This time its a rather daily casual stuff, something that we people eat on a regular basis, generally as breakfast in mornings and find it really tasty and healthy to eat.
SINDHI KOKI
Ingredients:
4 cups wheat flour (makes 2 koki)
1 onion large finely chopped
3 green chillies finely chopped
1 tbsp. coriander leaves finely chopped
2 tbsp. ghee or oil
1/2 tbsp. cumin seeds
1/2 tbsp. Annardaana (dried pomegranate seeds)
Salt to taste
Oil for shallow frying
Method:
Sieve flour, add salt, onions, annardana (optional), cumin seeds, chopped green chillies, coriander leaves and oil (except oil for shallowing).
Mix well add very little water, knead into the stiff dough.
Divide the dough in two portions.
Take each portion and roll with rolling pin just to flatten the roll. Do not roll it much.
Slightly roast it on both sides on hot tawa (frying pan) again roll it with rolling pin till it reaches thickness of paratha (This helps to make koki bit flaky than chewy).
Place it on tawa again, cook on each side, adding little oil or ghee from sides, on medium flame, till very small brown patches appears on surface
Repeat for remaining dough.
Serve hot with yogurt or tea or papad.
It has a shelf life of about 24 hrs, so is ideal for picnics or while traveling long distances
Thanks Fiancee for your simple yet Simply Delicious recipes!
I continue with my urge of sharing recipes, thanking my fiancee for allowing me to do so.
Today's Recipe
SWEET CORN RAITA
A dish that is perfect for parties, perfect for casual dinners and looks just amazing may that be in a traditional Indian Dinner or western dinner with Indian Cuisine.
Ingredients
Boiled Sweet Corns (1 Cup)
1/2 tbsp Red Chilli Powder
Yogurt (2 cups)
Onion Chopped - 1
Finely Chopped Coriander
Finely Chopper Mint
Coriander Powder - 1/2 tbsp.
Oil - 2 tbsp.
Salt - 1 tbsp.
Sugar to taste
Recipe
Heat Oil and Fry Onion and Red Chilli
Add corns, red chilli powder, salt and coriander powder, stir for 2 mins and mix it well.
Add sugar to yogurt, ChuRn and keep it in a bowl.
Add corn mix to it and mix the whole stuff well.
Garnish with coriander and mint leaves
Please Serve it.
Note:
If you don't like sweet taste, you can skip sugar and use salt according to your preferred taste.
Thanks for visiting my blog, here comes the first recipe as promised a bit earlier.
This recipe is for an Indian / Pakistani dish called Saada Yakhni Pulao (Rice)
Saada Yakhni Pulao
Ingredients per 250 gms rice:
1 Bay Leaves (Tejpatta)
5 Cloves (Laung)
2 Green Cardamom
5 Black Pepper (Kali Mirch)
Salt according to taste
Mixed Spices (Garam Masala)
250 gms rice
(For Garnishing)
Finely chopped Onion
Chopped Pistachio (into 2 halves)
Chopped cashews (into 2 halves)
1 tbsp. oil
Recipe
Heat oil in a pan, Add bay leaves, cloves, green cardamom, black pepper.
Stir for 2 mins, then add 2 glasses of water in it.
When water starts boiling, put salt and mixed spices into it. Add rice into it.
Now leave pan on high flame. Let the rice soak water, when there is little water left, low down the flame and cover the lid.
Let the rice cook for 5 minutes.
While rice is cooking, take one more pan, heat the oil and fry chopped onion till brown, once onion is fried till brown, take it out of the pan and now fry cashew and pistachio.
Now, Use fried onion, pistachio and cashew as garnishing.
Alright guys, this was a small yet really delicious recipe, my first recipe, courtesy of my fiancee.
I hope you guys enjoy this recipe and let me know through emails / comments if you guys happen to try this recipe.
Its official, Apple's upcoming Sept. 12 event, as events of Apple near their airing date, people start losing their mental stability and probably you as reader of this post are one of those hundreds of thousands of people who have already decided to queue outside Apple stores from Sept. 11 midnight in various parts of the world, without even actually knowing if the new iPhone is going to be made available from Sept 12 onwards, or is Sept. 12 only the date of announcement.
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Its crazy how Apple is taking on a ride everyone with so many rumours about upcoming iPhone 5 (so called worst kept secret in the history of Apple so far).
People seem to really get crazy and nitty gritty about the upcoming event and after having had a recent look at CNet's AppleByte, they have made a whole RAP song on Apple's senior executives like Tim Cook, Scott Forstall, Phil schiller, etc.
There are so many alleged iPhone photos and people like Brian Tong of Cnet are busy trying to decode what the flyer for upcoming Apple event showing "12" with some shadow below it that Brian says looks like making a "5" is all about. May be I am getting stupid at it, but what's there to decode in it? there is less than a week to go for the event, don't we have anything else to move on till the event date comes up?
Tons of photos of the repair site iResQ demonstrate that the new iPhone is going to have a two tone design and Apple is going to throw away the rear glass (probably Apple has learnt about the dropping tests of iPhone, the way the glass completely smashes away!)
But then there are also rumours that these all photos are of a chinese phone called GooPhone. Although several reports and google search results claim that GooPhone i5, the so called Chinese iPhone 5 is actually a leaked version of iPhone 5 prototype. And as usual, there may be some more legal suits against Apple or against Chinese phone maker. Who knows whats true? (Heck! why can't we just wait and watch?)
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There are also videos on chinese website vgooo.com of the alleged next gen iPhone 5 with same boot screen as current iPhone, however as the phone boots it shows "We are unable to complete you", doesn't that show that someone has forcefully tried to install iOS on a non Apple phone and so the phone actually suffered a failed boot up? Well undoubtedly it does seem a dodgy video completely released with a thought of attracting visitors and making some money along side getting some popularity.
Another feature we humans including Brian Tong of Cnet (mobile phone users actually) are really getting crazy about is the wireless charging feature as shown by recently launched Nokia Lumia 920 a Windows Phone.
Brian says this seems to be a big deal in coming years especially with businesses like Airports, Virgin Atlantic, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and so on… However, who really cares about it? I mean, there are tons of ways to charge a phone without a electricity outlet, every Aircraft these days has a USB port where in you can plug in your USB charger and let your phone and other gadgets charge, and if not Airplanes, I am sure you guys are aware of XPalPower like stuff, that lets to carry electronic charge for your gadgets.
Another thing, again that may be valid if Apple goes for smaller dock connectors is, according to iLounge, Apple is to be the sole maker of the Dock connector Adapters, this may mean, Apple is saying, go My way or the High Way, so we would need to buy only Apple branded dock connectors in case our original dock connector goes bad! Clearly Apple here wants to limit competition, but again, small local manufacturers do end up making duplicate connectors, especially the road side phone repair shops, etc try to invent new cheaper stuff which costs less to make but sells at a good enough price getting them some nice profit. Well everyone, including the roadside mobile repair man wants a share of Apple's success..
On the other hand, this might also upset existing Apple users who are used to those 30-pin dock connectors. And so all there old accessories, portable speakers, etc may not be any more usable on the new iPhone 5 which is like to adopt a smaller 19-pin dock connector.
Anyways, who knows whats exactly going to be true? Apple might just come up with a different type of Micro-USB charger simply to be one of the crowd and get more flexibility when it comes to connecting Apple iPhone to various devices like Laptop, etc.
My "going to be wife" (Fiancee) loves trying different recipes, tasty yummy dishes, and I am not often the first one to test her cooking skills (thank God!), although, I am aware of her passion for cooking which sometimes makes me crave for her food.
The reason why I am not very often the first person to test her new recipes is because, as an Indian, according to our culture, we don't generally live in together before marriage, and being in a Long-Distance relationship, I hardly get to see her once in 8 months to a year's time.
Anyways, following on to suggestions given by my better-half, I have made up my mind to start sharing with my readers, her recipes! (Please be aware, try at your own risk though! :-P)
So, from now onwards, I shall be posting two to three recipes a week that comes from the great treasure-like recipe diary of my fiancee. I may post a bit more or a bit less in some weeks, depending on how frequently she sends me the recipes that she wants me to share with my readers (yes, she won't allow me sharing her entire own written personal recipe diary!).
So friends, do keep visiting here or subscribe to my posts and let me know how you find the recipes that I shall be starting to post anytime soon now. You can send in your suggestions and any experiences (if you happened to try the recipe) through emails or through comments below.
Thank You very much, I look forward to hear from you guys..
And Thanks My Love (My Fiancee) for letting me share your personal work on my public blog!
