Semiya/ vermicelli - 1 1/2 cups
Thick Curd - 1 cup
Milk - 2 tbsp
Mustard - 1 tsp
Broken urad dal - 1 tsp
Cashews - 6
Curry leaves
Finely chopped onions - 1/4 cup (optional)
Finely chopped green chillies - 2
Chopped Coriander leaves
Oil
Salt
Who doesn't love curd? Except me who doesn't like it much on the chats, especially the dahi puri. But I really love this one. This can be whipped up in 2 minutes and can be called as yogurt spaghetti pasta or thayir semiya. ;) Ingredients: Semiya/ vermicelli - 1 1/2 cups Thick Curd - 1 cup Milk - 2 tbsp Mustard - 1 tsp Broken urad dal - 1 tsp Cashews - 6 Curry leaves Finely chopped onions - 1/4 cup (optional) Finely chopped green chillies - 2 Chopped Coriander leaves Oil Salt
0 Comments
This is a very simple recipe but serves as a yummy snack with your tea, or a crunchy spicy side for your booze ;) We always loved masala cashews from the famous sweet stalls in India. Be it pepper or chilli, mint or curry leaves... They go together well with Cashews.
Keep in my mind the high calories though, that can be burnt out by an hour workout! And skyrocketing price of cashews! But don worry, nothing matters in front of this devilled cashews. Off to the simplest and the tastiest recipe ever... I remember whenever we head for North India trips... we go in search of local dhabas and have the stuffed parathas roadside. They are yummy apart from the fact that they are almost deep fried in oil while cooking.
Nevertheless we simply love stuffed parathas made at home too with less oil/ghee. They are absolutely yummy with or without any side dish. Its quite easy to make too. I love aalu paratha and have tried it many times. This time I wanted to try something healthy and so picked up raddish and gobi. I know how your face turns when you hear raddish. It's smelly only when you grate it, once you cook it as i say.. there is absolutely no smell of raddish. People would never find what was the stuffing inside.
Every weekend I have to make some snack or the other for Sandy... He loves starters/appetizers than any main food. So this week when i was deciding what to make, I saw the bread pack lying lifeless on my kitchen counter. After using the bread for breakfast on one day, nobody likes to have bread again in our house!! So I was thinking of a way to finish up my breads and landed in this yummy recipe. :)
Some people use mashed potatoes also with other veggies, but i wanted to make it in a jiffy without pre-preparation. So it's a good choice for any unplanned snack option. Ok.. now lets move on to the recipe: Long back I remember seeing a recipe on TV by Sanjeev Kapoor... starter recipe with Baby Corns!! I dont like much of baby corns, because I find them not so absorbing of the masala or doesnt have any taste and its sweet too! But my hubby likes them... :) I wanted to make a starter or an evening snack out of baby corns and this was the apt recipe for the occasion.
This is my Husband's all time favorite Indo-Chinese dish, Vegetable Hakka Noodles!! Usually my MIL makes it with Maggi noodles, he loves it a lot.... but I made the same with Wheat/ Hakka Noodles to make it a bit more healthy. Apart from this I have added lot of crunchy veggies and olive oil - A really healthy Noodles Recipe!!
Day by day I have started to feel the importance of our age old food habits and their medicinal benefits. We have totally forgotten about our grandmom's home remedies and we are heading to the Hospital everytime ending up having a big hole in our pockets!! Someday I would want to make a collection of these age old Indian Ayurveda and Vedic remedies to common ailments and even modern diseases. The ancient scripts which mention these remedies are not less than 1000 years old...!!!! They are the real jackpot we should aim for!!
So How many of us have heard about Navadhaniyam (Tamil word) or the Nine Cereals (Nava means Nine and Dhanya means grains)? It is mentioned in the ancient vedas, and is still used in India for all auspicious rituals. But we do not know the real importance of these cereals, it was supposed to be used as our staple food for leading a healthy life. We are either having more rice or wheat in India now... South indians started having a lot of Wheat thinking it is better than having carbohydrates in Rice. But that's not true!! Wheat has gluten (Glue-like property) which is hard to digest. Another point Wheat will never suit South Indians... Having lots of wheat will create heat inside the body, which is only required to those who live in extremely cold places. And we have also started having a lot of Maida/flour nowadays in the form of Pizza, Paratha, Bread, etc. We have totally forgotten about the other healthy options!! What are the Nine Differet Grains or Cereals? Pigeon Peas (Toor dal/Thuvarai) Wheat Horse Gram (Kollu) Green Gram (Moong Dal) Paddy/Rice White Beans (White rajma/Avarai kai) Black Sesame (Til/Ellu) Chickpeas (Channa/Konda kadalai) Black gram (Urad dal/ Ulundu) Auspicious Significance of the Nine Grains: Each of these grains represents one of the nine planets, and hence they are used in performing Hindu rituals like Grahapravesham or House Warming Pooja, Navaratri Pooja, etc. Suriyan (Sun) – Wheat Chandiran (Moon) - Paddy/Rice Chevvai (Mars) - Tuvarai (Toor) Bhudhan (Mercury) - Greengram (Moong) Guru (Jupitor) - Chickpeas (Channa) Sukiran (Venus) - White Beans (White Rajma or Motchai or Avarai seeds) Sani(Saturn) - Black Sesame (Til) Rahu – Black gram (Ulundu or Urad) Kethu – Horse gram (Kollu) |
About KaviKavi is a foodie and loves to cook something new everyday, else she would get bored. She takes inspiration from many food bloggers. Her tried and tested recepies are shared here to inspire you. Happy Cooking!! Archives
September 2019
Categories
All
Guest Posts |