Kale & Banana Shake (Healthy & Vegan Breakfast item)

Ingredients:

1. Kale Leaves: 2
2. Carrot: 1
3. Banana: 1
4. Almond Butter: 2 tbsp
5. Water: 1 Cup

Steps:

1. Wash kale leaves and carrots with water.
2. Cut Kale leaves and carrots into small pieces.
3. Take 1/4 cup of water into a pot and add chopped kale leaves and carrots.
4. Cover the pot with the lid and steam it for 10 minutes on the flame.
5. After 10 minutes turn off the flame and let it cool for 10 minutes.
6. Now add steamed kale leaves and carrot to a blender  jar.
7. Cut banana into small pieces and add to the jar.
8. Add 2 tbsp of almond butter and one cup of water to the jar.
9. Blend everything for one minute.
10. Pour your kale shake into glass and enjoy .

Trupti

Thandai / Bhang (Almond Spices Milk)

Here comes the special drink of Holi ..'Thandai (Bhang)

Ingredients:

• Almonds: 1/2 Cup
• Milk: 1 & 1/2 Cup
• Sugar: 4 tbsp
• Whole Black pepeer: 1 tsp or as per taste
• Fennel Seeds (Saunf): 1 tbsp
• Poppy Seeds: 2 tbsp
• Whole Green Cardamom: 4
• Rose Water: 2 tbsp
• Water: As needed

Procedure:

1. Soak almonds in water for at least 5-6 hrs. Peel off skin of almonds & keep aside.
2. Grind black peper, fennel seeds, poppy seeds and cardamom to fine powder. Then add almonds, sugar and make a fine paste of almonds by using very small amount of water.
3. Strain this almond liquid through fine strainer.
4. Blend the leftover paste with small amount of water and strain it again.
5. Mix milk and rose water in almond liquid very well.
6. Serve this Thandai with ice.

All these goes to FestiveFood: Holi Hai event hosted by dear Purva

With this Thandai I would like to wish everyone HAPPY HOLI !! Enjoy the festival of Colors !!

Now it's Award time. Pooja of Sai Kitchen gave me four wonderful awards. These awards are 'Friends', 'You are a Sweet Heart', 'One Lovely Blog Award' and 'Triple Award'. Thank you very much Pooja for these lovely awards. I am so honored.



I would like to give these awards to lovely Priya, Asha, Mahimaa, Soma , Ashwini, Sharmi . Enjoy your awards !!

Recipe Source: Manjula's Kitchen

Persimmon Milkshake and Award

Ingredients:

• Persimmon: 1
• Milk: 1 Cup
• Honey: 1 tsp
• Almonds / Cashew: 2 Each

Procedure:

1. Remove the skin of persimmon. Cut persimmon into pieces.
2. Blend all the ingredients together to get smooth textured milkshake. Your healthy Persimmon Milkshake is ready to drink.
3. If you want you can add sugar instead of honey.

This is my entry for AFAM: Persimmon Event started by Maheshwari.

Now with this healthy milk shake I would like to share you one award. Srilekha of 'Me and My Kitchen' gave me the award for sending maximum entries for EFM- Savory Series . Thank you very much SriLekha for this award. I am so glad to receive this award from you. I will try to send more recipes for your next event.

Winter Treat Event Round Up - Part 2

Here comes the second part of Winter Treat Event. You can find Part 1 Here. If I missed someone's entry or made some mistakes while posting entries just let me know. Again thank you very much for this wonderful response.

Soups:
1. Tortellini Soup - By Supriya Raman


2. Garbanzo Bean Soup - By Supriya Raman

3. Potato and Roasted Garlic Soup - By Supriya Raman

4. Cheesy Vegetable Soup - By Sweatha

5. Fassoulatha - By Sweatha

6. Broccoli Soup - By PJ

7. Tomato Soup - By Ujwal

8. Sweet Corn and Mushroom Soup By Rekha

9. Red Bellpepper and Mushroom Soup By Priya

10. Broccoli n Barley Soup - By Priya

11. Mixed Vegetable Sambar (Soup) By Asha

12. Vegetable Corn Flour Soup By Vidhas

13. Cream of Broccoli Soup By notyet100

14. Cream of Tomato and Mushroom Soup By notyet100

15. Cream of Onion, Capsicum Soup With Carrot By notyet100

16. Manchow Soup By Poornima

17. Lung Fung Soup By Khaugiri

18. Tomato Basil Soup by aquadaze

You can find some of my Soup recipes Here

Full Meal :

1. Matar Paneer Curry,Salad and Masala Curd - By notyet100

2. Not your ordinary Mac 'n' Cheese - By Supriya Raman

3. Daal Dhokali By Meera

4. Misal Pav By Khaugiri

5. Paav Bhaji By Vidhas

6. Mixed Rice Noodles By Nithya

7. Vegetable Noodles By Vidhas

8. Schewan Noodles with Mushroom By Vidhas

9. Pasta and Mushroom In White Sauce By Vidhas

10. Pasta And Corn In White Sauce By Vidhas

11. Whole Wheat Pasta In Meat Ball Sauce By notyet100

Dinner Entry

1. Paneer Bhurji By Supriya Raman

2. Curried Black Eyed Peas ( Chawli Curry ) - By USha

3. Bisibelebhat By Chitra

4. BADHAKOPIR TAK(SOUR) DOM ( Cabbage in tomato gravy) by Indrani

5. Dhokar Dalna (lentil cakes in a gravy) by Indrani

6. Kalanachi Bhakri By Khaugiri

Side Dishes:

1. Potato Gratin with Basil Garlic Cream sauce - By Supriya Raman

2. Mod aalelya Methichi (Fenugreek seed’s sprout) Usal - By Khaugiri

3. Oli halad (Fresh Turmeric) Chutney By Khaugiri

4. Bo-Bun-cha-gio (vermicelli-noodle-salad) By Akal

Baked Items:

1. Low fat Almond and Oats Cookie - Eggless By Anudivya

2. Cookies Filled With Jam & Nuts - By Happy Cook

3. Chocolate Crinkles- By Sunshinemom

4. Chocolate chip cookies by Keerthana

5. Butter Biscuits by Nithya

6. Fig Almond Melting Moments By Bindiya

7. Christmas cake By Sudeshna

8. Cheesy Herb Challah - By Navita Hakim

Hot Drinks:

1. Hot Chocolate - By Suma

2. Hot Chocolate By Dhany

3. Spicy masala Tea - By Priya

4. Masala Paal - By Priya

5. Masala Milk by Mahima

6. Adrak Wali Chai By notyet100

Sweets:

1. Pumpkin Mousse By Supriya Raman

2. Sesame laddu by Sindura

3. Iddiyappam with Thengai pal by Vidhas

4. Sago Payasa By Keerthana

5.Panjiri By Bindiya

You can find some of my sweets recipes here

Non Veg Entries:

1. Fish Fry By Kayal

2. Osso Bucco alla Milanese by Akal

3. Stewed Pork with Apples and cinnamom by Akal

4. Paupiettes de Porc ( Stuffed Pork scallops in stewed vegetable sauce) by Akal

5. 4 Cheese Sauce, Veal scallop with Fettucines by Akal

6. Wine poached Salmon in Cucumber sauce by Akal