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Pudina/ mint chutney

Hi dear readers, Here, I am going to share my mom's widely liked pudina chutney recipe with you . Generally people do not like pudina chutney much and prefer coriander chutney. But if you will follow the recipe , I can give you in written that you are going to forget coriander chutney. I have made this chutney so many times in my house, and always gathered praises for the same. Here comes the pudina chutney recipe: You will need One bunch of pudina , Two finely chopped medium size red onion, tamarind sauce, salt, red pepper powder, sugar Take a blender (not mixer) , put leaves of pudinas , finely chopped two onions ,1 tbsp of tamarind sauce, 1 tsp of salt, 1/2 tsp of red pepper and 1 tbsp of sugar Blend everything together. You can add few drops of water to make the blending process easy. Once everything blends together, taste and adjust ingredients accordingly,, if you like sweeter chutney add sugar, if your like tangy taste add tamrind paste :) Serve as a side it

Healthy Murmure (puffed rice) dahi poha

Hello dear readers, If you despise eating poha for breakfast then I have one beautiful alternative for you, which tastes better and scores equal on health scale. It is dahi Murmure (puffed rice) poha. Here comes the recipe... Soak puffed rice or Murmure in water for some 10 minutes After 10 mins, drain out water completely from puffed rice and put them in a separate bowl. Add peanut powder almost 50 percent of puffed rice quantity  ( roast peanuts and grind into fine powder) Now Add Channa Daal powder ( you get in market or you can roast daal and grind it ) Add black pepper and salt as per taste Toss everything together Now heat oil in PAN and add mustard seeds and a pinch of Hing. Once mustard seeds start splutter , add onions Sauté till transulent in colour Add the above ingredients Sauté for a minute Add curd in the end and mix everything together Sauté for a minute Garnish with coriander and serve the healthy dahi poha to your family :) 

Breakfast-Healthy roasted peanuts and yogurt sandwich

Hello dear readers, Here I bring you one delicious and easy breakfast sandwich recipe. It is quick and healthy. You just need some peanuts, yogurt, and salt & pepper to taste. Here comes the quick recipe Dry roast peanuts in a PAN Grind peanuts into powder Now add curd to the peanut powder. Add as per the consistency you like. Now mix both the ingredients and add salt & pepper as per taste. Now spread the mixture on the bread and top it with second bread slice. Now grill the sandwich and enjoy :)

Egg Muffins

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Hello dear readers, I bought a muffin tray last week but then the next day the thought of clean eating struck to my mind. So, now what should I do with the muffin tray, I did not buy it to keep it as a showcase. But then as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, I found this interesting recipe of egg muffins. Damn, the taste is still there on my mind. Let's quickly go through the recipe, Muffins - 10 Take a pan, heat oil and sauté onion and tomatoes until half cooked. Now pour the ingredients in muffin tray as first layer. Now take a bowl and beat 4 eggs Add one cup milk 1/2 tsp of baking powder salt and pepper as per taste. Now pour the mixture over the onion and tomato mixture. Do not fill the mould up till top because, we have added baking powder, which will bring the mixture to a rise. Bake the egg muffin in preheated oven at 375 degree for 20-25 minutes. Let it cool down for a while and serve with chilli sauce :)

Tasty and healthy vegetable soup

Hello dear readers, It is truly said that less is more. I cooked vegetable soup and I did not know that it will be so easy and of course, tasty. Just three steps and your vegetable soup is ready. Here comes the recipe- Finely chopped all the vegetables ( tomatoes , peas, cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms or any of your favourite vegetable ) Boil all the vegetables in drinking water . Put little salt and turmeric powder . Once the vegetables are boiled , pour the vegetable in soup bowls and add salt and black pepper as per your taste. Isn't it easy :)

Banana Loaf or cake

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Hello dear friends For this post, all the credit goes to Dear Nada who shared this 50 years old recipe with me.  I followed the recipe blondfolded and trust me, I never ended up baking a cake loaded with awesomeness. Really! Everybody , who ate it, fell in love with the cake.  50 years old recipe  As this recipe is some 50 years old , so you won't be familiar with few terms here. Let me help you with the terms. Soft Aslik Flour - Any all purpose floor Soft shortening - butter at room temperature  Buttermilk- mix one tsp of vinegar in one cup of yogurt. Do try this recipe!   

Masala Pav Bhaji

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Hello Readers, Today's recipe is Pav Bhaji. It is a curry we prepare in India with vegetables and serve with a special bread called Pav or ladi Pav. My friend Neerja from Doha shared this recipe with me and I cooked it today for brunch. We had few friends coming over so I cooked in huge quantity and thought we will have it for dinner as well. But imagine what, friends ate it all and what can give you more happiness when your food is appreciated by all. So here comes the recipe    We will need  Two medium sized potatoes  One cup chopped cauliflower One cup peas Three chopped carrots  One medium sized chopped green capsicum  3 medium sized tomatoes - chopped  Put all the above chopped vegetables , add water , salt and turmeric powder. Boil all the vegetables together. You can also pressure cook the vegetables. Aim is to boil all the vegetables to the extent that we can easily mash these veggies later.  Once the vegetables are boiled, drain out

BookLoversDay at Nando's Hyatt Plaza

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Hello, On 9th August, we registered ourselves on eventbrite for Dohatweetup's BookSwap event at Nando's. Nando's lately launched its new outlet in Hyatt plaza in collaboration with DohaTweetups to mark National Book Lovers day. The event was about food and books. More about food and less about books. But Nando's served some really nice food to all the guests present. The staff is friendly and greeted everybody with a very pleasant smile. Let's have a look at the event's photos. Mezze Platter  Interior @ Nando's More tasty food Loved the veggie bean role..yummyyyyyy My loving husband and I Books everybody brought and swapped wrapping up photo  Follow dohatweets up and become part of book swap and many more events. :)

Frame by Frame Punjabi Parantha Breakfast

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Hello dear readers, We are punjabi's and we start our day with wheat flour. We do not really mind it because we just cannot digest even the concept of eating bread butter, poha for breakfast. Here comes the frame by frame steps of making a very simple piranha with salk, red chilli and ajwaiin  Smear ghee on both the sides and shallow fry parantha Use kitchen cloth to press paranth to cook the surface evenly Keep flipping the sides of piranha Enjoy with bhartha or any vegetable and curd.

Bhartha's Frame by Frame Recipe

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Hello dear readers, I am going to show the recipe of my favourite vegetable - Eggplant, frame by frame. Hope you like it. The photos may not be very clear, but the purpose is to make the process of learning easy for you all :) Roast eggplant roast it from all sides This is how roasted eggplant looks like Now, peel off the skin Mash it with fork or fingers Heat a pan, add one tbsp of ghee and once the ghee is hated , add one medium size chopped onion Add ginger  Saute until onions turn into golden colour and garlic is cooked Add tomatoes -one chopped sauté until tomato is softer and is cooked Add eggplant Add spice cumin powder, coriander powder, salt, red chilli powder, black pepper Warning- no mustard powder/ haldi Mix sides well with eggplant and onion tomato tadka. Let spices cook and serve delicious "Bhartha with "Paronthi" (Check recipe in the blog)