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Green Papaya Subzi (Palya)

This is a simple subzi made from Green Papaya. Other than eating the ripe papaya, I did not know that you can do variety of dishes using the unripe green papaya. I came to know about this thru my hubby's friend. He used to cook everything possible from dosas, varieties of chutneys, desserts etc..This is one of the dishes..When I got this recipe, I immediately tried this subzi and the taste was amazing...It is very simple and healthy too. I served this with instant dosa.

Ingredients: Green Papaya - 1 Urad Dhal - 1 tsp Mustard Seeds – ¼ tsp Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp Red Chilies – 2 Curry Leaves Chili Powder – 1 tsp Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp Jaggery - 1 tsp Coriander Leaves – 1 Tb spoon Oil – 1 – 2 Tb spoon Salt Method:

Remove the outer skin and cut papaya into small squares.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, jeera. When it splutters, add urad dhal, split red chilies and curry leaves.
When urad dhal has turned brown, add papaya pieces.
Add red chili powder, turmeric, jaggery and salt to it.
Mix well, cover and allow it to cook on low flame without adding water.
Cook until done.

Serve hot with Chapati or as a side with hot rice and dhal.

I would like to send my Green Papaya Subzi to FIC - Orange hosted by Aparna started by Harini.

PS: People who are trying to conceive or who are in their first tri-semesters, please avoid eating papaya, as they say it heats your body and plays a big hand in abortion. Avoid both raw and ripe papaya.

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.

Five Minute Nutty Fudge

“Come ..Fall in Love”…it is so true..I am talking about most watched and my all time favorite movie DDLJ( Brave – Hearted Will Take the Bride). I really fell in love with that movie... I don’t remember how many times I must have seen this movie…still, I will watch it as if I am seeing it for the first time. All the dialogues are so heart touching…my fav is “Hum to Apne Desh ko Hamare Dil Mai Rakthe Hai” and I also love this line…"Aise Bade Bade Deshome Aisi Choti Choti Bathe Hothi Rehthi Hai"… I have seen it so many times that I remember every dialogue and scenes by heart. Oh God.. My daughter is a very big fan of SRK like mom. She watched this movie too with us without blinking her eye. At the end, when she saw SRK being slapped, she din’t want to see that part and asked us to fast forward it. So cute... Nice way to start a Valentine weekend. Valentine's Day without a sweet(chocolate) ..no way. Thought of making this simple fudge, which is chocolaty, nutty and a little kick to it for my two Valentines in the house:-). I have added few pinches of chili powder for just a kick when you swallow. Ya, as mentioned it only takes five minutes to make this but you have to refrigerate for 2 hours.

Ingredients:

Semi – sweet chocolate – 1 bar Condensed milk – 1 can Vanilla Extract – 2 spoons / 2 tsp Chili Powder – 2- 3 pinches (optional) Pecans & Walnuts (chopped) – 1 handful each (1/2 cup combined)

Method:

In a bowl, put chocolate pieces and one can of condensed milk.

Microwave it for 2- 3 minutes on high heat.
When the chocolate has melted, add vanilla extract, chili powder, nuts and combine together.
Cover a foil over a 9 inch square pan, so that it will be easy to remove the fudge from.
Pour the fudge mixture in it and refrigerate for 2 hours or more or until it becomes solid.