Drumstick with carrots

These days cooking on a budget is very essential to survive high cost of living.Cook food with flavor and with ingredients in your pantry and you fridge.Drumstick is cheap and is affordable and is healthy .My drumstick with carrots is very tasty and is very simple to prepare.Just chop some carrots with celery and dump it in a pot with drumstick ,cover and cook .There you go dinner is ready.

Ingredients

4 to 6 skinless drumstick 

2 carrots cleaned and chopped

1 celery stick chopped

2 Serrano pepper finely chopped

1/2 green bell pepper chopped

1/2 of an onion chopped

3 gloves on minced garlic

salt to taste

Black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon chili garlic sauce (optional)

                                                      2 tablespoon soy sauce

                                                      chicken stock

                                                     1 tablespoon oil

Method

1 Heat oil in a dutch oven or in a pot ,season the drumsticks with salt and pepper and then place it in the dutch oven.Let it brown on all sides.Remove the drumstick from the dutch oven and leave it aside.

2.In the same pan add in onions let it cook for a minute,then add in garlic,Serrano ,carrots ,celery mix it together and then add in salt and pepper.Cook for couple of minutes then add in chili sauce and soy sauce and mix everything together then add in stock and then the drum stick ,cover  and cook for about 45 minutes or until the drumstick is cooked through.

3 Serve it over with rice or with bread .Enjoy

 

Watermelon Popsicle

Summer lots of watermelon around and one way to use it is to blend and make Popsicle.Yummy and healthy with no hours in in the kitchen.Just blend seedless watermelon.with some lime juice and bananas, place it in molds and freeze it for 4 hours.





Ingredients
4 cups watermelon cut in chunks
1 big banana
juice of 1 lime

Method
1 Place everything in a blender and blend it until smooth,
2.Place it in Popsicle stand and freeze it for 4 hours.
3.Enjoy

Carrot Pancake (Eggless)

Carrot pancake  is delicious and is very good for breakfast or for children who does not like too much of veggies.Just have some grated carrot and mix it with chick pea flour and with some spices makes you a flavorful pancake .People with  diabetes can also have this pancake since there is no sugar or syrup.

Ingredients

1 large carrot grated

1 teaspoon chili flakes

1 cup besan (chick pea flour)

salt to taste

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 tablespoon of minced garlic

1 tablespoon of grated onion

1 tablespoon oil

                                          little bit of water

Method

1 .Place everything in a bowl except oil,then make a thick batter with water.

2 Heat oil in a non stick skillet,wet your palm with water and then take a little bit of the batter and make cake and then place it in the skillet.

3.Cook on both sides until brown on medium low heat.

4.Enjoy with chutneys or with ketchup