Very famous Green Chutney - Mint and Coriander

This is a famous chutney from India that can be made at home to have with meals. Just like south India has coconut chutney famous, this mint-coriander chutney is famous in western and northern parts of India. This is green, healthy and tasty and the most important part is - it can be customized easily. It can be made spicier, milder, sweeter and also sourer as you adjust the ingredients. Here goes the recipe. Relish!

Ingredients for 1 bowl of chutney

Onion - 1 medium size

Ginger - peeled, small size

Garlic - peeled, 4 -6 cloves

Mint - 1 bunch

Coriander - 1 bunch

Green chillies - 2 medium size

Lemon - 1 medium size

Salt - 1 tea spoon

Dry Mango powder - 1 tea spoon

Coconut, grated - 1 Table spoon

Groundnuts - 10 -15 pcs

Dry fruits - as per taste (optional)

Recipe

Put all the ingredients in a mixer. Mix for 2 mins at medium speed. Open and see its granularity and thickness. If it is thick and has grains, add little water and mix again to make it fine. When it has the thickness the way you want, it is ready to have. Apply it on bread and try it out - it tastes very good.

Tweaks

Making it spicy - add more green chillies (so obvious)

Making it sweeter - add more groundnuts / dry fruits / coconut

Making it sourer - add more lemon or dry mango powder

Making it more tangy - add some more onion

Have a healthy substitute to pickle - have mint coriander chutney!

Abood Shake - straight from Dubai at you Home

I learnt this recipe long back when I was studying in Dubai for my post graduation. i still make this at home and relish each and every sip. it is healthy and a great shake to come with Sunday morning breakfast. It is not a extra-sweet shake such as Mango shake or Banana shake but a more healthier one. Here goes its preparation...

Ingredients for 2 glasses of shake:

A ripe Mashmelon / Cantalop (Kharbooja) - ripe is important

Honey (3 tbl spoon in total)

Milk 3/4th of a glass

Recipe:

Mash the melon in a mixer so that it is a thick fluid and no grains are left. For this reason only, the melon should be ripe. After mashing it, put 2 tbl spoon honey (leave 1 tbl spoon for preparation) and 1/2 glass of milk. Whip it - remember not to mash it too long. Taste this mixture - if you feel like making it a little thin, add the rest of the milk too. It is tastier when it is thicker.

Preparation:

Take the glass in which to serve the shake. Pour some honey on inside walls of the glass so that it travels down. Pour the shake prepared above and serve.

Viola - you have a special shake this Sunday. Shake shake baby!

- RS

Egg Rolls - All made at home

Ingredients 4 medium sized Rolls

2 cup Refined Flour (Maida)

4 eggs

3 medium sized onions finely chopped

1 capsicum finely chopped

1 cup mushrooms chopped

Tomato Sauce

Green Chutney

Soya Sauce (optional)

Recipe:

Fry the onions in frying pan till they becomes light brown. Add capsicum and mushrooms. Add salt to taste. Cook for 5 mins and then keep it aside.

Make dough of Maida. Make 4 round balls out of dough. Roll each ball into round medium sized thin diskettes (Roti). Cook one side of the Roti.

Beat the egg and pour on a medium-hot pan. Do not turn it, only cook one side.

Now put the cooked part of roti on the uncooked part of omelette. They both will stick together. Consider this as one roll now. Cook the roti part of the roll, which was uncooked before. After cooking, take the roll off the pan and put fried vegetables on egg side of the roll . Add sauces (tomato/soya + green chutney) over it and then roll it and serve it bottom half within a tissue.

Here you have - home made delicious egg-rolls for your family on a Sunday morning...

- AS