Suzy's kitchen

Posts

Better food for better sleep

Now-a-days everything has changed in our way of living. Life became more busy and stressful. We automatically left our healthy habits and small joys behind. Because of this busy life, we are facing Problems like tiredness, irritation, head-ache, back-ache and snappy. We think these are negotiable things and the solution for all these problems we think is second cup of coffee. Right? All these could be signs of sleep deprivation. It has been found that lack of a day of sleep can bring the productivity of a person down by thirty percent. In this busy fourteen hour work shifts and increased stressful life, the first casualty is sleep. Adding to this , our intaking of unhealthy diet is leading us to the condition of Insomnia. The words “early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise” holds true here. It has been proved that the hormone melatonin is essential for a good night’s sleep. The hormone is mostly produced after sunset and remain high for up

this recipe is perfect combination for rice

Perfect South Indian Dal recipe Ingredients: toor dal :100 gms tomatoes :3 medium sized green chilli :2 lemon juice : 2 to 3 tspn Ingredients for Tadka : mustard seeds :1/2 teaspn cumin seeds :1/2 teaspn hing : 1 pinch dried red chilli :2 curry leaves :2strands chopped coriander leaves: 1 tb spn oil :2 tbspn salt as required. Preperation Method: 1.wash dal and then cook dal along with chopped tomatoes and chopped green chilli. 2.after dal is well cooked remove from heat. then add salt and mash cooked dal adding a little water. 3.heat oil in a pan. 4.add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red dried chilli and hing. 5.when they started crakle, add curry leaves. 6.add this tadka to mashed dal . 7.finally add lemon juice to dal and garnish with chopped coriander.

Sesame badam laddu----Rich in taste

Sesame badam Laddu: Ingredients: Sesame Seeds 3/4 Cup Almonds 10 Jaggery 1/2 Cup – 3/4 Cup (Grated) Method of preparation: Soak almonds in water and microwave for a minute. Peel the skin and let the almonds dry. Roughly chop the almonds and keep aside. Heat a heavy bottomed pan on low heat, add sesame seeds and fry till they turn light golden in color. Remove from heat and cool the sesame seeds to room temperature. Grind almonds into fine powder using a grinder. Then add the sesame seeds and grind again into powder. Finally add the sufficient grated jaggery and grind well. Remove the ground mixture onto a plate. Take lemon sized portion of ground sesame mixture and roll into tight laddu with help of hands. Store the formed sesame almond laddu in a jar and they stay fresh for couple of weeks. Serve sesame almond laddu as necessary. . Note: . Choose soft jaggery if possible to ease the laddu making. If you have hard jaggery, you can melt with few tsps of

ideal snack for guests--'Bread potato vada'

Bread Potato Vada Ingredients: Brown Bread Slices 4 Potato 1 Besan / Gram Flour 2 Tbsps Onion 1/2 Small Plain Yogurt 1 Tbsp Green Chiles 1 – 2 Cumin Seeds a big Pinch Salt to Taste Oil for Deep Frying Method of preparation: Firstly mash the boiled and peeled potatos. Remove the crusts of the bread and tear the bread. Soak the bread in little water for few minutes to soften it up. Squeeze the water out of the bread. In a mixing bowl, mix together squeezed bread, yogurt, besan, crumbled potato, onion, green chillies, cumin seeds and salt. Adjust seasonings if necessary and take a big spoonful of above mixture and form into soft ball and press the ball between palms to form a disk. Repeat the same with remaining bread potato vada mixture. Heat oil in a deep frying pan on medium low heat. Carefully drop the prepared bread potato vada into hot oil. Repeat the same until surface of the oil is filled up. Fry the bread potato vada on both sides till go

perfect snack for evening ------Mixed dal wada

Mixed Dal Vada Ingredients: Chana Dal 1/2 Cup Urad Dal 1/8 Cup Moong Dal 1/8 Cup Raw Rice 1 Tbsp Ginger 1 inch Piece (finely chopped) Green Chiles 2 – 3(chopped) Onion 1 Small (chopped) Coriander Seeds 1 tsp Cloves 4 Cardamom 1 Cinnamon 1 inch Piece Oil for Deep Frying Method of preparation: Soak chana dal, urad dal, moong dal, rice in enough water for around 4 – 6 hours Grind the coriander seeds, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon into fine powder using spice grinder. Grind the soaked dals, ginger, salt into coarse paste using a blender. Add least amount of water only if necessary while grinding the dals. In a mixing bowl, mix together chopped green chiles, chopped onion, ground spice powder, mixed dals coarse paste and salt (if necessary). Heat oil in a deep fying pan on medium low heat. Take a lemon sized portion of the mixed dal mixture and form into small ball. Flatten the ball on the palm of your left hand and slowly drop into hot oil. Repea

kadai paneer recipe

kadai paneer gravy recipe PRINT INGREDIENTs: main ingredients: · 250 to 300 gms paneer/cottage cheese · 1 small to medium capsicum/green bell pepper · 1.5 inch ginger, chopped + 7-8 medium sized garlic, chopped, crushed in a mortar-pestle to a fine paste. · 1 to 2 green chilies, chopped · 2 medium sized onions, 100 gms, finely chopped · 7 medium to large tomatoes, 500 to 550 gms tomatoes (2 tomatoes, finely chopped and 5 tomatoes, pureed in a blender) · ¾ to 1 tsp garam masala powder · ½ tbsp crushed kasuri methi/dry fenugreek leaves · ½ to ¾ cup water · 2 tbsp cream (optional) · 2 to 3 tbsp oil or ghee or butter · a few chopped coriander leaves for garnish · salt as required for the kadai masala: · 5 tsp coriander seeds · 4 to 5 dry kashmiri red chilies, if using any other v