Sweet corn Macaroni Soup

This is one of the dishes I demonstrated on the cookery show on TV (etv-kannada).
Of late, I have developed a great weakness for sweet corn. In all the three shows I have done so far there was at least one sweet corn dish!
Ingredients
1/2 cup sweet corn
½ cup boiled and cooled macaroni
½ cup mixed veg chopped (carrot, capsicum, cauliflower florets)

2 cups milk
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp maida
1 tsp white pepper powder
1/2 tsp sugar
Salt to taste
Oregano (optional)

Method

Melt the butter and add the maida
After a minute add the milk little by little stirring continuously
Add the salt and pepper
If you want to make it more creamy – this is when you add some cheese spread (1 tbsp)
So this is your white sauce.
Meanwhile bring 1.5 cups of water to boil and add al the veggies and sweet corn in it.
Cook it for 5-7 minutes else they become too soft – we need them crunchy
Add the white sauce and macaroni slowly into this and bring to a boil.
You can add a dash of oregano for additional flavour if you wish.
I give it to my kids with dinner rolls or garlic bread
It is very wholesome indeed!

Pineapple Kesaribath

Long time no write !

Here’s again a simple and quick dish with pineapple flavour.

Goes well with Upma, Shavige bath. This breakfast combo is a common one in Kannada-weddings.

It is also something that people used to serve when the boy-sees-girl meetings happened in the past.

We used to refer to this as UK meetings – Upma-kesaribath meetings – where marriages are made!

So, that’s a divine connection indeed!

Nothing should stop you and me to make this on a normal or a festival day and enjoy the taste and laugh about the UK meetings of the past!

Ingredients

1 cup fine (chiroti) rava

1 3/4 cup water

Few Strands of Saffron

1 cup sugar

½ cup chopped pineapple

2 tbsp Refined oil

2 tbsp Ghee (or more !)

Nuts and raisins

Method:

Roast the rava slightly with 2 tbsp oil (should not become brown at the same time should not smell raw)

Boil the water with pineapple and saffron.

Add the roasted rava slowly while stirring to remove lumps.

Allow it to cook for a minute and then add the sugar and stir well.

Cover it and simmer it for a couple of minutes.

Heat the ghee and add nuts and raisins and add to the Kesaribath.

Voila! The pineapple is ready to be savoured !

Variation : You can use mashed ripe banana or even chopped apple with fresh grapes instead of pineapple.