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Feb21

Carrot Rice/ Carrot Pulav / How to make Carrot Rice

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Carrot is one of the vegetable which kids love to eat. When it comes for eating rice, they make lot of fuss. Considering they getting leaned towards carrot thought of preparing carrot rice or Pulav. This would be a perfect food for lunch box, and thus caters the need of kids and helps moms to cook a healthy food for their kids. Let us see how to prepare this carrot rice…

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Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao

Ingredients:

  • Grated Carrot – 1 cup
  • Steamed Rice – 2 cups
  • Coconut Oil – 2 tbsp
  • Green Chilli – 1 no
  • Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp
  • Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
  • Garlic – 6 pods
  • Garam Masala – 1tbsp
  • Cashew Nuts – 10 nos
  • Salt to taste
Making of Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao –

Preparation
  • Finely chop the garlic into pieces and slit the green chillies to two equal halves.
  • Heat a Kadai and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves and wait until they crackle
  • Add cashew nuts, green chilli, finely chopped garlic and cook for a min.
  • Add the grated carrot, garam masala, salt and cook until they golden yellow in color.
  • Add the steamed rice, stir it well and cook for few mins or until the rice becomes dry.
  • Remove from fire.
Spices getting sauted
with green chillies and cashewnuts
with grated carrot
with garam masala and salt
getting cooked
with Rice
Mixing rice and carrot
Carrot Rice / Carrot Pulao

Serve hot with onion raita or any veg fry. I have served it with spicy green peas fry – Stay tuned for the recipe.

 

Feb13

Nachos Chips / Home-made Nachos Chips / Nacho Chips

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Nachos are a snack food from Mexico, and now been popular among all parts of the world. Nachos are served as starter with a layer beans, veggies, non-veg with a variety of dips. Not only its me but my family like nachos to the core, and this was one long wait to try recipe in my list and finally done today.

Nachos was very easy, simple and consumes very little time to prepare with the combination of Maize flour, maida/apf and salt. No one would say no to this Nachos chips, as this goes out well as munch even with plain coffee or tea. Let me share the recipe…

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Nachos Chips / Home-made Nachos Chips

Ingredients:

  • Maize Flour / Corn Meal – 1 cup
  • Maida / All-purpose flour – ¾ cup
  • Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
  • Carom (ajwain/omam) or Oregano – ½ tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying

Making of Nachos / Nacho chips –

Preparation:

  • In a wide mouth bowl, take corn meal, maida/all-purpose flour, red chilli powder, carom seeds and salt all together.
  • Mix it well.
  • Pour water little by little and start kneading the flour and roll out to a dough.
  • Take a small portion of the dough, dust the working space, flatten the dough and cut them to the right shape (check out the video).
  • Meanwhile heat the oil in a kadai, gently drop the nacho dough one by one and continue cooking.
  • Cook only in medium flame (otherwise it would turn out to dark brown in color).
  • Flip the sides, cook on both sides until they start turning golden brown.
  • Drain the oil and remove them from fire.
Pouring water to all the dry ingredients
Dough ready
About to roll
Rolled out
Getting into shapes
Getting prickes with fork
Nachos ready to fry
Getting fried
Nachos Chips / Home-made Nachos Chips

Store it an air-tight container once it reaches the room temperature. Stays fresh for a week time.

 

Aug5

Eggless Crepes with Caramelized Apple and Pear

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Crepes was one of my favorite for almost 9 years, when I was there in U.K, I use to get a pack of crepes filled with chocolate syrup and munch most of the time.

Recently when I had crepes along with ice cream, thought why not to prepare crepes at home. Today was the right day for this preparation, as it was Thursday, so it’s Eggless Crepes. How come a crepe without filling and so here comes my caramelized apple, pear with organic coconut sugar by LYVA.

A perfect after school snacks, my kids loved it to the core. Not only my kids even had I loved it to the core. The Softness of the crepes and apple along with the crunchiness of the pear made the dish heavenly. Let me share the recipe…

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Eggless Crepes with Caramalized Apple and Pear
Eggless Crepes with Caramalized Apple and Pear

Ingredients:

  • For Crepes –
    •    Milk – ½ cup
    •    Water – 2/3 cup
    •    Butter (melted) – ¼ cup
    •    Vanilla – 2 tbsp
    •    All-purpose flour/Maida – 1 cup
    •    Sugar – 2 tbsp
    •    Salt – ¼ tsp
    •    Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp
  • For caramelized apple and pear –
    •    Apple – 1 no
    •    Pear – 1 no
    •    Organic Brown sugar – 1 tbsp
    •    Butter – 1 ½ tsp
    •    Chocolate syrup or Hershey’s syrup – 1 tbsp.
Wet ingredients all together
With all-purpose flour
Batter ready
Getting cooked
Butter, apple, pear and organic LYVA Coconut sugar
Getting caramelized
Almost Ready
Eggless Crepes with Caramalized Apple and Pear
Eggless Crepes with Caramalized Apple and Pear

Preparation:

  • For Crepes –
    •    In a bowl, pour milk, water, melted butter, vanilla essence, vegetable oil and mix well.
    •    Add sugar, salt and mix well.
    •    Add all-purpose flour little by little and continue stirring, be sure no lumps are formed.
    •    Heat a tawa, grease it with butter, pour a spoonful of batter in the center of the tawa and swirl it over the tawa.
    •   Cook in medium flame for 5 mins or until starts turning golden brown, swap the side and cook for 2 mins.
    •   Remove from fire.
  • For Caramelized apple and pear –
    •    Peel, de-seed and finely chop the apple and pear.
    •    Heat a tsp of butter in a pan, add the apple, pear along with organic sugar, cinnamon powder and cook until the apple becomes soft or until they get caramelized.
    •    Remove from fire.
  • Stuffing –
    •    Keep the caramelized apple and pear in the center of the crepes and roll it.
    •    Drizzle chocolate syrup and organic sugar over them and serve hot.

Note: This is the recipe for basic crepe, you can prepare fillings of your own and stuff them.

Making of Eggless Crepe with Caramelized Apple and Pear –