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Bread Medu Vada/ Instant Medu Vada (Come on – Lets Cook Buddies) Entry – 3

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Hey friends hope you all know am hosting an giveaway event for our non- blogger friends . Blogger’s do share this with your non- blogger friends and encourage them take part this event and make this event a grand success dearies 🙂 .. Click here for details to take part in “Come on – Lets cook Buddies” event

Here comes another fantastic and innovative recipe shared by +Aishwarya Srinivasan  … This recipe  looks so yumm and so different. Lets see what aishwarya has to say and also the recipe of this innovative dish.

Introduction

Yesterday I gave fruit salad to my hubby for evening snacks. But he said he wanted to have something hot and crunchy. I had bread in my kitchen and I tried this new recipe. It is an Easy and Simple vada made with bread. No need of soaking dals.. No need to grind.. It is an Instant Medu Vada. Lets look the ingredients of this recipe.

Ingredients

8 Bread Slices  
1/2 cup Rice Flour
1/2 cup Curd (Yogurt)
Baking soda –  a pinch
Salt to taste
Ginger – 1 inch (Finely chopped)
Green Chilli  – 2 (Finely Chopped)
Coriander leaves 
Onion  – 1/2 (Finely chopped)
Curry leaves – 1 String
Cashews – 5 
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
Oil for deep frying

Method of Preparation

  •  Cut edges of the bread slices and cut each slice into four pieces. Place in a deep bowl.
  • Add rice flour and curd to the bowl. Mix well and mash the bread with your hand.
  •  Add Baking soda, Cumin seeds, Salt, ginger, chillies, coriander leaves, onions, cashews and curry leaves.
  •  Mix well to form a dough.
  • Dampen your palms and roll each portion in a round shape balls. Flatten it and make a hole in the center of each round portion, like medu vada.
  • Heat sufficient oil in a kadai. Deep fry each vada on low heat till it is golden brown and drain it.
  • Serve hot with chutney.

Variation:


 You can also make it as Sambar vada too.

Health Mix Chapathi (Come On – Lets Cook Buddies) Entry-2

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Moving on to the second entry of the event . This entry is also sent by Aishwarya .. Hope you all know her now . She is here with another interesting recipe .

Hey aishwarya welcome back..Share some cooking tips that worked for you ?

If you add 1 tsp of sugar to chapathi or poori mixture , it will raise quickly.

Lets see the recipe for this interesting and innovative dish which Aishwarya is sharing with us today..

Introduction

My daughter likes chapathi very much. But she doesnt eat the side dish. Chapathi made with wheat flour have only Carbohydrates. So i decided to prepare healthy chapathi using health mix powder.

 I added ragi flour to differentiate the color from normal chapathi. Adding Sugar to this chapathi, will increase the taste.



Servings: 8 Chapathi’s

Ingredients

Multi grain Atta – 10 tbsp ( + 1 tbsp for Dusting while rolling)
Health mix powder – 2 tbsp
Ragi flour – 2 tbsp
Sugar- 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Water as needed

Method of Preparation

  • Seive Muti grain atta, health mix powder and ragi flour. Add sugar and salt.
  •  Add water and make a soft dough. The dough will be very soft than normal chapathi.
  •  Divide into small balls. Roll it as circular shape or triangular shape.
  •  Heat the tawa, place the chapathi and cook it both sides. It will raise like poori.
  •  Serve hot with Creamy vegetable Kurma and Raita.

Variations

  • You can use the same ingredient  and fry it in oil and it make as health mix poori.
  • You can also make parathas and stuffed parathas like Aloo paratha and paneer paratha.
wow !!! wasn’t that a healthiest chapathi which we would love to make for our family 🙂 What do you think Buddies ? 🙂 Thank you for sharing an healthy and innovative recipe with us Aishwaraya .. Keep Rocking !!

Banana Brown Sugar Sandwich ( Come on – Lets cook Buddies ) – Entry 1

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Hi friends “come on – Lets cook buddies ” is on and am receiving lovely list of entries from our non-blogger friends .  Starting my event with a lovely entry of a good friend of mine. She is a very kind hearted and calm person whom i know . Lets see what she has to tell and share with us ..

Hi   Aishwarya!! Tell my Reader’s about you ?

Hi !! I’m Aishwarya Srinivasan. I did B.tech “Computer Science and Engineering” in SRM University,Chennai. I am a Home maker . I have a 3 yrs old daughter. My hobbies are Playing Volleyball, Surfing Internet, Cooking. Playing with my kid is my recent hobby :).

How did you come cross this event and how do you feel to take part in this event ?

Manjula Bharath is my friend. I used to try her recipes from her Blog “DESI FIESTA”. Her recipes are very Innovative and healthy. I saw “come on- lets cook buddies event ” in her blog. First i was bit nervous then she encouraged me to join. Now i’m very happy to join in this Event. It is a great opportunity for me to try more new recipes. Thanks Manju for giving me such an wonderful opportunity.

Thats so kind of you 🙂 ..Okay lets move on to the recipe Aishwarya has got to share with us today 🙂


Introduction

It is an Easy, Healthy and kids friendly recipe. Banana have lots of vitamins and minerals. Brown Sugar is rich in Calcium, Copper, and Iron. It is best way to introduce brown sugar to kids.

Serving : 2 


Ingredients


1 Banana
Bread slices – 4
Brown sugar – 1 tbsp
Cinnamon Powder – 1/4 tsp
Nutmeg Powder – 1/4 tsp
Ghee – 2 tsp


Method of Preparation

  •   Take a bowl, Mash the banana using spoon or fork.
  •  Add brown sugar, nutmeg pd, cinnamon pd and mix it well.
  •  Heat the Tawa and add ghee. Place a bread slice and spread the mixture and place another slice on top.

  • Flip it to another side.
  • Once it is done, serve hot with soy milk. It makes a perfect breakfast.


Tips

  • You can increase or decrease the amount of sugar according to your taste.
  • You can use any bread for this recipe wheat bread and multi- grain bread are some healthy options.
  • Instead of ghee you can use olive oil for toasting to make it fat free.
  • You can use powdered jaggery if brown sugar is not available but you have to be quick while making this otherwise it will become watery and even bread shouldn’t have tiny hole’s the filling will come out and stick to the pan.

Wow healthy recipe .. hope you all liked this 🙂 Blogger’s do share about this event to your non-blogger friends and encourage them to take part in this giveaway event 🙂  If any one’s mom or wife who is an non blogger wants to take part in this contest you can sent the entries behalf of them.. just you need to mail me on whom behalf you are sending me the entries 🙂