Tofu Tomato Clear Soup

Soup plays an important role in our daily menu, honestly i can have my bowl of soup at anytime of the day. Yep am a sucker of warm soup, earlier am a person who dislikes the word 'soup', now am just opposite to it. Coz of the chilled evening weather here, i dont have any mood to cook our dinner obviously my mind goes towards the soup, which are quite easier for me than rolling a roti and finding a side dish to it. Coming to this clear soup, i just throwed some chopped tomatoes,chopped tofu cubes in a vegetable broth which i spiced up with green chillies and pepper powder, voila your soup is ready,this is enough to make this incredible warm bowl of clear soup.

An easy breezy soup, gets ready just within few minutes, the cooking time takes hardly less than 15minutes and the soup will be ready to enjoy. I love my soup with dried herbs and hence i used dried basil leaves in this soup, you can replace them very well with freshly chopped any herbs. With a simple sandwich and a bowl of  this soup is very much enough to have a satisfying dinner. If you dont like tofu, you can replace it very well with cubed potatoes, mix and match the vegetables as you desire, am sure this soup will become your favourite.

Urulai Kizhangu Bonda/No Deep Fried Potato Bonda

Chilled weather means deep fried snacks for us. Paris weather is playing around between chilled weather, sudden rain and mild sunny days obviously everyone at home needs some hot,crispy evening snacks to keep them comfort. I prepared this potato bondas few days back with kuzhi paniyaram pan or aebleskiver pan which hardly need a half teaspoon of oil to get ready. This no deep fried potato bonda is definitely a guilt free snacks to enjoy simply with a cup of coffee or tea,trust me they will get vanished quickly one you remove them from the paniyaram pan.

Since this bonda is not deep fried,you can have two more bondas without any hesitation, if you dont like this method, sure you can prepare them by deepfrying. Enjoy this fantastic no deep fried bondas for your evening snacks.Today is the 2nd tuesday of the month, i belong to a group of friends  who shares authentic dishes from Tamilnadu and the name of the event is Tamizhar Samayal Tuesday, please do check the announcement if you want to be a part of it.

                      

Peanut Shallot Chutney

Peanut chutney is our favourite side dish and we love to enjoy thoroughly either with Idlies or dosas. Since i want to add one more chutney with peanuts to my chutney collections, am posting this fingerlicking,nutty, flavourful chutney. This chutney tastes absolutely fantabulous especially with crispy dosas. I bet that you will truly have two more idlies or dosas definitely with this delicious chutney.I picked this chutney from a tamil magazine supplement called 30 varieties of Village foods. Peanuts and shallots makes a fantastic pair and this chutney is our recent favourite. Roasted peanuts gives a wonderful flavour, while the shallots makes this chutney more delicious, since this chutney goes for tamarind and coconut you can have this dish even as side dish for porridge. You can omit very well the tempering part, but i cant imagine chutneys without tempering.

If you dont get shallots, then you can use the red onions here, but trust me shallots will definitely take this dish to an another destination. A completely different chutney to enjoy if you love peanuts and shallots in your chutney.This post goes  for the CC Challenge of the month.

Carrot Coconut Chutney

Chutneys plays an important role in South Indian's breakfast, we love and make varieties of chutneys to relish along with dosas or idlies. My H is an aradent fan of variety foods, obviously if i serve dosas or idlies i need to prepare atleast two side dish to serve along with. Just imagine how much varieties of side dishes i would have tried to serve his breakfast. Coconut and carrot makes an incredible colourful chutney, i tried this chutney few days back for our dinner, we just enjoyed thoroughly this healthy, flavourful and mildly sweet chutney along with dosas.

I used carrot in large quantity and went for coconut in less quantity coz i dont want to add more grated coconut as they can change the texture of this carrot chutney, if you want to add more grated coconut please do, am sure they will taste much better too. Since i want to feed my kids with carrots, i went for this proportion. To spice up this chutney, i used ginger,garlic and tamarind which makes this chutney more flavourful and bit tangy at the same time. Do give a try,am sure your family will love this colourful chutney.This post is going to be a part of Vegan Thursdays, a vegan event happening twice a month.