White Bean Soup & Oats N Coconut Milk Pudding - Tried & Tasted From Madhuram's Eggless Cooking

I just love Madhuram's Eggless Cooking site, before starting this blogsphere i dont even know how to bake cakes as eggless version, i always run behind eggs for making out cakes,even i doesnt know wat to subsitute for eggs while baking, i can definitely say that Madhu was my inspiration for all my eggless version of bakes, really i learned through her blog so many eggless baking and i bake now without eggs and with healthy egg substitute, she is such a wonderful and creative cook and baker, i learned so many variety of dishes using many healthy ingredients like replacing the all purpose flour with white whole wheat flour, rolled oats etc..I really want to appreciate Madhu's kindness towards me by offering cook books which i never had or bought before, i got my first cookbook through her coz of my continous participation to her events, really so nice of her na!!...I came to know through her blog about flax seed meal, energ powder etc, which i never ever crossed my life before learning through her blog..She have a beautiful collections of healthy and eggless bakes with awesome clicks, if u go through her blog u will definitely get confused wat to choose and wat to cook, i have bookmarked so many of her dishes to try and Poornima of Tasty Treats choosed Madhuram's blog for this month Tried & Tasted Event..Needless to say how happy i am, its really a great opportunity to try and taste many of delicious dishes from Madhu's blog..here i start with a delicious healthy white bean soup and delectable oats and coconut milk pudding, yet to come more..Obviously am sending both this dishes to T&T-Madhuram's Eggless Cooking guest hosted by Poornima of Tasty Treats, event started by Zlamushka..

White Bean Soup:  U can find the original recipe here

2cups White beans (canned and drained)
1no Onion (chopped)
3nos Tomatoes (chopped)
2nos Garlic cloves (minced)
1no Carrot (chopped)
2no Celeri rib (chopped)
1/2tsp Dry thyme leaves
1no Bay leaves
2cups Vegetable Stock water
1/2tsp Pepper powder
Salt
Olive oil

Heat the olive oil and sauté the onions with bay leaves, add the chopped carrots, chopped celeri and cook until they turns tender, add now the chopped tomatoes, garlic cloves and thyme leaves and cook everything for a while, meanwhile grind a cup of white beans as fine puree and keep aside...add now the remaining white beans, vegetable stock water, pepper powder, white bean puree to the vegetables and cook in medium high flame, keep stirring for few minutes..once the soup get thickens, put off the stove..

Serve hot with toasted bread slices..Am sending this white bean soup to Sireesha's Soups N Juices Event..

Oats N Coconut Milk Pudding: U can find the original recipe here
1/4cup Quick cooking oats
1/4cup Jaggery
1cup Coconut milk
1/2cup Water
Few cashew nuts
1/4tsp Cardamom powder
1tsp Ghee

Make a thin syrup with water and jaggery, strain this jaggery syrup and heat again in a pan, add the oats and stir for 2-3minutes,now add the coconut milk to the oats-jaggery mixture, once its starts boiling put off the stove..heat a tsp of ghee and fry the cashewnuts until they turns brown..finally add the fried cashew nuts and cardamom powder, give a stir..

Serve hot or warm or cold!!

Horsegram/Kollu Masala Vadai & Some Awards

Vadai with horsegram, dunno whether u have heard about, but i made it out two days back for our evening snacks with our indian variety of horsegram..I got a parcel from my sister a week back from India, with some clothes with some nuts and horsegrams, coz the horsegram i get here are completely different from our indian horsegrams, personally i felt our Indian horsegrams wont turn that much mushy if they are pressure cooked when compared with horsegrams i get here, i was planning to prepare kollu podi or kollu masiyal, but once i soaked them i changed my mind and thought of turning them as delicious, crunchy pakoda or masala vadai, i grounded the soaked horsegram and got a stiff grounded paste which pulled me to try out this masala vadai, i prepared this masala vadai with usual ingredients as we do for our channadal masala vadai..They tastes marvellous.. eventhough this crunchy vadais are deepfried, i felt that there is nothing harm of having this crispy vadais sometimes for our evening snacks...I didnt felt much difference between the channadal vadai and horsegram vadai, but the colour of this vadai is slightly dark brown coz of the horsegram is used for else they were really crunchy and healthy...

2cups Horsegrams/Lentils/Kollu
1no Onion (chopped)
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
1tsp Ginger (chopped)
5nos Curry leaves
1/2tsp Fennel seed powder
Salt
Oil for deepfrying

Soak the horsegram for atleast two hours, drain the water and grind them as coarse paste without water, if its too hard to grind,just sprinkle some water..add the chopped onions, chopped green chillies, chopped ginger pieces, curryleaves, fennel seed powder and salt, mix everything well..meanwhile heat the oil for deep frying, take a small ball from the horsegram-spice mixture, flat them in ur palms and gently put them in hot oil, fry them until they get well cooked, strain the excess of oil with a paper towel..

Serve hot with spicy coconut chutney!

Amaranth Leaves Kootu/Thandu Keerai Kootu

Amaranth leaves well known as Thandu Keerai, we get very much easily if u were living in India..For peoples who are living especially in France, its quite tough to get fresh green leaves liks amaranth leaves, drumstick leaves etc..Last week when i went to chinese store i crossed this amaranth leaves accidently, needless to say how i was glad to get these fresh green leaves, immediately i picked a bunch of this greens and was really happy for getting this greens..You may thing wat about Indian stores, yea we do get many green from Indian stores..but sometimes i felt that its smells really very different and my H also find out that those greens tastes slightly bitter, so its quite a long i forgotten to buy the greens from Indian stores except the methi leaves...Its was recommended to have a greens dish atleast daily or else twice or thrice a week...Greens are really healthy for everyone specially to kids, pregnant ladies and aged peoples...Coming to this amarnath leaves, its seems there are about 60 varieties, some with plain green leaves and stalks while some with red leaves, some with purple lines..While choosing this green leaves, always choose bright green leaves..both leaves and tender part of the stems are edible, the health benefits of this amarnath leaves is very much good source of vitamins including vitamin A, vitamin B1,vitamin C, riboflavin,folate and dietary minerals including calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc,copper and manganese...This green leaves can be prepared as stir fries or simply saute like thoran or as poriyal, this kootu is such a delicious dal with coconut-cumin paste, tastes divine with hot steaming rice and simple potato roast.

1bunch Amarnath leaves (washed and chopped)
1/2cup Moongdal
1/2tsp Turmeric powder
1no Onion (chopped)
1/2no Tomatoes (chopped)
2nos Garlic (smashed)
1tsp Ginger (smashed)
1/2tsp Mustard seeds
1/4tsp Urad dal
3nos Dry red chillies
Oil
Salt

To Grind:
2tbsp Grated coconut
2nos Green chillies
1/2tsp Cumin seeds

Grind as fine paste with the ingredients from 'To Grind' and keep aside...Pressure cook the moongdal and turmeric powder together for three whistles and keep aside.

Heat few drops of oil, add the chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, smashed garlic cloves and smashed ginger pieces and saute until the onions turns transculent..add the chopped amarnath leaves and cook until they shrinks.

Add immediately the cooked moongdal to the greens, bring it to boil, now add the fine paste of coconut mixture, salt and add enough water if needed..cook for few minutes and put of the stove.

Heat a tsp of oil and add the mustard seeds, urad dal and dry red chillies until they get fry and add immediately to the amarnath leaves kootu..

Serve hot with hot steaming rice and spicy potato roast...

German Vanilla Yogurt Mousse

Quick and simple german dessert, which takes really not even five minutes to prepare and the mousse will be ready within an hour to taste coz this mousse need to set well in fridge..I saw this dessert recipe in a cookbook,i borrowed last week...this delicious dessert go for simple ingredients lik gelatine or agar agar powder, yogurt, whipping cream, sugar, fresh orange juice,vanilla essence..This mousse can be served simply with fresh fruits chunks, caramel or chocolate sauce etc..This dessert suits prefectly after a summer meal, make this mousse earlier and it will be ready for ur dessert after ur lunch..After making out salads, pie and baked potatoes with herbed quark cheese,i was planning to prepare a delectable and easy dessert and this mousse was my first choice since it goes for easy ingredients..Voila! am sending this mousse to AWED-German guest hosted by Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles, event started by DK..

2cups Yogurt
2tbsp Fresh orange juice
1/4cup Sugar
1/2tsp Vanilla extract
1cup Whipping cream
1tbsp Agar agar powder
1/4cup Water

Mix the yogurt with sugar, fresh orange juice, vanilla together...heat the water and agar agar powder and stir until the agar agar powder get dissolved..add gradually the agar agar mixture to the yogurt, stir it continously to avoid the lumps..pour this mixture in a bowl and let it cool..

Finally whip the cream until stiff and fold gently to the thickened yogurt mixture and refrigerate for an hour..while serving, scoop out the mousse and serve with fresh fruits and any sauce, i served with peaches and caramel sauce...