27 POTATO CHANNA

Potato/Alu/Aloo Channa(Chick peas)


Potato - 2 medium ( boiled and cubed)
Channa - 1 cup ( 1 can of cooked channa)
Onion - 1 medium chopped fine
Tomato - 2 or tomato paste - 1 1/2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Chilli powder - 3/4 tsp
Channa masala or garam masala - 1 tbsp
Salt as needed
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp

This is just a variation of channa/chole recipe by adding potatoes. Goes well with rotis/chapathis/parathas.

Heat oil in a pan/kadai and add cumin seeds( for some flavor can add a cardamom, clove and cinnamon), wait for few seconds and add chopped onions. Fry till golden brown and add ginger garlic paste. Saute for a minute and add chopped tomatoes or tomato paste( cook till the tomatoes are mashed and pulpy and if using tomato paste- mix well for a minute) and add the powders( can substitute powders of your choice) and mix well. Now add the cooked channa, boiled and cubed potatoes, salt and 1 1/2 cups of water( or add as thickness needed). Cook together for few minutes and remove. Serve with any type of parathas/chapathis.

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59 Announcing my first event "Dosa Corner"

Hosting my first event in my blogging world(blogosphere).

In 7 months of my blogging period I have met so many great friends and also participated in various events which used to give me so much pleasure in posting and linking and also checking the round ups many times.So for a change after posting more than 330 recipes, just thought of announcing an event first to start off with the most favourite dish "DOSAS" . Who would not love dosas be it plain dosa, masala dosa, ghee roast,neer dosa,set dosa, egg dosa and so on......


So friends prepare dosas with any ingredients and size, say as small as a mini uttappam or as big as a family dosa( if your griddle permits) or even a pancake or any dish out of dosas and post it in your blog between July 1st and 31st and link back to this event.

Here is what you have to do:

1) Make any dosa dish and post it in your blog, can also send from your archives provided they are reposted between July 1st and 31st and linked back to this event. Feel free to use the logo prepared just for this event.

2) Multiple entries are most welcome .

3) The entries sent to 'Dosa Corner' can be sent to other events.

4)You can send your entries to padmasrecipes@gmail.com - subject as "Dosa Corner" with the following details.

Your Name:
Blog Name:
Recipe Name:
Recipe URL:
Attach a picture of the dish.

5) Non bloggers too can send their entries with the recipe details and picture if any to my email account. I will add it up in the round up.

Send in your entries on or before July 31,2009.
Expecting your lovely entries.

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26 ABSOLUTELY AMAZING

Got this thru a forwarded mail sent in by a friend. Just thought of sharing this in my blog.

These are best & most powerful when eaten raw.
We're such slow learners...

God left us great clues as to what foods help what part of our body! Earth 's Pharmacy! Amazing!


A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart.
Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen
neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones.
These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.


Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods
(modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries


Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.
A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

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