza recipe, everything is same as previous pizza but this time I used 1 cup of Marinara sauce instead of tomato sauce and chilly sauce.

SALAD

As I said earlier, me & my DH, we are raw veggie lovers. I make salad almost everyday. A bowl of salad is what I eat in the afternoon sometimes for lunch! I love salad anytime!


Ingredients:-

Broccoli
Cucumber
Tomato
Red Onion
Lettuce
Dried Prunes
Dried Apricot
Raisins
Mayo
White Vinegar
Ranch salad dresser
Cheese (optional)
Salt to taste

Procedure:-

• Slice all the above said veggies as much quantity as you want.
• Add required amount of mayo, ranch salad dresser and 1 tsp white vinegar.
• Add dried fruits like prunes, apricots, raisins etc.
• Add a pinch of salt, mix it well. Have it fresh.

BANANA WALNUT CAKE

Usually I used to bake cake by using ready mix, this time thought of making it from scratch. Its takes very less time, preparation time is hardly 10 minutes, baking time is 30 minutes. Lets get started!


To make 8" cake

Ingredients:-

All purpose flour- 1 1/4 cup
Banana (ripe & mashed)- 2 nos. medium
Softened Butter- 1/4 cup
Vanilla Extract- 1 tsp
Packed brown sugar- 1 cup
Eggs- 2 nos.
Baking Powder- 1 tsp
Salt- 1/2 tsp
Baking soda- 1/2 tsp
Milk- 3/4 cup
Chopped walnuts- 1/2 cup

Procedure:-

• In a bowl, mix softened butter, vanilla extract and packed brown sugar. Stir it until fluffy.
• Add eggs, baking soda, salt, baking powder and all purpose flour.
• Now add milk and finely mashed ripe bananas.
• Beat the mixture for about 5 minutes until it becomes soft and fluffy.
• Lastly, add chopped walnuts.
• Pour the batter to a greased and lightly floured 8" cake pan.
• Preheat oven at 350 degree F, place the pan in oven.
• Bake it for 30 minutes. Poke a knife to see whether its baked or not. If knife comes out clean, then its baked properly.
• Take out from oven and allow it to cool for 10 minutes.

DUMROOT

Few days before halloween we had gone for apple picking, in the same farm pumpkin patch was there too, got to see many sorts of pumpkin smallest- biggest, different shapes, colors.......it was fun! After seeing all those orange colored eye catching pumpkins i picked one thinking of making Pie which Americans prepare during halloween. But somehow cld not do it ...poor pumpkin was laying in the kitchen corner for many days, rather i shd say months :) Thank God pumpkin won't perish easily.....finally ended up in making "Dumroot".

Ingredients:-

Grated pumpkin- 3 cups

Milk- 2 cups

Sugar- 1 cup or as required

Cardmom pwdr- 1/2 tsp

Clarified butter/ghee- 4 tbsp

Cashew, raisin, almond pcs- 2 tbsp

Procedure:-

• Heat clarified butter/ghee in a pan and fry cashew, almond, raisins, keep aside.
• Sqeeze and take out the water from grated pumpkin as much as possible.
• In remaining ghee, fry grated pumpkin for 10 minutes.
• Mean while, keep milk for boiling on another stove, boil till milk reduces to a cup.
• After frying grated pumpkin, add milk and keep stirring till all the milk evaporates.
• Now add sugar, cardmom powder. Stir till halwa leaves sides and bottom of pan.
• Turn off the heat. Add fried cashew, almond and raisins.
• Serve hot/chilled.

VEGGIE SUB

Subway!!!!! its one of my fav eatout in US. Me and my DH we both like veggie sub coz we are raw vegetable lovers! U can see in the picture, how veggies are oozing out ;) One foot long fills our stomach :) Its not only tasty, healthy and nutritious too. I got a footlong Italian wheat bread and made veggie sub!

Ingredients:-

Italian foot long bread- 1 no.

Red onion- 8 pcs sliced

Tomato- 8-10 pcs sliced

Lettuce- 1 cup chopped

Cucumber- 8 pcs sliced

Bell pepper- 8 pcs sliced

Mayo-4 tbsp

Ranch salad dresser- 2 tbsp

Shredded cheese- 1/2 cup

Procedure:-

• Cut the bread into 2 equal parts. And slit each part lengthwise.
• Apply mayo, place all the veggies, sprinkle shredded cheese, squeeze salad dresser as shown in picture.
• Heat it in microwave for 60 seconds.
• Sprinkle salt and pepper.
• Relish yummy veggie sub!!!!!!

BHINDI MASALA

Ingredients:-

Okra/ Bhindi- 1 lb
Chopped onion- 1 cup
Chopped tomato-1 cup
Ginger paste- 1 tsp
Garlic paste- 1 tsp
Coriander leaves- a fistful
Green chillies- 2 nos.
Red chilli pwdr- 1 tsp
Garam masala pwdr- 1 tsp
Turmeric pwdr- 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder- 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 1tbsp

Procedure:-

• Cut okra, shallow fry them and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a wok, saute green chillies, ginger-garlic paste, onion. and tomato accordingly.
• Stir in all the powders and salt.
• Add fried okra, cook for 5-6 minutes, remove from heat.
• Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves.
• Serve with chapathi/roti.

CHOCO-CHIP COOKIES

Its baking season in US now, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year all the festive occassions are in line. Last week when I went for Grocery, there was no space to walk near "Baking Needs" aisle, everything was on sale, people were just grabbing cart full........ me too bought few things like brown sugar, choco-chips, vanilla extract, all purpose flour etc. without thinking what to make with them. After coming home saw a cookie recipe on choco-chips packet and tried it. Trust me, cookies came out very well, yum....yum....

Ingredients:-

All purpose flour- 2 & 1/4 cup

Packed light brown sugar- 3/4 cup

Granulated sugar- 3/4 cup

Vanilla extract- 1 tsp

Baking soda- 1 tsp

Salt -1/2 tsp

Eggs- 2 nos.

Softened butter - 1 cup(1/2 Lb)

Semi-sweet chocolate chips- 2 cups

Procedure:-

• Preheat oven to 375 degree F.
• Beat butter, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla extract together.
• Slowly add all purpose flour, salt and baking soda, stir well.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Drop this mix on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.
• Remove from cookie sheet after cooling slightly.
• Cookies are ready to eat!

BISI BELE BATH

Ingredients:-

Rice- 1 cup
Toor dal/ split pigeon peas- 1 cup
Water - 6 cups (1:3) for cooking
Chopped onion- 1cup
Cubed tomato- 1 cup
Chopped Beans- 1 cup
Green peas- 3/4 cup
Chopped Carrot-1 cup
chopped Capsicum -1 cup (optional)
Tamarind juice- 1 tbsp
Oil to saute
Salt to taste

For Masala:-
Coriander seeds/dhaniya- 1tbsp
Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
Cinnamon- 1"
Cloves- 2 nos.
Urad dal/ black gram- 1 tbsp
Chana dal/ bengal gram- 1 tbsp
Grated Dry coconut- 2 tbsp
Red chilli pwdr- 2 tsp

Procedure:-

• Pressure cook rice, toor dal and all the veggies together.
• Fry all the ingredients listed in masala list, make powder.
• Keep cooked rice and veggies on medium flame and stir in masala powder.
• Add tamarind juice and salt.
• Bring it to boil. Remove from heat.
• Serve hot with ghee, Chips/ Sandige.