Cheese Spinach Toasty

Ingredients
onion - 1
tomato - 1
spinach leaves - 4 to 5
garlic cloves - 4 to 5 small
sweet chilli sauce - 1 to 2 tsp
chaat masala - 1 tsp
salt and pepper as per taste
few bread slices
mozirella cheese
cheddar cheese


Method
Slice onion and tomato. Chop spinach leaves finely. Chop garlic flakes.
In a bowl mix together onion, tomato, cheese, salt and pepper, sweet chilli sauce, chaat masala and keep aside.
Heat one tsp of oil in a pan add garlic flakes and fry for few seconds without changing its color.
Then add spinach leaves and cook for 2 minutes. Remove and mix with other ingredients.

Take bread slices place this mixture on it and cover it with another bread slice.
Toast it on a pan by adding little ghee or butter. Serve hot with or without ketchup.

Fish Biryani

Ingredients

King fish – 1 kg or any other fish

Rice – ½  kg

 For marination

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Juice of half lemon

Red chilli powder and salt as per taste

For the masala

6 to 7 medium sized onions fried

Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp

Biryani masala – 1 tbl.sp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Green chilli – 3

Tomato puree – 2 tbl.sp or 2 to 3 tomatoes

Yoghurt – 1 cup

Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

Coriander powder -  1 tsp

Garam masala – ½ tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste

Few coriander leaves

For making rice

2 to 3 cloves

1 small piece of cinnamon

Cumin seed – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste

food color

ghee/butter

Method

First marinate the fish with ingredients given.

Leave it aside for half an hour.

Fry the fish and keep aside.

Soak rice in water for half an hour and the cook it along with the ingredients given till 80% done.

Fry the onions till golden brown in color and then make a masala  except ginger garlic paste with all the ingredients given. Leave little onions for  garnishing.

In the same oil first add ginger garlic paste  and fry till the raw smell goes and then add all the masala and cook for few minutes till oil separates from the masala. 

Add cooked rice to it . Level it properly. Place fried fish on top along with corriander leaves, food color, fried onions and a spoon of ghee/ butter. Cover it and let it simmer on a low flame till rice is fully cooked.  Serve hot.

Raw Banana Kofta Curry

Ingredients

For making kofta

Raw bananas boiled – 3

Onion – 1

Green chilli – 2

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Cumin seed – 1 tsp

Besan/chickpeas flour – 2 tbl.sp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Few corriander leaves

Salt as per taste

For making curry

Onion – 2

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Whole red chillies – 3 or red chilli powder as per taste

Few curry leaves

Tomato – 3

Cumin seed - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves for garnishing




Method
 Boil and mash/grate banana and all the ingredients given and make small round balls.
Deep fry in oil till golden brown and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seed and then onion, few curry leaves, whole red chilli and saute till onions become little soft.
 Then add ginger garlic paste and saute till raw smell goes then add tomato and cook till soft.  Off the flame and let it cool down. Blend it to a fine paste. Heat the pan and add these masala and also powdered masala and salt with little water. Cook till it starts boiling.

Off the flame and put these koftas in the curry.  Garnish with corriander leaves and serve hot with  rice or roti.

Dahivale Arbi

Ingredients

Arbi/colacassia
roots – 250 cooked till soft

Ginger garlic
paste – 1 tsp

Gram flour – 1 tsp

Chilli powder – 1
tsp

Turmeric powder –  ¼  tsp

Whole red chilli – 1 or
2

Carrom seeds/ajwain – ½
tsp

Hing/asafoetida –
½ tsp

Yoghurt – 3 tbl.sp

Salt as per taste

Corriander leaves for
garnishing

Method

Pressure cook arbi till 3 to 4 whistle. Peel the skin and chop into small pieces.
In a bowl mix together yoghurt, gram flour, chilli powder, turmeric powder and little water and salt and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add carrom seeds, hing, red chilli and then ginger garlic paste. Stir fry for few seconds and then add  arbi and stir fry it for a minute. Add yoghurt masala and keep stirring it till it is boiled. Lower the flame and let it simmer on a low flame for few minutes.
Garnish with corriander leaves and serve hot with rice or roti.

Prawns Popcorn

Ingredients
prawns - 250 gm
chilli powder - 2 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
juice of half lemon
salt as per taste
egg - 1
white pepper powder - 1 tsp
bread crumbs

ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp. I have not added here. But you can add if you like.

Method
Clean and wash prawns. Mix chilli powder, salt, turmeric powder, lemon juice and leave it aside for half an hour.
 Break one egg and add pepper powder and salt. Dip this marinated prawns into it and then coat it with bread crumbs.
Deep fry in oil and serve hot.

Prawns 65

Ingredients

Prawns – ½ kg

For tempering

Few curry leaves

Green chillies – 2

Soya sauce – 1 tsp

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Food color – a pinch

Yoghurt – 2 tbl.sp

Half of lemon juice

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves for garnishing

For marination

Corn flour – 1 tbl.sp

All purpose flour – 1 tbl.sp

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste

Method
First clean and wash the prawns and marinate it with the given ingredients. Leave it aside for half an hour.

Deep fry in oil and remove and keep aside.

In the same oil add green chilli and curry leaves and then add ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell goes. Then add soya sauce, food color, yoghurt, half of lemon juice and salt.

Mix  fried prawns to it and cook for a minute. Garnish with corriander leaves and serve hot with rice or roti.

Mutton Biryani

Ingredients

Mutton – ½ kg

Basmati rice – 1 kg

Bay leaf - 2

Onions – 6 to 7

Yoghurt – 2 tbl.sp

Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbl.sp

Green chilli - 3

Tomato paste – 2 tbl.sp or 3 tomatoes

Chilli powder – 2 tsp

Coriander powder – 3 tsp

Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

Garam masala –1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt as per taste

Coriander and mint leaves

Saffron soaked in milk  or food color

Roast and Make a powder of

Black cardamom – 1

Green cardamom – 2

Cinnamon – 1 small piece

Cloves – 3 to 4

Mace – 1

Star aniseed – ½

Whole pepper – 2 tsp

For making  rice

Bay leaf – 1

Cumin seed – 1 tsp

Black cardamom – 1

Cinnamon – 1

Cloves – 4

Salt as per taste

One spoon oil




Method
Soak rice in water for half an hour.
Fry onions till golden brown in color and keep aside.
First marinate mutton by adding green chilli paste, red chilli powder, coriander powder, roasted cumin powder, garam masala, yoghurt, turmeric powder, salt,corriander and mint leaves, roasted and powdered whole garam masala and fried onions. Keep little onion aside for garnishing.
Leave it for 3 to 4 hours or overnight.

Heat oil in a pan add ginger garlic paste and saute till raw smell goes. Then add tomato paste or tomatoes chopped and cooked till mashed up.
Add this marinated mutton . Mix well and let it cook till it becomes little soft. Keep on stirring in between and add little water if needed.

Keep enough water in a pan for cooking rice by adding all the ingredients given.
When it starts boiling add rice and cook till 75% done.

Remove and drain the water and keep rice aside.

When mutton is cooked, add this  rice on top of it and set it properly. Garnish with fried onions, garam masala, corriander and mint leaves, saffron soaked in water and ghee or butter. Cover it and cook on a low flame till rice is cooked well.

Serve hot with raita.

Crispy Fried Fish

Ingredients
king fish/surmai
 4 to 5 crushed garlic
a small piece of ginger
red chilli powder- 2 tsp
salt as per taste
tamarind pulp - 2 tbl.sp
few corriander leaves

for coating
rice flour - 1 tbl.sp
semolina - 1 tbl.sp

Method
Mix all the ingredients together and apply to the fish. Leave it aside for half an hour and then coat it with a mixture of rice flour and semolina and shallow fry it.

Stir Fry Chicken With Vegetables

Ingredients
chicken - 100 gm
garlic flakes- 4 to 5
ginger -,one small  piece
green capsicum
yellow capsicum
red capsicum
carrot
cabbage
french beans
red chilli sauce - 1 tsp
tomato ketchup - 1 tbl.sp
salt and pepper as per tste
corn flour - 1 tbl.sp dissolved in water
chicken stock

Method
Cook chicken in water by adding salt and pepper.
Heat oil in a pn, add garlic flakes and ginger and saute for few seconds. Then add all the vegetables and stir fry for few seconds. Then addchicken pieces, red chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, salt and pepper and again stir fry. Add chicken stock and corn flour to it. Cook till gravy becomes thick.

Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients

Rice – 250 gm

Chicken – 200 gm

Onion – 1

Chopped garlic – 5 to 6

Chopped ginger –  1 tbl.sp

Mixed vegetable – carrot, French beans, capsicum, spring onion

Egg – 1

Soya sauce – 1 tsp

White pepper powder – 2 tsp

Vinegar – ½ tsp

Salt as per taste

For marinating chicken

Soya sauce – 1/2 tsp

Salt and pepper as per taste

Corn flour – ½ tsp


Method
Marinate chicken with given ingredients and keep aside for 10 to 20 minutes. Then cook it.
Heat oil in a pan add garlic, ginger and saute for few seconds. Then add onion and cook till soft. Add  all the vegetables and cook for few minutes.
Add egg and scramble it and mix with the vegetable. Add soya sauce, white pepper powder, vinegar and salt and mix well and add rice to it and mix it.
Cook for a minute and serve hot.