Tomato Fry in 10 minutes!

Though I vey well know that tomato fry is the simplest of recipes any person can prepare,I still wish to have a post on it,simply because I love it so much..Itz so easy and tastes good with any dish,may it be rice or chappathi.Moreover,Tomatoes are highly nutririous.They are an excellent source of vitamin C, vitamin A, and vitamin K. They are also a very good source of molybdenum, potassium, manganese, dietary fiber, chromium, and vitamin B1. In addition, tomatoes are a good source of vitamin B6, folate, copper, niacin, vitamin B2, magnesium, iron, pantothenic acid, phosphorus, vitamin E and protein.Needless to say,tomatoes are frequently included in my menu.

 

We’ll need,

 

Onion-1 big

Tomatoes-2 big

Green chillies-3

Ginger(sliced into small pieces)-1/2 tsp

Garlic(sliced into small pieces)-1/2 tsp

Curry leaves-1 stalk

Turmeric powder-1/2 tspn

Kashmiri Chilly Powder-1 tspn

Salt-to taste

Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.Add chopped onion,ginger,garlic,green chillies,and curry leaves..When onion turns golden brown,add diced tomatoes.When tomatoes soften,lower heat and add turmeric and chilly powder.Keep stirring and when oil seperates,add water(1/4 cup ) and cook for 5 mnts.Serve hot!!

 

NeiPathiri (Fried Pathiri) with Chicken Curry

Did the name sound complicated?No worries!!Name it whatever way you like.As far as I am concerned,ny basic law in cooking is “There is no law in cooking,I’ll do as I feel like doing”.It feels good when you see mustard seeds running here n there in your chicken curry, in your fish curry..People ask me,”Why are you so stupid?Adding mustard seeds in chicken curr?,HA Ha”.I find it strange.I dn’t reply to such dumbos who think that I am dumb enough to add ingredients that will ruin my dish.Sometimes I add a particular ingredient to dish,sometimes I dn’t..When I am asked”Why”,I answer,”WHY NOT???”

 

This is basically  a Malabar dish..Tasty,yet an easy one to prepare..More importantly,this tastes best when fried in coconut oil…mmmmm…..yummy!!!

We’ll need,

Roasted Rice flour-2 cup

Water-1 1/2 -1 3/4cup

Grated Coconut-1/2 cup

Small onion(kunjulli)-3-4 nos

Cumin seeds-1/4 tspn

Black Sesame seeds-1/2 -3/4 tspn

Salt-1/4 tspn

Oil-2 tspn

 

Coarse grind coconut,small onions and cumin seeds.Place water in a pan over heat and when it comes to boiling heat,add salt,oil,and grounded mixture.When it boils again,add rice flour and stir well with a spatula.Add sesmae seeds .Remove from heat and keep covered.After 5 mnts,when the dough is cool enough to be kneaded(Take care that the dough is still warm,else the dish will not turn up good).Knead well for 10 mnts until soft.

 

Make big lemon sized balls.Roll the dough into medium thickness and size of puris.Deep fry them,until golden brown,or until the pathiri puffs out( as you’ld do for puri).Serve hot!!

 

 

 

“Pizza Dosa” or “Dosa Pizza”??

Hmm..I dn’t know how do we name this.Just a modification of Oothappam,a touch of Pizza and a there you have a dosa with a great look(and obviously tasty too).I had some leftover capsium and ripe tomatoes.Since Masala Dosa is a regular weekly dish prepared,and since oothappam is a “hate-dish” for my husband,I thought of adding capsicum to vegetables,which will make the local dish,international;-)

 

We’ll need,

Basic dosa batter

Capsicum-1

Tomato-1

Onion-1

Green chilly-2

Chilly powder(kashmiri powder preffered)-1/4 tspn

Lemon juice-1/2 tspn

Salt -1/4 tspn

 

Slice all vegetables into very thin and lengthy pieces.Place all ingredients(except batter) in a pan and saute for few minutes under medium-high flame.You need not add oil .Just keep stirring.When vegetables are half-cooked,remove from fire.

 

Now,heat the dosa pan.When hot,grease the pan with a tissue paper,dipped in oil.This will help dosa and vegetables from not sticking to the pan.Now keeping the flame on medium heat,pour a ladle of dosa batter,spread into a thickness of medium size.Dn’t make the dosa too thin as for ghee roast,bcoz when vegetables are added,it may break.Now,quickly spread some vegetable mixture on to the dosa,Add some drops of ghee.When the lower surface of dosa is crisp, flip it and cook for 2 more minutes.

 

Now,instead of removing the dosa using a spatula,just remove the pan from fire and flip dosa on to the plate directly.This will ensure that you have an intact pizza dosa:-)

 

 

 

Serve hot with Coconut chutney and Sambar!!

 

 

P.S:

• You can add nay vegetables of you choice.like,cabbage&carrot.
• You can give a total pizza flavour by adding some cheese,instead of ghee.I used ghee bcoz the smell of ghee coming from hot dosa makes me drool.

 

Update:I just found that there is a “pizza dosa” recipe already available

“Diamond is forever”…Oh no…Its NOT…

A diamond will break if you hit it with hammer!!

“A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit), it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.

Diamonds are formed over a period of a billion or more years deep within earth’s crust – about 150km (90 miles) deep – and is pushed to the surface by volcanoes. Most diamonds are found in volcanic rock, called Kimberlite, or in the sea after having been carried away by rivers when they were pushed to the surface.

A diamond is 58 140 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum, from which rubies and sapphires are formed. It was only during the 15th century that it was discovered that the only way to cut diamonds was with other diamonds. Yet, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will shatter.”

 

Thank God I didn’t buy that 9.3 million dollar necklace,we booked last week!!!! Sorry if you already bought one!

 

 

Pic courtesy:Diamondsonline.co.za

Content courtesy:Didyouknow.cd

Is this about your body?

There are infinite posts on “interesting facts about human body”.This is a “Nimmy’s personally-liked interesting facts about human body”

 

    

1.  The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

2.  Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.

3.  Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations increased by 10 cm (4 in).

4.  Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.

5.  The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

6.  Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.

7.  The bones in your body are not white – they range in colour from beige to light brown. The bones you see in museums are white because they have been boiled and cleaned.

8.  Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

9.  Every person has a unique tongue print.

10.  If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.

11.  One human hair can support 3kg.

12.  The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

13.  *A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death

14.  *Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

15.  The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb

16.  80% of the brain is water

17.  You get a new stomach lining every three to four days

18.  The ashes of a cremated person average about 9 pounds

19.  Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest

20.  About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home

21.  The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream

22.  It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves. The reason  behind this is that your brain predicts the tickle from information it already has, like how your fingers are moving. Because it knows and can feel where the tickle is coming from, your brain doesn’t respond in the same way as it would if someone else was doing the tickling.

23.  Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, passes through the voice box, and then the epiglottis closes behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal chords, causing the “hic” sound. The irritation can be caused by rapid eating, emotional stress and even some diseases. The best cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms the diaphragm by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream 

 

 

*I didn’t write that by mistake.