Kitchen-Kollections

This dish is really easy and one can make it in a jiffy. Poha or beaten rice flakes upma is nutritious and quite healthy. One can add colorful vegetables like green,red or yellow bell pepper, carrots, peas..and it increases the taste!! I am sure children who generally avoid veggies would definetely try this one..may be out of curiosity! I added one more ingredient this time..i add boiled corn. Here is the recipe.

Poha upma 

Ingredients

1 cup poha or beaten rice flakes

1 cup – red,green and yellow bell pepper – nicely diced

1/2 cup boiled corn

1/2 cup carrot

1 cup onion

2 or 3 green chillies

a pinch turmeric

1/2 tsp red chilli powder( adjust according to your taste)

salt to taste

Method

Sprinkle some water on poha or rice flakes so that they become soft and keep them aside. Put some oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, jeera, chana daal and urad dal (1/2 tsp each). After they splutter add onion and green chillies and fry for a while. Add all the cut vegetables – carrots, boiled corn, and peppers. Add salt, turmeric and red chilli powder, mix it well and let it cook for a while. Add the poha and mix it well so that the entire masala gets coated on the flakes. Sprinkle some lemon juice and serve it hot with hot tea! Its an amazing breakfast combination!

Hazelnut and walnut cake

Ingredients

Betty crocker pound cake mix

2 eggs

vanilla essence

Nuts (hazelnut and walnuts)

3/4 cup milk

Method

Pour the mix into a bowl and add milk and mix well. Break two eggs and beat them well so that the whole mix becomes soft. Add half teaspoon of vanilla essence. Finally add chopped nuts. Preheat oven to 350 F for 10 minutes. Pour the mix into a baking dish and bake it for 35 min. To check whether its properly baked, insert a toothpick into the cake and if it comes out clean that means the cake is fully baked! Cool the cake for at least 30 minutes. Its the most basic pound cake that one can make..so there are many variations.  I used choclate syrup here and it tasted super!

Its the most simple recipe that you can ever make. I usually make this during crunch time My amma used to make this curry for our lunch box during our school days. Within minutes my lunch box used to vanish because all my friends used to just gobble it up quickly.

Here goes the simple recipe

Cooking time – 15

Ingredients

potatoes – 2 medium size

Tadka

Jeera

Salt to taste

Chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Dhaniya powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Method :-

Cut the potatoes into small pieces. Pour some oil into a pan. Add jeera and let it splutter. 

Add the potato pieces and stir it well so that oil is uniformly coated. Add salt, chilli powder, and dhaniya powder and let it cook. Keep stirring it and within 15 minutes its done!! You can garnish it with coriandar leaves or sprinkle lemon juice and it will turn out to be a tasty snack!

Another variation of this curry is the microwave method. After cutting the potato pieces, apply oil and microwave it for 10 min (on High). After first 5 minutes are over, stir it a little bit and then again microwave for 5 more min. The potato comes out really crispy.

Here I am with a brand new website purely dedicated to my experiences with South Indian cooking and of course my travel tales.  This website idea is purely my dear sister’s idea…and i am just giving it a shape! Hope you enjoy!