Mango Salsa | Mango Salad Recipe |Fresh Mango Salad

One of the easiest salad that i have prepared ! Mango Season  so cannot miss this salad ! One of the healthiest salad too  ! The color of this salad may change due to Mango color ! I used little yellow mango ! so the color is semi dull ! 

When u use orange color mango , u love the beauty of color ! So time to try this salad ! GO ON !!!! its really refreshing salad ! 

Drum stick Leaves curry | Murungakeerai poriyal | Accompaniments for Rice

My mother generally wont cook this leaves as curry , But she has used this leaves for Adai which is always a super duper combo and while melting the ghee she finally add this leaves , tasting this with ghee is tasty and yummy ! 

I tasted this curry through my school friends and college friends , i loved it very much ! well go with Sambhar sadam ! So i tried this curry many times after my marriage only !  i cooked this leaves as sambhar ,kootu with plantain flower and curry ! But i naturally fall in love with this curry ! 

Because its very simple and yet tasty , you can even mix with the Hot rice, add a tsp of ghee and mix well ! you can smell the flavor so as taste ! Coming to health benefits ! its apt curry for both men and women ! 


Try my other soup Drumstick soup 

source :http://www.vegrecipes4u.com/health-benefits-of-drumstick.html
According to the Trees for Life organization, “ounce-for-ounce, Moringa leaves contain more Vitamin A than carrots, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, more Vitamin C than oranges, and more potassium than bananas,” and that the protein quality of Moringa leaves rivals that of milk and eggs. 

Because of the high calcium, iron, and vitamins, drumstick leaves can be used as a wonderful tonic for infant and growing kids and teens to promote strong and healthy bones and for purifying the bloodstream. To prepare the tonic, drumstick leaves should be ground with water, filtered, and mixed with milk.

Drumstick-leaf juice is also very beneficial for pregnant women as it can help them overcome sluggishness of the uterus, ease delivery, and reduce post-delivery complications. In India, drumstick leaves are boiled in water and salt, the water is drained, and the leaves are served with ghee (clarified butter) to lactating mothers to increase breast milk.

Drumstick leaves are very useful in treating wheezing, asthma, bronchitis, and tuberculosis. A soup prepared by boiling a handful of leaves in 3/4 cup water for 5 minutes and cooled is served to those with respiratory problems. A little salt, pepper, and lime juice can be added to this soup.

Drumstick has antibacterial properties and as such is very useful in preventing infections such as those of the throat, chest, and skin. Drumstick soup can be prepared from the leaves, flowers, and pods and used for this purpose as an antibiotic. Dried and powdered bark of the drumstick root can also be used for fungal skin infections.

Kadai Paneer Gravy | Restaurant Style Kadai paneer Gravy

Remember my last post about how to make paneer? Yeah thats my long time wish to prepare my own paneer ! anything from scratch and home made is always great and tasty ! Though i tasted many paneer varieties at restaurant i have tried only few !

Mutter paneer , paneer butter masala and few more are my standard gravys and recipes , Though i tasted the kadai paneer gravy at restaurant i have not tried at home ! I like paneer items to have it with Rice instead of Rotis ! it well accompany the rice items !

So last week i tried kadai paneer it was super duper tasty ! I took all with hot rice :) believe me guys it wont required any side dish ! just like that u can have !

Raw mango Pickle | Raw Mango Thokkku

Mango Season ! one of the most awaited season in a year ! Yes King of fruit and queen in pickles ! i am a big fan of this fruits and raw mango ! such a tasty one how every cook ! take it as a mango sambhar, mango pachadi or mango instant pickle or this thokku ! The level itself is different !

Coming to this recipe ! this is one of the tastiest Pickle in Raw mango instant version ! Though i like the instant version more ! this one is easy and just spread the thokku in chapathi or Dosai have a bite ! u can feel the divine !

Home Made Pizza | Veg Pizza with cheese toppings

I never knew i can prepare pizza ! Generally i am not pizza addict person ! where as i love garlic bread from domino's ! just because the pizza is more calorie i generally avoid it ! once in a while i can have it ! I tasted my first pizza in my college days where sister husband got it for me ! though it is oke i don't like much !

This pizza is a part of home bakers challenge for april month the page is initated by priya and host for this month is divya ! 

Red Capsicum Chutney | Side dish for Idly /Dosai

 Chutneys are part of day to day life ! i tried many chutneys infact i am quiet good in chutneys :) i have a recipe by using 2 ingredient , 3 ingredients :) makes your work very easy , I wll update soon ! Coming to this Recipe, its easy to prepare and tasty and spicy :)

spicyness comes from the Red chilly that we add not from the capsicum so u can very well use this veggies ! it has lot of good nutrition value , i tried capsicum stir fried and used this veggies for the puloa and kadai vegetable ! Never tried this as chutney ! Every day we need chutney or sambhar so for a change i tried :) its spicy tasty and hot !

Torcettini di SaintVincent

April month challenge in We knead to bake group is yeasted cookies ! Generally our challenge is to bake a bread ! But since this cookies is having yeast :) Aparna suggested this recipe ! one of the easiest recipe so far ! baked and enjoyed having with my VIVA 

Courtesty - Aparna - My Diverse Kitchen

Coming to the recipe Torcettini are made from yeasted dough and have a somewhat bread-like texture on the inside so I thought they qualified to be baked in this group. These are the first yeasted biscuits/ cookies I have ever baked and I thought it would be a nice change from bread, just this once.

Torcettini are smaller versions of Torcetti (meaning small twists), and these pear/ teardrop shaped twists are made of a dough of flour, yeast and butter which are shaped and then rolled in sugar before being baked. These biscuits/ cookies are synonymous with the town of Saint Vincent in Valle d'Aosta, a small mountainous region in North-Western Italy, even though they’re well known throughout the Piedmont region as well.

Torcettini di Saint Vincent

(Adpated from A Baker’s Tour by Nick Malgieri) 

Home Made Paneer | How to prepare Paneer ?

Any thing home made is always tasty ! take it as Sambhar powder , Idly dosai Batter , Rasam powder , home made sprouts , Home made pizza ! Because we always take more care for our family and ourself !We give more attention if start some thing from scratch ! Making paneer is easy one :) only when u pay attention and right measurement ! 

I generally get hatsun paneer which is super duper tasty ! so very rarely i prepare paneer at home ! But once u know how to get the soft and tasty paneer in home ,u never leave it ! u tend to prepare it often !  

Idly Fry | Mumbai Special |Easy Morning Breakfast |Mumbai Street Food

Very Rarely i ordered Idly Fry as i tasted idly a lot in my house itself after my marriage ! couple of times i tasted the idly fry not much ! rather i love idly upma which mostly they prepare using the left overs But me prepare idly and do the upma ! i update my version later !

Coming to this recipe very easy and handy first of all it wont required any side dish the dish itself is enough to taste ! i had a 3 days short trip to mumbai ! where i went to VT station to taste the authentic Mysore masala dosai  remember my post? there i have seen  a person preparing this idly fry using the same pav bhaji masala that he used for the dosai ! i didnt ask the recipe ! because by seeing u know what he does !

I tried the same at home ! it was much satisfying recipe and easy one and definitely different taste ! So grab your idly and try it wll take less than 5 minutes !

Ingredients:

Idly - 3 nos
Oil - 1tbsp + 1tsp
pav bhajji powder  - 1tbsp (adjust according to the taste suits ur family)
mustard seeds - 1 tsp
green chilly - 2 medium size finely chopped
Salt -as required

Method:

Heat the pan and add the oil once heat add the mustard seeds and green chilly once cracked add the chopped idly saute for a minute . Then add the pav bhajii powder and adjust salt !

saute till it turns crispy and soft ! if needed add a tsp of oil !

serve hot , does not required any side dish !

Note:

• If u want garnish with coriander or curry leaves
• Adding garlic and onion  is optional !
• Infact u can prepare the idly day before and freeze it and use it in the next day morning ! 

Mango Pachadi | Mango sweet Pachadi | Mango recipes | Manga Pachadi

Mango Sweet Pachadi  most of the south indian family prepares this for New year Festival ! finally we add some Veppambu(neem flower) to taste the sweet and bitter on that festival days to understand life has got sweet and bitter :)
From my child hood once mango season starts i ask amma to prepare two items it is pickle thats instant version which i uploaded last year in my blog another one is a sweet pachadi version ! this is defintely a finger licking recipe ! kids favourite !

You can spread this sweet pachadi between two bread and have a bite :) its divine !