Beetroot Soup Recipe | Vegan Beetroot Soup | Roasted Beets Almond Soup | Beets Soup With Almonds

Vegan Beetroot Soup|Beetroot Soup Recipe|Beetroot Almond Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. I am here with another healthy, delicious and interesting soup recipe that is perfect for your Valentines Day Dinner Menu. The smooth, creamy and silky texture with bright red color is sure to impress everyone. For a change, I added some Almonds to the soup and instead of adding beetroot as such I roasted in oven and added to the soup. It was so flavorful and delicious with mild sweet taste from beets. I loved this soup a lot, even without cream or milk the soup got its rich taste and flavor from almonds. It was filing too. If you want are planning for a healthy meal to serve on this Valentines Day occasion, please add this soup to your menu and give it a try and am sure you will love it.

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DIY Slivered Almonds | How To Make Slivered Almonds | How To Make Almonds For Desserts & Baking

I wanted to post this How To make blanched Almonds, Slivered Almonds and Sliced Almonds technique for long time. And finally decided to share it now since the festival season is ahead and the use of blanched Almonds & Slivered Almonds is must in Indian Sweets, Baking & for Desserts. These almonds gives nice crunch and taste to the dish and also makes the dish more attractive and pleasing. Not only for desserts & sweets general in take of almonds is good for health.
Almonds are packed with vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and are associated with a number of health benefits. Just a handful of almonds, approximately one ounce, contains one-eighth of our necessary daily protein. Almonds can be eaten raw, toasted, caramelized and are availbale in many form like sliced, slivered, almond flour, butter, almond milk. The good protein content of almonds aids in lowering cholestrol and reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease.

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Almond Halwa / Badam Halwa - Spicy Treats' 3rd Blog Anniversary !

Hope you all had a wonderful pongal celebration. Pongal is a Harvest Festival and also a special day & Thanks Giving day, that we thank God, Sun & Cattle for the years' Harvest. And its Thanks giving day for Spicy Treats too..yes., Spicy Treats turns 3 today.

I couldn't believe that my little space have completed three successful years.  In 2007, i came to know about blogging and food websites and wanted to create one of mine but i don't know how to start, never thought to seek help from google master. Mr.V also was too busy that time and did not helped me. Then after my kids birth, my interest and desire on blogging took back seat. But i used to click my dishes regularly, just a very simple picture and finally on one fine day, Jan 14 2011 signed in to blogger and started my first post, Vazhaipoo Vadai. No intro, just only the Ingredients and Method of that dish with a picture, this is how i started my blogging.

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Whole Wheat Banana Loaf / Eggless Whole Wheat Banana Bread

            Today we are in 15th edition of Blog Hop Wednesday, and for this week i am paired with the Master/Founder of Blog Hop Wednesday - Radhika. This time i decided to Bake something from her space and chosen "Eggless Banana Loaf" . This recipe was very easy and eggless version of banana bread. Simply i tried her recipe with Whole Wheat flour and replaced butter with olive oil. It just come out really good but except the burnt Top :( Its due to the over ripe bananas and also i set alarm for 30 minutes but i didn't get the alarm n finally ran to open by the burning smell. I was so upset to see the top but the inner part n overall bread was so soft n delicious. So cut the burnt part n enjoyed the remaining and also managed to clicks few pictures with the slices. Ok now to the recipe...

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