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Tender Coconut Ice cream

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My childhood dream when I first tasted the most awesome tender coconut ice cream at naturals, Mumbai. I would wonder how could someone make such delicious lip smacking ice cream. Not sure what took me so long to try my hands with making this absolute beauty.

My recipe, that was just like the Naturals ice cream.

Ingredients:

1) 1 tin milk maid or mithaimate

2) 1 tin fresh cream, I use amul fresh cream

3) 1 tin fresh tender coconut pulp

4) 1 tin milk

Method:

Blend all the above ingredients in a blender/ mixer and leave it to freeze.

After 5 hrs blend it again in the blender/ mixer. Repeat the process 2-3 times.

Creamy yummy tender coconut ice cream ready to be served.

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OMR Food Street, Navallur

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A foodies paradise. After living in various cities in India and visiting many countries across the globe,  As a foodie I experienced  some awesome spread of cuisine. The experience was not one that could be found  in Mumbai, Bangalore or Delhi. This Street food was par excellence, for a movement I was transported to Singapore.

Most of the food is cooked in front of our eyes, the place is clean and hygienic. Hope it remains so for a longer time.

We definitely need to visit this place 5 times to taste all food. But whatever we had was excellent. Special mention to the kunafa, a Turkish dessert. This was in par or even better than the one I had in Dubai. At Rs. 120 for a portion, it sure was a steal deal. The Malaysia mutton Murtabak was yummy and filling for Rs.200 a plate it was meal for 3. The kebabs were juicy and inexpensive. Lamb doner at the Turkish food place needs a special mention too, it was mild spiced and cooked to perfection.

The GMT ice cream place needs a special mention with their ice cream made of goat milk, mild and yummy.

To all my foodie friends outside Chennai, visit Chennai on a weekend and this place will surely be one place I will take you to.

I could just go on and on. But would definitely recommend people of Chennai to visit this place. If you were planning to visit Singapore for their Street food, don’t bother. Visit Navallur instead. This one is close to the navallur toll gate, Chennai.

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Homemade Pav and Bhaji

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Nothing like coming back home from a hard day’s work to a hot kitchen.

Bread dough ready. Veggies pressure cooked.

Bake the buns (pav), sautee the boiled veggies in onion ginger, garlic and homemade tomato puree, with pav bhaji masala and a dollop of butter.

Yummy pav bhaji all homemade ready for a cosy family dinner.

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Fresh Fruit Ice Popsicle

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Fresh Fruit Ice Popsicle.

Summer motives me to try some new recipes that will keep us cool and happy.

Fresh Fruit Ice Popsicle is made out of fresh fruits no water or sugar added.

Mango and tender coconut popciles:

2 ripe mango

1/2 cup tender coconut water

Zest of 1 lime

Pulp of half tender coconut nut

Blend all the above ingredients in a blender and set to freeze overnight.

Water melon, lime and mint popsicle:

2 cups cut water melon

1/2 TSP lime juice

10 mint leaves

Blend all the above ingredients in a blender and freeze over night.

Pomogrenate, black grape and ginger popsicle.

1 cup pomogrenate peeled

1 cup black grape

1 small piece of ginger

Blend all the above ingredients in a blender and leave to freeze over night.

These are absolutely yummy and guilt free indulgence!!!

Enjoy your summer.

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Crepe made by my 14yr old son

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Basic Ingredients:

200- 300ml milk

200 gms flour

3 eggs

1-2 tbsp sugar

1 TSP vanilla essence

2tbsp melted butter

Pinch of salt

For stuffing or garnishing:

Banana or any other fruit (optional) Chocolate sauce or maple syrup (optional) Ice cream (optional)

Method: Mix all the basic ingredients well and spread thin on a non-profit stick pan.

You may stuff the pancake with your choice of fruit. Decorate and garnish the way you like it.
https://yogitauchil.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/crepe-made-by-my-14yr-old-son

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Nasi and Mee

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Simply nice place!

Nasi and mee, literally means Rice and Noodles.

Good ambience, good food and good service.

Started our dinner with prawn dumplings, malaysian chicken satay and hot and sour soup.

The prawn dumplings( prawn har how) was yummy without any seasoning or flavour. The chicken satay had well balanced flavour. The hot and sour soup was mild spiced with yummy shitashi mushroom.

The main course was N&M nasi goreng chicken and lemak rice with chicken Rendang.

We ended our dinner with lychee and lime spritzer and crushed mint and lime soda. Well I really don’t like the brain freeze the crush gives me. So would pass this the next time.

What I really did not like 25% of my bill consisted of VAT, service tax and service charge😏

A good evening with good food.

Nasi And Mee Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

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Fusion Dinner -Spaghetti topped with fried tofu, peanut sauce and garnished with spring onions.

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On a day when I have no clue what dinner is going to be, everything I have in my refrigerator becomes a fusion dinner.

Ingredients:

Cooked spaghetti.

Tofu

Boiled peanuts (since I did not have the roasted peanuts).

Garlic and dry red chillies paste.

Tamrind water

Palm sugar

Salt to taste

Peanut oil

Spring onions leaves for garnishing.

Method:

In a pan shallow fry the tofu and keep aside.

In a pan take some peanut oil sautee the garlic and chilli paste.

Add the tamrind water,  palm sugar and salt, add the ground peanut, bring to boil.

On a plate spread the cooked spaghetti, place the fried tofu on the spaghetti, pour the peanut sauce and garnish with spring onions.

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Basil with a Twist

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This was a buffet with a Twist. Pop up buffet!

Change is good, change is inevitable. The fear of change worries most of us.But if you do not try what is on the other side, you might never know. As far as food is concerned, I love to explore.

Finally I got to go for a team lunch with a group of people who want to explore and not stick to the same old traditional buffet.

Destination “Basil with a Twist” this is one place that’s been on my list for the longest time.

The food right from the soup to the  dessert was excellent.Most of the dishes were made to perfection. Except a few had negligible flaws. Like the chicken crumb fry was hard.

The most important thing that I would like to mention here is the use of fish, for a change unlike most of the restaurants in Chennai, they did not use basa fish.

If you are planning to visit Basil with a Twist you need to be a person who is ok with non spicy food and open to give your Palate  a different taste. I know many of them are not open to try such food and hence will rate the food bad. There is always a big difference between saying I like the food and I did not like the food, rather than saying the food was bad.

For me a must visit place and I sure am going there again.

Basil With A Twist Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato