Orzo Soup

This is a very Quick and easy soup.
It tastes great with some toasted bread or just by itself.
And you need very few ingredients to make it.
So go ahead and try some!

Ingredients-

4 cups Vegetable/chicken stock or just water will do too.
1 Onion, cut in small dices
1 cup Corn(frozen)
1/2 cup Orzo(rice shaped italian pasta)
1 tsp hot sauce
Salt to taste
Juice of 1 Lime.

Method-

Place all the ingredients, except the limejuice, in the cooker.
Pressure cook till 1 whistle and switch off the gas.
Let the pressure drop on its own.
After you open the cooker, add the limejuice.
And its ready to serve.

Enjoy!

Tongue-Tickling-Stir-Fried Green Beans

We had been to a sichuanese restuarant some days ago and apart from the other items that we liked, this simple Green beans were excellent.

So I tried to recreate them in my kitchen!

You need-

1 pound Green beans

1 tbsp Sesame seeds

1 tbsp minced Garlic

1 tsp Red chilli flakes

Salt and pepper to taste.

1 tbsp Vinegar

i tsp Soya sauce

1 tbsp Oil

Method-

Remove the stems of the beans and wash them well.

Heat oil in a pan or a wok.

Put in the sesame seeds.

Toast them until they crackle.

Then add the garlic and brown it.

Put in the green beans.

Stir well.

Add vinegar, soya sauce, salt, red chilli flakes and pepper.

Mix well.

Stir fry on high flame for 5-8 mins.

And serve hot as a side dish.

Enjoy!

Corn Salad

Asha suggested to me that I must forward this recipe to Hima for her event of What's your Favourite with the theme of Diet Food this month. Thanks Asha.

So this is my contribution for the Diet Food event, Hima.

Corn salad has approximately-
200 calories
2 gms Total Fat
0 mg Cholesterol

Corn Salad is one of the easiest and likeable salad/ side dish/ snack.

It is very nutritious too.

It is also called as Corn Bhel.

I make this salad quite often.

You can make it using fresh corn or the frozen variety.

I always have some corn in my freezer, So I quickly make this as a snack in the evenings often.

To make Corn Salad you will need-

2 cups of frozen or fresh corn kernels

1 Onion

1 Tomato

1 Green Chilli

Juice of half a Lime

Half a cup Cilantro, finely chopped

Salt

1 tsp chaat masala pwdr

Method-

First of all, cook the corn in the microwave on high for 5 minutes.

You can also boil it in the pressure cooker.

For that, fill water in the bottom of the cooker, about an inch and place another vessel in the cooker with corn in it. so that the corn does not become too moist. And pressure cook on high for 5 minutes and then let the pressure drop on its own.

Chop onion, tomato and green chilli.

Mix these chopped veggies in the corn.

Add all the Chaat masala pwdr, salt and lime juice.

Garnish it with chopped Cilantro.

Serve it right away or it tastes great chilled too.