Thursday 18 October 2012

Spincah -Methi Cutlets


Spinach-methi leaves cutlet 
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(with some sweet corn and carrot)

Wanted to make my son eat some green vegetables and hence made this cutlet as he likes cutlets very much.
Here is how I made it



Spinach leaves - a handful
Methi (leaves alone) - a handful
Chop the leaves to small and blanch it in warm water for a few seconds
Sweet corn -1 cup (grinded coarsely) 
Green peas -2 tbsp
Mashed potato -2 nos
Onion -1 medium chopped
Carrot -1 small grated
salt as required
gharam masala -1/2 tspn
pepper powder -a pinch
Mix everything together with mashed potato. if it is not binding properly can add 1 or 2 bread slices or can add maida flour also. 

Make to small patties and roll on a batter of maida flour +corn flour+salt +cheese+tomato ketchup.
Roll on bread crumbs and fry.
serve with tomato kethcup

Friday 12 October 2012

Tomato Rice with Mushroom Manchurian


Recipe for tomato rice
Rice -1 cup 
Pressure cook the rice in 21/2 cups of water and keep it aside
Tomatos -2 medium chopped thin
Onion -1 medium chopped thin
garlic -5 nos chopped
ginger -1/2 inch chopped thin
lemon -1/2 

for seasoning
 mustard, saunf, cinnamon stick -1 inch, cloves -2 nos, cardamom -2, bay leaf -1 
In a kadai heat some oil and saute the seasoning ingredients one by one. Then add onion, garlic, ginger chopped  and saute nicely till thin, add tomatos and allow water content to evaporate completely. can add tomato puree also if you want to avoid adding tomato. (for making puree of tomato boil the tomatoes in water,peel off the skin and puree it)
Mix rice now and add salt too. squeeze one lemon on top and mix. add chopped dhaniya leaves to garnish




Recipe for easy to make mushroom manchurian.

Ingredients :
Mushroom - 1 packet
Onion- 1 big
Capsicum -1 small
garlic-5-6 cloves
ginger-1/2 inch chopped thin
green chilli -3
coriander leaves -chopped -few
and spring onion chopped -few ( i didnt have it in stock this time)

Soya sauce -2 tsp
Chilli sauce-1/2 tspn
Tomato sauce-1 tspn
oregano -1 pinch
Corn flour -1 & 1/2 tspn dissolved in water ( the quanitity of corn flour can be taken according to your desire for making the gravy very thin/loose or slightly thick. Here in this recipe I used 1 tspn only as I wanted it a medium dry cum thick gravy type)

salt and oil as required

Clean the mushroom taking the individual pieces  and wipe it dry. Cut it only at the time of making.
chop all the vegetables into cubes and keep it ready
Heat a kadai and add the mushrooms now. before that cut into two or four halves depending on the size. Dry roast it till it starts sticking on to the walls of kadai. By doing this it removes the excess water content from the mushroom and also gives it a smoky taste. then pour some oil on top of the mushrooms and saute dry. Now add vegetables one by one and saute till tansluscent. add the sauces one by one and instead of ajinomoto I have used oregano powder to get the flavour.
Finally add the corn flour dissolved in water to this and allow it to boil and get thickened. Adjust the salt level. serve hot
Enjoy this easiest chinese recipe at your own home's comfort.

Potato- Sweet corn masala


I made this masala for having with Appam. This is a less spicy and simple to make recipe to be used as a filling for dosa and can be had with roti/naan also. trust me it is really worth trying



Ingredients required :

Potatos -3 nos
Sweet corn -1 cup
Onion -2 medium or 1 big
Garlic-5 cloves
Green chilli -3 slited lengthwise
ginger -1/2 inch size sliced thin

turmeric powder -1 tspn
Gharam masala (used the homemade one ) -1/2 tspn

Pressure cook all the ingredients with salt and the rest of the ingredients for 3-4 whistles till the potato is thoroughly cooked to soft. In a kadai heat some oil , add some mustard, saunf, 2-3 chopped small onions, 2 crushed garlic, few curry leaves and pour the cooked potato over this. Allow to cook till one boil and it is done.

Radish -carrot cheese cutlets

Tried this for My son's snack box recipe on one day. Was really good. Sorry that I couldn't click a better picture but the recipe is really worth trying

Ingredients :

Radish -1 big grated
Carrot -1 small grated
Onion -1 medium sliced thin or chopped
Mashed potato -as required
(I have used the ready made mashed potato available in markets)
Cheese -1 cube grated
gharam masala -1/2 tspn
red chillipowder -1/2 tspn
Bread - 2 slices
Bread crumbs - as required
Maida + salt + cheese (1/2 cube grated) -for making a thick batter

Mix together radish, carrot, mashed potato, onion, cheese grated and bread crumbs together to a thick dough. make small balls out of it and make the shape of cutlets. roll it on maida batter and roll on bread crumbs and fry in hot oil. serve with tomato ketchup.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Chilli egg- an easiest Chinese egg Recipe
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I made this out of my own crazy imaginations. This is how I made this

Eggs -4 nos boiled and deshelled
Onion -2 medium chopped to cubes
Capsicum -1 small chopped to cubes
Garlic -10 small cloves chopped
Ginger -1/2 inch chopped thin
Few curry leaves (optional)
Few chopped coriander leaves/cilantro

red chilli powder -1/2 tspn
Soya sauce -2 tspn
Red chilli sauce -1/2 tspn
Tomato ketchup -1/2 tspn
Salt as required .

In a pan heat some oil, Saute the vegetables one by one. add the sauces and mix well. Make large incisions on egg so that the flavour penetrates in. Mix well. Serve hot with white rice. Excellent dish to taste and an easy recipe to make.