WYF: Quick Meal event announcement

WYF: Quick Meal Event roundup

Summer is back and its getting difficult to spend time in the kitchen cooking three meals a day. So why not make a collection of recipes that are quick to make so that we get to enjoy good food done in lesser time..This month Whats Your Favourite event theme is Quick Food..Come out with all those delicious and easy to prepare filling breakfasts, lunch ideas, snacks, sweets, starters and anything that would give you more time to relax without compromising on food.

Please note that

1) After posting your recipe on your blog, please link it back to this announcement and add the logo if possible. In case you wish to send some dish that you have posted earlier, please repost it with the link to the event and the logo. Please restrict the number of entries to three.

2) Please post only vegetarian recipes for the event since this is a 100% Vegetarian blog. No eggs please. If you are a non-blogger, mail me the recipe and the picture.

3) Mail me the following details - Subject: WYF:Quick Meal, your name, dish name and link to the post to easycrafts@gmail.com by 31st May '09. I will pick up the picture from your blog...you neednt send it. The roundup would be published during the first week of June.

Looking forward to your participation in the event.

Cornflour halwa

Recipe source: Priya from Easy N Tasty recipes..

Ingredients

1 cup cornflour
2 cups of sugar
3 cups of water
1 tsp cardamom powder
Roasted nuts
Bit of food colour of your choice
1/4 cup ghee

Roast the corn flour on low flame without any ghee for a minute. Now, add the water,cardamom powder and sugar to it and mix well to a smooth paste. Start heating it on low flame and keep stirring to get a transparent lump. Add food colour and ghee to it and keep stirring it.

When it starts leaving the sides of the vessel, add the roasted nuts and transfer it to a greased plate. Cool and cut into pieces of desired sizes.

Can be stored under refrigeration for 2-3 days.

Please note that a small cup of cornflour gives good quantity and it is better to start with lesser quantity considering the shelf life.
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Just a day left for the WYF:Side dish event to end ..Pls rush in your entries.

Bread manchurian

Ingredients

2-3 bread slices
4 tbsp all purpose flour (maida)
4 tbsp corn flour
4 tbsp gram flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp red chilli paste
1 tsp soya sauce
1/2 tsp green chilli sauce
1 onion cut lengthwise
1 capsicum cut lengthwise
Oil to fry
Finely chopped coriander leaves

Make a thick batter of cornflour, all purpose flour, gram flour, 1/2 tsp red chilli sauce and a bit of salt. Cut the bread into small pieces, dip in the batter and fry them in hot oil till golden brown. Drain out the excess oil using a tissue paper.

Heat 1 tsp oil, add onions and fry them for a minute. Add capsicum and fry it as well for another minute. Add soya sauce, red chilli sauce,green chilli sauce and a pinch of salt. Add the fried bread pieces and mix well to coat it with the sauce.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve immediately.

Just three more days for the WYF:Side dish event to end...Please rush in your entries
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Maavadu urugaai(Small mango pickle)

This is my mom's preparation..

Ingredients

1 kg Tender raw mangoes (called maavadu, vadu manga)
100 grams Salt
100 grams red chilli powder
100 grams mustard seeds powder
2-3 tbsp castor oil
1 tbsp turmeric powder

Wash and wipe the tender mangoes well. Apply the castor oil to it.

Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, mustard seeds powder to the mangoes and then water till the mangoes are well covered with the spicy water. Shake well to mix the masala and keep the jar closed. Every day, shake and mix it well atleast 2-3 times. Repeat the process for atleast a week till the mangoes shrink very well in size.

Vadu manga is ready to serve as a side dish.

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Palak kofta in tomato-palak gravy

The colour of the gravy here looks a bit odd because of the mixture of red colour from tomatoes and green colour from spinach..but it is a very healthy dish and the gravy is a bit tangy because of the addition of tomato sauce.

Ingredients

For the kofta

1/2 cup finely chopped spinach
2 boiled and mashed potatoes
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 tbsp corn flour
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
4 tbsp grated paneer
Few roasted nuts

For the gravy

2 small tomatoes (pureed)
1/2 cup palak paste
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp cumin seeds powder
1 tbsp tomato sauce
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp ginger paste

Oil to fry

Mix all the ingredients for kofta except paneer and nuts. Make small balls and stuff the grated paneer and nuts in between and make balls again. Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown if you are not conscious of oil intake..The ones in the pic have not been deep fried, it has been cooked on a paniyaram pan with just 1 drop of oil for each kofta.


Heat 1 tsp of oil and add cumin seeds. When it splutters, add the tomato paste and spinach paste and rest of the ingredients for gravy. Allow it come to a boil.

Add the koftas to the gravy just before serving.

Serve hot with rotis/pulav.
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Jevarisi vadaam

My mom made these and sent me the pics to share the procedure for sago vadaam ..

Ingredients

1 cup sago
Salt to taste
Asafoetida
Green chillies

Soak the sago overnight in 3 cups of water. Next morning, grind it along with salt, asafoetida and green chillies as required.

Now heat it along with one more cup of water on low flame and keep stirring till you get a transparent and a bit thick liquid. The kuzhu is ready.

Cool well. Now tie a clean muslin cloth (or thick plastic sheet) over some wooden base. Take a small ladle full of the kuzhu and pour it in the cloth to make a small round. It will spread by itself, so leave a little gap between two vadaams. Repeat the process for the entire kuzhu. Dry well under hot sun..

Depending on the heat, it may be ready in a day or may take another day as well. Ensure to keep in a safe place away from birds, animals and dust.

Once dry, it would be transparent and very crisp. This can be stored for a year in a clean box.

To serve, just heat oil in a pan and fry the vadaams one by one without turning it reddish.

Serve with rice or just as a snack.
Sending it over to Priti for her Festive food:Summer Treat event.
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Hariyali Paneer Tikka

Ingredients

200 gms paneer cut into cubes
2 tbsp palak paste
2 tbsp mint leaves paste
2 tbsp coriander leaves paste
Salt to taste
1 tsp tomato sauce
1/2 tsp green chilli sauce
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp ginger paste
Oil

Mix all the ingredients except oil and paneer pieces. Slit the paneer in the center without breaking it and stuff the green paste inside it. Marinate for atleast 1/2 hr in the refrigerator. Cook on tava or grill it in the oven with a few drops of oil.

Serve hot.

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Dosa upma

Ingredients

4 dosas cut into small pieces
2 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp blackgram dal
1 tsp bengalgram dal
1 onion chopped
2 green chillies slit
Few curry leaves
Finely chopped coriander leaves

Heat oil, add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add blackgram dal, bengalgram dal, curry leaves and green chillies. Add onions and fry for 2 minutes. Add the dosa pieces and mix well. Sprinkle little water and cook covered for 2-3 minutes on low heat. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well.

Serve hot with chutney or sambar.

Optional-You can make it healthier by adding some vegetables and tomatoes to the upma.

Sending it over to Mahima for her 15 minute cooking event.

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Bhakarwadi

Recipe source: Neha from Tasty recipes
Ingredients

For the outer layer-

3 cups all purpose flour
Salt to taste
1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
Bit of baking powder
1 1/2 tsp oil

For filling-

1 tbsp gram flour
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp thymol seeds(ajwain)
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
2 tbsp dry coconut powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp sugar
Salt to taste
1/2 cup nylon sev
1 small onion chopped

Oil to fry

Mix all the ingredients for dough well with hands and then sprinkle water to make a stiff dough. Keep covered.

Roast sesame seeds seperately. Heat oil, add cumin seeds. When it splutters, add ginger paste and the onions. Fry for a minute and add rest of the filling ingredients and mix well. Cool and grind to smooth powder.

Make small balls of it and roll it into chapatis. Spread the masala paste over it and roll the chapati tightly till the end. Wet the ends and stick well. Now cut it into 1" pieces and deep fry till cooked and light brown.

Cool well and serve.

Also made some more shapes with the same dough and filling.

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Udipi sambar

Ingredients

1 cup cooked redgram dal
Few curry leaves
2 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp blackgram dal
Bit of asafoetida
1/2 cup cooked mixed vegetables
Lemon sized tamarind soaked in water
Salt to taste
1 onion sliced
Bit of jaggery
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 green chillies slit

Sambar onions-few

For masala paste-

2 tsp blackgram dal
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 tsp coriander seeds
3-4 red chillies
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/4 coconut-grated

Roast the masala ingredients in a drop of oil, cool and grind to smooth paste.

Heat the rest of the oil, add mustard seeds and blackgram dal. When it splutters, add curry leaves, onions, green chillies and asafoetida. Fry for a minute and add tamarind juice, turmeric powder, and mixed vegetables. Allow it to boil for 4-5 minutes and add salt, jaggery, mashed redgram dal. Mix well and finally add the masala paste. Add more water as required to make thick sambar and allow it to boil.

Serve with South Indian tiffin varieties and rice.

Sending over this special sambar associated with the temple town of Udipi to Deesha for her South Indies-Taste of 4 states series and also to Shama's Village special recipes event..
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Kulfi Falooda

Kulfi recipe here..

Ingredients for falooda

1/2 cup cornflour
2 cups water
Icecubes

Make a paste of cornflour and water. Heat it on a low flame and keep stirring. Once it all comes together as a lump, put it into the sev press and press it immediately into ice cold water.

Cut the kulfi into 3-4pieces. Pour the falooda without any water over it. Garnish with chopped nuts and serve immediately.

Sending this over to My favourite things:Frozen Desserts event started by Bindiya and guesthosted by Aquadaze.

This also goes to Srivalli for her Mithai mela.

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Stuffed Alu puri

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Stuffing

1 boiled and mashed potato
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp crushed kasuri methi
1/4 tsp amchur powder (dry mango)
1/2 tsp garam masala powder

Make a soft dough of the wheat flour, salt and water. Mix all the ingredients of the stuffing and keep aside.

Roll out the dough into small pooris, stuff some potato filling in the center and close it from all sides with the dough. Dust with some wheat flour and roll out again into thick pooris without letting the filling come out.

Repeat for the rest of the dough and deep fry the pooris in hot oil.

Thanks Prathibha of The Chef and her kitchen for the "I Love your blog" award.

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Chocolate Poha Kheer

Recipe source: Lakshmi from Iyengar's kitchen.
Ingredients

1 cup poha/aval/rice flakes
2 cups milk
1/2 cup condensed milk
3/4 cup sugar(use more if required)
1 tsp cardamom powder
2-3 tsp cocoa powder
Roasted nuts and raisins

Wash the poha in some water and drain out the dirty water. Soak it in some water for about 1/2 hour to let it get soft.

Heat the milk, condensed milk and sugar for five minutes. Add the poha and cocoa powder to it. Mix and let it come to a boil. Add cardamom powder and nuts.

Serve hot or cold as desired.
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Tawa pulao

Ingredients

1 cup mixed vegetables (cut lengthwise and slightly cooked)
1/2 cup paneer cut lengthwise
1 medium tomato (chopped)
1 cup cooked rice
1 onion chopped
2 tsp oil
2 green chillies-slit
1/2 tsp ginger paste
Salt to taste
1 1/2 tsp pav bhaji masala
Finely chopped coriander leaves

Roast the paneer pieces in a drop of oil in tawa till crispy on all sides. Heat oil in a tawa, add the onions and green chillies and fry for a minute. Add the chopped tomatoes and cook for another 2 minutes till the tomatoes become soft. Now add the ginger paste, mixed vegetables and fry on high flame for a minute. Add salt and pav bhaji masala. Mix well. Finally add the cooked rice and paneer pieces. Coat the rice with the masala and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

Sending this over to Kadumanga's COT:Flavored Rice event

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Palak ka salaan

This recipe is from Nita Mehta's Mughlai Vegetarian Khana book with changes to suit our taste buds.

Ingredients

1/2 cup bengalgram dal
2 cups chopped spinach (palak)
1 onion chopped
1 medium tomato chopped
1/2 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
Salt to taste

Soak the dal for 1/2 hour. Pressure cook it till soft.

Heat oil, add onions. Fry for a minute and add the tomatoes. Cook till tomatoes are soft and add the rest of the ingredients except dal. Add some water and cook till palak is soft and done. Mash half of the cooked dal. Add the dal to the cooked spinach and mix well. Cook for 2 more minutes.

Serve with hot rice/rotis.
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Rajasthani poori

No idea regarding the origin of these pooris..but read them in a personal recipe book of a friend.

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup gram flour(besan)
1/2 cup sooji/rava
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
Bit of asafoetida
1/2 tsp cumin seeds powder
Oil to fry

Make a soft dough of all the ingredients except oil and keep aside closed for 15 minutes. Make small balls of the dough,roll it into puris and fry them in hot oil.

Serve hot with mildly spiced side dish of your choice.
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Maaladu

Ingredients

1 cup roasted dal/pottukadalai
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp cardamom powder
Roasted nuts and raisins
Ghee as required

Make a fine powder of the sugar and dal. Add cardamom powder, nuts and raisins to it. Start adding ghee and keep mixing. Add ghee till you are able to make balls from the mixture. Since I had made fresh ghee a day earlier, I used the kashandu (the darker portion of the ghee that settles down at the bottom of the vessel when fresh ghee is made), the colour of the ladoos is a bit dark..if you use ghee you will get the ladoos in creamish off-white colour.

The laddus can be stored for more than a week.
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Batata song

Recipe source: This Konkani special dish is from Seema's version at My randap blog.

Ingredients

2 boiled and cubed potatoes
Salt to taste
2 tsp oil
1 small onion chopped
1 tsp red chilli powder
A small ball of tamarind-soaked in water

Heat oil and fry the onions for a minute. Add the tamarind juice, salt and chilli powder. Cook for 2 minutes and add the cubed potatoes. Add more water if required for gravy and allow it to boil and get thick.

Serve with rice/rotis.

This is my second entry to the WYF: Side dish event...

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Chocolate Shrikhand

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Hariyali kebab

Ingredients

1 cup mixed vegetables (cooked)
2 boiled and mashed potatoes
1/2 cup thick spinach paste(cook with little water for 2 mins, cool and grind)
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
Gram flour as required

Squeeze out all the water from the vegetables. Add the rest of the ingredients to it and mix well. Add gram flour as much required to make the ingredients into one big lump. Roll them into the skewers and cook them on a tava with oil.If you dont have skewers just shape them with hands like in the picture.

Serve with tomato sauce.

Although measurements are given, they are just approximate..you can adjust it according to your taste. Sending this over to Sunshinemom for the RFRU:Starters event started by Ramki.

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Carrot Poha Kheer

This recipe is the creation of Priya of Easy n tasty recipes. The recipe is the same and it was very tasty.

Ingredients

2 carrots (cook and grind to smooth paste)
1/2 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup boiled milk
1/2 cup poha (aval)
Roasted nuts
1 tsp cardamom powder
Sugar as required

Dry roast the poha till it starts changing colour. Mix the milk, condensed milk and carrot paste, sugar and cardamom powder and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the roasted poha to it and cook till soft. Add roasted nuts and serve hot or cold.

Sending it over to Trupti for the CFK: Rice event started by Sharmi
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Stuffed Paneer puri

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Stuffing-

1 cup crumbled paneer
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
Finely cut coriander leaves

Make a soft dough of wheat flour, salt and water and keep aside for 5 mins. Mix all the ingredients of the stuffing and keep ready.

Make medium sized balls of the dough and roll out into thick poori. Place some stuffing in the center and close from all sides with the dough. Press lightly, dust with flour and roll out into thick poori. Repeat for the rest of the dough and deep fry the poori in hot oil till brown spots appear on both sides.

Serve hot.
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Tawa Vegetable

Ingredients

2 cups mixed vegetables cut lengthwise(beans, potatoes, carrot, cauliflower)
100 gms paneer cut lengthwise
3-4 tbsp oil
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp chaat masala
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp pav bhaji masala powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder

To reduce the consumption of oil, it is better to pressure cook the vegetables with very little water and roast the potatoes and paneer with about 1 tbsp oil on tava.

Heat the rest of the oil, add turmeric powder and then the vegetables without any water. Roast for a few minutes and then add the masala powders and salt. Mix well. Serve hot with non spicy rice variety like jeera rice.

Sending it over to Neha for the FIC :Red and Green event, started by Sunshinemom of Tongue Ticklers.

This is also my first entry to the WYF: Side dish event...so have you prepared your favourite side dish this month

Reposting Kaju Paneer Masala for the Let's go nuts: Cashew Nuts event started by Aquadaze and guest hosted by Poornima of Tastytreats.

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Palak Shorba

Ingredients

2 cups cleaned and chopped spinach
Salt to taste
Pepper powder as per taste
1 tsp ginger paste
1 bay leaf
2 cloves
1/2 tsp butter
1/4 cup milk

Add little water to the palak and cook on low flame for five minutes. Cool and grind to smooth paste. Heat butter, add cloves and bay leaf. Add ginger paste and then palak paste. Cook for a minute and add salt and pepper as per taste. Add milk and cook for another minute.

Serve hot.
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Chocolate Maida Halwa

The recipe is same like my earlier Maida Halwa, just for the difference that I added about 2 tsp of cocoa powder before adding ghee to the mixture. You can add some pieces of cadbury's chocolate.

Sending this over to Poornima for her event "For the love of chocolate".

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Shrikhand

Ingredients

1/2 ltr thick curds
3 tbsp sugar powder
1 tsp cardamom powder
Saffron strands soaked in 1 tsp warm milk

In a thin cotton cloth, put the curds and tie it tightly with a thread. Now hang this at an appropriate place and let the water drain out overnight. Next morning, add the rest of the ingredients to it and mix well. Garnish with nuts. Chill and serve.

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Pudina raita

Ingredients

1 cup thick curds
Salt to taste
1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 cup mint leaves

Heat a drop of oil and roast the mint leaves in it till raw smell goes. Cool and grind it with minimal water.

Add the pudina paste and salt to the thick curds. Temper with mustard seeds.
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Missi roti

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour
1 cup gram flour (besan)
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp green chilli paste
2 tsp kasuri methi (crushed)
2 tsp oil
1/2 tsp red chilli powder

Bit of cumin seeds powder
Finely chopped coriander leaves
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
Oil/butter/ghee for cooking

Make a soft dough of all the ingredients except oil/butter/ghee for cooking. Make medium sized balls and roll out into medium thickness chapatis.

Cook on low heat in tava with oil/butter/ghee as required till brown spots appears on both sides.

Sending this over to Sahaja for her Single serving recipes event

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Paneer manchurian

Ingredients

150 grams paneer cut into cubes
4 tbsp all purpose flour (maida)
4 tbsp corn flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp red chilli paste
1 tsp soya sauce
1/2 tsp green chilli sauce
1 onion cut lengthwise
1 capsicum cut lengthwise
Oil to fry
Finely chopped coriander leaves

Make a thick batter of cornflour, all purpose flour, 1/2 tsp red chilli sauce and a bit of salt. Dip the paneer pieces in the batter and fry them in hot oil till golden brown. Drain out the excess oil using a tissue paper.

Heat 1 tsp oil, add onions and fry them for a minute. Add capsicum and fry it as well for another minute. Add soya sauce, red chilli sauce,green chilli sauce and a pinch of salt. Add the paneer pieces and mix well to coat it with the sauce.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve immediately.
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WYF: Cuisine event roundup

Thanks all of you for your participation and enthusiasm in the event..The entries are in the order I received them.

SuperChef from Mirch Masala (Favourite cuisine - Kerala): Mambazha Pulisseri and Sprouts Thoran