Vegetarian Recipe Blog
The other day when we had been to the grocery stores, we found fresh and colorful beetroots along with it’s beautiful leaves and stems. Beets are an excellent source of the B vitamin, folate, and a very good source of manganese and potassium. Beets are …
Tension filled engineering exams, vast syllabus, Parents care and concern; these are the memories that come to me whenever I cook this. Years ago I used to be a nervous wreck when it came to my exams, the last minute cramming, never ending studies, burning …
Dear Friends,
We have been blessed with a good and a content life. A blessed life full of abundance be it food, clothing or shelter. When we think of food, the only quandary we deal with is “What to prepare for the day”.
We are so consumed with our everyday travails of life that we sometimes forget to look at the world beyond our horizon. But when we do, we see people dealing with hunger, untold miseries and sufferings far beyond our imagination and comprehension.
We see an extreme world where the basic question they deal with is “How do I get food?” to curb hunger and survive. A gruesome world where people struggling to find minimal food, suffer extreme hunger and horrendous death. Even the children are not spared. Poor, innocent and helpless children, who have neither seen the world nor experienced any happiness, have to fend for food to keep themselves from starving and being snatched from the jaws of death.
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We have cheered for one another, applauded others work, given each others awards, and best of all shared our cooking and our traditions. We have also raised our voice, protested and combined our strength to fight against the evil (plagiarism). Let us now join force and fend for the common good, let us root for the children in need, fight against global poverty, strive for a cause that is so big and way beyond ourselves. Let us cumulate our compassion and strive to make a difference in the lives of children, however small that may be.
Let us not wait for Diwali or Thanks Giving or New Year to count our blessings and associate Giving to that time of the year. Let us do it NOW.
Talk about starting the week on a wrong foot and Yours Truly was a victim of this adage this week. It all started Monday morning when I discovered that I had lost my cell phone charger. Since then I have maniacally searched every nook …
I know, I know. There are at least 478219 versions of these fritters available on the internet, blogosphere, food websites, forums etc each offering their own version of making them. Each narrating their story, memory behind the preparation and tips for making it crispier and …
I think it was about 17 years ago when my Father brought home a brand new Bajaj Portable Oven. It was an amazing thing for us back then. It was round with shiny aluminum color, a glass covering in the center and extremely light weight. It reminded me of a strange UFO spaceship in many ways, shape and the look being the dominant characters.
My Mother would then collect interesting baking recipes for cakes, biscuits, cookies etc. We would then watch her prepare the dough, keep it in the oven and fascinatingly watch the biscuit/cake dough from the glass covering transform itself into delightful, mouth watering goodies. The aroma that would fill the house was the one to die for.
One such interesting recipe very different from the regular cake, cookies was this Spicy Cabbage cake a favorite snack of mine any time of the day, year. It is soft on the inside with thick crust on the outside.
Ingredients:
3 cups shredded cabbage (I use the already shredded coleslaw packet)
1 small onion
1 cup gram flour / besan
3 tablespoon oil
½ tsp asafetida
¼ tsp baking soda¼ cup butter milk
3 tsps sugar
2 tsps chilli powder
Salt to taste
Roast and powder the following:
2 tsps poppy seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
¼ tsp corriander seeds
½ cup shredded coconut
2 cloves
2 1” piece of cinnamon
3 tsp sesame seeds
Preparation:
Method:
NOTE: Make sure that the salt and sugar to this mixture taste correct before placing in the oven. Based on my experience it is best to add tad bit more salt and sugar. Let it cool and cut into desired shape.
This can be eaten as is as a snack or with Rice.
Growing up in India, the only color of Bell Pepper that I had seen was green and was amazed by the plethora of colors available here in the US, red, orange, yellow all bright and vibrant colors. Even though it is very hard to …