Thursday, April 1, 2010

Dim Dal Fry

This one's one of my favourites, and my mil likes it a lot too..


Pressure cook 1 cup of whole moong dal, with a pinch of turmeric.
In a vessel, heat some ghee. For tempering add garlic, ginger, jeera, hing, red chillies, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes and coriander powder. Add the dal, enough water and bring to boil. Finally add salt, lemon juice / amchur to taste (optional), and chopped coriander leaves.
Enjoy
-Naina

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Gajar Halwa!

Just a pic of some lovely Gajar Halwa made at home (by mom in law) a while ago!



Enjoy
-Naina

Monday, March 29, 2010

Ram Navmi Offerings

The Prayer Arrangement -

The Goddess -

The Offering!!
This has puris, curd, medu wada, bhajiyas (made of soaked and ground chana dal), whole soaked chanas, atte ka halwa, and some deep fried sweet made of wheat flour
:)

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Mushroom Starters



This is one of my favorite.I had tried it in a nice italian restaurant and tried preparing at home


Its very easy and quick to prepare.

Ingredients
Button Mushrooms
Cheese
Olive Oil
Oregano
Basil leaves


Clean the mushrooms and remove its stem/stipe.
Take a pan and roast it on olive oil for not more than 1 minute and add oregano on it.

Remove it from the flame and stuff cheese inside it.Roast in Microwave till cheese melts..It looks like this:)



Decorate with basil leaf and serve hot

Bon Appetit
Ash
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