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(234)Parsley Garlic Cubes

Ingredients

  • 50 gms. fresh Parsley.
  • 50 gms. fresh green Garlic
  • Olive oil.
  • Ice tray.

Method

  1. Pluck roots and pods separately from the green leafy Garlic.
  2. For Parsley Garlic cubes we need only leaves so finely chop Garlic leaves and keep aside.
  3. Pluck Parsley leaves, finely chop and keep aside.
  4. Mix ⅓ cup Parsley leaves and ¼ cup Garlic leaves and wash thoroughly together.
  5. Spread over the kitchen towel to drain excess water.
  6. Filled the ice tray cavities with these greens.
  7. Pour Olive oil over these greens and fill the oil up to the rim of the cavities.
  8. Keep this tray in the freezer for 8-10 hrs. So that olive oil will freeze and Parsley cubes ready.
  9. Enjoy your pasta and noodles vegetables with flavour of Parsley and Garlic.
Garlic
Parsley
After 8 hours in the freezer
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Healthy food

(222)Nomato Sauce

Ingredients

Method

  • 500 gms. Pumpkin.
  • 2 medium size Onions.
  • ½ cup Basil leaves.
  • ¼ cup soft kokum( Garcinia indica)
  • 6 Garlic pods.
  • 3 tbsp. Mixed herbs.
  • 3 tbsp. Virgin olive oil.
  1. Peel pumpkin and wash. Grate or chop in a chopper and keep aside.
  2. Peel and wash onions and garlic pods. Chop in a chopper and keep aside.
  3. Finely chop Basil leaves and keep aside.
  4. Wash the Kokum and make a fine paste of it and keep aside.
  5. In a nonstick pan mix olive oil with all chopped ingredients and salt. Cook on a fast flame.
  6. When chopped vegetables turn tender add mixed herbs and kokum paste. Mix thoroughly and again cook for 5 more minutes and nomato sauce is ready.
  7. To achieve the perfect consistency of nomato sauce grind into coarse paste once it cools.
  8. Taste the sauce and if you want a more tangy taste then mix lemon juice to it when it cools completely.
  9. Enjoy Namato sauce in pizza and pasta when you are allergic to tomatoes.

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Healthy food

(198)Tomato ketchup

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Red Tomatoes.
  • 1 tbsp. Oil.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 6 whole Clove.
  • 6 whole Black pepper.
  • 1 Onion( optional).
  • 3 Garlic pods (optional).
  • 1½ tsp. Salt.
  • 3 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. Red chilli powder.

Method

  1. Wash and cut each tomatoes into roughly 8 parts.
  2. Peel onion, wash and cut into roughly 8 parts.
  3. Cut Garlic pods into 2-4 parts.
  4. Heat oil in nonstick sauce pan.
  5. Soute Clove, Cinnamon stick and pepper corns for 30 seconds and add onion pieces, garlic and tomato pieces.
  6. Cook for 15 minutes on slow flame.
  7. Switch off the flame and once whole content has cooled down, grind into fine puree.
  8. Strain the puree and again heat to reduce water to get saucy consistency .Stir continuously otherwise it will stick to bottom of the pan.
  9. Store into air tight jar for 3-4 weeks in refrigerator.
  10. And if you want to store more, make cubes and store these cubes in deep freezer for 3-4 months.
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(146) Mixed Herbs Butter.

Ingredients

  • 100 gms. Amul butter.
  • 1tbsp.finely chopped fresh Parsley.
  • 1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh Basil.
  • ¼ tsp. Oregano powder.
  • ½ tsp. Chilli flakes ( optional)
  • 4 Garlic pods or 1 tbsp. green garlic paste.

Method

  1. Pluck leaves of Parsely from stalks.
  2. Wash leaves and finely chop. Keep aside.
  3. With the help of rolling pin crush Garlic pods into smooth paste. Keep aside.
  4. Bring butter to room temperature .
  5. In mixing bowl, mix all ingredients- butter, Parsely leaves, Oregano powder, Chilli flakes and Garlic paste.
  6. Mix well and refrigerate.
  7. It remains fresh for 6 months in freezer.
  8. Apply this butter on bread, bhakhri, roti, paratha, kulcha, chila, Idli, Dosa or as you wish.
Mixed Herbs Butter
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(142)Mixed Herbs Garlic Bread.

Ingredients

Method

  1. On each slice of bread apply generously mixed herbs garlic butter .
  2. Either use as it is or make a toast of bread in non stick pan.
  3. Mix herb garlic toast is more tastier than bread.
  4. Enjoy with Olive-Tomatoes pasta or Basil pasta or Tangy tomato pasta or with masala tea or as you wish .
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Healthy junk fóod pesto Quick Cooking Tips

(141)Olive Tomato Pesto

Ingredients

  • 1 kg. tomatoes.
  • ½ pkt. Cherry tomatoes.
  • ⅔ cup green olives. ( or take half of black olives)
  • ⅓ cup Jalepino.
  • 2 medium size onions.
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • 1 cup (100 gms.) fresh parsley.
  • 1 cup( 100 gms.) fresh basil.
  • 1 tbsp. Mix herbs powder.
  • 125 ml. Olive oil.
  • 2 tbsp. salt.
  • 1 tbsp. sugar.

Method

  1. Cut cherry tomatoes, make a paste in mixture. Sieve the pulp and discard seeds portion. Pulp keep aside.
  2. Cut each tomatoes into 8 parts, remove seeds , make a coarse paste and keep aside.
  3. For use of seeds please go through my Beauty tips from kitchen
  4. Make fine paste of onion and garlic and keep aside.
  5. Make fine paste of Olives and Jalapeno. keep aside.
  6. Pluck leaves of Basils and Parsley from the stalks, wash thoroughly and make a coarse paste .
  7. In big thick bottom pan mix all pastes. Add salt, sugar and Olive oil and cook on slow flame.
  8. Stir continuously till oil separates. Add Oregano powder, mix thoroughly.
  9. Switch off the flame, Olive Tomatoes pesto is ready and keep aside to cool down.
  10. Fill mould trays with pesto and refrigerate.
  11. After 6-7 hours unmould pesto cubes and fill in either freezer safe box or in ziplock bag for further use.
  12. For 1 cup saute exotic vegetables and 1 cup boiled pasta you need 7-8 cubes of Pesto. Cubes are half spheres of 1½ cms.diameter.
  13. Enjoy Olive Tomatoes pasta with Garlic bread.
Seeds remove from Tomatoes
leaves of Parsely and Basil
Tomatoes cut into dice for making pulp
pulp of tomatoes
sieve portion of cherry tomatoes pulp.
coarse paste of Parsely and Basil.
Paste of Green Olives
Paste of Onions and Garlic pods
Olive-Tomatoes Pesto
Olive-Tomatoes Pesto ready
Olive-Tomatoes Pesto in ice tray.
Olive-Tomatoes Pesto cubes.
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Dessert Sweets

(87) Pancake

Ingredients

Method

  1. Prepare the batter following the instruction given on the pancake mix box.
  2. Pour the batter on dosa tawa either in stencil or round shape.
  3. Roast in butter or ghee .
  4. Serve hot with different toppings like nutella spread, honey, maple syrup, athana no sambhar for salty ,hot and tangy taste , golkeri for sweet and tangy taste or as your desire.
Pouring consistency of batter
Making of heart shaped pancake.
Pancakes with different spreads
Achari pancake
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(64) Chili flakes

Ingredients:

  • 100 gms. Kashmiri chilis.
  • 50 gms. Byadgi chilis.

Method:

  1. Dry roast both chilis in non-stick pan on slow flame.
  2. After 5-7 mins. switch off the flame and cool down completely.
  3. Wear gloves and then remove stem,veins and seeds from each chili.
  4. In dry grinder pulse it for 1-2 times and chili flakes are ready.

Kashmiri chilis give colour and flavours whereas Byadgi mirch gives pungency to your chili flakes .So according to your choice ,you can change proportion of chilis .

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(63) Mix herbs

Ingredients:

There are many readymade mix herbs are available in market but if you buy pure dry herbs and mix together all above in equal proportions at home then this magic bottle can turn any dish (Soup, salads, Sandwiches, veggies, pizza , pasta… endless possibilities) from blah to Wahh.

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(59) Pizzasauce

Ingredients

  • 750 gms ( 8 medium size) tomatoes.
  • 1 medium size onion.
  • 1 tbsp. finely chopped garlic.
  • 1 tbsp.mix herbs.
  • 1 tbsp. olive oil.
  • 2 tsp. salt.
  • 1 tsp. chili powder.
  • 1 tsp.Sugar.

Method:

  1. Pierce knife in tomato and roast till skin separates from tomato directly on flame. Same process for all tomatoes and for onion till upper layer burnt.
  2. Remove skin of tomatoes and onion.
  3. Out of 8 ,4 deeseeded and finely chopped. Remaining of 4 tomatoes and onion make a paste.
  4. Heat oil in non-stick pan and saute garlic for 1 min. Add tomatoes and sugar in it and saute till it mashed.
  5. Add tomato onion puree, salt, mix herbs and chili powder in it.
  6. Smear for 5-7 mins till it becomes thick sauce like consistency.
  7. Pizzasauce is ready.

You can also enjoy this pizza sauce in preparation of tangy tomato pasta.