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. 

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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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Mango Mastani, How to prepare Pune special mango mastani

Mango mastani with step by step pics and tips. Mango mastani is Pune's unique innovative drink. Mango mastani is nothing but mango milkshake with vanilla or mango ice cream, lots of grated dry fruits, tutti frutti, cherries. In my view we can call it as refreshing drink or an dessert. I used Banginapalli mangoes, which is very tasty. This blissful delectable dessert is very tasty and very easy to prepare, the key credit of this dessert is it's presentation 🤗. I am preparing this delicious drink from many years learned  from some cookery channel even I did not remember 🤔, but it became one of our favorite summer drink 😋, love to share it with you all in blog, which I never expected 😍. 

Story behind mango mastani...... 

This name is from the legend of the famous Peshwa ruler Bajjirao's beautiful lover Mastani. According to proprietor of an age-old astani joint called Gujar cool drink, initially when this drink was served to people they used to appreciatively remark as Mast, thus this drink called mastani. Gathered information from here.

Taking this sumptuous and delectable Mango Mastani to the #194 #FoodieMondayBlogHop where the theme for the week is #SummerFruitFest. This theme was chosen by Swathi Malik who blogs at Food Trails . Do checkout her blog for wonderful recipes. As per theme, we have to cook  dish using any summer fruit. This is my first recipe in #FoodieMondayBlogHop, thanks admins, group member and Renu for introducing me to this group. Many more new things to learn, feeling excited and happy 😍😍. 

 Let's start recipe.. 

                 Mango Mastani

Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cook Time : 0 min
Serves : 3 glasses
Category : Beverages 
Recipe Cuisine:Maharastra-Pune
Main ingredients : Mango 
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients 

For blending

Mangoes - 2

Chilled milk - 2 glasses

Sugar - 3 tsp

Vanilla ice cream - 1 scoop

For Mastani

Mango pieces - 1/2 cup
Vanilla ice cream - 2 scoops

Almonds - 4

Cashew nuts - 4

Pistachios - 6
Tutti frutti - 2 tsp
Cherries - 4 ( I Dint used)

Instructions

1) Clean mangoes under water and remove 2 mangoes pulp and chop 1 mangoes pieces. 

2) Finely chop all the dry fruits and keep it ready. 

3) Add mango pieces, milk and sugar in a blender. 

4) Blend the above to thick and smooth paste. 

5) Now add 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream to the above. 

6) Blend it again, you will get thick creamy mango milkshake. .

7) Take a serving glass add 2 tsp of chopped mango pieces. 

8) Now pour prepared mango vanilla milkshake into 3/4rth of  above serving glass. 

9) Now add 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream in each serving glass as shown below. 

10) Add some chopped mango pieces on ice cream. 

11) Now add grated dry fruits on the ice cream. 

12) Atalst garnish tutti frutti and cherries(I Dint added cheeries) on dry fruits. 

That's it sumptuous and delectable Pune's famous summer drink is ready to serve. 

Note

* You can use mango ice cream too if available. 

* Add sugar according to the taste of Mango. 

* Add milk accordingly, depending on the size of Mango you use. 

Tips


** Use good quality sweet mangoes. 

** You can prepare mango milkshake ready and prepare topping before serving. 

** Mango mastani taste  yummy when it served cool. 

** Use chilled milk and mango to enjoy it. 

** Add only vanilla or mango ice creams  only. 

Also check other beverage recipes by clicking the link below pic..  

      Dates and Banana Smoothie

         Musk melon milk shake

                Sabja buttermilk

                  Mango falooda 

                    Mango lassi 

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Dates and dry fruit barfi, khajur and dry fruit barfi, How to prepare dates and dry fruits barfi at home

Dates dry fruit barfi is rich and healthy sweet for kids and adults. This dry fruit barfi is very crunchy with naturally added dates sweet will make you craving and mouth watering 🤤😋. Pack this barfi as snacks for your kids, they will love it 😍. We can prepare it for any festivals or for parties. If you are planning for long trips then you can carry this, everyone will love to have this barfi more and more🤗🤗. It is very quick and easy to prepare this barfi. You can add all  dry fruits like cashew nuts, almonds, walnuts, pista, poppy seeds, dry coconuts. It gives high energy and nutritious to kids.

Also check ou my sweet recipes
Kaju katli
Moong dal kheer
Almond semiya payasam

 
                 Dates dry fruits barfi

Prep Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Yields : 18 pieces
Recipe Category: sweet/dessert
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Author:Aruna

Ingredients

Dates  - 1 cup
Cashew nuts - 1/2 cup
Almonds - 1/2 cup
Pistachios - 1/4 cup
Poppy seeds - 1/4 cup
Ghee - 3 tsp
Green cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Aluminum foil sheet/butter paper

Preparation

*  Cut cashew nuts and almonds into small chunks (5 to 6) and take it into bowl.

* Similarly cut pistachios into small chunks and take it in a bowl.

* Remove the seeds from dates and cut into pieces.

* Take a mixer jar and blend chopped dates for a second or mash the dates and keep it ready. 

Method

1) Take a pan add chopped cashew and almonds chunks.

2) Fry cashew and almonds on medium flame for 3 minutes or till changes color and becomes crunchy. Take it in a bowl.

3) Add poppy seeds in the same pan and fry it until it changes color, and take it into bowl.

4) Add ghee in the same pan and add dates and mix it well.

5) Add fried cashew nuts and almonds, cardamom powder to the dates and mix well.

6) Now add half part of fried poppy seeds to the dates and dry fruits mix it in low flames. We will use remainin poppy seeds at last for rolling.

7) Take the dates and almonds mixture into plate and let it cool for some time. (Not much to room temperature)

8) Grease the hands some ghee and pinch small lumps from the mixture.

9) Divide the dates mixture into cylindrical shape.

10)  Sprinkle poppy seeds and finely chopped pistachios on chopping board or on plate.

11) Roll the cylindrical shaped barfi on it, so that both poppy seeds and pistachios coat it well.

Repeat the same process for other piece too.

12) Adjust the shape and now take an aluminum foil and place the rolled barfi on it and wrap it nicely.

13) Place them in refrigerator for 2 hours to set. After 2 hrs take the barfi out and cut them into 1/2 cm circular or square's pieces depends on the shape you mould it.

You can cut it circular or square.

You can store in air - tight container and enjoy it for 2 - 3 months.

Crunchy and sweet dates dry fruit barfi is ready to eat 😋😋.

Note

* You can also use walnuts, dry coconut and other dryfruits to this barfi.

* You can increase/decrease the quantity as per your need.

* If aluminum foil not available use butter paper.

* In order to set the barfi we are kepping it fridge.

* Do not blend dates for long time, it will become paste.

Tips

◆ If u blend the dates as paste d't be panic just cut few dates pieces to it.

◆ If dates are hard add little amount of milk to blend it. But make sure the dates mixture is fried well, otherwise its shell life will decrease.

Health benifits of using dates

● Natural energy booster

● Reduce the risk of heart stroke

● Protect liver

● Free from cholesterol

● Rich source of proteins and it is nutritious.

● Fights against allergies & anemia

● Strengthen your bones etc .,

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                     Homemade Ghee

                  Sweet Pongal

                  Ellu Bella Mix

                       Pineapple Sheera

Poha Badam Ladoo

   

                       Ragi Peanut ladoo               
     

Moong dal Kheer

Poha Payasam

        Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

          Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

  Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

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Sooji Kakara Pitha

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