BARLEY SOUP

Barley soup is made with barley, moong dal or oats and some vegetables.  It is quite healthy as well as having medicinal values.

Barely has medicinal value. Barley is used for lowering blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol, and for promoting  weight loss. It is also used for digestive complaints including diarrhea, stomach pain, and inflammatory bowel conditions.

Some people use barley for increasing strength and endurance. Other uses include cancer prevention and treatment of a lung problem called bronchitis.

Barley is applied to the skin for treating boils.

In foods, barley is used as a source of vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, and fatty oils.

 If we are having fever and have problem in passing urine, my mother always used to give us barely water to drink.  Recently when I was making barley water, my husband came and told me to make some soups for him. A healthy soup is prepared for him which i am sharing with you all.

CHINESE SOUP

My son was down with fever and cold.  He wanted to have some soups.  I had the ready made soup packets at home but he did not want that.  He told me to make some clear Chinese soup.  Luckily, there was some brocoli, cabbage, carrots and beans in the fridge.  He really enjoyed the hot soup which was served to him.

KARAMANI SUNDAL, RED CHOWLI SUNDA, COWPEA SUNDAL, BLACK EYED PEA SUNDAL. (sweet)

 Sundal varieites are made during the time of Navrathri specially.  Each day one variety of sundal is made for neivedyam (prasad) and then distributed to all the people who are visiting the Golu.  It can be made savoury as well as sweet.  The sweet version is given below.  Today being Teacher's day and co -incidentally, my birthday too. thought of posting this sweet recipe.

GREEN PEAS SUNDAL

 Sundal is  a simple South Indian salad made with different legumes like White chickpeas, black chickpeas, white watana, green watan, green gram etc.  It  is a dry subzi made especially for Nav Rathri and given to the ladies and children who visit the Golu.

The dried grams are  soaked in water for around 6-8 hours and pressure cooked and tempered with mustard seeds, urid dal, curry leaves and garnished with grated coconut and green chilli mix. This can be served as a side dish or can be had as a snack item with chopped onions, tomatoes on top of it.

CUCUMBER DOSA

I have already posted the water melon dosa.  The Cucumber dosa  also has the similarity of watermelon dosa.   water-melon-dosa-tarboosini-dosa-dosa.html 

 During the rainy season, we get the long green cucumbers.  The inside portion is divided into three parts which can be seen from the picture posted below.  It is a nice, healthy breakfast if served with spicy chutney along with it.

CHINESE IDLI

Chinese items are favourite of all children including adults.  Somehow, I never tasted  the noodles and the Chinese items it till such time my daughter forced me to eat this in a party.  There were Chinese noodles, fried rice and Manchurian.  Since she was forcing me to eat, I happened to taste the noodles.  I always prefer to eat the food hot hot so I liked it.  Then she was forcing me to eat the fried rice and the Manchurian.  On her insistence, I tasted that too on that day and that was the beginning of making fried rice, Manchurian and hakka noodles at home by me.

JUNGLEE SANDWICH

Junglee sandwich is  one of my favorite dish  for breakfast or as evening snacks.  It is very easy to make if you have some vegetables and curd at home with bread.  It is a healthy snacks, quite filling and will be liked by the children as well as adults.  Once you eat this, then  it  is DIL MAANGE MORE.

PAV BHAJI

Pav Bhaji, a mixture of almost all the vegetables, a popular street food in Mumbai  is a special  dish, enjoyed by everyone.  When you pass through the stall, you will never step forward without eating this dish as it is quite tempting.  The hot bhaji with buttered pav is sufficient enough to fill your stomach either for breakfast, lunch, evening or at dinner time.  We all love this specially my children.

Pav Bhaji is a Mumbai Street food relished  by small children to old people. 

Yesterday my maid did not turn up for making chapati as she was unwell.  As soon as I came from office, my son was telling me "I feel like eating Pav bhaji".  I also happily agreed to make this as this is the only way to make him eat all the vegetables.

While making bhaji, i ensure that almost all the vegetables are given an entry into this dish

GREEN CHUTNEY, CORIANDER CHUTNEY

GREEN CHUTNEY, CORIANDER CHUTNEY is made with coriander leaves and pudina leaves (mint leaves).  It is a used  for chaat items as well as can be served with any savory snacks.  Let us look at the recipe now.

green chutney

KOTHIMBIR WADI, CILANTRO WADI (CAKE)

Kothimbir wadi is  a salty cake preparation with gram flour and kothimbir.  A Maharashtrian delicacy served as a snacks any time.    It is a very good snacks and  I love this with a cup of tea or coffee.    But normally I have seen it in parties or weddings etc.  It can be steamed, tempered with mustard seeds and black seasame seeds garnished with grated coconut or you can deep fry them too.  I love the deep fried version.

Kothimbir Wadi deep fried.