Mung Bean Sprout Salad - yet another version

This is a relatively simple salad. Easily serves 6 people.
You Need
Sprouted Mung Bean - 2 cups
Carrots - 4 or 5 Grated
Corn - 2 or 3 (grilled and rubbed with lemon and salt)

To see how you can make these sprouts read this.
Here is a look at my sprout maker.
Steam the Mung Bean sprouts with little water till they are slightly soft.
Let them cool.
Take the corn and remove all kernels and let cool.
Now bring the 3 of them together, and add a bit of salt and lemon juice and a teaspoon of olive oil and serve almost with anything...
I have added a bit of grated mangoes... to this but its optional....

Sedona White Corn Torilla soup

California Pizza Kitchen is my all time favorite restaurant. I just love everything about it right from the decor to the food. My fav pizza there is the Tostada. Everytime I walk in, I will say to my family that "Today I will order something else other than a tostada" and then order the Tostada breaking all the rules!! I just love that pizza.

We go there almost 5 to 6 times a year!

This is a soup from that restaurant. I have this recipe book, with some of the recipes from CPK.I made this for a party so I tripled the ingredients, tasted great!

Some people found the soup to be spicy so you can tone down the jalapenos if you don't want it to be that spicy!!

California Pizza Kitchen Sedona White Corn Tortilla Soup

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients

3 Tbsp Olive Oil

1 1/2 seven-inch Corn Tortillas cut into 1" squares

1 1/2 Tbsp. minced fresh Garlic

2 Tbsp. minced White Onion

1 1/2 ts minced Jalapeno Pepper

1 lb. White Corn kernels

1 1/2 lbs. chopped; ripe red -Tomatoes

1/3 c Tomato Paste

2 1/2 ts ground Cumin

1 Tbsp Kosher salt

1/8 ts ground White Pepper

1/2 ts Chili Powder

1 1/2 c Water

1 qt vegetable stock

24 blue corn tortilla chips -(optional garnish)

2 c shredded cheddar cheese -(optional)

1/2 c chopped fresh cilantro -(optional)

Instructions

--->Over medium-high heat, fry tortilla squares in olive oil until they beginto crisp and turn a golden yellow.

--->Add garlic, onion and jalapeno; cook 1to 2 minutes, until onion becomes translucent.

--->Add half the corn along withall other ingredients (except garnishes), reserving other half of corn tobe added atthe end. Bring the soup to a low, even boil.

--->Boil for 5 minutes.Remove soup from heat.

--->Use a hand blender to process in batches to the consistency of coarse puree

If you dont have a hand blender, just put it in your food processor or mixer and make puree in batches.

--->Add the reserved corn to the puree

--->Bring the soup toa boil once again being extremely careful to avoid scorching or burning thesoup.

--->Serve, garnished with blue corn tortilla chips, cilantro and sharp cheddar cheese.

I also added some chopped green onions to it. Tasted Yummy!!!!

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Butter Corn

This is one of the snacks I make for my kids, when they are back from school.

It is one of the easiest. I have taught them to make it for themselves also.

You need

Frozen Corn- 2 cups

Salted Butter- 2 Tablespoon

Lemon Juice - 1 teaspoon

Water - 1/3 cup

Method

---> In a pan, add the frozen corn and water and keep the stove on a medium fire, and let it boil for 3 to 5 minutes, until most of the water is evaporated.

---> (you can do this in the microwave also, add little more water if you do that, cook for 3 minutes)

---> Add the butter and lemon juice to this and eat it hot...

(The only thing is the microwave dries it out and on stove top it is moist. So add more water and little more butter)

Tastes great on a cold winter day.

We first had it in Spencer Plaza, Chennai, India, and ever since my son became a fan.

He makes this on his own.

In chennai they make the plain version which is the one above, a chinese version (instead of lemon juice add soy sauce and some chili sauce), a chaat version (along with lemon juice and butter, add some chaat masala and red chili powder) and one more version, i cant remember. The smallest size cup was the bathroom cups they have here and it would sell for 70 rupees in 2002. We would end up spending 600 rupees there itself!