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Its March!!! Hope many of you know about the Day light saving, the first week after the timings change, its bit tough to handle specially you have school going toddlers.

How to cope with daylight savings time?

Early to bed
Morning walk as regular routine
Enjoy the longer evenings
Dont be a potato Couch
Reduce screen time

These are the best I'm following.
In continuation of my last post, I'm posting today the Ridge Gourd kootu recipe.

Peerkangai Thogayal Recipe

Peerkangai kootu recipe is a healthy and tasty south indian recipe made with moong dal and coconut. This is extremely rich in dietary fiber and low in saturated fat. Kootu goes well with rice and rotis.

Ingredients

Ridge gourd / peerkangai - 1
Moong dal - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Coconut grated - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Green chili - 3
Dry Red chilies -1
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1 tbsp
Salt as taste
Oil - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Instructions

Clean, peel and cut the Peerkangai. Keep aside.
Heat a pan and do dry roast the Moong dal.
Add turmeric, water and 2 drops of oil. Close the lid and allow it to cook for 5 mins.
Once dal half cooked, add the peerkangai cubes and allow it to boil.
Grind the coconut, chili, cumin seeds into a paste.
Add the paste in boiling pan. Allow it to cook for another 5 mins.
Seasoned with oil, mustard seeds, dry chili, curry leaves. Serve with rice or rotis.

Dry roast for 2 mins

Add water, turmeric and oil

Check its half boiled

Add peerkangai cubes

Grind coconut, chili and cumin seeds

Allow it to boil

Add grinded mixture

Season it and ready to serve

Happy Sunday!!!

Aatukaal soup a very authentic soup recipe from Southern part of India, mostly this can make for kids, if they takes weekly once it helps to strong their bones and high calcium food. Also it helps for cold and cough. Mostly everyone makes more spicy but my version is medium spice with great flavoured. Mutton legs doesn't have more flesh but it have more fat with good minerals.

Today we covering the simple and easy peasy method. For the winter sunday, I want to prepare this recipe. Guys you too try and let me know in comments how it turned out.

Ingredients

Aatu Kaal / Goat Legs - 1/2 kg (2 legs)
Pearl Onions - 10 peeled
Tomato - 1
Garlic ginger paste - 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As per taste
Water - 3 cups
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
A handful of Coriander leaves

Method

Take pressure cooker and add all the ingredients except pepper powder and coriander leaves.
Close the cooker with a lid and place on flame.
After the steam starts out of the nozzle, place the whistle and simmer the flame.
Cook on low flame for 30 - 35 minutes / 12 - 15 whistles and remove from flame.
Allow the pressure gets released naturally then remove the whistle and open the cooker.
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Strain and serve the clear soup. Add salt and pepper as per taste.

Clean the mutton legs

Take pressure cooker and add all the ingredients except pepper powder and coriander leaves.

Allow the pressure gets released naturally then remove the whistle and open the cooker.

Add handful of coriander leaves.

Add salt and pepper as per taste.

Salmon Fish fry with beans recipe is the delicious, hot, spicy and crispy. Its one of the healthy and easy appetizer when compared to chicken or mutton. Indian spices do not only help to add flavors, it also helps to fight against bacteria in the fish. Turmeric is not only colorant agent, it has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant. In India, all the non-vegetarian recipes include spices like turmeric and coriander powder that helps to reduce the stinky smell from the fish and to add flavor and aroma to the dishes.

Ingredients

Salmon Fish - 1 big slice
Red Chili Powder - 1 tbsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds Powder - 1 tsp
Fennel seeds Powder - 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Onion - 1
Beans - 8 nos
Coconut Oil for frying
Salt as per taste

How to Marinate fish

In a bowl add red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, ginger garlic paste, salt and mix well. DON'T ADD WATER or OIL or LEMON.
Take one piece of fish, dip in the mix and cover it in all sides.
Repeat the step 2 for each piece separately so that the mix don't get wet and also it spreads evenly on each and every fish pieces.

Method

Cut the desired shape of salmon and clean it properly.
Marinate in the refrigerator for 20 mins or place in the sunlight for 20 mins.
Heat oil in a dosa pan, it consumes less oil only and healthy too with slow cooking.
Place the fish in the hot oil carefully.
Fry until the bottom side of the fish becomes crispy.
Flip gently and fry on the other side until crispy.
Remove the fried fish from the oil and place on the paper towel-lined plate (this helps to absorb the excess oil from fish).
Heat the pan and add the left over oil from salmon fried.
Add onions and saute it for a min.
Add few clean and cut beans into half sized. Saute it with onion.
Once half cooked, add the fried salmon.
Saute it for a min and serve.

Add all spices, salt and ginger garlic paste

Dip the salmon in mix

Spread all the sides and leave for 20 mins

Fry it

Heat pan and add left over oil

Add onions and saute it

Add beans and saute it

Saute until half cooked

Add fried salmon

Saute for 1min and switch off

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

New Year is around the corner! that is new goals and new planners. A new year is time to set new goals and new planner, so I feel this is the right time to create and release the FREE 2020 PRINTABLE CALENDARS. I always want to do my planner with floral design.

In continuation of the tulip calendar printables, I created feathers calendar.

Click here for TULIPS CALENDAR PRINTABLES 2020

2020 is special year because it’s a leap year. That means we’ll have 29 days in February and 366 days for the whole year! I’ve prepared our free printable calendar with feathers design. This is mostly use by home office and lady boss for the fridge and work desk 😍. I'm sure that you guys love it.

Below are the Feathers printable calendar & planner download links for PDF & PNG each month.

Download for PDF

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oVlXG4rEHLhUv2WOtlfJ3OUTQ-bPZ4d6

Download forPNG

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n7dEIDVJdP98MEvFLxPIrUwH_H0Hk6Bj

Pin Me on Pinterest!

Do not miss this post, save it for later by pinning the image below on Pinterest! Your small help means a lot to my Blog. Thank you!

Happy printing! Happy New Year😍

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

New Year is around the corner! that is new goals and new planners. A new year is time to set new goals and new planner, so i feel this is the right time to create and release the FREE 2020 PRINTABLE CALENDARS. I always want to do my planner with floral design.

On 2019 spring time, we visited tulip fields at Holland Ridge farms New Jersey. As many of you know that I am fond with macro photography specially flowers. Instead of sketching I want to give try with my own photographs 😁. Hope you like my idea and enjoy the kick off calendar printable.

Click here for FEATHERS CALENDAR PRINTABLES 2020

My few Photographs link below

SPRING
ITS COLD
STREETS
HISTORICAL

2020 is special year because it’s a leap year. That means we’ll have 29 days in February and 366 days for the whole year! I’ve prepared our free printable calendar with pink floral design. This is mostly use by moms and lady boss for the fridge and work desk 😍. I'm sure that you guys love it.

Below are the Tulips printable calendar & planner download links for PDF & PNG each month.

Download for PDF

Download forPNG

Pin Me on Pinterest!

Do not miss this post, save it for later by pinning the image below on Pinterest! Your small help means a lot to my Blog. Thank you!

Happy printing! Happy New Year😍

Me and Briyani, Briyani and me. Best love story ever.

In continuation of my instant pot series, how do I miss my favorite native Dindigul mutton briyani with freshly grinded biryani masala powder. This is really cool and easy with Instant pot. Try and let me know 😍

Ingredients

Mutton - 3/4 kg
Seeraga samba rice - 3 cups
Water - 3 (1:1 Instant Pot)
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tbsp
Coconut oil - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Onion - 2 large
Tomatoes - 1
Green Chili - 4
Chili powder - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Mint leaves - hand some
Corriander leaves for garnish
Salt as per taste

Briyani masala grind:

Cinnamon sticks - 4
Bay leaf - 4
Cumin seeds - 2 tbsp
Fennel Seeds - 1 tbsp
Kalpaasi - 5
Cloves - 5
Star anise - 3
Cardamom - 3
Pepper - 6 to 10 (depends on your spice level)

Method

Grind all the ingredients under biryani masala and keep aside.
Marinate the meat with turmeric, salt, ginger garlic paste, chili powder, biryani mix, Mint and coriander leaves. Let it marinate for minimum 30 mins.
Turn on SAUTE mode and add oil.
Once oil gets heated, saute bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, cloves, cardamom, cumin and fennel seeds (this is optional to put all, we already have everything in grinded mixture, personally I like more flavored:))
Once it splutters, add onions and saute for while.
Add marinated meat and tomatoes.
Adjust temperature of SAUTE to LOW to prevent from bottom burns.
Add green chilis.
Fry the mix for 5 mins. Add 1 cup water and close the lid.
Hit CANCEL.
Turn on POULTRY mode for 5 mins.
Open the Instant Pot and check the meat cooked fully, if not you can add more minutes. For me, it was cooked.
Add rice and remaining water 2 cups.
Taste the salt taste and add.
Garnish the corriander and close the lid.
Close the lid on the pot, and turn valve from VENTING to SEALING position.
Set the pot to MANUAL/PRESSURE COOK (High Pressure) and set timer to 5 minutes
Do a natural pressure release, that is wait until silver button on lid drops. BE CAREFUL OF HOT STEAM.
Hit CANCEL. Ready to serve with raita.