Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2008

Our Lunch Today!!

Today i made a simple veggie soup accompanied by Koshari....with an Indian twist...

I got the recipe from sister yasmeen's "Health Nut" blog yo can find the original recipe with very good pics HERE

As I only have my web cam working i took a not so good pic...





It looks like regular Egyptian Kochari but the taste is great....
Here's the recipe


Lentil Rice(Khichdi) with Sesame Chutney

Lentil Rice(Khichdi)
Combining lentils with rice provides a wholesome meal. Mix some brown rice in white rice. Did you know that difference between brown and white rice is same as difference between whole wheat flour and all purpose?. While milling the brown rice in to white rice, most of the vitamins ,minerals and fiber are lost and so are many of the nutritive benefits of Rice. Buy some brown rice and mix with white rice while cooking rice.
Ingredients you'll need are:
1/4 cup yellow Moong Lentil
1 1/2 cups Rice
1/2 cup Brown Rice
1 small onion
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 green chillies
some mint leaves


To make the Khichdi:
Roast the lentil in a pan at medium flame until lightly brown.Wash rice and soak it along with roasted lentils for 15 minutes.
Heat EVOO in a skillet . Add chopped onions ,whole green chillies and cumin seeds. saute for a minute and add ginger garlic paste. Roast for a minute with turmeric. Drain the water from rice and lentil . Add in to the skillet and roast until rice turns pearly. Now add 2 cups of water and mint leaves. Cover and cook until all water is dry.Serve with Till(Sesame) Mint Chutney and Onion Omelet

Health nut Substitute
Using Green Whole Moong adds fiber for your recipe

Till Mint Chutney

Sesame seeds are full of nutrients . It has good source of manganese copper, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B1, zinc and dietary fiber. Sesame Seeds have a cholesterol-lowering effect and prevents high blood pressure . It also has been found to protect the liver from oxidative damage.

Ingredients you'll need are

1/2 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup Mint leaves
1 teaspoon tamarind soaked in water
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 or more green chillies
1 table spoon EVOO

To make the chutney:
Roast the sesame seeds until lightly brown.
Blend all the ingredients together with roasted sesame seeds . Add 1/4 cup of water to make a smooth chutney.

Onion Omelet

What you'll need is
1 medium Onion finely chopped 2
large Organic Eggs
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 teaspoon chilly powder
1 green chilly chopped
1 tablespoon Mint or Cilantro chopped
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil(EVOO)

To make Onion omelet:
Heat a non-stick pan on medium flame.Meanwhile mix all the spices with chopped Onions in medium bowl. Break eggs in to onion mixture and whisk for few seconds until you see tiny bubbles. Drizzle EVOO around the heated pan. Pour in the egg mixture. Let the eggs set before flipping that takes about 2 minutes. Flip and let cook for another minute before serving.

Serve the Chutney and Omelet with Khichdi

Yummy Food: Joy From Fasting To Feasting !!!

Ok I'm joining the celebrations........sisters Lubna & Yasmeen have a great idea " Yummy Food: Joy From Fasting To Feasting !!! "
I've posted details below...& will be writing more posts on Ramadan menues & cooking ...in sha Allah



AsSalaam Alaykum,

With Ramadan soon approaching. Lubna of http://kitchenflavours.blogspot.com/ and Yasmeen http://yasmeen-healthnut.blogspot.com/ have come up with this idea of celebrating Ramadan online.


Unlike any other event its going to be completely about sharing our recipes and thoughts about Ramadan. The main intention is to share our family recipes we usually cook in the month of Ramadan and also to share our experiences about this sacred month of Ramadan.


To participate in this Ramadan Celebration post any recipes you commonly make during Iftar or Sehr and post them in your blog for the entire month of Ramadan.


Use the Logo attached in support of the celebration. Its recommended you to write about how you celebrate this gifted month with your family or any memories of your childhood related to Ramadan.
Also link the other sister's blogs who are participating in this celebration. So that we are all connected in this celebration.For any questions or suggestions please write to me as early as possible.
Hope you all will join us in this celebration of the Holiest Month ! Logo for the event as an follows.
Feel free to use this logo for the recipe your are cooking specially for Ramadan.
If you are a non-muslim and non-blogger and have to write any thing on Ramadan or wanna share any recipe or just remember your muslim friends or know how people around you celebrate Ramadan, feel free to write down in your blog and link back the page to this blog.
Inshallah we are going to have an Yummy Ramadan this year.

Allahafiz,Lubna Karim and Yasmeen.





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Monday, August 18, 2008

Diet for a New America part 7

Diet for a New America part 5

Diet for a New America part 6

Diet for a New America part 4

Diet for a New America part 3

Diet For a New America Part 1

Diet For a New America Part 2

Macrobiotics....


Sobhan Allah yesterday I was browsing through one of my favourite sites


"بيت الشفاء"


& I found a broadcast by Mariam Nour, I consider Mariam one of the most influential women I have ever heard.masha Allah she has guts & she has passion for what she does.


It was a TV interview with "Orbit" on this show


She mentioned John Robbins "A Diet for A New America" & alhamdu Lelah I found the whole video on You tube.


The videos are very iformative & got me thinking about my own diet & of course my family's diet as well.Frankly speaking I've been doing a very lousy job.


I'll be posting the videos here ....& hopefully I'll start building a new menue for my family based around grains & veggies.


In sha Allah....