Oat Mango Kheer (Pudding)

Eating Oatmeal for breakfast is our everyday ritual including the weekends. On week days it is more of a rush as everybody leaves to go to work and we do not sit and enjoy the taste. On the weekends we have regular cooked oatmeal along with Orange Juice. We add nuts, dry fruits, cinnamon and some brown sugar to our regular oatmeal, and so the combination is good way to kick start the day.   The benefit of eating oatmeal is immense and following are some of its uses:   ·         Help dieters’ cholesterol. ·         Improve LDL cholesterol profile. ·        …

Cucumber Pancake/ Cucumber Rotti Recipe

Given a chance I would eat this everyday for either breakfast, or lunch or dinner. This is how fond I am of this Cucumber Rotti. It is easy to prepare, uses readily available ingredients, does not require any fermentation and the taste is delicious. It is light tasting and also healthy. It is also a good way of using up the cucumbers lying around.   This is a variation of the Cucumber Dosa that I have made before. This is traditionally eaten during breakfast. If you are skeptical of the taste of cooked cucumber then let me assure you that…

Masala Upma

  OK, OK I know I have already posted 2 other recipes for Uppittu/Upma here and here. But bear with me, the taste is different from the earlier ones, aromatic and flavorful. This is different because the recipe uses Rasam powder and aromatic garam masala to enhance the flavor of this Upma.   Yet again, I learnt this variation of Upma of adding the masala while I was in India. All the 3 of us, my mother, MIL and me were chatting away to glory in the kitchen while making Upma for breakfast. Half way through my mother reached for…