Cucumber salad - indian hot recipes

Ingredients:

* 3 large cucumbers, peeled, thinly sliced
* 1 cup white vinegar
* 3/4 cup water
* 3/4 cup sugar
*1 Onion (optinal)
* 1 teaspoon salt
* dash ground cayenne pepper
* dash dried parsley flakes
* 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
* dash dried leaf basil

Preparation:
Combine all ingredients except cucumbers; heat until sugar melts. Pour warm mixture over cucumbers. Store covered in refrigerator
Easy and healthy fruit salad - indian hot recipes |

Nutrition Fruit Salad - indian hot recipes

Nutrition Fruit Salad - indian hot recipes

Salad recipes may not be the most glamorous of foods, people tend to think of it just as the little thing before you have the main course, or worst yet, the Salad as been labeled dietary food. Well, both statements are true, but there is no need to think of the salad as some green stuff that you have to drown with a salad dressing to make it taste good.
Salads are nutritious and easy to make and a great way to reach your 5 veggies a day.

As we all strive to eat more healthily, salad recipes have adopted a starring role, with many main-course salads needing no accompaniment.

The green salad or salad is most often composed of some vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, spinach, or rocket put together in a manner known as vegtabling.
Easy and healthy fruit salad - indian hot recipes

Easy and healthy fruit salad - indian hot recipes

Ingredients:

1 apple
1 pear
1 banana
A few grapes
1 tin of pineapple pieces (in juice, not syrup)
1 tin of mandarin orange segments (in juice, not syrup)
1 glass of orange juice (about 150ml (6 fl oz))
(You will also need a large bowl or plastic box, a large spoon, a chopping board, a knife and a tin opener)

Method:

1) Open the tins of pineapple and orange segments, and tip the fruit and juice into a large bowl or plastic box.
2) Carefully cut the apple into quarters and cut out the apple core. Chop the quarters into smaller pieces. Put the pieces into the bowl with the pineapple and orange, and stir with a spoon. The juice will stop the apple from going brown.
3) Chop the pear in the same way, and add it to the bowl.
4) Peel the banana and slice it. Put the slices in the bowl with the grapes.
5) Pour the orange juice over the top, and stir your fruit salad.
6) Put the fruit salad in the fridge until you need it.

Mixed Fruit Salad

Mint leaves and Coriander leaves pakodi - indian hor recipes

Ingredients:

Besan Flour - 1cup.
Rice Powder - 1cup.
Ghee - 2tbs.
Soda powder - 2pinch.
Finely chopped mint leaves.
and coriander leaves - 2cups.
Cashew nuts - 12nos.
Ground ginger and green chilly - 1tsp.
Chilly powder - 1/2tsp.
Cumin seeds - 1/4tsp.
Salt to taste.

Oil to fry.

Method :

Sift besan flour and rice powder and mix it. Add salt and chilly powder to it. Rub ghee finely with the soda powder. Add it to the besan-rice mixture. Cut the cashew nuts into 3 or 4 pieces. Mix all the ingredients together with some water except the oil. Make it a thick batter.
Heat oil in a pan. Pour spoon fulls of prepared batter into the oil and fry until golden

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Vegetabl Green Palav with Green Peas - indian hot recipes

This palav is made using rice and fresh green peas.
This dish looks and tastes good.
You can make this as the main dish and serve it along with a vegetable curry.

* 1 cup basmati rice
* 1/2 cup fresh green peas
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 2 tblsp vegetable oil
* 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
* 2 small green chillies - deseeded and minced
* small piece of ginger - minced
* 1/4 tsp turmeric
* 1/4 tsp garam masala
* 1-1/2 cup water
* cilantro leaves - washed and cut into tiny pieces

Wash the rice under flowing water to remove any dust.

Keep a large non-stick skillet on heat , add 2 tblsp vegetable oil.
When the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and fry for 1 minute.
Then add chillies, ginger and turmeric.
Now add rice, salt, green peas, garam masala and water and bring to a full boil.
Then reduce the heat to low, cover with a tight-fitting lid and slowly cook for 20 - 25 minutes, until all the water is absorbed and the rice is tender and fluffy.

Turn off the heat and let the rice sit for 10 minutes.
Transfer to a serving bowl, garnish with cilantro and serve hot.
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