Mine Strone Soup

Minestrone soup 🍲 a hearty Italian vegetable soup made with skewed tomatoes , veggies, kidney beans  and pasta .

This minestrone recipe embraces the variety of vegetables available year-round.

Recipe:

• 1 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil,
• 2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
• 2 medium ribs celery, chopped
• 2 skewed tomatoes
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• 2 cups chopped seasonal vegetables (yellow squash, zucchini, butternut squash, green mushrooms)
• 2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced
• ½ teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 Basil leaves
• Parmesan cheese freshly grated
• 2 cups vegetable broth
• 1cups water
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 2 bay leaves
• Pinch of red pepper flakes
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup whole grain elbow or small shell pasta
• 1 cup soaked and boiled rajma

Method :

1.Warm olive oil in a pan and add garlic cloves

2. Add chopped veggies fry a min.

3. Add skewer tomatoes and tomato paste. Add red chili flakes salt and pepper.

4. Add boiled Kidney beans and boiled pasta

5. Boil everything together .

6. Add grated parmesan cheese and basil leaves before serving

Healthy Indian DIET

Healthy Indian diet ! Power of Indian tradition foods and its many health benefits. Can’t say I am on diet at all right?

Menu:

Pineapple Gojju

Bhendi gojju

Quinoa

Veggie omlette

 

Recipe for pineapple / Grapes gojju : Here

 

Watermelon Mint Soda

 Watermelon Mint soda:

Watermelon and mint is a very good combo.Watermelon juice with mint and lime for a refreshing and healthy summer cocktail that will impress !

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

• 4 cups of unseeded and cubed watermelon 
• 1 can of soda 
• fresh mint leaves
• 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice                                                                                                            Method:
• Juice watermelon in a mixer
• Add soda and mix it by adding lemon juice.
• Finally garnish with mint.
  

Stuffel Bitter Gourd/Karela/Haagakaayi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karela stuffed fry:

 

Ingredients: 

Karela- tender ones around 10

Onion- chopped Finely-1

Dry chillies-7

Dry coconut-1/2 cups

roasted gram dal- pappu-2 tbspn

dhaniya-1 tbspn

ginger garlic paste-1/2 tspn

jaggery-1 tspn

tamarind pulp-1tbspn

Salt- To taste

Oil-3 tbspn

 

 Method:

• Cut Bittergourd in to half. Take out the seeds inside. boil in tamarind and jaggery water until it becomes little soft for 7 mins.
• Grind all the other ingredients and make a coarse paste.
• In an Pan, Add some oil. Add chopped onion and fry until it becomes transluscent.Add ginger garlic paste. 
• Add te grounded masala and fry for 2 mins
• Stuff this mixture in karela
• In a separate pan, add 2tbspn oil. Arrange stuffed karelas and cook closing the lid in medium flame for 10 mins.
• After 5 mins turn it and cook for 2 mins.

Karely stuffed goes very well with Hot rice and ghee and it is extremely healthy vegetable.

 

Garlic rice

The best quick and easy garlic rice recipe you can make it with left over rice.

This rice is flavored with ghee and roasted garlic.

Its delicious and has a bold flavor.

This I have been eating since my childhood as my mom used to make this often.

Ingredients:

Garlic- 10 flakes

Cooked rice-2 cups

Red chilli powder- 1 tbspn

Salt- to taste

Ghee- 1tbspn

roasted gram dal-1 tbsp

Seasoning items- Mustard seeds, jeera, uradh dhal, hing.

Method:

Add ghee in to the pan

Add all the seasoning items

Add garlic pieces and fry them.

Add red chilli powder and salt

Add rice and mix it along well.

Finally add roasted gram dal powder and salt and serve hot.

Enjoy and leave your comments if you try it out!

Rose coconut laddos

I have been using rose syrup and all the roses from my backyard and trying out new innvotive ideas with roses.

These are very easy to make and super luscious.Do give it a try !

Rose coconut laddus - Hubby’s fav
3 ingredient and quick dessert done in 15 mins !

Ingredients:

Desiccated coconut- 1 cup

Condensed milk-1/2 cup

Rose syrup- 2 tbspns

Cashews or almonds( Optional)

Method:

• In a large pan, add coconut powder along with condensed milk.
• Keep frying until it combines well for 5 mins n low flame.
• Add rose syrup at the end and mix well.Add roasted nuts and combine well
• Set aside and make small round laddos out of the coconut mixture and roll it with fresh desiccated powder.
• Serve and you can also store in an air-right container for 2-3 days.
  

Rose Ice-Cream

Rose Ice cream ... treat to eyes with this luscious flavored rose water and syrup whipped with whipping cream, condensed milk and essence of rose .
Simple 4 ingredients recipe and you can enjoy the summer beats !

#roseicecream #rose #shrunilflavors

Ingredients:

Whipping cream- 1 cup

Condensed milk- 1 cup

Rose syrup- 5 tspns

Rose water- 1 tsn

vanilla essence- 1/4 tspn

Pistachios- Chopped- 1/2 cup

Gulkhand(optional) 1 tbsn

Method:

1. Whisk whipping cream in a bowl until it forms peak.

2.Add condensed milk and mix well. Add  rose syrup and mix well.

3.Add dried rose petals and chopped pistachios.

4. Finally add chunks of gukhand on a freezer safe try and pour the mixture.

Freeze it for 6-8 hrs and enjoy the scoop of delicious fragrant rose ice cream.

Guntur style Gongura Pacchadi

Gongura pacchadi- One of the classic  authentic food 

Authentic Guntur Gongura pacchadi from sorrel leaves ..

Recipe :

Sorrel leaves - 2 bunches 

Onion- 1 small 

Garlic-6 flakes 

Red chillies -7-8

Dhaniya-1 tspn

Pepper-4-5

Sesame seeds-1/2 tspn

Add oil in to pan and add sorrel leaves and fry until it becomes soft .

Take out leaves and keep it aside.

In the same pan, add red chillies, Dhanya. Pepper and sesame seeds , fry it until it changes color .

In mortar and pestle . Add the fried above items and mix well. Add chopped half onion and make a coarse paste .

Keep it aside that paste. 

Add fried leaves in M&P and coarsest grind .

Remove the paste .

Add some more oil on to pan .Add garlic pieces and curry leaves and the grounded paste. Fry for some more time. Finally add the seasoning with uradh all mustard seeds jeera and hing .

Peri Peri Tawa Anda/ Shakshouka

Poached eggs in spicy onion and tomato along with healthy squash and peri peri masala !

Ingredients :

For peri peri masala :

Kashmiri red chili powder

Red chili powder

Pepper

Salt 

Red chili flakes

Cinnamon powder

Jeera powder 

Garlic powder

Ginger powder 

Bread crumbs 

For Tawa Anda :

Eggs -6

Onion-1 large 

Tomatoes-2

Belleppper-1

Zucchini-1

Corn- 3/4 cup

Methi leaves -1 bunch 

Oil-2 tbspn

Butter- 1 small cube 

Ginger garlic paste-1 tspn

Method :

• Add oil and butter in to pan. 
• Add onion and and fry for 2-3 mins. Add methi and fry until it becomes soft.Add salt and ginger garlic paste.
• Add other veggies one by one and keep trying for 3-4 mins until all becomes little soft.
• Add peri peri masala. Mix and spread the mixture evenly to the pan
• Add water 1/2 cup.
• Break eggs and drop on the mixture. Cover the lid and cook on low flame for 10 mins.
• Sprinkle coriander leaves and cut it in pizza slicer and enjoy !

Moringa Papdi Pulao

Moringa leaves great source of Vitamin C- Drumstick leaves.

First time in to my kitchen and will be making this often.

Ingredients:( Serves 4)

Moringa leaves-4 cups

Rice- 1.5 cup

Mint- 1/4 cup

Coriander leaves-1/2 cup

Ginger- 1 inch

Oil- 2 tbsp

Coconut powder- 1 tspn

Salt

Boiled papdi- 3/4th cup

Onions- 1 chopped

Cloves-4

Cinnamon-1 inch

Elachi-1

Lemon juice- 2 tspns

Jeera- 1 tspn

Method:

• Grind mint, coriander leaves, coconut powder, salt and ginger and make a paste out of it.
• Cook rice separately and keep aside.
• In a pan, Add oil, Add cloves, cinnamon and elaichi. Add Jeera and onions and fry for 2 mins.
• Add grounded green Masala paste. fry until the raw smell leaves out.
• Add boiled Papdi and salt
• Add washed Moringa leaves and fry it until it changes color and becomes soft.
• Finally add Rice and mix well. Turn off the stove and add Lemon juice-2 tspn.
  

Plum Thokku/ Pickle

Plum thokku !!
Similar to tomato thokku and the taste is yummier than Tomatoes. The colors were so intense while caramelizing plums .

Plums are relatively low in calories, but contain a fair amount of important vitamins and minerals.

Ingredients :

• Plum
• Jaggery
• Tamarind
• Salt
• Roasted Mustard and methi powder
• Oil
• Hing
• Red chili powder and Green chilli paste

Method:

• Add oil in to pan, Caremelize plums in oil along with jaggery.
  
• Add 1 tspn of tamarind juice.
• Cover and cook until plums become softer and mushy( I love this color)
• Add the roasted methi and mustard seeds powder and salt.
• Mix well.Add 1 tsn Red chilli powder and 1/2 tspn green chilli paste.
• Mix well until everything combines well.
• Finally add the seasoning with hing, mustard seeds and curry leaves. Mix well and store in refrigerator  and can be used for rice, dosa or chapathi and also use it in toasts as spread.
  

Tindora Pacchadi/Chutney

Recipe straight from my Grandmom.. I call her ammammas special andhra pacchadis and I  have grown up eating these yummy pacchadis with hot rice and ghee during our summer holidays. Especially those chethi kallu/Kai thutthu with cousins.

Yeah...miss those golden days.

Ingredients:

Tindora- 1 cup chopped in to tiny pieces

Jeera-1 tspn

tamarind- 1 small lemon size

Green chillies- 7

Red chilies- 1

Garlic-3 flakes

Dry coconut powder- 2 tsp

Onion- 1/4

Oil-2tbsp

Salt- to taste

Method:

• Add oil in pan. Add Jeera and tamarind and garlic along with green chillies.
• Add chopped onion and chopped Tindora.
• Fry until tindora becoems little soft.
• Add salt and at last add dry coconut powder.
• Let it cool down and coarsely grind in mixer.
• Remove it from mixer and add the seasoning( Mustard, hing, jeera, urad dal and red chillies)
• Enjoy with Hot rice and ghee