Saturday, 11 July 2015

HEALTHY TASTY PEA SALAD


Necessary Ingredients:
1.     1 package (10 ounces) frozen, petite peas or 2 cups fresh peas
2.    1 cup chopped cauliflower
3.   1 cup diced celery
4.  1 cup coarsely chopped cashews
5.   4 strips bacon cooked crisp, crumbled
6.   ¾ cup diced green onions
7.   2 teaspoons  mustard
8.   ¼ cup sour cream / Greek Yogurt
9.   ¾ cup salad dressing
Cooking Method:
For this delicious, tasty salad recipe, if you use “Greek yogurt” instead of sour cream, then you’ll be able to save some calories and cut some fat which will make this more healthy and tasty as “Greek yogurt” is fat free.
Preparation of “Greek Yogurt”:
1.    Line a mesh strainer with paper towel and put the yogurt in.
2.   Place the strainer in a bowl and set on the counter for an hour or so.
3.  What is left in the strainer is very much like sour cream after a lot of the water drains into the bowl.
Preparation of “Pea Salad”:
1.      In a small bowl, add Greek yogurt / sour cream, the dressing and mustard.
2.     Stir until well blended and set aside.
3.    Rinse peas in hot water (or steam until tender, if fresh) and drain.
4.    In a large bowl, combine the peas, celery, cauliflower, cashews, and onions.
5.     Toss the dressing together with the salad and chill covered for at least 1 hour.
6.     Sprinkle the bacon over the top and serve immediately.


Thursday, 9 July 2015

STUFFED CUCUMBERS RECIPE

AREN’T YOU Looking FOR A VEGETABLE RECIPE WHICH IS NOT ONLY HEALTHY BUY ALSO is OF GREAT TASTE? “Stuffed cucumbers” is that kind of healthy tasty vegetable and the recipe of this delicious vegetable is below:-
  
           
Necessary Ingredients:-
1.     Middle sized cucumbers 4 piece
2.    Middle sized potatoes 1 piece
3.   Nut oil 5 tbsp.
4.  Grind ginger 1 tsp.
5.   Grind garlic ½ tsp.
6.   Minced onion ¼ cup
7.   Mung pulse ¼ cup
8.   Minced carrots ¼ cup
9.   White pepper ½ tsp.
10.                       Soy sauce 1 tsp.
11. Tasting salt (according to your taste)
Cooking Method:
1.      Cut the skin of the cucumbers and cut middle of every cucumber so that one cucumber can turn into two pieces. Now separate the seeds of the cucumbers from middle.
2.     Boil potatoes and mash them.
3.    On a pan, heat 2 tbsp. oil and then add ginger, garlic, cucumber seeds, onion, mung pulse, carrot and tasting salt.
4.    Stir for 4 minutes and fry them.
5.     Now remove the pan from heat and add mashed potatoes and soy sauce with the mixture.
6.     Now take the mixtures from pan to a plate and wait until its heat is removed.
7.     Now divide the mixture into eight divisions. Fill this mixture in every cucumber pieces.
8.     On a pan, heat 3 tbsp.oil and place the mixture filled 8 pieces of cucumbers there. Keep the mixture filled open part on top.
9.    Cover the pan for 5 minutes turning on low heat.
10. Now remove the stuffed cucumbers and decorate them on a dish and keep the mixture filled open part on top.
At last, spread some sweet and sour sauce on top and enjoy the healthy tasty vegetable dish “Stuffed Cucumbers”

Friday, 12 June 2015

POTATO SALAD WITH STEAK



Necessary Ingredients:                  
1.     3 new potatoes or red potatoes, scrubbed well
2.    1 pound grilled flank steak
3.   ½ cup French fried onion rings divided
4.  ½ cup cut into 1-inch pieces and cooked green beans
5.   2 ounces fresh mushrooms wiped clean, sliced
6.   ¼ cup finely chopped red bell pepper
7.   ½ teaspoon salt
8.   1 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
9.   ½ cup salad dressing                
10.           3 cups torn lettuce leaves
Cooking Method:
1.    Add the potatoes in a large pot and enough water to cover.
2.   Add salt and bring the water to boil. For 10 to 15 minutes cook the potatoes or until tender when pierced with a fork. Drain and set aside to cool slightly.
3.  In a large bowl, over lettuce leaves, arrange steak, potatoes, beans, mushrooms, ½ cup onion rings and bell pepper.

4.    Serve with dressing on the side and top with remaining onion rings.

Friday, 5 June 2015

TASTY VEGETABLE FINGERS' RECIPE


Necessary Ingredients:
1.     3 boiled and mashed potatoes
2.    ½ fenugreek (methi)
3.   ½ cup chopped carrots
4.  4-5 chopped beans
5.   1 cup bread crumbs
6.   1 egg
7.   Salt to taste
8.   Oil for frying
Cooking Method:
1.      Mix all the ingredients (without egg, bread crumbs and oil) in a bowl
2.     Shape the mixed ingredients like fingers.
3.    Coat the vegetable fingers first with egg, then with bread crumb.
4.    Take oil in a pan and deep fry the vegetable fingers till golden brown.
Now enjoy the healthy tasty vegetable fingers with your favorite ketchup.

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

QUESADILLA OF VEGETABLES

Quesadilla of vegetables
Necessary ingredients:
1.     3 Flour Tortilla (quesadilla bread)
2.    1 cup mozzarella cheese or any other cheese
3.   3 tbsp. butter
4.  2 cup mushrooms, sliced
5.   1 cup green pepper
6.   1 cup red pepper
7.   ½ cup corns
8.   1 tsp. grated garlic
9.   2 green chili, Chopped
10.           ½ tsp. black pepper
11. Some salt
Cooking method:
Quesadilla vegetable preparing
1.      Take 1 teaspoon of oil in a pan in medium heat.
2.     Deliver all the vegetables and corn in the pan and mix them. For about 2 to 3 minutes, continue to cook over medium heat.
3.    Season the vegetables with grated garlic and also add chopped green chili and black pepper and mix well. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
4.    Finally season with a little bit of salt and mix well.
5.    Then turn the heat off, move the pan aside and wait till the vegetables are cool.
Quesadilla Bread Preparing
1.      On pan, without any oil & low heat prepare one side of the tortilla just like we do for normal bread generally. Cook just a little bit until light golden over tortilla.
2.     Now keep another side of tortilla over pan (keeping heat off) and put veggies on  the cooked side from one side(not all over)
3.    Next, sprinkle some cheese over the veggies.
4.    Then fold the tortilla half and add butter on the non-cooked side of quesadilla and also on the pan so that the non cooked side of the quesadilla bread can be fried.
5.   Then cut it from the middle so that it can be divided into two pieces. 
Now the cheesy, crispy, healthy & tasty “Quesadilla of vegetables” is prepared to serve.