Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Saturday, June 1, 2013

How to roast pumpkin seeds?


Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds are high in zinc. This is a very good food when you are suffering from cold-cough. Let's know how to make it. It's really quick and easy!

Ingredients:
1 Pumpkin
2 Tablespoon Salt
2 liter water
Butter

Procedure:
1) Cut the pumpkin in half horizontally.
half pumpkin
cut the pumpkin in half










 2) Separate the seeds from the pumpkin. take out all the seeds.

separating the seeds from the pumpkin
separated pumpkin seeds










3) Then Soak the seeds into warm water. so that the pumpkin guts get separated from the seeds.
separating the seeds from the pumpkin guts



4) Take the seeds in a strainer and rinse them under cold water so that rest of the guts get discarded.


5) Take 2 liters of water into a saucepan. Add 2 tablespoon of salt in it.

6) Add the seeds into the salt-water mixture.

7) Leave it for 30 minutes.

8) Soaking the seeds into salt water deactivates enzyme inhibitors in the seeds and produce more vitamins in the seeds. And it also improves the flavor of the seeds.

9) Take a paper towel. sprinkle the seeds on it. and let them dry.
Drying the pumpkin seeds in paper towel
10) Take a pan. Take butter on it. Put the pan on the stove so that the butter get melted.

11) Now put the seeds into the pan and coat them well with the butter. and constantly shift the seeds around so that they roast evenly.

12)  After you see they get a little bit brown. put it off from the stove. and take them on a plate. and eat them!

13) you can do it in oven also. Take a baking pan or pizza pan. brush the whole pan with butter. then coat the seeds with melted butter and then put them in the pan and make sure there is only one layer of seeds.
pumpkin seeds in baking pan
 14) Put them in a oven. bake it for 15 minutes in 350°.

that's it! Have your crunchy pumpkin seeds.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Kanji (Chili-Lemon)

In a hot weather, when sun is above the head, you are sweating, you feel very thirsty. And at this moment you will feel like to taste something sour, with a little peppery taste, which can give a touchy feelings in your tongue. So, I have something for you today. That's named Kanji. It's an energetic drink in a hot weather. after you drink it, you will feel a tranquility through your whole body. You can drink it when you are finding something tasty. but your tongue just get tasteless. this can reinstate your taste in the tongue. so, let's know how to make it:


Chilies
Ingredients:
1 Lemon
3 Green Chilies
3 teaspoon Salt
1 mug Water
3-4 Coriander leaves


Lemon
Procedure:
1) chop the chilies and coriander in small pieces.
chopped coriander

chopped chilies


2) cut the lemon and take all the lemon juice in a mug.
3) mix water, salt, lemon juice, coriander and chilies into the mug.
4) stir it well.
5) Drink it! you will get a shock at your first sip. ;)

Kanji (chili-lemon juice)

How to make pudding (Custard)

A piece of Caramel Custard
Pudding (also known as Custard) is a very tasty desert. And it is really more than easy to make. This recipe is gonna be very helpful specially for the persons those who are students live in a hostel, or any person who lives without family and is always in a rush that its very hard to get some time to make something tasty to eat. so here is your recipe. So, what are you waiting for? Why not try it today! :D

Ingredients:
1) 500 ml milk
2) 3 Eggs
3) 50g sugar

Procedure:
1) Take a Bowl. or you can take a blender jug.
2) Pour the milk into the bowl or in the blender jug.
3) Add 3 eggs and sugar into that milk.
4) Whisk it well so that everything get mixed together. If you have a blender then just blend the mixture for 10 seconds.
Whisk the mixture of eggs, milk and sugar
5) Pour the mixture in a oven proof bowl.
6) Put it into the oven. and bake it for 20 minutes.
7) and its done! now you can eat this hot. or you can keep it in the refrigerator. and then eat the cool one! :)
Custard with caramel
8) To make one like this image, you have to do an extra work, that is making the caramel.
9) Nothing to worry about. Its also a easy one. Just take some sugar into a pan (better if it is a nonstick pan). then put it on the burner. then let it cook for 1 or 2 minutes till the sugar get melt. It will look like brown syrup. the caramel is done.
10) you have to pour this caramel into that oven proof bowl before you pour the egg milk mixture.
so, you first pour the caramel then pour the egg milk mixture.
11) then bake it for 20 minutes.
12) and its done.

note: if you don't have an oven, then you can take a big bowl take water into it. and put it into the burner and start boiling. into that water you have to keep the mixture holding it in another bowl. in this case its better to choose a steel bowl. remember do not let the water to enter your mixture. when you see the mixture get crystallized, means its done.