Potato & Radish Dahi Kadhi#Soupswappers

This Potato & Radish Dahi Kadhi/Aloo Mooli Kadhi is potato and radish sticks in yogurt without onion/garlic. Make radish sticks along with potato and no one will know what they are eating. This is an interesting way to put such veggies into ones diet. The radish has a pungent taste when once it is incorporate in the kadhi which is on a thinner side like a shorba, the smell and pungent taste vanishes. It taste great, it's rich and delicious and this served only with steamed rice. 

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons Heaped Besan/Gram flour 

2 Cups Thick Slightly Sour Yogurt
1 Large White Radish
1 Medium Potato
1 Teaspoon Salt  or to taste1 Teaspoon Sugar  

2 Green chilies
1 Inch Piece Ginger
1 Stick Cinnamon
3 Cloves 1/2 Teaspoon Cumin seeds 

1/2 Teaspoon Mustard seeds

4 Grains of Fenugreek seeds
A Pinch Asafoetida
A Sprig Curry leaves
3 Button Red Chilies
1 Tablespoon Ghee 

1 Tablespoon Oil

Method

Coarsely grind the green chilies and ginger.

Peel potatoes and radish. Cut into similar-sized thick sticks. Keep them immersed into water to prevent discoloration.

In a mixer jar add the besan, a cup of water. Blend it well, making sure no lumps remain, add the coarsely ground ginger and green chillies to this and and run it for a minute.

Whisk sour yogurt with 3 - 4 cups of water, salt and sugar, keep aside.

In a kadai/large, heat oil and ghee, add the cumin, mustard and fenugreek seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves. When they crackle, add red chilies, asafoetida powder and curry leaves. Stir and add potato and radish sticks, sauté potato and radish sticks for a minutes on high heat, then reduce the heat to low and cover it for 2 - 3 minutes till the radish and potato turns light golden. Add the besan mixture and stir well it comes to a rolling boil. Reduce the flame to low, cover and let is cook till oil surfaces and the it thickens and till the rawness leaves the besan. Stir regularly while the besan cooks. 

Take the pan off the heat. Mix the yogurt and keep stirring continuously till the yogurt is completely incorporated. Keep it back on high flame and stir continuously till it comes to a rolling boil. Reduce the flame to low and let it simmer for 25 to 30 minutes or till the kadhi reduces to half the quantity. Keep stirring in between to make sure it does not burn at the bottom of the kadai. 

When done serve this with steaming hot rice, pickle, a delicious and comforting meal.

I love to drink this, take a bowl full...slurp & Enjoy!!  

Labels : Soup, Soup Swappers, Kadhi, Potato, Vegetarian, Main course, Yogurt, Radish, Healthy, Gluten free, No Onion No Garlic

November 2020 event for Soup Swapper's this month our host is  Camilla Mann  from http://culinary-adventures-with-cam.blogspot.co, and the theme is Let's showcase a soup made with roots! 

• Autumn Soup with Freshly Dug Potatoes and Prawns by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Carrot and Ginger Soup by Magical Ingredients
• Colombian Chicken and Potato Soup (Ajiaco) by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Creamy French Red Lentil Soup with Ham Stock by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Danish Potato Soup by Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Potato & Radish Dahi Kadhi by Sneha's Recipe
• Puree of Celery Root Soup by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Russian Ragu Iz Ovoshej by Pandemonium Noshery
• Sausage, Potato and Sauerkraut Soup by Palatable Pastime
• Savory Root Vegetable Soup by Making Miracles

Thai Noodles With Shrimps#FishFriday

This is a super quick recipe that is satisfying and filling, noodles with fresh shrimp in green curry paste. You can, substitute the noodles for your favorite ones. This recipe comes together under 30 minutes from start to finish.

For this month's Fish Friday event the theme is "Fish for Thanksgiving" and our  host is  Wendy Klik of A Day in the Life on the Farm.  

Ingredients
200 Grams Shrimps

A Sachet of Noodles Masala
Salt or to taste
½ Teaspoon Black pepper powder
2 Cloves Garlic - minced
1 Green Chilly - chopped
1 Cup Boiled Green Peas
3 Tablespoons Thai Green Curry Paste
250 Grams Noodles - Boiled
A Squeeze of Lemon

Method

Boil the noodles as per packet instructions. Keep aside.

Fry the prawns with a pinch of salt, half of the  noodles masala and black pepper powder until they’ve just turned pink. Set aside. 

In the same pan, fry the garlic and green chilly add in the Thai green curry paste, remaining noodles masala and a little water, cook for a minute. Add the peas, prawns, noodles and mix. Serve with squeeze lemon juice.

Enjoy!!
Labels: Asian Cuisine, Prawns, Shrimps, Seafood/Fish, Pasta & Noodles, Green Curry Paste, Thailand, Fish Friday, Main course

Novemeber 2020 Fish Friday event the theme is Fish For Thanksgiving, our host is Wendy ofA Day in the Life on the Farm

• Cheesy Shrimp Stuffed Poblano Peppers from Food Lust People Love
• Crab Stuffed Deviled Eggs from Palatable Pastime
• Cracked Crab with Lemongrass, Black Pepper, and Basil from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Shrimp Mini Quiche Appetizers from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Shrimp Turkey Centerpiece from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Crispy Brussels Sprouts Salad with Seared Scallops from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Pumpkin and Shrimp Bisque from Making Miracles
• Thai Noodles With Shrimps from Sneha's Recipe

Peanut Butter Cake With Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting#BundtBakers

This was so delicious and moist! Made this as a dessert cake for a get together. I just got one piece, it was gone, they couldn't stop eating it, incredible. This peanut butter cake with peanut butter frosting is the perfect cake to make when you just want something different. Moist, super soft and packed with the perfect amount of peanut butter flavor.
Cup Measurement = 250ML
Ingredients
113 Grams Salted Butter
1/2 Cup Creamy Peanut butter
1 Cup Coffee
1 Cup Caster Sugar
1 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
3 Large Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla essence
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Cup Buttermilk 
For the Frosting
1/4 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Cup Icing Sugar
3 Cubes Cream Cheese
1 - 2 Tablespoons Milk or as required

Method
Preheat over to 180°C.
Sieve the flour and baking soda, keep aside.
In a cup of hot water mix in a teaspoon instant coffee, mix it well and keep it aside to cool.

Generously grease and flour a bundt pan. Set aside.

In a large bowl beat the butter, peanut butter and vanilla essence

until creamy.

Now add the coffee

Beat again till incorporated well.

Beat in both the sugars

Add eggs one at time till all are incorporated

Add sieved flour at little at a time, alternating with the buttermilk.

Mix just until flour and buttermilk is well combined. Do not over mix. This batter is liquidy.

Pour batter into prepared bundt pan. Bake at for 45-50 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
Let cool in pan for about 5-10 minutes.

Remove cake from pan and let cool completely on wire rack

Make the frosting by beating it together until all frosting ingredients are mixed  to make a drizzle consistency. Drizzle this on the cake with a fork. Enjoy!!

I enjoyed my share with coffee, this cake is so comforting.
Labels: American, Breakfast, Dessert, Peanut Butter, Bundt, Bundt Bakers, Buttermilk, Coffee

#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.

November 2020 - Bundt Bakers - Nut Butter Bundts and our host is Wendy of  https://adayinthelifeonthefarm.blogspot.com/ Check out all the other  Bundts my fellow Bundt Bakers are sharing today! 

• Banana Bundt with Cocoa Peanut Butter Glaze from Sweet Sensations
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake from Patyco Candybar
• Easy Frosted Peanut Butter Bundt Cake from Making Miracles
• Mini Peanut Butter Bundts from Passion Kneaded
• PB & J Mini Bundt Cake from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Peanut Butter Cake With Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting from Sneha's Recipe
• Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Pound Cake from Palatable Pastime
• Peanut Butter, Nutella and Banana Bundt from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Walnut Butter Bundt Cake from Food Lust People Love

Jamaican Coconut & Beans Rice #MultiCookerMonday

The rice is cooked in coconut milk with beans, a favorite side dish of Jamaica. I added one spicy red chilly which is cooked with the rice, it was added just for a bit of flavor. It doesn't make the the rice spicy at all and you can discard while eating. I cooked this rice in a pressure cooker and it was done in minutes, perfect and fluffy, every grain was loose.

Cup Measurement 200Ml
Ingredients
2 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil - I used coconut Oil
1 Small Onion - finely chopped
3 Big Coves Garlic - finely chopped
1½ Cups Short Grain Rice - can use long grain
1 Big Cube Vegetable Seasoning
½ Teaspoon Finely Chopped Ginger
3 Cups Water
2 Tablespoons Heaped Coconut Milk Powder - See Notes
1 Cup Boiled Kidney Beans -  See Notes
1 Bay Leaf
1 Spicy Red Chilly - can use any chilly 
1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice- optional  

Method 

In a bowl mix the coconut milk powder with a cup of water till it forms a smooth liquid, then add the remaining 2 cups water and mix it well. Keep this aside.

Heat the pressure cooker with coconut oil over medium high flame. Add the onions and sauté, until they begin to brown on the edges. Add garlic, ginger and bay leaf, sauté for a minute.  Add the rice and fry it for a minute lightly or else the grains will break. Add the stock cube, coconut milk and stir well. Add the kidney beans and the chopped chilly.  Bring this to a rolling boil, let this boil on medium high heat till the coconut milk come to level of the rice, stirring lightly with a spatula after every 2 minutes.  

Close the cooker with a lid and  on high flame take 2 whistles.  Switch off the flame and let the cooker cool completely.  Fluffy the rice with a fork and enjoy with a dash of lemon juice. 

The rice is especially good with a little lime juice sprinkled on it.  Enjoyed this with Jamaican Saucy Jerk Chicken Wings, a delicious combo. 

My Notes
If you are using coconut milk then use half coconut milk half water- 1½ Cup each - coconut milk and 1½ Cup Water.

For the Kidney Beans
I washed and then soaked ½ Cup kidney beans overnight. Then next morning, boiled them in the pressure cooker with ½ teaspoon salt and 2 cups water . Place the cooker on high flame take one whistle, reduce the flame to low and keep it for 7 minutes. Cool and drain all the water, since this will change the color of rice. If you find that the beans are not cooked then cook it for more time. Since I soaked them overnight it was done in 7 minutes. 

Labels:  Coconut Milk ,Red Kidney Beans, Rice, Vegan, Gluten free, Main course, Jamaica, Multi Cooker Monday, International Cuisine 

                                            

Multicooker Monday November 2020:

Recipes using Small Kitchen Appliances

• Crockpot Bread from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Instant Pot Butter Beans and Sausage from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Instant Pot Cheesy Taco Shells from Making Miracles
• Slow Cooker Pot Roast from Palatable Pastime
• Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meatballs from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Jamaican Coconut & Beans Rice - Pressure Cooker from Sneha's Recipe
• Sous Vide Whole Stuffed Turkey from Food Lust People Love

Lal Bhoplyache Bharit /Red Pumpkin Raita#SundayFunday

I enjoying having salad or raita with every meal. My hubby too loves this raita and also the sabzi prepared from this vegetable. Lal Bhopla Bharit is a raita made with steamed red pumpkin, yogurt and is then tempered with flavorful spices, this is prepared in every Maharashtrian home. This raita is a great accompaniment to roti ,pulao and biryani where its sweetness balances the spiciness.

This appetizing raita is a great side dish, if you are fasting and is sure to be loved by those who do not like pumpkin. 
Serve Lal Bhoplyache Bharit with roti for a main course meal or on festival thali.

Here we get different types of pumpkin-

Lauki - in Hindi or Bottle Gourd in English and Dudhi in Marathi.

Red Pumpkin or Yellow Pumpkin or Squash or Kabocha Squash as some call it, here we call it in Marathi as Lal Bhopla and Kaddu in Hindi. I like buying the ripe one which turns red and is also sweet in taste, so we call it Red Pumpkin/Lal Bhopla.

Then we have Ash Gourd/ Winter Melon/ White Pumpkin which is call Kohllaa in Marathi and in Hindi Petha Kaddu from which the famous Agra Petha is made from.

Ingredients 
250 Grams Lal Bhopla/Red Pumpkin- chop into cubes
1 Cup Thick Yogurt - beaten
2 Green Chillies – finely chopped
1/2 Teaspoon Mustard seeds
A pinch of Asafoetida
A Spring Curry leaves
1 Teaspoon Desi Ghee
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
Salt to Taste

Method

Boil the pumpkin with a tablespoon of water or pressure cook for a whistle. Let the pumpkin cool then mash it with a spoon.

Add yogurt, salt, sugar, chillies and mix well. In a laddle, heat ghee, add the mustard seeds when they splutter, add the curry leaves and asafoetida. Pour the seasoning to the bharit/raita.

Give it a mix and serve with chilled.  
Labels: Red Pumpkin, Raita, Salads, Main course, Healthy,  Vegetarian, Yogurt, Sunday Funday 

In our today's event for Sunday Funday, wherein we share recipes our families will love to enjoy on a Sunday. I thank our host for this week's event
Rebekah Rose Hills of http://rebekahrose.blogspot.com/the theme is "Squash It To Me".

• Autumn Harvest Fall Soup by Our Good Life
• Beef and Butternut Squash Chili by Making Miracles
• Couscous-Stuffed Red Kuri Squash by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Creamy Pumpkin Soup with Yogurt by Cooking With Carlee
• Curried Squash Soup by Palatable Pastime
• Lal Bhoplyache Bharit /Red Pumpkin Raita by Sneha's Recipe
• Roasted Bruschetta Pattypan Squash by Food Lust People Love
• Seared Scallops with Spaghetti Squash by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Spaghetti Squash 2 Ways by Sid's Sea Palm Cooking