Change over day !

    Before starting my recipe post, i would like to wish all my friends and co-bloggers a very very "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014"

    From the name itself you can understand today's post its going to be a different post but related to the FOOD. Now coming to the explanation of the change over: If its a weekend will plan for a different lunch which will be an unusual recipes.

    Eventhough its different and unusual, one day will get bored of that different, unusual recipes as well. Likewise, that bored day has come, was in panic mode on selecting the menu for my lunch. Suddenly i got an idea why i should not go for some variety rice excluding usual kozhambu, rasam and curd. So, i prepared some 5 dishes which are listed below.

    1. Tomato Rice
    2. Coconut Rice
    3. Veg fried rice
    4. Mint Chutney
    5. Potato fry
    6. White Rice

    You know it was tasted really yummy ! Henceforth, have planned to try this monthly rice. Have you ever tried before ??!!
Note: All unlinked recipes will be posted later.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Mint Rice

     Nowadays its like hard days to manage both office and home parallely. Due to that, i felt am completely out of this blogging world. Since it been more than a week month, just to placing my attendance, am going to post this rice recipe, which is an another looted recipe from my lunch mate box (!) Yes, this is her mom's all time best recipe which i tasted so far. Its been very loooooooong time i got this recipe from her mom and the time came for me to prepare only on last month which is a big delay and only now i got the time to post it here (Again a delay). Rather naming this dish as "Mint Rice", i should call it as "Mint Rice in Delay" :P Here is the recipe for your views..........

ALL YOU NEED:

Basmathi Rice	1 cup
Chopped Onion	2 Nos.
Ginger Garlic Paste	1 1/2 spoon
Green chilly	3 Nos.
Mint Leaf	1 bunch
Coconut	2 Pieces
Ghee/Oil	3 spoons
Salt	To Taste

METHOD:
     Heat a pan with spoon of oil. Do the sauting of Mint leaf by adding pinch of salt. Allow it cool and Grind it to a fine paste along with 2 pieces of coconut. Keep it aside. Heat 3 spoons of oil in a pressure pan, add chopped onion and green chilly. Do fine sauting, now add ginger garlic paste and the grinded mixture. Do fine sauting, until the raw smell goes off. Now pour 1 1/2 cups of water. Once it comes to boil, add 2 cups of basmathi rice and add required salt. Close the pan with lid partially. DONOT put the whistle/weight. Wait for 5 mins. Now open the lid, do soft stir. Now close the pan completely without whistle/weight. Place the flame in simmer for 10 mins and Switch it off.

Note: I added some channa dhall just to skip the plain mint taste.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Greens Chutney

     Have u noticed the name !!?? Its Green's' chutney NOT Green Chutney. Yes, i used some three different green leaf variety to prepare, which i can blindly say a much healthy, tasty, nutritious and greeny chutney. Generally, whenever am running out of vegetable for my lunch, i'll go by preparing some thovaiyals like Ginger, Mint, Coriander, Toor Dhall and so onnnnnnn... Even this was prepared in the same situation. My actual plan was preparing Mint chutney, since i was not having enough amount of mint, i prepared this using three greens. Was bit scared how it will taste but it had a heavenly taste, literally i loved tasting it with hot steamed rice with simple pappad......

ALL YOU NEED:

Coriander Leaf	Handful
Curry Leaf	6 Twigs
Mint	Handful
Bengal Gram	1 spoon
Urad Dhall	1 spoon
Coconut	4 pieces
Tamarind	Pinch
Red Chilly	3 Nos.
Green Chilly	1 Nos.
Salt	To Taste
Oil	2 spoon

METHOD:
     Heat a spoon of oil in a pan, add spoon of urad dhall and bengal gram. Once it turns brown, add both chillies, do sauting again. Now add cleaned mint leaf, coriander leaf, curry leaf. Do sauting until raw smell goes off. Now add on salt, tamarind and coconut pieces, fry it for 2 minutes and allow it cool. Grind it well by adjusting with salt. Taste it wil hot steamed rice.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Mint Chapathi

     During the same Diet week mentioned in my previous posts (Here and Here), i prepared this Mint/Pudhina Chapathi. Its my long time thought to prepare some stuffed or mixed chapathi. So, tried Aloo paratha one day but that went as a disaster :P so tried with this Mint chapathi, i got super dooper flavored chapathi but it was bit hard :( Still, I packed it for my lunch with simple raitha as my side dish. When i opened my box during my lunch time, OMG ! what a smell !!! That was super flavored and it tasted heavenly too... Literally enjoyed having that flavored chapathi with my team mates

ALL YOU NEED:

Wheat flour	1 cup
Mint Leaf	Handful
Salt	Pinch
Water	3/4 glass
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Finely chop the mint leaf and keep it aside. Take a wide bowl, add cup of wheat flour, pinch of salt. Mix it well. Add chopped mint leaf, add little amount of water and make it as fine dough. Once done, add a spoon of oil, give a fine mix. Let it sit for a while. Now press it as chapathi and toss in tawa and serve with some suitable curry or raitha.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬