I am a winner of a contest !!!!!

Wow!! I am so excited today. Do you know why? I won a contest and this is my first ever food contest participation. You all know I have been hosting a food contest every week, but I didn’t get a chance to participate. Now I know the excitement of winning a contest.

Last week, PureFreshDaily Facebook page announced that they are going to host a contest.The theme was a dish using Apple or Pears. I really wanted to participate. Anyway I didn’t have much time to try a recipe as it was the weekend. Oh!! Weekend is the busiest time than weekdays, but I could manage of preparing a smoothie using Pears.

This is my submission & see the recipe here.

Yes, The competition was closed today & I am the winner. This is their 1^st Giveaway & she is planning to arrange another contest after the page reach 300.Friends,do have a look into the page PureFreshDaily, you may get the next chance to win!!

With this excitement, now I am going to pass my very first awards. I received my first awards from Food Served with Love & Calories. That was another day I was so excited.

Thanking to her, I am passing these 3 awards to following foodie friends.They all have wonderful blogs & they are very nice foodie friends too.

Please grab the awards & pass to your blogging friends.

Appreciate a back link to my blog, also join & follow my blog if not yet.  :)

Sugar Bean Bakers

Food College,PA

Sadaf's Culinary Adventures

Mia's Domain

Everyday Mom's Meals

naidufoodrecipes

Ridwan's kitchen/Asian - spice Mix

Kalyani's Platter

Keene in the Kitchen

Recipes to Nourish

Hope you all will be happy with the awards same as I was happy.

And I wish you all Good Luck in your journey of Cooking....

Have a nice weekend!!

P.S.

Here is a picture of my gift.I recieved it & thought of sharing.

 

Spicy Rice

This is another rice recipe which we love to eat. This is bit spicy but we can adjust the amount of spices according to our taste.

 

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients (For 2 portions)

2 cups of rice

1 onion sliced

2 cloves

1 cardamom

1 inch stick cinnamon

1 tsp chili powder

1 tbspn curry powder

¼ tsp turmeric powder

Butter or vegetable oil

Salt to taste

Method

Wash rice & keep aside to drain water.

Heat 2 tbspn butter/oil in a pan, once it starts smoking; Add onion & sauté.

When the onions are tender, add cloves, cardamom & cinnamon.

Now add rice. Mix well

Allow to fry for about 5 minutes, but keep stirring.

Then add other spices & mix well.

Fry until rice start to pop out.

Then add correct amount of water & cook rice. Add salt, about 1tspn too.

In this stage, I normally transfer rice to the rice cooker .I use 1.5 cup of water for 1 cup of rice.

Once the rice is cooked, serve hot with any curry.

I used some Tandoori  style prawns to garnish.

Tandoori Style Prawns

Tandoori Prawns? Normally we hear Tandoori chicken, isn’t it? Oh my Indian friends, you don’t laugh at me. I am a fan of Indian foods. Last week I was craving for Tandoori Chicken, but when I checked my freezer, I didn’t have any chicken. Anyway I had some prawns. Can’t we try Tandoori Prawns?

Yes,it came out well & was tasty.

Here is my recipe

 

Ingredients

About 100g prawns cleaned, washed

1 cup plain yogurt

1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp Garam Masala (Sri Lankan friends, If you do not have Garam Masala,don’t worry, use some SL roasted curry Powder)

¼ tspn turmeric powder

½ tspn salt

1 tsp ginger & garlic paste

Juice of half of a lime

2 tbspn oil

Red or orange coloring few drops

Method

Mix all spices together & mix with yogurt. You can whish with a fork to get a smooth paste. Then add lime juice too. Mix well.

Add a drop of coloring to the mix & combine well.Tandoori food is always in red/orange colour, Authentic recipe is with some another ingredient which gives the color.

However nowadays edible colors are the option

Adjust the color & prepare the marinade.

Now add prawns to this mix & keep marinating for few hours or at least for 15 minutes.

The correct method is to use a Tandoori oven. But nowadays recipe has changed to use with an electric oven.

Bake the mix in an oven 450 degrees to about 25-30 minutes or until all the juice absorbed.

However I used pan fry method.

Heat 1 tbspn of oil in a flat bottomed pan.

Once the oil is hot, add the mix to the pan.

Allow to cook in very low flame until all the juice evaporated.

Turn the prawns time to time.

Tandoori Prawns are ready to serve.

 

(If you cook Tandoori Chicken, recipe is the same & use chicken instead of Prawns)

'Food of the Week' - Winners (September 2nd week)

Yayyyyy!!!! I am going to announce the winners of the contest of this week!!!

I know you all are waiting to see who the ‘Food of The Week’ is …

The competition was a fun & exciting event. Aha I know now you have much concern when you are cooking & photographing, because you have a contest in Food-Corner ..... :)

Ok,I will not waste time more for talking.

This is the winner!! Yehhhhh The Food of the Week!!!!

Congratulations Everyday Mom’s Meals!!You are the winner!!!!!

This is her submission of Caramal Apple Spice (copycat version for starbucks) :)

Now no need to go for starbucks.We can make it at home!!

Our 2nd place goes to….oh again Everyday Mom’s Meals!!

This is the picture of Pumpkin Fluff .Looks yummy!!

 

And 3^rd place???? Yes again it goes to Everyday Mom’s Meals. What do you think? Seems she is becoming more popular, isn’t it?

This is her submission of Stuffed shells

  

And this is the 4^th place winner. Sadaf’s Culinary Adventures won the ^4th place.

This is her first ever participation to our contest. 

This is the winner picture.Check the recipe here

Our 5^th place winner is Mia’s domain.
Once she won the Food of the Month contest.See the winner result for Month of July.
This is her submission of Cinnamon Apple Donut holes

 

And finally I want to thank you all for participation either by voting or by submitting pictures.

I value all of my fans in Food Corner .Thanks again and hope your participation in future events too.

And these all photos are qualifying to our month end competition .One of them can be ‘The Food of the Month’.

Have a nice weekend!!