Soya beans Salad

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Soya beans!!! Healthiest beans for every one. Many people do not like to have it in beans form But there are many ways to get it into your stomach. You can make it flour and add it into wheat flour. You can have soya chunks or soya granules.

Soybeans belong to the legume family and are native to East Asia. Whole soybeans are an excellent source of protein and dietary fibre. Soy protein is the only vegetable with a complete protein... Read more 

I love it (Again me!!!!   ) in any form, as usual. But, this salad is really quick and healthy and tasty!!! My sister in law (Kavita) who stays in Sharjah, loves this salad from me!! When ever I ask her what she wants me to make for her, her first choice is always this salad. So this is for her!!

Soya beans - 1 cup, soaked for 8 hours and boiled till soft

Carrot - 1 big, cleaned and chopped into fine cubes

Capsicum - 1 medium, cleaned and cubed

Onion - 1 medium, cleaned and cubed

Mayonnaise - 2 to 3 tbsp(if you do not like Mayonnaise, add hung curd! it taste great!)

Pepper powder - 1 tsp (avoid this, if you are giving it to kids)

Salt to taste. 

Fresh coriander - 1 tbsp chopped (or even Parsley will taste good, if you like the flavor)

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Add 1 tbsp of chopped green chilly for spicy taste.

Put  everything in a big bowl and mix it properly. Keep it in a fridge for some time before you serve. 

Munch it in the morning, or in the after noon or in the evening. Or have a bowl of this salad as a dinner!!! 

It gives justice to any time!!!

Sending this to two events,

Divya at  Dil Se..'s  Show me Your Wholegrains! event :

and

Madhuri's   Serve me Some... > Serve me Some…Salads event

Hope all of you will enjoy this healthy salad,

Keep Smiling,

Girmitt (Puffed rice with onion masala)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

One of regular food in North Karnataka. It is a street food available at any time in small tea stalls. (another taste of Girmitt.)

Easy to make and it does not need any cooking. Great filler if you are very hungry and no patience to cook. Only to take care is do not drink water immediately after you eat it.(thats what our granny's tell, do not know the proper reason!! but they say if you drink water you will have upset stomach. 

I have posted the recipe with cooking in my previous entries. Lets try this one without cooking.

All you need is,

Puffed rice - 1big bowl 

for masala 

Onion - 1 big,  chopped into small cubes

Red Chilly powder - 1 tbsp

Fresh coriander - handful, cleaned and chopped

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Curry leaves - 6 to 8, cleaned and chopped

Salt to taste

Oil - 1 tsp 

Dalia powder - 1 tbsp(optional)

Sugar - 1 tsp

Mix all the ingredients in a big bowl. Then add the puffed rice and mix well just before you eat otherwise it will become soft and you will not enjoy the taste. 

                  Sending this to PJ's 

The 'no cook' event

Keep Smiling,

Moong Salad (Reposted)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi all,

Here is my favorite food. I am ready to eat this any time, any day! I can stay with this for more than week, just changing few ingredients and small portion of chapati. 

The grains used here can be either partially cooked or even raw. Raw will taste better. But if you are not used to raw food, it is good to cook it in a microwave for one minute and use it.

  

The recipe is here,

Green moong -1 cup 

Yellow moong(Whole moth bean, madaki kalu in Kannada) - 1 cup

Fenugreek seeds(Methi seeds) - 2 tbsp

Cucumber - 1 small (chopped into very small pieces)

Carrot - 1 small (grated)

Fresh coconut(grated) - 1/4 cup or less

Salt to taste

Green chilly - 1 chopped(skip this if you are giving it to kids)

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Soak both the moong and fenugreek seeds  in water overnight. Remove the water. Keep them tied in the muslin cloth for a day to sprout the moongs(or if you know any other way to sprout it , follow it!)

Wash the beans(moong) with fresh water.

Keep it in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes or till the beans are 3/4th cooked. (Skip this step if you want to have it raw!!)

Take it out in a bowl. Add all other ingredients. Mix it properly. Adjust the seasoning.

Salad is ready to serve.

Click Moong Salad for my older post.

Sending this to Divya's  Show Me Your Salad! event!

(What a lovely logo for the event! Thanks Divya)

Keep smiling,

Salad parade!!!

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Salads!!! I love the colors of salad! I feel salad is like India!!! Many raw vegetables mixed in a bowl still brings the best taste, Unity in diversity!!! same like many states, cultures, languages and people make turn India in to a great place to live in!!(forget about dirty politics and few bad things!, They are just like bitter cucumber or spoiled green leaf in a salad!!) Am I writing something wrong!! 

I have already posted these salads before also (Click here for the older post). But the introduction for that was different and it was for another event. And I have added one more salad to this parade.

Hope you all will enjoy the beautiful salad parade.

(The best recipes for raw food diet!)

Simple Raw Vegetable Salad :

Take vegetables of your choice(which you can eat raw)

Cucumber, Carrot, Onion, Tomato, Onion, Chilli, Ginger, Lettuce leaves. Cut in to desired size and shapes. We love to cut in to long peices as it is easy for my kids to hold in the hand.

Salt to taste

Lime Juice as per taste

Vinegar - 1/2 tsp
Green and black olives - 1/2 cup
(Not in this photo)
Olive Oil - 1 tsp
Oregano or mixed herb - 1 tbsp crushed

Mix all in a Salad bowl and enjoy the crispy taste.

Tomato and Onion Salad,

Tomato - 2 big Chopped 

Onion - 1 Medium chopped lengthwise

Fresh Coconut - 4 to 6 tbsp

Dalia powder(dry chana or puthani) - 1 tbsp Crushed

Salt to taste

Fresh Coriander - little

Mix all in a bowl and eat it with crispy Papad.

Veg and Curds Salad

Cucumber - 1 big chopped

Tomato - 1 big chopped

Curds(Fresh) - 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Green Chilly - 1 small chopped(optional)

Fresh Coriander - little

Mix all in a bowl and eat chilled.

Beat and bean salad

Sprouted moong - 1 cup, wash two times to remove the smell

(Green moong, moth, chana, which ever you like to eat raw and sprouted)

Beet root - 1 medium, washed, peeled and grated

Cucumber - 1 big, washed and cut into very small, thin and long pieces.

Salt to taste

Fresh coriander - handful

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and serve.

Radish Salad

This is a very common salad in my house, as my mom loves  to it with jowar rotti. 

Radish - 1 big, washed and cut into small cubes

Radish leaves(fresh) - 1 bowl, washed and chopped finely

Onion - 1 medium, washed, peeled and cut into cubes

Oil - 1 tbsp

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Niger seeds powder - 2 tsp(Click here for the recipe), (Optional, but gives an unique taste to the salad)

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and serve. Goes well with Jowar rotti.

These all salads are marching into Sudeshna's 

• Carnival of Salads

                                       

AND 

PJ's The 'no cook' event!

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Simply Salads

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

I love to eat raw food, in fact, my husband, my both daughters love raw food especially the salad!! We are like cows or sheep when it comes to eat raw food or salad . The salad is the must for every dinner in our house.

And most of the times, when we are not more hungry, we love to eat only Salad.

When we were in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, most of the times, we used to eat Falafel Sandwich or Showrma sandwich 
with lot of green leaf(In the middle of the restaurant, they keep big bowls of salted carrot, cucumber and radish pickles with different types of leafy vegetables on a table) 

When I read about EC's event,  thought many days about light meals, then decided to send my favorite food to her event. 

Simple veg.salad

To make Simple veg. Salad,

Take vegetables of your choice(which you can eat raw)

Cucumber, Carrot, Onion, Tomato, Onion, Chilli, Ginger, Lettuce leaves. Cut in to desired size and shapes. We love to cut in to long peices as it is easy for my kids to hold in the hand.

Salt to taste

Lime Juice as per taste

Vinegar - 1/2 tsp
Green and black olives - 1/2 cup
(Not in this photo)
Olive Oil - 1 tsp
Oregano or mixed herb - 1 tbsp crushed

Mix all in a Salad bowl and enjoy the crispy taste.

Tomato and Onion Salad

For Tomato and Onion Salad,

Tomato - 2 big Chopped 

Onion - 1 Medium chopped lenthwise

Fresh Coconut - 4 to 6 tbsp

Salt to taste

Fresh Coriander - little

Mix all in a bowl and eat it with crispy Papad.

Veg and Curds Salad

For Veg and Curds Salad,

Cucumber - 1 big chopped

Tomato - 1 big chopped

Curds(Fresh) - 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Fresh Coriander - little

Mix all in a bowl and eat chilled.

So here goes my Salad to 

EC's  WYF: Light Meal event announcement

Keep smiling,

Moong Salad

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi all,

Here is my favorite food. I am ready to eat this any time, any day! I can stay with this for more than week, just changing few ingredients and small portion of chapati. 

The grains used here can be either partially cooked or even raw. Raw will taste better. But if you are not used for raw food, it is good to cook it in a microwave for one minute and use it.

The recipe is here,

Green moong - 1 cup 

Yellow moong(Whle moth bean, madaki kalu in Kannada) - 1 cup

Fenugreek seeds(Methi seeds) - 2 tbsp

Cucumber - 1 small (chopped into very small pieces)

Carrot - 1 small (grated)

Fresh coconut(grated) - 1/4 cup or less

Salt to taste

Green chilly - 1 chopped(skip this if you are giving it to kids)

Lime juice - 1 tbsp

Soak both the moong and fenugreek seeds  in water overnight. Remove the water. Keep them tied in the muslin cloth for a day to sprout the moongs(or if you know any other way to sprout it , follow it!)

Wash the beans(moong) with fresh water.

Keep it in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes or till the beans are 3/4th cooked. (Skip this step if you want to have it raw!!)

Take it out in a bowl. Add all other ingredients. Mix it properly. Adjust the seasoning.

Salad is ready to serve.

I am sending this salad to Naked Grains Recipe Challenge — Try your hand at a grain salad

Keep smiling,

Sweet Tomato

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi all,

No cooking food and most of the kids will love it. My granny used to give us as starter. But you should have large grain sugar, what we get in India,then it tastes better and crunchy.
Tomato – 1 or 2, big
Sugar – to sprinkle
Cut Tomato in to thin circles.
Arrange on the plate.
Just before serving, sprinkle sugar on tomato slices. It tastes better if tomatoes are kept in the fridge before adding sugar.

Sending this to 

PJ'S ONGOING EVENT

Healing Foods -Event Announcement which is started by Siri  (Healing foods)

Keep smiling,