Health for life

Usually chilly idlies are prepared with leftover idlies,i prepare my idly batter once a week. Obviously we always have leftover idlies at home. Sometimes i finish them as upma or else ill reheat it and have with any chutneys.For the third day of blogging marathon, i combined leftover mini idlies with leftover cooked chickpeas for making this chilly idly, both together turned out dinner simply awesome.

For my surprise even my daughter who hates idlies enjoyed thoroughly and everyone at home loved it.This chilly idly goes for a easy breezy preparation,you can add very much any sort of veggies but i just went for cubed green bellpeppers and chickpeas.Since i had mini idlies, i added them directly to make this dish, in case if you have usual idly, just cut them as small cubes and make out this dish.Sending this rice to my event Healthy Diet-Fast & Quick Healthy Dish guest hosted by Kalpana.Check out the marathoners running this 22nd edition of blogging marathon here.


15nos Mini Idlies
1/2cup Cooked chickpeas
1no Onion (big & sliced lengthwise)
1tsp Ginger garlic paste
2tbsp Tomato ketcup
2tbsp Soya sauce
1tsp Chilly sauce
1/4tsp Garam masala powder
1no Green bellpepper (cubed)
Oil

Heat oil, add the sliced onions,ginger garlic paste and saute until the onions turns transculent.

Add now the cubed bellpeppers, saute for few minutes.

Add the mini idlies,chickpeas, saute for few minutes.

Finally add the ketchup,soya sauce,chilly sauce and garam masala,cook until the idlies gets well coated.

Serve hot immediately.

Been born as a South Indian,my love for chinese foods pulled me to make some wontons at home itself with store bought wonton wrappers i picked from my favourite chinese store.Usually we buy already prepared prawn wontons from the frozen section, but last time when i picked a packet of those famous frozen wontons, for my surprise some wontons are prepared with pork, i immediately left the packet there itself. Now am keeping myself away from those frozen ones.

 Everyone at home started asking for some wontons, finally i decided to make myself at home.I checked few of the chinese sites to get a better idea of making wontons at home and i found that they are very easy when compared to our Indian samosas.

It took less than half an hour for me to make almost 30 numbers of wontons.Needless to say how fast they gets vanished, we just loved it and got some beautiful appreciation from everyone at home, especially from my lil one he told me never to buy those frozen wontons and gave me a big hug as he loved very much these homemade chicken wontons, watelse a mom need na.Sending to Julies Flavors of Cuisine-Chinese.


Recipe Source: Chinese Healthy Cooking
2cups Chicken (breast pieces & grind as bit coarse paste)
1tsp Ginger (grated)
2tbsp Chopped spring onions
1no Egg white
2tbsp Light soya sauce
1/2tsp White pepper
1tsp Salt
2tbsp Corn starch or corn flour
30nos Wonton wrappers

For the sauce:
1tbsp Hot water
2tbsp Sriracha chilly sauce
2tbsp Sesame oil
1tsp Sugar
1tsp Soya sauce
1tsp Vinegar


Take the minced chicken meat with grated ginger,chopped spring onions,soya sauce,salt, white pepper,egg white,corn starch in a bowl and mix it in one direction until everything gets well mixed.

Place a wrapper in your hand, place a teaspoon or tablespoon of filling and fold it to make a rectangle.

Dab water on the left corner,push the middle inside and bring the right corner to the left corner,seel it tightly.

In a pot,bring boil enough water,once the water starts boiling,put 10numbers of wontons and stir gently. Once the wontons start coming to the surface of the water,they are cooked.

Remove it from the water and put in a bowl.

Meanwhile mix all the ingredients given under the list for sauce, add enough sauce to the cooked wontons and serve immediately.

Enjoy these wontons, a prefect appetizier.