Dal Makhani

Ingredients

Sprouted moong dal (green gram) – 1cup

Ginger-garlic paste – 1tblspn

Garam masala – 1tspn

Cinnamon – 3small pieces

Ani seeds – ½ tspn

Cumin seeds – 1tspn

Garlic cloves – 5nos

Big onion (chopped) – ½ cup

Small onion (chopped) – ¼ cup

Tomato – 2nos

Oil – 1tblspn

Butter – 1tspn

Salt – as required

Fresh cream – 1tspn

Chilli powder or Sambar powder – 1tspn (if you use sambar powder then no need of Coriander powder)

Coriander powder – 1tspn

Coriander leaves – few

Turmeric powder – few pinches

Curry leaves – few

Method

♥ Heat the cooker, add oil and butter.

♥ Add cinnamon, ani seeds, cumin seeds and garlic cloves.

♥ After 2 mins add chopped small and big onions.

♥ Sauté until onions turns golden brown colour.

♥ Then add ginger-garlic paste and sauté until raw smell disappear.

♥ Add chopped tomatoes and fry few secs.

♥ Then add turmeric powder, sambar or chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder.

♥ Sauté finely till oil gets separate.

♥ Then add sprouted moong dal mix well and add 2 cups of water.

♥ Now add salt and let it boil.

♥ Then close the cooker, put whistle and cook in full flame for 1 whistle.

♥ Then cook in low flame for 5mins.

♥ Turn off the stove, leave it until the pressure releases.

♥ Open add coriander leaves, curry leaves and fresh cream on top.

♥ Serve hot with idly or chapathi or phulka roti.

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A Secret Heart - Part 2

             Part - 1

He looked her for a while without blinking his eyes.

Maya: What happened?

Boy: Nothing…

                He tried to concentrate again in his book. But he couldn’t resist himself from seeing her often. After getting down from the bus, he searched her. He finds her no where. He moved to his college. He felt an unknown pleasure in his mind for the first time in his life. Thinking about her he walked towards his class. On the way he met his best friend sruthi.

                With a smile he said, “Hi sruthi”

Sruthi: Hi Prithvi, you looks so happy today…what’s the matter?

Prithvi: Nothing (he smiled)

Sruthi: Don’t lie, I can see a glow in your face today. Tell me why?

Prithvi: Yes sruthi…you are right…I am very happy today.

Sruthi: Ho… tell me soon what’s the reason for your happiness?

Prithvi: I met a girl in bus…so cute…so pretty…so beautiful like an angel

Sruthi: You are excited for an unknown girl whom you met in bus? It’s a stupid reason to be happy prithvi

Prithvi: You don’t understand what I feel

Sruthi: Ok do you know her name?

Prithvi: No

Sruthi: Know her from where she is?

Prithvi: Nooo

Sruthi: Without knowing anything you are happy for some stranger? You are a real fool

Prithvi: Sruthi…come on… I know it’s difficult to find her and know her without knowing a bit about her. But I don’t know why my mind wish to see her again and again. For the first time I am feeling like this. Her thoughts make me happy. I like this.

Sruthi: i think you gone mad. Its time to meet a psychologist first (she mocked)

Prithvi: Ok let’s have a bet. If this feelings are real, surely I will meet her again today. If it’s not in my fate, then it won’t happen.

Sruthi: Ok lets see. Now class gonna start. Lets move.

                They moved to their class. Sruthi often see him staring somewhere and dreaming without listening the class. In the break time,

Sruthi: Prithvi, I don’t like to see you out of concentration in studies for a thing that won’t happen. So stop thinking about her and be normal.

Prithvi: I am normal, but I am unable to forget her face and smile.

                Sruthi wondered how he changed within a day, that too for an unknown girl.

Sruthi: Ok remember well, if you don’t meet her again today, you must forget her.

                Prithvi gave a strange look and accepted what sruthi said. But his mind prayed, “Oh god, where she is…? Please show me her once more…”

                                                                                                                  -To Be Continued…

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Nature At Twilight

I followed the bunchy ball of clouds,

Crawled high over the sea like sky,

It took me through valleys and downs,

Chirping birdlings as they fly,

I swirl around and around as a breeze,

Dry leaves rustle beneath my feet,

Little noise of bumble bees melody tones to please,

To the nature’s beauty my heart skips a beat,

I gazed the pearls of dews in buds,

Bejeweled by the dazzing rays of sunshine,

Beneath the giggling river in line,

Fluttering, dancing daisies in the muds,

Oh, what a thrilling sight to see,

I rejoiced as I born as new,

Thud, the scritches from squirrels in a tree,

Wild flowers shook their heads in every hue,

As I saw the last dollop of sun,

Sinking slowly in the west,

The darkness pervade to desist my fun,

With the joyous tune in lips, I hark back to my nest.

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Heart Feelings 12

Everyone have that someone whom

they cant rid off completely in their life.

Yes, the soul which follows them

everywhere. Rule your heart, don’t

let others over rule you. Often you

miss yourself in finding love in others.

Trust yourself, treat yourself right, try

To know yourself better. Love you more.

I love myself

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All Good Things Must Come To An End

All good things must come to an end – when there is a start, there must be an end. It’s not only for good things. The verse above is applicable to bad things too. Like birth and death, positive and negative, top and bottom, a beginning has always an ending. Life travels between the two points birth to death.

Everything in life is temporary because everything changes in time. So, if things are going good, enjoy it because it won’t last forever. And if things are going bad, don’t worry because it won’t last forever either. Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

It’s not what you are while born but what you achieved and how you lived your life before your life ends matters. It will decide who you are in this world.

The things which we think as permanent in this world are not truly permanent. The only thing which is permanent in this world is the memories we leave to the next generation of ours. But it’s very hard to achieve such a good deed in the hearts of all in this world.

The process of accepting the temporary nature of everything is called ‘Enlightment’. While your own life and everything around you is temporary, so are your problems. Sometimes life don’t put up on the way what we decide, it drags us to its own way with unlikely changes. Sometimes those changes are good and sometimes it may be a total disaster to life. We must have a hope and remember that everything will pass on sooner or later.

           Never worry about something good had ended so soon, instead take it in this way, a better thing is about to arrive, so a good one ended and don’t forget, nothing is permanent.

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A Secret Heart - Part 1

“Wake up maya, its already late for your college“

On hearing her mom’s voice,

“Please mom just ten more mins”, maya said moaningly.

“It won’t be nicer, if you go to college late on the very first day. Wake up and get ready”

Maya woke up and went to take a refreshing shower.

After shower, she got ready and hurried to move to her college.

“Bye mom, I am going”, said maya in a hurry bury mood.

“No stop, you are not going anywhere without taking breakfast”, maya’s mom rushed out from kitchen with a plate of dosa in it.

“Mom, it’s late, I will have it in college canteen. Cya love you”, maya run towards bus stop without waiting for an answer from her mom.

Finally she got into a bus which is almost full and no place to seat. She managed to stand by holding the bars of the bus. When the bus started to move, she missed the balance and dropped the coins in her hand, which she kept for taking ticket on a boy’s head, who was sitting in the seat and immersed in reading a book.

“Ouch”, screamed the boy.

Maya said,“Oh I am sorry”.

Rubbing his head with one hand, without moving his eyes from book, the boy replied, “It’s ok”.

After sometime, the boy screamed again.

Boy: Ouch

Maya: What happened now?

Boy: Awww, my foot

Maya: You see, it’s not fair, I already apologize to you for my mistake and still you are shouting?

          Suddenly maya realized that she was stepping on the foot of the boy and moved a little.

Maya: I…I am sorry, I really dint…..it was by accident.

Boy: Ateast now you saw.

          The boy closed the book and raised his head to see her.

          Maya blinked helplessly and uttered, “Sorrrry, please sorry”.

          He was stunned.

                                                                                                                            -To be continued

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Chilli Parota

Ingredients

Parotas – 6 nos ( For Parota Recipe Click Here )

Big Onions – 2 nos

Tomatoes – 3 nos

Green Capsicum – 1 no

Garlic cloves – 1 no

Cinnamon – 1 no (small)

Poppy seeds(soaked in water) – 2 tbsp

Cashews – 5 nos

 Green chillies – 2 nos (slit)

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp

Garam masala powder – ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Lemon – 1 no

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Red food color powder – ¼ tsp

Oil as required

Method

♥ Cut the parotas into pieces and keep it aside.

♥ Sauté 1 chopped onion, chopped tomatoes, garlic, cinnamon in oil till they become soft.

♥ Now add turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala and salt and cook for a min.

♥ Let it cool down and grind it into smooth paste with soaked poppy seeds and cashews.

♥ Then sauté 1 chopped onion, green chillies, red food color and required salt in oil.

♥ Add the grinded paste, chopped capsicum and sauté for two mins.

♥ Now add the pieced parotas into it and cook for 3 mins.

♥ Garnish with coriander leaves.

♥ Serve hot with sprinkled lemon juice.

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