Buuurppp..!!! Heavy Lunch…. !!! Pardon me. I like spicy. J and if it’s a perfect blend of salty, just
makes a full tummy.
Taste buds are something that have wide variations based on
ethnicity, class of living, place of living, not to be called a “copy cat” and
so on.
I still remember my craving for a cooked omelette. 3 to 4
eggs a day was a number I could keep as a minimum. I have my mom’s taste buds
:P. Her favourite savoury is butter fried bread and omelette.
From when I was a kid, I never was very attracted to food,
unless and until it looked delicious and was crispy and crunchy. So to keep up
my picky eater regime continue, mom had to sign away our kitchen accounts for
the oil part of it. I was fed crunchy “carbon fish” so that the flesh doesn’t
appear in my sight. Mom used to cunningly slip a piece of fish into my rice
balls and lovingly feed my mouth until I once found out the secret of love.
Only fairly vegetables and dishes with “nice to hear” names
caught my focus. So mom had to serve a lot of soups as those were Chinese and
sounded amazing. Chicken soup cubes were mixed in my everyday delicacies and I
never came to know.
Being brought up by a very strict mother, was the difficult
part of the whole childhood span. But however I could never eat my Cuckoo. [Cuckoo
was the name of my pet rooster, 1 among the 13 we had]. He had fire like
feathers and had a crown like red flame, the majestic one among all of them. I
was 2 or so, when I saw him dangling in one of those twigs in our backyard. I
found it fascinating and laughed my heart out and howled at him and others to
catch attention. :D. But Uncle Suri had other plans.
It was a “Thwack… Bam… Crack… Punch... Whack… Whack…
Whack…” Cuckoo bellowed his throat out but Uncle Suri never had a heart to let
go.
[Later that evening..]
There was no power in the house. We were seen in the yellow
shades of slim candles. Shaken up from sleep to the dinner table, I could see
Cuckoos motionless feet with those long shapely toe nails. Eye balls springing
out of my eye cavity, I can just recollect me crying out “I can’t eat their
Daddy…” [Cuckoo was Dad to 10 of those yellow and grey chicks]
[Years later..]
But I could still eat eggs. Bulls-eye (Fried Egg)…
Omelette… Toast… Scramble… J. Tap..!!! Egg crackled open its pointy nose.
Out of immense urge for the scramble I poured it out onto the pan. For the
first time ever, I saw something sticking out of the egg shell opening and I
tried to wiggle it out through the egg shell. It was a chicken beak. Shock…
Disbelief... Appalled… I pushed aback and slept for the rest of the day as my
hunger “striked”.
Gradually I lost that egg craving mammal syndrome.
Of late an onion Pakoda recipe gave me an idea of a Vegan
Omelette.
The recipe is simple and believe my taste buds, it’s damn
delicious and looks more vivacious than the real French omelette.
Here goes :
§ Keep
ready Some minced onion chillies ginger.
§ Blend
well, without lumps, a mixture of Chickpea
flour [gram flour or besan as you might call it], turmeric powder, salt as
required, a pinch of Indian garam masala
and a half spoon of pepper powder.
§ Let
the mixture be a good liquid pulp and add a little grated coconut for taste [optional].
§ Now
heat oil and pour the mixture until spread. Wait until cooked and turn over the
omelette to the other side and let cook.
There… You now have the yummiest spicy, all guilt free
omelette to be served with bread or Chapatti or with plain sauceJ.
Nutrition
information:
Chickpea : Protein,
Dietary fiber, Folate, Iron, Phosphorus, Thiamin, vitamin B6, magnesium and
zinc.
Chickpeas
have a Protein Digestibility Corrected
Amino Acid Score of about 76 percent, which is higher than fruits, vegetables,
many other legumes, and cereals.
Compared
to the FAO/WHO[citation needed], chickpea
proteins are rich in essential amino acids like lysine, isoleucine, tryptophan
and total aromatic amino acids. Thus, chickpeas can complement food
containing low amounts of protein.
Egg: Fat Content ; Carbohydrates and
Protein; Cholesterol; Low in Fiber; Low in Sodium; Limited Vitamins and
Minerals
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