Egg Thokku

Egg thokku is the simplest side dish to go with dal rice or even with Chapathi/ roti. Try it.. You will definitely like it. Takes just 10 mins, but tastes yummy..

You will need:

• 4 eggs
• 1½ big onions
• 1 big tomato
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• ½ tsp garam masala powder (optional)
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• few curry leaves
• 2 tbsp oil
• salt as required
• ¼ tsp mustard seeds
• ¼ tsp cumin seeds
• ¼ tsp fennel seeds
• coriander leaves( few finely chopped)

Procedure:

Step 1:

Chop onion lengthwise and keep it aside. Chop the tomatoes finely.

Step 2:

Heat some water in a vessel and boil 4 eggs. Let it boil for 15 mins. Now the boiled egg is ready. Keep it aside.

Step 3:

In a non stick pan, heat 2 tbsp oil and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and fennel seeds, Once it splutter add curry leaves to it.

Step 4:

Now add the chopped onions to it and saute it till it turns translucent. It will take around 5 mins in medium heat. Then the ginger garlic paste to it along with the chopped tomatoes. Saute it till the tomatoes turn mushy.

Step 5:

Now add the chilli powder and turmeric powder. Saute it just for one min. Add salt at this stage

Step 6:

De shell the boiled eggs and cut it . Now add the boiled eggs to this masala and saute it. Add the garam masala to this now. If you have some chopped coriander leaves, you can add it at this stage. Check for salt.
You can add some water if you are making this dish for a big crowd.

Lower and flame. Now cover it with a lid and keep it in the low flame just for 2 to 3 mins. Switch off the flame and serve it with dal rice or with Chapathi.. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Oil Cookies

I tried this time the sugar cookies by replacing butter with oil. This time i tried it with oil.

I came across an article called Butter Vs Oil  for the healthy benefits. http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2009/01/butter-versus-oil-championship-fight.html

Ok as you all know Oil is better comparing to butter. I have a 2 year old allergic to dairy products. So i just tried this oil cookies and we all like it. You can definitely give a try. Very simple to make. Ok here comes the recipe. 


Your will need:


Dry Ingredients:

• 2 cup All purpose flour(Maida)
• ¾ cup sugar(Powdered sugar)
• 1¼ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt

Wet Ingredients:

• ⅓ cup oil
• 1¼ tsp vanilla essence 
• 1 egg plus milk to make ⅓ cup 

Procedure:

Step 1:

Beat one egg along with some milk to get ⅓ cup. In that add oil, vanilla essence and keep it aside. 


Step 2: 


Now for dry ingredients, take a mixing bowl and shift 2 cups of all purpose flour along with baking soda, salt and sugar.


Step 3:


Then add the wet ingredients(egg. oil, vanilla essence) into the dry ingredients and knead the dough with your hand untill you get a soft dough. 


Step 4: 


Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.

Step 5:

After 1 hour preheat the oven to 400 degree F

Step 6:

Now roll it out on a floured board . Cut it to a desired shape. The thickness should be appraoximately 3 times of the credit card size. 

Arrange it in a non greased cookie tray and bake it for just 8 to 9 mins. Approximately you will get 30 to 35 cookies.  


Enjoy.....
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Quotes by Sadhu Sunder singh

"He was searching for me before I sought Him. Christ whom I had never expected came to me. I was praying, 'If there be a God, reveal Thyself'...I was praying to Hindu gods and incarnations. But when He came there was no anger in His face, even though I had burnt the Bible three days before. None of you have ever destroyed Scripture like me. He is such a wonderful, loving, living Saviour..."

"There is a great difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Him... If we only know of Jesus as a good man, a great example, it is no help to us. Those who know Him know Who He is. When we know Him everything is different and we are living in a new world -- a new atmosphere. Heaven begins on earth for us. Those who know Him know that Jesus is everything to them. They can bear witness because they have been living with Him...If we live in Him He will reveal Himself to us and we shall bear witness -- not for a day or a night only..."

"For the first two or three years after my conversion, I used to ask for specific things. Now I ask for God. Supposing there is a tree full of fruits -- you will have to go and buy or beg the fruits from the owner of the tree. Every day you would have to go for one or two fruits. But if you can make the tree your own property, then all the fruits will be your own. In the same way, if God is your own, then all things in Heaven and on earth will be your own, because He is your Father and is everything to you; otherwise you will have to go and ask like a beggar for certain things. When they are used up, you will have to ask again. So ask not for gifts but for the Giver of Gifts: not for life but for the Giver of Life -- then life and the things needed for life will be added unto you." 

"Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us."

"From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross." 

"While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism." 

"When Jesus entered Jerusalem the people spread their clothes in the way and strewed branches before Him in order to do Him honour. Jesus rode upon an ass, according to the word of the prophet. His feet did not touch the road which was decorated in His honour. It was the ass which trod upon the garments and the branches. But the ass would have been very foolish to have been uplifted on that account; for the road really was not decked in its honour! It would be just as foolish if those who bear Christ to men were to think anything of themselves because of what men do to them for the sake of Jesus." 

"A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray." 

"Just as the salt water of the sea is drawn upwards by the hot rays of the sun, and gradually takes on the form of clouds, and, turned thus into sweet and refreshing water, falls in showers on the earth (for the sea water as it rises upwards leaves behind it its salt and bitterness), so when the thoughts and desires of the man of prayer rise aloft like misty emanations of the soul, the rays of the Sun of Righteousness purify them of all sinful taint, and his prayers become a great cloud which descends from heaven in a shower of blessing, bringing refreshment to many on the earth."

Potato Stew

Potato stew with Appam makes yummy breakfast or dinner. My family like Appam very much. Even if someone give me appam everyday i can eat it. Appam goes very well with any non veg curries like egg curry, mutton or chicken curry.

For a change from non veg curries i tried this simple potato stew which goes very well with appams. I'm a spice lover and i cant eat anything which is not spicy. But this stew is simply tasty with less spice in it. You can add spice if you want. But believe me, it taste good with just green chillies and onions.

Here come the recipe of this simple stew.

You will need:

• 2 large potatoes
• 1 large red onion
• 5 green chillies
• 3 to 5 garlic pods
• salt for taste
• 1½ cups of thick coconut milk

For seasoning:

• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp urad dal
• 1 small onion(shallot) cut into small pieces
• few curry leaves
• 2 tbsp oil . preferably coconut oil

Procedure:

Step 1:

Peel the potatoes and cut into bite size pieces. Boil it in 3 to 4 cups of water until it become soft.

Step 2:

Peel the onion and cut into small squares. When the potatoes gets 80% cooked, add the chopped onion along with the green chillies and the garlic pods.

Step 3:

At this stage you can add more water if the vegetables are not fully cooked yet. If the vegetables are fully cooked add the thick coconut milk and switch of the stove . Now stir the coconut milk along with the potatoes.

Step 4:

Now for seasoning add oil in a frying pan and allow it to heat. When it turns hot add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds and the urad dal one after the other. When it splutters add the finely chopped onion and allow it to brown. Now add the curry leaves and add the potato stew to this. Switch off the stove.

Enjoy this with Appam .Easy recipe on a busy day. Taste very good too.