Cucumber and Coriander Health Drink

Cucumber and Coriander Health Drink
Ingredients
1/2 Cucumber or 1 small Cucumber cut into pieces
1 tbsp Coriander Leaves
1/2 tsp Coriander seeds
1/2 tsp Dry Wheat Grass powder (Optional)
1 tbsp Lime juice
Rock Salt to taste
1/4 tsp Pepper powder

Method
Take a blender add cucumber, coriander leaves, lime juice, coriander seeds, wheat grass powder ( Optional ) and rock salt. Add 1/2 cup water and blend it. Moist the rim of the glass with some juice.  Apply pepper powder on the rim. Pour in the juice in the glass. Garnish with coriander leaves and cucumber stick.

Drink it in the morning  an empty stomach. It detoxifies, reduces acidity and helps in digestion, cools your body during summer, antioxidant, reduces the risk of cancer, helps in weight reduction, protects your heart if drank every day.

Egg Ghee Roast

Egg Ghee Roast
It is a very famous egg dish from Mangalore.
Easy to make, it is completely cooked in ghee.

For the Ghee Roast Wet Masala
Ingredients
2 Kashmiri chillies
2 Green Chillies
8 Garlic cloves
1 small piece Ginger
1/2 tsp Tumeric powder
6 Whole peppercorns
2 Cloves
1 small Cinnamon sticks
1 tsp Coriander seeds
1 tsp Cumin seeds
1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds
1 tbsp Tamarind pulp

Method
Grind all the above ingredients into paste, add little water while grinding.  

For the Ghee Roast
Ingredients
6 Hard Boiled Eggs
1 big Size Onions finely chopped
Few Curry leaves
4 tbsp Ghee
Salt to taste
Ghee Roast Wet Masala
Few Coriander leaves chopped to Garnish 

Method
Take a pan, add ghee; add onions and  curry leaves. Fry the chopped onions till brown. Add the paste. Sauté it for 2 minutes. Add 1/4 cup water. Simmer for few . Add the eggs. Stir it. Cook the eggs in the masala till the eggs are well coated with the masala. Garnish it with coriander leaves.  Serve hot.

Huli Avalakki / Spicy and Sour Flat Beaten Rice

Huli Avalakki / Spicy and Sour Flat Beaten Rice
The other day I was at my friend's place... I had this lovely dish. Could not satisfy my taste buds... so made it today.  This is a Mangalorean recipe.

For Grinding
1/4 cup Grated Coconut or Desiccated Coconut
1 tbsp Jaggery
1/2 Mustard seeds
1/4 tsp Cumin seeds
2 Dry Red Chillies
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt to taste

Method
Make a paste of the above ingredients.

To make Huli Avalakki
Ingredients
3 cups Beaten Rice / Poha washed
Few Curry leaves
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
1/4 tsp split Black lentil / Urid Dal
Few split Bengal Gram / Chana dal
Few Penuts
1 Dry chill
Pinch of Asafoetida
Wet paste
1 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp  Tamarind juice
Few Coriander leaves chopped

Method
Heat the pan and add oil in it. Add red chilli, mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal, peanut and  curry leaves in to it. When it starts spluttering, add the asafoetida. Add Tamarind paste and 1/4 cup water. Simmer for a minute, add the paste. Simmer for another few minutes. Add the poha. Mix it well. Sprinkle coriander leaves. Serve it hot.

Halloween Pumpkin Bread

Halloween Pumpkin Bread 

Ingredients 

5 cups All Pupose Flour 

1 cup Pumpkin Purée 

1/2 tsp Salt 

Pinch of Nutmeg Powder

Pinch of Cinnamon powder 

1/2 cup Lukewarm Milk

1/4 cup Sugar powder or more as per the sweetness required 

1 tbsp of Dry Yeast 

3 tbsp Melted Butter

Few Black Raisins 

Method 

In a mixing bowl, combine milk, 2 tbsp of powder sugar and yeast. Let it rise.then stir in Pumpkin purée and 2 tbsp of butter. In another bowl mix in the remaining dry powder ingredients, flour and salt. Now slowly combine the liquid and the dry ingredients in small batches and mix it well before adding in the next batch. If required add in more milk to get a soft  dough. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. To check, take a portion of the dough, stretch, the dough will stretch like elastic. Then the kneading is done. In a large bowl, place the dough and coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size. Punch the dough. Now shape the bread dough into any Halloween character like ghost, mummy or spider, finger nail, graveyard, vampire. Use the raisins to make eyes. Spray water to avoid drying. Let it rise for 40 minutes.  Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes at 180 degrees Celcius, or until golden brown.

    

Kumro Aloor Chechki ar Trikona Porotha Pumpkin and Potatao Stir fry with Triangle Paratha

Kumro Aloor Chechki ar Trikona Porotha
Pumpkin and Potatao Stir fry with Triangle Paratha 

Chechki in Bengali is stir frying of vegetables which is had with Luchi
(Puri), Paratha or Rice. There are many types of vegetables used to make  chechkis... Like Kumro Aloo, Patol (Pointed Gourd) Aloo, Pholkopi Aloo or Aloo which are had mostly with Luchis and Paratha for breakfast or dinner. Muloor (Radish) Chechki, Badakopir (Cabbage) Chechki or Kacha Peper (Raw Papaya) Chechki is made differently and usually is served for lunch with rice.

Kumro Aloor Chechki
Ingredients
2 cups of Pumpkin with skin cut lengthwise into thin strips
3 medium size Potatoes peeled and cut lengthwise into thin strips as Pumpkin
3 Green Chillies Slit
1/2 tsp Nigella Seeds
1/4 tsp  Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 tbsp Mustard oil

Method
Heat mustard oil in a wok. Add the chillies and the Nigella seeds, let it crackle. Add the potatoes, stir fry it for 2 minutes on a medium high flame. Add the pumpkins, salt and turmeric powder. Stir fry it for 3 minutes. Sprinkle little water once or twice in between the cooking, cover and cook stirring it occasionally till vegetables are tender. Serve with hot Paratha or Luchi

Trikona Paratha
Parathas are made from All Purpose flour and fried in ghee or oil.
Ingredients
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
Salt to taste
4 tbsp of Melted Ghee

Method
In a mixing bowl, add All purpose flour, wheat flour and salt. Mix it. Add 1/2 tbsp ghee. Mix it, add water as per required to knead a semi soft dough. Knead the dough for 5 minutes. Cover and keep for 30 minutes. Divide the dough in to lemon size equal portions. Take a portion roll the dough. Brush little ghee. Fold it into half. Again brush little ghee, fold it into a triangle. Sprinkle little flour and roll the dough out into a big triangle. Take  skillet, let it heat. Add the rolled triangle. Cook it from both the sides for a minute each. Brush ghee on both the sides, and cook till brown.