Gheza-e-shiriin: Winners for Ahlan Ramadan

Thanks Hasna for handling our event and giving us a delicious roundup of the recipes of the participants. Please check below the details for the winners and the entire roundup.

It's time for winding up the 'Ahlan Ramadan-the Healthy Way' event. We had a wonderful time hosting this event & giveaway. Inspite of all our busy schedules, we managed to handle this event quite nicely. Thank you Rafeeda and Hasna for being such wonderful co-hosts.

We did receive 112 entries from bloggers and 6 from non-bloggers. Recipes are so good and I kept staring on all the pictures while I was working on the round-up . Thank you all who took few minutes from your busy schedule to link in recipes and make this event a big success! We couldn't include a few recipes in this round-up as some blogs do not have option to save their pictures and we didn't receive any reply for our messages also. We shall update this page as soon as we get those pictures. If there is some entries that I missed or did some mistake with the names or link, please do send me a message or mention in the comments below so that I can rectify. I can't conclude without mentioning a few names who linked in most number of entries to this event; Priyas easy N tasty recipes, Delectable Flavors and Babi's recipes ; Thank you girls !

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Rukhsar Nadiadwala of Sasumma's Recipes

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Congratulations Winners !!

Entries linked in to the Event:

1. Shepherd's Pie from Suji's Cooking Lab

2. Baked Meduvada with Tomato Chutney from Home Cook Food

3, Mango/Pineapple Coolatta from Home Cook Food

4. Summer Pudding from My Style of Recipes

5. Apple Pola from Fam's Culinary Recipes

6. Kebab-e-murgh from Ainy Cooks

7. Stuffed chicken Cheese Bake from Ainy Cooks

8. Wholewheat Cinnamon Rolls from Recipes Mine

9. Peanut Balls from Priyakitchenette

10. Masala Cups from Febi's cookbook

11. Paneer khurchan from Priyakitchenette

Entries from Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes

12. Ajwain Layered Paratha & Aloo soya Curry

13. Amla Rose Punch

14. Mango Chaat

15. Coriander Coconut Milk Paratha

16. Eggless Barnyard Millet Pancakes

17. Green Gazpacho

18. Grated Gooseberry Pickle

19. Greenpeas, Potato & Puffed Lotus seed in Green Gravy

20. Karunkuruvai Rice Dosa

21. Kattuyanam Rice Idli

22. Lime Clementine Mocktail

23. Green Peas Masala Sundal

24. Pina Colada Mocktail

25. Little Millet & Black Urad dal Dosa

26. Soya Sauce Cauliflower Steak

27. Tofu Pad Thai noodles

28. Kodomillet Curd Rice

29. Wheat Flakes Chivda

30. Cookbook Paratha by Priya Kitchenette

31. Nombu kanji from From My Own Kitchen

32. Wheat Samosa from Fam's Culinary Recipes

Entries from Babi's Recipes

33. Grape popsicle

34. Bread Bajji

35. Chettinad Pavakkai kuzhambu

36. NO bake Mango cheesecake

37. Onion Poha

38. Chickpeas Pulao

39. Eggless Kulkus

40. Cabbage Kofta Curry

41. Gulkhand Ice tea

42. Low fat mango fool

43. Dried Peas Chaat

44. Bread Pizza

45. Baked Potato Wedges

46. Mirch ka saalan

47. Colorful Capsicum Rice

48. Chicken Kurma

49. Mango Phirni

50. Raagi Banana Eggless Muffins

51. Chicken spring roll from Tasty Dining

52. Chana Dal cake from Tasty Dining

53. Chicken Majboos from Fam's Culinary Recipes

54. Bottlegourd cowpeas curry from Sara's Tasty Buds

55. Barnyard mililet pongal from Priya kitchenette

Entries from Delectable flavors

56. Chettinad Kheema Podima

57. Chettinad mutton curry

60. Chettinad Prawn biryani

61. Tangdi Kebab

62. Veg. Fried Rice

63. Kodo millet dumplings from Priyas kitchenette

64. Chicken pepper balls from A bowl of Curry

65. Corn Puttu from Priyas Kitchenette

Dahi Papdi Chaat from Priyas kitchenette

66. Dahi Vada from Faji's hotpot

67. Chicken Puttu from Shabbu's tasty kitchen

68. Kadala Curry from Priya Kitchenette

69. Karimeen fry from A Bowl of curry

70. Peas Mutta Fry

71.Prawns Packet from Febi's cookbook

Entries from Mayuri's Jikoni

72.Apple & Date Muffins

73.Eggplant Subji

74.Beetroot Ice creams

75.Custard Cookies

76.Mooli parathas

77. Corn and Beans Quasedilla

78. Orange Basil Juice

79.Barley Broccoli rolls

80.Braided Pesto Bread

81.Peanut Butter cookies from priya kitchenette

82.Soyabean Drink from Abby's space

83.Mixed Biriyani from Fam's Culinary Recipes

84.Healthy Barley Porridge from Abby's spice

85.Pasta with veggies from Abby's spice

86. Steamed wholewheat Pau from Abby's Spice

87.Steamed wholewheat bun from Abby's spice

88. Nombu Kanji from Kitchen Samraj

89. Steamed Mini Moist Cake from Abby's Spice

Some more from Delectable Flavours

90. Chettinad Prawn Masala

91. Spicy Squid Masala from Delectable Flavours

92.Samai Mushroom Biriyani

93. Mango Halwa

94.Coconut Barfi

95.Banana Bread

96. Raw Banana fry

Entries from Cutchi Kitchen

97. Sesame Peanut Noodles

98. Shish Tawouk

99. Chicken Fajitas

100. Kaale chane ke kebab

101. Tri-color fruits and nuts agar-agar from Cookbook Jaleela

102.Badam Pista Ice-cream from Cookbook Jaleela

Non-bloggers entries:

103.Egg Chutney Kebab from Sufaija Zainuddeen

Recipe for egg chutney kebab

Ingredients:

Eggs,hard boiled and cut lengthwise- 5 nos
Egg white,lightly beaten-2 nos
Oil- for shallow frying

For coconut chutney:

Grated coconut - 1 cup
Green chilies-3 to 4 nos( according to taste)
Ginger-1/2" piece
Garlic- 3 cloves
Curry leaves-1 sprig
Coriander leaves,chopped-2 or 3 tbsp
Lemon juice- 1 tsp
Salt-to taste

Instructions:

Combine all the ingredients listed under ' For coconut chutney' in a blender and grind to a paste.
Cover each egg piece with the prepared chutney.(over the cut surface.)
Evenly dip this in egg white and shallow fry carefully.

Serve with tomato sauce.

103. HANDVO from Sufaija Zainuddeen

1 cup rice
1/4 cup chana dal
1/4 cup urad dal split with skin
1/4 cup toor dal
1 teaspoon turmeric
About 1 inch piece ginger chopped
1-2 green chili adjust to taste
1-3/4 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons sugar

1/8 teaspoon asafetida

1/2 cup yogurt

2 tablespoon oil

1 cup laucki shredded (opo squash, bottlegourd, doodhi)

1 teaspoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon Eno fruit salt

For Seasoning

1 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1/8 teaspoon asafetida
1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Also need

2 teaspoon oil to grease the baking pan
8×8 baking pan, for this recipe I prefer glass baking pan

Method

Wash and soak rice, chana dal, toor dal, and urad dal in about four cups of water for at least four hours.
Drain the water and blend soaked rice, lentil, ginger, green chili to lightly coarse texture, (try not to use any water). I prefer to use food processor, add yogurt, turmeric, salt, sugar and asafetida, blend it again for few more seconds. Transfer the dal mix into a bowl and let the mix ferment for about 10 to 12 hours.
Add the opo squash, 2 tablespoons of oil, lemon juice to the fermented dal mix and mix it well. Add ENO to the mixture and mix, this will make the handvo mix light and fluffy.
Grease the 8×8 baking pan generously and pour the handvo mix into the greased pan. Tap the pan; it will help spreading the mix evenly.
Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the handvo batter.
Heat the oil for seasoning in a small pan over medium heat, after oil is moderately hot add the mustard seeds and asafetida as mustard seeds crack, turn off the heat.
Drizzle the seasoning over the top of the sesame seeds.
Cover the pan with aluminum foil and place the pan on middle oven rack and bake at 350 degree F, preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Remove the foil and bake for another 20 minutes until top of the handvo is light golden brown or until knife inserted in center of the cake comes out clean.
Let the handvo cool off for about 15 minutes. Cut them in sixteen pieces. Handvo is ready to serve.

104.Banana chocolate chip baked Oatmeal by Sufaija Zainuddeen tried out from here

105.Mutta Adukku by Farisha TP

Ingredient

For batter:

Maida -2 cups

Egg -5

Milk – 1cup

Salt – as required

For masala:

You can use samosa filling or any other masala. Here I used chicken masala.

Chicken breast -2

Onion -1 chopped

Ginger- garlic paste – 1tsp

Garam masala- ½ tsp

Green Chilly- 1 (finely chopped)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp

Salt & pepper

Oil

Coriander leaf

ginger&garlic paste-1 tsp

Method:

Cook the chicken breast with salt and pepper and shred. Heat oil in a pan and saute ginger garlic paste. when the raw smell goes add onion, green chillies and sauté well until it change the colour. Now add all masala powders and then chicken pieces. Mix well and add coriander leaf.

In a bowl add maida, milk, beated egg and salt and make it as dosa batter (if required add more milk). Heat dosa tawa and brush some ghee on it. Pour dosa batter, it should not be too thin. When it is half cooked put masala on one half of the dosa, and cover it with other half. Press the ends carefully. Apply ghee in the remaining side of the tawa and pour the batter from the center of the cooked dosa to the remaining side. Now when it is half cooked, put masala on that side and carefully turn the dosa (already cooked half). Again apply ghee in the blank side of tawa and repeat the above procedure. You can prepare lots of layers, it is up to you. Serve it hot.

106. Easy Haleem by Farisha TP

Ingredients

1. Boneless Chicken/ Mutton/ meat -100 gm

Onion -1 (chopped fine)

Ginger –garlic paste – 2tsp

Green chilly paste -1tsp

Coriander leaf paste -1tsp

Cardamom -1 or 2

Cinnamon – 1 small piece

Glove-2

Lemon juice – 1 tbsp

Yogurt – 1tbsp

Salt & pepper powder –as required

2. Wheat powder -3 tbsp

Coconut milk – 1 cup

Salt –as required

For Garnish

Ghee

Onion - ¼ cup

Raisin

Cashew

Lemon -1

Method:

Marinate Chicken (I used chicken here as considering healthy recipe. you can use mutton/ meat) with the ingredient 1 for 20-30 minutes and cook well with enough water. When it is cooked keep the stock aside and once it is cooled grind / shred the pieces.

Mix wheat powder with ½ cup water and salt without lumps. Now in a pan add coconut milk and wheat powder and cook in low flame. Stir continuously, otherwise it will stick into the bottom. When it is cooked properly add chicken stock and ground/ shredded chicken (meat) and continue to cook another 15 minutes.

Fry onion, raisin and cashew in ghee. Put the haleem in serving dish and garnish with fried onion, raisin and cashew, add ghee also (optional). Serve it hot with lemon.

107. Pakistani haleem by Amreena

Ingredients
Ginger garlic paste 1tbsp
Onion chopped 1/2 cup
Rose petals 1/4cup
Green chilly 5
Ghee 1/2 cup
Dalia (broken wheat) 1/2cup
Oats 1/4 cup
Almonds 6
Chana daal 1 tsp
Masoor daal 1 tsp
Urad daal 1 tsp
Sesame seed 3 grams
Cumin seeds 4 grams
Cloves 2 grams
Pepper corns 3 grams
Cinnamon sticks 2 inch
Cardamom 8
Shahi jeera 2 grams
Kabab chini 2 grams
Chicken 750grams
Milk 1 cup
Salt
Fried onions 1/2 cup
Curd (optional) 2 tbsp
Coriander 1/2 bunch
Mint chopped 1/2 bunch
Direction
1.take a bowl add kabab chini,shahi jeera,green cardamom,cinnamon sticks,pepper corns,cumin seeds,moong daal,chana daal,almonds,oats,broken wheat,mix this all togather put it into the blender and make a powder
2.heat ghee in a pressure cooker,add ginger garlic paste,saute it and add chicken pieces,add chicken stock,mix it well,add fried onions,rose petals,curd,green chilly,chopped coriander,chopped mint,salt and add prepared powder,mix it well and put lid on and let it cook for 2 whistles in a high flame and reduce flame n cook it for 40 minutes in a slow flame.
Then take potato masher and mash it like a paste,add ghee,mix it and switch off the flame and add lime juice.mix it well.serve hot.

Winners for Ahlan Ramadan - The Healthy Way