Mix vegetables in dal

Hello everyone! My today’s recipe is inspired by Aarthi’s blogpost and I thought I would give it a try. I have made few variations from what she made.I had made this about 2months back when I saw at her blog but just kept it pending to post.

Recipe source: Aarthi ..@ Yummy Tummy

We all make  dal in different ways and at times plain dal becomes boring so lets do mummy ka magic here.

Ingredients:

1cup tur dal  , washed and soaked for  30mins

1tsp haldi (turmeric powder,

1tsp jeera (cumin seeds)

1tsp rai  (mustard seeds)

1tsp urad dal 

Pinch of hing (asaephotida)

1tsp red chilli powder

1tsp garam masala powder

1tsp coriander powder

1tsp amchur powder

Salt to taste.

Few curry leaves,

3 green chillies, cut in small pieces

2 dry red chillies  broken in pieces

1onion sliced

2cloves of garlic crushed

2tbsp oil

1 cup of mix vegetables of your choice.

Here I have used tomatoes, carrots, brinjal, okra, gwar, yam (sooran) and cauliflower cut and mix them all  in one cup.

Method:

In pressure cooker boil  dal in usual way. In a pan put oil, sauté onions, then put jeera, rai and green chillies, stir them and then add  urad dal, curry leaves, dry red chillies,garlic and hing. Stir for a min then add all the vegetables. Stir and and put some water so they cook nicely.

Add salt and all spices and keep it aside after they have been cooked. Take dal out of  pressure cooker and mash it a bit. Add water and add salt and turmeric powder. Be careful with salt here as we had added it in the vegetables.  Mix the cooked vegetables in dal and stir it. Let it come to one or two boils.

Voila your dal with vegetables is ready.

Serve it hot and garnish with coriander leaves and a dash of butter. You can leave out butter but I just simple love the look of butter on top.

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Pros and cons of social networking sites...

Just the other day I was surfing the net and was thinking how much the importance of social networking has increased. That made me wonder there is always plus and minus points of things and I set down to write.

Online social networking is big part of world wide web where it brings every kind of social group together in one place and letting them interact  Everything about it lies on the advantages and disadvantages of social networking, and what it can do for you.

Lets list out its pros or advantages.


Pros.


It is  cheaper to use online social networking for both personal and business use because most of it is usually free. While personal use is very simple for anyone, the business side  one can find  potential customers and target markets adding a boost to their business.
For blogs and websites this is best and easiest way to promote and learn.

The best reason to join any social networking site is that it lets you make connections with other people. You can use social networking sites to find good friends and socialize. If the social network is popular and good, you may be able to track down old friends and acquaintances and renew long-lost friendships.Personally I had seen this and I made new friends as well as got connected to old ones through this.

Many social networking sites have lots of applications in form of games.quizzes,reviews etc. In facebook farmville is very popular along with other games.

Cons.

The biggest  social networking drawback is that it makes identity theft easier. In order to create a profile on a social networking site, you have to share some information about yourself, like name, age,location,gender and many other details and while some social sites allow some information to be hidden but its always a risk of giving out too many details about yourself. At times using this information which is willingly or unwillingly given there have been cases of stalking ,scams and many more.

Another thing is many scammers trick people into downloading malicious programmes on their computers. It gets very addictive to lots of people as they tend to stay online all the time and keep adding everyone then it gets overwhelming whose message to read and whose to skip. It becomes hard to keep track. I had myself quit farmville because of addiction.



For me personally, it has worked wonderfully well and I got to learn a lot of things. Just a advice from my side for all the new internet and social network addicts.Take it easy and stay safe and enjoy.

So, my friends, what is your take on this? Do share your views.

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Awards Time

 

Hello everyone. 

Today I got my first award from  Hema. Thanks a lot  for giving me wonderful awards.

I am giving this to following fellow bloggers as per the rule of the award.

 

The rules for accepting this award are:

• Add the awards to your blog.
• Thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.
• Share 7 completely random pieces of information about yourself.
• Include this set of rules.
• Forward this award to your fellow bloggers and inform them with a comment on each of their blogs. 

Sobha @ Good Food

Deepa @ Hamaree Rasoi

Anjana  @    Maayeka

Jay @   Tasty appetite

Aarthi  @  Yummytummy

Kalyani  @  Sizzling Tastebuds

Radhika @  Tickling Palates

Information about me:   

1. I am a housewife plus multi tasker. :)
2. I love chocolates though I get toothache later.
3. I am mother of  2 grown up kids
4. I haven't been much of a great cook but lately been experimenting here.
5. Blogging was time pass for me but now I enjoy as I made great friends here.
6. As and when time comes  I like to travel and you can check my travel tales to know more.
7. Last but never the least, thanks to all the encouragement and comments I have been able to write out and improve a lot.

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