Sindhi Rasoi

From past few months,i have been feeling this terrible urge of attaining some super power to uproot all the maddening bad ,prevailing around.I can feel a transition within me from being a happy go lucky girl to a nagging,yelling,irked person ,conferring eternal damnation to at least 20 people per day(in my thoughts of course).Little things start bothering me and i see red at drop of the hat.When i discuss this with my friends and well wishers,everyone suggests the same thing…”you can’t change the world,and there is no sense in fretting and fuming,so just calm yourself and better practice some Meditation.” I agree yoga does helps me considerably to cool down,but is it always possible to remain cool,or rather is it always necessary to be as cool as cucumber?
Still i took the suggestions of my friends and practiced some deep breathing exercise every time i was cornered .
Grocery man,weighing 953 gms of sugar instead of 1000 gms in front of my eyes…i deep breathed and remain silent
Ricksha walla (driver of three wheeler public transport) demanded 7 INR instead of official 5 INR rate…i obliged
Telephone connection went boooooohooooo….i remained silent
Internet connection didn’t got restored despite of hundreds of calls to the pathetic customer care guys,and  to even- more -pathetic local service providers….i kept quiet
Ethernet card was destroyed due to lightning,TV tuner card went kaput..i didn’t moaned
Just because we reside at wrong side of  metro city,we go without current for 8 hours a day,while the metro which is just 25 kms (distance between two railway stations)from our place enjoy uninterrupted power supply….I bear this with silence
Dirty politics in offices,bribe greedy officials in government institutions,and policeman demanding free rides in public transport vehicles,female infanticide,people throwing infants and even embryos in garbage bins(whatever their personal excuses be)while garbage stinking  in fronts of homes,potholes on roads,that are shoddily filled when some MLA is expected,only to go crap within few days,and working class idiotically paying their taxes(coz they are deducted at source)while businessman cleverly escapes from the clutches of Honorable finance minister who can hike the rates of petrol when globally crude oil rates shoots to 110$ /barrel,but forgets to dive back , when  the rates slide down to as low as 70 $/bbl

There is more stupidity on TV,with every absurd news served to us as BREAKING NEWS,Reality Shows with not so real tears and stories,vulgar stuff aired in the name of Modernism,and morons hogging up the limelight ,while serious issues concerning to common man are not  voiced even for the heck of Genuine news.All served to us between ADVERTISEMENTS.If you watch TV for say 30 minutes,you end up seeing advertisements for 18 minutes and actual stuff for 12 minutes or even less..I don’t do anything to change that……So  i keep my cool and stop watching TV instead
BUTttttttttttttt
…..how far can a sensible person stay deaf,dumb and blind to such apathy ??Should we always turn our eyes from all this ILL,and just call ourselves cool ?I agree ranting wont change anything,but is it possible for a pulsating heart to ignore all this and keep silent with few pranayams?Wont we be as good as dead then?

I know even when i wrote all this,nothing is gonna change..not even 0.5% …but should we just seal our lips,and ears,and eyes,and lay dead ?
Well after boiling so much of my blood over these issues,i definitely need some energy to go on.When i was a kid,my Mother used to say that pulses and vegetables gives us energy and  make us strong.So now let me have some SUPER MOLECULES or proteins as they are generally called,and what better source than Kaalachana
I am confused to categorize this simple but power packed dish.I can call it salad since it is a food mixture consisting of boiled and raw stuff,with a tangy dressing,but then i also remember this as one of our favorite chaat sold outside our school gate!
So call it whatever you want..but do include this in your diet .
Ingredients

• Kaala chana(black chickpeas)
• Tomato 1
• Onion 1
• salt and pepper to taste
• Tamarind chutney or lemon juice 1-2 tspn
• Boiled potato
• Coriander leaves to garnish

Method:

• Pick the chana,rinse properly many times with water ,and soak them for about 5-6 hours
• Later boil it with salty water till cooked.If unsoaked or not soaked for much time,you might need to boil it for more time,otherwise it is almost done in 2-3 whistles in a pressure cooker.Again that depends upon the quality of chana.So keep experimenting
• When done,lay them in serving bowl or plate,top it up with dash of salt ,pepper powder,chaat masala powder(optional),red chilly powder(optional),2 spn (more or less ….depends upon your taste) tamarind water(just soak a ping ball size of tamarind in half cup of water for 10 minutes,mash it and squeeze it properly.Discard the pulp,and use the tamarind water)
• Add chopped onion,tomato,boiled potato,or veggies of your choice.Garnish it with coriander leaves

This simple salad is going for

Sra’s My Legume Love Affair Which is the brainchild of Susan

Sangeeth’s Eat Healthy-Fight Diabetes contest

Divya of Dilse for Diet Food Event

When Archana announced One D Salad,i thought i will come up with some good sort of salad,since i always have simple sliced cucumber,radish,beetroot etc as salad or at the most,the gujrati style cucumber-tomato-onion chopped salad.

I thought i will search some good salad recipes and post them.Meanwhile i boiled some moong to make moong parathas for my son.Now, to tell you the truth i just don’t like any parathas except aloo parathas.But i always eat whatever i cook for my son,just to  depict a good impression on him,that its not good to fuss about the food

But that day i just couldn’t convinced myself to bite on those parathas.I did not had time to make something else . I kept staring at  the boiled moong  ,still with the same question in my mind  “To eat or not to eat”?

Darn… i can’t let them go waste,nor was i ready to give in to those parathas.Thats when Archana’s one D salad hit my brain(ouchh…its still hurting !)

So i just threw in together,in a bowl ,everything i had in my refrigerator ,along with those boiled moong ,spiced it up to suit my palate and yo….i was ready with an entry for archana’s event which called for a protein rich salad

Moong beans also called Green gram is a pulse/legume. While pulses are generally high in protein, and the digestibility of that protein is also high,Moong beans also contain good amounts of calcium and Vitamin C.  Cooking does not affect the protein content of this pulse.(source asavadha.com).so i guess Archana ,this fits  the bill since 100 gms of moong are supposed to have 3 gms of proteins

Simple moong salad:

Ingredients

• Boiled Moong(better if sprouted) one cup
• Boiled potato 1 small
• Boiled beetroot 1small
• Carrot 1
• Lettuce or cabbage leaves  -few
• Lemon juice 1 spoon
• Red chilly powder
• Salt(white or rock salt…i prefer later)
• Coriander leaves
• Almonds(optional….i didn’t used any,but i have read, its good to add some)
• Chaat masala powder few pinches

Method:

• Wash and soak moong for few hours.Boil them with little water,salt,turmeric ginger,green chillies till just cooked(not mushy)
• You can use the moong sprouts(much healthier) that are available in food malls,or you can wash,soak and then keep the moong wrapped in moist napkin for a day or two till moong sprouts up
• Mix in salad bowl,the boiled moong, and chooped carrots,boiled beetroot,onion,boiled potato,cabbage(either or all of them)
• Sprinkle  salt,red chilly powder ,chaat masala powder,lemon juice ,fresh coriander leaves and enjoy

I would like to share with all my dear visitors a happy news…Roma of Roma’s space honored this humble blog of mine with a  BRILLANTE Award

Here’s what Juliana lair has to say about this award rules

The Above recipients of the Brillante Weblog are welcomed to put the Logo on their personal blogs and have the honor of passing this award to seven other bloggers.

So Roma i hope i can pass on this wonderful award to some of the blogs that i find awesome

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Hope you guys will be kind enough to pick this up from here

Ps: Some time back ,i had posted Special daal recipe which was  by Sk(my bro-in-law)

This budding cook had send me yet another breakfast made by him .Here’s what he has to say”  Its yogurt with kaala namak(rock salt), Jeerey ka tadka (tempered with cumin seeds), salt and garnished with coriander leaves. Made papad in oven and cooked Roti on frying pan”

A typical sindhi breakfast!

Wish him loads of lucks …..for his culinary experiments