Flavour Diary: May 2016

3 Flavour Healthy Yogurt Bites | Nutella Strawberry and Dry Fruit | Kids Recipe | Kids Delight

Are you looking for healthy after school snacks or want to do some fun with cooking with kids as summer activity or want to have quick No bake, No cook dessert for a sweet tooth day then my Yogurt bites are best and tastes great for hot day. A healthy alternative for Ice cream which is quick to make with no stress and uses few ingredients to blend in...
We can get creative and make as many variations to our taste buds and availability of resources for these Yogurt Bites.But here are my 3 flavours with different things one is with fruits, one is chocolaty and last but not least is with Dry Fruit with coconut....wow all tastes great... Take out the yogurt bites from the freezer just 10 mins before serving. You can serve this as it is or can be serve it with homemade Honey Coconut Granola recipe which is easy to make.

You might be interested in other healthy kids food and here are few to show

Chocolate Fruit Pizza

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Stuffed Dates

Level: Easy

total Time: 15 mins + chilling time (3 hrs)

Serves: 6

Ingredients

Dry Fruit Bites(Serves 2):
Dry Fruit Powder*: 1 1/2 tablespoon + sprinkling
Hanged Yogurt (Very thick Yogurt): 1/4 cup
Sweetener to taste (honey or powdered sugar)
Dry Fruit Powder*: blend Almonds:8, pistachios:8 and coconut:1/2 tablespoon to fine powder

Strawberry Bites(Serves 2):
Frozen/Fresh Strawberries: 1/2 cup
Hanged Yogurt (Very thick Yogurt): 1/4 cup
Sweetener to taste (honey or powdered sugar)--optional

Nutella Bites(Serves 2):
Nutella: 1 tablespoon
Hanged Yogurt (Very thick Yogurt) : 1/4 cup

Directions
Dry Fruit Bites:
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl well and place it in silicon cupcake liners and freeze it.
Strawberry Bites
In blender blend strawberries to smooth puree and mix it with yogurt and sweetener and pour it in silicon cupcake liners and freeze it.
Nutella Bites
Mix in Nutella and yogurt and place it in silicon cupcake liners and freeze it.

Tips
You can add any seasonal fruits and try different combos with chocolate.

Yogurt Bites are going to be part of 42 #foodiemonday #KidsDelight #bloghop recipes

Today's recipe is most loved by kids but in healthier and in different version....yes it's pizza with new dessert version.This Chocolate Fruit Pizza is simple,easy, healthy, No cook, No bake and yummilicious. Like all other pizza's even this pizza has base, Cheese filling and toppings but all in healthier version. Chocolate pizza recipe is easy to make and uses ingredients from pantry. Check tips for more options to replace.
Chocolate Fruit Pizza was on my todo list for a long time and i saw this on pinterest and always wanted to make it for dessert but i completely forgot about it. But when #foodiemonday friends decided that this week we are doing Pizza party...i was excited to do cauliflower crust pizza...but things are not the way we think, my little one was down with fever for almost a week and i dropped the idea of making up this week monday blog hop.But today morning when i saw tempting pizza recipes from foodie friends i couldn't stop myself and thought of getting in mood to make it but the simpler version and Chocolate Fruit Pizza came to rescue me...now i am feeling happy that i made this for breakfast and my elder princess gobbled up 2 portions along with her regular breakfast and the little one just took the pizza cutter and started to slice it and make mess all around...

You might be interested in other healthy kids food and here are few to show

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Stuffed Dates

Deviled Eggs

Level: Easy

total Time: 15 mins + chilling

Serves: 4

Ingredients

Base:
Almonds: 1/2 cup
Pitted Whole dates: 8
Melted Butter/ Coconut Oil: 1 tablespoon
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: 1/2 tablespoon
Vanilla extract: 1/2 teaspoon
Filling:
Cream Cheese: 50gm
Greek Yogurt(thick yogurt): 50gm
Water: 1/4 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract: few drops
Toppings:
Favourite fruits and dry fruits chopped

Directions
In a blender blend almonds until they form powder, then add pitted dates, cocoa powder, butter. Blend until dates are well combined.
Now press the mixture on springform tin or tart dish or small tin with cling film covered and place in fridge for an hour or 15 mins in freezer.
Mix in cream cheese,yogurt,vanilla extract and water in a bowl.
Now spread cream cheese mixture on to pizza base and top it with your favourite fruit toppings.
Serve immediately or keep it in fridge until ready to serve.

Tips
You can add cashew nuts along with almonds.
You can flavour the filling with orange zest.
If you don't have cream cheese replace it with equivalent amount of fresh water drained thick yogurt.

Here are few recipes with Gluten Free recipes to try

Dahi Chura

Madgane (Dairy Free Gluten Free)

Hyderabadi Shahjahani Meetha(Tomato dessert)

Fried Ice Cream is going to be part of 41 #foodiemonday #pizzamania #bloghop recipes

Eggs are very versatile that we use them in many ways in both sweet and savoury form.We can have these eggs in breakfast (stuffed French Toast) or as snack/appetizers (Deviled Eggs) or as sandwich (Egg Mayo Sandwich) or at any part of the day.

In India we can find huge range of Egg curries with variations in each part. One such egg curry from Andhra Pradesh is called Kodi Guddu Pulusu. Pulusu is a Sweet tangy liquid gravy with Veggie or eggs or meat cooked in it, and is served with hot steamed rice. Pulusu is bit common in Andhra household that it is made on regular basis.And tanginess of the gravy comes from tamarind.

Kodi Guddu means Hen eggs in english.. So this Kodi Guddu Pulusu is basically boiled eggs in tangy gravy which is made up of tamarind, onions and some spices.This is easy to make and takes less than 30 mins and is best side dish served along with hot boiled rice.

You can enjoy watching how this pulusu is made by clicking the pic below

You might be interested in other Andhra Recipes too and here are few to show.

Chegodilu(Chekodi)

Bobbatlu (Puran Poli)

Semolina Soup (Ganji)

Level: Easy
Total Time: 30mins
Serves: 3
1 cup:250 ml

Ingredients

Hard Boiled Eggs: 3 ( My eggs were small so i took more)

Oil: 2 tablespoons
Mustard Seeds: 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds: 1/2 teaspoon
Curry Leaves:1 spring
Onion: 1 (finely chopped)
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1/2 tablespoon
Tomato: 2 medium
Tamarind: lemon size ball
Turmeric: 1/2 teaspoon
Red Chilli Powder:1/2 teaspoon (to taste)
Cumin Coriander Powder/Jeera Dhaniya powder: 1 teaspoon
Egg Masala powder: 1 teaspoon
Coriander Leaves chopped for garnish
Salt to taste

Directions

Hard Boil your eggs. Then make slits lengthwise 2 sides of the egg.

In 1/2 cup of hot water add tamarind and soak for 10mins.

While your eggs are boiling. In a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds crackle add cumin seeds, green chilli, onion and curry leaves.

Once Onions are transparent add ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute, now add chopped tomatoes,spice powders(turmeric,chilli powder,coriander cumin powder) and saute until tomatoes are mushy and add the extracted tamarind pulp. Add 1.5 cups of water and bring it to boil. Add salt and eggs and turn the heat to low.

Cook for 10 more minutes on low heat and garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Wanna try....let set go..

You may also like to try other curry recipes

Achaari Paneer

Ambada Gosht (Gongura Mamasam)

Dondakaya Fry (Tindora Coconut Fry)

Shahi Bhindi (Okra in creamy curry)

Yes you read it right...its fried Ice cream...that sounds interesting right... Its been ages ago when me and my friends went for girls team lunch. Ordering and trying different things is my passion so i was lucky to find this interesting dessert on my table. When i saw this on the menu, i laughed at it and ordered it. I was soo excited and eagerly waiting to see how they would serve fried ice cream and they served a ball on a plate drizzled some chocolate sauce on it. It was hot crunchy from outside and cold and soft inside.
When my foodie monday group decided to have some summer theme for a bloghop ... i was not will to have same traditional summer coolers, so search google for help...and by seeing fried Ice cream i was happy and decided to give it a try. There were two ways of doing this fried ice cream one with crushed cereals and egg wash...this is Mexican Fried Ice Cream and the second is Tempura Fried Ice Cream which is cake and tempura which is famous in East Asia. I was not bit confident about crushed cereals and egg wash and it takes bit more steps and time, so i just skipped the Mexican style. Next was tempura way where we use cake to cover the ice cream and dip it in tempura liquid...hmmm i thought this would be too sweet and then i just remembered my Bread Bonda where we stuff the veggies in the bread and so i did the same way and dipped it in tempura batter and tadaaa i was happy to see the output.
If you want to surprise yourself or family or friends you can give it a try just like my Custard Powder Lava Cake where the flood of custard blows out when you slice it...so yummy.

Level: Easy

total Time: 20 mins + 4 hrs to chill

Serves: 3
Recipe help youtube

Ingredients

Ice cream: 3 scoops (your choice of ice cream)
Bread Slices: 3-5 as required
Milk: 1/2 cup
Egg: 1 small
Water: 1/2 cup
BreadCrumbs as required*
Garnish
Whipped Cream
Chocolate Sauce
Cherry
Sprinkles

Directions
Scoop out 3 scoops of ice cream and make round shape using your hand.
Cut the edges of the bread,roll it and wrap round the ice cream use bit of milk to seal the edges. Wrap cling film or plastic wrap tightly and put it in the freezer for minimum of 4 hours or till the time you want it.
Just before deep frying , In a deep bowl add milk,water and egg and whisk until well combined. Take bread crumbs in wide plate.
Unwrap the plastic wrap dip in milk mixture and then roll in breadcrumbs. Press the crumbs and roll second time in the bread crumbs. Make sure it is coated properly.
Heat the oil in small deep bowl, once oil is hot carefully drop the ice cream bowl in the oil and keep stirring so that it is cooked on all sides. Once it turns golden brown take off and serve immediately with your favourite toppings and enjoy.
*BreadCrumbs: I took the bread edges and bread slice and blended to fine powder.

Tips
You can replace egg with 2 tablespoons of plain flour.
Make use of your favourite ice cream.

Here are few recipes with less than 5 ingredient desserts to try

Madgane (Dairy Free Gluten Free)

Hyderabadi Shahjahani Meetha(Tomato dessert)

Khubani Ka Meetha

Mahalabia

Fried Ice Cream is going to be part of 40 #foodiemonday #summercoolers #bloghop recipes

Paneer Tikka is a popular tandoori dish which is made in tandoors. We can even make it at home either in oven or on stove top on pan/tawa. Todays post is all about stove top Tikka Masala, which yummy dish best served with roti,naan, pulka or some flavoured rice(jeera rice). Its a two step preparation, first is to prepare paneer tikka and next is to prepare masala/gravy and then mix and cook for a minute.And serve hot.

Paneer is one of famous Cheese from south Asia and this is used as savoury or sweet ingredient in the recipes. Paneer can be made easily at home* or simply buy from the store.Here are few paneer recipes to check in sweet n curry version.

Paneer Butter Masala

Chocolate Cardamom Sandesh

Shahi Meetha Paratha

Achaari Paneer

Level: Moderate
Total Time: 40mins
Serves: 3-4
1 cup:250 ml

Ingredients

Paneer Tikka:

Paneer: 200gm

Sunflower Oil: 1 tablespoon

Lemon Juice: 2 teaspoon
Ginger Garlic Paste: 2 teaspoon
Onion : 1 big square chunks
Green Bell pepper/capsicum: 1 cut in big square chunks
Plain Thick Yogurt/curd: 1/2 cup
Garam Masala: 1 teaspoon
Coriander Powder/Dhaniya powder: 1 teaspoon
Red Chilli Powder: 1 teaspoon (to taste)
Salt to taste (1/2 teaspoon)

Masala curry:

Onion: 1 medium
Tomatoes: 2
Green Chillies: 2
Tomato ketchup: 1 teaspoon
garam masala:1/2 teaspoon
Red Chilli Powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Roasted Cumin Powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Kasuri Methi (dry fenugreek leaves): 2 teaspoon crushed
Oil: 3 or 4 tablespoons
Cardamom pods: 1 or 2
Cloves: 2 or 3
Cinnamon stick: 1 inch
Fresh Cream: 1/2 cup
Coriander Leaves chopped: 1/4 cup
Salt to taste

Directions

Paneer Tikka:
Chop paneer, onion and capsicum/pepper in cubes.
In a bowl all other ingredients under paneer tikka except oil and mix well.
Now add chopped paneer,onion and capsicum and mix well until mixture is coated well and keep aside for 15 mins.

Heat pancake pan/tawa add oil and place paneer,capsicum and onion pieces and saute it on high flame until capsicum and onions are crispy but cooked. Keep a side.

Masala:
Roughly chop onion and blend it to smooth paste.

Roughly chop tomatoes and green chillies and blend it to fine paste.

In a pan heat oil and add cloves,cinnamon stick, cardamom, onion paste. stir till oil leaves and then add tomato puree.

Cook for half a minute and add spice powders(turmeric,chilli powder, cumin powder,garam masala,salt and tomato ketchup) , mix well and then add cream and mix well again.

Stir and cook until water is evaporated, now add 1 cup of water mix well. Once water comes to boil add coriander leaves,kasuri methi and paneer tikka to it. Cook for a minute and turn off the heat.