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Great Tastes - Pineapple Crab

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  From Ruby's Kitchen Crab in Pineapple Crab in pineapple served with corn pulao, salad and chutney Recipe & Method of Preparation Ingredients for Crab (dressed) -500 g Onion Paste -  2 tbsp Garlic paste - 1 tbsp Ginger Paste - 1 tbsp Green Chilli paste(deseeded) 6 pcs Tomato paste ( deseeded ) 3 tbsp Coriander 1 tsp, Cumin 1/2 tsp, Fennel 1 tsp, cloves 1 tsp, black pepper 1 tsp, sesame seed 1 tsp. (All spices to be dry roasted and powdered) Grated coconut 4 tbsp ( ground to powder form ), Basil leaves 2  tbsp              Cooking method Crabs to be thoroughly washed and then mixed with turmeric and salt. Sauté the onions and garlic ginger paste using 2 tbsp oil in a kadai till the onions turn light brown. Next, place the crabs in for frying. After about 5 min pour the dry roasted masala and coconut tomato paste. Keep frying till it dries. Add salt to taste. This process should be carried out in low flame. Meanwhile, slit the pineap...

The Millennium Light

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LED   ----- The Green Light                                                        ( Part 1)  In the light emission phenomenon known as electroluminiscence ,energy is released in the form of photons (light energy) when electrons combine with electron holes within the device.This was discovered by H.J.Round way back in 1907.It took almost 55 years before the first visible red LED was developed by Nick Holonyak Jr. while working in General Electric USA. He is also known as 'father of light emitting diode'.But for almost 40 years LED had very limited application as a light source due to its emission mainly in infrared and longer wavelength spectrum.The application of red LED was restricted to indicator light . It was Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation who brought in the first high brightness blue LED. Since the be...