Lettuce, Mushroom & sprouted chickpea salad with Feta

A yummy salad to beat the summers!!

Ingredients:

lettuce leaves (chilled on ice cubes)
chopped cucumber
chopped tomato
sliced mushrooms (pre- sauteed with garlic and olive oil)
sprouted brown chana (brown chickpeas)
feta cheese (cubed)

vinaigrette:
mix olive oil,lemon/vinegar ,honey ,pepper,little salt and oregano

method:
Mix all the ingredients except the feta,pour the vinaigrette and some chopped walnuts  and lastly the feta cheese and enjoy your cool salad .

Whole Wheat Choco Cake

Chocolate cake!

recipe credits: micky ji....Thank you so much. ..

Ingredients :

1 large egg.(I don't know why actually, just out of habit I guess. Omit if you wish.)
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp Hung Curd. I had some lying with me and this has turned out to be the X - Factor ingredient. The difference it has made to this cake is unbelievable!
 1/4 cup canola oil
1 cap pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder. I used Hershey's.
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour.
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 tsp coffee pdr.

For the Chocolate Ganache
200 gm Dark Chocolate. I used L'Exclusif baking chocolate. 70% cocoa.
3/4 cup Amul cream

Preheat oven to 180 C ,
All ingr at room temp.

spray a 9" cake pan with cooking spray, and flour the pan, set aside.

In a large mixing bowl , I hand whisked the water, egg, sugar, hung curd , oil, vanilla, until smooth and combined.
Then added coffee, cocoa powder and whisked some more until the batter was smooth and free from lumps.
Then Added the flour sifted with the baking soda, baking powder, salt, and whisked some more , until the batter was well blended.
Then Poured the batter, into the prepared pan and baked for about 25 minutes.
The tooth pick came out with some moist crumbs.
Which is perfect .

Now cool the cake completely, in the cake tin. Overturn in your cake plate , or whatever you are using. Ganache, slice , and serve,
Delîcious!

For the Chocolate Ganache -
Place the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and nuke for 1 minute to soften chocolate , set aside.
In another bowl, microwave the cream, till it just begins to bubble and show signs of boiling, about 70 seconds.
Pour hot cream over chocolate and let it stand about 1 minute. Whisk until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth and velvety.
Let it cool for about 10 minutes, allowing ganache to cool and thicken a bit.

I just poured it over the top. And let it settle on the cake on its own.

Tori ki sabzi (ridge gourd)

Tori ki sabzi ...the simplest way without Onion /Tomatoes!!

Ingredients:
250 gms tori (ridge gourd,peeled n cut in round chunks)
1 tsp grated ginger
1 dry red chilly
1/4th tsp turmeric
Salt
Oil
Coriander leaves

Tempering:
Curry leaves
1tsp urad dhuli dal (skinned black gram dal)
1tsp rai (mustard seeds)

Method:

Heat little oil in a pan,sauté the ginger and red chilly.Add the turmeric , torai(ridge gourd) and salt.Add coriander leaves halfway .Cover and cook the torai till almosy done(I do not like it when completely mushy, so I leave a Lil crunch in it).

Once done prepare the tempering,heat oil and sauté urad dhuli dal till brown,add curry leaves and rai. Once it splutters pour it over the torai n mix.Enjoi wit rice or roti!!

Chicken Pita Pockets

Chicken n Basil Pita pockets!

An easy recipe cooked with minimum oil and loved by the kids.

Recipe:

Ingredients :
750gms boneless chicken
1cup thick dahi
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp jeera powder
2 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp ajwain
Salt
1/2 tsp garam masala
1tbsp ginger garlic paste
Juice of 1 lemon

Recipe:

Mix all the ingredients and marinate for 2 hours.Heat a pan and put the marinated chicken and cover and cook.Stir in between add a splash of water if needed(i did not add water).Once the gravy dries add basil leaves .Fill ur pita pockets and serve wit hummus or schezwan chatney. So this was a fusion at the end!