Roundup of Cooking With Seeds - Flax Seeds Event

Hello Friends,


Here is the much awaited roundup of Cooking with Seeds - Flax Seed event, which I hosted in the month of Feb 2010 and I am truly and honestly glad and want to thank that Priya gave me the opportunity to host :)


I received 33 whopping recipes for the ingredient I thought was very difficult to use, out of which 3 were from a non-blogger. I was felt very honored to have received those entries. I would like to thank all my fellow bloggers for their efforts and sending me these delicious recipes. If any of your entries that you sent are missing, please let me know. 


I also would like to thank Priya for sending the most, i.e., 8 entries :)

Priya from Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes sent Flax Seeds & Cornmeal Idli, Bokchoy Kootu,  Eggless Easy Chocolate Cake, Flax Seeds, Onion & Garlic Chutney, Flax seeds Bread Rolls,  Flax seeds & Mixed Greens Paratha, Sugarfree & Eggless Kiwi Muffins, Flaxmeal Tomato Paratha

Gayathri from Kitchen - The Chef's Paradise sent Eggless Banana Raisin Cake

Krithi from Krithi's Kitchen sent Eggless wholewheat blueberry scones, Apple Flaxmeal Chapathi

Ramya from Hot from my oven sent Eggless Bread Pudding

Padma from Padma's Recipes sent Flax Seeds Powder/Podi

Richa from Hobby And More sent Strawberry IceCream Bread,  Dulce De Leche and Agave Multigrain Loaf

Denny from Oh Taste n See sent Flax Banana Muffins, Flax Peanut Ladoo, Multi grain oothappam

Shobha from Foodmazaa sent Mix Dals & Flax Seeds Cheela

Rajeshwari from A Thought Towards Healthy Eating sent Power Berry Smoothie,  Dry Fruits-Nuts Cake (Diwali special), Protein rich Whole grain Chappathi with omega fats

Raji from Vegetarian Tastebuds sent Flaxsees, Oats, Dates and Nuts Ladoo

Priya from Akshayapaatram sent Eggless Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Uma from Trendy Relish sent Flax Flavored Tomato Pappu (Daal)

Sukanya from saffronstreaks sent flax seed pancakes with cinnamon flavour

Cool Lassie from Pan Gravy Kadai Curry sent Eggless Flaxseed Meal Crepes

Priya Mahadevan from Now Serving sent Flaxseed Amaranth Upma Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal from Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes sent Flax and Peanut Chutney Powder

Krithika Rajgopal, a non blogger sent these 3 delicious recipes and pictures.


Sesame and Flax seed rice 

Ingredients
10 gms milled flax seed
40 gms white sesame seeds
2 redchillies
Seasoning:
Mustard, Urad dal, red chillies, green chillies, coconut, curry leaves, hing and salt
Preparation
Roast the flax seeds till you get a nice aroma.  Roast the sesame seeds till they all splutter and change into a nice brown colour.  Roast the broken red chillies separately.  Grind these into a fine powder and keep aside.   Cook a cup of sona masoori rice with little less water than usual so that the rice does not get mushy.  Let it cool.  Prepare the seasoning.  Take about 2 tbsp of oil and roast the ingredients in the order given.  Roast until the coconut slightly changes color.  Keep  a small amount of rice aside and then combine the powder and the seasonings with the rice along with the required amount of salt.  Add some more oil or ghee and check for salt.  If needed add the rest of the cooked rice as well.
Since I am a health conscious person, I try to keep the oil and coconut to minimal quantities.  This can however be adjusted to one's taste.
Serving
This rice goes well with morkuzhambu or aviyal.


Sesame and Flax seed coconut chutney

Ingredients
1/4 cup grated coconut
1 tbsp flax powder
1tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp roasted chana dal(pottukadalai)
1 tsp coriander seeds
red chillies according to taste
small piece of tamarind
salt to taste
Preparation
Roast the flax powder till you get the smell of it.  Roast the sesame seeds, coriander seeds and red chillies separately.  Grind all of this with the rest of the ingredients adding some water.  Splutter some mustard seeds in about 1/2 tsp of oil and pour it onto the chutney.  
Serving
Serve this with idlis or dosas.

Brown rice pidi kozhukkattai with flax seeds

Ingredients
Broken brown rice 1 1/4 cup
Broken tuar dal about a handful
Flax seed powder 5 tsp
Salt to taste
Mustard 1 tsp
Urad dal  2 tsp
Small piece of red chilli
Green chilli 2 nos
Ginger 1 inch piece grated
Curry leaves few
hing
Coconut grated(optional)
Oil 2-3 tbsp
Water 21/2 cups
Preparation
Take oil in a kadai.  Once it is hot enough add all the seasoning ingredients starting with mustard.  As soon as you add the hing, add water and salt and let it come to just close to boiling.  Reduce the flame and slowly add the broken rice and tuar dal stirring at the same time to make sure there are no lumps.  Increase the heat and keep cooking until it comes together to a ball like consistency.  Let this cool a bit.  Once cooled, shape these into oval balls and place them on greased idli plates.  Steam for 15 mts.   Serve with any kind of chutney, sambar or kothsu.
Broken brown rice is not readily available in stores.  It has to be prepared at home.  Wash the rice and let it drain thoroughly.  Spread the rice out on a towel so the residual water is absorbed.  Powder the rice in small batches to the consistency of coarse rawa.
Tuar dal is also to be washed and the water drained completely.  Run this in the mixer in pulses.  This can be much coarser than rice. Coconut oil or ghee  can be combined with refined oil while seasoning for more flavour.


That's all for now. Take care till next post.