Hii friends!!!!!
Its exciting to become newcomer to blogging stuff...its really great to be here.......woo ow!!!and co -incidence its start of fresh life around ...as rainy season comes!!
as the rainy season have arrived in aamchi mumbai...their is aroma of wet mud ......and fresh grass...cold rain drops.....its awesome....!!!
last weekend i went to my hang out area near by home its beautiful on rainy seasons....the place becomes refreshing from your hectic working weekdays....their u can have all types of mumbaiya chaats like pani-puri,bhel,bhel-puri...etc.....
I often visit their with my friends as i get free from my work....mostly on weekends...... hehehe!!!...its great place to hangout and enjoy rainy season besides all that new malls and all...its really boring place to go....i really hate them.....u can get any feeling of outer environment..........yaak!!!!
as we have started about the rainy season...first thing in mind would be yours pakodas and a hot cup of tea/coffee...hehe...wooow what a feeling to have it......
hey!!! I have some recipes for rainy seasons its dam tasty to crackle your taste buds....
Black bean and corn salad
Ingredients: 500
gms cooked black beans, 1 onion, 6 cloves, 2 bay leaves, 2 gms fresh
thyme sprigs, 500 gms corn kernels (drained), 250 gms diced tomatoes
(peeled), 1 gm dried oregano, 30 gms roughly chopped coriander and 10
gms garlic (chopped), 1 tsp cumin powder, 70 ml olive oil, 20 ml white
wine vinegar, 50 ml lemon, salt, sugar and black pepper to taste. Method: Soak black beans in cold water overnight. Drain beans. Now, in the same vessel, add enough water, so that the beans are covered. Cut the onion into halves and stud them with cloves. Add the clove-studded onions, bay leaves and thyme sprigs to the water. Bring to a boil and simmer for approximately 45 minutes until soft. Do not over-cook. Remove the onion and thyme. Strain and cool down. Mix the remaining ingredients with the cooked beans and your salad is ready to eat.
Corn olive artichoke tart
Ingredients: 4 to 5 olives (sliced), 2 artichoke bottoms(cubes), 1 green capsicum (chopped), ½ bowl sweet corn (boiled), ½ bowl cottage cheese (cubes), 2 green chillies (chopped), 1 bowl tomato puree, salt to taste, ½ tsp black pepper powder, 2 tsps chopped coriander, ½ bowl grated processed cheese, 5 to 6 tarts, 2 tsps butter and ½ tsp sugar.
Method: In a pan, heat oil and add onion, garlic and green chilli. Sauté for two minutes and add the boiled sweet corn and chopped capsicum. Sauté for two minutes. Add tomato puree, salt, black pepper powder and sugar. Mix well. Add cottage cheese, processed cheese, coriander, sliced olives and artichoke bottoms and mix well. Fill the tarts with this mixture and place it in the oven preheated at 180 degrees fahrenheit for 10 minutes. Remove the tarts from the oven as soon as the top of the tart turns golden brown in colour.
And my and my sis favorite: chocolate brownie
Here's!!! an easy recipe to make egg less chocolate brownie at home.
Ingredients:
200 gms of grated dark chocolate, 6 tbsps unsaltened butter, ½ cup castor sugar, ½ cup maida, ½ tsp baking powder, ½ tsp sodium bi-carbonate, ½ cup of butter milk or beaten curd.
Method:
Sift the flour, baking powder, sodium bi-carbonate and a small pinch of salt. Keep it aside. In a pan, boil a cup of water. In a bowl, have the grated chocolate and make it sit on the pan. See to that, it doesn't get drowned. Alternatively, you can put the grated chocolate in a glass bowl and microwave it for a minute. In a bowl, add the butter and castor sugar and stir them, till the mixture gets creamy. Now add the melted chocolate and mix them. Add the beaten curd or butter milk and flour to the mixture and mix well. Grease a glass bowl with butter and pour the flour mixture and microwave it for three minutes. Remove it and microwave it again at 70 per cent heat for another minute. Set this aside for five minutes. Preheat the microwave plus grill mode for five minutes at 220 degree Celsius and bake the brownies at 220 degree Celsius for three minutes. Remove from the microwave and let it cool.
Enjoy it.!!!!!!:-)
even i like monsoon.......just enjoying it...
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