Peppercorn flavoured vegetable oats - Potluck party, cyber style January 28th 2014

 How many of us,  look  for an instant breakfast oats,  at your favourite  stores??  Yes, I can see many hands raising!!  All  thanks to an casual check-up, my dietician advised to consume  oats atleast once an week, in order to enrich my good cholestrol... Now, for an girl like me, who thought that oats were only for saints.. this was an serious layback... :P

 Gradually, my attitude changed... With an NOT-SO-SWEET TOOTH,  I  opted for masala oats once an week, untill I came across Shama Nagarajan's oats porridge.  She was my partner for poluck party, cyber style and I followed her post.  With just oats and your own vegetable/spice blend, I could actually foresee an tasty and healthy breakfast here,for, this ensures zero preservatives or zero dehydated vegetables. This peppercorn flavoured vegetable oats is an fresh breakfast blend, which amplifies your morning stamina, to kick-start your day!!   :)  :)

Nutty drizzles

    Not long before, I just had an quick time-passing walk inside an supermarket.  This book  ' 100 best delecious chocolate' really got my attention.  When I went through it, it had an awesome collections of desserts, cookies, milk-shakes, cake, pie, fudge, cupcakes  all with chocolates as its main ingredients.  One instant I felt that this entire book was designed FOR ME :) :) With stunning photographies and unique recipes, I had an firm grip on this book and purchased it too!!  (though it was tottally out of my budget!)

After I read the content of the book, my heart wished to try all 100's. Everything was lukng soo great and to add woos, i have been becoming bake-aholic these days!!  Thanks for Baking parnters community to help me develop these skills and special mention to hubby who eats whatver end product just meant to be :) :) But still I went with cookies option because they are the  most safest terms  in baking.  Just knead them as ur usual roti dough with an buttery touch and bake them.... ta da..... no egg separation !!  no whisking of egg whites!! and other complex forms.  But this nutty drizzle was soo unique that it needed lots of other nuts, wheatbran, sultanas, plain chocolates etc.  So, with a little twist to the ingredients mentioned I carried on with the preparation.

Dark chocolate & Oats cookies

Dark chocolates are my all-time-favourite.  And that too, after completing my professional course on chocolate making I learnt a lot about dark chocolates.  Their awesome medicinal properties had  doctors to suggest for  heart patients in  small quantities regularly.  They are also known to delay cell ageing, preferably aiding ladies in increased skin glow.  My own tutor asked me to consume them regularly for my goodness!!!

As a result, dark chocolates have entered my day-to-day  cooking.  This recipe combines the goodness of dark chocolates and oats. They are hard surfaced, that is crunchy in texture.  They are soo delecious and is a must-tea-time snack that goes healthy too!! 

Gobi aur oats ki tikki

  Yes, this recipe is unlikely fusion of gobi and oats. Hyderabad is blooming with lots and lots of gobi nowadays....so just thought of doin  this gobi-oats combo and happily the result came good...so, off to recipe

Ingredients required

To make masala paste

• 4-5 tsp of quaker oats (which is roasted till they turn slight brown colour)
• 6-7 garlic pods
• 1 tsp of whole jeera, roasted
• 1 tsp of peppercorns

other

• 2 tsp of hung curd
• 4 tsp of finely chopped methi leaves/venthiya keera
• 1 tsp tandoori masala
• 2 tsp of oil
• 1 tsp of salt
• One cup of chopped cauliflower florets
• 1/4 cup of chopped capsicum

Method

Blend all ingredients given under masala section, keep aside.  In a large vessel, combine blended masala, methi leaves, hung curd, tandoori masala, salt along with oil.  Mix this well and add this to cauliflower and capsicum pieces.  Marinate for four to five hours 

You can cook this in either way,,, tawa roast the marinated gobi or bake them in oven till done.  Serve with onion and lemon slices.

Isn't it looking great?? Tasted nice too...