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Second attempt at designing something in Adobe Illustrator. Designed a logo for a logo competition of Santa Clara Design and Innovation Club #adobeillustrator #logodesigncompetition #secondattemptatdesign

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My first photoshopped bird :) 

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Indian Fast Food - Kacchi Dabeli

How about some chatpat food today? Indian Fast Food – Kacchi Dabeli. Very widely sold by hawkers and eaten by all kinds of people. It is a perfect blend of spicy, tangy, sour, sweet flavours. The below receipe is sufficient for 9 people having served one kacchi dabeli each.

Ingredients -

1. Tamarind paste – tamarind, dates, jaggery boiled in water.

2. Coriander Green Chillies paste (Green Chutney) – coriander, green chillies, salt, water.

3. Spicy fried peanuts - Fry some peanuts in oil with little salt and red chilly powder.

4. Peeled Pomegranate

5. 3 small finely chopped onion

6. 1 bowl finely chopped coriander

7. Thin Sev (So called the zero number sev)

8. 6-7 medium sized boiled potato

9. Siddhi kacchi dabeli Masala ( You might get Kacchi Dabeli masala of different brands. However, I prefer this brand.)

10. Oil

11. Butter

12. Pav Bhaji Pav (Bread)

13. Cheese (Optional)

Prior Preparation -

Tamarind Paste – 1 part tamarind, 2 parts dates, 2 parts jaggery. Boil this in water till the tamarind and dates become soft and the water becomes dark. Let it cool. Remove the tamarind and dates' seeds. Put this mixture in the mixer/grinder and make a soft paste. Drain the soft paste to remove the tamarind and date threads.

Coriander Green Chillies paste (Green Chutney) – Make a green paste of one small bowl of coriander leaves, 1 green chilly, little water and salt as per your taste.

Potato mixture – Mash the boiled potatoes. Take 2 tablespoon oil in a pan and let it heat. Add the mashed boiled potatoes in it. Add one and a half tablespoon of Kacchi Dabeli Masala. Mix this and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.

Procedure -

1. Take a pav bhaji bread. Cut it open in two parts.

2. Apply some butter to the bread and heat the bread on some pan.

3. Apply green chutney and tamarind paste inside the bread.

4. Put some potato mixture on the bread and press it a little on the bread.

5. Add little chopped onion, coriander, spicy fried peanuts and pomegranate on the potato.

6. Put some tamarind paste over this.

7. Add some butter over the pan and heat the bread on the pan to make it crispy. (Some people like it soft while others like their bread to be crispy. I prefer crispy! )

8. Roll the bread over some yellow thin sev.

Your Dabeli is ready :) Garnish it with some cheese, pomegranate, coriander on top. PS – You can also add cheese in the stuffing.

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Sweet Corn Soup

Here comes a healthy and a yummy recipe! Sweet corn soup. Best soup for infants and grown ups. Generally, people use the readymix sweet corn soup but I do not prefer that. The nutrient content in readymix is obviously lesser than the one prepared at home with fresh veggies (Chicken and egg can be added for non vegetarians). The recipe given below serves a soup bowl each for 5-6 people.

Ingredients -

1. 1 Sweet corn kernel

2. 6 bowls of water

3. 3-4 teaspoon sugar - increase or decrease as per taste

4. 3 teaspoon salt – increase or decrease as per taste

5. Chilly vinegar 3-4 teaspoon – I prepared a small bowl of chilly vinegar as it is used later after the soup is served. So one small bowl of chilly vinegar can be prepared as follows. Take 50% water and 50% vinegar, 1/4th teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 2-3 finely chopped green chilly. Mix this. If the soup is to be made in the evening, it is better that the chilly vinegar is made in the morning. The reason being it tastes better when kept longer. However, you should avoid using the chilly vinegar the next day.

6. Ajinomoto 1 teaspoon (This ingredient can be avoided. It is not necessary. If the soup is being made for children, it is generally avoided)

7. 1 small bowl of corn flour paste with 4-5 tablespoon of cornflour and little water. Cornflour paste should be semi liquid.

8. Finely chopped cabbage, carrot, french beans.

There are two more ingredients if you wish to have chicken and egg in the soup.

9. Shredded Boiled chicken – Boil the chicken with salt.

10. 1 Egg white

Procedure -

1. Scrape the sweet corn from the kernel

2. Boil 6 bowls of water and add the scraped sweet corn in it. Cook it till the corn becomes soft (Minimum 10 minutes) .

3. Add salt, sugar, Ajinomoto – quantities as mentioned above

4. Add 1-4 teaspoon chilly vinegar

5. Add the corn flour paste slowly and stir it continuously till we get the desired consistency - Continuous stirring helps the paste to spread evenly in the soup and this avoids coagulation of paste at one place and makes it smooth overall.

6. Add the vegetables and boil the soup for 2-3 minutes – Try keeping the vegetables crunchy.

7. For non veg sweet corn soup – add egg white slowly with continuous stirring. Continuous stirring helps the egg to spread evenly in the soup and this avoids coagulation of egg white at one place.

For non veg sweet corn soup – garnish with chicken shreds.

Serve hot piping soup with chilly vinegar and soya sauce. A very healthy and yummy dish which can be enjoyed in these lovely rainy days! :)

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Punjabi main course - Gobi Bahara

Here comes our second dish! Gobi bahara – A Punjabi Indian dish to be eaten with chapatis (Indian Bread) / Roti / Naan / Parantha / Rice. This dish is medium spicy with a slight sweet taste. The dish prepared by me served 4-5 people. So, the quantities that will be mentioned below are for 4-5 people.

Ingredients -

1. 1 Cauliflower – big and small pieces made

2. One bowl of almonds - these almonds need to be peeled. Soak the almonds in warm water and keep for 20 minutes. This will help you peel of the almond skin. If it needs to be done faster, boil the almonds in water for 10 minutes. This will make the peeling process faster.

3. 3-4 small sized onions / 2 medium sized onions chopped vertically

4. 3 cardamom pods

5. 3 dried Bayleaves

6. 1 small bowl of water

7. Half teaspoon Turmeric powder

8. Half teaspoon Red Chilli powder

9. 1 tablespoon Badshah’s Kitchen King Masala ( Kitchen King Masala is available in most of the Indian Masala brands)

10. One and a half tablespoon vinegar

11. 2 tablespoon curd

12. 1 tablespoon sugar

13. 1 bowl of boiled Green Peas

14. 1/4th cup of Besan

15. 1/4th cup of Corn Flour

16. Oil

17. Salt as per your taste

18. Little chopped coriander.

Prior Preparation -

1. Boil the Cauliflower in water. Add little salt while boiling the Cauliflower. Boil it for 10 mins. Drain the water and let the Cauliflower cool down. Take a big bowl and put the Caulifower in it. Add 3/4th teaspoon turmeric powder, 3/4th teaspoon red chilli powder and one and a half tablespoon of vinegar. Marinate this for 30 minutes.

2. Grind the skinned almonds in a mixer and add approprite amount of water in it to make a smooth semiliquid paste

3. Take 1 tablespoon oil in a pan. Add the vertically chopped onion in the pan. Cook the onion till it becomes black-brown in color. After the onion attains the desired color, let it cool for 10 minutes. Take the cooked onion, grind it in a mixer and make a smooth semiliquid paste.

Procedure -

1. Dust 1/4th cup of besan and 1/4th cup of corn flour on the cauliflower and mix it. We will now deep fry Cauliflower pieces till they become golden brown.

2. We will now make the gravy. Take 2 tablespoon oil and let it heat.

3. Add 3 cardomom pods and 3 dried bayleaves. Let them pop.

4. Add the almond paste and saute the paste till it doesn’t stick to the pan. Add little water if the paste sticks to the vessel.

5. Add the onion paste and mix it well.

6. Add half teaspoon of turmeric powder, half teaspoon of red chilli powder, 1 tablespoon Kitchen King Masala, 2 tablespoon curd. Mix it well.

7. Add one small bowl of water and 1 tablespoon sugar. Add salt as per your taste. Mix this well. Please note – You can add little more water if you think the gravy has become too thick. Also, if you want to make the dish Shahi and the gravy more smooth you can add cream to the gravy and mix it.

8. Now add the boiled peas and fried Cauliflower to the gravy and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.

Your dish is ready! Use little coriander, cream and one or two pieces of fried cauliflower to garnish the dish.

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Simple Indian Sunfeast Pasta!

Hello everyone! So let's get started with some simple lip smacking recipes. This one is my favourite and can be made out of the most basic ingredients available at home.

Ingredients -

1. 1 pack of Sunfeast Masala pasta

2. 1 small onion chopped fine

3. 2 small tomatoes chopped fine

4. 2 tablespoon of olive oil/ any oil

5. 3 tablespoon Maggi Hot and Chilli sauce

6. 3-4 cups of water

7.  Half tablespoon of sugar

8.  Half teaspoon of salt

Procedure -

1. Boil the pasta in the 3-4 cups of water for around 10 minutes. While boiling the pasta, add few drops of oil to the water to make sure that the pasta doesn't become sticky. 

2. Simultaneously, take a flat pan and add 2 tablespoon of oil. Let the oil get hot.

3. Add the chopped onion to the pan and saute the onion till it becomes golden brown in color. Adding a pinch of salt will help cook the onion faster.

4. After the onion gets golden brown in color, add the 2 chopped tomatoes.

5. Add the masala packet given with Sunfeast pasta.

6. Add sugar, sauce and salt.

7. Mix everything and cook it till the tomatoes become soft. Add a small bowl of the pasta water to make the consistency as per your need. If you like it dry, you can cook it to evaporate the water.

8. Drain the pasta and put it in cold water so that it doesn't stick to each other.

9. Add the pasta to the gravy. Mix the pasta and serve it after a minute 

Your simple Indian Sunfeast Pasta is ready to eat! :)

PS - I purposely did not add butter and cheese during the preparation - this is for the health conscious people. Cheese can be used for garnishing. Herbs can be added to the pasta after it is made - oregano or mixed herbs. 

I hope everyone enjoys this simple dish! Feel free to ask any questions and wait for my next recipe ;-)

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My very first blog :-)

Hello guys! :-) This is my very first blog. Just checking out how tumblr works. Hang on to my blog for more exciting stuff about cooking and many more things..