Capsicum Rings || Kids friendly Italian flavored capsicum rings

 Capsicum Rings || Kids friendly yummy snack capsicum rings, this is very crispy and super tasty snack with Italian flavors. This is very easy to prepare snack item that stay crispy for long time. I prepared these capsicum rings without using maida and by adding Italian seasonings like oregano, mixed herbs and piri piri mix, its interesting right? Perfect as tea time snack, as starter for kitty parties, for kids functions, for get togethers and for many occasions.  We prepare many fritters like baby corn fritters, gobi pakoda/ cauliflower fritters, raw banana fritters, Jack fruit masala vada, vamu akku bajji. choor puggi/ Rayalsema pugyalu is one of my favorite street food @Adoni my hometown, stuffed mirchi bajji / mirapakaya bajji is other favorite street food @Tenali my in laws place. Poha chivda(video) is one of my favorite snack from my childhood, surely it is one of your favorite snack right??

    Ribbonn murukku(video), Omapodi / Sevi, dalmoth namkeen, spicy masala peanuts, Roasted masala chickpeas, pepper sev, boiled masala peanuts are some popular snacks that we love to have at evening tea time snack. We love to have Bhakarwadi, Gujarati methi masala khakhara in our North Indian bakeries. Potato lollipops(video), spicy masala sweet corn chaat, corn cheese balls, Mexican nachos with cheese dip and above all are kids favorite snacks 😍😋 which they never say NO to have it anytime 😀. 

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this  crispy and yummy capsicum rings recipe to  FoodieMondayBloghop fb group's #301Bellpeppercreations 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 was suggested by "Preethi" who blogs at "Preethicuisine". I love her recipes a lot, all her recipes are very healthy and tasty. I shared her recent palkova recipe to try soon, who d't like this milk sweet desert? do check out her recipe. 

                          

                                    Capsicum Rings 

Preparation time - 10 minutes

cook time : 15 min

Serves : 20 capsicum rings 

Category : snacks/ fritters  

Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Main ingredients : capsicum

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Capsicum - 2 medium size

rice flour - 1/2 cup

corn flour - 1/4 cup

bread crumbs(video) - 1/2 cup

mixed herbs - 1/2 tsp

oregano - 1/2 tsp

piri piri mix - 1/2 tsp

red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp(adjust)

baking soda - 1/2 pinch

salt - as per taste

oil - to deep fry

Instructions

1) Take rice flour, corn flour, red chilli powder, mixed herbs, oregano, peri peri mix, red chilli powder, salt in a wide mixing bowl.

2) Add some water and prepare thick batter, add water little by little and mix well without forming any lumps and keep it aside.

3) Heat oil to deep fry on low flames.

4)Cut capsicum heads and cut into rings, cut out seeds and white pulp in middle of capsicum and keep it aside.

5) Now add cooking soda in batter and mix well. 

6) check oil heat by dropping some batter in oil, if it comes up immediately that means our oil is ready to fry.

7) Now dip capsicum rings in batter, later coat these rings in bread crumbs and keep it in plate.

8) Repeat the same for some capsicum rings and then fry it in oil on low to medium flames till it changes color and then take it into plate.

9) Repeat the same for remaining and take into plate.

That's it our capsicum rings are ready, serve it with tomato ketchup or with any dips like cheese dip or with any salsa and enjoy with your friends and family. 

Tips 

** Instead of rice flour and corn flour we can use all purpose flour. Other than these flours if you use gram flour you do not get this texture and taste. 

** If Italian seasonings not available you can simply skip it. 

** Prepare semi thick batter so that capsicum ring coat in batter well.

** Instead of bread crumbs you can also corn crumbs.

** Fry capsicum rings in low to medium flames without burning till it changes color. 

** You can also sprinkle some chaat masala on capsicum rings.

Also check other related recipes from blog and youtube  channel by just clicking the link below pic.. 

                                          gobi pakoda/ cauliflower fritters

                                     Uggani bajji

                                       

                           Rayalseema Pugyalu / onion bajji

                      

                                                      Ribbon Murukku

                    

                                     Crispy chilli honey potato

                           

                              Potato Lollipops(youtube video link)

                                         
                                    corn cheese balls

                        
                                  Baby corn manchurian

                              Baby corn fritters

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Butterfly Pea Flower Tea || Blue Tea || How to prepare herbal blue tea || Sanku pushpam Tea || 4 varieties of Blue Tea

Butterfly Pea Flower Tea || Blue Tea with step by step pics and tips.  This blue tea is caffeine free herbal tea, it is very popular tea in  Asian countries like Thailand,Vietnam, Thailand, India and Malaysia. This butterfly pea flower is also known as Blue pea, Asian Piegonwings, Aparjita, Clitoria, Cordonfan pea. It is also known as sanku puvvu/ pushpam in telugu. Firstly i am not tea or coffee liking person, but i just love herbal tea's like green tea(youtube link), hibiscus tea and this butterfly pea flower tea or blue tea. The beauty of this flower is it changes blue color to purple color when we add lemon to it, isn't it interesting?? Involve your kids to prepare this color changing game tea. I did some experiments too, will share it here check out. "If you want you can remove green stem of flower, as you may feel bitter taste. If you are using dry flower add as it is.  I did not removed green stem as i like its taste, prepare according to your taste." Will share video in youtube soon.

We can use dried or fresh flowers to prepare this tea. Dried butterfly pea flowers are available online too. Luckily i have four colors - white, blue, dark blue with five petals and pink color butterfly pea plants at home. Pink color plant is small, eagerly waiting to see pink flowers 😍. This plant will grow easily in any soil, it is climbing plant and it is seed based. My mom gave these seeds to me, previously i had only white color plant. In my last visit to my mom's place i collected these seeds. If we do not pluck flower then seeds will form. I use some flowers to make small garland with these flower for pooja daily and remaining flowers i prepare tea evening. I & hubby love to have green tea and blue tea in alternate days.

 

           

How this tea taste

 

As it is herbal , butterfly pea tea taste woody and earthy flavor, like green tea not like normal tea. Many of us do not like this taste and flavor but after knowing the health benefits surely you will like to try this drink.

Health benefits of Butterfly Pea Flower 

** It is good for migraine

** Good for skin, it slows the ageing process.

** This butterfly pea flower is good hair conditioner, in Thai this is used to prepare medicine for premature hair grey and hair loss medicine. 

** It is good for brain health

** Improves immunity system

** helps for weight loss 

** Gives relief from stress, anxiety and depression and many more.

What other recipes we can prepare?

**Thailand popular "Nahm Dok Anchan"

**Malaysian - Nasi Kerabu(Malaysian rice recipe)

** Blue lemonade tea

** Blue Tea Latte

** Butterfly pea flower sourdough bread

** Blue jellies 

** Butterfly pea flower cup cakes

** Blue ice creams using Butterfly pea flower many more...

What i experimented, simply- 4 easy varieties of Blue Tea 

When i first prepared this tea, i wondered the way it changing color while boiling it. Do check the below pics you can see 4 different colors of tea. I really love these colors, they are very beautiful and gives good feel to your eyes isn't it?

From left

1) Plain Butterfly pea flower Tea

2) Lemon Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

3) Sugar added Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

4) Brown sugar added Butterfly Pea Flower Tea (check down for recipe)

What other recipes in mind to experiment 

   

I have few recipes in my mind to experiment using this butterfly pea flower 😃😄, okay  okay i will tell you ..

*After trying both Cold coffee with coffee jelly(youtube link) & Chocolate and custard jelly cake. I am thinking to prepare butterfly pea jelly cake and soda based cold drink using sabja seeds in butterfly pea flower juice and many more 😜. 

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this herbal tea to #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group #263Herbal&Health theme . Here every week one member from group in alphabetical order will suggest 2 theme, others will vote. High voted theme will be selected, everyone prepare recipes according to theme. This week i got chance to suggest the theme, in this herbal tea theme selected by my blogger friends.  Will share all their recipes soon here.

                               

                         Butterfly pea flower tea

Preparation time  - 10 minutes

cook Time : 10 minutes

Serves : 4 glasses

Category : Beverages || Herbal

Recipe Cuisine: Asian

Main ingredients : Butterfly Pea Flower

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients ( for 4 different varieties of tea adjust accorndingly)

* Butterfly pea flowers - 15( this to prepare 4 varieties of tea,                                                  take flowers accordingly)

* water - 4 glasses/cup(measure water in glasses/cups which you                    serve and some more water as it reduce when we boil)

* Honey - 1 tsp

* Lemon - 1 tsp

* Sugar - 1 tsp

* Brown Sugar - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) If you want you can remove green stem of fresh flower before boiling. 

2) Instead of boiling flowers in water, you can soak it in hot water till flowers leave color.

3) Boil 4 glasses/cups of water(measured as per serving glasses).

4) Add fresh butterfly pea flowers and boil it medium to high flames.

5) Boil till flowers leave color

see how flower color changed from blue to white after boiling..

6) Strain 1 glass of blue tea in glass.

That's it our plain Butterfly pea tea is ready to serve. This tea is dark blue in color.

7) Now add 1 tsp of honey in a glass

8) Pour 1 glass of  blue tea in it, mix well and squeeze lemon in it. You can see the color change from dark blue to purple color slowly.

  That's it plain and Lemon flavored butterfly pea flower tea is ready to serve.

  

9) Add 1 tsp of sugar in a glass/cup pour blue tea in it and mix well. Dark color quickly changes to light when sugar melts in blue tea. That's it our sugar added butterfly pea flower tea is ready to serve.

 10) Now add 1 tsp of brown sugar in remaining blue tea. Ready to see the magical color changing from dark blue to dark brown 😊.

   11) When brown sugar melt well, strain it into tea glass/cups                

That's it our sugar and brown sugar butterfly pea flower tea is ready to serve.

Do you think our 4 varieties of herbal Blue Tea is ready? No no wait see one more color change 😀 

12) If you want to experiments like me then try this one, squeeze 1 tsp of lemon juice in brown sugar added butterfly pea flower tea see the magic..

See how dark brown color changed to purple color 😍. That's it our 4 varieties of butterfly pea flower tea is ready to serve. Enjoy this herbal Blue Tea hot or warm and stay healthy.

Tips

** I shared 4 varieties of Blue tea, try as per taste.

** Add water by measuring in the serving tea glasses/cups.

** If you want you can remove green stem of flower, as you may feel bitter taste. I do not feel that much bitter so i did not removed it.

** You can boil flowers in water or soak flowers in hot water,(soak in flask so that it will remain hot)

Hope you enjoyed this magical color changing and healthy herbal blue tea. Also check other healthy beverage from my 

Youtube Channel and blog by just clicking the link below pic. Though I am having this tea regularly, got information about this flower from here.

                               

                               Ginger & lemon green tea(youtube link)

                              

                                Dates & nuts Ragi Malt (video)

                                

                           cold cofee with coffee jelly (youtube link)

                                          Cold coffee with coffee jelly (blog link)

                   

                         sapota milkshake/ chikoo milkshake

                                Dry fruit lassi - 3 varieties

                            Dates and Banana Smoothie

                          Musk melon milk shake

                                        Mango mastani

                                     Mango falooda 

                        Sabja buttermilk

                    Mango lassi 

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Karnataka Style Puliyogare || Temple puliyogare || How to prepare prasadam tamarind rice

Karnataka Style - Puliyogare || Prasadam Puliyogare with youtube video, step by step pics and tips. Puliyogare in Karnataka or pulihora in Telugu or puliyodarai in Tamil is also know as tamarind rice. Today i am sharing Karnataka style tamarind rice, which is prepared regularly as prasadam during festival  or as breakfast or snack or during journey's. Puliyogare is very tasty, sour, spicy and sweet, it taste super yummy when it is prepared using sesame oil.

Check this video recipe in my youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/l15P32PCwFY

 Once prepare this rice, surely you feel divine and feel yourself as your in temple. Your house will be aromatic with aromatic flavors :)  Tamarind rice do not spoil for long time, so our elders use to prepare tamarind rice while travelling long distance. Puliyogare taste vary from house to house and state to state. We can prepare this Karnataka style puliyogare using instant puliyogare mix or puliyogare gojju. I  always prefer preparing puliyogare powder freshly during festivals and while offering it God as prasadam. I always keep puliyogare powder ready, as it is very handy we can prepare Puliyogare in jiffy.  Will share different instant puliyogare powder, gojju and different region tamarind rice recipes as soon as possible :) 

          Puliyogare is served as prasadam in many temple in many South Indian temple. Shravana masa shukla paksham  is fifth month in Telugu, this month is very auspicious to Andhra Pradesh, Telanga and Karnataka People. In this month we celebrate many festivals like 

* Naga Panchami

* Shravana somavaram

* Shravana shukravaram

* Raksha bandan

* Shravana pournami

* Mangala Gowri

* Varalakshmi pooja's. We prepare many rice items and sweet during this pooja's. In that tamarind rice is must, everyone love to have this rice. I am from Adoni, Kurnool District, here we celebrate Urukunda Errana Varalu in this Sharavana masam. Urukunda Sri NaraSimha Swamy is very powerful God, even non vegeterian stop eating non veg this full month @Adoni who pray Lord Urukunda Narasimha Swamy 🙏🙏.  

                                             Karnataka Style - Puliyogare 

Preparation time - 20 minutes

cook time : 20 min

Serves : 2 

Category : Rice Item / Prasadam

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Main ingredients : Tamarind, Rice

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Raw Rice - 1 glass or cooked rice - 1 bowl

For Puliyogare powder

Sesame oil - 2 tsp

red chili - 4

coriander seeds - 2 tsp

urad dal - 2 tsp

chana dal - 2 tsp

sesame seeds - 2 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

black pepper - 1/2 tsp

fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp

dry coconut - 1/2 cup

For Puliyogare

Sesame oil - 1/2 cup

mustard seeds - 1 tsp

cumin seeds - 1 tsp

urad dal - 1 tsp

chana dal - 1 tsp

hing/ asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

red chili - 2

green chili - 3

curry leaves - 2 sprigs

tamarind - 1 big lemon size

turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

jaggery - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Wash and soak 1 glass rice for 30 min by adding 2 glasses of water. After 30 min add 1 tsp of oil and cook rice, make sure that rice is sticky.

2) Clean big lemon size tamarind, wash and soak it in hot water for 15 min, then take its pulp and keep it aside.

3) Heat 1 tsp of oil in a wide kadai add red chilies fry it and take it into plate.

4) Then add urad and chana dal fry well and take it into plate.

5) Now add coriander seeds, fry till changes color then add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and black pepper fry well and take it into plate.

6) Fry dry coconut till it changes color and take it into plate.

7) Switch off the flames and fry sesame seeds in kadai, fry well and take it into plate.

8) Let all the ingredients cool..

9) Grind all ingredients to fine powder other than dry coconut and sesame seeds.

10)  Later add dry coconut and sesame seeds grind it coarsely and take it into plate.

11) Now heat 1/2 cup of oil in a kadai, add groundnut fry till it changes color. Then all other ingredients mentioned in tempering and fry it well. Then add turmeric powder, required amount of salt and mix well.

12) Now add tamarind pulp and mix it well. Add jaggery, cook it on low to medium flames till oil oozes out.

13) Now add prepared puliyogare powder mix well, add 1 tsp of oil if required.

14) Now add cooked rice and mix everything well, at last add 1 to 2 tsp of boiled sesame oil and mix it well.

That's it our Karnataka style - Puliyogare is ready. 

              Prepare this divine and tasty tamarind rice and be blessed. Check out tips, to get perfect puliyogare...

Tips

** Soak rice for 30 minutes , boil rice by adding 1 tsp. You will get non sticky rice by adding oil while boiling rice.

** Make sure that there is dust in tamarind, add boiled water in tamarind. You will get tamarind pulp easily and perfectly.

** Add sesame oil to get tasty and divine temple style puliyogare.

** This puliyogare take more oil , so d't hesitate to add oil :)

** Fry spices on low flames, make sure that spices fried well without burning.

** You can also use puliyogare mix or puliyogare gojju too.

** You can also add puliyogare powder after adding rice in cooked tamarind spice mix.

Also check other related rice items by just clicking the link below pic..

                               

                                             Pepper Rice / miriyala annam

coconut rice

                                     

                                                               Mango Rice

                                           

                                                             gongura pulihora

                             

                                        Pudina rice

                                              Green Peas Pulao

             Amla Rice/ Usirikaya Pulihora

  

Curry leaves powder rice

Restaurant style curd rice

Pongal

Hope you liked this divine, spicy, sour,sweet,aromatic, tasty and divine Karnataka temple style Puliyogare. Give it a try and drop your comments in inbox.

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