LEMONY LEMON RICE WITH TANGY GRILLED TOMATO CHUTNEY AND SWEET GULABI LASSI....

Lemon rice reminds me of college days,..i remember in between classes we used to ask our batchmates what they have got from their home for lunch and lemon rice was the most frequent one,..in their tiffin,..as our hostel food was not good,..food got by our localite friends was boon for us...i prepared lemon rice for the first time,..here in singapore and enjoyed with frequently prepared grilled tomato chutney and papad.

recipe for lemon rice

ingredient

rice 300gm

oil to cook

salt to taste

one tsp each of mustard and urad seeds

juice of half lemon

half tsp of turmeric pwder

coriander leaves and curry leaves to garnish

procedure

cook rice with turmeric and salt,drain and mix lemon juice ,

for tempering

in another vessel heat half tsp of oil

add mustard seeds and once they start spluttering

add urad dal and curry leaves,

pour the contents over lemon rice.

Before serving garnish with coriander and curry leaves,..

another variation of lemon rice is to add peanuts and chanadal if u guys knw any other variation of lemon rice do share,,,.:-)

Grilled tomato chutney is frequently prepared at our home,it goes well parantha,khichdi and tehari as a side dish along with curd,salad and papad.

Ingredients for grilled tomato chutney

tomato two wash and dry and keep aside

green chilli one

garlic clove one peel and keep aside

salt to taste

few drops of mustard oil

coriander leaves to garnish

and if u want chutney to be more hot red chilli powder can be added ,i didnt add...

procedure

On a stove grill place the tomatoes and garlic cloves

keep roatating the tomatoes to avoid burning

once done remove the blackish layer of the tomatoes and keep aside

in a serving bowl mash the tomatoes along with grilled garlic,add chopped green chilli,salt and few drops of oil

before serving garnish with coriander leaves.

I TRIED LASSI WITH ROSE PETALS ,mixed curd,milk,icecubes,sugar,cardmom pod one and petals of two rose,blended in mixer and delicious GULABI LASSI WAS READY,Before serving garnish with rose petals.

LEMON RICE GOES TO EC FOR AFAM LEMON

ndWYF COLOUR EVENT

and also to SHEETAL FOR SWC KARNATAKA EVENT

STARTED BY LAKSHMI

GRILLED TOMATO CHUTNEY GOES TO SIG WHO IS HOSTING GRILL IT EVENT

STARTED BY MEETA,

TO SUNSHINEMOM FOR FOOD IN COLOUR EVENT

THEME FOR THE MONTH BEING RED AND

TO EC FOR WYF COLOUR THEME E VENT FOR COLOUR RED INGREDIENT TOMATO.

GULABI LASSI GOES TO SRILEKHA who is hosting ICECREAM AND MILKSHAKE EVENT

FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST AND TO EC FOR COLOUR WHITE INGREDIENT MILK FOR WYF EVENT.

MY BLOGGER FRENS HAVE PASSED ME MORE AWARDS,..THANKS FRENS WILL BE PASSING THEM SOON,..HAPPY BLOGGIN,..CEEYA SOON,..AND U GUYS MUST BE WONDERING WHTS TRICOLOUR FONT DOING IN MY POST THATS CAUSE I AM HIGH WITH INDEPENDENCE DAY FEVER ,,,ITS GONNA BE OUR 61st independence day doesnt that sound great...:-)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL FRENS IN ADVANCE...:-) ENJOY.....

END OF STRESSFUL DAYS...AND BOWL OF GULABI PHIRNI

Last few days were really stressful and tiring for me,.reason being my son was not well,,,but today after a long a time he took his afternoon nap which really relaxed me,,i feel like cooking when either advay is sleeping or hubby is around to tk care of advay,..today finally got the chance to cook in the afternoon while he wa sleeping,..felt so relaxed and good after along time,..after preparing karela bhaji for dinner,,,i felt like preparing Phirni,.with the french rose petals,..since the day i made GULABI SANDESH i thought of giving this a try but was not getting time reason as tld above ,,so today finally thought of trying my luck again with rose petals,..i was scared today cause i was going to boil the crushed rose petals for the first time,..thought so many time what if it doesnt come out well,..then took gods name and started with the preparation

ingredients i used

milk 300ml

freshly grounded rice powder four tablespoon

sugar to taste

milkmaid one tablespoon

crushed french rose petals of 6 roses

three to four petals to garnish

procedure

boil milk in pan

once milk starts boiling lower the flame

add sugar followed by rice powder

add crushed rose petals and milk maid

simmer for two minutes and remove from flame

garnish with rose petals an keep in freeze

i couldnt control myself so had it hot,..nd took again another serving,..liked it so much,,advay too .//

thanks again Rachna,,cause of the flower power event i used these lovely flowers,..r would have never known their use

and ya the bowl of gulabi phirni relaxed me too,,,:-)

thats all for today frens,,cee u all tomorrow,.

this one is for u to taste

enjoy....:-)

GULABI PHIRNI goes to original recipe event

hosted by lore of culinarty

MEETHE MAI GULABI SANDESH OR NAMKEEN MAI BATATA VADA,...

When i first heard about flower power theme of Jhiva hosted by Rachna i was not sure whether i will participate or not,.cause couldnt relate flowers with cooking,..then i saw Vanis post of HIBISCUS MILK and got inspired to try my luck with flowers,.good theme RACHNA FLOWERS are really powerful and addition of flowers if used properly will surely enhance the taste....thats what i did yesterday...i had a new pack of dried french rose lying in my store from quiet a long time ,..yesterday finally took it out and tried my luck with them,,.as soon as i opened the packet..i was transformed somewhere else,..the aroma of dried french roses was like smell therapy for me,..felt so good,..,mmm..its cant be described in words,..sorry i went somewhere else,..i am back..ya with the french roses finally out of the pack,..i prepared home made cottage cheese...mashed it properly,..kept aside ,in a grinder i added petals of about eight french roses two cardamom and four tablespoon of sugar,..and grounded everything together,.i mixed this mixture in the mashed cottage cheese ,..and mashed again till everything blended together..i tried giving shapes of petals,..but it didnt come that well,..i topped the sandesh with petals of the dried flowers,..and kept in fridge for 10 minutes,

..was scared how the sweet would taste,,,asked hubby ,he liked a lot,..and ya even i liked it too,..since i prepared sweet with rose petals and in the same way as i prepare sandesh i named the sweet GULABI SANDESH and they go to the flower power event hosted by Rachna. and to ORIGINAL RECIPE EVENT
HOSTED BY LORE OF CULINARTY

thanks a lot Rachna for hosting this lovely event or i would have never tried the dried french roses

Yesterday i tried something else for the first time,BATATA VADA

,..reason being again rain,thought of preparing pakodi initially but when i saw the recipe of BATATA VADA

i was tempted to give it a try ,.. enjoyed delicious batata vadas with tea,..

these BATATA VADA GO TO

SWC MAHARASHTRA HOSTED BY NEHA

and to the PAKODA CONTEST HOSTED BY RUSHINA

COMING TO AWARD LAKSHMI HAS PASSED ME FRIENDSHIP AWARD,THANKS A TON LAKSHMI

thats all for today frens ,..happy bloggin cee ya tomorrow,..