Veg Recipes

Vegetable Biriyani

It is one of my favorite recipe of all time. Its a common recipe but the method varies from place to place and from person to person. Lets have a look at my method.

Ingredients:

• Basmathi Rice               -  1 kg
• Beans                           -  1 cup
• Carrot                          - 1 cup
• Potato                          - 1 cup
• Cinnamon                     - 2 to 3 pieces
• Cloves                          - 6-8 number
• Cardamoms                  - 4 number
• Ginger garlic paste        - 2 tspn
• Cooking oil
• Mint leaves                  - 1 bunch
• Cilantro                       - 1 bunch
• Onion                          - 1
• Tomato                        - 2
• Salt                              - to taste
• Small Green chillies      -  8-10

Method:

• Pour 4 table spoons of cooking oil into a pressure cooker and heat.
• Add chillies, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon first.
• Add the long thin slices of onion with a pinch of turmeric powder and fry till light golden brown. 
• Now add all the vegetables (carrot, potato and beans) and keep frying for about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add 2 spoons of ginger and garlic paste, Cilantro, mint leaves and add the prewashed rice.(Soak the rice for 20 min).
• Mix all the ingredients for about 1 minute.
• Add 4 1/2 glasses (250 ml each) of water to this mixture and add salt to your taste. 
• Let this simmer on the stove for about 20 minutes.
• Check preparation every five minutes or so that the water does not dry up. 
• Once the water is completely absorbed and the rice is well cooked, the Biriyani is ready.  

Palak Dal

It is one of the healthiest and tastiest dish. It goes well with Rasam rice or with chapathi.

Ingredients:

• Palak ( Spinach)           - 1 Bunch
• Moong dal                    - 1 cup
• Jeera                             - 1 tspn
• Hing                              - 1 tspn
• Green chillies                 - 3 to 4
• Pepper powder             - 1 tspn
• Onion chopped             -  1/2 cup
• Ghee                             - 1 tbspn
• Salt                               - to taste

Method:

• Boil dal along with onion, green chillies and jeera.
• Allow the dal to cook properly for around 20 minutes.
• Now add spinach to the well cooked dal and allow it to cook for another 10 minutes.
• Now add pepper powder and hing to it and mash dal and spinach together to a fine paste( Can use Mixie)
• Finally add ghee and serve.

Mushroom fry 

Ingredients:

• chopped coriander              - 1 cup
• chopped onion                    - 1 cup
• coriander powder                - 1 tspn
• cumin                                  - 1/2 tspn
• cumin powder                     - 1 tspn
• Garam masala                      - 1 pinch
• Ginger garlic paste                - 1 tspn
• mushroom                           - 1pound
• oil                                       - 1 tblspn
• Pepper powder                   - 1 tspn
• Red chilli powder                - 1 tspn
• Salt                                     -  to taste
• Tomatoes                            - 1 cup
• Turmeric                             - 1 pinch

 Method:

• Heat oil in a pan , add whole garam masala, cumin seeds and when they crackle add chopped onions,  turmeric and ginger garlic paste.
• Add curry leaves and chopped green chillies,tomatoes and cook for few min
• Now add mushroom cook until they become soft.
• Now add pepper, cumin seeds, coriander powder, cumin powder, Garam masala , red chilli powder and salt.
• Cook the mixture and allow till the moisture evaporates.
• Now garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Popcorn Toffy

Now its snacks time!

Lets see how to make this simple and tasty Popcorn toffee.

Ingredients:

• Unsalted Popped corn    -   4 cups
• Unsalted Butter              -  1/2 cup
• Brown sugar                  - 1/2 cup
• Unsalted peanut             - 1 cup

Method: 

• Cream together butter and brown sugar until fluffy.
• Combine popcorn and pecans in a shallow baking pan.
• Add the butter mixture by spoonfuls and mix into the popcorn mixture. 
• Bake at 350° stirring two or three times until crisp about 8 minutes.

Non veg recipes

Coriander Chilly chicken:

It is one of the most easiest and tastiest recipe with fewer ingredients which was thought to me by my friend. Thanks Joseph!

Ingredients:

• Chicken                     -  1/2 Kg
• Green Chilly               - 6
• Chopped  Coriander  - 2 cups
• Saunf                         - 1 teaspoon
• Canola oil                  - 1 teaspoon
• salt                            - to taste

Method:

• Grind green chillies and coriander together into fine paste.
• Add 1 spoon oil in a pan and add the chicken pieces until it is well tender and becomes brown in color ( Initially turns white).
• When the chicken is full brown add 1 spoon saunf to it and add salt to taste and mix them well.
• Now pour the ground chilly and coriander over the chicken and allow it to mix for 5 minutes.
• Now your chicken is ready to serve.

Note: don't add more than 1 spoon oil




Chicken Manchurian


 

Ingredients:

• Chicken                            - 1/2 kg
• Ajinomoto
• Soy sauce                         - 2 tspn 
• Black pepper                    -  1/4 tspn
• Corn flour                         - 1 tspn
• Bread crumbs                   -  1 cup
• Chopped Green onion        - 1 cup
• Capsicum                          - 1 cup
• Salt                                   - to taste

 Method:

• Wash the chicken well. Cut it into 2 inch strips. Marinate the chicken with salt, corn flour/bread crumbs pepper, vinegar and soy sauce and set it aside to marinate for about 20 minutes. 
• Heat oil in a kadai or pan and fry the marinated chicken until it is crispy brown
•  Now fry the chopped onion in a pan until it is brown and now add the chopped capsicum and saute for 5 min.
• Now add fried chicken to it.
• Now add soy sauce,vinegar,salt, ajinomoto and pepper.
• Bring it to  boil, stirring constantly, simmer for 3-4 minutes or until all of the moisture has evaporated and the thick coating of sauce has formed over the chicken. 

My Clicks!!!

 Sunset

Glass Painting

It is one of the most interesting and creative art done on Glass.

How to do:

• First a traced design is placed on the table and the plain glass is placed above the design, so that the design is clearly seen through the glass.
• Now using a marker you can trace the design on to your glass.
• Draw the outline using a glass painting marker which is available in the market.
• Before you start painting the color, test your shades on the corner of the glass and wipe it off with the thinner. 
• The color choice should be perfect  because the stained glass paint gets dried up fast and the correction cannot be done easily.
•  Allow it to dry and place a aluminum foil behind the picture and frame it.
• Aluminum foil can also be crushed and used. Even black velvet cloth or color chat can be used as the back ground.

Tips:The paint is fired so that it fuses with the surface of the glass permanently.

Embossed Painting

It is the most easiest and attractive art.You get many embossed kits in market with variety of templates and colors to suite the design. All you have to do is use your color sense and paint.

How to do:

• The Embossed painting kit comes with a velvet cloth having the design, 6-12 color paints(varies from kit to kit)
• Take the velvet cloth and iron it on the reverse side. So the template gets embossed.(Adjust the heat so that you don't burn your cloth)
• Now u can paint with your creativity. You can also use metallic fabric paints and glitters.
• Allow it to dry for overnight.
• Once it is dried you can frame it and hang to your wall.

Sketching!!!

It is a rough drawing representation of an object or Scene. 

Vanavaasam

Romance

Sivaji Actor

My Mom and Dad

A sketch from Ravi varma's Painting

 Here are some tips for the beginners:

If you want to make a pencil sketch of any photographs:

• Get a full scape printout of the photo you want.
• Now draw equally measured checks using your pencil and a scale all over the printout of your photo as shown in the above image.
• Now you can take a plain full scape paper and draw equally measured checks as in your photo print( Make sure you draw it lightly using your pencil so that you can erase it later).
• Now u can count the checks and draw inside each checks referring to your photo prints. 

Note: Use pencils of different hardness.

Add caption

Sketch of the the above photo

 

 

Pot Painting

IIt is a hobby in which a person paints and decorates a clay pot and vases.It is an interesting hobby done by any age group.

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# You can colour pot with any enamel paint or even fabric paints.

# If you use metallic colors your pot will have good shiningness.

# You can use Clays  or M seal to make your own creative designs and attach it to your pot. but you have to wait till the M seal/clay to get dried up before you paint.

# You can even use all decorative items like beads, mirrors,color ribbons. glitters etc   to make your pot more attractive.

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