Baked Mixed Veggies & Quinoa Seekh Kebabs

Since a long, i want to prepare either with chicken chunks or with veggies some kebabs at home..Finally after a long hesitation, i prepared some seekh kebabs at home with mixed veggies and cooked red quinoa..Needless to say how they tastes, tooo fabulous..We enjoyed having this beautiful seekh kebabs along with some salads for our lunch served along with ketchup..I wanted to prepare this seekh kebabs in oven instead of making them over stove top, as they need more oil to get cooked...I just brushed few drops of oil over the kebabs and arranged them in a baking sheet brushed with oil finally baked them for 20minutes at 350F in the middle rack of the oven...This seekh kebabs is served even for snacks along with green chutney or ketchup and truly easy to get digest even for aged peoples..With plenty of veggies and quinoa, obviously this beautiful kebabs are guilt free, filling,healthy, delicious and prefect dish for dieting peoples..

3nos Potatoes (cooked & mashed)
1no Carrot (cooked)
1no Bellpeppers (chopped)
1no Onion (chopped)
1/2cup Cooked Quinoa
4nos Bread slices (soaked and squeezed)
1/2tsp Garam masala powder
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
2tbsp Coriander leaves
1/2tsp Chaat masala powder
Wooden Skewers
Oil for brushing

In a non stick pan, saute the chopped onions with salt for few minutes, then add the bellpepper pieces and saute for few minutes, until they get shrinks..Take the mashed potatoes,cooked quinoa, cooked carrots, sauteed onions and bellpeppers, soaked and squeezed bread slices, garam masala powder, chopped green chillies, chaat masala, chopped coriander leaves in a bowl, mix everything well ...

Preheat the oven to 350F...Take a medium size ball from the mixture and press into long kebabs on the wooden skewers, arrange the skewers over the greased baking sheet lined over a baking tray...continue the process until the veggies& quinoa mixture get finished...brush the top of the kebabs with oil, bake the seekh kebabs for 15-20minutes until the crust turns golden brown..

Enjoy warm!

Orange & Yogurt Cheese Pops

Its has been a long i prepared pops with fruits juices, this weekend we bought a bag of sweet oranges and i wanted to prepare something refreshing with those oranges, immediately my mind went for some icecreams or either pops, after asking myself my choice went for this easy breezy pops as they need very less time to prepare and the freezing time goes for just 4 hours, its better much easier than making out icecream, this pops goes for yogurt cheese which i prepared earlier that is before 24hrs by straining thick yogurt in muslin cloth and with freshly squeezed orange juice with agave syrup this pops are ready within few minutes just by blending everything until they turn smooth in a blender..Yogurt cheese is a creamy white cheese we get when liquid whey drains from the yogurt, these cheese are best to add calcium in our diet without adding any fat and its really fat free if u prepare this cheese with non fat yogurt also its low in sodium and lactose,this cheese take the flavor of watever u mix it..

2cups Yogurt cheese
2cups Fresh Orange juice
2tbsp Agave syrup

Blend everything in a blender until they turns smooth...fill 3/4th of the kulfi moulds or popsicle moulds...freeze for an hour, insert a wooden stick and freeze them completely..

While serving,let the cups sit for few seconds, pull up the sticks and serve the pops..

Coriander & Cashew Pulao

Hope all of u had a beautiful weekend, mine went really very fast, i cant even able to sit properly in front of the system..This weekend was purchasing,shopping and outing eventhough we had a chilled climate..I prepared this simple but yet a delicious pulao sterday for our sunday's lunch along with fried chicken gravy, a delicious dish prepared many times by my mom, a small tribute to my awesome mom..This Coriander and cashew pulao along with chicken gravy goes awesome and turned out ur lunch super delicious, we guys had a great lunch sterday...Coming to this pulao,its takes really very less time to cook and i prepared completely in pressure cooker, which helps to prepare this pulao surely very quick and tasty...

2cups Basmati Rice
25nos/1cup Cashew nuts
2nos Onions (chopped lengthwise)
3cups Coconut milk
2nos Whole spices (bayleaves, cloves, cinnamon stick & cardamom)
Salt
Oil

To Grind:
1cup Coriander leaves
5nos Garlic
1inch Ginger
3tbsp Grated coconut
1tsp Cumin seeds
1/2tsp Fennel seed
3nos Red chillies
3nos Green chillies
1/2tsp Garam masala powder

Soak rice for 15 minutes,drain the water and keep the rice in a colander, meanwhile grind all the ingredients given in the list 'To Grind' as fine paste...Heat enough oil in the pressure cooker and fry the whole spices,add the cashews and fry until they turns golden brown, immediately add the onions saute until they turns transculent, now add the ground masala and fry until the raw smell goes away..

Finally add the coconut milk and bring to boil..add the rice and salt and cook everything in pressure cooker with lid closed, cook in simmer for few minutes until the rice get well cooked....

Serve hot with any raitas...

Poricha Kozhi Kuzambhu/Fried Chicken Gravy- Happy Mother's Day

Wishing all moms a beautiful mother's day..Eventhough we celebrate Mother's Day today, every mom is special to their child each and everyday..Mom the words itself means a lot for many of us..The only human being sacrifice everything to their proper child and each and every mom is special on their own way...My mom, an energtic, creative and great home maker who spend most of her precious time for us, she is always special for us from whom i learned how to be a excellent cook, more patience, the word forgiveness and an adorable mom for my kids..My mom used to prepare many non vegetarian dishes every sunday and she fond always for the seafood, i have seen my mom enjoying her fish gravy the next day with papads while she prepare many delicious dishes for us..She used to go everyday to the market to get fresh veggies, greens and seafoods, as we lived in seashore city called Pondicherry, those days makes me nostalgic..Now we guys are living far away from that beautiful city, we miss our seashore city a lot..

This spicy poricha kozhi kuzhambu is one of my favourite gravy which my mom used to prepare once a while during our sunday lunch..To celebrate this fabulous special day, i prepared this poricha kozhi kuzhambu for our today's lunch as sunday special, this gravy goes for marinated and deep fried chicken pieces, which are cooked later in a special gravy prepared with red dry chillies, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, poppyseeds, coriander seeds along with freshly grated coconuts..This gravy goes as prefect side dish along with rotis, parathas, idlies and dosas..We had this poricha kozhi kuzhambu with coriander pulao and both together turned out sunday lunch tooo delicious and fantastic..

1/2kg Chicken (as medium pieces)
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/4tsp Pepper powder
1/2tsp Cumin powder
2tbsp Corn flour
Salt
10nos Shallots (chopped)
2no Tomatoes (chopped)
2nos Green Chillies (slit opened)
1tsp Ginger garlic paste
Chopped coriander leaves
2nos Whole Spices (bayleaves, cloves, cinnamon sticks,star anise)
Salt

To Grind:
4nos Dry red chillies
1tbsp Poppy seeds
2tbsp Coriander seeds
1/2tsp Cumin seeds
1tsp Fennel seeds
1/4cup Coconut (grated)

Marinate the chicken pieces along with red chilly powder, cumin seed powder, pepper powder and corn flour with enough salt, let them sit for an hour..

Meanwhile heat few drops of oil, fry the dry red chillies, poppy seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds one by one and finally dry roast the coconut,take everything together and grind as fine paste along with enough water..

Heat enough oil, fry the whole spices until they turns brown, add the chopped onions, slit opened green chillies and chopped onions, saute everything together for few minutes, now add the ginger garlic paste and saute until the raw smell goes away..meanwhile heat enough oil for deep frying, fry the marinated chicken pieces until they get fried..Add the grounded masala,salt (take care not to add too much of salt, as the marinated chicken pieces have some salt already)to the cooking veggies, stir until the oil get separates...add enough water to the masala, bring everything to boil...add the fried chicken pieces and cook until everything get cooked well.. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve immediately...