Soya Sauce Cauliflower Steak

Its really hard to feed vegetables to Kids, especially cauliflower and broccoli. But my kids just love these both vegetables as anything in anything. Cauliflower gets cooks easily and they need just few minutes to get cooked. While i was searching for a different dish with cauliflower, i saw cauliflower steaks, i found that this method of preparing cauliflower sounds very easy,simple and super delicious.Instead of spicing them simply with pepper powder and salt, i went for soyasauce and chilly sauce to spice up the cauliflower steak. Trust me if you prepare this cauliflower steaks, am sure you will never go for steamed cauliflower or boiled ones.

You can have this steak as starter, or for main course along with some rice or else as side dish. I prepared this delicious cauliflower steak simply by simmering it with soya sauce and chilly sauce, i didnt used oil in this dish, so its completely oil free and definitely a healthy food to serve anyone. Kids will enjoy thoroughly this vegan steaks for the sure, trust me we can spice these cauliflower steaks even with our Indian spices. After a month of blogging marathon, am running again blogging marathon for 3 days as usual and the theme of this week is Kid's delight-Fat free recipes. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#40. Sending this chivdas to Kid's Delight-Fat Free Kid's Friendly Recipes guest hosted by me, an event by Srivalli..

Wheat Flakes Chivda/Godumai Aval Mixture

Chivda goes for quick preparation especially if you are using thin rice flakes,cornflakes or wheat flakes, its takes hardly less than 15minutes and your chivdas are ready to munch. During my trip to India, i got some packets of wheat flakes from organic stores. Actually i bought those packets just to make chivdas back home. Wheat flakes works wonder for making this quick chivdas. Usually chivdas are prepared till date with poha aka thin rice flakes, grated potato and with corn flakes. Am sure this wheat flakes chivda is the best one among those chivdas and if you make them at home you wont stop munching this addictive snacks.Wheat flakes are similar to corn flakes, they are made with whole wheat and wheat bran. Whole wheat are rolled and turned as flakes which retain their fibre content along with other vital nutrients. This chivda is mildly sweet and spicy, you can change or alter the spices according to your tastebuds.

Just a teaspoon of oil is enough to make this quick and easy breezy chivda with wheat flakes. Obviously this chivda is completely healthy with less oil, quite addictive coz they are seriously crunchy munchy and definitely a kid's friendly snacks as wheat flakes are rich in fibre with less oil.Trust me this chivda gets vanished very much quickly.This week am running again blogging marathon for 3 days as usual and the theme of this week is Kid's delight-Fat free recipes. 

Farfalle Aglio e Olio

Farfalle aglio e olio means Farfalle with garlic and oil, usually spaghetti is used for making this Italian pasta dish, but for a change i tried them with this bow shaped pastas. This dish said to be originate traditionally from region of Abruzzo, eventhough its quite popular all over the country. This dish is made simply by sauteeing minced or pressed garlic in olive oil, with red chilly flakes. Apart from it some chopped parsley leaves are added to this dish. Grated parmesan or pecorino cheese are used for garnishing, but according to some traditional recipes, cheese is not used in this pasta.

Pastas are kid's favourite, my kids can have pastas everyday anytime of the day, obviously while going to my monthly shopping i never forget to come back home with few kgs of different pastas. Pasta simply sauteed with veggies or served with sauces have their important place in our weekly menu.Usually this Aglio e olio goes for quarter cup of olive oil, but i used a tablespoon of olive oil and replace it with pasta cooked water.A simple, very quick pasta dish can be enjoyed with some salad or grilled meats for both lunch or dinner. After a month of blogging marathon, am running again blogging marathon for 3 days as usual and the theme of this week is Kid's delight-Fat free recipes. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#40. Sending this chivdas to Kid's Delight-Fat Free Kid's Friendly Recipes guest hosted by me, an event by Srivalli..

Gol Gappe/Pani Puri - Version 2

If God comes in front of me and says that i have an opportunity to have foods of my choice for a whole day without any limit, i'll chose immediately street foods especially pani puris, dairy milk and Bengali sweets. Yes i love pani puris that much, whenever i go to India i'll pamper myself with this droolworthy street food.Even when i went to Chennai for a blogger meet during January, i had these delicious pani puris with Kalpana and Preeti at Gongotree in Express Avenue, cant forget that beautiful moments. Today am posting this incredible pani puri for a cooking challenge. This is second version of Pani puri as i have already tried them earlier for an another cooking challenge. You can check it Here. Earlier post for pani puri went for a spiced water and tamarind chutney but this version goes for four different spiced waters and seriously i have completely fallen in love with this version. These pani puris are our this month's challenge for  South vs North Challenge an event owned by Divya Pramil.The theme of this event is to exchange an Indian recipe between two teams. One team is Southern team (food bloggers  born and brought in South India) and the another one team is Northern team (food bloggers born and brought in North India). Every first of a month, a blogger from each team will challenge a recipe from their origin and the opposite team have to cook the recipe challenged by the other team.

For this month's challenge, Prachi of Prachi's Veg Kitchen challenged the Southern team with this Gol gappe and her version of this pani puri goes for a 4types of spiced waters to be relished with mini puris, no chutney is needed. Obviously if its pani puri for a cooking challenge, i dont want to give up by saying that i have already prepared Pani puris, also this version is different from the earlier one.Since we received the mail with this month's challenge bit late yesterday, i couldnt able to finish it yesterday itself, but i tried today and am having rite now my lunch with gol gappe.

Pani puri is a fried round puris stuffed with spicy potato mixture which is enjoyed with spiced water prepared with coriander,mint and tamarind paste,sugar, chilly powder and chaat masala. I have prepared everything from scratch, since we dont get dry mint powder and boondis here, i prepared myself at home.Since its raining here, i prepared my dry mint powder by slow dry roasting them in pan. They came out simply awesome.

To make dry mint powder:
Just clean the mint leaves, wash thoroughly, let them dry in a paper towel for few minutes.
Dry roast those mint leaves in a pan in low flame,until the leaves turns crisp.
Just crush them nicely and store it .
Your dry mint powder is ready to serve.