Paneer fritters

A simple and easy paneer recipe for kids. I know Paneer is the all time favourite food of kids . so definitely this is a worth trying item.
This can be packed in lunch box or snack box and can send it to school to surprise your little ones

Recipe

Paneer -1 pkt (200 gm)
Maida + Red chilli + tomato ketchup + Green chilli sauce + salt + garlic paste - enough to make a medium
thick batter.
Bread crumbs - enough to roll on
Cut the paneer to cubes , roll on batter and then on bread crumbs and deep fry in hot oil. Serve with sauce or ketchup.

Pulses Dosa with Tomato chutney

We have heard about different types of Dosa. We use different types of grains like rice, wheat, ragi, soya etc for making dosas. This is a special dosa made out of sprouted pulses alone and I was really doubtful about how it will come out. Just tried it once and it is soft at the same time yummy and healthy too.

As you know pulses supply the same amount of calories as cereals and in terms of the protein content it is twice the protein content as that of cereals and hence is an excellent aid for boosting the metabolism and thereby weight loss. More above the nutrient content is also rich. So its worth trying as it gives lot of health benefits.

Here is the recipe

Green gram -1/2 cup
Black chana -1/2 cup
Flax seeds -1/4 cup
Horse gram -1/2 cup

You can add more varieties of spices available in ur kitchen as per your taste.

Urad dhaal - 1/2 cup

Soak all these together with few methi seeds and allow them to sprout.
Grind them together to a smooth batter along with some poha, say a handful. I have added the left over dosa/idli batter also to allow better fermentation and not to make it sour.If you dont have left over batter add 2-3 tbspn of raw rice also while grinding.

Make the dosas as usual. Tastes even much better if added ghee or drizzled oil over top.

Recipe for Tomato chutney
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tomato -1 medium
Onion -1 big
Red chillies -6
Garlic -4 cloves
Salt as required
Saute everything dry in a kadai and grind to a smooth paste . Pour a table spoon of oil over the chutney after grinding.

Patriotic Cake - Butter scotch flavoured ( No offense please)

This is just a tri colour cake in tribute to our National flag. No other offense or indiscipline towards our Patriotism. Made this on a Republic day as everywhere people roam around in tri - colours, make recipes with tricolours. This one I made using a cake. On cutting this cake also instead of one many tri colurs are got... Jai Hind.

Am glad to share this as I won the recipe/photograph competition  (First Prize ) for this cake anc picture.Here is the recipe for this:

Butterscotch flavoured one with milkmaid and butter with glazed icing. 
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Cake Flour -2 1/4 cup
Butter -150 gm
Milkmaid- 1 tin

Egg -4 nos
Milk -1 1/4 cup
Baking powder -1 1/4 tspn
Butterscotch essence/flavour -2 tspn
Salt -1/2 tspn
Food colour -1 tspn each of Orange red/ Keasaricolour and green

Beat together butter (at room temperature) and milkmaid till smooth and fluffy. Beat eggs in milk and add the flavouring to it. Seive together flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly mix the flour mixture to Butter milkmaid mixture. Pour in milk -egg mixture slowly. Mix everything well and seperate in three bowls. Add the kesari colour to 1 bowl and green colour to another one 1 tspn each. The third one is colourless
Preheat the oven at 180 deg celsius and bake the middle layer first for 15 min. and followed by the other layers. Allow them to cool before setting .

For glazed icing:
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Icing sugar -200 gm
Butter 1 tbspn
Warm water -2 tbspn
Mix butter with icing sugar and add warm water to get a glaze. spread it on the middle layer first and arrange the other layers.

This cake as such is of medium sweetness but the glaze icing in between gives the perfect sweet tasteness required. You can add 1 1/4 cup of sugar if milkmaid is not available..

Small onion Bonda (ulli vada)

Yummy yummy yummy.. Thats the only word by which I can express the taste of this snack

                        My Hot platter of Small onion Bonda with hot milk tea.

Ingredients:

Small onion -1 cup .( If small use as whole and if large split into two pieces)

Besan flour - Enough for a batter

Red chilli powder -1 pinch

Curry leaves -chopped - a few

Hing - a pinch

Salt - as required

Oil for frying

Make a batter of besan flour, hings, red chilli powder, curry leaves and hing. Roll the onion on batter and fry. Serve hot.

Egg Bonda

Egg bhajji or also known as egg bonda is a favourite delicacy in our place. We elders and kids are in our family equally love to have this. Once in a while forget about the calories and pamper your taste buds in a minimal way with such great and tastier snacks. 

Imagine how awesome it will be to have this with a hot cup of black coffee on a rainy day.. Craving?? me too. ;)

Ingredients required

Egg boiled and de shelled - 3 nos ( or as required)

Besan flour, Red chilli powder, salt and a pinch of hing - as required for a thick batter.

Cut the egg into two halves. Coat the batter over it and fry in hot oil. Serve as such for better taste or can have with any chutneys or sauces.

Paneer Fried Rice

One more Awseome dish from Paneer family.. Paneer fried rice is my son's favourite as it is easy to chew, and easily digestible, very light to tummy.

Please see the recipe for making Fried rice in my easiest chinese album.  Only difference is I added Paneer instead of veg or non veg.

Bittergourd without the bitterness

This is my innovative recipe using Bittergourd. Tried making this and was surprised to see all in my family finishing the plate with the same speed as when we serve other sabjis.
Without compromising on the nutrional and medicinal values of  bittergourd we can cook this vegetable in some different ways still making it an yummiest one. I will share few of my innovative recipes using bittergourd here

This is a very easy to make. .

Ingredient required

Carrot -1
Beetroot -1
Big onion -1
Bitter courd -2
Chop all the vegetables to fine bits. Can add a potato also (for potato lovers)
Slit green chillies - 4-5 nos
A pinch of turmeric
Curry leaves - few
Salt and oil as required

Very few ingredients and little masalas na?? Yes.. and am sure this is going to rock your table. And Bitter gourd will be the next preferred item in your list.

Method.

In a pan heat some oil. Add the bittergourd first and saute for few seconds or till it is soft.

(Remember if you chop it to fine bits the dish will be done very easily. Or if you want to chop it bigger then cook all of them together in little water for few minutes and after evaporating the water completely saute in oil.)
Later add the other vegetables one by one. Please note add onion in the last after adding and sauting beetroot and carrot or else it will burn and give a blackish appearance. Finally add green chillies and curry leaves. Add salt and a pinch of turmeric now. Saute for few more seconds till everything is cooked well. Serve with Rice.