Brown Rice - Parsi Style

Parsi Style Brown rice is one among the traditional rice dish served along with their famous Dhansak,a Parsi gravy. Most of the Parsi's sunday's favourite is this Brown rice and Dhansak and even for few this Brown rice means Special occasions. I crossed many delicious Parsi style brown rice, but however i want to stick with the traditional one, obviously i picked this brown rice from here. I just loved the spice mixture used in this dish and this brown rice is quite easy to make. Obviously i grinded up the spice mixture before starting the cooking process and the spice mixture gives an excellent flavour to this beautiful mildy sweet brown rice.

Carrot Lemonade

Sunday brunch is something i would like to have atleast once a month, i truly enjoy it coz my weekend working H will have his brunch with me. Obviously if he is at home, i'll make special brunch dishes for him. He loves french toasts very much with a simple home made fruit juice for his brunch. Needless to say i'll make different fruit juices freshly for the brunch. Today i have prepared this gorgeous looking carrot lemonade for our brunch hence am posting it today as i belong to a group of bloggers who blogs twice a month on sundays, our group name is Let's Brunch On Sundays.

Coming to this carrot lemonade, this super fresh drink goes for easy breezy ingredients, just a carrot, lemon juice and some grated ginger with sugar makes this beautiful drink. When served with ice cubes, you can enjoy this lemonade thoroughly during summer, yes this drink is definitely a summer drink , a fantastic healthy thirsty quencher.

Blonde Brownies/Blondies

After three month complete rest,finally i turned up my oven for baking today. My today's bake goes for Home Baker's Challenge, a monthly baking event where we bake varieties of baked goodies every month.Sharanya of Just Not The Cake, the host of January month suggested an interesting theme and the theme for the month is 'American Food Holidays'.

Do you know that : January 6 - National Shortbread day .
                              January 16 - National Fig Newton day.
                              January 21 - National Granola Bar day.
                              January 22 - National Blonde brownie day .
                              January 23 - National Pie day .
                              January 29 - National Corn chip day

Quite interesting na!!

Coming to today's post, i chosed Blonde brownies suggested by Sharanya from 6 wonderful bakes she went for. Happy that i baked this fantastic brownies and everyone at home simply enjoyed these irresistible brownies, trust me they just vanished within few minutes. I just followed the original recipe suggested by Sharanya and didnt changed anything. If you want to make small batch of these blondies just divide the quantity of ingredients as half and just go on.Am sure you will regret if you prepare these blondies in small batches coz they are seriously very addictive and everyone at home will definitely bug you to make again.Thanks Sharanya, for pulling me to make these wonderful blondies.Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this fantastic blondies.

Spinach Dal Paratha

Spinach is one of our family favourite greens and i have always a packet of frozen spinach in my freezer, so that i can make any dish out of it. While cleaning my freezer recently i crossed some frozen spinach leaves sitting sadly in my freezer, since they were less in quantity i tried my hands in making this interesting,healthy and nutritious paratha. Yes this paratha is highly nutritious coz i used moongdal in them. I finished a quarter cup of mushy moongdal which is prepared for making sambhar finally went on into this paratha along with those frozen spinach leaves.

Actually i didnt used spinach as puree, thats y my parathas are not looking green, while kneading i just added both the frozen spinach leaves and mushy moongdal together in the wheat flour to get a smooth dough. Personally i loved the softness of these parathas and we loved having this with an incredible salna i prepared with butterbeans.Check here for the butter beans salna, both tastes fabulous together and we had a superfilling dinner.Its 2nd sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this fantastic soft parathas.

Chicken Ghee Roast/Ghee Chicken Roast

Chicken is one of the lean meat we love to have atleast once a week especially on Sundays. Sunday lunch is always special if hubby is at home. Coz he works two weekends alternatively and if he is at home, he love to have a feast especially on Sunday lunch. I'll prepare either biryani or else a gravy with chicken to serve mostly for our sunday lunch. While i googling i got hooked to this Mangalorean special chicken ghee roast at Charishma's space. Her pictures pulled me a lot and immediately i planned to make this juicy and highly flavourful chicken ghee roast for our sunday lunch. I simply served this chicken ghee roast with a simple sambhar bhath and we enjoyed our lunch thoroughly.

If you want to make a different chicken roast, you should give a try to this dish, am sure this chicken ghee roast will become your favourite. Its our family favourite now and even i passed this recipe to my French friend who loved spicy Indian foods. Seems she already prepared thus chicken ghee roast twice. Ghee plays an important role in this chicken roast, dont skip ghee also ghee is good for health. Frequent intake of ghee is not good but once a while you can take them without any guilt.However i tempered this roast with a cinnamon stick, which is completely optional.Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this fantastic chicken roast.

Biscuit Sablés/Eggless French Shortbread Biscuits

Sablé is a French shortbread biscuits, well known for their melt in mouth texture. This shortbread biscuits are quite famous all over France eventhough they origin is from Caen, a town from Normandy region.I had a chance to see how these shortbreads are baked during a trip to this town. Whenever you cross the industrial area where these shortbread companies are situated you will be definitely attracted by the smell of freshly baked sablés. Obviously i came back to Paris with enough boxes of these shortbread biscuits, my kids love this biscuits anytime and they love to munch with their bowl of hot chocolate for their breakfast, yes you can start your day with this buttery shortbreads.

The French word sable means sand, also this biscuit was created for the first time in a town called Sablé sur Sarthe few years ago, coz of the texture and the origin these biscuits are named as Sablé, however these biscuits are seriously very soft,delicate,buttery with a fantastic texture. A wonderful pair to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee when the weather is down outside. These sablés are prepared specially for the members of this month's Home Baker's Challenge, a baking event happening every month.Its 2nd sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this biscuits.

Coriander Soya Pulao

One pot meals are always prefect for lunch. Either its a sunday's lunch or a week day's lunch,one pot meal are really easy to get ready and prefect to serve for a get together. Coming to today's coriander soya pulao, this pulao goes for an easy preparation with the aromatic herb aka coriander leaves. To add the nutritional value of this pulao, i simply went for the protein rich soya chunks for making this one pot meal. If you want to make this pulao with meats, just go with lean meats like chicken or else with prawns.

Aromatic coriander soya pulao suits prefectly for a sunday brunch, i served this rice with a simple potato kurma and we just enjoyed thoroughly our lunch. Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this incredible delicious pulao.

Bhindi Pachadi/Okra Raita

Bhindi is also known as Okra or ladys finger, is a protein rich vegetables. Eventhough this sticky vegetable was one of the most hated vegetable by kids earlier, i never forget to get them from Indian stores. Slowly my kids started loving this vegetable, watelse a mom need. I'll prepare atleast a dish with bhindis once a week and this vegetable is must to buy whenever we go to Indian stores.One of my recent favourite,nope my family favourite with this vegetable is this pachadi.

This pachadi tastes fabulous to enjoy with a simple pulao or biryani, i served this nutritious pachadi for our sunday lunch with Ambur Mutton Biriyani.Bored of usual onion raita or simple cucumber raita, make this delicious okra raita/bhindi pachadi and surprise your family members.Its 1st sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this healthy pachadi.Sending to my own event Healthy Diet-Vegetarian Side dish guest hosted by Nandoos..

Instant Wheat Dosa

Instant dosas or idlies are really handy and definitely saves us when we run out of the Idly batter. For this week's blogging marathon i chosed instant dosas or idlies as theme and the next two days are going to be healthy, quick and instant versions of dosas and idlies. Coming to today's recipe, its definitely a quick and very healthy dosas we prepare quite often simply with wheat flour and rice flour. This dosa makes a super filling dinner or breakfast if you serves them with a simple chutney or sambhar. Personally wheat dosas are my favourite, since am yet to post this instant dosas in my space, i prepared them few days back for my lunch and enjoyed with some tomato sambhar.

My H and kids dont like these kind instant dosas or idlies that much,but who cares i'll make them specially for me.Earlier i insisted them to take these healthy foods, but it never worked with them. Obviously if i want to feed them with wheat flour in dosas, i'll add some flour in the sour dosa batter and makes wheat uthappams with loads of onions.This way they will eat without any fuss. However when i chosed this theme for this week, i know am gonna have feast with my favourite instant idlies and dosas. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.

Eggless Oats Chocolate Biscottis

Biscottis are a type of cookies baked twice and it an Italian cookie. Usually these cookies or biscuits are oblong shaped and they are well known for their crunchiness. Since these cookies are baked twice they can stay prefect for a long if they are conserved properly.For our this month's Home Baker's Challenge,i have to became the host of the month at last moment coz the host of this month couldnt able to do the guest hosting, thank god i pinged earlier to know about the status of her recipe choice then only she told that she cant do the guest hosting for this month. When i was searching for a easy bake, i thought these Italian cookies will be quite interesting as some of the members of Home baker's group would have rarely tried their hands in making biscottis.

I chosed two savoury biscottis and two sweet biscottis, coming to this eggless oats chocolate biscottis its one of my creation. Actually while chosing the biscottis recipe, i couldnt able to get this fabulous Italian cookies with wholegrains, but finally i decided to bake this crunchy super chocolaty biscottis with rolled oats. They came out extremely prefect and obviously they were quite addictive. You cant stop with one biscottis if you bake these oats chocolate biscottis at home.You can pack these biscottis to kid's snack box as these biscottis have the incredible grain 'Oats', for the second week of blogging marathon i chosed the mess free tiffin box theme and am posting this scrumptious biscottis for this week theme as they fit very much for the theme..Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.Its 1st sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this biscottis for this event too.

Ambur Mutton Biriyani/Ambur Style Mutton Biryani

Ambur is a town which is in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, this town is very famous for few dishes especially their briyani, and some sweets coz this region was reigned by Nawabs of Arcot.This place is famous for its spicy non vegetarian cuisine made with chicken,mutton or eggs in the form of gravy or kebabs. Ambur biryani is one of the famous South Indian dish which is emerged during the Nawabs's regime. This is prepared just to serve the army during the Nawab's regime as it was difficult to prepare rotis or parathas to feed the need of lakhs of soldiers. Today this dish is served in many occasions especially in Arcot muslim's weedings along with some regional foods.

A plate of biryani with a brinjal curry and onion raitha makes a fabulous feast, i tried my hands in preparing this wonderful famous Arcot briyani at home and they came out extremely delicious. You can serve this food for any occasions, if you are a vegetarian,just add any veggies instead of meat and make them.If you are biryani lover like me, seriously you have to give a try to this dish.This recipe is from a paper cut of Hindu news paper.Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this incredible delicious Ambur biryani today.

Butter Beans & Coconut Pulao

Pulao or biryani, i dont mind eating them anytime of the day, yes i love it that much. Pulao goes for a quick preparation when compared to biryani.Vegetable or beans anything works wonder in pulao and i love to add both vegetables and beans together in pulao just to feed my kids easily as they love pulao or biryanis very much. This wonderful one pot meal suits prefectly even for a sunday lunch and tastes more delicious when served along with spicy chicken curry or paneer based curry.

Today am here with an another quick,nutritious and flavourful pulao i prepared with butterbeans and with a spiced coconut milk. This pulao may sounds almost like ghee rice or coconut pulao but the addition of butterbeans make it more interesting. I didnt add any veggies but still you can  add vegetables like green peas,carrot and beans. If you dont like butterbeans, just replace it with paneer cubes.Its 2nd sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this incredible,aromatic and nutritious one pot meal today. Do you know the main motto of this event is to blog on sundays since  most of the bloggers couldnt able to feed their blog babies during weekdays coz of their busy schedules, so myself and Veena both planned to create an event to cook and post a dish which goes under Sunday brunch,lunch or dinner.Sending MLLA 64 guest hosted by Lourdes Princy, event by Lisa and Susan.

Honey Drizzled Semolina Cake

If you are searching for a succulent, very moist cake with semolina, this cake is for you. For our this month's Home Baker's Challenge, Shama of Shama's Easy 2 Cook Recipes chosed both sweet and savoury bakes. After baking some Vegan Banana Nut Muffins, here comes an another interesting cake you may enjoy thoroughly with your family for your snacks with your favourite drink.This cake is completely flour free and baked  with fine quality yellow semolina which i get easily from my nearby provision store.This cake is just out of the world, yes this cake came out extremely spongy,super fluffy and very much moist coz of the honey syrup used in this cake.

Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this incredible cake today. Do you know the main motto of this event is to blog on sundays since  most of the bloggers couldnt able to feed their blog babies during weekdays coz of their busy schedules, so myself and Veena both planned to create an event to cook and post a dish which goes under Sunday brunch,lunch or dinner.This cake makes a wonderful dessert after heavy sunday meal.Sending to Srivalli's Cake Mela.

Vegetarian Wonton Noodle Soup & Chinese Scallion Pancakes

Sundays are always special for us,sunday means late wake up, a filling brunch,late lunch and outings. Sometimes, i would love to make a elaborated lunch for us coz twice a month during weekends my H go for work, so obviously if he is at home definitely i'll make a royal feast. Have you noticed before a week, myself and Veena announced an interesting event to give a push to your sleeping blog, we named our event as Let's Brunch On Sundays. The main motto of this event is to blog on sundays coz  most of the bloggers couldnt able to feed their blog babies during weekdays coz of their busy schedules, so we both planned to create an event to cook and post a dish which goes under Sunday brunch,lunch or dinner.

Today is the first day of our event, am posting wonderful Cantonese dishes i dished out for an another event International Food Challenge , a monthly event started by two wonderful food bloggers. Seriously i love this International  food challenge, its a wonderful platform to learn various cuisine which is not that much familiar for many of us. Thanks to  Sara and Shobana, the brain childs of this event for inviting me to this food challenge. They challenged us with 4 different dishes,i cooked three out of four. I have already posted Spiral Moon Cake and here comes my vegetarian wonton noodle soup and Chinese scallion pancakes as their accompaniment i prepared for this challenge. I served this vegetarian wonton soup with Chinese scallion pancakes for our sunday lunch before few days back. Both were super filling and we enjoyed thoroughly this Chinese foods for our lunch.