Announcement of Rci Gujarat and Mussel Pasta

Hi friends due to some reason my friend lakshmis feeds are not coming in toi..she has announced the round up of RCI PUNJAB today which can be viewed here and for this month the theme is GUJARATI and she has asked me to host it, thanks lakshmi will try my best to host it to your expectations,, , the detail are as follows

1. Blog a Gujarati dish or if you have one in your blog you can send the link and the picture
2. Size of the photo :320x240
3. Send in your entries by 31st May.
4. Mail in your entries to pranks25@gmail.com
5. Non bloggers please send your recipe and photo.

so friends looking forward for your enteries..and varieties of dhokla,thepla and shreekhand.

today i experimented with macroni and mussel and created this recipe...easy to cook without any fuss it surely beats the hunger pangs when you are in hurry ,hungry and dont have much time to cook,..so without wasting any time let me tell u the ingredients and procedure

ingredient for one person ( u can alter the quantity according to your need )

one handful of macroni ,.i microwaved macroni for 6 minutes
in those six minutes i chopped onion and took out the mussel from salt water
vegans can substitute mussel with mushroom or cottage cheese
crushed pepper half teaspoon
salt to taste
tabasco garlic pepper sauce one teaspoon
mussel three kept in salt water for half an hour
procedure

heat half teaspoon oil in nonstick pan
add chopped onions,crushed pepper and salt
once onions turn brown add boiled macroni followed by mussels





put tabasco sauce and fry further for two minutes


serve hot ;-)

first experience of mussel,..nd goan style mussel pulao

what a experience to remember,..i had mussel pasta few days back,,really liked the mussel taste..today when i went for grocery shopping with my son i saw green mussels,..couldnt stop myself from buying,..back home i googled for recipes...and got the goan mussel pulao,..easy to make,..i thought of preparing goan mussel pulao for dinner,..but ididnt had any idea how to clean ,whether to cook after opening the shell,..or cook with shell,..i had asked the guy at the shop way to clean mussel and he told me to keep in salt water before cooking,,i had kept for half an hour, but still was closed..hubby was on night call,..so called him up and asked him,,,he told me to slit open the mussel with knife,,i tried but it was to hard to open,.then i googled ways to open mussel,,and i got this it was written that i can cook without opening the shell,,and on cooking the shell will open on its own,..it was like taking bigtime risk,,i thought if the shell dont open i will just eat the rice,..i had to take risk,,,so i followed,,,which goes like this

ingredients
mussel one cup ( i used four)
rice two cups( i used one bowl of cooked rice,,as i already had leftover cooked rice
one onion chopped
one toamto chopped
one tablespoon oil





green cardamom 4
clove 4
cinnamon stick one inch
red chilli 4
salt to taste
turmeric powder a pinch

procedure

heat oil in wok
add cardamom,clove,cinnamon and redchilli



now add chopped onion followed by toamtoes
add the turmeric and salt..and keepfrying till tomatoes lose their shape
now add mussels



voila as soon as i added mussels they started popping up,,i sighed..i was pretty tensed,,

after two minutes add rice



half bowl of water

cover and cook
mussel pulao is ready to eat,..