Masala Akki Roti

Ingredients:

• blackeyed beans ¼ small bowl


• red kidney beans ¼ small bowl


• rice flour 1 cup


• lemon juice – 1 tsp


• spring onion – ½ small bowl


• tomatoes - 1 small


• spinach – 3-4 leaves


• Green bell pepper – 1/2


• green cabbage – ½ bowl


• cashewnuts – ½ bowl coarsely grounded


• Salt and red chilly powder according to taste


• Oil

Method:

• Soak blackeyed beans and red kidney beans overnight and boil with spinach leaves and pinch of salt.


• Boil them till the beans are tender and soft.


• Now make puree of it in mixer and keep aside.


• Chop spring onions, tomatoes, green bell pepper and green cabbage very finely.


• Take a bowl and mix all the veggies along with beans and spinach puree.


• Add coarsely grounded cashewnuts.


• Add salt to taste and red chilly powder.


• Add rice flour and make dough of semi solid consistency which should be sticky enough which can be spread by hand.


• Now take a non-stick tawa which should be cold


• Spread the batter with hand in shape of roti (thin layer ) by making hole in a center.It should be big hole just like we have in vada's (you can imagine this as a big size vada totally flaten and very thin).


• Now roast this on high flame with putting very little oil on sides and center


• You can make out yourself that it is done as it will become crisp and will start leaving sides so that you can pull it off from tava.No need to roast from other side.It is ready.To make another one again cool the tawa first and then repeat


• Garnish with bellpeppers and ketchup.

Dabeli

This is the first time am thinking of taking part in any blogsphere event. It's not that I never got to know any but am so lazy to take part but this time I found rules were easy and I have almost half of the things in draft mode so thought of putting in for the Game Night Party Recipes on Manasi Desai's blog.So here I go with Dabeli a snack which is tummy full and nutritious too. So guys make a note of it how to prepare .... not so difficult, infact too easy

Ingredients:

Boiled and mashed potatoes 3-4

Fresh Pomegranates(anaar) seeds - 1 small bowl

Onion chopped - 1 small bowl

Fresh corriander leaves - 1 bunch

Chick peas (soaked overnight and boiled in salted water) - 1/2 bowl(optional)

Green chillies finely chopped as per your taste

Chopped tomatoes - 1 small bowl

paneer/cottage cheese cubes - 1 small bowl(optional)

Salt to taste

Red chilly powder - 1 tsp

Amchoor powder/dry mango powder - 1 tsp

Chat masala - 1 tsp

Pita bread or Pav or Bun - 5-6

Butter to roast

Pre- prepration:

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl except pita bread and butter.

Add little butter to this and Micro the contents of bowl for one minute on high. Although this is totally optional but it gives good taste.
Method:
Now take a pita bread/pav/bun and slit it open from middle. Make a pocket out of it as shown

Pocket should be large enough to stuff the bowl contents. Stuff each Pita Bread with 2 - 3 spoon full of stuffing and keep aside.
This can be prepared in advance, say 2-3 hours before the games and as soon as the serving time is near all you have to do is roast with butter on both sides on griddle/tawa for 5 mins or till the time upper crust of bread becomes crispy.
This is quite handy to make as most of it can be prepared in advance and rest roasting can be done before serving time and this is quite filling too.
Serve Dabeli with green coriander chuttney or with tomato ketchup.



Enjoy!!

Eggless French Toast

This saturday wanted to try something new and easy so thought why not give a try to french toast but Indian way. I tried preparing and really came out well and is quite easy
And most important will find all the ingredients at home only.
So here it goes:

Ingredients

• 4-5 bread slices


• 1/2 cup rava/sooji


• 1/2 cup yogurt/curd


• 1 finely chopped onion


• 1/2 tsp ginger chilli paste


• salt to taste


• corriander finely chopped


• oil/butter to cook.

Method

Mix all the things except bread and oil and make a thick batter.
Take bread and cut them in squares or triangles as u prefer and can even cut there sides but I prefer not to cut

Coat the batter generously over the bread slices and cook on a tava till golden brown on both the sides adding a bit of oil or butter as required.

have it with ketchup

Coming up Next : Cookies this time

Dal Bhajiya

Ingredients

Yellow moong dal 200gms
Green Chilies, Finely chopped 6 nos
Cummin Seeds 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves, chopped 1 tbsp
Water As required
Oil For Deep frying
Salt To taste


Method

Soak the dal for 2-3 hours
Grind the dal coarsely using very little water
Add the finely chopped chilies, coriander leaves, cummin seeds and salt and mix well
Now heat the oil and fry small portions of this mixture on a medium flame till they turn golden
Serve hot with green chutney



And I will be taking break for 2 months so see you guys after 2 months

Chilla with variation

Early morning sachin said he want something new for breakfast, aah only 30 mins to get ready too, with shower still pending, so thought of trying something new and fast, and in end it turned out really amazing...
We have tried chilla's a lot with different variations, like besan chilla, suzi chilla etc. But this time with little variation it became so tempting that I couldn't resist my self posting it here :)

Okie lot of prolouge, won't make u guys wait more. Here is the recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cup gram flour(besan)
• 1 cup wheat flour (atta)
• 1/4 cup rice flour
• 2-3 green chillies
• 1/2 inch ginger
• salt to taste
• corriander leaves 1/2 cup (chopped)
• mint leaves 8 - 10
• sugar 1/2 spoon
• red chilly powder 1/2 spoon
• curd 2 cups
• water to make smooth batter (approximately 1 cup)
• roasted Cumin powder (bhunna hua jeera)
• Cottage cheese 1/2 cup for garnishing

Method:

• Take all the three flours in the bowl. Add paste of green chillies and ginger to it.
• Add all the masalas + 1/2 spoon sugar
• Add corriander and mint leaves
• add curd to it and mix well
• Now add water to make a smooth batter.

Heat the griddle (tawa) preferably non-stick one

• Add 1 spoon of oil to it
• Take one tablespoon of batter and spread over gridle like a pancake
• let it cook from one side, say for 4 to 5 mins
• Then flip it and cook from other side.

When it is done take it out in a plate and put shredded cottage cheese inside it and fold it gently.
Serve hot with green chuttney or tomato ketchup.

Isn't this a pretty easy one. I prepared this in just 10 mins.

And then we reached office too on time lolz.

In Evening again I thought of trying another variation and it was incredeble so thought of putting that too before I publish this one.

Ingredients:

• Suzi (Semolina) 3 cups (Roasted one)
• Curd....... 2 cups
• Cottage cheese .... 1 cup
• Ginger ... 1/2 inch
• Green chillies .... 4
• Mint leaves..... 1/2 cup
• Water... 1/2 cup
• Salt According to tasteRed chilly powder 1/2 spoon
  

Method:

• Take a bowl and add roasted suzi and curd, Mix well
• Add salt to it.
• Keep it aside

• In a mixer, chop cottage cheese, mint leaves, ginger and green chillies.

• Add this mixture to suzi batter
• Add red chilly powder and water to make a smooth batter

Now make chilla's as per the directions given above.

Samosa this time :)

Here I come again with another recipe....
This time a snack
All time favoruite Mumbai's Samosa..... Yeah ofcourse with my personal touch

Home Made Samosa

Ingredients:
For Filling...

• Potatoes-----2


• Soya Granuels---1 cup


• Cottage cheese ----- 1/2 cup


• Green peas -----1/4 cup


• Corriander ----1/4 cup


• Black Pepper ---1 tsp


• Green chillies --- 4 (finely chopped)


• Garam Masala...1 tsp
  

For Dough...

• All purpose flour (Maida) ----3 cups


• Suzi (semolina) ...1 cup
  


• oil----1 tsp


• Ajwain---2 tsp


• Salt

Oil for frying

Method.....

Take Maida + suzi in a bowl , add oil, salt
Make a dough out of it with help of water

For Filling

• Heal water in a pan and let it boil


• Add soya granuels and boil for 3 minutes


• Strain the granuels and leave it aside for some time


• Now Take a bowl and add boiled and mashed potatoes in it


• Add cottage cheese (mashed)


• Add the peas to it (frozen or fresh as per season)


• Add soya granuels and corrainder


• Add salt to taste + Black pepper + Green chillies + garam masala and mix well


• Take a pan and heat 2 tsp oil in it,


• Saute the filling for 5 mins and let it cool down

Samosa shells

• Make small ball out of dough and roll it they way you do for chappaties


• Cut it in two equal halfs


• Take one half in your hand and make a shape of cone, sealing one side with water


• Put one spoon of filling in it


• Now seal it with water.


• Make samosa's shells in this similar pattern

Now put oil in wok (kardhai) for frying
Let it boil
Then simmer the flame and fry these samosa's into it.
When it becomes crisp take out on tissue paper
Serve with green chuttney

Khandvi

This is one of my husband's favorite dish. It's a gujrati dish but as I said I keep on experimenting so it is little bit modified.

I made this first time when I got married and had noted this dish in a diary. Moreover I have never cooked at my native place so was very much afraid how will it come up and all but when I made that it became a hit in family.

Okie let me warn you one thing be very sure about the measurements as I have made lots of disasters in this if my measurement goes wrong.
Ingredients:

• Curd-----> 1/4 cup
• Besan (gram flour)----> 1/4 cup
• Water ---->1 cup
• Hing (Asaefoetida) --->1 tsp
• ginger garlic paste ---->1 tsp
• Green chillies paste ----> 1 tsp
• Oil ----> 1 tsp
• Tumeric ----> a pinch
• Salt to taste
• sugar ---> 1tsp

For Dressing

• Rai (mustard seeds) ----> 1 tsp
• Dried Red chilly ---> 1 or 2
• Grated Coconut ----> 2 tsp
• Chopped coriander for garnishing

Method:

• Make buttermilk of curd and water. That is churn both of them well.
• Add besan to it and mix well. Lumps should not be formed.
• Add hing,gingre garlic and green chillies paste to it and mix well
• Add salt and sugar
• Now take a cooking dish (preferably kardhai) and transfer this mixture into it.
• cook on low flame while stirring it continously
• stir it till it becomes semi solid from the liquid state

• Now take a big plate and grease it.
• Spread the mixture over it and let it cool
• After 10 mins when it is ready cut stripes and roll them out.
• Arrange them in a serving dish.
• Now take another pan and heat oil.
• put the mustard seeds and let them crackle
• Add the red chillies to it and take out of flame.
• Add chilly powder and 4 spoons of water to it.
• Spread this over the khandvi rolls
• Now garnish with corriander and grated coconut.

Khandvi is ready to eat


Enjoy

Simple Poha (the flatten rice)

Okie before I start writing anything let me tell u guys am not a good cook and all I know abt cooking is through experimentation as I started it jujst 6 months back. After me n my husband moved from our home town and I have to take charge of kitchen.... I don't get much time for cooking due to job but when I do get I keep trying my hands on different recipies.

So here in my blog you will find some easy to make recipies :)

The first and foremost thing I cooked in my life is pohey (flatten rice). Although there are different ways of preparing it like gujrati, UP and MP style etc. But am posting the one which Sachin and I relish the most... And the same was cooked on my birthday for our breakfast.

So here it goes :)

Ingredients....(first and fore most thing;)

Okie You will require following things:

• Poha - 2 cup
• 1 tsp mustard seeds (rai as known by we indians)
  
• Potato - 1 medium sized chopped into cubes (waisay any shape will do ;))
• Onion - 1 medium chopped
• Green Peas - 1/2 bowl
  
• Green chilly-2 to 4 depends on your taste bud
• Sugar - 2 tbsp
• lemon - 1
  
• Oil- 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• tumeric a pinch
  
• Coriander to garnish

Method:
Okie now that we have collected all the required basic ingredients lets start cooking....

Ha I forgot to tell you need a wok (kadhai or some pan to cook too ;) )

Just kidding :)

First of all wash the pohas in some strainer thoroughly. It should be well washed. While it's still in strainer add the lemon, and tumeric to it and keep them aside.

Okie now heat oil in pan and crackle the mustard seeds. when the crackling sound stops coming that means it's ready to have other ingredients. Add the onions, potato and green peas to it. and stir well. You can add them seperately too but I prefer putting them all together. Add finely chopped

When the potato's are cooked and peas become soft then add the poha to it. stir well and add salt and sugar to it.

cook for 2 mins and it's ready. Garnish with corriander and serve hot.
(grated coconut can also be used for garnishing purpose)