Potato-Quinoa Tikki

I got the idea of making this tikki after going through a post in www.foodily.com.  I know that making a tikki needs patience and I am not that good in making this one so far.  The post I saw was a Quinoa & beef patty.  I just took the idea of using quinoa in making tikki and used it here as per my whims and fancies. Here goes the recipe for making Quinoa-Potato Tikki.

Ingredients:

1. Cooked Quinoa - 1/2 cup
2. Medium sized potato - 1 (boil and mash it)
3. Onion - 1/4 cup finely chopped
4. Green peas - 1/4 cup ( I used frozen peas, cook it in microwave accordingly)
5. Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup finely chopped 
6. Salt to taste
7. Ajwain/omam - 1/2 tsp
8. Chilli powder - 1 tsp (acc to taste
9. Garam Masala powder - 1/2 tsp
10. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp (optional)
11. Maida/Corn flour - for coating.
12. Oil - 4 tbsp

    

    Quinoa-Potato Tikki
    

Instant Oats Idly

Instant Oats Idly

My dad got his green card last year and moved to USA mid last year.  He eats light dinner everyday and I try to make some light tiffin for him.  This instant oats idly is a recipe, I got from raks kitchen.  It came out pretty good and its very easy to make within half an hour. 

I am linking this oats idly to Priya's Healthy Diet - cooking with Whole grains event and this month it has been hosted by Nupur

Sweet Poli

There is a tradition in our family that we have to make this sweet poli for Bhogi festival.  I made this too and I blindly followed the recipe of Raks.  Visiting Raks Kitchen everyday is kinda ritual for me.

Black Gram Kachori / Karuppu Ulundhu Kachori

Again this is another recipe I borrowed from Priya's space. I always use this black gram while making Adai & Adai Kozhakattai. But this is absolutely new to me and it tasted very good. I am sending this post to Cooking with Seeds - Black Gram hosted by Shri of Tiffin Carrier Antic/que's, an event by Priya.

Nutella coffee Mug Cake - Microwave Version

I wanted to make this easy coffee mug cake a long time ago.  Recently Priya has posted the recipe for this cake. I just followed the same recipe and made this cake yesterday for my girls. The quantity she has mentioned was enough for both my little ones. I made it in two little mugs and they finished it pretty fast along with a dallop of ice cream on top it.

 

Here is the recipe:

1. All Purpose Flour - 4 tbsp
2. Oil -  3tbsp
3. Egg - 1
4. Nutella Hazelnut spread - 2 tbsp
5. Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
6. Sugar - 2 tbsp ( 4 tbsp in original recipe)
7. Milk - 4 tbsp

 Mix everything in a bowl, without any lumps. Fill Half of the coffee mug with the batter and Microwave it for 1 or 1 1/2 minutes  in high temperature.

 

I am sending this Nutella coffee mug cake for this month's Microwave cooking event, hosted by Priya, an event by Srivalli.

Reposting for Berries - Strawberry Event

I am reposting these two blog post for Vardhini 's Berries - Strawberry Event, an event by Anu.

Strawberry Muffin :-

 

StrawBerry Sandwich :-

Reposting for Vrat ka Khaana Event.

I am reposting my Adai Kozhakattai recipe for the Vrat ka Khanna Event by Mom Chef.

Boca Patty Burger

 This is a all time favorite burger of our family. All four us like this burger. We usually buy frozen boca patties from costco and use it. When I first came to US,  I really have no idea about sandwiches or burgers. My husband used to make these burgers before and happily agreed to teach me when I got interest in learning one. Here is how we make this burger.

Ingredients:-

1. Burger Bun - 1
2. Butter - to spread
3. Fat Free Mayo - 1 tsp (just enough to spread)
4. Tomato Ketchup -  enough to spread
5. Yellow Mustard - 1/2 tsp (my kids dont like this taste)
6. Cheese singles -1
7. Boca patty - 1
8. Tomato - couple of sliced pieces
9. Onion - thinly sliced couple of pieces
10. Lettuce - 3 leaves (optional)
11. Pickle pepper - 1 or 2 (optional)

Thaw the frozen patty for few  minutes before you cook them. Take a non-stick skillet and cook the patty, both sides in low flame. in the mean time, half toast the bun (optional), spread butter, mayo, ketchup and mustard, one by one and spread it evenly on both the buns. Arrange the vegetables, lettuce & pickle pepper (if you have one), cheese slice and wait for the patty to be done. when the patty is fully cooked, place it on one side and cover it with other half of the bun. Leave it for few seconds so that the cheese gets melted. Now boca patty burger is ready to serve.

This is my last entry for Srivalli's Sandwich Mela.

Strawberry Sandwich

If you love to eat strawberry, then you should be loving this sandwich. I came across this sandwich recipe while reading a magazine. Forgot the name of the author. But its from family circle magazine couple of years old edition..  One of my twin loves to eat strawberries in any form. After seeing that recipe, I wanted to try it with my girlie. She really liked it too.  Its one of the easiest recipe I have ever made and the taste was awesome...Here goes the recipe...



Ingredients:-

1. Whole wheat Bread Slices - 2
2. Butter - to Spread
3. Strawberries - 2 or 3 (depending upon the size)

Toast the bread to light brown. Cut the strawberries to small pieces. Spread the butter on the both the breads.  Keep the strawberry pieces on top of one and cover it with other bread.

I am sending this to Srivalli 's Sandwich Mela.

Reposting for Only Greens Event

I am reposting my Palak Pulav for Only - 'Greens' event hosting by Saraswathi, an event by Pari

Reposting for CMT-Dhall/Kadi/Sambar/Rasam

I am reposting the following recipe for Complete My Thali - Dhall/Kadi/Sambar/Rasam, this time Priya of Enveetu Kitchen is hosting, an event by Jagruti of Joy of Cooking.


Spinach Potato Dhall

Kadamba Sambar

Drumstick Dhall 

Drumstick Molagootal

Cumin Rasam

Lemon Rasam

Garbanzo Oats Vadai..

I got the idea of making these vadai after seeing Priya's post, Chickpea bread masal Vadai.  It came out pretty good. Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients:-

1. Garbanzo Beans - 1 cup
2. Instant oats - 1/4 cup
3. Green chillies - 3 (acc to taste)
4. Onion - 1 Medium sized (finely chopped)
5. Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp (chopped)
6. Salt to taste
7. Ajwain -  a pinch
8. Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
9. Corn flour - 2 tsp
10. Oil -  to deep fry

Soak garbanzo beans for four hours.  Pressure cook it. Let it cool. Grind it coarsely. Now add instant oats, salt, chopped onion, chillies, coriander leaves, corn flour, ajwain & fennel seeds and make it a soft dought. Sprinkle water if necessary.  Pre heat oil. Take required amount of dough to make one vada, flatten it and deep fry it till it becomes golden brown.

Vadais didn't come out well first. Then I added two teaspoons corn flour to the batter and it came out pretty good..

This recipe goes to T&T hosting by PJ, an event by Lakshmi

I replaced bread with oats and skipped garlic pods cos my kiddos are not excited about garlic.

Reposting Microwave Rava Kesari for Priya's MEC event..

I am reposting my Microwave Rava Kesari recipe for Priya's MEC-Sweet tooth event, originally created by Srivalli.

T&T from Priya's EasynTasty Recipes

I love to try recipes from Priya's blog. There are few I tried from her space. Here I am posting her Garlic Potatoes recipe which I tried from her place. I am sending this recipe to T&T hosted by PJ, an event by Lakshmi.

Garlic Potatoes

Reposting for Only-Chaat Event

I am reposting my Pav Bhaji recipe for Pari's 'Only' - Chaat Event.

Pav Bhaji

Reposting for BSI Paneer - Week 95

I am sending these three recipes to BSI event

Palak Paneer

Aloo Paneer and

Mixed Vegetable Dry curry with Paneer 

this week hosting by Ruchika - BSI Paneer - Week 95.

Reposting for Healing Food - Beetroot Event

Instead of updating the archived post I thought of resposting it and it works out easy for everyone to check out the recipe.

I am sending my simple Beetroot - Onion Curry & Beetroot Vadai
to Siri's Healing Food event, hosting by Priya.

Beetroot curry

Beetroot Vadai

Reposting for 'Only' Kids Delight

I am reposting my Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe for Pari's 'Only' Kids Delight Event.

Jhangri - My first attempt

Jhangri is a sweet I can eat all day long. When my MIL was in June, she made Jhangri and showed me how to do it and asked me to try putting with less quantity. I wanted to try it for a long time but because of some personal reasons, didn't get time to try it. But last week I was going through Rak's Jhangiri Recipe and got tempted so much.  Yesterday I made up my mind to try and luckily it came out really good. First three pieces were not so good cos I soaked it in the sugar syrup for a long time. It became soggy. But then I managed to find out the reason and finished the project!

I am sending this Jhangri recipe to I am sending this Poli recipe to Tried & Tasted Event - Raks Kitchen, this time Sowmya of Nivedhanam is hosting, an event by Kitchen Chronicles by Lakshmi Venkatesh.

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Neiappam

I made these neiappams for today's evening tiffin. My patti used to be an expert in making neiappams. She had her iron appakaaral. I used non-stick appakaaral for making this neiappam. This time I followed Aparna's Neiyappam recipe,  instead of my patti's. Both were almost same except for the fact that my patti usually add couple of teaspoons of ghee to the appam batter. Aparna's My Diverse Kitchen blog has been chosen for this month's T&T event by Srivalli, initally started by   Zlamushka, currently taken over by Lakshmi.