Makki Atta ka Chilla

Ingredients:

1. 6 tblespoon Makki atta
2. 2 tbspoon Rava/Sooji
3. 200 grams of cabbage cut and shred
4. 2 big size tomato (in paste form)
5. 2 big onion cut in longevity
6. 2 green chilies
7. 1/2 tsp salt
8. 1/8 tsp asfotedia
9.  1/2 cup water
10. 4 tablespoon oil

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients described above and keep it aside for 1/2 hour
2. After 1/2 hour place a tawa on gas on high flame, spread 1 tsp oil on tawa and as the tawa heat up, spread 1/2 bowl batter on tawa
3. Now turn the flame to medium and let it cook for 8 to 10 minutes
4. After 8-10 minutes, turn the chilla to get it cooked at other side.
5. Cook the other side for next 5 mins and serve the chilla with green chutney or ketchup

Kurkri Bhindi Evening Snacks

Ingredients

• 1/2 Kg fresh okra/Bhindi, split

• 6 tbsp gram flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 2 cups cold water
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper/Black Pepper
• 1 onion cutted in long length
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ajwain
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 2 chillies finely chopped
• Oil for deep frying
• 1/2 tsp of chat masala to sprinkle

Method:

1. Heat oil

2. Mix gram flour and corn starch together.

3. Gradually add cold water  whisking continuously until you get a pancake batter-like consistency.

4. Mix spices and additional flour together and coat split okra, onioin in mix.

5. Add spiced okra to tempura batter and slowly place okra into hot oil. Let fry for 2-3 minutes then remove and drained.

6. Sprinkle Chat masala and serve it with hot tea in evening snacks.

Mooong Lentils Sandwich

 Ingredients: 

1. White / Brown Bread- 4 slices 
2. Moong dal - 1 small bowl 
3. Roasted peanuts (without skin)- 50 grams
4. Green Chutney

Method: 

1. Soak the dal overnight, this will help you grind it easily 
2. Drain the water; grind the dal into a fine paste and mix salt as per taste
3. Grind all the ingredients of the green chutney and grind into a fine paste 
4. Take a slice of bread, spread the chutney and then the ground dal Break the peanuts into halves and crush them by pressing them between two sheets of paper 
5. Then sprinkle them over the spread 
6. Spread some butter in a pan and grill the sandwich for a while 
7. Your healthy Moong Dal Sandwich is ready

Summer Evening Sandwich

Time Taken: 15 Minutes

Ingredients:

1. 16 slices of wheat bread
2. 1/2 cup of butter softened 
3. 2 tbsp chopped fresh chives 
4. 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley 
5. 2 tsp lemon juice 
6. 2 medium cucumber 
7. thinly sliced carrot curls

Method:

1. Remove sides from bread slices and cup them into the shape of your choice.
2.  In a small bowl, combine butter, chives, parsley, lemon juice and salt to taste. Blend well. 
3. Spread the herb butter mixture on each slice. 
4. Top with cucumber slice, close the sandwich and garnish it with a carrot curl.

Ref: TOI

Dry Masala Peanut

Time taken- 30 Minutes

Ingredients:

1. Peanuts- 250 gms
2. Oil-2 tsp
3. Garam Masala- 1 tsp
4. Coriander Powder- 1/2 tsp
5. Dry Mango Powder- 1/2 tsp
6. Black Salt- 1/4 tsp
7. Salt- 1/2 tsp
8. Roasted cumin seeds powder (bhuna jeera powder)- 1 tsp
9. Red chilli powder- 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Roast peanuts on slow flame for 15 minutes, cool them and rub peanuts so that its red covers are off 
2. Dust out the red covers from peanuts
3. Now in a fry pan, add oil, as the oil heats up add peanuts and all the ingredients and mix well 
4. Here dry masala peanuts are ready, you can store them in a air tight container

Morning Break fast Flatten Rice- Poha

Mumbai style Kanda Poha

Serving- 4

Time taken - 15 minutes

Ingredients:

1. Flatten Rice (Poha)-250 grams
2. Onions finely chopped -2 cups
3. Roasted Peanuts- ½ cup
4. 2 finely chopped green chillies
5. 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
6. 6-7 Curry Leaves
7. 1 tsp Turmeric
8. ½ tsp Sugar
9. 1 Lemon
10. ¼ cup of Chopped coriander leaves
11. Oil 4 tsp
12. Salt to Taste

Method:

1. Take a vessel, wash Flatten Rice with water and keep it aside for drain
2. In a fry pan, pour oil and keep it on medium flame.
3. As the oil heats up add Mustard seed, Curry leaves, chopped green chillies.
4. As the mustard seeds starts to crackle, add onion and peanuts and fry them for 4 minutes.
5. Now add turmeric powder, salt and drained flatten rice to fry pan and start mixing it well
6. Now add sugar, lemon and again stir it so that its mix well
7. Add coriander leaves and your yummy Poha is ready to serve.

Haryali Mushroom Tikka Recipe

Haryali Mushroom Tikka Recipe

Servings:
4 person
Time Taken(preparation)- 2-3 hours

Time Taken (Cooking)-45 minutes

Ingredients
Button Mushroom- 250 grams
Gram Flour-6 spoons
Curd- sufficient to matter gram flour batter
Coriander leaves-1/2 cup chopped

chillies-3
Ginger-25 mm
Garlic-3 cloves
Sticks for grilling- 8-10
Oil- 1 spoon
Salt- to taste

For Decoration-
1 Onion Sliced
1 Tomato
1 spoon vinegar
1/2 tsp Chat Masala


Method-

1. Make a fine paste of coriander leaves, chillies, ginger & garlic.
2. Now Mix this paste in gram flour and then add curd enough so a thick batter is formed
3. Wash all Mushroom button and mix them in batter.
4. Now add salt as per your taste 
5. Now add one spoon oil and mix well
6. Now keep this batter in fridge for minimum 2 hours for marination
7. Pre heat the Oven or microwave grill at 190 degree for 10 minutes
8. After 2 hours now place each mushroom in Stick and keep them all in oven for 45 minutes at 190 degree
9. After 20 minutes flip all the sticks so that they cook from all sides equally

Spicy Boiled Sweet Corns

Spicy Boiled Sweet Corns

Servings
2 person


Ingredients

1. 150 grams of corns fresh or frozen
2. 1/2 lemon
3. 1/2 tspn of butter
4. Masala Salt
5. 1 tspn Peri Peri Powder

Method:

1. Wash all corns and place the bowl of corns in microwave adding 1/2 cups of water for 12 minutes
2. After 12 Mins, add remaining ingredients in corns and mix well.
3. Tasty Corn which we purchase from mall, bazar at such high cost is ready to serve 

Masala Papad

Chatpata Light Masala Papad

Servings 
For 2 assuming One per head
time take- 5 minutes

Ingredients

1. 1/4 Onion finely chopped
2. 1/3 Tomato Finely Chopped
3. 1 small green chilli finely chopped
4. Lemon-1/2
5. 1 tsp Coriander Leaves finely chopped
6. Chat masala- 1/2 tspn to sprinkle
7. 2 lijjat papad

Method

1. Roast Lijjat Papad at gas or microwave
2. Start to sprinkle onion, tomato, chilli on roasted papad 
3. Squeeze lemon and coriander leaves
4. Sprinkle chat masala evenly on papad
5. yummy papad is ready to serve and eat

Mumbain Vada Pav

Yummy Tasty Vada Pav

Ingredients:

For Vada

1. 3 cups of boiled and mashed potatoes
2. 3 green chilled roughly chopped
3. 2 inch og peeled and roughly chopped ginger
4. 1 1/2 tspns of mustards seeds (rai/sarson)
5. 1/2 tspns of asafoetida (hing)
6. 10-12 curry leaves
7. 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
8. 1/2 lemon
9. 3 tsp chopped coriander leaves
10. Salt as per taste 

For Outer Covering:

1. 3/4 cup of Gram flour (Besan)
2. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
3. 4-5 pinch of salt
4. a pinch of baking soda

Other Ingredients:

1. Pavs or plain buns
2. Dry Garlic Chutney
3. Oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Pound the green chillies, ginger and garlic using a mortar and pestle.
2. Heat the oil and add the mustard seeds. When they crackle, add the asafoetida and curry leaves and sauté for a few seconds.
3. Add the pounded mixture and sauté again for a few seconds.
4. Add the potatoes, turmeric powder, lemon, coriander leaves and salt and mix well.
5. Remove from the fire and cool
6. Divide it in 8-10 equal portions. Shape into rounds
7. In a bowl combine all ingredients of outer covering with 1/3 cup of water
8. Dip each vada in this gram flour mixture
9. Deep fry in hot oil, till golden brown. Drain Oil and keep aside.

Tips:

1. Slice each pav into haf, spread Dry garlic chutney, place a vada and serve immediately.

Vada Pav Dry Chutney

Ingredients:

1. ½ cup of roughly chopped garlic
2. 1/3 cup of roasted Peanuts
3. ¼ cup of roasted sesame seeds
4. ½ cup of grated dried coconut
5. 10 dried Red Chillies

Method:

1. Roast all the ingredients one by one
2. Keep them aside for to cool down
3. Grind all the ingredients together and your lahsun vada pav chutney is ready. 

Tips:

1. Some times it happens that garlic or peanut is not roasted well and its not possible to grind the mixture without water, in this case add water and grind all the item together
2. And shift this wet mixture in a pan and just roast it at slow flame stirring continnuously, after 7-10 minutes you will observe the mixture turning in powder.

Kanda Bhajiya

Pyaaz Pakode

Ingredients:

1. 4 big size onion chopped in long altitutde
2. 6 spoon gram flour
3. ¾ table spoon of salt
4. 5-6 chillies chopped
5. ½ table spoon garam masala
6. ½ table spoon ajwain
7. 1/3 tablespoon of red Mirch powder
8. ½ table spoon of coriander powder
9. Oil for Frying

Method:

1. In a bowl add chopped onion salt, and gram flour and keep it aside for 45 minutes
2. After 45 minutes add all the ingredients and mix the dough of kanda bhajiya thoroughly, it will look like as the image shown above.
3. Heat Oil at Medium flame till the dough poured in oil doesn’t come up instant
4. Fry all the bhajiya till it becomes Dark golden
5. Serve this tasty bhajiya with Green chutney, Tomato Sauce.

Indian Chowmein

Chinese Noodles Chowmein

1. Noodles Boiled 2 cakes
2. 1 cup shredded cabbage
3. ¾ cup of chopped carrots
4. ½ cup of chopped capsicum
5. 2 chopped green chillies
6. 5 cloves of garlic
7. 1 cup of chopped onions
8. 4 table spoon olive Oil
9. 4 table spoon of Vinegar
10. 4 table spoon of Soya Sauce
11. ¼ small spoon of kali mirch powder
12. Salt as per taste
13. Tomato Sauce for servings

Method

1. 1.       Heat the oil in a pan, add chopped garlic and stir till it turns golden in colour
2. 2.       Add green chillies, Onion and cook it at medium flame for 4 minutes then add cabbage, carrots and capsicum and cover the pan with lid and let it cook for 7 minutes at medium flame
3. 3.       Now open the lid and add Vinegar, Soya sauce, kali mirch powder, salt and keep stirring occasionally
4. 4.       Now add boiled noodles in pan and stir it till it get mix with the vegetables
5. 5.       Your yummy Chowmien is ready; you can add tomato sauce to design the noodles.

South Indian Dahi Vade

Ingredients

For Vade

1. 1 moothi of Moong Daal
2. 3 moothis of urad Dal
3. Green chilli 3
4. Ginger
5. Salt 1/2 Spoon
6. Water
7. Oil for deep frying

Ingredients for preparation:

1. Curd 1/2 Kg
2. Bhuna Jeera for sprinkling
3. Lal Mirch for sprinkling
4. Chat Masala
5. Sugar 1/2 Tablespoon

Method:

1. In Bowl Add 1 moothi of moong dal and 3 moothis of urad dal soak it in water for overnight.
2. In morning drain the water, wash daal, coursely grind in mixer with minimum water.
3. Add Chillies, ginger salt during grinding so that the mixer becomes smooth enough
4. Now cover this batter with the top and keep it aside for 4 hours
5. After 4 hours, stir the batter thoroughly 
6. Heat the kadhai containing oil 
7. Now put spoonful of batter in the kadhai.
8. When the batter turns light golden remove the vades from the kadhai
9. Do this with whole batter, You can fry 5-6 vades at one time
10. Let vades cool and den put this vades in water and soak them for 20mins
11. In the mean while, beat the curd thin adding 1/2 cup water and add half tablespoon sugar to it
12. After 20 mins drain the water from vades with your palm 
13. In a plate keep soaked vades, pour beaten curd on it and sprinkle salt, red chillie powder, roasted Jeera, and chat masala as per taste.
14. Your delicious dahi vades are ready 

Tips

1. While putting batter first time in oil put a little batter and check out it comes up instantaneously.
2. Overnight soaked daal with turn double the quantity.
3. You can aslo add coriander leaves for sprinkling on dahi vades.

CORN ALOO TIKKI

मक्का आलू टिक्की 

आवश्यक सामग्री 

1. मक्का दाना 1 कटोरी 
2. 2 मीडियम साइज आलू 
3. 1  नीबू 
4. 2 हरी मिर्च कटी हुई 
5. अदरक 1 इंच कसा हुआ 
6. मैगी मैजिक मसाला 1 सचेत 
7. नमक स्वाद अनुसार 
8. कॉर्न फ्लौर 1 चमच्च 
9. तेल 3 -4  चमच्च 

विधि

1. एक कटोरी मक्का क दाना को अचे से धो ले और उसे माइक्रोवेव में 15  मिनट के लिए 190 डिग्री पे रख दे साथ में ही आलू को एक पॉलिथीन में करके रख दें 
2. 15 मिनट बाद आलू को छीलकर मक्का दाना में मिक्स करले 
3. इस मिक्सचर में सारी  सामग्री मिक्स करदे (तेल छोड़कर)
4. इस मिक्सचर की गोलाकार टिक्कियां बना दे 
5. तवे को मीडियम गैस पे रखे, उसपे तेल लगाये और ये टिक्कियां सेके डार्क ब्राउन होने तक 
6. इन टिक्कियों का सेवन हरी चटनी या सॉस क साथ करे 

NAMKEEN BADAAM

Ingredients:

1. Badaam: 4 moothis
2. Salt: 1/2 Tablespoon
3. Deshi Ghee: 1 Tablespoon

Method:

1. In a kadhai heat up and add Deshi ghee and heat it till it melts.
2. Add badaam and keep the gas at low sim and keep it stirring on flame for 30 minutes or till the colour of badaam turn to dark brown an then add salt and keep it to cool
3. Cool prepared namkeen of badaam and keep it in a airtight container. You can store this namkeen for more than a month.

POPCORN

Ingredients:

1. 5 table spoon oil
2. 1/2 tablespoon haldi
3. 1/2 tablespoon salt
4. 4 moothi of corns
5. Cooker

Method:

1. Heat the cooker and add oil and heat it up till vapours come out
2. Add Haldi, Salt 
3. And 2 minutes add corns and cover top, corns will start to pop out.
4. As the corns pops out start tossing the cooker so that heavy corns shifts down and popcorns comes up.