Pineapple Capsicum Salad

Pineapple Capsicum Salad is an excellent side dish to accompany our biryani! It seems here everyone started loving this sweet, sour and less spicy salad, I see they prepare it often. I can't leave without mentioning the chef, happened to meet her once when she came to help us. She is working hard to raise her children and to look after her sick husband. Today one of her daughters is getting married and still they are waiting for help from kind hearts.. May Almighty bless her and family, please include them in your prayers..



Ingredients,
pineapple chopped 1 cup
capsicum 1/2
lemon juice or vinegar 1 tsp or as desired
pepper powder 1/2 tsp
salt



How to prepare,
Chop pineapple into thin slices.
Chop capsicum into small pieces.
Mix all the ingredients together.
Serve with biriyani!

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Sauteed Broccoli

Though my small village has been developed a little, we have to depend the faraway shops even to get some coriander leaves! So I see broccoli only when we visit Dubai. This time I tried to make some simple dishes with broccoli. Normally I simply steam it, put some pepper and salt and have! I just checked the price and found it is approximately same as of 1 kg of Indian mutton! So there is no chance for it to reach our nearby market in Kerala,if it happens, people will prefer buying mutton..

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Chickpeas Salad / Chana Chaat

Blogging has given much pleasure, especially if I see my family enjoying the dishes I prepared.. My Guru cook, mom has been a great fan of this chaat, I prepared without a chaat masala. She stopped making curries for chappathi and says this is enough! :) She loved chutney sandwich and fish molee too from my blog,thats enough for encouraging me..Chana chaat was an usual iftar snack we used to buy from Dubai restaurants, which I don't know the exact recipe, but I tried to please my self once, when I craved for some spicy pungent taste..! For my surprise, everyone loved it and it has been a common dish served with chapathi.



Ingredients
chana/chickpeas/ garbanzo 2 cups
onion 2
tomato 1 big
green chillies 4
coriander leaves chopped 1/2 cup
pepper powder 2 tsp
turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
chilly powder 2 tsp
coriander powder 1 Tbsp
lemon juice 1 lemon or as per taste
cumin seeds 1/4 tsp
mustard seeds 1 tsp
oil



How I prepared
Soak chickpeas in water for whole night.
Wash well and mix with salt,coriander powder,chilly powder and turmeric powder.
Cook it in enough water.
Don't add too much water for cooking.
When the chickpeas are done, open the lid and reduce the excess water by cooking for a while.
Chop onion, tomato and green chillies.
Heat oil, allow mustard seeds and cumin seeds to splutter.
Put half of the chopped onion and tomatoes in this.
Saute for a while, then add the cooked chickpeas into this.
Add pepper powder, lemon juice, the remaining half of chopped onion and tomatoes.
Add chopped green chillies and coriander leaves and mix well.
Switch of the stove.
If needed, add little salt.
Serve hot...

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Simple Cabbage Salad

You may think whats special in this "recipe"? For me and my family this is very important. My little veggie haters LOVE this one! During school and college days, this was the one saved me from taking the curries which I don't like.Still I crave for it some days! For those who love spicy and sour food,with or without cabbage, this is a good option for you to take with rice.. This salad is also a good accompaniment with chapati and chicken fry!



Cabbage Salad Ingredients
cabbage chopped 1 cup
onion 1
tomato 1
pepper powder 1/2 tsp
lemon juice 1/2 lemon
green chilly 1
salt



How I mix it
Chop cabbage finely. Chop onion and tomato too. Very thin slices are good.
Mix all with chopped green chilly, salt, lemon juice and pepper powder.
Mix well with hand.
Serve with chapathi or rice.

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Tabbouleh / Middle Eastern Salad

Ingredients and Method
Parsley chopped 1 cup
bulgur wheat / cracked wheat 1 cup
mint leaves / pudinayila 1/2 cup
tomato 2
onion 1
capsicum 1
cucumber 1
garlic powder 1 tsp
pepper powder 1 tsp
lemon 1
salt

Wash and soak wheat in water for 1/2 hour. Drain and squeeze out the water. Chop all the ingredients finely. Mix all the ingredients with salt and lime juice. Serve with kubz / Arab roti and hummus.

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