Home Made Cheese Sauce

Home Made Cheese Sauce

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes.

Ingredients

Cheddar Cheese: 200 Grams

Processed Cheese: 2 Cubes

Whole Cream Milk: 1/2 Cup

Salt Pinch

Butter: 1 Tbspn

All purpose flour: 1 Tbspn

Method

Melt butter in a pan. Add all purpose flour to it and mix it well. Cook it for 2 minutes.

Add Milk and mix it well. Cook it till 1 boil or it becomes thick. No lumps should be there. Mix it till smooth.

Put it on a very low flame.

Add Grated Cheddar Cheese and Processed cheese into it and mix it evenly till no lumps left in that.

Take it off the flame and again mix it till smooth.

HOT Cheese Sauce is ready to be served.

Server it with any bitings ( Potato nuggets (Click here for recipe), Grilled Pitta Breads), also can be serve as a fondue with different types of grilled bread pieces.

ENJOY!!!

Mexican Cheesy Potato Nuggets

Mexican Cheesy Potato Nuggets

Pre-Preparations: 15 Minutes

Preparations: 15 Minutes

Servings:4

Ingredients

Boiled Potatoes: 5 Nos. Medium in size.

Salt to taste

Oregano: 1 Tbspn

Red Chilly Flakes: 1 Tbspn

Olive Oil: 1 tspn

Fresh BreadCrums: 1/2 Cup

Dry Bread Crums: 1 Cup

Crushed black Pepper: 2 tspn

Grated Process Cheese: 2 Cubes

Corn flour: 2 Tbspn

Oil to fry

Method

In a mixing bowl, mesh the boiled potatoes roughly.

Season it with all dry herbs, Salt and mix it well. Keep on adding fresh bread crums to it and make slight tight dough from it. Lastly add oilve oil and mix it well. Keep it aside.

Prepare small nuggets from this dough.

In a bowl, make a thin slurry of Corn Flour. Take dry bread crums (made from Toasts) in another bowl.

Heat oil in a frying pan.

Take one by one nuggets. First deep it in corn flour slurry, and then coat it with dry bread crums. 

Deep fry all the nuggets on a medium heat till golden brown. 

Serve them hot with home made cheese Sauce.

Home made Cheese Sauce (Click Here for Recipe)

ENJOY

Raw Chia Seed - KIWI Kulfi

Raw Chia Seed - KIWI Kulfi

Preparation Time: Over Night

Servings:  4

Ingredients

Raw CHIA Seeds: 4 Tbspn

Fresh Kiwi: 2 Nos

Full Cream Yogurt: 1 Bowl (200 Grms)

Honey: 2 Tbspn

Water to soak CHIA seeds.

Method

Soak Chia seeds in water in a small bowl for almost 6 - 8 hours. (Preferably overnight).

In a mixing bowl, Take yogurt and beat it till smooth.

Add Honey and mix well.

Add Finely chopped Kiwi fruit to it and mix gently.

Lastly add soaked CHIA seeds to it and mix it finally very gently.

Transfer this mixture to a kulfi moulds.

Keep it in the refrigerator for almost 1 and half hour. Take it out and again mix it gently.

Again refrigerate it for another 2 hours. Again take it out and mix it well.

At this time, insert toothpick or kulfi sticks to the mould.

Again refrigerate it for another 2 hours.

Now Kulfi is ready.

Serve it with Fresh Kiwi bytes.

ENJOY

Click here to know more about "CHIA SEEDS"

Indo-Italian Paneer Kaththi Roll

Indo-Italian Paneer Kaththi Roll

Pre-Preparation Time: 15 Minutes.

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes.

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Tortillas: 4 Nos.

Paneer(Cottage Cheese): 250 Grams

Hung Curd: 100 Grams

Gram Flour: 1 Tbspn

Onion: 1 Medium 

Green Bell Pepper: 1/2 Nos.

Yellow Bell Pepper: 1/2 Nos.

Red Bell Pepper: 1/2 Nos.

Cheese Spread: 1/2 Cup

Mint Mayonnaise: 1/4 Cup

Butter: 4 Tbspn

Honey Onion Sauce: 1/4 Cup

Mustered Sauce: 1 Tbspn

Red Chilly Sauce: 1 Tbspn

Tobasco Sauce: 1 tspn

Salt to Taste.

Olive Oli: 2 Tbspn

Freshly crushed Black Pepper: 1/2 tspn

Oregano: 2  tspn

Red Chilly Flakes:1 tspn

Method

Cut Onion, all three bell peppers into julienne.

Heat Oil in a pan. Saute them for 1 minutes. Season with some salt and crushed black pepper. Take it in a bowl and put it aside.

In a bowl, Take hung curd and gram flour. Season it with Salt and crushed black pepper and beat it well till it becomes smooth.

Saute Paneer Julienne on the flat pan from all the sides.

Add Paneer Julienne to it and mix it well. keep it aside for a while.

On a skillet, cook tortilla on both the sides for a while.

Take this tortilla on a flat plat. Apply butter and spread cheese to it. In the middle arrange sauted salad. On that, arrange paneer Julienne in a  row. Season it with oregano, chilly flakes, and all sauces.

Prepare all tortillas like this.

Roll each tortilla tightly. And serve it hot with your choice of Dip / Sauce.

Enjoy !!!

  

Vol - Au - Vent (French Appetizer)

Vol - Au - Vent (French Appetizer)

Preparation Time: 30 Minutes

Servings: 4 Nos.

Cases:

Vol - Au - Vent Cases

Ingredients

Ready to bake Puff Pastries : 2 nos.

Milk to brush: 2 Tbspn.

Method

Defrost a Ready to Bake puff pastry sheet.

Take fluted pastry cutter and cut the puff pastry in round shape. Put them on a silicon baking tray.

Take the same size fluted pastry cutter and cut an identical size then take a slightly smaller round cutter and cut a hole in the middle of the pastry cuts.

Put the rings of pastry cut on the flat pastry cut. Arrange 3 pastry rings on a single round pastry shits.

Brush them all with milk.

Bake them in a preheated oven  at 200 degree for 10-12 minutes.

Vol - Au - Vent cases are ready. Let them cool down to the room temperature. (you can store them also for 2-3 days in a normal room temperature).

Vol - Au - Vent:

Vol - Au - Vent

Ingredients

Boiled Corn: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Bell peppers: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Paneer cubes: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped tomatoes: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Onion: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped green Olives: 1 Tbspn

Mint Mayonnaise: 2 Tbspn

Mustered Sauce: 1/2 Tbspn

Tomato KetchUp: 1 Tbspn

Olive Oil: 1 Tbspn

Liquid cheese: 1 Tbspn

Grated Mozzarella cheese: 2 Tbspn

Salt to taste

Red chilly sauce: 1/2 Tbspn

Dried Oregano: 1 tspn

Chilly Flakes: 1 tspn

Mixed Herbs: 1 tspn

Mint leaves to garnish.

Method

In a bowl, take finely chopped onion, bell peppers, corn, paneer cubes and olives. Add salt to taste and 1/2 Tbspn olive oil and mix well. Let it rest for a while.

By the time, in a mixing bowl, prepare dressing for the filling.

Take Mayonnaise, add liquid cheese, mustered sauce and tomato ketchup and mix it well. 

Add rest of the olive oil to it. And again mix it well.

Add the prepared mixture of chopped vegetables to it and mix it well.

Season it with dried oregano, Chilly flakes, and mixed herbs to it. Mix it properly.

Your filling is ready.

Fill this mixture to the prepared Vol - Au - Vent cases.

Top all the cases with grated Mozzarella cheese.

Bake these filled cases in a preheated oven for 3-5 minutes @ 180 degree.

Take them out. Garnish each Vol - Au -Vent with a mint leave and an olive ring.

Have it HOT !!!

ENJOY !!!

Cheese Garlic Bread

Cheese Garlic Bread

Preparation Time: 8 min

Preparation Time: 5 min

Servings: 2

Ingredients

Fresh (white/brown/sub) breads: 4 nos.

Cheese Spread / liquid Cheese : 2 Tbspn

Corn: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Capsicum: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Onion: 1 Tbspn

Finely chopped Green Chilly: 1 nos.

Garlic Powder: 1 tspn

Salt to taste

Oragano: 1 tspn

Chilly Flakes: 1 tspn

Mozzarella Cheese to garnish.

Method

In a bowl, take cheese spread and add garlic powder, salt and seasonings to it. 

Mix well. 

Cut the breads with round cookie cutter.

Apply seasoned cheese garlic mixture on each bread.

Top it with capsicum, corn, onion, green chillies and mozzarella cheese.

Put it in a preheated oven on 180 degree for 8 minutes.

And a very yummy cheese garlic breads are ready to melt in your mouth !!!

Veg Risotto in Microwave

Veg Risotto in Microwave

Pre Preparation Time: 10 Minutes.
Cooking time: 15 Minutes.
Servings: 2

Ingredients

Basmati Rice: 1 Cup (200 Grams)
Red, Green and Yellow Bell Papers: 1 Cup (Julians).
Sliced Onion: 1/2 cup.
Finely chopped Green chilly: 2 nos.
Butter: 2 Tbspn.
Olive Oil: 1 tspn
Garlic Paste: 1 tspn.
Oregano: 1 tspn.
Red Paprika: 1 tspn.
Mixed herbs: 1 tspn.
Black pepper powder: Pinch.
Salt to taste
Water: 2 cups.
Milk: half cup.
Mint leave to garnish.

Method

Soak Basmati Rice for 2-3 hours.

In  a micro-safe bowl, take butter and olive oil and put it in microwave on high mode for 1 minute.

Add onion, garlic paste and finely chopped green chillies and put it again for 1 minute on micro high mode.

Add Bell paper Julians and pinch of salt and put on micro high for 1 minute.

Finally, add rice, salt and all the seasoning to it and mix it well.

Cover the bowl with a lead and put it into the microwave for 8 -9 minutes on High mode.

In between, keep checking it on interval of 2-3 minutes and add water if required.

In a serving plate, take a portion of a prepared risotto, and garnish it with bell paper Julians and a coriander/mint leaves.

Serve it hot !!! 

Fajita Sandwich

Fajita Sandwich

Pre-Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Preparation time: 5 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Bread (of your choice): 8 Slices

Finely Chopped Tomatoes: 2 No

Finely Chopped Onion: 2 no

Boiled Corn:1 Cup

Finely Chopped Bell Peppers (Red, Yellow,Green): 1 Cup

Mayonnaise: 4 Tbspn

Olive Oil: 1 Tbspn

Butter: 4 Tbspn

salt to taste

Freshly Crushed Black Pepper: 2 tspn

Mustered Sauce: 1 Tbspn

Spread Cheese:  1 to 2 Tbspn

Red Chilly Flakes: 2 tspn

Oregano: 2 tspn

Mixed Herbs: 1 tspn

Catch up for garnishing

Method

In a mixing bowl, take finely chopped onion, tomatoes, bell peppers and corns and prepare salad.

for preparing the dressing, mix mayonnaise, olive oil, spread cheese first and then season it with all the herbs and spices. Mix it well.

Add the previously prepared salad into this dressing and mix it properly. Fajita is ready.

Take a bread slice and spread butter on it. put fajita on it and spread on the slice. Put another buttered bread slice onto it and cut the sandwich diagonally.

Serve it with catch up accompanied by an iced tea (or any other drink).

Generally this sandwich goes very good when served with chilled fajita in it.

Pitta Pockets

Pitta Pockets

Preparation Time: 2.5 -3 Hours

Cooking Time: 15 Minutes.

Servings: 2

Ingredients

Warm Milk: 1 ½  Cup

Dry yeast: 2 ¼  tspn.

All purpose flour: 3 ½  Cup

Olive oil: 2 Tbspn.

Salt: 2 tspn.

Baking powder: 1 ½ TbSpn.

Sugar: 1 tspn.

Oregano: 1 tspn.

Red Chilly flakes: 1 tspn.

Ingredients for Filling

Chopped Capsicum: 4 Tbspn.

Chopped Onion: 4 Tbspn.

Blanched Corn: 4 Tbspn.

Cottage Cheese Cubes: 4 Tbspn.

Chopped Olives: 2 Tbspn.

Mayonnaise: 2 Tbspn.

Olive oil: 1 Tbspn.

Tabosco Sauce: 3-4 drops.

Chilly Flakes: 2 tspn.

Oregano: 2 tspn.

Red Chilly Garlic paste: 1 tspn.

Mixed herbs: 2 tspn.

Dry Thyme: 1 tspn.

Salt to taste

Crushed black pepper: pinch

Processed Cheese: 4 Tbspn.

Method

In a small bowl, take Luke-warm milk and add dry yeast and sugar to it. Leave that for 10 minutes to activate the dry yeast.

In another mixing bowl, take all purpose flour and add olive oil, salt, baking powder to it.

Mix it well. 

Add activated yeast milk to that and knead the smooth dough. Grease a bowl with oil and put that kneaded dough into it and cover the bowl with a clean film or a tight lid. Let it rest for 2 hours.

After 2 hours, dough must be risen almost in double in the volume.

Again apply some oil onto your fingertips and knead the dough lightly again.

Divide this dough into two equal proportion.

Keep it in a warm place for another 30 minutes.

Roll them into 1/2 inch thickness.

Greece the baking tray with a drop of oil(or butter). 

Put rolled pittas into the tray.

Put the tray into the preheated oven (Preheat oven 200 degree for 10 - 12 minutes). 

Bake it for 15 minutes on 180 degrees.

Take the baked Pitta breads out of the oven and let them come to the room temperature. 

Cut them into two parts from the middle.

Take one portion of it and make pocket from it by cutting it from the edge. Do it with all four portions.

Prepare the filling by mixing capsicum, onion, olives, corns, cottage cheese cubes and all the spices and sauces and mayonnaise into another bowl.

Fill each pocket with this filling and garnish them with grated processed cheese.

Put them all into the microwave on Convection mode for 2-3 minutes at 180 degree. Let the cheese melt.

Take all these pitta pockets into a serving plate and serve them HOT... !!!

Enjoy !!!

Pizza Cup Cakes

Pizza Cup Cakes

Preparation Time: 20 Min
Pre-Preparation Time: 10 min
Servings: 3 

Ingredients

All purpose flour(Maida)/ Whole wheat flour: 3/4 Cup
Unflavored Oil: 1/4 Cup
Curd: 1/4 Cup
Pizza gravy: 1/2 Cup
Baking Powder: 1/2 tspn
Baking Soda: 1/4 tspn
Salt to taste
Chopped capsicum: 1 Tbspn
Small Cheese cubes(processed): 2 Tbspn
Corn: 1 tbspn
Pizza Seasonings: 1/2 Tbspn

Method

Mix curd and oil in a bowl and beat it well.

Add Pizza gravy to it. Beat it again.

Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and seasoning and mix them well.

Add Capsicum and cheese cube to this mixture and mix it finally.

Batter should be in a dropping consistency. 

Take the cup cake mold and fill them half with this batter.

Garnish it with mix herbs and half Olive on the top.

Put it in preheated microwave (convection mode) for 180 degree for 20 minutes.

Take them out and let them cool for 2 minutes.

It's ready to serve hot (with Tomato Catchup) !!!

Spicy Cheesy Lollipop

Spicy Cheesy Lollipop

Pre preparation Time: 20 minutes
Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

Mashed potatoes: 6 no

Blanchland Green Peas: 1/2 Cup

Blanched Corn: 1/2 Cup

Blanched and finely chopped Carrot: 1/4 Cup

Finely chopped onion: 2 Tbspn

Cheese Cubes: 3 no

Corn Flour: 2 to 3 tspn

Salt to taste

Green Chilly Paste: 1 tspn

Garlic Paste: 1 tspn

Chilli Flakes: 1 tspn

Paper powder: Pinch

Corn Flakes: 1 Cup

Maida: 2Tbspn

Water: 1 Cup

Oil: To Deep Fry

Coriander leave: 3 Tbspn

Method

In a mixing bowl add potatoes, green peas, carrot, corn, garlic and chili paste, salt, paper powder, chili flakes, coriander leaves and mix well.

Add some corn flour if required to make thick consistency so that we can make rolls or balls.

Now make equal balls and put cheese cubes in the center of the ball and roll properly and make tight rolls.

In another bowl, take maida and water. Mix well.

Deep rolls into maida slurry and than roll into corn flakes. 

Put oil in a pan and deep fry the rolls on a slow flame.

Serve hot with katch-up or chutney.

Enjoy!!