Baby Corn Potatoes Stir Fry - Celebrating Bloggers

Weekend Lunch Menu is always bit loaded than the normal days menu. Usually i ask my hubby dear to decide the menu, Potato curry was a must in yday menu card. Got this recipe from Srivalli, the Super blogger and the brain behind the MEC Event. The dish was a super hit. Thanks Srivalli for a wonderful recipe. I have modified it a bit, srivalli has used garam masala, i substituted it with some ginger-garlic paste. The rest i followed what she has given.

Ingredients

5 Medium-Sized Potatoes
4 nos Baby Corn
1 large Onion
1 tsp Ginger-garlic Paste
2 tsp red chilli powder
Curry leaves a fist
Hing a pinch
turmeric powder a pinch
Oil , mustard seeds, cumin seeds for the seasoning

Method

Wash and Peel the Potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Take them in a Microwave Safe bowl, add enough water and Cook @ high for 10 minutes. The Potatoes will be half-cooked, this is great for getting roasted potatoes :), mm yum, yum.(somebody is on a diet :))

Take another Microwave safe dish, add 1 tsp of oil and MW high for a minute, add mustard seeds, cumin,hing and curry leaves and MW high for another minute. When they crackle, Add onions and MW high for 2-3minutes, take out and stir in between to avoid burned onions.

When the onions are sauted well, add Ginger-garlic paste and corn and MW high for 3 minutes then add Potatoes add Chilli powder, turmeric and salt and another teaspoon of oil and MW high for 5 minutes, take out and stir in between. Check if the rawness of the chilli powder has escaped, else MW high for another

2-3 minutes.

The taste was excellent, first time trying Baby Corn with Potatoes, i think i will make this often.
Sending this to MEC-Celebrating Bloggers hosted by Jayashree, Event started by Srivalli.

You can also find this @ LYRO#Potato happening @ Sindhi Rasoi

Microwave Spinach Raita - Celebrating Bloggers

Raita's for me is normally a mixed veggie raita or plain cucumber raita. Recently tried this Spinach Raita from Suma's Veggie Platter, tasted great and also easy to make. We make More Kootu (Spinach in Buttermilk gravy) with spinach, but this raita is something different, has no hassle of grinding any masalas, Suma has done some tadka to the raita, i have avoided that portion too, thought of avoiding the oil(Blame the Diet!!! :))

Diet was very bad for the past 2 weeks, Lot of travelling, Son not well so got a bit carried away, but now i m back on track.

Ingredients

One small bumch opf spinach, finely chopped (comes approx 2 cups, loosely packed)

2 nos green chillies, finely chopped

1 tsp of ginger, finely shredded
1 cup of Low-fat yoghurt

Method

Take the chopped spinach, chillies and ginger, sprinkle some water and Microwave High for 12 mins. Add salt and cook for another 2 mins. Take it out, Let it cool, Add whisked yoghurt and serve.

Sending this raita to MEC-Celebrating Bloggers hosted by Jayashree, Event started by Srivalli

My recipe featured in The Hindu!

I am very excited to let you all know that one of my recipes was published in The Hindu MetroPlus newspaper ( March 27th edition)!
The article can be found here:
http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/Food/article306171.ece

I thank my family members and friends for their constant encouragement and support which made this happen!