Green Tea

Green tea contains lots of healthy benefits.And my everyday starts with green tea and it keeps me so active throughout the day.It contains antioxidant and it can also aid in weight loss by improving your metabolism, which in turn allows your body to burn fat faster.

Green Tea

Ingredients:

Green tea leaves- 1 tsp
water- 1 cup
Honey

Preparation:

1. Heat cup of water.And add 1 tsp of green tea and brew it for 2 min.Dont boil it too longer then tea will taste bitter.

2.Then strain it using strainer and add honey to your taste.

3.Have a healthy green tea with lite biscuit.

Palak Poriyal

Palak keerai poriyal

Ingredients:

Palak - 1 bunch
onion-1 big
Red chilli -3 small
Mustard Seed- 1/2 tsp
Urad dal- 1/2 tsp
grated coconut-optional
salt
oil-2 tsp

Preparation:

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1. Wash the palak and keep it aside.chop the onion finely.

2.Take kadai add oil and add mustard seed ,urad dal and red chilli after it burst it out
   add the onion saute it well till it turn into goldern brown color.(add salt to onion for speeden up the process)

3.Then add palak dont add water immediatly because palak will leave more water.If nessesary we can springle some water at last.

4.After it cooked well add little salt because we added salt before itself while saute the onion.

5.If needed you can add grated coconut at this time and switch off the flame.

6.You can take this as poriyal also or you can mix with rice and eat.

Simple Dal

Simple Dal,yeah its very simple to make but its taste wont be simple its sounds great.
And this is my family's favourite side dish for roti.So today we will learn how to make
simple dal.

Simple Dal

Ingredients:

Toor dal-1/4 cup
Spilt moong dal-1/4 cup
Onion-2
Tomato-2
Green chilli-2
cumin seed-1 ts
Salt as needed

Seasoning:

musturd seed-1/2 ts
coriander leaves
curry leaves

Spicy Powder:

Turmeric powder- pinch
coriander powder-1 ts
cumin powder-1 ts
chilli powder-2 ts
garam masala-1 ts

Preparation:

Preparation

1. Soak both the dal for 10 to 15 mins then pressure cook with needed water.

2. Heat a 2 tsp of oil add cumin seed,onion,chilli and saute till it become brown color.Add salt for speed your process.

3. Then add tomato and all spice powders and add cooked dal,salt and 1 1/2 cups of water and simmer for few min.

4.Then heat a oil separatly and add the ingredients for seasoning and add that in dal.

5.Now simple dal ready.you can serve this as side dish for roti.

Simple Dal with roti

Tomato Soup

This is very simple and easy to prepare and also a very common soup. Instead buying readymade soup from shop we can prepare this using simple ingredients from the home itself.

Tomato Soup

Ingredients:

Big juicy tomatoes -3
Onion -1 medium chopped
Garlic - 3 cloves chopped
Pepper powder-1 ts
 salt to taste
Butter- 2 tsp
All purpose flour/maida - 3/4 tsp

Preparation:

Tomato Soup Ingredients

1. Heat butter in a pan and fry garlic and onions.

2. Add chopped tomatoes, 1 cup of water, salt and pressure cook for 2 
     whistle.

3. After it cools, puree it in a blender.Strain the blended mixture in a soup 
     strainer to remove seeds and  skin.

4. Melt a little butter in a pan, add maida to it and cook for a few seconds on 
     low flame. Keep stirring. Maida is added to thicken the soup.But i added 
    corn flour here.

5. Now add the blended mixture little by little to the above while constantly 
     stirring the maida. (This is done to prevent formation of lumps)

6. Reheat the soup, check for salt.And add needed pepper powder.

7.Serve hot and enjoy the homemade soup.