Isreali pearl couscous salad loaded with wilted kale/green onions/garlic/olive oil/salt/pepper/deshelled walnuts/deshelled steamed fresh peanuts/roasted pinenuts/jumbo raisins, romaine lettuce n multigrain croutons salad dressed with Olive Garden dressing & pineapple flavoured island soda for Friday 12:30 AM lunch at Work!!TGIF….Spring onions corn mozzarella cheese stuffed pan toasted quesadilla, BBQ flaming hot flavoured ruffles potato chips, koolaid jammers juice & freah cut Bartlett pear for Neer’s Friday school lunch box!Steamed/tempered fresh long squash dumplings (dudhi na Muthiya) & a cup of hot steaming fresh cardamom flavoured Indian style tea in milk (elaichi chai) for Friday dinner at Patels kitchen!
Muthiya (normally it is made of dudhi or methi) is a very popular Gujarati reciepe which can be served as a breakfast, snack, lunch or dinner. My mom who is pro in cooking Gujarati dishes made these by adding blending soaked split husked Bengal gram, rice semolina, shredded long squash, yogurt, ginger paste, garlic paste, green chilli spices n salt to taste. The mixure is shaped/gripped using a small fist and then steamed (It’s named after the way it’s made with the “gripping” action of the fist – “muthi” in Gujarati). The steamed pieces are cut in bite size and tempered with peanut oil/cumin mustard n sesame seeds/asafoetida/finely chopped fresh garlic to make it lipsmaking platter!!!
