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Saturday, 9 November 2013

Paneer Cutlet

Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients
  • 2 cups Grated Paneer (cottage cheese)
  • 1 cup chopped vegetables (carrot, capsicum, onion, beans)
  • 2 pcs chopped green chilli
  • 1 tbsp coriander
  • 1/2 cup Sooji (rava)
  • 2 tsp oil
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
  • Oil for frying



Method
  • In a pan, add 2 tsp oil and heat
  • Sauté the onion and green chilli till the onion becomes golden brown
  • Add paneer, vegetables, coriander powder, sooji, salt and pepper and mix well
  • Prepare many small balls of the prepared mixture
  • Deep fry the paneer balls
  • Serve with chutney


Note: If you find difficulties in frying the paneer balls, prepare a maida solution, dip the balls into the solution and then fry

Friday, 8 November 2013

Sooji/Rawa Dhokla

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients
  • 2 cup Sooji/Rawa
  • 1/2 cup curd
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp eno
  • 2 green chillis, cut into long pieces
  • 2 tsp Rai (mustard seed)
  • Meetha Neem leaves (Sweet Curry Leaves) 
  • 2 tbsp oil


Method
  • Mix sooji, curd, salt, water and 1 tsp sugar and prepare a paste and keep aside for 10 mins
  • Add eno and mix well
  • Put it in Dhokla container and heat for 15 mins
  • Allow it cool for some time and then remove and cut it into small pieces
  • In a pan, heat the oil, and add rai, chilli and neem
  • Add dhokla and remaining sugar and mix well
Note: Best tastes with coriander chutney

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Stuffed Idli

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 8

Ingredients
  • 3 cups Idli paste
  • 1 tsp Eno
  • Salt to taste
  • Meetha Neem 
  • 1 tsp oil
  • Rai (Mustard seeds)

For the Stuffing
  • 2 pcs potatoes boiled and mashed
  • 1/3 cup boiled green peas
  • 1/4 cup chopped capsicum
  • 1 tsp green chilli paste
  • 1 tsp aamchoor (Khatai or dried mango powder)
  • 1/2 tsp coriander
  • 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • Salt to taste




Method
  • Mix the ingredients for stuffing and prepare small flat balls
  • Grease the Idli plates with oil
  • Mix salt and Eno in Idli paste
  • Put the prepared balls in the Idli paste
  • Make sure the the stuffing balls are completely covered by Idli paste
  • Put the balls on the Idli stand
  • Steam for 10 mins
  • In a pan, put 1 tsp oil and heat
  • Put rai and neem and sauté the prepared Idli
Note: Best tasted with Green chutney or coconut chutney

Monday, 4 November 2013

Potato Cheese Pie

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 40 mins
Serves: 6

Ingredients
  • 1 and 1/2 cup boiled and mashed potatoes
  • 1 cup grated cheese
  • 2 cup Maida
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  • Salt and Pepper to taste


Method
  • Mix Maida baking powder and butter and mix well
  • Add milk and prepare a soft dough
  • Flatten the dough such that its thickness is about 1/4"
  • Grease a baking dish with butter and stick the dough onto it
  • Mix 1/2 cup cheese, potato and salt and keep aside
  • Put the potato mixture on the prepared dough
  • Put the remaining cheese over the potato mixture
  • Use the remaining Maida dough and prepare long strips as shown in the image
  • Bake for 35 mins at 150 degrees celcius
  • Decorate with tomato ketchup


Sunday, 27 October 2013

Garlic Bread with Rajma Salad

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 5  mins
Serves: 2

Ingredients
For Garlic Bread
  • 4 slices Bread
  • 2 pc Cheese Singles
  • 4 cloves of chopped garlic
  • 1 pc finely chopped onion
  • 1/4 tsp Oregano
  • 1/4 tsp Chili Flakes
  • Butter
  • Pinch of salt
For Rajma Salad
  • 1 cup boiled Rajma
  • 1 tsp Mayonnaise 
  • 1 tsp hung curd
  • 1 tbsp cucumber
  • 1/4 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp Oregano
  • 1/4 tsp Chili Flakes
  • Coriander for decoration



Method
  • Prepare Rajma Salad by just all the ingredients
  • Take 2 pieces of Bread Slices and put cheese singles over it
  • Put garlic, onion, salt, oregano and chili flakes
  • Cover with other 2 pieces of bread like a sandwich
  • Put butter on both sides of the sandwich
  • Heat in oven for 5 mins or until golden brown
  • Cut the sandwich into halves
  • Serve with Rajma Salad

Cheese Balls

Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 5 mins
Serves: 12 pcs

Ingredients
  • 6 slices bread - sides removed
  • 3 cubes grated cheese
  • 1 pc green chilli
  • 1 tsp chopped coriander




Method
  • Take the bread slices and prepare a dough
  • Divide into 12 small balls
  • Prepare a mixture of cheese, chilli and coriander
  • Fill each ball with cheese mixture
  • Deep fry the balls

Note: Serve with ketchup or salsa sauce

Friday, 25 October 2013

Biscuit Chocolate Cookies

Preparation Time: 10 mins for preparation plus 30 mins for freezing
Cooking Time: No cooking required
Serves: 6

Ingredients
  • 16 pcs Marie Gold Biscuit
  • 4 tsp cashew and almonds, lightly roasted
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp cocoa
  • 2 tsp drinking chocolate
  • 4 tsp cream
  • 2-3 tsp Milk (Add as required)

Prepared dough

After cutting


Method
  • Crush the biscuits into powder
  • Mix all the ingredients to make a hard dough
  • Wrap it into aluminium foil and deep freeze for half an hour
  • Remove the foil and cut it into 1/2 inch thick pieces

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Corn Bhel

Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients
  • 1/4 cup (1 pc) finely chopped boiled potato
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped tomato
  • 2 cups sweet corn
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped paneer (cottage cheese)
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped capsicum
  • 1 pc finely chopped green chilly
  • 2 tsp coriander
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp of Rai (Black Cumin seeds)
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Cheese for decoration





Method
  • Fry the paneer in a pan and keep aside
  • Add butter to the pan and heat
  • Add Rai and then add onion
  • After a minute add potato, capsicum, tomato and green chilly
  • After a minute add corn, coriander and paneer 
  • Add salt, pepper and lemon juice
  • Mix well
  • Decorate with cheese


Saturday, 19 October 2013

Garlic Bread with veggie topping

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Serves: 6

Ingredients

For Vegetable Topping
  • 1/2 cup Sprouts (green moong)
  • 2 pcs Chopped Onion
  • 2 pcs Chopped De seeded Tomato
  • 1 pc Chopped Capsicum
  • 1/2 cup Sweet Corn Kernels
Other Ingredients
  • Bread Loaf cut diagonally
  • 50 gms Butter
  • 10 cloves of Grated/Smashed Garlic
  • Oregano
  • Grated Mozzarella Cheese


Method
  • Mix smashed garlic, oregano and salt into butter
  • Apply this over bread slices
  • Mix sprouts, onion, tomatoes, capsicum and sweet corn for topping
  • Put it over the bread slices 
  • Add a pinch of salt on the vegetable topping
  • Garnish with mozzarella cheese
  • Bake for 10 mins in a pre-heated oven

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Fried Bread Pizza

Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 6

Ingredients
  • 1 packet bread
  • 2 onions
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 capsicum
  • 1 cup maida dissolved in one and half cups water (Add salt as desired)
  • 2 cubes grated cheese
  • Salt and Pepper as per taste
  • 2 tsp tomato ketchup
  • 1 pc green chilli

Before covering the bread

How to serve


Method
  • Cut the tomatoes, onions and capsicum in long pieces
  • Cut the bread in round shape
  • Heat the oil in a pan with Aijwain
  • Add onions and suate until golden brown
  • Add capsicum and tomatoes and saute for another 2-3 mins
  • Add tomato ketchup, pepper, salt, green chilli
  • Put the mixture on one round bread piece
  • Add some cheese and cover it with other round bread piece
  • Dip the bread in the prepared Maida batter and deep fry
  • Repeat the same for other bread pieces

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Sweet and Spicy Potato

Preparation Time: 5 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients
  • 6-7 potatoes cut into thick long slices (similar to French fries)
  • 3-4 finely chopped green chillies
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tbsp soya sauce
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • pinch of ajinomoto
  • salt and pepper as per taste
  • Coriander for decoration
  • Mayonise Sauce



Method
  • Heat oil in a pan for deep frying
  • Deep fry the potatoes
  • Mix tomato ketchup, pepper, salt, vinegar and soya sauce with potatoes and keep aside for 10 mins
  • Stir fry the garlic and green chillies in a separate pan
  • Add the potato mixture and
  • Top it up with coriander for decoration and serve with Mayonise sauce