Potato and Noodle Bake, an Award and a MEME

The credit for this dish goes to my hubby. I was moarning over my injured finger and like a couch potato was watching 'Daily Cook's Challenge' on ITV. While watching this show my hubby, who is always interested in cooking unique and different dishes decides to enter the Kitchen and cook something new. I was checking with him what he is planning to cook so that even I can help him in the kitchen. As usual he replies, I dont know what I am planning to cook, will go to supermarket and pick up some ingredients and then will decide what to invent from the available ingredients. This is his old habit, he never reveals what he is planning to cook, because he himself is not sure about the same :), however his experiments are always successful and he comes up with really unique and lip smacking dishes. This time he came up with Potato and Noodle bake which was really different and delicious. So my injured finger turned out to be blessing in disguise.
Here is my entry fot Lore's Orginal Recipe Event

Ingredients:
3 Boiled Large Potatoes
2 Tablespoon of Chopped Chive (herb)
1 Cup of Boiled Black Eye Beans
11/2 Cup of boiled Noodles
1 Bunch of Spring Onions
1 Small Chopped Onion
1 Small Chopped Tomato
1 Teaspoon of Coriander- Cumin seed powder
1 Teaspoon of Red Chilli powder
1 Cup of Cheddar Cheese
Salt to taste
Butter
Oil

Method:
1. Mash the boiled potatoes, add chopped chive and salt to it and keep it aside.
2. Boil the noodles by adding one teaspoon of oil, so that they dont stick to eachother. Once the noodles are boiled drain the water.
3. Take a wok and heat the oil, add spring onion and saute them for a minute. Add the boiled noodles and salt and stir fry the noodles. Once the noodles are fried keep them aside.
4. In a same wok, heat the oil. Add chopped onions and saute till they are light pink in colour. Then add tomatoes, coriander-cumin seed powder and red chilly powder and cook till oil leaves the vessel.
5. Add boiled black eye beans, and mix well. Add 1/2 cup of water if required and in the end add salt. Cook till the gravy is thick.
6. Preheat the oven. Grease the dish with butter. Spread the stir fried noodles, then spread the Black eye beans mixture. Top it with the mashed potato mixture and in the end sprinkle cheddar cheese.
7. Bake it in the over on 180 degree celcius till the potatoes are baked and they start turning light brown.
8. Cut in to small pieces and serve it with desired sauce. We enjoyed the bake with peri peri sauce.

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Now one more feather on my blog - An Award

Suma has passed me "ROCKING GIRL BLOGGER AWARD".

Suma you have really Rock my world, thank you for thinking me worthy for this award.

I would like to pass this award to

Priti

Sripriya

Priyanka

Madhavi

Illatharasi

and

Rekha

Congratulations to all Rocking girls :)

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Now its turn for a MEME

Sripriya of Srikar's Kitchen, Sukanya and Divya has passed me with The Booky Meme.The rules of the tag are as follows:

• Pick up the nearest book
• Open to page 123
• Find the 5th sentence
• Post the next three sentences
• Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you

Books my best pal, how can I miss this MEME. I am currently reading Jeffrey Archer's 'Kane & Abel'
These sentences happens to be:
1. ''I don't understand why you haven't opened that real estate business you ued to be so keen on, Henry.''
2. ''I can't. The time isn't quite right. The real estate market is not looking that promising at the moment.''
3. ''You've been saying that now for nearly a year; I wonder if it will ever be promising enough for you.''

I would like to pass this MEME

Priti

Sripriya

Priyanka

Madhavi

Illatharasi

Enjoy reading!!!

Don't Forget to participate in Festive Food Event ~ Rakhi - The thread of love

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Microwave Khandvi (Bengal Gram Flour Swirls)

Khandvi is a Gujarati delicacy. The greatest asset of the Gujarati cuisine is the unparalled variety of snacks called 'Farsan'. Khandvi is one of the rare farsan which has subtle use of oil. Khandvi are soft swirls made from besan (bengal gram flour), the swirls are very thin and difficult to make. Here's a simple recipe to make non-messy, yet authentic Khandvi.

Ingredients:
1 Cup of Besan (Bengal Gram Flour)
3 Cups of Butter Milk
1 Teaspoon of Turmeric Powder
1 Tablespoon of Oil
1 Teaspoon of mustard seeds
1 Teaspoon of sesame seeds
2-3 Finely chopped green chillies
chopped coriander
grated fresh coconut
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Mix besan, salt, turmeric powder and buttermilk. Mix it properly and see to it no lumps are formed.

2. Place the batter in Microwave for 5 Minutes. Then remove the batter from the microwave and mix it properly.
3. Again place it in the Microwave for 3 Minutes.
4. Grease the reverse side of steel plate (thali) with oil or spread an Aluminium foil.
5. Remove the batter and spread small amount of it on the foil or greased steel plate, if the batter does not stick and can be easily rolled, that means its ready and if it sticks then place it again in the microwave for 2 minutes.
6. Once ready, spread the batter on foil or greased steel plate. Let it cool for 1 minute. Then cut the batter in to thin strips and roll the strips.
7. When all the khandvies are ready, heat the oil and add mustard seeds, sesame seeds, chooped green chillies and when the mustard seeds starts spluttering, spread the tempering on the rolled khandvies.
8. Garnish the khandvi with coriander and grated coconut and serve them with Green Chutney

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