Basic Overnight Oats With Add Ins #Foodieextravaganza

 Overnight Oats are perfect, make-ahead breakfast which is easy and healthy to have in the  morning.  It 's a complete and perfect solution to fuel your day. Make this overnight for the quickest breakfast or for a lazy and no cooking Sunday morning . 

For this month event for Foodie Extravaganza {Party}, our Host  Kathy Altman Walker, choose the theme  " Getting Back to Basics - Starting with Oatmeal! ".  Since I, have not posted this recipe, it was just the right choice to do so now.

Here, am, giving the options/ add ins that you can make for change of taste or according to the taste or nourishment of our child.  If you are lactose intolerant than use soy, almond or coconut milk.

This take's  just  2 minutes to make.  

Makes : One Large Serving Or 2 Small Servings

Basic Overnight Oats

Ingredients

1/3 Cup Plain Greek Yogurt - beaten
1/2 Cup Oats
2/3 Cup  Milk OR Almond / Coconut  / Soy Milk
1 Tablespoon Chia Seeds Or Ground Flax seeds
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract - optional - I did not add
Pinch Of Salt
1 Tablespoons Honey Or Maple Syrup

Method

Whisk together all ingredients  in a medium mixing bowl. 

Spoon it into a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Pour in the Soy Milk, spoon in the Honey or Maple syrup ( I used honey) Close and refrigerate overnight or for at least 4 hours before eating.

All add ins  should be added in the morning.  Expect for any powder like cocoa that's to be added  with the above basic mix

Add Ins 

Chocolate Overnight Oats

Add  2 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder Or Chocolate Chips.

  

Strawberry  / Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

Add

1/4 Cup Sliced Strawberries Fresh Strawberries

3 Tablespoons Softened Cream Cheese
Zest And Juice Of 1/2 Lemon

Pineapple Overnight Oats

Add 

1/4 Cup  Sliced Pineapple - tinned or fresh - I used fresh

Banana Overnight Oats

Add

1/2 ripe banana, chopped or mashed
2 tablespoons chocolate chips

I have drizzled a teaspoon of honey so that banana does not change it color.

Coconut Overnight Oats
Add 
1/4 Cup Flaked Coconut 
1/2 Cup Coconut Milk

Tropical Fruits Overnight Oats

Add
1/4  Cup chopped fresh or canned pineapple
1/4 cup chopped ripe mango
1/2 Ripe Banana - chopped or mashed
2 Tablespoons Flaked Coconut

Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats

Add
1/2 Cup Plain Pumpkin Puree
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/8 Teaspoon Ground Cloves
1/4 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg

Make your choice of overnight oats and enjoy this loaded bowl of super foods and protein.

To make it Gluten Free, use gluten free oats.

Labels : Foodie Extravaganza Party, Oats, Breakfast, Overnight Oats, Pumpkin Spice, Tropical Fruits, Coconut Milk, Flaked Coconut, Banana, Chocolate Chip, Chia seeds,  Almond Milk, Soy Milk, Coconut Milk, Milk, Vegan, Gluten free 

Check the recipes of our other fellow bloggers

Basic Overnight Oats With Add Ins by Sneha's Recipe
Carrot Cake Oatmeal by A Day in the Life on the Farm
Chicken with Oatmeal Stuffing and Whisky Sauce by Caroline's Cooking
Crunchy Granola by A Spoonful of Thyme
No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Bars by Family Around the Table
Oatmeal Blueberry Bread by Karen's Kitchen Stories
Quick Weekday Oatmeal for One by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
Savory Oatmeal Bowl by Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Eggless Semolina Tutti Fruity Cake #BundtBakers

A simple, eggless, butterless and a healthy Christmas Cake. This is one of the most simplest a cake to prepare and easily be made in a jiffy. Made this for my vegetarian friends for Christmas.

This month for Bundt Baker's the host is none other than me and the theme is " Christmas Cake ". Wishing all my friends and fellow bloggers a very Happy and Joyful Christmas. May the peace, love  and joy of Christ light up your life's and of your family.  Have a wonderful Christmas!

Ingredients
3/4 Cup Fine Semolina / Rawa
1/3 Cup Level Milk Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Level Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Level Baking Powder
1/3 Cup Level Caster Sugar
3/4 Cup Mixed Fruits
2 Tablespoon Jelly Sweet
1/2 Teaspoon Mixed Fruit Essence
1/3 Cup + 1 Tablespoon Level All Purpose Flour 

1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
1/3 Cup Yogurt
1/2 Cup Milk or more as required

Method

These are cashew nuts, cranberries, golden raisins, mix peels, cherries and jelly sweets.   Mix them 1 tablespoon flour with a mixed fruits and jelly toss it well so that they are coated with flour. Keep aside

Mix Semolina, yogurt, milk, sugar and vegetable oil. Keep mixture aside for 15 to 20 minutes to allow the semolina to soften. Ensure that the consistency of the batter is like that of cake batter so milk can be added if required.

In the mean time pre heat the oven to 180°C.

Grease an 6 inch bundt pan well and keep side.

Mix the flour, milk powder, baking powder and soda well .

After the soaking time add the flour mix , essence and beat it till incorporated in the semolina mixture. Fold in the mixed fruits and check the consistency, if required add a tablespoon or more accordingly. It should be like a normal cake batter. 

Pour the batter in the prepared pan and bake it for 30-35 minutes or when a skewer inserted comes out clean.

This is a soft and moist cake.  See the studded jelly sweets, taste yum .

Labels : Fine Semolina , Rawa, Tutti Fruity, Jelly Sweets, Eggless, Butterless, Bundt Bakers, Christmas Cake

Check the recipes of our Christmas Bundt Bakers:

Almond Nougat Bundt Cake   Nunca es demasiado dulce
Bundt de Noel   All That's Left Are The Crumbs 
Baileys Hot Chocolate Bundt Cake  Making Miracles 
Chestnut Praline Coffee Bundt Cake   The Queen of Scones 
Christkindl Gluhwein Bundt Cake   I Love Bundt Cakes
Eggless Semolina Tutti Fruity Cake    Sneha's Recipe 
Gingerbread Bundt Cake  Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice

Italian Cream Bundt Cake  Palatable Pastime
Mini Chocolate Ganache Bundts with Peppermint Crunch  Cookaholic Wife 
Maple Walnut Bundt Cake  Bizcocheando 

Pineapple Upside Down Bundt  A Day in the Life on the Farm 

Polenta Bundt Cake   Katin špajz 
Rich Chocolate Bundt Cake wtih Cake Truffles    Sweet Sensations
Sorrel Mini Bundts   Passion Kneaded 
Spicy Gingerbread Bundt    Food Lust People Love
XMAS BUNDT CAKE   La mejor manera de hacer 

Mutton Paya Soup / Trotters / Goat Legs Soup #SoupSwappers

Mutton Paya Soup is  made from the legs of goat/ lamb which are also called as  trotters / paya and this is a very healthy soup recipe.  This  bone broth is medicinal in ways its really good for bones, since it actually strengthens our bones.

  This is excellent when one has undergone surgery or when the  doctor tells you have iron, protein, calcium rich food for speedy recovery which helps you to  regain your health quickly.  

In soup swappers this month Wendy , our host, asked us to share a soup that has special memories for you and memories associated with it.

This delicious recipe for paya soup comes from my mother, its a East Indian recipe.  This one soup that we all  really loved and would wait when my mummy would make it.  She would make this practically every alternate week, since always one of the six siblings would be down with cough or cold.  My second sister and me, always suffered from running nose through out the year.  Mummy would make these with freshly pounded spices.  I, have made it with my  Homemade Garam Masala powder that is made for the whole year.

This is such a delicious, healthy soup and you must try it.

Ingredients
4 Goat legs / Paya - cut into pieces
1 Onion - finely chopped
1 Green Chilly - finely chopped
3 Cloves Garlic - finely chopped
1/2 An Inch Piece of Ginger - finely chopped
1 Bay leaf
1 Teaspoon Homemade Garam Masala powder
1/2 Teaspoon Heaped Turmeric powder
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper powder
Salt to taste
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar 

1 Tablespoon Oil

Method

Wash the pieces of paya/ lamb legs very well with wheat flour and  then in fresh water for about 5-6 times. This  washing is essential,  paya contains tiny hair which are not visible and cleaning them with wheat flour basically takes the hair out and gives a hair free paya.

Heat oil in  a pressure pan, add  ginger, garlic paste, bay leaf, onions and green chilly, saute till the onions are soft. 

Add the paya pieces, garam masala, turmeric and black pepper powders, salt, sugar, mix well.  Then add 4  cups of water & pressure cook  for one whistle on high flame then for  20 minutes  for very low flame or till done. 

Remove from heat check for seasoning, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves (optional ).  I did not add, Serve hot and enjoy with crusty bread slices.  It's so delicious and turned out awesome!

My Notes

This mutton paya can be made in slow cooker too.

Labels  : Soup, Paya, Soup Swappers, Healthy, Mutton, East Indian, Trotters

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Chatpati Machli #FishFriday

Made this Chatpati Machli for lunch when my daughters friends visited us.  Served this with steamed rice and the bowl was clean.  This  really delicious ,  not very spicy and quick to make.  It's a Bangladeshi recipe.

Ingredients
500 Grams Boneless fish - cut into cubes- I used Surmai / Seer Fish
2 Tablespoon Lemon juice 
6 Whole Button Red chilies 
1/2 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
1/4 Cup Oil 
1 Teaspoon Salt  or to taste
1 Teaspoon Kalonji / Onion seeds
1 ½ Teaspoon Level Red Chili powder
1 Teaspoon Garlic paste  
1 Cup Yogurt -  beaten
4 Tablespoons Brown onion - powdered
2 Tablespoons Coriander leaves - chopped
Dry Grind to a coarse powder
1 Teaspoon Mustard seeds
8 Dried Red chilies
1/4 Teaspoon Fenugreek  / Methi seeds 
1 Tablespoon Coriander seeds
1 Teaspoon Heaped Fennel seeds
1 Teaspoon Cumin seeds 

Method

Coarsely grind  the cumin, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, fenugreek seeds, and mustard seeds, keep aside. 

Apply salt to the  fish  and place it in water ,then wash it in fresh water  and pat it  dry. Then marinate fish with lemon juice and keep it aside for 30 minutes.

 Heat oil, add whole red chilies, onion seeds, with garlic paste and  fry then add 2 tablespoon water and add turmeric powder,  chilly powder, salt, then the ground powder, yogurt, and fry well then add the fried onions and quarter cup water, fry well,  Cover and cook till oil surfaces then add the  fish and again cover and cook for 5 minutes, lastly add chopped coriander leaves.  Serve with steamed rice.

Sending this to this month's Event for Fish Friday Foodies our · Host by Karen H Kerr and the theme is Asian Flavors.  Thank you Karen for hosting this month's event.

Labels :  Chatpati Machli, Surmai Fish, Seafood/Fish, Bangladesh, Fish Friday

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Khameeri Puri #BreadBakers

Khameeri puri is made by using yeast (khameer). Khammer means yeast in Hindi. This dough is very soft, like a bread dough hence these cannot be rolled with a rolling pin, they have to be flattened by hand. If you do not want to make puris, you can make roti / flatbread and use to girddle to bake the roti's .

For this month's bread baker's event Hosted by Stacy Livingston Rushton and Kalyani , the theme is  Whole Grained Holiday Breads. 

Our meals are incomplete with breads, made these puris with Whole wheat flour and All Purpose flour. These Khameeri puris turn out so soft and delcious. I, make these so often most of the times as flatbread. Have these Khameeri Puris hot with jam and Ohh!! you are in heaven, seriously, try and let me know!  They can be had with any gravy or even with a topping of herbed mayo or hummus. 

Ingredients
2 Cups Heaped All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Whole Wheat flour
2 Tablespoon Ghee/ Butter
1 Egg
 1/3 Cup Yogurt - beaten
3/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda

1 Teaspoon Instant Yeast
1 Tablespoon Sugar - powdered

1/2 Cup Warm Water or as kneaded
Water as required to knead the dough
Oil for deep frying

Method
Sieved flours and baking soda, keep aside.

Mix warm water ,yeast and sugar, let it stand  for 5 minutes. Then add ghee / butter, yogurt and egg to the mixture and mix it well. 

In a food processor / dough kneader,  add the sieved flour,  salt and yeast mix, run it till the mixture is incorporated, then keep adding warm water little at a time till forms a soft and sticky dough.

Take it dough out on to oiled work surface and knead it  for 10  to 12 minutes by stretching and folding the dough , till it is soft and smooth.   Place it in an oiled bowl and cover it with wet muslin cloth till it double's in volume.  Depending on the room temperature, it may take an hour or more to rise.

Then deflate the dough and divide it into 10 or 12 equal parts.

In the meantime, place and kadai with enough oil for deep frying. Let the oil start heating.   Then start to make the puris.

Take a plastic sheet and oil it well.   Keep on stretching and flattening dough by oiling your hands and make a thick puri. 

 These puris are thick about half an inch, if  you  make thin ones they will not puff well, you  can cut it with a round mold to make them all same size.   

Check weather the oil is hot enough to fry the puri, take a small piece of dough and put into the  hot oil, if the dough rises immediately to the surface, then the oil is ready to fry the khameeri puri.

Now fry the khameeri puri into the hot oil on medium high flame and press them with a slotted spoon so that they will puff up evenly.  

When one side is just light golden, turn the sides and fry till both sides are just light golden.  Take them out on to a  kitchen towel to absorb excess oil. 

Like wise make rest of the puri's.

Enjoy these puffy khameeri puri's with a dip or gravy of your choice  OR   like me with a spoon of jam on each..hehe... enjoy !!

Labels : Breads, Flatbread, Deep Fried, Khameeri Puri, Bread Bakers, Whole Wheat, Egg

Check out the Healthy Breads that our fellow #BreadBakers have baked this month:

100% Whole Wheat Bread from Cook's Hideout
Eggless Whole Wheat Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls from Spill the Spices
Gingerbread and Oatmeal Bread from Mayuri's Jikoni
Kamut Cloverleaf Rolls from Cindy's Recipes and Writings
Key-Shaped Challah with Finger Millet from Sara's Tasty Buds
Khameeri Puri from Sneha's Recipe
Oats Whole Wheat Bread from The Mad Scientist's Kitchen
Santa Lucia Buns from Karen's Kitchen Stories
Slovak Pasca from Ambrosia
Spelt Banana Bread from Food Lust People Love
Swedish Limpa from Palatable Pastime
Whole Wheat Grissini from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Whole Wheat Stollen from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
Wholewheat Garlic Flavoured Monkey Bread from Sizzling Tastebuds 

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page.
We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.