Thursday, February 11, 2010

Recipe-Instant Dhokla

Hello Everyone,

In this post i m writing about a nice recipe which i tried few days before. i was actually thinking to try something which can be cooked fast and can satisfy the hunger. suddenly i thought about nice dish called DHOKLA.

How did i prepare..

Ingredients:

1 Cup of Gram Flour(besan), 1 cup of water, 1 tsp of sugar, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1/2 tsp of eno, 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp mustered seeds, 2 tsp lemon juice,backing soda, curry leaves, coriander leaves.

Method:

Take a microwave safe plastic dish and Greece it with oil, keep it aside.
now take a big bowl and put gram flour, sugar, salt, turmeric powder and eno. now take two tsp of water out of 1 cup of water and mix soda in it. now add remaining water in the mixture, whisk it properly and make a thick batter.

pour this mixture into microwave dish, set the temp. of high and cook it for about 3 to 4 min. take the dish out and cut the dhoklas into small square shape pieces.

Garnishing:

Take a small pan put 2 tsp oil and put mustered seeds, red chili, and curry leaves. add this in dhokla pieces.

Now take 2 tsp of lemon juice add 1/2 tsp of sugar mix it well and spread it on dhoklas and toss it.

enjoy fresh and quick dhoklas with green chutni or tamarind chutni.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

SRK HAS A GASTRIC PROBLEM !

Money doesn't buy happiness neither the health. 

2005 - Me sitting on sofa, watching tv or Should i say playing stunts on the remote with my fingers,because all of sudden Indian television was flooded with private channels with amazing variety.
 As result of this abuse, we now had plastic socks cover rapped up on it, and a rubber band which holds this sock cover diligently. Sometimes this rubber band used to act like a musical instrument's cord as well.
Anyways, while I was enjoying my tv, where SRK's song was playing,with all this setup, Grandpa entered the living room and sat right next to me. Unlike all other Gradpa he never used to object on what are you watching and why,where are you going, what are you wearing etc..
(Well, my Grandma had self appointed herself for this duty...) So he looked at SRK's song for a minute or so and asked "why does he opened his legs like scissors and hands like falcon every time.? What does he try to do?"( I knew this terrible question will be coming from grand parents one day on his signature pose).

I preferred to mute myself for sometime, thinking he is just passing a comment as usually elders of his age do that all the time! But he dint stop there and repeated his question again! "why" and this time turning his face towards me. This is somewhat a typical situation created by grand parents, in Indian families, all the time, where they ask you a weird question and expect you to give a meaningful answer.
So I said, this is SRK's signature pose, and dance move which he discovered and does it every time as his fans like it.

The same time while I was giving this answer I could sense a disagreement on his face, which he confirmed right after by nodding his head, and said " I dont think its that, it's something else." I wonder what's going to come next! He continued "By this age ( around 40s) majority of people develop "gastric" problem" and he being a famous star, surrounded by people all the time, how could he even pass it ." So maybe he develop this style.

I gave a sigh look and convinced myself As He could  be right, as he has seen more life than me and might have experienced more G** than me and thought:

BABUJI NE KAHA GHAR CHOD DO
MA NE KAHA PARO KO CHOD DO
PARO NE KAHA PIÑA CHOD DO......BUT NO ONE EVER SAID JAB GAS HO TOH......!!!