Onion greens & Strawberries

What do you do when you are very hungry you can eat **anything** and ravage the fridge to find "Absolutely Nothin " [ read Rush Hour style ].

Thats what happend to me last Saturday. Generally when I am hungry I hardly have any patience. I get into the "Grrrrrrrr" mode. Ravi knows that is the time to be as faaaar away as possible from me... I have really worked on this bad habit of mine and now I am more patient when I am hungry. But then I dont have much choice !!!!

So this is what I did -

Washed and added a cup of rice, 3/4th cup of toor dal. Then I added the following
- peeled onion chopped into 4
- halved tomatoes. I had two so used them up
- 3 garlic cloves
- one teaspoon chilli powder
- half teaspoon turmeric.

Pressure cooked with 3 cups of water for three whistles and let it sit for a while. It took about 15 minutes.

I wanted to add some veggie but with absolutely no veggies at home, I was thinking what to do - then I remembered the onion plants I had planted a while ago. Snip snip snip I cut quite a few leaves.

And while the rice was getting cooked, tempered a couple of teaspoons of oil with cumin, mustard and added two handfuls of chopped onion leaves. Sauteed for a minute and added tamarind puree to it. Probably 1/4th cup. Added this mixture to the rice after the pressure had released from the cooker. Added some salt. Voila !!

I really really did not think it will turn out this good. It was a bit of kichidi and bit of sambar rice. I was really pleased with the way it tasted so I thought it was worthy of a post...I loved the end result, I even managed a foto. And then since I used the onion leaves that I grew, it also qualified for GBP -

onion leaves


onion flower- GBP Green Blog Project


Strawberries from farmers' market - Drizzled with honey garnished with home grown mint