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Chocolate dipped strawberries

White Sauce Pasta

I'm a great fan of Thai food, Malaysian, Italian, Mexican, Japanese in that order and given a chance i would try to cook the favorite food from each of these cuisines. Chicken Teriyaki is one of those recipes i tried at my home quite often as soon as i moved out of New York city. I do not get the lemon grass in my locality and hence did not try my hands on making Thai food, be it red curry or green curry and the like. About 13 years ago when i started to work i had a chance to eat pasta (soup kind of pasta ) from a authentic Italian outlet in my office campus. Neverthless i just hated the taste since it's very very bland to my taste buds, which only tasted biriyani and all other indian spices till that date. After few other years of work, i had an opportunity to move to New York and that's where i started developing a taste for these Italian and Mexican food. Yes, i started developing and did not like the taste instantly. However, the very first time i had tried Thai ...

Banana Sweet Appam

Breakfast recipes are a plenty and in today's blog we are going to see how to make a sweet breakfast dish out of banana and rice flour. You can use sugar instead of jaggery - choice is yours. Since you add ripened bananas which itself offers sweetness to the dish, adjust sugar/jaggery as per your taste. The appam could also be made with idly batter tempered with mustard seeds, channa dhal, chopped onions, curry leaves and grated coconut for a non-sweet version. I would also share that recipe in some time. Ingredients: 4 ripe bananas - medium sized 2 cups of rice flour 1 tsp cardamom powder or 2 cardamom pods 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup ghee or oil for frying 1/4 tsp baking soda 3/4 cup of roughly powdered jaggery 1 cup of water 3/4 cup of freshly grated coconut How to make banana sweet appam: 1. In a sauce pan, heat a cup of water along with jaggery. 2. Once the jaggery melts down in the hot water, bring it to boil and switch off the flame. Let it cool down c...

Sprouts Salad

Sprouts have a major health benefits like providing the daily required amount of proteins and vitamins like C, K and B. They are also rich in fiber thereby helping in weight loss and good for skin health too. While sprouts are readily available in markets these days, it is always a better choice to prepare fresh sprouts at home. I'm happy to share the healthier version of breakfast recipe today using green gram sprouts and chick peas. The ingredients list is quite simple and you do not need to rush to the market. Let's quickly see how to make the amazing sprout salad. Ingredients: 1 cup of moong dhal or green gram 1 large tomato 1 ripe avocado 1/2 cup soaked and cooked chick peas salt to taste 1 tsp lime juice 1 tsp olive oil 1/2 tsp black pepper powder Food Advertising by How to make sprouts salad: 1. Wash and soak the green gram/moong dhal in enough water for 12 hours. 2. Strain the water using a muslin cloth or any cotton cloth. ...