Avocado, Cucumber & Tomato Salad

Looking for a great summer dish with a difference? Here the summer season started and I thought of making one salad to ease the scorching heat and something which suits the humid weather. We have used this as main course for dinner.

Preparation time – 10 minutes
Cooking Time – zero minutes
Servings – 4

Recipe Ingredients:

(1) Avocado, cubed – 2 cups
(2) Cucumber, cubed – 3 cups
(3) Tomato, cubed – 2 cups
(4) Red Onion, mediu

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Kappa Vevichathu / Mashed Tapioca /Yuca / Cassava with Spices and Coconut

Today I am sharing with you Kappa Vevichathu / boiled and mashed Yucca root seasoned with ground coconut and spice mixture and is usually served with hot Red Meen Curry, a match made in heaven, isn’t it?

I remember when I was hospitalised in 8^th grade with 105 degree fever; my grand mom came to visit me and whispered in my years, “Shall I bring.." 

Preparation Time – 15 minutes

Cooking Time – 20 minutes

Servings – depends on how much one consumes

Ingredients:

To cook Tapioca:

1. Tapioca, washed, peeled and chopped in to small pieces - 1 kg

2. Salt – to taste

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Semiya Payasam-Vermicelli Kheer-Vermicelli Pudding

This dessert recipe is so familiar and a very common, popular sweet accompaniment of India with lunch or dinner. Almost all Indians acknowledge it and all would have tasted it at some point of time. 

I love the aroma that you get while roasting the semiya in ghee. It takes me to nostalgic memories. My mom sometimes add fried coconut pieces too along with cashews and raisins. 

Ingredients:

1. Broken Roasted Vermicelli - 2 cups

2. Ghee – 2 tbsp

3. Skimmed Milk - 4 cups (1 cup = 250 ml)

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Chana Dal Masala / Spicy Split Chick Pea Lentil /

Lentils always have been and always will be the comfort food, which provides you load of proteins. It is a staple food of India. Each parts of India has its own version of cooking each kind of dal. The recipe calls for all those basic ingredients and probably you may have these in your pantry.

It can be served with Chappathi / Roti or steamed rice.

Preparation Time – 30 minutes

Cooking Time – 30 minutes

Servings – 4 as a side

Ingredients:

For Cooking Chana Dal:

1) Chana Dal / Bengal Gram / Chick Pea lentil– 1 cup

2) Water – 3 cups

3) Salt – to taste

4) Turmeric Powder – ¼

For cooking Chana Dal Gravy:

5) Ginger and Garlic Paste – 2 tsp

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Classic Plain Home Made Bread / Basic Bread

Here goes the recipe of Plain Bread which is deliciously crusty on the outside, moist and chewy on the inside which tastes best just by themselves.. I recommend it to all of you. I hope you would try this and pls. don’t let yeast scare you.. ;-)

Preparation Time: 3 hrs (total)

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Servings: many

Yield: one loaf (9 × 12 ")

Ingredients:

(1) All Purpose Flour / Plain Flour – 3 ½ cups

(2) Active dried Yeast – 1 ¼ tsp

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