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Wednesday 1 May 2019

Dates and banana smoothies with dry fruits, How to prepare dates & Banana smoothie

Today's recipe is Dates and Banana smoothie with lots of almonds, nuts and raisins. It is very very easy to prepare in jiffy. It is power packed with proteins, minerals and gives you instant energy. It is one of my top favorite morning and evening drink after coming from walk. It gives instant energy to continue my work 😍. There are number of variations to prepare this healthy drink. But the one I prepare is instant, you can do variations. I use chilled milk and skip ice cubes.

Dates & Banana Smoothie

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 0 min
Serves : 2
Category : Beverages
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Dates, Banana
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Dates - 10

Ripe Banana - 3

Milk - 2 glasses

Almonds - 15

Cashew nuts - 6

Raisins - 6

Honey - 2 tsp

Ice cubes - 3 ( I Dint used)

Instructions

1) Finely chop almonds, cashew nuts, raisins. Deseed dates and cut it into pieces.

2) Take a mixer jar add almond( keep some for garnishing), dates. (** check tips)

3) Add half glass of milk to the above.

4) Grind the above to fine paste. (** check tips)

5) Cut banana into pieces and add it to the above paste along with honey and milk. (ice cubes if you use)

6) Grind the above smoothly.

Take the above into serving glasses and garnish it with remaining chopped almonds, nuts and raisins.

That's it instant healthy and energetic dates and banana smoothie is ready to serve 😍😋.

Tips

** Use ripe bananas to get good taste and to make it use 😉.

** You can use seedless dates too.

** You can also use Almond milk if available.

** Instead of honey you can also sugar.

** You can also soak dates and nuts in hot water for 15 minutes. So that you can prepare paste easily.

** Add little amount of milk while grinding dates and almonds. So that dates and almonds grind easily.

** If you are serving it in any kitty parties you can also add ice cream while garnishing or while grinding.

** If you use hard dates then soak it in hot water or prepare dates and almonds paste in small jar grind to smooth paste and then transfer to juicer jar.

Also check other beverages and sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic..

Mango Mastani

Musk melon milk shake

Sabja buttermilk

Mango falooda

Mango lassi

Kesari bath

Poha Badam Ladoo

Ragi Peanut ladoo

Atukula Payasam

Dates & dry fruits burfi

Homemade butter

Homemade Ghee

Sweet Pongal

Ellu Bella Mix

Pineapple Sheera

Moong dal Kheer

Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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Sunday 28 April 2019

Nagaland - Pumpkin Oambal, How to prepare Naga land's Pumpkin Oambal recipe.

Today's recipe is Nagaland's famous chutney Pumpkin Oambal. It is very yummy with sweet and sour taste. I know what you are thinking that why I am posting Nagaland's recipe all of a sudden right?? Let me explain first recently I joined in Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group with the help of Priya Iyer - thephotowali is her site. And Renu Agarwal - Cookwithrenu is her site. And the admin Mayuri Patel - Mayuris-jikoni is her site, thanks for approving my request. In Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group every month they select one state and pair two group members. Both share secret ingredients and others has to guess it later. At the end of the month we have to publish the recipe, so that's the reason today I am posting Nagaland's recipe 😍.

My Nagaland partner is Renu Agarwal, she gave me red chilli and Tamarind and I gave her green chilli and ginger as two secret ingredients. I checked many sites for this recipes, and stopped at Annapurna blog - Poonam Bachhav ji's blog.

A small information about Nagaland - It is a state in North east of India. It is the 16th state of India with 16 different tribes. They eat meat which includes dogs, cats, rats, monkeys, birds etc., consume extremely hot and spicy food, they use Naga king chilli called as bhut jolika which is the hottest chilli pepper. Naga cusine include both vegetable dish and meat dish which is smoked, dried or fermented. Naga's prefer most edible organic leaves, fermented bamboo shoots with fish and pork. (information from wiki)

Coming to recipe, pumpkin Oambal is very tasty with sweet and sour from tamarind and jaggery and we also add raisins which I loved it alot. At first I was scared to taste it. But trust me it is very unique taste, in a glance it felt like Odisha's khata mita chutney which I nd hubby used to love alot in Puri Jagannath temple 😍.

Let's start recipe

Pumpkin Oambal

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 3 people
Category : Chutney's
Recipe Cuisine: Nagaland
Main ingredient: Pumpkin
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Pumkin - 250 grams
Tamarind - small lemon size
Mustard oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Rasins - 15
Red chilli - 1
Bay leaf - 2
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt as per taste
Jaggery - 1/2 cup

Instruction

1) Soak tamarind in hot water.

2) Wash pumpkin and remove it skin and seeds and cut into small pieces.

3) Take pumpkin pieces in a bowl and add 1 glass of water and cook it on medium flames.

4) Cook till the pumpkin pieces becomes smooth.

5) Take the above cooked pumpkin pieces into bowl and mash it well as shown below.

6) Extract tamarind juice into above Mashed pumpkin.

7) Now mix the above tamarind juice and Mashed pumpkin well.

8) Heat 1 tsp of mustard oil in a pan, then add mustard seeds once it start crackling then add red chilli, bay leaf, raisins one after other and fry it well.

9) Now add pumpkin tamarind mixture to the above and mix it well.

10) Now add grated jaggery/ powdered jaggery to the above.

11) Then add salt and red chilli powder to above

12) Mix the above well and cook it on low flames for 2 to 3 minutes by closing lid.

That's it sweet, sour and tasty Nagaland's pumpkin Oambal is ready to serve. I had this chutney with hot steamed rice. We can also have it with rotis.

Tips

** Adjust tamarind and jaggery according to your taste.

** Rasins give good unique taste to chutney, so d't skip adding it.

** Adjust water quantity according to the quantity of pumpkin you use while boiling.

Also check other chutney's by clicking the link below the pic..