Veggie and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing || Vegetable & dry fruit salad with lemon yogurt dressing

Veggie and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing recipe with step by step pics, youtube video and tips. Vegetable and dry fruit salad is one of our favorite salad at home. It is creamy, nutty and aromatic with the flavors of Indian spices in it. Believe me it is very filling, nutritious and gives cooling effect to your tummy instantly, i surely can say that you will love to have it regularly after tasting it once. 

Check this recipe in my youtube channel by just clicking below link :

https://youtu.be/XOxg2MObM4k

Whenever i feel my morning breakfast or even my lunch is heavy i prepare this salad. And not only that i love to have it anytime with or without yogurt dressing. We you prepare different salad dressings , yogurt dressing is one of my all time favorite and no need to tell how yummy it taste during summer sizzling hot times. During summers(in any season according to your taste)just keep it in refrigerator for sometime and have it 😋. Do check out my latest youtube videos recipes..

** kabuli chana curry video recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/1skbakUNx2U 

** Jeera rice recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/GZVaTnMqvIQ

This veggies and dry fruit salad includes different veggies like carrot,cucumber, bell pepper/ capsicum,cabbage, onion, tomato(you can include other veggies of your choice). Dry fruits which i used are just almonds, dry apricot and raisins. You can also add walnuts as per availability, fried peanuts added in it gives good crunchy taste and aroma. Coming to yogurt dressing, i added pepper powder and cumin powder . You can herbs, even olive oil for extra taste. We use all raw veggies in this salad, you do not feel raw kind of taste because of yogurt creamy texture. Do watch my youtube for full detailed recipe.Do not forgot to subscribe my  youtube channel Vasus vegkitchen & press bell button to get new recipe notifications.

Taking this healthy, tasty and nutritious vegetable and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri di who blogs at Mayuris jikoni. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we both share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it. This month theme suggested by Kalyani Sri, who blogs at Sizzlingtastebuds, do check her space for wonderful recipes, bookmarked her sugar free lemon iced tea to try soon. This month i am paired with Priya VijayaKrishnan who blogs at "SweetSpicyTasty", do check her space for traditiaonal tamil nadu recipes and recipes from different regions. Bookmarked her jain falafel recipe to try soon. Priya gave me coriander leaves and peanuts as two secret ingredients, with which i prepared this salad recipe. Both the ingredients added good taste and aroma to my salad. In turn i gave her pepper powder and lemon juice, Priya prepared sweet corn salad - vegan recipe. Do check her space for tasty recipes.

Let's start recipe..

                          Vegetable and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing 

Preparation time : 20 min
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Salad 
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredient: vegetables, dry fruits and yogurt
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Onion - 1

tomato - 1

carrot -1 

cucumber - 1 

cabbage - 1/2 cup

capsicum - 3/4 (you can use red , yellow bell pepper's if available)

sweet corn - 1/2 cup

lemon juice - 2 tsp 

Almonds - 10

dry apricot - 4

kismis - 10

peanuts - 1/4 cup

For yogurt dressing

yogurt - 1 cup

salt as per taste

pepper powder - 1 tsp(adjust)

roasted cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

honey - 1 & 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Take a cotton cloth or muslin cloth pour yogurt/curd tie it and hang it for 30 minutes to removes excess water from curd.

                   

2) Boil sweet corn in excess water for few minute. Do not overcook, sweetcorn taste well when it is crunchy.

3) Take a pan fry 1.4 cup of ground nuts till it changes and keep it aside.

4) clean veggies in water, cut all the veggies into thin equal strips(julienne cut) and take it into bowl. Add pinch of salt and lemon juice saute everything well, close the lid and keep it aside.

                                     

5) finely chop almonds,dry apricot and keep it aside.

6) remove groundnuts skin and crush it coarsely and keep it aside.

7) Yogurt will be thick now, remove it from cloth and take it into bowl. Add pepper powder, roasted cumin powder, salt, honey and mix everything well.

8) Add chopped dry fruits(almonds, dry apricot, raisins) mix well.

9) Now add finely chopped vegetables, saute everything well. 

                                       

10) Adjust pepper powder and salt according to your taste. At last add crushed peanut and finely saute everything well. 

Our salad is ready, keep salad in fridge for an hour and serve chilled. Decorate salad as per your taste and enjoy.

Tips

** Add veggies according to your taste and availability.

**You can skip dry fruits of your choice, you can also add walnuts .

** Use thick and sweet curd to get creamy texture and good taste.

** You can skip adding honey.

** Serve it cool or as it. 

** You can also add Italian herbs, red chili flakes in it.

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Dates and Nuts Ragi malt || Ragi Porridge recipe || Healthy dates and nuts finger millet drink

Dates & nuts Ragi Malt with step by step pics, tips and youtube video . Hai friends how are you all doing? Hope you are all safe and healthy. Today's recipe is one of my favorite from my childhood, which i regularly prepare at home. We can prepare sweet and savory, today i am sharing the sweeter version. Ragi malt/ Ragi porridge is healthy drink that is prepared by boiling ragi in water or milk, it is very healthy for both kids and adults of any age.

Check this recipe in my youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/nAnJvIepRW8

Also check out my latest youtube videos recipes..

** kabuli chana curry video recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/1skbakUNx2U 

** Jeera rice recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/GZVaTnMqvIQ

Ragi is also known as finger millet, it increases bone strength, good for diabetic people, it is rich in iron, calcium and amino acids which is good for growing kids. It is very easy to prepare to this ragi malt using ragi powder, you can also prepare ragi powder by frying ragi and powdering it in mill. You can also prepare it with sprouted ragi flour. Will share how to prepare sprouted ragi flour recipe soon. Instead of giving your kids store bought drink powders, prepare ragi malt for you and your kids. It is very healthy for growing kids, it increase bone strength. My mom use to prepare this ragi malt daily in the morning and evening after coming schools. We can prepare many recipes like soups, dosa, idli, ladoo etc.. Check some ragi / finger millet recipes from my blog by just clicking the below link..

** Ragi ladoo

** Ragi munagaku rotti / Finger millet roti with drumstick leaves

 

** Kerela Ragi puttu without using puttu machine

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Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this easy and healthy Dry fruits lassi to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #253MunchkinMeals. By this time you are all aware that i am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme was suggested by Narmadha, she is very talented chef. Do visit her spaces for both veg and non veg recipes, i love her baking skills. She always guide me in baking, i am eagerly waiting to her to meet as we both stay in same place. I bookmarked her Ragi chocolate truffle cake without oven, Black Forest cake, Rainbow cake  recipes soon. 

  

    

                                                            Dates & nuts Ragi Malt

Preparation time - 20 minutes

Serves : 2 

Category : Beverage

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : Ragi flour / finger millet flour , dates

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

Ragi flour - 2 tsp

dates - 7

cashew nuts - 10

almonds - 10

raisins - 5 to 10 (optional)

milk - 2 glasses

jaggery or brown sugar or sugar - 1/4 to 1/2 cup( add according your taste)

elachi powder - 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Boil 2 cups of milk, soak dates, cashew nuts/ kaju and badam/ almonds in hot milk for 10 milk or powder almonds, dates and soak dates in hot milk.

2) Grind the soaked dates, cashew nuts and badam coarsely(if you serving it to toddlers or elders(old age ppl you can prepare fine paste) and keep it aside.

3) Take 1/2 glass of water in a glass or cup, add 2 tsp of ragi flour in it. Mix it well without any lumps and keep it aside.

4) Boil 2 glasses of water in a pan or vessel, add above prepared ragi mixture in it and boil it on low flames till it becomes thick. Mix it continuously so that we will get smooth texture without any lumps. (** check tips)

5) Now add prepared dates and dry fruit paste,boiled milk, jaggery or sugar or brown sugar (add according to your taste), elachi powder and mix everything well.

6) Mix the above well without any lumps and boil it for 2 minutes on low flames.

7) That's it our ragi malt is ready decorate it with some chopped dates and dry fruits. You can serve it hot or cool, ragi malt turns thick after some time. Add boiled milk or boiled water and serve. I always serve hot with some chopped almonds and kismis/raisins on it.

Tips

**Do not add ragi flour directly while boiling water, it will becomes lumps and do not cook well.

** You can mix ragi flour and water and then boil it directly, but i prefer this method.

** Use jaggery or brown sugar or sugar according to your availability. Adding jaggery gives different taste when compared to sugar and brown sugar. I prefer adding brown sugar.

** Adjust sweetness according to your taste. 

** You can skip adding dry fruits,dates. You can prepare plain ragi malt too.

** Do not boil it high flames, keep mixing it while boiling to get smooth lumps free texture.

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                           cold cofee with coffee jelly (youtube link)

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kabuli chana curry || how to prepare kabuli chana curry at home

Kabuli chana curry with step by pics and tips(will share video soon).Kabuli chana / garbanzo beans curry is very tasty and aromatic with freshly prepared homemade masala(chole masala). It is very easy to prepare restaurant style curry at home. Once you try it at home, you never order it again from out. 

Do check kabuli chana curry video recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/1skbakUNx2U 

Jeera rice recipe in my youtube channel

https://youtu.be/GZVaTnMqvIQ

Today i am explaining the simple and easy to prepare kabuli chana curry recipe with easily available ingredients from our pantry. Kabuli chana is contain high fiber, it is good for digestion. It is protien rich and healthy, good to use it in our regular recipes. It is gravy based curry which goes well with flavored rice like jeera rice(video) ghee rice, carrot rice, pudina rice.  I always love to have it with roti's or paratha's like garlic lachha paratha, plain lachha parathas with some raita like pomegranate raita 😋.  Do subscribe my youtube channel for video recipes.

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this easy and healthy Dry fruits lassi to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #252ChanaTime theme. By this time you are all aware that i am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme is suggested by Mayuri di , who blogs at mayuris-jikoni . She is very talented chef, i love all her recipes and mainly the way di gives full information about her recipe. Bookmarked few recipes from her space to try soon, eggless pear upside down cake, herbal spicy tea, Lavendar lemon panna cotta. Do check out mayuri di's spaces for amazing recipes.                                        

  

    

                                                               Kabuli chana curry 

Preparation time - 20 to 30 minutes

Serves : 4

Category : curry 

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : kabuli chana 

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

   

Ingredients

kabuli chana - 1 cup

onion - 2 big 

tomatoes - 2 small or 1 big

cashew nuts/ kaju - 5

coriander leaves - 2 tsp 

oil - 4 tsp

cumin seeds -1 tsp

salt - as per taste

ginger - 1 inch

red chili powder - 1 tsp

turmeric powder -1/4 tsp

kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp(optional)

fresh cream - 2 tsp (optional, i used milk malai /pala megada)

For chole masala

corinader seeds - 1 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

elachi -2

cloves -4

cinnamon stick - 1 inch

bay leaf - 1

pepper corns - 5

mace /  javithri - 1

fennel seeds / saunf - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Wash twice and soak kabuli chana 8 hours or over night. Pressure cook it by adding 2 glasses of water and 1 tsp of salt.  Boil kabuli chana for 5 whistles on high flames and 3 whistle on low flames.(** check tips)

                                      

2)Heat a pan add coriander seeds, fry it well on low flames. When it starts changing color(it takes not more than minute), then add all remaining spices mentioned in chole masala list in ingredients. Fry everything well, take into plate and let it cool. Grind all fried spices to fine powder and keep it aside.

3) Heat a pan add 4 tsp of oil, add 1 tsp of cumin seeds fry well, then add finely chopped onions mix well till it changes color. Now add ginger paste(you can also add ginger garlic paste too) fry well.

4) Now add 2 tsp prepared chole masala(adjust) or ready made chole masala or garam masala(i taste different), red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt mix everything well.

5) Finely chop onions and keep it aside, add chopped tomatoes & cashew nuts/ kaju in a mixer jar and grind it fine paste.

6) Add prepared tomato & kaju puree cook it on low flames, till oil oozes out.

7) Now add boiled kabuli chana and its water mix well.

8) close the lid and boil it for 5 minutes, you can see the oil that oozes out on curry.

9) If you feel gravy is too thick add some more water, kasuri methi , cream or milk malai and mix well.

10) Add 1/2 cup of water and boil till gravy becomes thick, at last add coriander leaves that's it our kabuli chana curry is ready. 

Serve it with some onions and lemons pieces. I served this as sides for jeera rice(video). 

Tips

** Make sure that kabuli chana boiled well, you can add pinch of cooking soda. Kabuli chana cook smoothly by adding cooking soda, i did not used it.

** You can add ginger garlic paste too.

** You can used ready made chole masala or you can also add garam masala.

** you can skip adding cream or milk malai.

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