Ground Beef, Hot Italian Sausage, Broccoli and Onion Stir Fry

This recipe was a perfect combination of meats, flavor and with a little touch of healthy goodness of broccoli. This can be served as a meal or with steamed rice or noodles.

Ingredients:

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1 lb Ground Beef

2 Italian Hot Sausage or you can use even mild or sweet sausage or your choice.

3 heads of Broccoli cut to medium size florets

1 big Red Onion sliced thick

2-3 pods of garlic minced

1 tbsp Tomato paste

2 tsp Soy sauce

1 tbsp Hoisin sauce

2 tbsp Tomato Ketchup

1 tsp Red Pepper flakes
1 tsp Black Pepper powder
Salt to taste
1 1/2 tsp Olive Oil


Method:
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1. In a pan add oil and when it's medium hot add garlic, then add the ground beef and remove the meat out of the casing of the sausage and break down the meat into small chunks and add it to the pan.
2. With a wooden spoon mash all the meat properly and cook it until it turns brown in medium high heat for about 8-10 mins.
3. Now add the tomato paste, soy sauce, salt, red chili flakes, salt, tomato ketchup, hoisin sauce, black pepper and cover and cook on low flame for more 3-4 mins until the neat gets bit soft and little bit creamy.
4. Remove the meat to a bowl and in the same pan add onion, and saute it for about 3-4 mins until translucent and now add broccoli and cover and cook for about 3-4 mins unitl the broccoli is cooked a bit and still crunchy and bright green color.
5. Now add the meat back to the pan with onions and broccoli, stir it on high heat for about a min and serve hot.

Bitter Gourd / Kakarkaya Masala

Bitter Gourd, what to tell about this vegetable. I know, I know, it's good for health, but since it's very bitter I usually back off, but lately I am trying to eat this at least once a month. Sounds funny right, but I am at least trying to eat, so that's not bad. :-)

This is a good start for those who don't like bitter gourd. :-)

Ingredients:

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3 medium size Bitter Gourd sliced to rounds

1 large or 2-3 medium Onions sliced

3 Tomatoes sliced

3-4 Garlic pods sliced

1/4 inch Ginger sliced

1 sprig Curry Leaves

1 Green Chili sliced

1/2 tsp Chili powder

1/4 tsp Turmeric powder

Salt to taste

1 tsp Oil

Method:

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1. In a bowl add the sliced bitter gourd and add around 2 tbsp salt and mix well and keep it aside for about 1 hour.

2. Meanwhile, in a pan add oil and when it's hot add garlic, ginger, curry leaves and saute it until the garlic and ginger turns slight brown.

3. Now add the onions and green chili and saute it until the onions turn translucent.

4. Now add the tomatoes, turmeric powder, chili powder and little bit of salt and cover and cook it until the tomatoes become soft.

5. Now take the bitter gourd and squeeze out the water from it. Do this in batches so that you can take out the bitterness.

6. Now add the bitter gourd to the pan with onions and tomatoes and mix well.

7. Cover and cook for about 10-12 mins or until the bitter gourd is 3/4 cooked. Check on the salt, because you added it before to the bitter gourd, add some more salt if needed.

8. Serve this hot with steamed rice and with a combination of any Indian curry.

Strawberry Smoothie

Strawberry Smoothie would be loved by everyone irrespective of age. I am not an exception to this. The red juicy colour makes it the most romantic of all the fruits. Let us see here how to prepare a Strawberry Smoothie out of fresh strawberries and whole milk. It is a simple drink but very tasty.

Ingredients:



Strawberry - 10

Milk - 1 and 1/2 cup

Sugar - 4 teaspoon

Method:



1) Remove the leaves and twigs and wash the strawberries well.

2) Put them into Mixer/ Food processor and blend them well for 2 minutes.

3) Add sugar and milk and blend them again.

4) Continue blending until you see the juice which is nice, smooth and thick.