Strawberry - Banana Smoothie and Awards

At last Spring is here, can see colorful Tulips all over. We had a wonderful weather with 80 deg from past three days. It was very humid, felt as if it was summer already. Scared already how hot it will get this summer...Thought of having a something cool and which is also nutritious too for this humid weather... So prepared this smoothie yesterday, today already there was a sudden drop in temperature and is raining heavily. We were just talking yesterday to keep aside all winter clothing and remove our summer wear. Also were talking about drinking more liquids to beat the body heat and suddenly today we are all wearing all socks and sweaters. Just can't say anything.

Ingredients: Nonfat Plain Yogurt – 2 cups Medium Size Ripe Banana – 1 Sugar – 2 Tb spoon (optional, I have not used) Lemon Juice – 2 Tb spoon Frozen or Fresh Strawberries – 3 cups Flax Seed Powder – 2 Tb spoon Honey - 1 Tb spoon (optional) Method:

• Combine yogurt, banana, honey, lemon juice and flax seed powder in a blender.
• With the blender running, add strawberries.
• Process until smooth.
• Pour into glasses and serve.
• This makes 4 servings.

My Strawberry -Banana Smoothie, goes to Priya of "Priya's easy and tasty recipes" who is guest hosting "Food in Color-Pink", an event started by Harini.

Now coming to Awards, Trupti and Vibaas have showered me with these cute awards. Thank you both of you.

Vibaas has passed me "Circle Of Friends" and "You are a Super Duper Chef" award along with these cute awards.

I am really honoured and happy to receive these awards.Thank you. I would like to pass all these awards to each one of you. Please fell free to pick it up.

Dhal Idlis And Awards

This idly is something which is very healthy and can make it instantly..not that instant as the dhal's take time to soak..Only thing is you can prepare this as soon as you grind the Dhal's . No fermenting needed. No rice or urad dhal required for this idly. You can add any veggies to this. Great for kids and for us too.

Ingredients:

ಕಡಲೆ ಬೇಳೆ /Bengal gram dhal - 1 cup

ತೊಗರಿ ಬೇಳೆ /Thoor Dhal - 1/2 cup

ಹೆಸರು ಬೇಳೆ /Moong Dhal - 1/2 cup

ಸೊಪ್ಪು /Green leaves / Dill - 1 cup

ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ /Onion - 1 medium (chopped finely)

ಹಸಿಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ /Green chilly - 4 nos.

ಶುಂಠಿ /Ginger - small quantity

ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ /Garlic - 3-4 flakes

ಕೆಂಪು ಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ /Red chilly - 4 nos.

ಜೀರಿಗೆ /Cumin seeds - 1 Tb spoon

ಕರಿಬೇವು /Curry leaves - small quantity

ಉಪ್ಪು /Salt to taste

ಎಣ್ಣೆ /Oil

Method:

• Wash and soak all three Dal's in water for 2-3 hours along with cumin seeds and red chillies.
• Grind them to a smooth paste along with ginger-garlic, green chillies and curry leaves (Do not add too much water)
• Add chopped onions , dill (or any greens) and salt to the paste. Mix well.
• Grease idly plates, pour this batter and steam for 5 min.

• Dal idly is healthy and ready to be served.
• Serve it with any of the chutneys or kurma or sambar or you can eat by itself.
• I have served mine with simple kurma.

My Dhal Idli goes to Lentils Mela hosted by Ashwini..

I'm also sending this recipe to Laurie's "My Legume Love Affair" started by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook.

PS:

• You can add and greens like Methi, spinach, coriander leaves..
• You can also add any veggies to it.
• Adjust the spice accordingly.
• You can add any other dhal to this.

Now, its time for Awards.. Nithya Praveen has passed me these beautiful awards. I am very humbled to receive them. Thank You so much.

I would like to pass them to all the blogger's who take time and visit my blog. Please feel free to take them.

Deepa has passed me this beautiful and lovely award..Thank You dear..

The award states that:

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement (? big word, lol). Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Its really hard to choose just eight. There are many bloggers who deserve it. But since i have to do, i would love to pass this award to:

• Asha
• LG
• Maya
• Meera
• Poonam
• Nithya
• Smitha
• Pavithra

Awards

Thank You Adlak for passing on this wonderful award..I will always wear it and cook :-)..Very thrilled and humbled to have it.

Thank You Adlak, Malar and Trupti for thinking of me and passing this sweet award..Humbled and honoured to receive this sweet award..

Thank You Trupti for this cute Chat Blog award..Exited and humbled to have this award from a sweet Chat friend..

All these awards goes to all my fellow bloggers. You guys are the best I could ever wish for .. extraordinary friends, my big supporters, who always are there..

This is the world within the world, friends without faces, but certainly not without hearts. It is the beauty of your hearts, that is shining here above all. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Rava Omlet / Dosa with Chutney And a Sweet Award

Almost every Sunday, bread omelet used to be our breakfast most of the times in our house. My mom is a pure vegetarian, she does not take egg or cake or biscuits which has egg. But poor thing she used to prepare bread omelets for us almost every Sunday. She used to make this dosa with rava or carrot sandwich for herself. She used to add different flours every time and make this dosa and she used to call this as omelet and the dish got its name as Rava omelet :-). We used to like this more than the bread omelet. I remembered this on Sunday and made this for breakfast.

I would also like to thank Yasmeen of Health Nut for adding me in her list and giving this sweet award which is created by her. I am very humbled and honoured to receive this. Thanks a lot Yasmeen. You too are a sweet heart..

Ingredients: Fine Rava / Semolina – 2 cups Rice flour – ¼ cup Maida / All purpose flour – ¼ cup Curds – ½ cup Onion (chopped finely) – 1 big Chilies – 6-7 (chopped finely) Cilantro /Coriander leaves (chopped finely) – ¼ cup Curry leaves (chopped finely) – 1 Tb spoon Ginger grated / paste – ½ tsp Cumin – 1 tsp Soda – ¼ tsp Salt Tomato (chopped finely) – 1 big Carrot (grated) – 1 Spring onion (chopped finely) – 1/4 cup Method:

• Mix rava, rice flour and maida with curds and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Then add all the ingredients except tomato, carrot and spring onions.
• Mix them all by adding water to form a batter with a consistency of not too thick or not too watery.
• In a bowl mix tomato, carrot and spring onion and keep aside.
• On a hot tawa pour one big spoon of batter and spread like any other dosa, then add tomato, carrot and spring onion on top.

Apply oil and cook till brown on both sides. CHUTNEY Ingredients:

Coconut – ½ cup Groundnut – ¼ cup Green chilies – 4 -5 Coriander leaves – ¼ cup (chopped finely) Curry leaves – 4-5 leaves Garlic – 1 piece Ginger – ½ inch Salt Lemon juice – 1Tb spoon For Tampering: Oil / ghee – 1 tsp Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp Urad dhal – ½ tsp Curry leaves – 3-4 leaves (tear them to pieces in hands) Red chilies – 2-3 Method:

• First fry the groundnuts until brown.
• Then add all the above ingredients and grind them in a mixer till it forms a smooth paste.
• Then heat oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds.
• When it splutters, add urad dhal, red chillies, and curry leaves.
• When urad dhal becomes brown, mix this mixture with the prepared chutney.
• Serve with hot rava omelet / dosa.

PS : You can mix tomato + carrot + spring onions to the batter itself. If you leave the batter mix for 1 or hours then you will get nice colour . You can also make this as rotti by making it dough instead of batter. For the chutney you can add tamarind instead of lemon juice. You can omit the addition of garlic if you do not like the taste of it.