Minty Chickpeas Vada / Mint Chickpeas Vadai / Chickpea Vadai

For the last day of BM #16, I am going to share a super yummy n healthy snack, Chickpea vada or Kondakadalai vadai recipe with my Star Ingredient - Chickpeas/Channa. First I wanted to make oven roasted chickpeas for snack then changed my mind & tried this crispy Chickpea vada with mint flavor.

Poornam Boorelu With Chickpeas ~ Low Calorie Version!

Hi Folks,Hope you all enjoyed your weekend n buddies Here in US still in the holiday mood rt?! due to Memorial day- holiday!! Actually we planned for a trip to enjoy this long weekend but from Friday i caught with cold n Flu suffered with severe body ache. So all our plan was dropped ok we planned again next month :) Today i am feeling much better.
For Day 6, under the theme Pick One Cook All with my star Ingredient, "Chickpeas/Channa" here comes a Sweet recipe, Poornam Boorelu with Chickpeas. Poornam Boorelu is a traditional Andhra Recipe which is done with channa dal and deep fried with urad dal batter. I replaced channa dal with chickpeas and instead of deep frying i used my Paniyaram Pan to fry them. I love anything with jaggery in any form. I just love this version a lot n my kids too. Urad dal n Jaggery n Chickpeas are well know for its nutrients n vitamins n iron contents so without spoiling its health factor i simply made this delicious sweet in Paniyaram Pan as low calorie guilt free sweet. Hope u too like it and do try this at home and enjoy! Now to the recipe...

Cilantro Lime Chickpea Salad

For Day 5 of BM#16, I am going to share a simple and very refreshing Salad with my star ingredient, Chickpeas/Channa/Garbanzo Beans. Usually i make Sundals for my evening snack and sometimes will skip cooking n simply toss the legumes/dals with lime n carrots or even sometimes with yogurt. Salads which doesn't require cooking/half cooking process impress me a lot. One such recipe was this Cilantro Lime Chickpea Salad which I bookmarked @ Heather's Dish. In the original recipe, she added pulsed baby spinach but I skipped it becoz I didn't have it and also made it little Desi Style with the addition of kashmiri chilli, chaat masala and cumin powder. I loved eating this salad a lot than the chickpeas Sundal. This is very refreshing, tangy n lil spicy. Perfect for both Sunny & Rainy  days. Friends do give it a try, its very simple and I am sure you will also love it like me. Now to the recipe...

Mixed Veg N Chickpeas Clear Soup

For Day 4 of BM # 16, I am going to share a very healthy n yummy soup with my Star Ingredient "Chickpeas" along with mixed vegs like carrot,beans n sweet corn. Running 4th day of Blogging Marathon under the theme "Pick one Cook All" with Healthy n light Soup. This soup recipe was adapted from Priya's Blog. I am a big fan of Her easy n healthy soups n this Broccoli Chickpeas Clear Soup is one of my fav recipe n bookmarked it long back. I am not much fond of soups and also so lazy to make it but i love the Instant Maggi/Knorr soups. This chickpeas clear soup is one of the easiest n simple recipe, Instead Broccoli i added mixed vegs of my choice n it turned out so good n filling. Even my 3yr old enjoyed sipping the soup. I love to much the croutons dipped in hot soup...Mmmm!! Thank you so much Priya for this healthy n tasty soup. The recipe as follows...

Curried Chickpeas Masala Dosa

Today also we are going to see a another Main course entree with Chickpeas/Channa/Garbanzo beans. For this i made, Masala Dosa with curried chickpeas/chickpeas curry. I love dosa with stuffing a lot, i have posted a few variety of masala dosa recipes. Click Here for the recipes. This curried chickpeas recipe was slightly adapted from Thaifood.about.com. For this masala dosa i added few finely chopped onions,cilantro n drops of lemon juice. It tasted so yummy with refreshing flavors. I have tried a similar one with my Tomato Masala Dosa. This curried chickpeas masala dosa is very nutritious and filling...No need for special sidedish but it tasted yummy with Onion Tomato Cilantro Chutney n Sambar. First time i made this recipe with chutney n sambar but on that i couldn't able to click neatly, so again next day i made this curry but with store bought dosa batter...and also didn't get time to make chutney n sambar...on that day i was in hurry n also kids were at home...lots of confusion, so totally forgot to take Curried Chickpeas separately n clicked some closeup shots with dosa alone. If kids are at home, then i can't do any of my work properly...two naughtly boys will be troubling me lot. okk will move onto the recipe...

Chickpeas Coconut Milk Biryani / Channa Biryani with coconut milk

For Day 2 of Blogging Marathon under the theme "Pick one Cook All" with chickpeas/channa as my star ingredient, we are going to see a Main course entree, yummy Chickpeas Biryani with coocnut milk. Its been so long time i made biryani using coconut milk. Due to calorie conscious i completely stopped using coconut milk in my cooking. For a change, i tried this chicpeas coconut milk biryani. I marinated the chicpeas with yogurt n other spices like chicken/meat and cooked in non-veg biryani style. Biryani turned out so delicious, still the taste n flavor lingering in my mind. Now to the recipe...

Chickpea Tikki Recipe / Chole Tikki Recipe /Chickpea Kebab Recipe - Vegetarian Kebab

Chickpea Tikki Recipe with step by step photos. I am so happy to join Blogging Marathon # 16 after a month break. This time I made everything in advance ie., I prepared all seven recipes soon after the theme announcement. Keeping my health issue in mind this time I have chosen all simple and easy to do recipes.