Cheesy Veg Bread Roll

Ingredients
few bread slices
potatoes - 2 big
green peas - 1 cup
corriander powder - 1 tsp
roasted cumin powder - 1 tsp
red chilli powder and salt as per taste
few chopped corriander leaves
onion - 1 chopped
grated cheese - 2 to 3 tbl.sp

Method
Boil two potatoes and grate it.
Boil green peas and keep aside.
In a bowl take all the ingredients given and mi it well.

Remove the sides of bread slices, dip in water and squeeze out the excess water.
with the help of a rolling pin, flatten it and spread one tbl.sp of this potato mixture.
Roll it tightly. Close the sides properly.

Shallow fry in oil and serve hot with chutney or ketchup.

Prawns Mutter Pulao

Ingredients
Cumin seed – 1 tsp
Few curry leaves
Onion – 2 medium size
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
Green chilli slit open – 2
Tomatoes chopped medium – 2
Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala – ½ tsp
Few chopped coriander leaves
Rice – ½ kg
Water – double the quantity of rice
Juice of half lemon
Few prawns cleaned, washed and marinated in salt and turmeric powder

Method

Wash rice and soak in water for half an hour.

Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seed.

When it splutters add few curry leaves and then onion and cook till it turns light brown in color. Add green chillies slit open and then tomatoes and cook till it is totally mashed up.

Add all the powdered masala, green peas, chopped coriander leaves and cook for a minute.

Add water double the quantity of rice and let it boil.

When it starts boiling, add juice of half lemon and soaked rice. Cook rice on a medium flame. When it is half done, add marinated prawns. Slow the flame and mix well and let the rice cook fully.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Coffee and Walnut Cake

Ingredients

All purpose flour – 200 gm

Powdered sugar – 170 gm

Oil – 90 gm

Eggs – 2

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – ½ tsp

Salt – ½ tsp

Coffee powder – 3 tsp

Milk – ¼ cup

Make a syrup of coffee and sugar

For icing

Butter – 100 gms at room temperature

Icing sugar – 200 gm

Cream – 3 tbl.sp

Coffee and sugar syrup – 2 tbl.sp

Whisk it till creamy and refrigerate it for sometime

Method

Take a bowl and  add oil and sugar and whisk it till it becomes creamy. Then add egg one by one  along with coffee powder and beat it for a minute with a hand blender.

In another bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

Then little by little add it to the egg mixture  and beat it with a hand blender. If the batter is too thick add little milk. Also add coarsely blended walnuts to it.

Now take a grease baking mould, put  batter,  tap it.  Then bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 35 to 40 minutes.

When cool demould it.

Slightly remove the top layer and then cut the cake into half horizontally.

Put little coffe and sugar syrup on both the cake pieces

Spread cream in between the two cake pieces and then decorate it with walnuts.

Marble Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
All purpose flour – 200 gm
Powdered sugar – 170 gm
Oil – 90 gm
Eggs – 2
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Dark chocolate – 40 gm
Cocoa powder – 1 tbl.sp
Milk – ¼ cup
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Method
Take a bowl and add oil and sugar and whisk it till it becomes creamy. Then add egg one by one along with vanilla essence and beat it for a minute with a hand blender.
In another bowl, sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Then little by little add it to the egg mixture and then with the help of a spatula do cut and fold. If the batter is too thick add little milk.
In another bowl, take dark chocolate, add little water and keep it for boiling till chocolate melts completely.
In another bowl take 2 to 3 tbl.sp of batter and add this melted chocolate and mix well, add cocoa powder too and again mix it well.
Now take a grease baking mould, put little white batter, spread it and then put little chocolate batter, with a fork make design. Again pour white batter and then chocolate batter, design it and then bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius for 35 to 40 minutes.
When cool demould it.

Baked Star Bread Pizza

Ingredients

Few bread slices

Pizza sauce

Onion – 1 medium

Mix vegetable – carrot, capsicum, mushrooms, corn

Salt and pepper as per taste

Cheese to sprinkle

Method

Heat one tbl.sp of olive oil and 1 tsp of ghee/butter and add one medium size onion chopped. Cook till it becomes translucent.

Add all vegetables, salt, and pepper as per taste and cook till it is completely dry.

Take two bread slices. Cut the sides. Take a star cutter and press on one bread to give a star shape cut.

On the plain bread spread pizza sauce and place star cut bread on top of it. Put vegetable on it and sprinkle little cheese on top.

Bake at 180 degree celcius  till the cheese melts.

Prawns Pepper Masala

Ingredients
Prawns – 10 to 12
Onion – 2 medium
Mustard seed – 1 tsp
Few curry leaves
Coriander powder – 1 tsp
Tomatoes – 2 medium
Garlic cloves – 3 to 4
Ginger – 1 inch piece
Few coriander leaves
Salt as per taste

Dry roast
Cumin seed – 1tsp
Fenugreek seed – ¼ tsp
Whole pepper – 1 tsp
Red chilli – 2



Method
Clean and wash 10 to 12 prawns and marinate with salt and turmeric powder.
Leave it aside for some time.
Heat a pan and dry roast red chilli, cumin seed, fenugreek seed, whole pepper. Off the flame and let it cool down. Now blend this ingredient along with tomato, ginger , garlic and coriander leaves.
Heat two tbl.sp of oil in a pan and add mustard seed. When it start to splutter, add curry leaves and chopped onions. When onion turns light brown in color, add the blended masala and fry for few seconds. Add little water and prawns. Cook till prawns are done. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

How To Make Stiff Egg White Peak

Ingredients

Eggs – 3

Method

Take 3 eggs. Take a clean and dry bowl. Separate egg white from egg yolk. Put egg white in the bowl and whisk it with the help of a hand blender till it forms stiff peak at the top. When you invert it, it should not fall, then it means it is ready.

Prawns White Curry

Ingredients

Prawns – 5 to 10 big ones

Onion – 1

Mustard seed – 1 tsp

cumin seed - 1 tsp

Fenugreek seed - 1 /4 tsp

Ginger julienns – 1 small piece

Garlic – 3 to 4 crushed

Few curry leaves

Green chillies - as per taste

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Tamarind pulp – 2 tsp

Milk of half coconut

Few coriander leaves

Salt as per taste

Method

Clean and wash prawns. Marinate it with little tutmeric powder and salt.

Take out milk of half coconut and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seed, cumin seed, fenugreek seed. When it splutter, add ginger juliennes, green chilli and  few curry leaves and onion. Cook till onions are light brown in color.  Add crushed garlic also. Add marinated prawns and saute for few seconds.

Slow the flame and Add coconut milk, coriander  powder, tamarind pulp and salt as per taste. cook on a slow flame till it starts boiling. Off the flame

. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or roti.

Medu Vada Recipe

Ingredients
urad dal - 1 cup
green chilli as per taste
few curry leaves
few corriander leaves
chopped onion - 1
chopped ginger -one small piece
salt as per taste

for the chutney
few pieces of coconut chopped
few chopped corriander leaves
few chopped mint leaves
2 to 3 cloves of garlic
juice of half lemon
salt as per taste

Method
Soak urad dal in water for 3 to 4 hours and then blend it to a fine paste using very little water. The batter should be thick.
Make a chutney with the given  ingredients

Heat oil in a pan, take a spoon ful of batter and make a hole in the centre. Fry on a medium flame till done. Serve hot with chutney.

Mix Dal Dosa With Cheese

Ingredients
rice - 1 cup
urad dal - 3 tbl.sp
chana dal - 3 tbl.sp
moong dal - 3 tbl.sp
tuvar dal - 3 tbl.sp
one small piece of ginger
green chilli/red chilli as per taste
few corriander leaves
cumin seed - 1 tsp
salt - as per taste
grated carrot
grated cabbage
grated cheese

Method
Wash and Soak rice and dal in water for 3 to 4 hours and blend it to a fine paste by adding little water and ginger, green chilli, corriander leaves.
Leave this to rest for half an hour or overnight to ferment.
Heat a flat pan and with the help of a spoon pour the batter in thin circular shape. Top with grated carrot, cabbage and cheese. Serve hot.

Keema Stuffed Capsicum Rings

Ingredients

Chicken/mutton keema cooked – 150 gms

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

Garam masala – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Red chilli powder and salt as per taste

Onion – 1 medium size chopped

Tomato – 1 medium size chopped

Chopped coriander and mint leaves

Juice of half lemon

Egg – 1

Cut capsicum into one inch thick circle, remove all the seeds and keep aside.

Method

Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients given. Stuff in the capsicum circle and shallow fry in oil. Serve hot.

Soya Bean and Methi Paratha

Ingredients

Soya beans – 100 gms

Onion – 1 medium

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder – as per taste

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Amchur powder – 1 tsp

Roasted cumin powder – 1 tsp

Salt as per taste

Handful of methi leaves/fenugreek leaves chopped

Wheat flour dough

Method

Wash and soak soya beans in water for 4 to 5 hours. Boil it till it becomes soft. With  a blender blend it coarsely. Add all the ingredients given and mix well.

Make a dough from wheat flour and keep aside.

With the help of a rolling pin make a round chapatti and put one spoon of this mixture in the centre and close it from all sides.

With the help of rolling pin, add roll paratha and cook on a hot flat pan by adding little ghee or oil. Serve hot with yogurt or pickle.

Aloo Masala

Ingredients
mustard seed  - 1/2 tsp
cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
onion - 1 big chopped
potatoes - 1/2 kg chopped
4 to 5 flakes of garlic crushed
one inch piece ginger crushed
green chilli crushed - 2
few curry leaves
corriander powder - 2 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
pulp of two medium size tomato
yogurt - 1 tbl.sp
red chilli and salt as per taste
corriander leaves for garnishing

Method
Heat two tbl.sp of oil in a pan and  add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. When they splutter add crushed ginger, garlic, green chilli and curry leaves and saute for few seconds.
Add onion and cook till translucent.
Add tomato puree, turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder, corriander powder, yoghurt and cook for few seconds.
Add potatoes, mix well. Cover and cook till potatoes are done. Garnish with corriander leaves and serve hot with rice or roti.

Eggless Orange Cake

Ingredients
Refined flour – 200 gm
Powdered Sugar – 120 gm
Oil – 70 gm
Yogurt – 50 gm
Pulp of one orange
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Orange food color – ½ tsp

Method
Take a baking mould, grease it with oil or butter and keep aside.
In bowl sieve together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and food color.
In another bowl, Take sugar , yogurt, orange pulp and beat until creamy. Then add oil and beat for a minute. Gradually start putting refined flour and whisk it. If the batter is too thick, add little water and again whisk it.
Pour it in the baking moulds and bakes in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 30 to 40 minutes or until done.
When at room temperature turn upside down and your cake is ready.

For icing
Butter – 100 gm
Icing sugar – 200 gm
Orange juice – 1 to 2 tbl.sp

Eggless Strawberry Mousse

Ingredients
strawberry - 3 to 4
china grass powder - 2 big sp. heaped
milk - 250 ml
whippped cream for decorating

Method
Take a bowl and blend strawberry to a fine paste. Take dessert glass and pour two spoon of strawberry pulp.
In another pan take 250 milk and keep it for boiling.
When it starts boiling, add china grass powder, mix well and keep on stirring till it starts boiling.
Pour this in the dessert glass, mix well with strawberry pulp and leave it to set with or without refrigerator.
Decorate with whipped cream and chopped strawberry.

Soya Bean Dosa

Ingredients
rice - 2 cups
urad dal/black gram dal - 1 cup
soya bean - 3/4 cup
fenugreek seed - 2 tsp
salt - 1 tsp

Method
Wash and soak rice, urad dal and fenugreek seed together and in another bowl soak soya bean for 4 to 6 hours.
Blend this to a fine paste and leave it to ferment for 8 to 10 hours or overnight.
Heat a pan and with the help of a spoon pour one spoon of  batter into the pan and spread it in a circular way. Put little oil on sides.
Remove when ready and serve hot with chutney.

Soya And Mushroom Toast

Ingredients
soya keema - 100 gm
mushroom - 100 gm
garlic chopped - 5 to 6
onion - 1 medium chopped
salt and pepper as per taste
cream - 2 tbl.sp
italian seasoning - 1 tsp
cheese to sprinkle
bread slices

Method
Heat oil 1 tbl.sp and one tsp of ghee, add chopped garlic and saute for few seconds without changing its color. Then add onions and fry till soft. Add soya keema, mushroom and cook on a slow flame for few minutes. Then add salt and pepper, cream, italian seasoning and cook on a slow flame for few seconds. Remove from fire.

Take bread slices and spread  this mixture and sprinkle cheese on top.
Heat a pan, put little ghee or butter and place this bread slices and cover and cook on a slow flame till cheese melts. Serve hot.

Banana Upside Down Cake

Ingredients
Refined flour – 200 gm
Castor Sugar – 120 gm
Oil – 70 gm
Eggs – 2
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Baking soda – ½ tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Bananas – 5
Milk – ¼ cup

Method
Heat sugar in a pan by adding two tsp of water. Keep cooking until it caramelize.
Take a baking mould, grease it with oil or butter and spread 2 bananas that are round sliced. Now pour this caramelize sugar on top of it and keep aside.
In bowl sieve together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
In another bowl, take 3 bananas and prick it with a fork till it becomes mushy. Take sugar and oil and beat until creamy. Then add eggs one at a time and whisk it till creamy and then add vanilla essence.

Gradually start putting refined flour and whisk it. If the batter is too thick, add little milk and again whisk it.
Pour it in the baking mould and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 30 to 40 minutes or till done.
When at room temperature turn upside down and your cake is ready.

Bhuna Masala Chicken

Ingredients

Poppy seed - 1 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Cloves - 3 to 4

Black pepper - 1 tsp

Black cardamom - 1

Star aniseed - 1/2

Mace - ½

Cumin seed – 1 ½ tsp

Coriander seed - 2 tbl.sp

Red chilli - 2 to 3 or as per taste

5 to 6 flakes of Garlic

 one small piece of ginger

Yogurt - ½ cup

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt as per taste

Kasuri methi – 1 tsp

Juice of half lemon

Coriander leaves chopped

Little cream to garnish
Paste of 12 to 15 cashewnuts

Method
Wash and make cut in the chicken pieces.
Dry roast all the ingredients given and make a paste of it by adding ginger and garlic.
In a bowl, take half cup of  yogurt, turmeric powder, salt, half of the blended masala . Mix well and add chicken pieces to it. Mix well and let it marinate for few hours or overnight.

Shallow fry chicken pieces till it becomes dry. Remove and keep aside.
In the same pan add half of the blended masala, leftover marinated masala and chicken pieces. Cook on a slow flame for few minutes.

Add paste of cashewnut, mix well and cook for some more minutes stirring in between.
Add kasuri methi, juice of lemon. Off the flame and garnish with corriander leaves and little cream and serve hot with rice or roti.

Fried Crispy Schezwan Paneer

Ingredients
refined flour/maida - 2 tbl.sp
corn flour - 1 tbl.sp
soya sauce - 1 tsp
red chilli sauce - 1 tsp
schezwan sauce - 3 to 4 tsp
salt and pepper as per taste
water for making batter
paneer cubes - 10 to 12
capsicum and onion cubes


Method
Cut paneer into cubes and chop capsicum and onion into squares and keep aside.
In a bowl take all the ingredients given, add water and mix well and make a thick batter.
Add paneer, onion and capsicum, mix well and let it marinate for half an hour.
Take tooth pick and insert onion, then paneer and then capsicum and fry in oil.
Serve hot with schezwan sauce.