Sautéed romaine lettuce 🍃🍋🌶

Sautéed romaine lettuce🍃
As warm weather approaching, need to make a room for summer vegetables, right now garden is full of all kind spring greens. Beets, garlic, onions,spinach, mustards,radishes and lots of lettuce, not to mention some cabbage and cauliflower growing form kitchen waste.
Mainly trying to use up the romaine lettuce, looking for a way to eat it 🙂
You can use many ways.
I make lettuce soup. It’s very refreshing in summer time, use a lot in Mexican food we love 🙂 and of course in good old American sandwiches 🙂
Thinking to find a way to use romaine lettuce, since I like sautéed cabbage, decide to make sautéed romaine lettuce.
Surprisingly tasted delicious 🙂
So quick and so easy
Ingredients🍃
One romaine lettuce, fresh from garden, wash , clean and separated all leaves.
One clove clove of garlic crushed. I used green garlic leaves instead since I am trying to use some greens 🙂 tastes as good.
Tablespoon of olive oil
Salt to taste
Red chili powder to your taste or just pinch of it🌶
Fresh lemon one small piece🍋
Tablespoon full of honey🍯
Let sauté romaine🍃
On a medium heat, place sauce pan
Add olive oil
Once it’s moving around in pan
Add crushed garlic
Sauté just for a second
Add lettuce leaves
Add salt to taste
Add red chili powder to your taste
Flip one time
Let it sauté both side
It cooks in a minute, that’s a best part you don’t have to wait to long to eat it 🙂
Serve it hot
Drizzle spoonful honey over it
Squeeze fresh lemon on top
Enjoy this hot and delicious sautéed romaine while it’s hot.
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Have a wonderful day friends ❤️

In the garden

In the garden

Harvested some mix greens this morning, that includes

Garlic green, onion green,kale,cabbage leaves, mustard green,fenugreek leaves,radish green, beet green,some green peas leaves, chives, cilantro and few dandelion flowers little bit of all greens growing in garden right now. All will be sautéed to add in my favorite soup which is black beans soup.

At this time of the year, not much going on in garden except greens, make good use of whatever growing in the garden at this time .

While we all love to harvest and enjoy fruits and vegetables, let’s not forget the power of greens, the most nutritious part of the plant, eat to appreciate them.

You can cook all together or individual in various recipes.

Recipes for most greens are posted here on page if interested.

Greens are most nutritious food to add in our diets, goes well in soup , smoothies or eat sautéed greens with flat breads, tastes great.

Have a happy Sunday 🌱🌿🍃

Tips and tricks on how to make peppers flakes 🌶

Peppers flakes from garden to kitchen table.

Pepper flakes made from organically grown peppers this summer in garden. It includes verity of peppers🌶.

Cayennes, habanero, Thai hot peppers, Tabasco, Anaheim and banana peppers.

All peppers sun dried few at a time as it ripped. You can use dehydrator or dry in oven using low temperature , however I prefer sun drying method to dry most my vegetables except herbs like tulsi and peppermint I dry I cool shaded place.

I also dry my turmerics in sun to make turmeric powder.

Once all peppers fully dried, it’s very easy to make pepper flakes or powder.I used my good old food processor to make flakes, some people dry their peppers in oven and crushed by hands, I avoided both by not oven drying and crushing by hand, it’s too risky to use hands , this peppers are extremely hot , you don’t want to take any risk by touching them . It’s way too hot, even you don’t use hand , you still want to use kitchen gloves all the time until you finish whole process and clean all utensils you used including kitchen counter top to be safe than sorry 🙂

Hope you like the method I used to make hot peppers flakes

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Thank you for being here 🙂

Turmeric pickle.

Fresh turmeric you can get from any Asian or Indian grocery store or if you are gardener like me you can grow in you garden. I have turmeric growing in my garden almost year around. You can make turmeric pickle using two different recipes. One is very simple and easy to make which stays fresh for few weeks. Another one you can keep pickle for few months requires different method and different recipe.

Today we make simple and instant pickle.
Let’s make instant turmeric pickle.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Fresh turmeric wash, peeled cut in to pieces
• 1 tsp salt or according to taste
• 1 fresh lemon also some small lemon pieces.
• Couple of jalapeño peppers cut in circles or small pieces for little spicy taste 

Let’s make instant turmeric pickle

• First wash, peel and wash again then dry with clean towel or paper towels.
• Cut in small pieces in a bowl
• Add salt
• Add fresh lemon juice and some lemon pieces
• Mix it well
• Store in clean jar and keep in refrigerator. This pickle stays fresh for few weeks. It’s healthy and tastes good with every day meals.

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Note: recipe for turmeric pickle to keep for year around also posted here on website , do check it out if you like.

In the garden: Turmeric

All about turmerics 

Turmeric is from the ginger family . Its a tropical plant.
Turmeric also known as curcuma longa has mild bitter taste and fragrant like orange and ginger. It has numerous health benefits. You can check it out in any health site for more information.

Turmeric is the most important spice in Indian cooking. Fresh turmeric you can use in soups, sauces, curry or any vegetables. Turmeric gives nice color to food and it’s good for health. You can also make turmeric pickle by adding salt and fresh lemon juice in cleaned, peeled sliced turmeric, store in a jar, keep it refrigerated. You can eat few pieces of this pickle with bread, rice or any food you like to eat with. You can also use fresh turmeric adding small piece in your favorite juice or smoothie. I also make a turmeric pickle to keep long time so we can have pickle for year around until next season. I will post recipe soon for spicy turmeric pickle.

Turmeric is easy to grow in any home garden or in pots.
You need good soil, good compost and warm spot in garden. It takes about eight to ten months to mature and ready to harvest. You can buy turmeric bulbs or roots from any Asian grocery stores, plant them in spring six inches apart and just few inches deep in good organic soil, cover with compost add little mulch on top and water. Keep soil moist but don’t over water. It will take almost all summer to grow turmeric. End of summer you can dig it up turmeric.

Instead of harvesting all turmeric, pick most of them, leaving few with plant, cut the leaves from top and plant it back in the soil for next season so you don’t have to buy new turmeric to plant. You can divide and grow more plants. Turmeric is very easy to grow and very important for our health.

Here are some pictures of turmeric and turmeric plants in my garden.

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Chorafali.

Chorafali is also known as cholafali or fafda.

It’s well known in state of Gujarat in India, specially in Ahmedabad. Chorafali is crispy, spicy and tasty snack we make in Diwali time. Today I decide to make something Diwali special.

Ingredients.
1 cup chickpeas flour
1/2 cup Adad flour
2 tablespoons rice flour
2 tsp red chili powder
1 tsp baking soda or papadkhar.
1 tsp black salt or sanchar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tablespoons oil

Let’s prepare water
In a small pot , add water, baking soda, salt and oil.
On low heat bring it to boil, turn off the heat.
In a bowl
Mix all three flour.
Start adding water you prepare, little bit at a time that way you avoid over watering.
Make stiff dough.
Roll it in a log shape on rolling board.
Cut it in a small pieces.
Roll it on a rolling board, make a thin roti using rolling pin. Make all the roti at once, cut it in half and every half roti , make few cuts to make strips.

Once you finish cutting roti in to strips, mix red chilli power and black salt or sanchar in small bowl.
In a heavy bottom pan, add oil to fry .
When oil is ready and hot , add one half of roti and fry both side. When it’s done it should look golden brown, fluffy and crispy.

Take it out on a paper towel to get rid of excess oil and sprinkle the red chili powder mix immediately on both sides.
Let it cool down completely .
Store it in a air tight container.
Your chorafali fafda is ready to enjoy.

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Mohanthal.

First of all, l like to wish you happy Diwali to all my friends world wide.

Mohanthal is a traditional Gujarati sweet we make during Diwali. This festive sweet is made with chickpeas flour also call gram flour, ghee made out of butter, sugar and added nuts and spices like almond, pistachios, cardamoms,nutmeg and saffron.
To make mohanthal perfect and easily, you need to prepare everything ahead because once you start cooking,you have to pay full attention on roasting flour and making syrup. This is very important to make good mohanthal.

Let’s start making mohanthal.
Ingredients.
2 cups gram flour
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk to prepare flour
1/2 cup water to prepare syrup
1 cup ghee to roast flour
4 tablespoons ghee to prepare flour
1/2 tsp saffron
1/2 tsp cardamoms
Pinch of nutmeg powder
Few sliced almonds
Few sliced pistachios

Let’s start preparing

First grease the dish to pour mohanthal.

Prepare flour
In a bowl:
Add flour, milk and ghee mix it well, press it down, cover it for few minutes.
Now crumbling flour with two hands , make flour smooth, fluffy and grainy with out any lumps.
Prepare sugar syrup.
On a medium heat, add water and sugar in a saucepan and bring it to boil until turn into thick syrup . Take drop see it sticks to your two fingers.
Add saffron in syrup, turn off the heat , keep it aside.
Let’s roast the flour
On a medium heat, in a heavy bottom pan
Add ghee
Add flour you prepared
Roast it keep stirring constantly until flour looks golden brown. Turn off the heat.
Add cardamom powder
Add nutmeg powder
Add syrup mix it well
Pour the mixture in to greased dish.
Let it settle for few minutes.
Sprinkle sliced almonds and pistachios.
Press it gently with small bowl.
Cut it in to pieces.
Let it cool down completely.

Mohanthal is ready to enjoy with friends and family.
Have a happy Diwali.
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Sweet and Spicy cereal snacks

This cereal snack so easy, quick and tasty for anytime sacks. It can be made with any available cereal you have in kitchen. Any leftover or new box of cereal you can use to make this tasty cereal snacks. Cereal like corn flakes, Honey Nut Cheerios and rice crispy. You can also add poha and mamra available in Indian grocery store. You can any cereal more or less.
Main important thing is you have to prepare all the cereal you want to use, spices, nuts and fruits you want to use ahead than you start cooking.

Ingredients.
Cornflakes, Honey Nut Cheerios, rice crispy or any other . Mix in large bowl keep it ready.
Nuts: Cashews, peanuts, pecans or any nuts you like.
Sesame seeds if you have.
Raisins
Shredded coconut
Salt
Sugar
Turmeric powder
Red chili powder
Oil for tampering
Mustard seeds, fennel seeds and coriander seeds
Curry leaves couple of green peppers thinly sliced
NOTE: if you don’t have couple of things you still can make this snacks with out it.

Let’s start cooking.
On a medium heat, Ina large saucepan add oil. Once start heating and moving around in pan
Add mustard seeds, fennel seeds and coriander seeds. Add curry leaves and green peppers.
Add sesame seeds and the nuts.
Keep stirring while you adding
After nuts you add raisins
Add turmeric powder
Add half the salt and half the red chili powder.
Keep stirring and start adding cereals
Keep heat very low and add remaining salt , sugar,shredded coconuts,and red chili powder according to your taste. You can taste at this point and see if you need to add any salt, sugar or red chili powder. Mix it well until all cereals, nuts, fruits, seeds and spices incorporate to desire taste.
NOTE: use all the nuts, fruits, seeds and spices according the amount of cereal you going to use. Just add whatever you like and what ever you have in kitchen available at a time.

Once it done turn off heat and switch pan to aside to cool down. After few minutes it will turn in to sweet, salty and spicy much crisper cereal snacks. It tastes so good you can’t stop eating.
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Bottle gourd flat bread/dhebra/thepla

Bottle gourd flat bread, Thepla or also call Doodhi na Thepla or Dhebra.

This Bottle gourd flat bread is great for morning breakfast with tea or for lunch with yogurt and garlic chutney.
Let’s make bottle gourd bread.

Ingredients
One medium size bottle gourd. Washed, peeled and shredded.
Two cups whole wheat flour
Two tablespoons chickpeas flour
Three tablespoons oil
Half tsp turmeric powder
Half tsp sugar
Half tsp salt or according to taste
One tsp red chili powder
One tsp sesame seedsIn a large bowl
Add flours and oil. Mix it well
Now add remaining ingredients mix it all to make a dough. Start making bread immediately other wise dough will get too soft.

Let’s start cooking
Place Tava we cook roti in or any heavy bottom pan
On a medium heat
Make a small ball of dough, roll in a flour and make circle using rolling pin and board.
Place it on a hot Tava let it cook one side then flip it to cook other side. Spread little oil on top side , flip it again. Spread oil on other side, let it cook both side until bread looks golden brown and little crispy.
Your Doodhi Thepla or Dhebra are ready .

Enjoy your bottle gourd flat bread.
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Bottle gourd burfi.

Bottle gourd Burfi made from fresh bottle gourds from my garden 🙂

Bottle gourd burfi is healthy and delicious sweet also known as Doodhi or lauki burfi. Bottle gourd burfi is so easy to make, you only need few ingredients and you can make it in just few steps.

Ingredients.
2 cups shredded bottle gourd
2 cups whole milk
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons ghee
1 tsp powdered cardamoms
Few sliced almonds and pistachios
Let’s make bottle gourd burfi.
On a medium heat place saucepan
Add ghee
When ghee melts
Add shredded and squeezed bottle gourd.
Sauteed it for a minute
Add milk
Mix it, stir it, let it cook for about five minutes. Once it starts getting thicker , add sugar and some cardamom powder, mix it well, let it cook until it thickens.

Turn off the heat . Transfer the burfi in greased dish, spread it, sprinkle cardamom powder, sliced almonds and pistachios if you like. Cut it in to pieces.

This bottle gourd burfi tastes delicious hot or cold.

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