Nami's Cookbook

Pumpkin is very healthy vegetable. You can roast it , sprinkle little salt and pepper and relish it.  I love pumpkin in any form. This is a treat for soup lovers and Pumpkin lovers. I had seen this recipe on Fox life.. I have added my own twist in this 😊 Its delicious and healthy too.. 😃 Print Creamy Pumpkin Soup Yield: 6 servings Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 5 M Cook time: 20 M Total time: 25 M A creamy and healthy soup prepared using pumpkin Ingredients: Pumpkin cubes - 3 cup Milk - ¼ cup Pumpkin stock - 1 cup Garlic cloves (peeled n crushed) - 2 Cinnamon - 1 inch White pepper powder - ¼ tsp or as per taste Salt to taste Parsley - to garnish Instructions: In a cooker, add pumpkin, garlic, cinnamon, add 2 cups of water, salt and mix well. Cover with a lid and cook. (1 whistle is enough) Remove from the flame and keep aside to cool. Once cooled, remove cinnamon from it and strain. Keep the stock separately. Blend the cooked pumpkin in a mixer till smooth. Transfer the mixtur...

I prepared this dish from left-over red chutney, which I'd prepared for masala dosa. Had homemade paneer lying in the refrigerator. So thought why not I try ghee roast with these ingredients.. n finally I tried. Ghee roast was finger-licking good :D Here's the recipe.. Print Quick Paneer Ghee Roast Yield: 2 servings Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 5 M Cook time: 15 M Total time: 20 M A spicy paneer dish prepared using spicy red chutney and roasted in ghee Ingredients: Paneer (small cubes) - 1 cup Curd - 1 Tbsp Jeera powder - 1 tsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Pepper powder - ¼ tsp Ghee - 1 Tbsp Coriander leaves - for garnishing Lemon juice - 1 tsp For Red chutney : Byadgi Red Chilles, (soaked in hot water) - 10 Tamarind - small amla size Garlic pods - 4 Salt to taste Instructions: Grind the ingredients under Red chutney to a fine and smooth paste. Take this chutney in a bowl. Add paneer, curd, Jeera powder, Coriander powder and pepper powder. Mix well and keep it aside for 15-20...

Breakfast!! Deciding what to prepare for tomorrow is a very tough task for me.. :/ If I ask hubby, he says anything is OK.. :D So his anything inspires me to prepare new dishes.. And experiment it on him.. :D  Neer dosa.. Hubby doesn't like it much.. He likes if I prepare it for Chicken curry or ghee roast.. :) My fav combo is Neer dosa and Garlic Chutney/ghee roast :D  I thought why don't I do a twist with Neer dosa.. (Actually I was lazy to prepare chutney :P) What I did was mixed all the chutney ingredients while grinding the Neer dosa batter.. :D n here is the end result.. :D :) Print Masala Neer Dosa Yield: Makes 18-20 dosas Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 2 hour Cook time: 2 M Total time: 2 H & 2 M A thin rice crepe with spices added in the batter Ingredients: Dosa rice - 1 cup Coconut (grated) - 3 Tbsp Dry Red Chillies- 5 nos (I used 3 Byadgi and 2 Guntur chillies) Garlic cloves (crushed) - 3-4 nos Onion (large, chopped) - 1 Coriander seeds - 1 Tbsp Water -add a...

Soybeans are very rich in nutritive components. Besides the very high protein content, soybeans contains a lot of fiber and are rich in calcium, magnesium. The soy protein has a high biological value and contains all the essential amino acids. Soybeans are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and low in saturated fatty acids. Include it in your diet... :) Here is my own recipe of Soybean Masala, without adding coconut.. Print Soybean Masala without coconut Yield: Serves 2 person Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 5 M Cook time: 30 M Total time: 35 M Soybean in onion and tomato gravy which goes well with rotis or chapatis Ingredients: Soybeans - 1 cup Roasted onion paste - 1 cup Ginger Garlic paste - 1 Tbsp Tomato puree - ½ cup Fresh yogurt - 3 Tbsp Bay leaves- 2 Cinnamon - 1 inch Cloves - 3 to 4 Saunf (Fennel seeds) - ¼ tsp Kalonji (Onion seeds) - ¼ tsp Tumeric powder - ½ tsp Coriander powder - 2 Tbsp Cumin powder - 1 Tbsp Chilly powder - 1 Tbsp Kitchen King masala - 1 Tbsp Garam masala pow...