Green Chatney

Ingredients:
5-long green chillies,
2-cup coriander leaves,
1-cup roasted peanuts,
4-tbsp lemon juice,
2-tbsp sugar (optional),
Salt to taste.

Method:
Step 1: Grind all ingredients in to mixer until it is smooth.
Step 2: Place the green chutney in the bowl.

Note:
· Coriander leaves has been used as a digestive tonic.
· The freshly chopped greens in large amounts are a good source of vitamin C.
· Coriander seed is thought to be helpful in relieving stomach cramps and may have the ability to kill bacteria and fungus.
· It contains limonene, which is a flavonoid thought to help fight cancer.
Peanuts Benefits:
· A good source of monounsaturated fats.
· Contain potassium, thiamine, niacin, vitamin E, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, selenium, and zinc.

Peanuts Benefits:
· A good source of monounsaturated fats.
· Contain potassium, thiamine, niacin, vitamin E, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, selenium, and zinc.

Peanuts Drawbacks:
· Refrigerate or freeze shelled nuts: their oil quickly turns rancid. Never use peanuts that are moldy or have an “off” taste; molds that grow on peanuts create aflatoxins, substance that cause liver cancer.

Adadiya

Ingredients for preparing flour:
500gm black gram flour,
11\2-cup milk,
50gm ghee.

Method to prepare flour:
Step 1: Mix 100gm ghee and milk in black gram flour and keep aside for two hours.
Step 2: After two hours, sieve this flour, which turns like Rava. Method to Prepare Edible gum.

1-cup edible gum (Gaund)

Step 1: Heat 100gm ghee in pan and fry edible gum on high flame.

Step 2: Finely chopped edible gum and keep aside

Ingredient for making adadiya:
400gm sugar powder,
350gm ghee,
10 pieces of cashew nut,
1\2-cup kismis,
1\2-cup chopped almonds,
Prepar flour of black gram and chopped edible gum (Gaund).

Method:
Step 1: Then add remaining ghee in pan and add sieved black gram flour in low flame.
Step 2: On medium flame continuously stir well.
Step 3: When black gram flour turns into golden color turn off the flame.
Step 4: Then add finely chopped edible gum.
Step 5: Let it be cool for some time (15-20 minutes) and add kismis in it.
Step 6: After cooling material add sugar powder.
Step 7: After it is well mix, spread it on a big plate.
Step 8: Let it is cool some time and decorated with chopped almonds.
Step 9: Cut into in square shape and put one chahewnut over one piece.
Step 10: Keep in a container.
Submitting to Trupti event-"Spring Fling 2007-with Family and Friends in the Kitchen" My mom beautiful hand always help me in every way of my life. My mom is add her own sweet nest by heart to making any dish so we all like every dish made my mom. Thank you mummy.

Green Chilli Pickle

Ingredients:
250gm green chillies,
4-5 tbsp mustard seed powder,
5-tbsp lemon juice,
2-tbsp haldi powder,
2-tbsp oil,
Salt to taste. Method:
Step 1: Wash the green chillies and cut off the tops.
Step 1: Remove the stalks of the green chillies and cut in to long thin pieces.
Step 2: Heat the oil till smoking; add the mustard seed powder and haldi powder in it.
Step 3: Cool to room temperature and add lemon juice.
Step 4: Then add chopped green chillies and salt.
Step 6: Mix well so that the chillies get coated with the masalas.Step 7: Clean glass jars and place the green chillies in the jar.

Benefits:
· An excellent source of beta-carotene and vitamin C.
· May help relieve nasal congestion.
· May help prevent blood clots that can lead to a heart attack or stroke.

Drawbacks:
· Require careful handling during preparation to prevent irritation of the skin and eyes.
· May irritate hemorrhoids in susceptible people.

The following is a description of a selection of popular peppers from the mildest to the hottest from book of Reader’s Digest.

MILD TO MODERATELY HOT:
· Anaheim: These long, slender red or green chillies are among the most popular in North America.
· Ancho: These dark red, heart-shaped peppers are usually dried.
· Cherry: These small, round red chillies are often pickled.
· Poblano: Green chillies with a small, tapered shape; they are usually roasted, and may be stuffed or added to a variety of dishes.
HOT:
· Cascabel: These round red or green chillies are usually dried.
VERY HOT:
· Cayenne: These long red chillies are dried and often ground into a hot pepper spices.
· Habanero or Scotch Bonnet: Shaped like red, yellow, or orange lanterns, these are considered the hottest of cultivated chilles.
· Jalapeno: These tapered green or red chillies are sold fresh, canned, or pickled.
· Serrano: These small, bullet-shaped green or red chillies are often used in hot salsas.

Gluten-Free Smackdown

Our very own gluten-free blogger Jennifer (of Jennifer Ate) has written a mouthwatering wrap-up and review of the very first Gluten-Free Cooking Spree over at Epicurious.

The New York event was the first of several Iron Chef-style cook-off fundraising events planned and sponsored by the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. Hustle on over to the NFCA website to find out when and where the next fun and fabulous Cooking Spree will take place. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to snag a ticket (the New York event sold out!).

PS: And if you go, you just might win an original gluten-free apron designed and donated by yours truly. I'm donating two gluten-free themed aprons to each event.

Roasted Vegetables on Broiled Polenta

Roasted veggies on broiled polenta. Yep. Gluten-free delish.

I'm still shaking off the February blahs, so bear with me, intrepid g-free campers. Please accept this super easy recipe as a tiny gift. Make this celiac-friendly dish on a busy weeknight when you're cranky and tired or feeling lazy or simply and utterly couldn't be bothered to crack open a cookbook (never mind, actually shop for groceries) because all you really want to do is kick off your Rocket Dogs and sink down into your favorite viewing chair with a bowl of salted popcorn and a glass of Irish whiskey to watch A Scanner Darkly again- this time with the filmmakers commentary (not to mention the intuitive insight of Keanu and Jonathan Lethem). Dude. What more could a geek girl like me ask for?

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Dhokadi with festival of Holi

Holi Festival:
Friends, can you imagine a life without colors?

We celebrate Holi, just one day but colors remain in our life throught, and when it comes to children oh………..red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, pink and lots of other…………. Friends, the spring is in full swing and the festival of color is just around the corner. Holi, the word, signifies the act of burning.
The story goes like this that a few thousand years ago, there lived a demon king in India named Hiranyakashyap. The king had a son named Prahlad who was an ardent devotee of lord Vishnu.Father, Hiranyakashyap opposed his devotion to lord Vishnu. The father ultimately planned to kill his son. In this venture, he asked his sister Holika for help. She had a boon of immunity from fire, so the king planned that she shall sit on a pyre with Prahlad on her lap, hoping he would be burnt to ashes. But Prahlad’s prayer helped him in the fire and Holika burnt in the flames of fire. It is believed that the burning bonfire takes away all our evils.

Lord Krishna’s holi with colors is very well known. In ancient time people used traditional colors from the flower of ‘Palaash’. It is also known as the purest fire colored flower.

Drop this flower in water than water becomes great orange color. This is pure natural color and we play holi with this water. This color is good for skin.

Across the world whenever Indians or people of Indian origin celebrate Holi with great enthusiasm, the major intention of such festival is to bring people together and generate a feeling of brotherhood and harmony.Are you ready to play holi with this water..........

Dhokadi Recipe

Ingredients for Dhokadi:
1-cup buttermilk,
3- green chillies,
7-8 garlic pieces,
2-cup gram flour,
2-tbsp oil,
Salt to taste. Method to prepare the dhokadi:
Step 1: Make a paste of green chillies and garlic.

Step 2: Heat oil in pan and add paste into.
Step 3: Then add buttermilk in it. Heat it for 2-3 minutes.
Step 4: Then spread gram flour over the buttermilk on law hit of flame.
Step 5: Do not mix it but take some time as it is.
Step 6: When buttermilk is slightly thick and flour is cover with it then mix it and turn off the flame.
Step 7: Spread it in flat dish immediately.
Step 8: Then cut into small pieces with knife. Ingredient for curry:
1-cup buttermilk,
1-chopped onion,
2-green chillies,
5-6 garlic pieces,
1-tbsp chilli powder,
1-tbsp cumin seeds,
1-tbsp haldi powder,
2-tbsp oil,
Salt to taste.

Method to prepare the curry:
Step 1: Heat oil in pan and add cumin seeds, onion and garlic-green chilli paste.
Step 2: Then add buttermilk in low flame of heat. Heat it for 5-minutes.
Step 3: Then add salt, chilli powder and haldi powder and dhokadi in it. Heat for 5-minutes.
Step 4: Serve hot with partha or roti. This is very special village curry in Gujarat.

Gluten-Free Beer (and a pizza crust recipe)

After five years of living strictly gluten-free, I can honestly tell you, Dear Reader, there are very few things I still miss from my pre-celiac diagnosis. From melty chocolate brownies to delicious gluten-free bread, I've managed to recreate and reinvent many old favorites.

But there is an archetypal pairing I do, indeed, miss. It's a simple want. Nothing fancy. And it's not some precious, tiny cuisine perched on a plate with a few stingy drips of - insert latest food infusion fad - trying to pass as art. Nope.

It's pizza and beer. A slice with a cold one. That's what I want. That's what I miss.

Well, guess what? One half of my burning desire has been quenched and this humble gluten-free goddess couldn't be happier. I am pleased as proverbial punch to report on the new sorghum lager now available from Anheuser-Busch, called Redbridge - Babycakes, it is beer-tastic! I had my doubts, I'll admit (being part Irish, who can blame me?), but when I read about Redbridge beer over at the NFCA website, the photograph alone made my mouth water. Come to Mama! I had to find some. I looked everywhere, but no store in Santa Fe carried it. Bummer.

Imagine my delight - when visiting our son, Colin, in Los Angeles - I stumbled upon a six pack of Redbridge happily chilling away amongst dozens of off-limits brewskys in an LA Whole Foods. Dude. I was stoked.

Later that very night I rustled up some easy - but tasty! - nachos and cracked open my first beer in five years. It did not disappoint. It did not taste “gluten-free”. In fact, when Colin - who is not celiac, or gluten-free - knocked back his first sip, he declared, “This tastes just like beer. Just like the real thing.” And I, ever the U2 fan that I am in my part-Irish bones, answered, “Even better than the real thing”.

Over at my cool and chic gluten-free home girls' blog aka The Celiac Chicks, I learned the proper way to pour a Redbridge. Pour the beer into a glass so that it smacks the bottom of the glass. This releases carbonation and produces a perfect foamy head. I did this last night, and, indeed, it does! (Thanks, Kelly!)

Next? Now that the Santa Fe Whole Foods is finally carrying Redbridge in their beer section, I gotta create that perfect gluten-free pizza crust recipe to go with it. And now that I have the beer, Dear Reader, it’s cake.

Here is the recipe I'm going to try - sent in by Lydia. The good news is - it is egg and dairy free.

Lydia's Gluten-Free Pizza Dough

Karina, here is my recipe for GF pizza crust. If you're not crazy about xanthan gum, perhaps you could use guar gum, or one egg white instead. I think it tastes like the crusts of old I used to eat, and I've only had compliments from gluten-eaters.

In a measuring cup, proof:

1 cup warm water (following temp. directions on your yeast package)
1 package dry, active yeast
1 tablespoon sugar

Whisk together in a bowl and let it sit for 5-10 minutes as the yeast proofs and begins to foam.

In mixing bowl, combine:

2-3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon each: dried basil, oregano, rosemary, and crushed red pepper (optional)
1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1-2 teaspoon salt
1 scant teaspoon xanthan gum

Add the proofed yeast mixture. Stir to combine.

Add:

2 1/2 cups gluten-free flour*

Mix the dough by hand for 2-3 minutes. Let it rest as you oil a pan and sprinkle cornmeal on top of the pan (to prevent dough from sticking).

Drop the dough onto the pan and using wet or oiled hands, flatten and spread the dough evenly to the thickness you prefer. (This usually covers a 10x13-inch baking pan.)

Allow the dough to rest while you pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees F.

Pre-bake the pizza crust for 10 minutes.

Add sauce and toppings. Bake for an additional 10 minutes or so, until the crust is done and the toppings are heated through and bubbling.

*Lydia's Gluten-Free Flour Mix is:

3 parts white rice flour
3 parts brown rice flour
2 parts potato starch
1 part tapioca flour

She notes: If you use a pre-made gluten-free mix, I would recommend not using one with leavening (baking soda, baking powder).

Thank you, Lydia! This recipe will be (mucho) appreciated by our readers.