Banana, Peanut Butter Smoothie

Banana and peanut butter makes a prefect pair in smoothies. This is one of our family favourite combo in smoothies, i can drink litres and litres of this smoothie, yep i love it that much. Smoothies are quite filling and definitely its my kind of breakfast drink.Am not breakfast person obviously i love to blend fruits with grains or veggies to make a healthy drink whenever i feel lazy to prepare my breakfast.Even these kind of smoothies works wonder when we are in hurry.

If you are yet to try this wonderful smoothie, dont forget to give a try. Am sure you guys will definitely love this nutty as well as very fruity drink at anytime of the day. You can also make a shake with few scoops of banana icecream or vanilla icecream,but however i found that an over ripen banana and a spoon of peanut butter makes a wonderful and filling smoothie.Sending to my event CWS-Peanuts hosted by me.

2cups Chilled milk
2nos Banana (chopped)
2tbsp Peanut butter
Sugar or honey (as per need)

Take the chilled milk,banana,peanut butter,sugar or honey in a blender.

Blend everything as smooth paste.

Serve immediately.

Raw Mango Rice/Maanga Sadham

Raw mango rice is one of my favourite rice dish as like lemon rice. But dunno why i havent posted my favourite rice till now in my space. Since i chosed mango for this week's blogging marathon as theme, this time i dont want to miss to post our family favourite mango rice.This raw mango rice is cooked with grated raw mango and the tanginess for this rice comes from the raw mango and there is no need to add lemon juice in this rice.

We make two version of mango rice, one version is to mix the cooked rice with grated raw mango and the another version is cooked rice mixed along with raw mango paste and then seasoned. Obviously for the second version,the seasoning plays an important role while in the first version, the grated raw mango itself plays a fabulous role. Tangy raw mango will works out wonder for making this mango rice. I usually add the peanuts in the tempering and the addition of peanuts gives a fabulous taste to this rice.If you dont like peanuts, you can also add cashewnuts in the tempering.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 28th edition.Sending to my event CWS-Peanuts hosted by me.

2cups Cooked rice

1cup Grated raw mango

3nos Green chillies(slit opened)

1tbsp Grated ginger

1/2tsp Mustard seeds

1tsp Urad dal

1tsp Channadal

1/4cup Peanuts

3nos Dry red chillies

1/4tsp Asafoetida powder

Few curry leaves

1/2tsp Turmeric powder

Oil

Salt

Take the rice, grated raw mango in a flat plate, add the salt and mix it well.

Heat enough oil in a big pan, let splutter mustard seeds, then add the urad dal,channadal,dry red chillies,asafoetida powder and keep frying.

Now add the curry leaves,slit opened green chillies,turmeric powder and cook for few minutes.

Add immediately this tempered spices to the already mixed rice and mango mixture.

Mix well.

Serve warm with some fried papads.

Mango, Carrot and Corn Salad

I dont want to say again and again that most of our dinner will be either salads or soups. For this week's blogging marathon, am posting this quick,easy peasy and mildly tangy salad as my choice of theme for this week is 'Mango'. In my previous post, i said that mango are showing their head in Indian groceries here and we couldnt resist to them and i picked some fresh raw mangoes from there few days back.

Seriously i never tried my hands in salad with raw mangoes, this time i really want to give a try and finally i did. Trust me, if you are mango lovers like me, am sure that you will definitely go crazy after having this salad. Sweetness of corn and carrot balance very well the tanginess of the raw mango and the crushed peanuts,sesame seeds gives a wonderful flavour to this simple salad. I didnt prepared any special dressing for this salad,just served them with salt,white pepper powder and olive oil. Give a try friends, am sure you guys will definitely love this fabulous salad.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 28th edition.Sending this salad to my own event Healthy Diet-Healthy Salads by Archana of The Mad Scientist's Kitchen and to my another event CWS-Peanuts hosted by me.

1no Raw Mango (large & julienned)
2nos Carrots (medium size & julienned)
1cup Sweet corn kernels (canned)
Handful of raw peanuts (crushed)
1tbsp Sesame seeds
Salt
White pepper powder
Oilve oil (as per need)

Take the julienned raw mango pieces, carrot pieces,sweet corns in a bowl,give a mix.

Now add the crushed peanuts, sesame seeds to the veggies,give a mix.

Meanwhile take the salt,pepper powder,olive oil in a bowl,mix it and keep this dressing aside.

While serving the salad, add the already prepared dressing generously to salad, give a mix and serve.