Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Mashed Potato Sour

Mashed potatoes are prepared in variety of ways in different cuisines. In South Asian cuisine it is prepared with little more spices as compare to other cuisine, this mashed potato tastes some how spicy and sour too hence its name "Mashed Potato Sour". It is generally served with boiled rice and tradition Indian style lentils but you can also use it as stuffing in making potato bread or paratha. This recipe can be prepared in just 30-35 minutes and is enough for 4 persons serving.

Ingredients:

3 medium size potatoes (cut each into halves in length)
1/2 cup coriander leaves (finely chopped)
1/4 cup mint leaves (finely chopped)
5-6 roasted dry red chilies
1 teaspoon roasted cumin powder
2-3 tablespoon tamarind paste (or according to your taste)
Salt to taste
Mustard oil few drops

Preparation:

1. Take water in a deep sauce pan and let it boil.
2. When water starts bubbling, add potato pieces and let them boil on medium heat for 20-25 minutes. Don't boil potatoes too much otherwise they become very soft and your mashed potato would not last for long time.
3. Peel the potatoes after they become boil and mash them using fork or masher.
4. Crushed roasted dry red chilies using your hands and make them into very fine particles.
5. Now mix all the ingredients together i.e. mashed potatoes, coriander leaves, mint leaves, tamarind paste, salt,roasted cumin and crushed red chilies. When all of them mix well then make a dough of mashed potato mixture and coat with few drops of mustard oil.
6. Spicy and sour mashed potato is ready to serve with boiled rice and lentils soup at lunch. You can adjust the quantity of spices and tamarind paste according to your taste.


Friday, February 19, 2010

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Friday, February 12, 2010

The Best Spicy Mexican Food Recipes

Mexican food is not all spicy - that is a common misconception about the cuisine. There are non-spicy Mexican soup recipes, Mexican salad recipes, Mexican dip recipes and plenty more. However, Mexicans do like to use chili in their recipes and sometimes it is fun to make spicy Mexican recipes.

You can spice up pretty much any Mexican food recipe by adding some minced chili or chili powder. If you are making guacamole or salsa, you can decide how hot you want it. Guacamole is usually served alongside spicy food because it is cool, creamy and cools the mouth but fiery salsas can be really flavorful and the fieriness of the chili contrasts brilliantly with the sweet, cool tomatoes.

Authentic Mexican food recipes like Mexican stew and Mexican casserole can be made as spicy as you want. If you are feeding a family or mixed group, you might want to make your Mexican food mild and leave a bottle of hot sauce on the table. That way, people can adjust the spiciness of their own meal.

Sweet and Spicy Food

The Mexicans also love to combine sweetness with spice and snacks like caramelized jalapenos or chili flavored chocolate are not unusual in Mexico. The sweetness and spiciness complement one another in a way you would only understand if you have tried it.

You can get a similar taste if you combine sweetness and spice in a savory Mexican food recipe. Corn is sweet, as are fresh tomatoes and these are also Mexican staples. Try adding chilies to a corn or tomato based dish and you will see how the flavors go together.

Mexican Style Spicy Bean Burgers

This is a very simple recipe for Mexican bean burgers. Beans are one of the primary Mexican staples and whether you are looking for a vegetarian Mexican recipe or just something a little bit different, this healthy, wholesome, and tasty bean burger recipe is guaranteed to satisfy your hunger.

This recipe makes four to eight bean burgers, depending how big you make them. If you want to make appetizer recipes for a Superbowl party or similar event, you can make mini bean burgers or, if you want to satisfy a raging hunger, make them big and juicy and serve them with lots of toppings!

What you will need:

  • 16 oz can red kidney beans
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 carrot
  • 1/2 green bell pepper
  • 1/2 white onion
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 cup breadcrumbs
  • 1/8 cup chunky salsa
How to make them:

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Drain and rinse the kidney beans. Peel, steam and mash the carrot. Chop the onion and bell pepper. Combine everything to make balls and shape the balls into patties. Bake them for 20 minutes, and then serve on buns with salsa, lettuce, and tomato. Top each spicy bean burger with a slice of Mexican cheese if you like and serve right away.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Best Potato Salad Recipe

Some basic ingredients of potato salad

* Potatoes: Cut the potatoes into half inch potato slices before cooking them. Exhaust it and clean it in a strainer. Chop the sliced potatoes into pieces and put in to a salad basin.

* Salad dressing: The normal dressing for potato is mayonnaise. This increases the flavor of the potato We can also add some amount of other condiments to increase the flavor. Plain mustard is the most popular one to add, to increase the taste. It's preferred to go for lighter salad which can well mix with oil and vinegar dressing. Use refrigerator as a base to your dressing.

* Vegetables: The most common vegetable used in this salad is onion. Sweet onions are preferred as they are not burly as usual onion. Other vegetables used here are cucumber, tomatoes, carrots and radishes.

* Eggs and cheese: salads are sometimes called as boiled eggs. For standard sized salad of six potatoes we mix four eggs and two eggs are placed at the top of the bowl.

* Fruits: Some salads contain apple, pineapple and pear.

Waxy potatoes are best potatoes to use in salad recipe. We can also use small potatoes with red like skin. Fingerlings give colorful impression with skin like potatoes.

Even though wide variety of salads available, no salad gives taste like German salad. Most of northern and Southern Germany, Australian and southern European, countries use salads without vinegar and other oil products. Even though the base recipe remains unchanged in these regions, the number and variety of added ingredients can change significantly.

Even though salad is a commonly known dish, many people don't know that potato salad is becoming extensively accepted in the Asian community, especially in Korea. However, the Korean version of the salad is a bit different. In the Korean version, we add beef, which we normally don't perceive in a side dish, as well as cucumbers and fruits, like pears and pineapple. It is a very simple recipe that takes hardly any cooking.

To get best potato salad recipe of high quality, proper potatoes must be used. If we don't use proper potatoes the salad we prepare may produce different flavor which you may not like. Also when you are trying to cook large amount of baked potatoes, get potatoes of similar size, this ensures all slices cooked evenly.

Preparation is the important step to create the best potato salad recipe. Preparation of best salad requires best preparation techniques, good harvested potatoes and other vegetables and ingredients.

Salad is a crowd puller. By following above mentioned steps in this article, you won't make any mistakes and I think you can prepare salads of great taste. Enjoy making it!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How to Make Easy Fish Soup Recipes

Fish soup might not be the most common type of soup but it does make a warming lunch or a deliciously different dinner. When was the last time you made fish chowder or a fish soup recipe? Fish soup can be really flavorful and you can even invent your own fish soup recipes.

Aromatic herbs like dill and parsley go well with fish and you can make fish soup with all kinds of fish, such as tilapia, salmon, tuna, cod and more. Remember that fish only takes about ten minutes to cook in this way, so add the fish near the end of the cooking time, else it might become tough. As soon as the fish is opaque and flakes easily, it is done.

Famous Soup Recipes

There are lots of famous fish soup recipes, such as French bouillabaisse and Singaporean sliced fish soup. Vietnamese sour fish soup, Hungarian paprika-spiced fisherman's soup and Scottish "Cullen Skink" which is a delicious combination of potatoes, onion, cream and smoked haddock, are other examples.

Cioppino is an Italian-American fish soup made with different types of fish, as well as tomatoes, and clam chowder is also a well known dish. You can use many different types of fish and seafood to make fish soup recipes. Simply add some herbs and vegetables to water to make a broth and add some chopped fish.

How to Make Tilapia Soup

This recipe is really easy and you just need to simmer the soup ingredients and fry some bread to make homemade croutons. The soup is flavored with dill, lemon, and parsley and the flavor of the tilapia clearly shines through.

This is one of the most easy soup recipes and it makes a change from the chicken soup recipes and pumpkin soup recipes you might usually make or buy. If you see some tilapia on sale, snatch it up, because this soup is really tasty and well worth making.

What you will need:

  • 2 tilapia fillets
  • 1/2 teaspoon dill
  • 1 pint water
  • 1/2 onion, chopped
  • 1 stalk celery, chopped
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • Juice from half a lemon
  • 1/2 teaspoon parsley
  • 1 slice bread, for making croutons
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
How to make it:

Bring the water to a boil in a pot, then add the celery, carrots, and onion and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the dill, parsley, and pepper, and then let the soup boil until the carrots are soft. Add the tilapia fillets and let the soup simmer gently.

Cut the bread into cubes and fry them in the oil to make croutons. Add the lemon juice to the soup when the tilapia is opaque and white and break up the fish fillets using a spoon.

Blend the soup a little bit with a hand mixer but leave it chunky. Add some salt to taste and serve it hot, topped with the croutons.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Low Fat Turkey Burgers

Low fat turkey burgers go as well on the grill as they do fried in a skillet.

When cooking low fat turkey burgers in a skillet they can be fried in olive oil. Olive oil is a major component of the Mediterranean diet, which has been shown to have health benefits.

Best Weight Loss Plan

Some of the best weight loss plans may include ground turkey recipes.

The healthy benefits of ground turkey dishes include being a source of lean protein. Your body needs protein for many of its daily functions. Everything from muscle regeneration to being used in the vital phase II functions of the liver's detoxification process demand a steady supply of high quality protein from your diet.

Turkey also offers nutrients such as selenium and some of the B vitamins. Like the olive oil it can be cooked in, turkey should be consumed on a regular basis. However, the typical American diet does not include enough of either of these excellent foods.

You should work on changing that situation and reap the benefits these simple foods have to offer.

Well Balanced With Raw Vegetable Recipes

When low fat turkey burgers are combined with raw vegetable diet components the result is a highly nutritious meal. It is an easy meal to assure a balanced diet. These food items may also be included in weight reduction plans.

Such healthy diet plans often lead to some great weight loss success stories.

The ability to eat a healthy diet plan while enjoying comfort foods you are familiar with is an excellent idea. These are great options to make healthy kids meals and foods teens will love.

Consuming familiar yet healthy foods may be one of the best diets for overweight teens. Teens and kids can be notoriously picky eaters. A raw vegetable recipe can be served with low fat turkey burgers to satisfy the pickiest eaters you have at your table.

This meal will offer you an opportunity to serve teenagers and kids good healthy food that has a sophisticated taste to satisfy you. It is a great beginning to formulating healthy diets for overweight teens.

That's a good thing!

Try this simple low fat turkey burger recipe.

Low Fat Turkey Burger With Whole Grains

1 lb. Ground turkey burger
1 egg
1/2 cup uncooked oats
1/8 cup diced sweet onion
1/8 cup finely diced bell pepper (green, red, or both)
Sea salt and pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients together. Form into burgers and grill or fry in olive oil until the juice runs clear. These burgers can be served on a whole grain roll or on a plate without bread.

Condiments And Accoutrements Make The Burger

The recipe above is a great tasting dish. However, the fact remains that low fat turkey burgers are rather bland by themselves. It may be fairer to say they have a delicate flavor.

Regardless of how you describe it there is not much flavor from the ground turkey meat itself.

That's OK.

Fat is often the ingredient that gives various foods their flavor. By virtue of their composition low fat turkey burgers are low in fat and therefore lack in any strong flavor. Since the low fat content is one of the reasons we eat them we can't complain too much.

On the other hand, delicate flavored meat allows us to be creative with condiments and other accoutrements. The flavors of whatever you put on your burgers really stand out without interference from strongly flavored meat.

This is where you can allow your imagination to run wild!

Strong Imagination Equals Great Taste

There's a whole new world of taste sensations beyond the ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise condiments traditionally heaped upon turkey burgers.

Let's try to stimulate your creative thinking with a few suggestions for turkey burger toppings.

Have you ever considered mixing 3/4 mayonnaise, 1/4 olive oil, and horseradish to taste? This makes a wild yet tasty burger condiment. Let's explore the nutritional side to this condiment.

The olive oil reduces the amount of mayonnaise you use which is a good thing because most mayonnaise contains trans-fats. In addition to reducing your trans-fats intake, the olive oil offers many healthy benefits. It is an important component of any heart smart diet.

Some food manufacturers have mayonnaise with olive oil added. It is available in many grocery stores. This is very convenient for you so give it a try.

Two fantastic accoutrements to top your low fat turkey burgers with are low-fat cheddar cheese and jalapeno pepper slices. They go well together or separately.

Low Fat Turkey Burger Parmesan

This is a great dish. It should be considered as a staple on your family's healthy diet menu.

After cooking your turkey burger, ladle marinara sauce (sauce from a jar is fine) that has been heated in a saucepan. Sprinkle low-fat mozzarella cheese over the sauce covered turkey burger. The cheese will melt slightly from the heat rising from the marinara sauce.

You can make the burger recipe offered at the beginning of this article then top it with marinara sauce and low-fat mozzarella cheese. This will give you a tasty burger that is made that much better by the addition of the sauce and cheese. It's a divine entrée!

Try serving your low fat turkey burger Parmesan with a huge salad of leafy greens, julienne carrots, and grape tomatoes to ensure you are getting your raw food enzymes.

These natural health foods transform a simple burger into a real meal.

To add a touch of elegance serve it with crusty whole grain bread and a hearty red wine. Your guests will be very impressed.

Low fat turkey burgers are good to eat and they're a very good health food.

Serve them often.