Peanut-Butter Honey Truffles

Peanut-Butter Honey Truffles

Preparations: 10 Minutes
Servings: 2

Ingredients 

Unsweetened Peanut Butter: 100 Grams
Honey: 3 TbSpn
Crushed Oatmeal: 50 Grams
Vanilla Extract: 1 tspn.
Grated Dry Coconut: 4 TbSpn

Method

In a mixing bowl, Mix Peanut butter with honey.

Add Vanilla extract and curshed Oatmeal.

Mix till it becomes smooth.

Make small equal balls from that mixture.

Roll all of them in a Grated dry coconut. 

Put the prepared truffles in a refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Truffles are ready to be served.

Enjoy!!!

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

Green Peas "Potli"

Green Peas "Potli"

Pre-preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients

Maida (All purpose Flour): 300 Grams

Fresh Green Peas: 500 Gram

Grated Potatoes: 2 Medium

Green Chilly Garlic Paste: 2 tspn.

Lemon juice : 1 tspn

Salt to Taste

Hing: pinch

Garam Masala: 1 tspn

Sugar: 1 tspn

Oil to fry.

Method

Kneed the dough with Maida. Keep it soft like roti dough. Let it rest for a while.

Crush fresh green peas in a hand mixture or mirchi cutter.

Transfer it in a pressure cooker bowl. Grate a potato on top of that. Pressure cook it till 2 whistles. 

DONT ADD WATER AT ALL INTO THIS BOWL WHILE COOKING. Otherwise, it will be soggy.

Heat oil in a pan. Add green chilly/garlic paste, pinch of hing and saute for a while. 

Add the cooked mixture of green peas and potato into it.

Season it with salt and garam masala. Mix it well. Cook it for 2 -3 minutes or till it become dry. No Watery portion should be left in that. Mixture should be almost dry. Let it cool upto room temperature. 

Make small balls from this mixture for filling.

By the time, From the prepared dough, roll a big sized roti and cut small pooris from it with a cookie cutter.

Put mixture ball into poori and make small potlis from them.

In a fry pan, heat oil on a medium temperature. Deep Fry all potlis till brown.

Serve it HOT with Mint Coriander chutney / catch up / or any other deep of your choice.

ENJOY !!!

PAAN Flavored APPAM Cup Cake

PAAN Flavored APPAM Cup Cake

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Appam Batter: 1 Cup ( We used Farmz2Familiez ready to cook appam batter)

Jaggary: 1 Tbspn

Pinch of Salt

Baking Powder: 1 tspn

Baking Soda: 1/2 tspn

Fennel Seeds: 1 Tbspn

GulKand: 1 Tbspn

Grated Dry Coconut: 1 Tbspn

Betel Leave: 1 Nos.

Method

Add some water to jaggary and let it desolve into it. 

In a mixing bowl, take appam batter, add jaggary water (batter should be in a pouring consistency and not too much watery), pinch of salt, baking powder and baking soda. Keep it aside for 5 minutes.

In a small bowl, mix Gulkand, fennel seeds, grated coconut and finely chopped betel leave. Mix it well.

Pour appam batter into silicon mold sprinkle some fennel seeds and raw gulkand on top of it.

Bake it in a pre heated oven @ 180 Degree for 10 - 12 minutes.

Prepare small ball from the gulkand mix and Top the cup cakes with it.

It can go well for HIGH tea or a quick bites.

ENJOY

Medu VADA in Rajasthani Kadhi

Medu VADA in Rajasthani Kadhi

Pre preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Medu-Vada Batter: 1 Cup (We used Farmz2Familiez Ready to cook Urad Daal Batter)

Ginger Chilly Paste: 2 tspn

Salt to Taste

Oil to deep fry Vadas.

Curd: 1.5 Cup Thick Curd

Gram Flour: 2 Tbspn

Turmeric Powder: 1 tspn

Green Chilly: 2 Nos.

Hing: Pinch

Dry Red Chilly: 2 Nos.

Chopped Garlic: 6 -7 Nos.

Curry Leaves: 5 - 6 Nos.

Cumin Seeds: 1 tspn

Chopped Onion: 1 nos.

Water as required

Method

In ready Made medu Vada batter, add salt to taste, ginger chilly paste and mix well.

Deep fry Vadas from that and keep it aside.

In a mixing bowl, take Curd, add gram flour and pinch of turmeric powder and beat it with beater till smooth. Add some salt to taste.

In a pan, heat a table spoon of oil, add pinch of hing, green chilly, dry red chilly and curry leaves. Let them crackle for a while. 

Add chopped onion and cook it till it becomes translucent. Add chopped garlic to it. Mix it well.

Add the Curd Mixture to it and mix it properly.

Keep on adding water as required. 

Cook it till it become somewhat thick.

Kadhi is ready to be serve.

In a serving bowl,  add Kadhi and put deep fried medu vadas into it. Garnish it with shimmered red dry chilly and some coriander leaves.

ENJOY this fusion rajasthani KADHI PAKODA with rice / chapati / naan / any indian bread.

MultiGrain IDLI TAVA HANDWA

MultiGrain IDLI TAVA HANDWA

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Multi Grain IDLI Batter: 1 Cup ( We used Farmz2FamilieZ ready to use Batter).

Semolina (Sooji): 1/2 Cup

Curd: 2 Tbspn.

Water as required.

Crushed Fresh Green Peas: 1/2 Cup

Crushed Corn: 1/2 Cup

Green Chilly/Garlic Paste: 2 tspn

Salt to Taste

Dry Fenugreek seeds: 1 Tspn

Cooking Soda: Pinch of it.

Turmeric Powder: Pinch of it.

Oil to sallow fry.

sesame seeds: 2 Tbspn.

Method

In a mixing bowl, Mix Semolina and Curd and mix it well. Keep it aside for 3-4 minutes.

Add all the veggies, chilly garlic paste, turmeric powder, salt into Multi Grain IDLI Batter. Mix it well. Add Semolina Mixture to it and mix well. Keep on adding water as required to make pouring consistency of the batter.

Heat oil on a flat pan. Sprinkle some sesame seeds.

Spread  the batter on the Pan and Cover a pan with the lead. let it cook for a while. Shallow fry it both the sides until brown.

Serve it hot with the Hung Curd or any  Deep.

ENJOY !!!

Note: Multi Grain Batter Contains: Rice, Urad Dal, Pearl Millet (Bajara), Finger Millet(Raagi),Jowar,  Whole Green Gram, Black & White ChickPeas

IDLI Sandwich

IDLI Sandwich

Pre - preparations: 15 Minutes
Preparations: 15 Minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients

Idli / Dosa Batter: 500 Grams

For Stuffing
Boiled Potato: 4 Nos.
Chopped Onion: 2 Nos.
Daalia (roasted gram): 1 Tbspn
Green Chillies: 2 Nos.
Curry Leaves: 7-8 Nos.
Mustered seeds: 1 tspn
Hing: 1 tspn
Salt to taste
Oil: 1 Tbspn.

Method

To prepare stuffing, first heat oil into a pan, add mustered seeds and let them crackle for a while.

Add pinch of Hing, Daalia, green chillies, curry leaves to it and saute for a while.

Add chopped onion and pinch of salt. Let it be translucent and pink.

Add boiled and mashed potatoes to it and mix it well. Add Salt to taste and mix it well.

Stuffing is ready. Transfer it in a bowl and keep it aside.

Steam thick and spongy Idli in a Tatte Idli tray. Let it cool for a while.

Un-mold it and cut it in a square shape with pizza cutter or smooth edged knife.

Cut the Idli from the middle and separate two layers of it.

To assemble the sandwich, on one layer of idli spread some tomato chutney and on other layer of it, spread the stuffing evenly. Cover the stuffed layer on another layer.

Put the prepared sandwich in a electric griller / toaster, and cook it for 5 minutes. Make sure even impression is there on both the sides of the sandwich.

Cut it in triangle and serve it hot with red tomato chutney.

Enjoy !!!

Mango Rice

Mango Rice

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes
Servings: 2

Ingredients

Cooked Rice: 200 Grams (1 Cup).
Chopped Onion: 1 Medium
Grated Raw Mango (We used Totapuri): 1 Big
Dalia (split yellow gram): 1 Tbspn
Mustered Seeds: 1 tspn
Curry Leaves: 5-6
Salt to taste
Chopped Green Chilly: 2-3
Oil: 1 Tbspn

Method

Heat oil in a pan.

Add mustered seed and let them crackle.

Add dalia and curry leaves to it and saute till they are fried and some what brown.

Add chopped onion and saute it till translucent.

Add grated raw mango and saute it lightly for a while.

Add salt, turmeric powder and mix well.

Add cooked long rice to it and mix it very gently.

Serve it hot !!!

Enjoy

Lemon Rice (Chitranna)

Lemon Rice (Chitranna)

Preparations: 5 Minutes
Cooking Time: 10 Minutes
Servings: 2

Ingredients

Cooked Rice; 200 Grams

Sliced Red Onion: 2 nos. (Medium)

Sliced Green Chillies: 2 nos.

Curry Leaves: 6-7

Gram Dal: 2 tspn

Hing: pinch.

Oil: 2 Tbspn

Mustered Seeds: 2 tspn

Salt to taste

Turmeric powder: 1 tspn

Lemon juice: 2 Tbspn

Method

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustered seeds and let them crackle. 

Add curry leaves, green chillies and gram dal to it and let them crackle too.

Add a pinch of hing and sliced red onion to it. 

Add salt at this stage and let it cook till pink.

Add cooked rice. Switch off the flame, and mix it well. 

At the last, add lemon juice and gently mix it.

Serve it hot.

ENJOY !!!

Aaloo Palya (South Indian Style)

Aaloo Palya (South Indian Style)

Preparation: 15 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Boil Potatoes: 5 Medium

Tomato: 1 Medium

Onion: 2 Medium

Green Chillies: 3-4 Nos.

Curry Leaves: 5-6 Nos.

Urad daal: 1 Tbspn

Chana Daal (Daaliya): 1 Tbspn.

Oil: 2 Tbspn

Mustered seeds: 1 tspn

Hing: Pinch

Salt to Taste

Turmeric powder: Pinch

Water as required.

Method

In a pan, heat oil. Add mustered seeds and let them crackled. Add Curry leaves, green chillies, Hing and mix well.

Add urad daal and chana daal to it and cook till brown.

Add sliced onion to it and cook till pink and translucent. Add pinch of salt at this stage.

Add sliced tomatoes and mix well. Add little bit of water and let it cook for a while.

Mesh boiled potato mean while it's cooking.

Once onion and tomatoes are cooked, add this meshed potatoes to it and add almost cup full of water to it.

Season it with turmeric powder, salt to taste. Mix it well.

Cook for a while till the gravy is thick.

Serve it hot !!!

Goes well with any kind of Dosa (Set Dosai, Khali Dosai, Paper plain dosai, etc...)

Enjoy !!!

SET DOSAI

SET DOSAI

Preparation: 30 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Rice: 2 Cups

Udad Daal: 1/2 Cup

Poha (Rice Flakes): 1 Cup

Dry Methi (Fenugrik) seeds: 1 + 1/2 Tspn

Salt to taste

Oil to saute dosais.

Baking Soda: 1 Tspn

Method

Wash and soak rice, udad daal and Methi seeds for almost 6 - 8 hours.

Wash and soak Poha for 1 hours.

Grind Udad Daal, Poha and Methi seeds altogether in a mixture jar.

Take it in a mixing bowl and mix it well. Make sure mixture is smooth enough.

Grind Rice smoothly by adding necessary water. We used almost 1/2 Cup of water.

Add this rice paste to the previous mixture and mix them well.

Cover the bowl with the lead tightly and place it in a warm place over night (10-12 hours). We placed it in a preheated Oven.

Batter should be double raised and fermented in the bowl. Mix it lightly. 

Add salt and baking soda and mix again. Keep aside for 10-20 minutes.

On a flat pan, Put 1 tspn of Oil and spread batter like a pan cake. Keep it thick. 

Cook well both sides by applying little oil.

Set Dosai is ready to be served hot with GHEE.

Serve it with Hot Aloo palya (Mumbai style Potato curry) !!!

Broken wheat "Khichu"

Broken wheat "Khichu"

Preparations; 15 minutes.

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Broken Wheat (Kansar No Lot): 200 Grams

Green Chillies: 4 Nos.

Oil: 2 Tbspn

Curry Leaves: 4 -5 Nos.

Salt to Taste

Water: 2 Cup

Lemon Juice: 1 tspn

Turmeric Powder: Pinch

Mustered Seeds: 1 tspn

Coriander Leaves to garnish

Method

Heat Oil in a pan.

Add mustered seeds, Curry leaves and chopped green chillies.

Upon a shimmer, Add two cups of water into it. Let it boil for a while.

Add Salt, turmeric powder  to it. Again wait for an another boil.

Add broken wheat to it and mix it properly. Add lemon juice and again mix it well. 

With a closed lead, let it be cooked for around 5 minutes on a very slow flames.

Serve it HOT garnishing with the coriander leaves and green chillies.

ENJOY !!!

Broken Wheat Savory Pan Cake

Broken Wheat Savory Pan Cake 

Pre - Preparation Time: 30 Minutes

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes.

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Broken Wheat: 1 Cup

Suji (Semolina) : 2 Tbspn

Curd: 1/2 Cup

Chopped Green Chilly: 3 Nos.

Green Peas: 1/2 Cup

Mustered Seeds: 1 Tspn

Fenugreek Seeds: 1 Tspn

Salt to taste

Baking soda: pinch

Sesame seeds: 1 tspn

Turmeric Powder: pinch

Chopped Coriander Leaves: 2 Tspn

Oil : 2 Tbspn

Method

In a mixing bowl, Take Broken wheat and Semolina. Add Curd to it and mix well.

Add crushed green peas. Mix it well.

Season it with Salt, Chopped green chillies, baking soda, turmeric powder, fenugreek seeds and mix well. Add finely chopped coriander leaves and leave it aside for almost 30 minutes.

On a flat pan, put oil and let it heat for a while.

Sprinkle some sesame seeds and let them crackled. 

Spread batter on it like a pan cake.

Cook it both the sides till brown with the closed lead on the pan.

Serve it HOT.

Can be served with cheese spread, tomato catch-up and any dip of your choice.

Best goes with the HOT tea.

ENJOY !!!

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 !!!