Egg scrambled veggies & garlic bread sticks

Egg scrambled veggies:

Sauté carrots, onions, corn, chillies, cilantro and coconut flakes for five minutes in olive oil or butter. Add egg white and sauté for few more minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste! I am going to try this recipe again! It tasted great and is healthy too!!

Garlic bread sticks:

Toast two breads. Cut them into 3-4 inch long slices and sprinkle garlic dipping sauce (or make your own flavored butter).

Have a great week ahead!
Love,
Archana

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(Spicy) spaghetti & garlic mushroom

Recipe for Spicy Spaghetti: 

(My own recipe :~) )

You need: bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, butter, olive oil, Parmesan cheese, salt, red chili flakes(optional), garlic(optional).

Directions: 

1. Add two spoons of butter and two spoons of olive oil in a deep pan and set the stove on medium heat. 

2. Add minced garlic(optional) and sliced peppers and saute them for two minutes.

3. Add sliced cherry tomatoes,salt to taste and saute them for five more minutes.

4. Add spaghetti (that has already been cooked in boiling water) to the above pan and let it all cook for five to ten minutes, stirring occasionally.

5. Add red chili flakes (optional) and Parmesan cheese just before turning off the heat. 

6. Serve hot and enjoy!

Spicy Spaghetti & Garlic Mushroom

Oven roasted mushroom

Recipe for Garlic roasted mushroom: 

(Recipe I found on Facebook )

You need:  16 mushrooms whose stalks are cute evenly,

3 tbsp corn or vegetable oil, (I used 2 spoons of vegetable oil)

1/4 c unsalted butter, softened  (I added about 4 spoons of butter),

3 cloves garlic, chopped very finely,

2 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped (I did not add this),

1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice

Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

1/4 c fresh breadcrumbs (I blended garlic croutons and used it as bread powder)

 Directions: 

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6. Lightly fry the mushrooms, cap-side down, in hot oil for 20 seconds.Arrange the mushrooms in a shallow roasting tin with the stalks facing upwards. Mix together the butter, garlic, thyme, lemon juice and seasoning. Spoon a little garlic butter on to each mushroom, then lightly press the breadcrumbs on top. Either refrigerate for later use, or cook immediately in the oven for 10 minutes.

I added more bread powder than was needed,  yet the mushrooms tasted good! I might try this recipe again, this time using chicken instead of mushrooms and see how it turns out!

I am real bad at writing recipes. I hope you do not have a hard time deciphering it.

Enjoy your day!

Love,

Archana

Tomato bruschetta

Tomato bruschetta

I found this recipe originally in piniterest.
Ingredients:
Tomato
Garlic Clove (minced)
Bread powder ( I blended plain croutons to make it into powder)
Parmesan cheese
Olive oil
Procedure:
1. Slice tomato into thin circular slices and lay them in a tray.
2. Add minced garlic, bread powder and Parmesan cheese on top of the sliced tomato.
3. Coat with olive oil.
4. Place the tray in an over for ten minutes at 420 degree fahrenheit.

I hope you enjoy making this, as much as I did.

Love,
Archana

Feta lettuce salad

3 cups of romaine salad
1 spoon of bold and creamy jalapeño sauce (Taco Bell)
1 spoon of feta crumbled cheese with Mediterranean herbs
1 spoon of shredded cheddar jack cheese
1 spoon of olive oil
6-7 plain croutons


Toss them all together and serve. Feta cheese gives a strong and distinctive flavor to the salad.

This salad has approximately 200 calories. If you want to make it healthier, add all the ingredients except the lettuce in moderation.

Mango lassi or mango smoothie

One mango, 3/4 spoons of yogurt, half a glass of water. Blend it together for a minute or two.

Do add sugar/Splenda/honey if it is not sweet enough. 

Tastes damn good! 

Strawberry smothie

1 cup frozen strawberries, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk and a spoon of honey!

PS: easy lunch

Baked fish, spinach sauté and carrots

Baked fish(ginger garlic paste and salt to taste-1 hour in oven at 420F), spinach sauté with capsicum(tea spoon of veg oil, salt to taste) and fresh carrots. #easy and health lunch ideas!

 

Ps: me is becoming a great cook. Lol
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Mushroom saute-sesame fried beans-garlic baked chicken

Mushroom Saute:

Ingredients: Mushrooms, onions, butter, salt, giner-garlic paste, cilantro, crushed red pepper(optional)
Method:
a. Heat a pan for a minute, add butter.
b. Add onions to heated butter, toss them for a minute.
c. Add mushrooms and ginger garlic paste and saute for two minutes.
d. Add salt to taste (red crushed pepper) and saute again for 3-5 minutes.
e. Switch off the stove and add cilantro.

Sesame fried beans: 

Ingredients: Beans, sesame, salt, vegetable oil
Method:
a. Heat the pan for a minute and add a table spoon of oil.
b. Add the beans and fry them for 5-8 minutes. Cover the pan with a lid and make sure to turn the beans every minutes or so.
c. Add salt to taste and sesame seeds. Saute the beans for minute or two.

Garlic chicken

Ingredients: roasted garlic & herb seasoning ,olive oil, cilantro, salt.

Method:
a. Add salt, olive oil and seasoning in a bowl and mix.
b. Add chicken to the above mixture and let it marinate for a hour. (Marination: Seal the chicken in an aluminium foil and place it aside).
c. Set the oven temperature to 420 Fahrenheit and place the chicken for 20-30 minutes (or until done.)
d. Garnish with cilantro.

PS: These are all recipes that I made up on my own. I can't promise they taste good/great/amazing. Since I am taking efforts to remember how I cooked and note down the recipe in my blog for future reference, it implies these are recipes worth trying. :~D

Raspberry-banana smoothie!

Recipe: One frozen banana + one cup of frozen raspberries + one cup of unsweetened almond milk + one spoon (or two ;) ) honey and blend it together! 

Banana is a good source of potassium, dietary fibre, manganese and vitamins B6 & C with great benefits for the heart!

Raspberries are a good source of vitamin C, manganese, fibre, vitamin K, omega 3 fats, copper, vitamin E, potassium and folate with anti cancer benefits! 

Honey prevents heart disease and cancer, is anti bacterial, anti fungal, reduces ulcers, is a probiotic and more!

Almond Milk is rich in calcium and boosts bone health and also has lesser calories than cow milk. It is also a good source of vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and is heart healthy.

Tastes sweet and banana-ish with a slight texture of crunchiness! 

Ps: I am becoming an expert smoothie maker! 

Sources: Internet

Strawberry banana smoothie

1 spoon honey, half a glass of water, 2-3 spoons yogurt, 2-4 strawberries, 1 banana

Tastes sweet adn fruity!!

Green smoothie

A cup of baby spinach, two-three spoons of yogurt, frozen: couple of red grapes, one banana, one red apple and a glass of water.

Tastes applish banana....but not spinach at all!

Fruit juice

3 oranges, 1 red apple, 1 green apple, handful of blue berries, two-three handfuls of red grapes, a glass of water.

Tastes sweet and slightly sour.

Green juice

Green juice: two cups of baby spinach, one frozen banana, half cup of frozen pinapples, 3 spoons of yogurt, 2 cups of water, one spoon honey and one spoon of pine seeds. 

It tastes so good and nothing like spinach at all. 

What makes me good cook ...

When I told momma the ingredients I used to make 'chutney'. She said adding random ingredients and blending them together along with a generous amount of chilli powder isn't the recipe for chutney. :( I felt.

But today when I served my so called chutney to Ani, he came back to me asking for a second serving saying that the "chutney" was really good!

Lesson learnt: starving someone and then feeding them with my innovative recipes makes me a really good cook! 

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