Microwave Chocolate Peda

Am here with a easy breezy chocolate peda to celebrate Tamil Chithirai Thirunaal..Happy Tamil New Year friends...Wat u do say that these microwave chocolate peda needs less than 3 minutes in microwave oven..yes this fabulous and beautiful chocolate peda ready within less than 3 minutes and tastes fabulous, but one thing the cooking time depends upon on the microwave oven u are using for...I prepared this milk peda with milk powder, condensed milk, chocolate powder, cardamom powder and i used just a tablespoon of butter in this peda...This peda is quite a fantastic sweet, quick to prepare and truly fabulous to enjoy without any guilt..Prefect sweet for chocoholic persons like me and am damn sure that even  small kids enjoy these beauties and a fantabulous sweet which is quite a quick fix sweets for a party.

2cups Milk powder
1+1/4cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
1tbsp Butter
2tbsp Dark Chocolate Powder
1/4tsp Cardamom powder
Almond flakes for decorating

In a microwave safe bowl, mix the condensed milk, milkpowder, butter,dark chocolate powder and cardamom powder and mix well, place the bowl in the microwave oven and heat in high for a minute, take the bowl out, mix well again and heat again for another minute..the mixture would have turned little crumbly, let it cool a bit..roll them as peda, butter used in this peda will helps u to roll easily the pedas, decorate the peda with slightly crumbled almond flakes..

Cool them completely and arrange in an air tightened box..

Shaah - Somalian Spiced Tea

Somalian spiced tea sounds quite similar like our spiced tea..I love this spiced tea coz this tea goes for splendid spices calling for cloves, cardamom seeds, cinnamon sticks, ginger...A prefect tea for cold wintery evening or a lazy morning breakfast..We enjoyed each and every sip of this tea and we loved it..I got this spiced tea again from Tammy's space, thanks again to Tammy for this fantastic spiced tea, we truly enjoyed this fantastic tea for our sunday breakfast..

2nos Tea bags
4nos Cloves
5nos Cardamom seeds
1no Cinnamon stick
1tbsp Ginger (grated)
2cups Water
1cup Milk
Sugar as per need

Heat the water along with tea bags, meanwhile crush the cardamom seeds, cloves and cinnamon stick using a pestle and mortor..Add the crushed spices,ginger and sugar to the boiling tea, reduce the heat and simmer for few minutes..finally add the milk and strain the spiced tea with a muslin cloth or a strainer..

Enjoy hot tea with some biscuits for snacks..

Vegan Velouté De Brocolis /Creamy Broccoli Soup With Coconut Milk

Velouté is from the French word which means velvety texture..This broccoli soup is prepared along with vegetable stock and finally blended along with creamy coconut milk..Yes this broccoli soup is completely a vegan version coz instead of using cream and butter for making out this velouté soup,i used creamy coconut milk and olive oil, this soup tastes fantastic and truly too delicious..We had a super delicious dinner with this vegan creamy broccoli soup along with few toasted bread slices...Do try friends, am dam sure that u all will love that coconut flavour in this soup which completely turn out this soup creamy and delicious..Am sending this soup to IAVW-French guest hosted by Graziana of Erbe in Cucina, event by Vaishali..

500grms Broccoli florets(chopped)
1no Onions(chopped)

2nos Potatoes (cubed)
2cups Vegetable stock water
Salt
Pepper powder
Olive oil
1/4cup Thick coconut milk
Few red chilly flakes

Heat enough olive oil, saute the chopped onions until they turns transculent, add the chopped broccoli florets ,cubed potatoes and saute for few minutes, add the vegetable stock water with salt and pepper powder..cook everything until the veggies get cooked..Blend the cooked veggies along with thick coconut milk and serve immediately topped with few red chilly flakes..

Enjoy warm!!

Royallu Mudda Kura /Prawn Curry - T&T from Sailu's Kitchen

Born and brought up in a seashore city, we guys literally fond for seafoods..I always go search for different style of making out seafood dishes especially regarding prawns..Also am a person who love spicy Andhra dishes very much, so needless to say that when Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles announced this month's Tried and Tasted event went for Sailu's Food a fantastic space where Sailaja shares all her traditional Andhra recipes, bakes and delicious International dishes..Her blog is definitely a treasure for Andhra recipes..When i went through her space, i loved her seafood recipes and this royallu mudda kura tempted me a lot and got hooked to this dish..I prepared this curry before few days, we enjoyed truly especially my DH loved this fantastic curry.

500grms Prawns (washed and deveined)
2nos Onions (big & sliced)
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
15nos Curry leaves
Salt
Oil

To Grind:
5nos Garlic cloves
1tbsp Coriander seeds
3nos Cloves
1inch Cinnamon stick
1/2tsp Poppy seeds
2tbsp Coconut(grated)

Marinate the prawns in salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder for few minutes, meanwhile grind the ingredients given in the list 'To grind' as fine paste with enough water..

Cook the marinated prawns, until they get cooked and the water from prawns get disappears..Heat enough oil in a pan and saute the onions,curry leaves until they turns transparent, add the grounded paste and cook well in medium flame, add the cooked prawns to the cooking paste and veggies..Cook until the water from the veggies get completely disappears but i didnt cooked until the water get disappears as we love to have our prawn curry slightly with gravy..

Serve hot with rice...