Chermoula Mushrooms

Food expert Rushina in Reader's Digest May'09 give the recipe of Chermoula Prawns. She has said that Chermoula is a marinade used in Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian cooking, usually for fish and seafood but she likes it with chicken, potatoes and mushrooms.

She has also said Chermoula has many recipes using different proportions here is what I made and we have liked.

1/3 cup olive oil

3 tblspn chopped coriander leaves

5-6 tulsi i.e. holy basil leaves

2 tblspn lemon juice

2 green chillies

200 g mushrooms cut into quarters

1. In the mixer grind all the ingredients into coarse puree season with salt.
2. In a bowl arrange the mushrooms sprinkle some salt.
3. Spoon the above mixture covering the all the mushrooms well.
4. Cover and refrigerate for ½ an hour, stir occasionally.
5. Arrange the mushrooms in a foil lined tray and grill on one side for 3 minutes.
6. Turn the mushrooms carefully and grill again I did it for 5 minutes this time.

Tastes just yummy!!!

P.S. Girish has asked me to try it on boiled vegetables. Will do it sometime next week and report.

Instant Appe/Gundpangala

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2 cups buttermilk

2 cups Bombay rava

2 -3 onions chopped fine

Green chiliies

Coriander

Salt to taste

1. Mix the buttermilk and rava and keep aside for 30 minutes.
2. The mixture should resemble idli batter in which you add the rest of the ingredients.
3. Prepare appe in the appe mould,as you normally (in case of doubt click here).
4. Serve hot with chutney and sambhar or as Smita has suggested as dahi wada.

Kaccha Masala

Kaccha Masala

1 cup coriander seeds
1/2 cup jeera seeds
1 tbsp shahjeera
some cloves
some pepper seeds
dalchini
4-5 masala velchi

Dry roast all the ingredients and make a powder. A little variation from the usual dhania-jeera powder that we make. Can be used as masala instead of the garam masala or the goda masal that we usually add.

Dahi vada with a difference!!!

Had a packet of instant appe. Had read on one of the food blogs, sorry don't remember which, that they can be used to make low cal dahi vadas. So decided to do just that!!



1 instant appe packet
chopped onion
chopped coriander
ginger, green chillies paste
appe mould
sweetened yogurt
chaat masala
red chilly powder
jeera powder

Add chopped onion, coriander, ginger chillies paste to the appe batter and make appe in the appe mould. Once done top it with sweetened dahi, and sprinkle red chilly powder, alt, chaat masala, jeera powder.
Delicious yet low cal dahivada with a difference is ready to serve.