Namkeen Chivda (cornflakes)

Hi Friends ..

Today's recipe I learnt from my best friend Neelima ....She is always with me in my good or bad times. I am  very lucky to have a friend like her..bubbly, happy, smart, active and best quality talkative :-)

She is from Lucknow and they make lot of things at home ...She made this namkeen chivda at home and brought it to my place. I just loved it, asked the recipe and made it :-)

It came out perfectly ...thanks Neelima for sharing the recipe with me :-)

Ingredients:

1 small pack of Corn flakes

2 cups puffed rice
1/2 cup peanuts (with skin)
1/4 cup raisins

1/4 cup broken cashews
Few curry leaves
A pinch asafoetida
1/4 tsp red chilly powder

1/4 cumin powderSalt to taste
1 tsp Sugar

Oil for frying

Method:

1. Fry for raisins, cashews and peanuts in little oil and keep them aside. 
2. Deep fry the corn flakes in a kadai till golden brown in colour and take them out on an absorbent paper. 
3. Heat 1 tsp of oil in the non-stick kadhai, add curry leaves, puffed rice, raisins, cashews and corn flakes mixture. Mix well. 
4. Add sugar, salt, red chilly powder and cumin powder. Mix well. 
5. Your chivda is ready. Once it cools down, store it in an air tight container.

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Babycorn Manchurian

Hi Friends,
 Today's recipe I tried from my friend's blog Pallavi....(Cook Eat Burrp ) She is very creative in cooking, keeps trying new recipes.
I tried this recipe but added 1 or 2 more ingredients on my own .......It was good as a starters esp. for vegetarian people :-)

Ingredients:

1 pack of  baby-corn (cut slit-wise )
2 tbsp Corn Flour
Salt acc.to taste
Oil to deep fry
1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
2 tbsp Green chilly sauce
1 tsp Soya sauce
1 tbsp Tomato ketchup
1/2 tbsp Vinegar
1 medium onion (thinly sliced)
1  capsicum (thinly sliced)
Salt and pepper to taste
A pinch of sugar
1/4 tbsp oil

Method:

1. Sprinkle  corn flour and salt on the baby-corns.
2. Mix it evenly.( Don’t add water)
3. Heat oil and deep fry them till golden brown in colour.
4. Drain them on an absorbent paper and keep aside.
5. In a non stick kadhai, heat oil.
6. Add ginger-garlic paste, saute till it becomes brown.
7. Add the onions and capsicum. Saute for only 2 mins on high flame.
8. Add the sauces , vinegar.
9. Add the seasoning.
10. Put baby-corns and mix gently.
11. Remove from fire and serve hot.

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Beyond the cooking .......

Hi Friends .........
  Today I am back to blogging but not with a recipe ........Surprise na ???  You will see my eye make up tutorial which I did to participate in Ankita's Giveaway .
I did it for first time and hope I did justice with it :-)

For further details please visit her blog HERE....

Wish me luck :-) :-) :-) :-)