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Indo-Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice

2014-08-27T21:51:00.000+08:00

Fried rice is a popular dish in almost all cuisines, and different cuisine uses different combinations of vegetables and sauces. One the of the most popular fried rice is indo-chinese vegetable fried rice. I tried at home and it came out very well, so I thought to share the recipe with you all.

Dhal / Red Lentil Curry in Sri Lankan Style

2013-09-26T20:13:00.000+08:00

Lentils are excellent source of protein, specially in vegetarian diet. So, we cook dhal curry everyday and have it with rice for lunch.

This is the side dish which I cooked first, when I started cooking :) Not only me but most of my friends also cooked this curry as their very first food. This is a very easy recipe and you won't fail even if you don't know anything about cooking. So, if you are a beginner to cooking, this is the best recipe to start with. This dhal curry will go well with rice, bread, roti, puttu or with most of the main dishes.

Vegetable Semolina Upma / Rava Upma

2013-07-17T22:19:00.000+08:00

Today I would like to share a traditional Indian food with you all. If you know "Upma", you may wonder why I am calling it as "Vegetable Upma". I have made some modification to traditional upma recipe by adding some more vegetables to it, so I call it as "Vegetable Upma" :)

The amount of water required to make upma is highly depending on the following facts,
amount of vegetables added
types of vegetables added
type of rava and so on....
Even though in this recipe I have included the amount of water needed, use this as a guidance only. My family memebers like fluffy (dry) upma. If you like gooey upma then add more water.

For me the most time consuming part in preparing "Upma" is roasting the semolina (rava/sooji). So, I used to roast large amount of semolina and store that in an airtight container to quickly prepare "Upma" for breakfast during weekdays. Roasted semolina has more shelf life than raw semolina and also roasting will prevent worm or insects growing in semolina.

Carrot & Orange Smoothie / Juice

2013-07-14T19:06:00.000+08:00

Everybody loves smoothies/juices. But most people pay more for their favorite smoothie and buy it from juice bars. I always prefer home made smoothies. They are cheaper, healthier, more hygienic and very easy to make according to our preferences. Today I thought to share a carrot & Orange smoothie recipe with you all. This is one of the most favorite smoothies of my husband :). You do not need to have any special equipment to prepare this. You can use a normal blender/grinder to make this delicious smoothie to chill you during hot summer.

Toasted Zucchini / Grilled Zucchini

2013-01-04T13:45:00.000+08:00

In my first post I introduced a Tofu dish. Today I thought to share a Zucchini dish. The Zucchini is a vegetable, which belongs to squash family (pumpkin also belongs to squash family). It looks like cucumber but unlike cucumber, zucchini is usually served cooked.

This is a very quick and easy recipe :) I learnt this recipe from one of my friends.

Masala Chickpea

2012-11-23T13:09:00.000+08:00

I have seen this kind of recipe in a TV program. Unfortunately I didn't write down the exact recipe, so I have created a new recipe and made this masala chickpea. I like chickpea very much, but my husband doesn't like it. Whenever I cook chickpea, he eats only 3 or 4 teaspoon of it. When I made this masala chickpea for the first time, as usual I thought he won't like it and I will have to eat the most. Surprisingly he ate a lot and I was left with small amount :). I am sure most of you will like this masala chickpea.

Mix Vegetable Spaghetti

2012-11-08T22:17:00.000+08:00

Scientist are reporting the health benefits of different fruits and vegetables. Including as much as colour vegetables in our daily diet will maximize our intake of wide range of nutrients. Each colour vegetable/fruit has got unique health benefits. After reading this information, I thought to make a simple dinner with rainbow of vegetables :) So what to do? I got several ideas and finally decided to do mix veggie spaghetti.

It came out very well and also looked so colourful. As usual my husband tasted that before me and told 'why don't you make this healthy meal often'. Hope you also will enjoy this healthy colourful meal :)

Tofu Capsicum Curry

2012-10-30T14:40:00.000+08:00

This is my first recipe in this web site. I decided to share with you, the recipe for the tofu capsicum curry. Some of you might wonder what is tofu? Yes I had the same question when I first saw tofu in a super market. After I returned home, as usual I googled it and found out it is a soy cheese with good nutrient content. Tofu is a very good source of protein, specifically soy protein. Also it is an excellent source of calcium and good source of manganese and iron and omega-3 fatty acids.

So as you all expected I started inquiring about how to cook this tofu before I buy tofu. The comments I received from most of my friends were negative not attractive due its bitterness. But as usual I was prepared to take the risk and went ahead and bought it. That reminded me the Indian Panner, which is extracted from cow milk. I prepared the curry in the similar way as the Panner curry. I was very much surprised with the outcome and all my family members liked it very much. Now we used to prepare this curry every week and hope you will enjoy this curry :).