Posts Tagged ‘Cooking’


Recipes Leaders: nettle soup

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

nettle-soup

Today I propose a recipe malison financial, if you have free nettles, and suitable for vegetarian if not you put the bacon, which will make the first course also very light and dietetics. For the soup to serve nettles 600 g of stems, leaves you can use to make a green paste, 200 g of fresh tomatoes, and 50 grow die pancetta or bacon, 1 / 2 onion, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Ideal for cooking the soup would be the pot of earthenware, but it also satisfied a pan or pots any. (more…)

Indian recipe – Lady’s Finger Pakoda

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Many types of pakodas are available in Indian streets and hotels. But they hardly make this item. Let us cook it.

Ingredients

4 to 7 lady’s fingers

1 to 2 cups of gram flour [besan]

One tsp turmeric powder

Half tsp ajwain

A pinch of baking soda

A pinch of asafetida

A pinch of red chili powder

Salt to taste

Cooking oil or pure ghee for deep frying

To accompany – onion, green chili, mooly, tomato salad, pickles etc

Process

Clean the lady’s fingers with clean wet cloth. Remove both the ends of it and cut in 2 to 3 pieces. Mix turmeric powder, ajwain, soda, asafetida, red chilly powder and salt in besan. Add little water to make a semi thick paste of it. Leave it to set for 20 minutes. Heat the pure ghee or oil in a stew pan. Dip three pieces of lady’s fingers in besan paste. Drop each piece separately one by one in hot cooking medium, deep fry until golden brown. Now three pakodas are ready to eat. Taste one Pakoda, it must be tasty. In this way complete the cooking. Also make 4 pakodas of punctured green chilies to accompany. Serve hot with onion, curd, salad etc.

SABJI OF 5 VEGETABLES

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

A high aroma sabji occasionally made in Indian kitchens. Expert Indian housewives cook it so deliciously no one can forget its taste in life. Now cook it at home and get admired.

INGREDIENTS-

100gms potatoes boiled, peeled and meshed
100gms green peas (matar)
100gms cauliflower (gobhi) chopped
100gms tomatoes chopped
100gms carrot chopped
200gms onion
100gms coriander leaves
50gms ginger
For tempering small quantities of—cinnamon, cinnamon leaves, green chilies, green and black cardamom, black pepper, cumin seeds, coriander powder, mustard seeds, curry leaves etc.
100 to 150 grams pure ghee or cooking oil
Salt to taste

PROCESS-

Make paste of 6, 7, 8 and green chilies. Put it into a pressure cooker.
Fry this paste in cooking oil or ghee until golden brown, to make gravy of it. Add all small quantities for tempering in it and fry it (it is not necessary if you like, you can avoid it) and continue mixing it until a good aroma appears in the kitchen. Avoid overheating.
Mix well rest of the ingredients in it, add about 1 glass of water and close the pressure cooker, cook it for 5 whistles on full or medium flame.
Wait for 10 minutes, taste the sabji, it must be very tasty. If you like, mix fresh curd, paneer or boiled water in it to a quantity of your choice.
Serve hot with hot bread, roti, tandoories, pudi, paratha, bhature, rice, pulao, biriyani etc.

Our Fourth of July party

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

july-party-1, July party, Cooking, Cookes, Disces, Chapathi
Ok, complete? There was a LOT of food and everybody was instructed to bring amazing that they felt was American. So, similar to it or not, this is what mainly Swedes believe of as the quintessential American food.
Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

Pizza

Caesar Salad

Cole Slaw

Barbecued Ribs

Macaroni & Cheese

Mini Hamburgers