hummus

Hummus is a dip/spread mainly used on pita breads and made up of healthy,nutritional and powerpacked legumes, chickpeas.It is very easy,simple and healthy dish ,any one can make this dish with less and simple ingredients and best goes well with falafels.You can add your own flavours in this dip like corriander leaves,pine nuts,parsely,artichokes or any herbs which u like to make it more flavourful.

makes approx 1 cup of hummus
ingredients :
1 cup chickpeas/chole/kabuli chana
2-3 garlic cloves
2 tsp olive oil
2 tbsp yogurt ( i used low fat greek style )
2 tsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp lemon juice
salt to taste
red chilli pwd to taste
1-2 tbsp chopped parsely/corriander leaves
method :
Wash and soak chickpeas overnight,pressure cook till tender,strain the water and keep the water aside.In a blender ,blend cooked choley and all the rest of the ingredients to make  a thick coarse paste,if required add some leftover water from chickpeas (say abt 1-2 tbsp ) and mix well.Serve with falafels/use as a spread in falafel wraps.
Recipe is adapted from tarla dalal.Sending this to nithu for guest hosting CWF-LB :CHICKPEAS ,an event by kiran  and sending it to ayeesha for her event any one can cook- series 3.
 

tomato salsa

I just love tomato salsa ,i still remember first time i had tomato salsa in my life was 7 yrs back in a multiplex  ( pvr cinemas ) in bangalore while watching one of my favourite sharukh khan movie ;) before that i really never new what is salsa ,during intervals in movie hall i use to grab 2 boxes of chips and dip and literally   lick up the whole small conatiner of salsa,my husband use to make faces and lol ,everytime we use to plan for a movie i would make sure that i only go to pvr  just becoz to have my fav mild tomato  salsa :D

ingredients :

1 finely chopped deseeded riped tomato

1 tbsp tomato paste ( i used store bought )

1 tbsp finely chopped capsicum

1-2 green chilli finely chopped

1 tbsp finely chopped red onion

1 tsp olive oil

salt to taste

lemon juice to taste

method :

Mix all the above ingredients together and mash  them to make slightly  pulpy yet chunky,refrigerate for an hr before  serving with chips.

guacamole-a creamy avacado dip

Guacomole is a mexican dip which is made up of avacado fruit and is best served with tortilla chips,i simply love this dip and just tried this in a creamy way by adding yogurt which gave  a smooth texture and adding green chillies to it made little hot and a dash of lemon juice maintained its green colour,i also kept the seed of avacodo into the dip until serving and found that  it helped in discolouring.Sending this to preeti's green gourmet event.

ingredients :

2 riped avacadoes

1/4 cup plain yogurt ( i used low fat )

2 green chillies  ( adjust accordingly ) 

1 garlic pod

salt to taste

black ground pepper to taste

1 tsp extra virgin olive oil

1 tbsp lemon juice

method :

Cut the avacados into halves,scoop out the flesh,crush green chillies and garlic in the blender,add the avacado flesh,yogurt,salt,lemon juice and blend all together.Refrigerate atleast for an hr before serving.