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Hereafter the recipes roundup would be divided into Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian recipes, as requested by some of the bloggers and readers...

Vegetarian

Nishasta - Recipe Alone by - Deepika of My life and Spice

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Naan with Garlic & Cilantro Anshu - My Mom's Recipes	Naan Shoba - Food Mazaa
Nan Khatai Akila - Learning-to-cook	Nutbar Mango Icecream Beena - Cooking at Mayflower
Nei Choru / Ghee Rice Suja Manoj - Kitchen Corner	Naan Akheela - Torview Toronto
Nucchinunde Sumana - Sum's Cuisine	Nutty Strawberry Milkshake Shama Nagarajan - Easy2cookrecipes
Nariyal Ladoo Preeti - Preeti's Kitchen Life	Noodles Veggie Biriyani Shama Nagarajan - Easy2cookrecipes
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Nutritious Chickpea Cutlet Madhu - Indian Vegetarian Recipes	Natilla with Strawberry topping Krishna - From a girl's mind
Nei Urundai Akila - Learning-to-cook	Nutella Truffles Akila - Learning-to-cook

Nishasta - Recipe Alone - Sent by Deepika of My life and spice

Milk 1 cup
Water 1/4 cup
Sugar 1Tbsp
Ghee 1tsp
Saffron a pinch

To soak:
10-12 almonds.
3-4 munakka (sultanas/ large raisins)
1tsp magaz (melon seeds)
1-2 pods green cardamom

1. Soak the almonds and everything else for 4-5 hrs, or overnight. Then peel off the almonds.
2. Soak saffron in cold milk.
3. Now grind everything together to make a fine paste
4. Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed kadai and sauté this paste till ghee leaves the sides.
5. Pour in your milk.
6. At this point, I rinse my grinder with a 1/4 cup of water and pour that in too.
7. Bring it all to a full boil, then add the sugar and mix.

Non-Vegetarian

Naatu Kozhi Soup/Clear Chicken Soup Divya - You too can cook Indian Food recipes	Nethili Meen Varuval / Anchovies Fish Fry Akila - Learning-to-cook
Nethili Sambal / Ikan bilis Sambal / Anchovies Semi Gravy Akila - Learning-to-cook	Nethili Karuvadu Kuzhambu Akila - Learning-to-cook
Nandu Masala / Crab Masala Akila - Learning-to-cook	Nandu Curry / Crab Coconut Curry Akila - Learning-to-cook
Nandu Upma/Crab Upma Akila - Learning-to-cook	Naasi Goreng Shoba - Food Mazaa
Niramish or Prashadi Mangsho Shoba - Food Mazaa	Nargisi Kabab Shoba - Food Mazaa
Naatu Kozhi kuzhambu Tamilarasi - Tamilskitchen	Nadan Kozhi Thoran Sumanarthy - Sumanarthy's Kitchen
Naatu Kozhi Varuval Akila - Learning-to-cook	Naatu Kozhi Biryani Akila - Learning-to-cook

Mushroom Pepper Gravy

I am not into blogging for more than couple of weeks as I am busy with my uncle family. They came first time to Singapore and we are just showing the places in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. In two weeks time, we tried to cover, as many places as we can and finally they went back to India 2 days before. After taking rest for 2 days and now I am back again to my blogging world. Because of this, I could not update the recipe entries for the event also and today I sat and finished all the updating works. This recipe, i did 3 weeks before, but now only found time to post it.

Ingredients

• Mushrooms - 2 cups
• Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Star Anise - 2
• Bay leaves - 1
• Cardamom - 2
• Cinnamon Stick - 1
• Cloves - 3 to 4
• Onions - 2 (large) (chopped finely)
• Tomato - 2 (chopped finely)
• Ginger - 1 inch (cut lengthwise)
• Curry leaves - 8 to 10
• Green chillies - 2 to 3
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
• Black Pepper - 1 tsp
• Garlic - 4 to 5 pods
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Butter - 1 tsp
• Oil - 3 tsp
• Salt - as per taste
• Water - as needed
• Lemon Juice / Rice vinegar - 1 tsp (optional)

Method

• In a kadai/wok, add oil.
• When it is hot, add the whole garam masala (fennel seeds, star anise, bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon stick, cloves).

• Add the cumin seeds and onions and fry for few min or until the onion becomes translucent.

• Add salt and turmeric powder and ginger and saute, till the raw smell of the ginger goes off.
• Add the curry leaves and green chillies. Fry for 2 min.

• Add the Tomato and saute well.

• Add the mushrooms and if needed add little water, as the mushroom itself leaves water and cover it with a lid and allow to cook.

• Meanwhile, crush the garlic, cumin seeds and pepper corns and keep aside.

• In another pan, add 1 tsp butter, and add crushed garlic, cumin seeds and pepper corns and add coriander leaves, cumin powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and fry for a minute.

• Now transfer the mushroom gravy to this pan and mix well with the pepper and garlic mixture. (or vise versa)

• Allow to cook for another 5 min and add lemon juice and switch off.

• Serve hot with any roti, chappathi, or even any fried rice.

Note:

• I used Button Mushrooms. You can try with other varieties also.
• Cut the mushrooms, just before cooking, as the mushrooms turns dark fast.
• Adding lemon juice/vinegar is optional, but it enhances the taste

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My event - Dish Name Starts with M
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