Delicious Pav Bhaji Recipe

Ingredients:

• 15 Pav Bread lightly toasted in butter
• 1 capsicum, chopped
• 1 large carrot, cubed
• 2 potatoes, cubed
• 2 tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 cup cauliflower florets
• 8-10 Beans, string and chop
• 1/4 cup green peas
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 2 green chillies, slit length wise
• 1 tbsp ginger&garlic paste
• 1/4 tbsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
• 1 1/2 tbsps Pav Bhaji Masala
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• ½ stick low fat un salted butter
• 1 1/2 tbsps oil
• 1/2 Cup finely chopped fresh coriander leaves for garnish
• salt to taste
• Water

Method:

• Boil Potatoes, cauliflower, peas, beans and carrot along with 1 cup of water in pressure cooker, till they became soft.
• Drain water and keep aside.
• Mash all the cooked vegetables using a masher.
• Heat oil and little butter in a Thick bottom Pan, add the green chillies and onions, saute for 3-4 min.
• Add ginger&garlic paste and saute for another 3 min. Add capsicum and saute for 3 mins
• Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, pav bhaji masala, salt.
• mix well then add the tomatoes and cook until they became soft.
• Then add the mashed vegetables on medium high for a min.
• Then simmer the flame mix and cook for another 15 mns.
• Turn off the flame and add butter and lemon juice then mix well.
• Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Serve HOT HOT!!! with lightly toasted pav and very small chopped onions,small piece of lemon & on top add bit butter.

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Delicious Mysore Bonda

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups maida (All purpose Flour)
• 2 Green chilies (finely chopped very small)
• ½ Cup onion ( finely chopped very small)
• Sour curd ( to make the batter)
• ¼ tbsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds
• ½ Cup Chopped coriander leaves (optional)
• Few chopped curry leaves
• Salt to taste
• Oil to deep fry

Method:

• In a mixing bowl take maida add salt, baking powder, cumin seeds chopped green chillies, chopped onions, coriander & curry leaves.
• Adding sour curd make batter consistency with not too thick nor too thin.
• Keep it aside For an hour for
• Take oil in a frying pan on medium high flame.
• Once the oil hot then drop the batter like small balls in the oil and deep fry them till they are in golden brown

Serve HOT HOT!!! With Peanut Chutney, Green Chutney or coconut chutney.

Note: Add 2 tbsp of sooji( Upma Ravva ) to get crispy.
If Curd is not sour prepare the batter before 2-3 hours.

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Gobhi Manchuriya

Ingredients:

• 1 medium Gobhi (Cauliflower)
• 3/4 cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)
• 1 tbsp Corn Flour
• 1 Chopped green chili
• 2 tbsp Ginger & Garlic Paste
• 1 Cup Chopped Onions(medium sized)
• ¼ cup chopped Garlic pieces
• 1/4th tsp Ajinomoto
• 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
• 1tbsp Chilli sauce
• 2-3 tbsp Tomato Ketchup
• Cooking Oil to fry
• ½ Cup Chopped Coriander Leaves
• Water
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Boil the water and then add the Cauliflower let it cook for 3 min then drain the water
• Make a paste of maida, corn flour and salt using water.
• Dip the gobi florets in the paste and deep fry till golden brown. Keep them aside.
• Heat oil in another pan and add ginger & garlic paste fry till it oozes the raw flavour, add chopped green chilli &chopped onions,Chopped garlic add salt and fry.
• Mix Chilli sauce, soya sauce and tomato Ketchup and Ajinomoto into it.
• Add Deep fried Gobi and mix well.
• Garnish it with coriander leaves.

Serve HOT HOT!!! Cauliflower manchuriya with Tomato ketchup

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Idli made of Oats Recipe

Ingredients:

1cup Parboiled rice
3/4cup Urad dal
1cup Rolled oats
1tsp Fenugreek seed
1inch Ginger
2nos Green chilies
Salt

Procedure:

Marinate Urad dal with fenugreek seeds n rice individually for at least 5 hours r overnight...grind the urad dal with finely chopped ginger n finely chopped green chilies until they turns soft. while grinding the urad dal, soak the rolled oats with 1 cup of water n keep aside, once the urad dal r well grinded, take off from the grinder in a large bowl, now add the soaked parboiled rice to the grinder n grind them coarsely. Before taking them out add the soaked oats n grind them coarsely too, take off from the grinder n mix them with already grinded urad dal.add salt as per taste n keep aside for fermentation’s may see the batter would have raised n doubled their initial amount..


Get the Idli plates, heat the pressure cooker r idli cooker, grease the idli plates n fill with the oats idly batter n cook them for about 10 minutes. Get out the plate’s n remove the idlis with spoon carefully n serve them hot with any spicy sides...

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Delicious Cream of Cabbage Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

2 Cups of White cabbage chopped
1no of carrot
2 nos of potatoes
1no of onion
1 no of tomato
2 nos of vegetable stock
1cup of milk
2 cups of water
1tsp of butter r olive oil
1tsp of parsley leaves
1/4 tsp of pepper powder
Salt

Procedure:

Slice the carrot, onion, tomato n potatoes into small pieces...

heat up a tsp of butter in a pressure cooker, add the chopped onions n stir them until they turns translucent, add the potatoes pieces, tomato pieces n carrot pieces to the onion with vegetable stock cubes n stir them well until they get a little cooked, add the chopped cabbage pieces to the already cooked veggies n cook them for a while, add 2 cups of water to the veggies, check for the salt n close the pressure cooker with the lid n cook them until 3 whistles..

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Delicious Chocolate Sandwich Recipe

Ingredients:

1cup All purpose flour
1cup Whole wheat pastry flour
1/2cup Grounded Oats or Oats flour
3tbsp Dark chocolate powder
2tbsp Butter
2tbsp Canola oil
3/4cup Sugar
3tbsp Apple sauce
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 350F. get the all purpose flour, whole wheat pastry flour, dark chocolate powder, grounded oats along with baking powder, baking soda in a bowl, in the meantime take the sugar,oil,butter,apple sauce together, mix everything until the sugar gets dissolved, slowly add this wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and turn them as a dough..

Line up a baking sheet over a baking tray, make small balls from the dough, bake those 15-20minutes in medium rack, and let them cool completely.

Fill up the mocha butter cream in a pastry bag, squeeze out over a cookie and top them with a cookie to turn them as a sandwich, enjoy with a cup of milk or coffee for snack.

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Delicious Macaroni Fritters

Ingredients:

Any small shaped pasta: 1 cup

Medium sized Potatoes: 2

Green chilies: 4 to 5 (finely chopped)

Onions: 1/2 (Chopped)

Breadcrumbs:1/2cup
Grated cheese: 4 tbsp

Chopped Coriander: 2 tbsp

Salt: as required

Coriander powder: 1 tsp

Oil: for deep frying

Procedure:

• Cook pasta in water until soft. Drain in a colander and run under cold water.
• Boil the potatoes, peel off the skin when cooled and mash them.
• Combine both pasta and mashed potatoes in a bowl. Add chopped green chilies, chopped onions, chopped coriander, coriander powder and salt. When preparing for kids just add grated cheese. Mix thoroughly until all the ingredients are combined properly.
• Take bread crumbs in a bowl and keep prepared.
• On a medium blaze heat oil in a kadai. Take a lemon sized mixture and using your palms make patties, roll them in the bread crumbs and drop one by one in the oil when it is sizzling hot. At a time, you could fry about 5 to 7 fritters, depending on the size of the kadai used.
• Fry till they are curved golden brown color on the lower side then flip over the fritters to fry on the other sides.
• Best when served hot. For a healthier version, try shallow frying like cutlets instead of deep frying.

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