Yellow lentils and white rice

Was craving carbs so made some rice and dal.

1. Cook 1/4 cup yellow lentils with plenty of water in a pressure cooker till it becomes soggy. I cooked them on medium flame for 20 minutes.

2. Fry (in order)

2.1. 1 tsp minced garlic

2.2. 1/2 tsp black mustard seeds

2.3. 1/2 tsp cumin

don't burn any of the above so quickly add:

3. 1 vine tomato

4. Add 1 tsp turmeric (1/2 tsp), 2-3 curry leaves, salt, red chilly powder (4 tbsp) and keep stirring till it becomes a paste.

5. Add 1 cup rice, 2 cups water, cumin, cinnamon and butter in another utensil and cook on medium flame.

6. Now add the yellow lentils to the tomato paste. Stir and cook till it simmers.

7. Add a small pinch of compounded asafoetida. This is the wasabi of Indian spices. Don't go crazy.

8. Chopped cilantro would have been nice to add. It tasted a little grainy today so squeezed a thin slice of lemon on it. Much better!

One the rice is ready, mix and eat :)

Sweet Corn Chicken Soup

Hello Audience!

My blogs are going to be about my cooking experiments in Seattle. I am an amateur cook. My focus is:1. Should be low cal 2. Should be tasty 3. I shouldn't have to order pizza too often.

I like trying various cuisines and cooking almost every dish I know in rotation. I feel if your body is deficient of a certain food group, your stomach will crave some food that has it and you gotta think of a quick recipe around it.

Once again:

food group deficiency (example: iron)-> stomach craves food that has it (example spinach) -> think of a recipe (example spinach soup/ salad etc)

cool

Today I had a cold so I made this.

I don't measure ingredients. Just use my own estimation. Its better to develop that skill. Why? Let me give you an example: You have a recipe that needs a pound of chicken. You go to the store and your options are: 9.5 pounds and 1.15 pounds. You spend the rest of the afternoon playing with numbers of your supercool infallible recipe. *dislike or waste the remaining chicken or save it in the fridge (worst of the three)

So I'll just give you a rough idea about measurements.

Lets start:

On bowl of sweet corn chicken soup. See picture.

1. Take a small utensil and pour a bowl of water in it.
2. Add 2 chicken party wings, salt and pepper
3. Boil till you cook the chicken thoroughly. It takes me 20 minutes.
4. Add corn flour. I added approx 4 tbsp but more would have been better
5. Beat an egg loosely with a spoon.
6. Add slowly while stirring around with a fork
7. Add whole kernel sweet corn. Rinse first.
8. Add some soy sauce.

Tada you are done!