Tomatoes with thousand island

Ingredients:

Onion - 1

Green chillies - 2

Tomato - 1

Garlic cloves - 4

Thousand island dressing - 1 tbsp

Iceberg lettuce - 6 leaves

How to make:

1. Chop onion in discs and remove layers to get long threads
2. Chop green chillies and garlic cloves finely
3. Chop tomatoes in discs
4. Roughly chop iceberg lettuce
5. Add the dressing and mix well

Verdict:

Thousand island dressing is available widely. I found in spencers hyper market chain and it is my favorite. The salad was simple and tasty.

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Zucchini indian style

Ingredients:

Chopped Zucchini - 1 cup

Onion - 1

Besan - 1 1/2 cup

Coriander powder

Garam masala powder

Pepper

Salt

Chilli powder

Oil - for frying

How to make:

1. Mix all the powders and add zucchini discs to the mixture
2. Coat the discs well with the mixture
3. Heat oil in a pan and add the regular indian tadka (cumin seeds, mustard seeds, split bengal gram, dried chilli and onions)
4. To the tadka, add the zucchini discs and fry till tender

Verdict:

It was simply great. My mom loved it and its a big achievement for me.

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Broccoli risotto

Ingredients:

Brown Rice - 1 cup

Broccoli - 1

Onion - 1

Garlic cloves - 6

Olive oil

Salt and pepper- to taste

How to make:

1. Chop off the stems of broccoli
2. Boil the stems till tender
3. Add florets to another pan of boiling water
4. Let the florets cook for 5 mins and remove them
5. Save the water of boiled stems
6. Grind well the boiled stems
7. Add olive oil to a pan
8. Add chopped onion and garlic
9. Add the stem paste
10. Pour in the stock from boiled stems
11. Add salt and allow it to boil for few minutes
12. Add the rice
13. After rice is cooked, add the florets

Verdict:

Followed an online recipe. Used brown rice instead of arborio rice, typically used for risottos by Italians. I felt I should have used butter or ghee instead of olive oil.

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Chick pea salad with olive oil dressing

Ingredients:

Olive oil - 2 tbsp

Lemon juice - 2 tbsp

Salt and pepper - to taste

Soaked and boiled chick pea - 1 cup

Iceberg lettuce - 6 leaves

Onion - 1

Green chillies - 2

Boiled sweet corn - 1 cup

Boiled and chopped potato - 1 (small)

How to make:

1. Chop the onion and green chillies
2. Mix olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a jar
3. Close it tightly and shake it well. This is olive oil dressing
4. Mix rest of the ingredients 
5. Add the olive oil dressing and mix well

Verdict:

Everything was right in amount. Tasted good.

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Sweet idly with white sauce

Ingredients:

Suji - 1 cup

Guava - 1 (small)

Shredded coconut - 1 cup

Honey - 1 tbsp

Milk - 1/2 ltr

Maida - 2 tsp

Sugar - 3 tsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Chopped almonds and cashews - 1 tbsp

Cardamom - 4

How to make:

1. Mix suji, chopped guava, honey and coconut.
2. Add water and milk to this
3. Mix well and make idlis with this mixture
4. Add ghee to a pan and fry the almonds and cashews
5. Take out the dry fruits and add rest of the ghee
6. Add maida flour and fry for few seconds
7. Pour the milk into it slowly mixing it well
8. Add sugar, cardamom and dry fruits to this
9. Apply the sauce on the idly and serve

Verdict:

Its a twist to a twist. I have seen the recipe on Vikas Khanna's "Twist of Taste - A Sweet Life". Due to lack of certain cookware and my aversion to yogurt, I modified it to sweet idly. It tasted lovely. May be I should make the idlis softer and add a little more honey. Will add the picture when I try this again.

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