Vegetable Upma Part II: How to Cook This Balanced Diet?

Vegetable Upma is a nutritious meal that is easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste.

Watch this video and learn to make vegetable upma.

Vegetable Upma




If you want to prepare an instant Upma Mix and shorten this process of making vegetable Upma read this post.

Vegetable Upma Part I: Ingredients

Indian Food- Vegetable Upma - Ingredients in This Balanced Diet



Main Ingredients:

Semolina, Vegetables (beans, carrot, tomatoes, potato, peas), cooking oil, clarified butter (optional)

Garnishing Ingredients (optional):

Coconut, Curry leaves, Coriander leaves, red chillies, green chillies, mustard sees, two dals (white lentil and chickpea)

Listen to the Tamil words for these ingredients :)

I think you should read Tamil stories and ebooks while relishing this vegetable upma.

Balanced Diet Vegetable Upma Part I: Ingredients

Watch this video to learn what ingredients are necessary to make vegetable upma, an Indian recipe that makes a balanced diet.



For more details go to balanced diet blog.

Vegetable Upma Curry Recipe

Get these things together and I will teach you how to make vegetable curry and then make vegetable upma with it.

Mother's Day Special 'Curry Recipe' Contest - Ends Mother's Day 2009

I created the food site and recipe blog for my mother.

On this mother's day I would like to announce a contest.

I hardly spend any time in the kitchen and my mother keeps couriering me things that will save my cooking time. My mother knows I spend all my waking hours working on the laptop and I hardly find time to cook. If I am alone at home I don't cook at all.

My mother has been testing and tweaking ready-to-make powders, most of them add-only-water types. She is a perfectionist. More than that she is concerned about my health. So she has been experimenting in her old-fashioned kitchen. She has been inventing recipes that are easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste. She is very particular about the nutritional qualities of the recipes and the cooking time.

I am nearing 55 and my mother is nearing 80. This experiment and innovation born out of necessity has been going on for over 30 years. My mother started cooking when she was 15 and she has over 60 years of experience in churning out delicious dishes that the family loves.

We are planning to celebrate her 80th birthday. By next year I want as many people as possible to have tasted her creations. I want people who have relished her creations send her a heart-felt wish.

My uncle who has retired after putting in years of service in a national food and research institute says, "I am very proud of my sister. I wonder how she manages to do single handedly what a National Institute did with expensive machines and hundreds of employees".

Here are a couple of sample feedback I have received.

Annabelle Loves Chutney Powder

Hi Rangoo, we tried the dosa mix two nights ago. It was great. Both my kids loved them and we had seconds. It was easy to mix and cook, and the chutney with the coconut was outstanding. Excellent, nutritious and easy, like having a little bit of Southern India at home in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thanks!!!

Annabelle Nelson

Mike Seiler Loves Instant Dosa Mix

The Instant Dosa Mix (Indian Pancakes) arrived very quickly. It was a joy to be able to make our own Dosas without having to spend a lot of time tracking down ingredients. Besides, the Instant Dosa Mix tasted better than when I put the ingredients together myself anyway.

The convenience can't be beat!

We ran out far too soon because the mix was so delicious. The whole family is anxiously waiting for more.

- Mike and Rachel, Boulder, Colorado, USA

There are many more like this. People call me on the phone and chat with me and share with me how much they loved the instant mixes, the comfort of reducing hours of cooking time to minutes and the healthy, natural ingredients that provide a balanced diet.

Triple R Curry Recipe Contest 2008

Rukmini's Rare Recipes Curry Recipe Contest is open to all food lovers.

Get a packet of my mother's curry powder, all-in-one masala powder. Prepare any vegetarian or non-vegetarian dish using the curry powder. Send us your recipe with a beautiful picture. Or send us a video of how to cook your recipe.

Each month one recipe will be selected as the Best Curry Recipe of The Month.

At the end of the year, that is on Mother's Day 2009 the best of the best recipe will be announced.

Submit the recipes at Indian Healthy Recipe

I will confirm the receipt of the recipes. Please save a copy of your recipe and the date of submission.

The entrance fee for the contest is $9.97.

$9.97

I wanted to keep this competition free. But I need to send you the curry powder packet. This amount will partly cover the shipping cost of the curry powder packet I will send you. If you are in India and would like to participate in the contest, please let me know.

Prize

1. The most important prize is the traffic you are going to get to your blogs. The winning recipe will be published with your photo and detailed information about your site or blog.

2. The second best part of the prize is the ebook that will be created with all the recipes received. All participants will get a branded copy of the ebook that you can use anyway you like.

3. In addition to these prizes I would like to give you a cash prize of $100 for the trouble you are taking to help me spread the word about my mother's talent.

You are welcome to send me your comments, feedback and suggestions on this contest. You can post a comment on this blog or send them to my help desk.

Quick Meal Idea Six-Part eCourse - Salads

I love salads for lunch or dinner almost any day of the week, but especially in the summer when it’s just too hot to cook. Salads are very versatile and healthy. You can easily customize them to adjust to your family’s taste and of course they are quick and easy to throw together. Here’s how you turn this side dish into a filling meal…

· Caesar Salad – Chop romaine lettuce; top it with croutons, parmesan cheese, Caesar dressing and any of the following: grilled chicken, steak, shrimp, smoked or cooked salmon or any other cooked fish you have handy.

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Quick Meal Idea Six-Part eCourse - Freezer Cooking

I don’t know about you, but I have a lot more time to cook some nights than others. When I do have extra time, I try to cook an extra batch of food, stick it in the freezer and then just grab a meal that’s ready to be heated and served out of the freezer on the days when we’re really busy. Here’s a list of things I tend to either cook in batches, or cook while I’m working on that day’s regular dinner and then freeze for later.

 

- Lasagna – anything from regular meat versions to vegetarian ones. Just assemble and freeze, then bake as usual straight from the freezer.

 

- Soups or Stews – Almost any type of soup or stew freezes well. I always cook these in double batches and freeze one. The only exception I’m aware of is chicken and dumplings. The dumplings just don’t turn out well when they are frozen. Some soups with chunks of potatoes can also get mushy, so test a small batch first.

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