Lauki Kootu -Bottle Gourd and Chana dal in spiced coconut paste

Today is the 6th day of the blogging marathon. I made a simple kootu using bottle gourd/lauki.  Its a simple recipe and with pressure cooking, it gets done relatively easier.

You need

• Bottle gourd, chopped into bite size - 2 cups
• Chana dal - 1/4 cup
• Turmeric - a pinch
• salt to taste

To grind

• Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
• Red chilly - 1 no
• Cumin - 1/2 tspn

To temper

• Oil - 1 tspn
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tspn
• Urad dal - 1/2 tspn

• Curry leaves - 1 stalk.

Method.

Cook chana dal, chopped bottle gourd and turmeric with just enough water to cover the ingredients. The chana dal should be cooked soft and not mushy. Drain the excess water after cooking.

Take a kadai. Add the ingredients for tempering. When the mustard seeds crackle, add the cooked lauki and chana dal. Add salt and let it cook for 5 minutes or so. 

Grind coconut, red chilly and cumin to paste with out adding water. Add the ground paste to the cooked lauki and dal. Mix well and let it cook so that the excess water dries up.  Finally add the curry leaves and remove from fire. This goes very well with sambhar or morkootan.

Don't miss out the treats dished out by my fellow marathoners.

Strawberry Mango Popsicle

Who does not Popsicle?? And when it is freshly homemade we all love it and parents have a satisfaction that kids eats healthy food even in a popsicle, instead of the artificially flavored and color which is loaded with sugars when bought from the store. It is very easy to make at home and whatever fruit is best in the season you can use it. I made so many of them and could not stop myself after eating one. :-)

Ingredients:

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1 box of fresh Strawberries or frozen (fresh is always better)

2-3 fresh sweet Mangoes

Sugar or Honey as needed (I used 2 tsp Sugar)

Method:

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1. In a blender add the washed strawberries and make a smooth puree.

2. In the same blender, skin out the mangoes and cube it and make puree of it.

keep it aside.

3. In a sauce pan add the strawberry puree and sugar and heat it in medium flame until the sugar dissolves.

4. Allow it to cool, then add the mango puree mix well and fill the puree mix into plastic popsicle maker and freeze it until set for about 6-8 hours.

5. Make as many as you want and wash and re-fill and use it.

6. Before removing the popsicle out of the popsicle maker, run it through hot water and gently pull it outside. This will not break the popsicle.

MU Lover Cupcake ( Lennie, City Resort )

Pesenan dari customer baru, awalnya dari SMS trs lanjut ke BBM


Lennie pesen 9 cupcake tema nya MU, karena yang ultah MU Lover...
Karena rada mendadak, lambang MU nya aku ga bs pakein edible,jadi pake kertras deh ( sory ya len.. )


Makasi ya buat pesenannya...