Mint Dal

Last weekend i got three bunches for mint leaves from my farmer's market, after using two of those bunches for kurmas and pulao, the remaining bunch was sitting in my fridge to be used at any time...I was planning to make some chutney with those mint leaves but finally i finished them as dal while making dal with toor dal cooked along with onions and tomatoes...Very aromatic dal and this dal tastes prefect along with hot steaming rice topped with ghee or as an delicious side dish for rotis...I prepared this dal bit thick and its really very easy to prepare, whoever loves mint leaves much will definitely love this dal...Obviously this dal goes to Suma's  Delicious Dals From India & to MLLA-22th helping guest hosted by Ruchikacooks, event by Susan..

1/2cup Toor dal (cooked)
1no Onion(chopped)
1no Tomato(big& chopped)
1/2cup Mint leaves (washed & chopped)
1/2tsp Sambar powder
2nos Green chillies(slit opened)
1tsp Lemon juice
1/2tsp Mustard seeds+urad dal
3nos Dry red chillies
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
Salt
Oil

Heat enough oil and fry the mustard seeds, urad dal, dry red chillies, asafoetida powder...now add the chopped onions and slit opened green chillies, saute until the onions turns transculent, add the chopped tomatoes, cook until they turns mushy...Now add the chopped mint leaves and saute until the leaves shrinks a bit..Add the cooked toor dal with enough water along with salt and sambar powder...cook until the veggies get cooked, finally add the lemon juice and put off the stove..

Enjoy this aromatic dal with rice or rotis..

Raspberry & Orange Muffins

To be honest i never ever bought any cookbooks till now especially for baking..When i started blogging i went through many sites and blogs to learn to bake and with those ideas of making bakes i tried loads of baking goodies and i rarely trashed my bakes...But i won a cookbook for bakes and i even baked some muffins from that cookbook given by Madhuram of Eggless Cooking..After a long i baked something as muffins from that cookbook with raspberries and oranges...I have some leftover frozen raspberries in my freezer and i turned them as a yummyilicious muffins which suits quite prefect for breakfast or as a delicious snacks...I enjoyed baking this muffins.

2cups All purpose flour
1/2cup Orange juice
1tbsp Orange zest
2tbsp Baking powder
2nos Eggs (beaten)
100grs Butter (room temperature)
1/4cup Honey
1/2cup Sugar
1cup Raspberry chunks

Preheat the oven to 350F, grease a muffins mould or line the holes with muffin papers.. Sift the flour and baking powder in a large bowl and stir the sugar, make a well in the center..Combine the egg, honey and butter in a another vessel and beat until they turns soft and creamy..Pour the egg mixture,orange zest, orange juice to the flour and stir quickly, dont overmix...gently fold the raspberries..

Pour the mixture in the greased muffins mould and bake for 20-25 minutes, until the muffins turns golden or skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean..

Serve warm!

Sagu Biyyam Murukku/Sago Murukku~~ICC

Sago Murukku, the name itself tempted me a lot..Last month coz of my poor net connection i couldnt participate our every month's challenge, but this month i was quite ready to prepare this Indian Cooking Challenge without any fail, when Srivalli announced this month's challenge as Sago Murukku, i was quite anxious that how am gonna prepare this crispy snacks as i never ever tried murukku with sago, its was quite a thrilling experience to learn and experiment this crispy snacks since the name sago murukku was quite not familiar for me..But for my surprise i got a medium box of crispy and super delicious murukkus which we didnt stopped munching last weekend..Finally i have prepared this sago murukku yesterday and enjoyed twice already.. This murukku is really very easy for me to prepare anytime as this murukku needs just the soaking sago otherwise its really very easy..I have soaked a small packet of tiny sagos which i got from chinese store and prepared this murukku again yesterday, i have doubled the quantity given by Srivalli and we enjoyed again along with a cup of coffee, even my hubby went to his work with a box of this murukku to munch during his break, Yeah we loved it that much....

2cups Rice flour
1/2cup Gram flour
1/2cup Fried gram flour/pottukadala maavu
1/2cup Sago
1/2cup Buttermilk
3/4tsp Chilly powder
Salt
Oil for frying

Soak the sago in buttermilk for atleast 3hours (soaking time depends upon the size of the sago)sago should be soaked well else they might burst while frying the murukku..Mix all the flours together and heat a 50grms of oil and add the heated oil along with salt and chilly powder to the flours..then add slowly the soaked sago along with the buttermilk and slowly knead them to a soft and stiff dough..

Heat oil for deepfrying ..Drop sufficient dough in a murukku press with any nozzle and squeeze out the dough directly to the hot oil..Fry until they turns golden brown..strain the excess of oil with tissure paper and conserve them in an air-tightened box...

Enjoy with a cup of masala tea..

Pancakes - Roundup 2

I was bit late to post this pancakes-sweet pancakes roundup friends, really sorry for it..Was quite busy with new year preparations and also bit lazy to post this roundup(can guess some of my friends saying that u ?? lazy?? hehe its happens)..Am here with many delicious, creative, innovative and extremely tempting sweet versions of pancakes..Thanks a lot to my blogger friends for contributing their fabulous pancakes for this roundup..U can check the savoury pancakes roundup, if u are searching for ur brunch or lazy morning breakfast u must have a look friends..

1)Blueberry Pancakes from Madhuri of Ma Recipes, send us her yummyilicious pancakes with blueberries,  quite easy to prepare and delicious pancakes to devour...

2)Blueberry Pancakes from Sashi of Sashi's Tasty Bites, send an another blueberry pancakes, look at those tempting pancakes, makes me drool...

3)Multigrain Apple Cinnamon Pancake from Latha of A Peek Into My Kitchen, healthy pancakes to enjoy without any guilt, prefect for a breakfast to start a day..

4)Pancakes With Maple Syrup from Sathyasridhar of Samayal Corner, look at those pancakes served with maple syrup, those tempting pancakes looks fantastic na..

5)Eggless Whole Wheat, Chocolate Chip Pancakes from Suma Gandlur of Veggie Platter, watelse we need for our breakfast, an healthy pancakes to enjoy anytime na..

6)Apple Pancakes from Priya Srinivasan from En Veetu Kitchen, send us pancakes prepared along with flours and grated apples, truly very creative pancakes...

7)Pancake from Viki Xavier of Viki's Kitchen, Viki prepared her pancakes with store bought pancake mix,delicious pancakes to enjoy again..

8)Banana Chocolate Pancakes from Nayna of Simply.food, send us beautiful, tempting pancakes stuffed  with banana chunks and chocolate sauce..absolutely divine na..

9)Blueberry Pancakes & Cornmeal Pancakes from Vrinda Mahesh of Sankeerthanam, send us two beautiful pancakes, one is with the usual and fabulous blueberry pancakes but with whole wheat flour while the second one goes for cornmeal, both looks super delicious..

10)Poffertjes/Mini Pancakes from Sonal Agarwal of Palate Corner, Cute and pretty dutch style mini pancakes to enjoy anytime..

11)Banana Pancake from Kanchan of Kitchen Gossip send us her delicious pancakes prepared along with banana puree..I can say that this pancakes are truly very creative which helps us whenever we have some ripen bananas aside..

12)Strawberry Pancake from Preeti of Khaugiri, look at those cute rose colour pancakes, they looks soo gorgeous na, she prepared her pancakes with strawberry puree..

13)Low Calorie Chocolate Chips Pancake from Gita of Gita's Kitchen, healthy pancakes to enjoy without any guilt, any moment of the day, truly prefect for dieting people whoever crave sometimes for pancakes..

14)Pancake With Blueberry Sauce from Jyoti V of Panchpakwan, wat do u say if ur pancakes are served with delicious blueberry sauce, i wont say no definitely...tempting pancakes na..

15)Chocolate Pancake from Deepa of Hamaree Rasoi, a prefect chocolate pancakes for chocoholic person like me..anything with chocolate sounds delicious for anyone na, kids will definitely love this chocolate pancakes definitely..

16)Whole Grain Blueberry Mascarpone Pancakes, Banana Buttermilk Pancakes & Kuih Dadar (Coconut Pancake)  from Swathi of Zesty South Indian Kitchen send me three of her beautiful entries, have you ever add some mascarpone cheese in ur pancakes, if not u should give a trial or must have look at Swathi's pancakes, am gonna try new time surely and the second pancakes goes another delicious pancakes with bananas and buttermilk, while coming to the third entry, look at those green pancakes, a malaysian delicacy with coconut milk, pandan essence stuffed with a delicious coconut filling..

17)Apple Sauce Pancakes from Padma of Padma's Recipes, pancakes with cinnamon flavoured applesauce, wat do u say..i wont say no for the sure...awesome pancakes to enjoy..

18)Apple Pancake from Swapna of Swapna's Cuisine send me a delicious pancakes topped with sauteed apple chunks with cinnamon and sugar..Yumm!! picture itself makes me hungry..

19)Pancakes from Premalatha Aravindhan of Prema's Thaligai, look at those pancakes with strawberries syrup, truly tempting pancakes..Awesome click Prema, makes me drool definitely..

20)Jaggery Dosa from Meena Krishnan of Dakshin, an Indian style pancakes with jaggery..watelse we need if u are craving for Indian pancakes...

21)Eggless Banana Pancakes from Menaga of Sashiga, delicious eggless version of banana pancakes to enjoy without any guilt again..

22)Cocoa Pancakes , Banana Berry Pancakes & Pigeon Peas Stuffed Ball Pancakes from Cool Lassi(e) of Pan Gravy Kadai Curry, send us her three sweet pancakes, coconut and banana berry pancakes sounds truly interesting and lipsmacking, kid's friendly pancakes for the sure..while the sweet version of the ball pancakes truly makes us hungry...

23)Whole Wheat Date Pancakes from Heni of Simplicity's Table By The Sea, very creative and unique sweet pancakes prepared with dates, the picture itself tell us how those pancakes are delicious for the sure..

24)Wholemeal Buttermilk Pancakes With Berry Compote & Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes from Nisha of Look Who's Cooking Too, send us two of her beautiful works, yeah i cant say both her entries as pancakes as they looks truly divine..Tempting pancakes to devour..

25)Eggless Mango Pancake & Eggless Strawberry Pancakes from Harini-Jaya of Tamalapaku, both their pancakes goes for eggless version..delicious pancakes with mango and strawberries watelse we need to have for our breakfast and for snacks..

26)Pancake from Mahi Arun of Mahi's Kitchen send me a fantastic and quick pancake to enjoy anytime..

27)Dark Chocolate and Dates Pancakes from Siddhi Shirsat of Cooked Dil Se..!!, i never thought that chocolate and dates together works wonder for making out pancakes, thanks for this creative pancakes Siddhi..

28)Tuitti Fruity Pancakes from Jaleela of Samayal Attakasangal, have you ever seen pancakes with tutty fruity chunks, definitely u must have a look at this unique pancakes..Yummyilicious pancakes..

29)Eggless Pancakes with Cinnamon Apples from Priya(Yallapantula)Mitharwal of Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes, send me another eggless pancakes which she topped with apples chunks sauteed with cinnamon and sugar...Definitely a fabulous pancakes..

30)Eggless Pineapple & Mango Semolina Pancakes, Eggless Orange Pancakes & Eggless Pumpkin Pancakes from Priya (me), i have prepared my three pancakes as eggless version with pineapple chunks, mango pulp, orange juice and finally with pumpkin puree, go through those eggless pancakes and choose as per ur need...

Voila!! i have posted my sweet pancakes roundup today, hope i didnt missed any of ur entries, if so please do  let me know friends, i'll definitely add them to the roundup immediately...Dont forget to send all ur entries to my ongoing event calling for CWS-Cardamom Seeds...