One Pot Veggie Soupma For Two#Soupswappers

Soupma is nothing "But" Upma + Soup, a semolina veggies soup, tasty quick, filling and a one pot soup.

Serves 2 
Ingredients
¼ Cup Fresh Green Peas
1 Small Onion - finely chopped
1 Small Carrot - finely diced
1 Small Tomato - chopped
3 French Beans - chopped
1 Baby Potato - - finely diced - optional
1 Tablespoon Finely Chopped Capsicum
1 Green Chilly - - finely chopped - optional
2 Tablespoons Heaped Semolina
¼ Teaspoon Urad Dal
¼ Teaspoon Mustard Seeds
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric powder
¼ Teaspoon Paprika powder
1 Teaspoon Sugar
Salt to Taste
4 - 5 Curry Leaves - chopped
1 Tablespoon Oil or Ghee
500 Ml Water

Method

In a sauce pan dry roast the semolina till it turns light pink on low flame. Take this out. 

In the same pan heat oil,  add the mustard seeds, urad dal, and when they crackle,  add the curry leaves and onion, saute till translucent , now add all the veggies and saute for a minute, add the turmeric powder, salt , sugar and water,  bring this to a boil, reduce the flame when the veggies are nearly cooked add the roasted semolina and stir well till mixed and lump free, let this cook on low flame till the veggies are soft yet firm. 

Add a dash of paprika and serve hot with a sprinkle of scallion/spring onion greens. 

Enjoy this tasty Soupma. I, served this Soupma with cheeslings.

Labels : Soup, Soup Swappers, Upma, Healthy, Appetizer, Vegetarian, Vegetables, Vegan

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• One Pot Veggie Soupma by Sneha's Recipe
• Roasted Fennel and Spring Green Soup by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Sardinian Herb Soup by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Split Pea Soup by Making Miracles
• Spring Greens Soup with Mushrooms by Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Wilted Spring Greens Soup by A Day in the Life on the Farm

Tuna In Tomato Salad#FishFriday

For this salad I, used a can of tuna in tomato with oil, I love this, it taste so delicious.  Since it's so flavorful, it requires just no dressing and do not drain it. Use this as it is. 

This salad was my lunch, super healthy and delicious meal. 

For the salad I used, red radish, this has a sharp biting flavor and its juicy, crispy English cucumber, tomato, salad leaves , lettuce leaves, boiled egg and tuna in tomato. Add just a drizzle of lemon juice, a dash of salt and pepper, with a generous drizzle of mayonnaise.

As A Salad Serves 3 Ingredients 
115 Grams Tuna In Tomato
1 Medium English Cucumber - sliced
2 - 3 Red Radish - Sliced
1 Large Tomato - sliced
2 Hard Boiled Eggs - cut into wedges
10 Salad Leaves
1 Cup Torn Lettuce
A Drizzle of Lemon Juice
A Dash of Salt and Pepper powder
Mayonnaise as required

Method

On a salad bowl, arrange the salad leaves, then spread the torn lettuce. Arrange the red radish, then the cucumber and tomato. Place the eggs, sprinkle the tuna in tomato, drizzle the lemon juice, salt . Pipe the mayonnaise and sprinkle a dash of pepper powder. Tuna Salad is ready.

Let me share with you how I, enjoyed this salad, a rustic style. Took a salad leaf , add a little of each rolled it into a wrap and ate it. 

Super yum..yumm..mm. You get the crunchiness of the veggies and the taste of tuna in tomato. A blast of flavors in you mouth.

Labels : Seafood/Fish, Tuna, Fish, Healthy, Appetizer, Fish Friday, Healthy, Salads, 

• Causa Rellena from Caroline's Cooking
• Cold Avocado Yakisoba with Chile-Kissed Ahi from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Deviled Eggs with Tuna, Capers, and Chives from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Easy Creamy Tuna Noodle Casserole from Making Miracles
• Ginger Sesame Tuna Tartare from Food Lust People Love
• Lightly Seared Yellowfin Tuna atop Greens and Rice Pasta Salad from Of Goats and Greens
• Tarragon Tuna Pasta Salad from Palatable Pastime
• Tuna In Tomato Salad from Sneha's Recipe
• Tuna Reuben from A Day in the Life on the Farm

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Cherry Bundt With Homemade Maraschino Cherries#BundtBakers

At last it's time to bake a Cherry Cake using my very own Homemade Maraschino Cherries! I made these in June 2019 and refrigerate them.

Ingredients
½ Cup Packed Homemade Maraschino Cherries
1½ Cups All Purpose Flour 

½ Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
115 Grams Salted Butter
1 Cups Caster Sugar
2 Large Eggs -  separated
1/3 Cup Cherry Syrup 
1/3 Cup Sour Cream

Two drops Pink Color

½ Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
2 Tablespoons All Purpose Flour

Method
Butter a bundt pan well and keep aside.
For the Cherries 

Drain 1 cup of pitted and de-stemmed maraschino cherries from their syrup ( one jar of homemade) and set aside, reserving the syrup for use in this recipe. Letting them sit draining on the counter in a strainer.  Use a few paper towels and pat the cherries somewhat dry, so that they are not dripping in syrup. Finely chop the cherries. 
Sprinkle the fine-chopped cherries  with 2 Tablespoons all purpose flour and stir with a fork to incorporate.

For the Cake Batter
In a  bowl,  beat  the egg whites until light, fluffy and forms soft peaks. 

In a another bowl cream the butter, sugar, till light and creamy, add the egg yolks one at a time and continue to beat till incorporated . Add the essence and mix well, now add the sour cream and continue to beat till incorporated.  Add the flour and cherry syrup little at a time and on low speed continue to beat till the flour and syrup is incorporated. Now fold in the egg whites with a spatula  a little at a time till no white specks are seen and the egg whites are well mixed.

Divide this batter into three parts.
In one part add pink color and the cherries, fold it in well with a spatula till the color is evenly mixed in the batter.

In the prepared bundt pan first add one part of the white batter at the bottom and  level it with a spatuala.  Now spread the cherries pink batter and spread it evenly.  

Pour the remaining white batter and spread it evenly.  

Tap the pan on the work surface lightly and bake it in a preheated oven at 180°C,  for  30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick test inserted in center shows clean.

Cool it completely and then un mold. 

 Enjoy.. this so soft and spongy!! My hubby is pestering me to make this again.

Labels : Cherries, Homemade, Bundts, Bundt Bakers , Maraschino 
Bundt Bakers March 2020:

Cherry Bundt Cakes
Banana Split Bundt Cake from Food Lust People Love
Black Forest Bundt Cake from Making Miracles
Cherry Bourbon Bundt from Sweet Sensations
Cherry Cake With Homemade Maraschino Cherries from Sneha's Recipe
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake from Palatable Pastime
Cherry Jelly and White Chocolate Bundt Cake from Patyco Candybar

• #BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

Homemade Maraschino Cherries

These have such a delicious taste and flavor any day 100 times better than the tinned stuff you get in the market. Here the tinned Maraschino Cherries are so expensive. The homemade ones are so cheaper and preservative free. You can just pop them into your mouth and relish them, they so..ooo.. good.

Ingredients

Day One 

500 Grams  Maraschino Cherries
1 Liter Water
1 Teaspoon Sea Salt

Method

Half  the cherries I,  pitted & half I kept with the stems.
Boil a liter of water with a heaped teaspoon of sea salt when it comes to a boil. Switch off the flame and let the water come to room temperature. Now add the pitted and stem cherries and cover the pan with a  tight fitting lid immediately and let them sit in the salt water overnight.
Day Two
Ingredients 

175 Ml Water
2½ Cups Heaped Granulated Sugar
A Juice of Small Lemon 

½ Teaspoon Almond or Mixed Fruit Essence 

Method 

Make a simple  syrup with water, sugar. When the water come to a rolling boil,  add juice of one fresh lemon and continue to boil this till the sugar melts, keep stirring it so that the sugar does not burn at the bottom. When the sugar melts. Switch of the flame and let it cool completely. Add the essence and give it a quick stir.  

Strain the syrup.

As the syrup is cooling drain the salted brine cherries, throw away the salt water and and wash them in fresh water once. Let them dry a little . Then store the cherries in the simple syrup in a sterilized bottle and refrigerate them until you want to use. 

The Homemade Maraschino Cherries are ready to use.

I loved these cherries and would pop one or two very often.

Labels :  Cherries, Homemade, Preservatives free, Healthy

Pressure Cooker Carrot And Drumstick Sambar#MultiCookerMonday

This is quick one pot pressure cooker sambar, so quick an easy to prepare. Just add all the ingredients and take 2 whistles on high flame and your sambar is ready.  

Thanks to Multi Cooker Monday where we can cook and post in all our small appliances, where other wise are hardly used. 

Ingredients
½  Cup Tur Dal
1 Large  Carrot - cut int sticks 
1 Tomato –  cut into four pieces
4 Drumsticks - cleaned and cut into long pieces 
1 Green Chilly
2 Teaspoons  Instant Sambar Masala Powder- Homemade
1 Teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
1 Teaspoon Heaped Coriander Powder
½ Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
1 Small Lemon Size Ball Tamarind
Salt to taste
1 Teaspoon Jaggery
A Sprig Curry Leaves 
For the Tadka
2 Tablespoons Oil
1 Teaspoon Mustard Seeds
1 Teaspoon Urad dal
1 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds ¼ Teaspoon  Asafoetida
A Sprig Curry Leaves

Method

Wash and soak the tur dal for atleast an hour.
Soak the tamarind in ½ cup warm water.

In a pressure  pan , add tur dal,  drumsticks, carrot, tomatoes whole green chilly,  all the given spices, jaggery, salt to taste . Add water  to the level of the veggies , give it a good mix .  Place this on high flame bring the water to a boil, when it come to boil cover with the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles on high flame. Turn off the heat and let the steam settle  by itself. Open the cooker and set aside.

Add the tamarind juice and enough water, to make a gravy consistency and bring this to a boil.  Let this simmer for at least 5  to 7 minutes on low.

In a small takda pan,  heat oil, add mustard, urad dal, cumin seeds , curry leaves and asafoetida and let them sizzle. Add  this tadak to the dal and mix well.

Serve with rice or idli.  

Enjoy!! 
Lables:  Sambar, Pressure Cooker, South Indian, Dal, Carrot, Drumstick, Instant Sambar Masala Powder, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Multicooker Monday,  Vegan, Gluten free,  No Onion No Garlic
Multicooker Monday - March 2020 Recipes
Recipes for Instant Pots, Slow Cookers, Sous Vide and More! 

Pressure Cooker & Instant Pot Recipes:
Instant Pot Carolina-Style Pulled Pork from Karen's Kitchen Stories
Instant Pot Orange Chicken from Making Miracles
Pressure Cooker Carrot And Drumstick Sambar from Sneha's Recipe
Thai Green Curry Mussels (Instant Pot) from Palatable Pastime

Slow Cooker Recipes:
Maple & Honey Butter Crockpot Sweet Potatoes from Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas from A Day in the Life on the Farm

Sous Vide Recipes:
Sous Vide Bone-in Leg of Lamb from Food Lust People Love
Sous Vide Chicken from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking

Tell your friends about #MulticookerMonday! We post each month on the third Monday with trusted recipes for your favorite small appliances!