Cucumber and pomegranate salad in hazelnut oil and orange juice dressing

This is a very fresh, healthy and tasty salad which is made in no time. You could watch this video to  learn a new technique of de-seeding a pomegranate, and if you already know and use the technique, very good  for you.

Ingredients for the salad
Cucumber - 3 medium size ones
Pomegranate- 1 large
Herbs (Mint leaves or coriander leaves) - 1/4 cup
Lemon juice - 3 tbspn
Orange juice - 1/2 cup
Paprika - a pinch
Tobasco sauce - 2 tspns
Hazelnut oil - 2 tbspns
Salt and pepper - for seasoning

Arrange the vegetables and fruits in a plate.
Whisk together the rest of the ingredients and oil until emulsified. Pour over the salad just before serving. 
Enjoy!!

Steel cut oats with spicy butter milk

My recent discovery is about steel cut oats, yes a very good friend mentioned about this to me, she has been sourcing from abroad but now since everything is very much available in India, I could procure it easily with no difficulties.

Personally speaking I dont prefer the bland nature of oats and hence I resort making dosas/pancakes/crepes with it with different combinations otherwise a porridge using milk and sugar. Once can always substitute sugar with natural sweeteners like fresh fruits or dry fruits but when I planned on using this oats I had loads of buttermilk in my kitchen, hence tried this way. Recipe follows

Ingredients

Steel cut oats - 1/2 cup

Water- 1 1/2 cup

Buttermilk - 2 cups

Cucumber - 2 

Carrots - 2 

Bird eye chillies - 3- 5 

Basil leaves

Salt and pepper

Method

Place the water in a sauce pan and let it boil and add the oats into the boiling water. Keep stirring and cook the oats for around 5-7 minutes and remove from fire. Pour in the buttermilk , chop in the carrots and cucumber and slightly mashed or well mashed chillies and also tear in the basil leaves into it . Add salt and pepper to your taste. If you wish you may avoid pepper and its done!

And I vouch its tasty for your tongue and easy on your tummy 

Enjoy!

Summer drink II

I really dont know what to name this drink , mostly it would be summer drink II :) Its nothing but mixed fruit juice

Ingredients
Oranges- 2
Apple- 1
Med sized cucumber- 1
Med sized lemon- 1
Salt/ sugar- to your taste
Ginger jam - 1/4 tspn

Method
Remove the juice of the oranges and strain in the large sieve
Blend the apples with the lemon juice and cucumber and mix with the orange juice.
Add salt or sugar to your taste and garnish with either ginger chips or quarter tspn of ginger jam and serve.


Enjoy ! :)
 

Oats cucumber dosa

Oats Cucumber dosa


Ingredients


Oats- 1 cup
Semolina (Chirooty rava) 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup
Cucumber - 1 large 
Green Chillies and Coriander leaves- to your taste
Salt


Method


Soak the oats and semolina in just enough water in a mixie jar for 10 minutes. Finely chop or grate the cucumber to it. Blend it nicely along with the chillies and coriander leaves and add salt. Make sure that the batter is not too thick or thin.
Make dosa instantly with this batter. Healthy and nutritious too and can be made in a jiffy.