Broccoli Curry

Broccoli is one of the vegetable which is very good for health, and is always refused by children to eat. Here is the simple but yummy recipe which i tried to make it myself. I have never come across this recipe before anywhere. so i can say its my recipe. My daughter loves it.

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1 cup

Cauliflower – 1cup

Onion – 1 chopped (optional)

Tomato – 1 chopped

Geera or cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Oil – 3 tspn

Curry leaves

Garam masala – 1 tspn

Chilli powder – ½ tspn(as much as you like)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tspn

Salt to taste

Cooking Method:

• Wash the Broccoli and Cauliflower, boil them.
• meanwhile, heat 1 tspn oil in a kadai or frying pan. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add curry leaves.
• Then add onion and fry till golden brown. Then add tomato and salt. Mix well, cover it and cook for 3 or 4 min. By doing this the tomato will cook nicely and with the back of the spoon press them to make paste.
• Now add all the powders. That is chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Now add Broccoli and Cauliflower, mix well, cover and cook till the vegi's absorb some masala(say about 5 min)
• Garnish with coriander and take off the heat. You can garnish with grated coconut as well.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with chapatti. Its great. And also Can make as wrap by applying butter to chapati.

Jokes

These are some of the jokes which i have collected. Read and enjoy.

2 people get 2 bombs,
1st person: Come lets give them to police.
2nd person: What if it bursts on the way?
1st person: We can let a lie that we had got only one..!!

Police: You will be hanged to death tomorrow at 5 am.
Prisoner: Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Police: Why are you laughing?
Prisoner: I wake up only at 9 o’clock.!

1^st Man: What do you do if you are feeling hot and sweating?
2^nd Man: I will go and sit in front of AC.
1^st Man: What if you are still feeling hot?
2^nd Man: Then I 'on' the AC.!

A person Prays daily for 2 hours,

“Hey God let me win a lottery please”

After 11 years angry god appears infront of him and say “Atleast buy a lottery ticket.”

A person was holding an umbrella with the hole.

Another person askes: “Why do you have hole in your umbrella??”

The person answers: “How will I get to know if its stopped raining?? I see through it.”

A person And Hitler

Hitler: “there is no word like IMPOSSIBLE in my dictionary”

Person: “What’s the use if you tell it now? You could have checked it before buying one.”

Customer: “I need a nail and a hammer for my computer”

Salesman: “But what will you do with them??”

Customer: “I want to put windows on my computer”

Passive voice

Teacher: Write the passive voice of  “I made a mistake"
Student: " I was made by a mistake"

Prof.: Chemical symbol of Barium?
Student: BA
Prof.: For Sodium?
Student: NA
Prof.: What will we get if 1 atom of Barium & 2 atoms of Sodium combines?
Student: "BANANA"

Dad to Child: When I beat you how did you control your anger?
Child: I start cleaning the toilet.
Dad: How does that satisfy you?
Child: I clean it with your tooth brush.

In bio practical:
Examiner: Tell me the name of this bird by seeing its legs only?
Student: I don't know.
Examiner: You are failed!
What's your name?
Student: See my legs & tell my name..

Simple Curd Rice

Ingredients:
Cooked rice- 1 cup
Milk- 1/2 cup
Curd or yogurt- 1/2 cup
Salt
Curry leaves and coriander
Geera and mustard seeds- 1/2 tspn each
Oil- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Take hot cooked rice in a mixing bowl.
• Put the milk and mix it nicley and keep it aside to cool down.
• heat oil in a small vessel. Add geera and mustard seeds and allow them to splutter.
• Add Curry leaves and take off the heat.
• Now add this to the milk rice mixture. Add salt and curd or yogurt.
• Mix well and taste it. put more salt and curd if required.

Serving Suggestion:
Normally its so tasty that it does'nt need anything to eat with, but you can eat it with pickle or peanut chutney.

Palak Rice or Spinach Rice

Spinach is very good for health. especially for kids. so you can make this recipe and pack for lunch. they will like it.

Ingredients:

Rice – 1 cup

Spinach or Palak – 1 cup

Onion- 1
Ginger-Garlic paste- 1 tspn
Garam masala- 1 1/2 tspn
Red chilli powder or green chilli- ½ to 1 tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin and mustard seeds- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Wash the rice and soak them for half an hour. And cook the rice with 2-3 cups of water and some salt. Keep it aside so that it is cool.
• Cook the spinach for 5 min with little amount of water then grind it into paste
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin and mustard seeds, let them splutter.
• Add ginger-garlic paste. Then add onion. Fry till golden brown.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder or green chilli, and mix well.
• Add the spinach paste, salt and cook for 2-3 min.
• Mix with the cooked rice.
• Add some fried cashewnuts if you like.

Things to be considered:

• Don’t cook spinach too much, because it will loose its nutrients.
• Don’t over cook the rice and make mashy. Let the grains be separate.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with raita or with some curry or also with pickle.

Idli

Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Urad dal – 1/3 cup
Methi seeds – 1 tbspn
Puffed rice – ¼ cup

Cooking Method:

• Wash and soak rice and urad dal separately. Add methi seeds urad dal. Soak them for 6 hours min.
• Grind them separately as well. Before 5 min of grinding add puffed rice to urad dal. Urad dal mixture should be grinded finely and rice should be like semolina structured ( not fine).
• Then mix them and keep overnight.
• The mixture turns bubbly. Then you can put in the idli maker and steam them for 10 mins. Serve hot

Things to be considered:

• Before making idlis make sure the batter has turned bubbly. If not add 1 or 2 pinch of cooking soda (bi-carbonate soda).
• Rice and urad dal should be soaked separately otherwise the idli will not be good.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with Sambar and coconut chutney.

Okra/Ladiesfinger/Bendi curry

I learnt this recipe from my mom. I have tasted this okra curry many a times, which others had prepared. It was not at all good and i stopped eating this curry. Then my mom came up with new idea and prepared it like the below recipe. Now me and my husband and also my daughter love okra. My daughter eats only okra curry when i prepare, instead of eating it with chapati.

Ingredients:

Okra or ladies fingers - 250grms

Onion – 1 chopped

Tomato – 1 chopped

Geera or cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Oil – 3 tspn

Curry leaves

Garam masala – 1 tspn

Chilli powder – ½ tspn(as much as you like)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tspn

Salt to taste

Cooking Method:

• Wash dry and wipe the okra or ladies finger. The very important thing is that, you should wipe all water before chopping them.
• Heat 1 tspn oil in a kadai or frying pan. Add the chopped okra and fry till all the jelly bit has disappeared. If you don’t want to fry more, add some lemon juice to the frying okra, the jelly thing will soon disappear. Keep them aside for now.
• In another vessel heat the remaining oil and add cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add curry leaves.
• Then add onion and fry till golden brown. Then add tomato and salt. Mix well, cover it and cook for 3 or 4 min. By doing this the tomato will cook nicely and with the back of the spoon press them to make paste.
• Now add all the powders. That is chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Now add the fried okra. Mix well and cover and cook for 5 min. put a few drops of water if it sticks to the pan. Not more water.
• Garnish with coriander and take off the heat. You can garnish with grated coconut as well.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with chapatti. Its great.

Things to be considered:

• Dry the okra completely after washing them. And also wipe them to ensure they are dry. By doing this the jelly thing which it lives will be less. I usually wash the okra before 2 hours of preparation and spread them on the newspaper or kitchen roll(tissue). By doing this, the okra will be quite dry. But still before cutting them wipe with clean cloth. 
• You can also grind the onion and tomato to get a different taste.

Dessert made from Banana- Baale hannu shikarni

Nobody likes to eat over ripened bananas. Especially when their skin turn black. My 2 and 1/2 year daughter says "mum no like it" when i give her that kind of slightly ripened banana. so the best idea to deal with thos kind of banana is make this recipe. My daughter eats this and says "mum Yummy". i love when she says so. Try and have fun, less effort quick and easy.

Ingredients:

Bananas -2

Milk -100 ml

Sugar -6 tspn

Cardamom powder- ¼ tspn

Cooking Method:

• Take milk in a vessel and warm it up.You can use microwave for this or just on stove.
• Dissolve sugar in it and add cardamom powder as well.
• Cut the bananas into small pieces or slice them into thin pieces.Actually smaller pieces are better.
• Add them to the milk.
• You can alwys taste the dish and alter the amount of sugar.

Serving Suggestion:

serve with puri or chapati. Or else can be just eaten as dessert.

Easy Pizzi Instant Bhel

Ingredients:
Puffed rice – 1 cup
Sev (these are vermicelli shaped and are made from gram flour) – 1 cup
Potato chips – 1 small packet
Doritos chips (optional) – ½ small packet
Onion – 1 small finely chopped
Tomato – 1 medium finely chopped
Peanuts or groundnuts – ¼ cup roasted (if u like them you can put more.)
Red chilli powder – as per your taste
Salt – as per you taste
Tomato sauce – ¼ cup

Cooking Method:

• Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
• Taste it to know weather salt, chilli powder and tomato sauce is correct. Serve as a snack.

Things to be considered:

You can alter the quantity of  tomato sauce. If you don’t like the tangy flavour of tomato sauce, add sugar ½ tspn sugar to neutralize.
Eat it as soon as possible otherwise the puffed rice will be wet and does not taste good.