OMURICE

 A boring rainy evening can be turned tasty with Homo Rice. Use any vegetable available readily with the afternoon's left over rice. Increase the rice, eggs and vegetable as per your needs. Kids love this new tasty rice and ask for more. Add shredded chicken for extra taste. Substitute butter with oil. 

We need

2 cups cooked rice

2 eggs

1 cup Shredded carrot/cabbage/capsicum/onion shoots

10 clove garlic minced

2 green chillies finely chopped

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp soya sauce

1 tsp vinegar

1 tsp pepper powder

Separate the egg white and yolks carefully.

Mix the the egg yolk with cooked and cooled rice. Keep aside.

Heat butter in a non-stick pan, add garlic, saute for a minute, add chillies and shredded vegetables of your preference one by one.

Once the vegetables have fried a bit, little by little add the rice mixed with yolk, tossing the pan and now and then. Increased the heat and keep mixing the rice. At this stage the rice coated with the egg yolk cooks. After 3-4 minutes of tossing, add soya sauce, vinegar and pepper powder and continue tossing. Check the taste. Serve hot with Pepper Chicken

Take a pan, add little oil, when hot add the egg whites, stir well. Add a bit of salt and pepper for taste. Stir well, put off heat. After a minute stir well to make egg whites into small bits. Add this to the homo rice before serving. 

Seemebadane Sukka/Chow Chow/Chayote

Seemebadane Sukka/Chow Chow/Chayote

May be seemebadane kai is the most disliked/undercooked vegetable. It is called chow chow in some parts of Karnataka and Chayote in English which hardy anybody uses. The tender seemebadane cooked into a simple dish actually tastes soooo good. Just poke your nail at the bottom of the seemebadane to check whether it is tender before buying.

You need

1-2 tender seemebadane (medium size)

1 onion sliced thinly

1-2 green chillies slit

1 tbsp or more grated coconut

Little mustard and curry leaves

Salt to taste

·     Wash the seemebadane, trim the head and tail,  slit into two, discard the seed and slice the seemebadane into small pieces.

·     Heat oil in a thick bottomed/nonstick pan. When hot, add mustard, when they splutter add curry leaves, add sliced onions, fry for a minute, add slit chillies.

·     After a minute add sliced seemebadane. Add salt and coconut. Mix well. Cook for 3-4 minutes closing the lid. If needed add 2-3 tbsp water.

·     If the seemebadane is tender it cooks within 4-5 minutes.

·     Check the taste after 4 minutes, add lime and chopped coriander if you wish. Put off the stove and serve with chapathi or rice.

Capsicum Sukka

Capsicum Sukka

Easiest and fastest way to cook capsicum with only three things that are readily available in the kitchen. Goes well with the chapathi. Increase or decrease the number of capsicums, it just tastes the same.

You need

2-3 capsicums sliced thinly

1 onion sliced thinly

1-2 green chillies slit

Salt to taste

·     Wash the capsicums, slit into two, discard the seeds and slice the capsicums into thin slices.

·     Heat oil in a thick bottomed/nonstick pan. When hot, add sliced onions, fry for a minute, add slit chillies.

·     After a minute add sliced capsicums and salt. Mix well. Close the lid and let it cook in slow fire.

·     Check the taste after 4 minutes, add lime and chopped coriander if you wish. Put off the stove when capsicum is still a bit crunchy which tastes good.

·     Serve with chapathi or rice.

Macaroons

 

We need

 

1 egg white

75 gm cashew nuts cut into small pieces

175 gm finely powdered sugar

1/2 tsp cardamom powder

 

Let's start

Preheat the oven at 120 C

Take a big glass or steel bowl and carefully separate the egg white from yellow.

Begin whipping egg white  slowly till it becomes  foamy and frothy. Increase the speed till the egg white becomes stiff. (Test: when the whisk is lifted the peaks should not drop).

 

Add sugar spoon by spoon into the stiff egg white. Keep whisking/whipping. [Takes a bit of time. Be patient].

 

Fold in the cashew nut pieces delicately little by little. Don’t mix vigorously. Finally add cardamom powder. Fold it gently.

 

Line parchment paper on a baking tray and drop spoonfuls of batter on leaving sufficient space in between. (10-11 macaroons). Place the baking tray in preheated oven and bake

 

for 20-30 minutes or till the macroons turn light brown.

Let them cool completely and enjoy with hot cup of coffe.

Note: Any yolk (or yellow part) or oil if mixes up with white will keep the white from getting stiff. Hence, wash the whipper/whisk and bowl with hot water before you start the recipe. Add the sugar only after egg white has beaten to a foamy stiff stage.

Can also bake the macaroons in microwave in convention mode. It will take around 15 minutes. Please refer users guide of microwave for correct timing and heating.