Banana Walnut bread

I loved this bread the moment i tasted this. This is super easy.

Ingredients:-
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All purpose flour - 1 cup
Eggs - 2 medium size
Bananas - 1 cup mashed (2 Medium size when mashed this would ake 1 cup)
Walnuts - 1/2 cup
Canola oil - 1/2 cup(you can also use butter or margarine)
sugar - 1 cup( I used brown sugar)
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:-
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1. Preheat the oven at 350F.
2. Take a loaf pan and apply some butter and flour to the pan.
3.Now Mash the bananans well and keep this aside.
4. Sieve the flour with baking soda and salt. Keep this aside.
5. Beat the eggs and keep this aside.
6. Mix the sugar and oil well. To this add the egg mixture and the mashed bananas.Mix well so that everything combines well.
7.Now add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients that is to the flour and mix so that eveythings gets fold well.
8.Pour this mixture in the pan and bake for about 25-30 minutes. When inserted with the knife it should be clean.

Note :-
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You can find details of the above recipe in allrecipes.com

Brown rice dosa

Todays receipe is dosa with brown rice.

Ingredients
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Urad dal - 1 cup
Brown rice - 2 cups
Methi seeds - 1 tsp
salt - 1 tsp
Poha or Beaten flakes - 1/4 cup

Method:-
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1. Soak all the ingredients for 14 to 15 hours. and grind them into dosa dough. While grinding add salt to it and put it in a warm place overnight to ferment well.
2. Drizzle some oil on a pan. Take a laddle full of batter and drop on the tawa, spread it in circular motion as thin as possible.
3. Drizzle some oil on the edges, and let it cook on medium flame for few minutes, when you find the dosa edges are getting seperated , its time to roll on in to cylinder shape.

Note:-
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How to check whether the brown rice is soaked well enough before grinding.
-> Before grinding , take a grain of soaked brown rice and try to break with your nail, if it breaks into 2 or more, its ready to grind else soak for few more hours.

IDLI UPMA

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be”.

Todays receipe is Idli upma which I prepared from left-over idlis. If you are bored to eat the idlis try it in this way...

Ingredients


Idlis - 6 to 7 ( nicely crumbled)
Onion - small size ( nicely chopped)
Green chillies - 4 to 5
red chillies - 2
Salt to taste
Oil as required
Curry leaves -  5 to 6

For Tempering/Seasoning


Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Mustard seeds - t tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Bengal gram - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Method


1. Put some oil in a kadai . Once it is hot, add all the ingredients mentioned under tempering.
2. Once they are golden brown, add onions, green chillies, red chillies, and curry leaves. Roast them nicely.
3. Now add salt. Add the crumbled idlies, and mix it well.
4. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes and serve. Thats it.

Microwave groundnut chutney

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. - Rabindranath Tagore

Recently i happen to taste this chutney this was so good... i was shock to know the recipe from my friend... These days everyone are so alert about their diet... I thought to share this with everyone...

Ingredients
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Ground nuts - 1/2 cup
putnalu - 3tbsp
Green chillie - 2 to 3 (according to one`s spice level)
Tamarind - 1 inch
salt - as per taste
cumin seeds - 1/4 tbsp

Method
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1. Put the ground nuts in the microwave for 60 sec. Later putnalu also for 60 sec.
2. Now Grind all the ingedients with little water.
3. Add the water and grind till the consistency you want your chutney to be.
4. It tastes fine without tadka.
5. If you want tadka . Heat some oil . Once the oil is hot add mustard seeds, asafaetodia, curry leaves and pour on the above chutney.
6. Serve with idlis or dosas.