Quaker Oats Uttapam - The Indian Pizza

Uttapam is a traditional south Indian dish which closely resembles the pizza. Typically, Uttapam is prepared using urad dal and rice. We twist it's recipe a bit, to create a much healthier and tastier Uttapam using Quaker Oats.

If you want to create the traditional way, the urad dal and rice batter has to be created and stored overnight. However, using Quaker Oats, you can create Uttapam instantly.

Oats as you know is rich in fibre and protein. Thus the Quaker Oats adds much more power and punch to this classic dish.

The ingredients list :

Quaker Oats.
Gram Flour (a.k.a Besan).
Chopped Onions.
Sliced Tomatos.
Cilantro (a.k.a Coriander).
Amul Yellow Butter.
Salt & Pepper.

Mix the Quaker Oats and Besan in sensible proportions with water in a bowl, till it haves a semi-thick batter like consistency.

Heat a pan / skillet and add some Amul yellow butter.

Now spread the batter on the skillet and top it with chopped onions, sliced tomatoes & cilantro.

Sprinkle some salt and black pepper on top. Cook the Uttapam on both sides till the Uttapam gets fully cooked.

Server hot with some Amul butter on top. Wow it tastes absolutely delicious and leaves you extremely filling.

Mexicue - Food Truck, New York City

Just the other day while watching Eat Street, I was reminded of a food truck that I bumped into somewhere in Brooklyn some time back. The name is Mexicue.

It has a cute little orange truck which serves some great tasting burritos, enchiladas, tacos, nachos and the typical mexican fare, which is much much better than Taco Bell. Check out Mexicue's menu here. It's most popular dishes are the Brisket slider, Rice bowls, Alabama Chicken taco. It does offer classic beers like Tecate & Pork Slap.

And well, just like many other food trucks, it travels across Manhattan and Brooklyn. The truck locations can be found through Twitter updates. Checkout it's official twitter handle here.

Check out Sharon L's review and rating on Yelp.

FYI : Eat Street is a popular canadian street food based reality show, which airs on Food Network in Canada, Cooking Channel in USA and Fox Traveller in Asian regions.

India House - Santa Fe, New Mexico

Parts of the Bollywood film 'Kites' starring Hrithik Roshan & Barbara Mori, were shot in and around Albuquerque & Santa Fe... and from what am aware of is that the India House served as its lunch catering partner. The moment you enter the restaurant, you see pictures of the owner with actor Hrithik Roshan, film producer Rakesh Roshan & director Anurag Basu etc... Boy, Bollywood is going places and so is the Indian Empire :)

It feels nice to actually find a good Indian restaurant in a region which is surrounded mostly by desert. A city where you come across just a couple of Indian food establishments. So well, somewhere around December of 2011, we a group of 4 people went to this place. We started with paneer pakoras, tandoori chicken wings, cheese fingers for apps. Next we shared bhindi masala, paneer makhani & dal makhani with Indian breads like kashmiri naan, aloo paratha, garlic naan etc... Finally ended our stuffed dinners with desserts - gulab jamun, kheer, mango lassi etc.

Website : http://indiahousenm.com/

Address:

2501 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
Phone: (505) 471-2651   Fax: (505) 471-2162

New Year 2014 - The Countdown

Ola! Como Estas? Well well well, 2014 is just around the cornor and its time to say 2013 a goodbye forever.

So folks, what are your new year resolutions?  Any memories of 2013 you would like to share? How was 2013 for you overall - Good or Bad?

How do you plan to welcome the new year 2014? Which NYE party you going to?

Do drop by your valuable comments... Ciao

Deglet Noor - Algerian Pitted Dates

Check out this box of Deglet Noor dates. Degelt Noor happens to be the type of dates cultivated in Algeria and Tunisia.

A good link on comparison of various types of dates can be found here.

The last time I bought it, the price of a 850gm box was USD 6.99

If you search Amazon, you can find a couple of brands like Hadley, Ziyad, Golden etc

Date, in general is a very nutritional product and is a very good source of Potassium.

Korean Honey Citron Tea

Recently I came across the Korean brand of herbal tea with Honey Citron flavor. On digging further it seems it is knows and Yuja cha. It's also known as a good remedy to cure common cold.

Check out this photo of the tea jar

To prepare the tea mix 1-2 tablespoons of the tea syrup alongwith water and add sugar if needed.