Wednesday 24 February 2016

Mexican salsa wraps

Mexican salsa wrap is a tortilla or a chappati filled with stir fried vegetables, salsa and cheese spread.
It is a power pack meal. You can add filling of your choice like baked beans or rajma. You can even include salads of ur choice and also kebabs or tandoori paneer
 Perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
And also an interesting way to make your children's eat all healthy vegetables. 
So try this healthy recipe at home for your loved ones 


Ingrediants :

For chapatis
Wheat flour: 1/2 cup
Maida (all purpose flour): 1/2 cup
Oregano: pinch 
Chilly flakes : pinch 
Pepper : pinch 
Sale : to taste 
Water as required
( make dough as u make your regular chapati dough) 

For stuffing : 
Cabbage ( shredded) : 1 cup 
Panner (thinly sliced) : 1 cup 
Red, yellow and green capsicum: 1 cup ( all together) 
Baby corn( sliced) : 1/2 cup
Basil leaves: 1 spoon 
Green chilly (chopped): 1 spoon 
Celery ( stick chopped): 1/2 spoon 
Tomato sauce : 2 spoons
Red chilly sauce : 1 spoon
Chaat Masala : 1/2 spoon 
Oregano 
Chilly flakes 
Pepper powder 
Salt 
Butter: for frying 

For assembling :

Tomato salsa : 1 cup 
Cheese spread : 2 spoons 

Process:

From the dough make small rounds and 
Make round chappatis out of it 
On a  pan, cook these chapatis till they are done and then take them off the flame
Prepare 4-5 chappatis and let them cool 

Now for the stuffing : 
Take a frying pan, add some butter to it
Add chillies and celery to butter and sauté 
Now add all three capsicum, baby corn, and sauté on a high flame 
Add oregano, chilly flakes, pepper , basil and salt 
Now add paneer to the muxture and tomato sauce and chilly sauce to it 
Tak the mixture down and let it cool 

For making wraps 
Take the chappati ( tortilla ) 
And apply cheese spread to it 
Now put 1 spoon full of salsa 
And the stuffing and make a wrap ( roll) 

Apply some butter on the frying and toast the wraps for a minute 

N now serve them with salsa sauce and mayo dip 




Tuesday 23 February 2016

Crunchy veggie kebabs


Crunchy veggie kabeb is a Chinese starter made with mix veggies, Chinese sauces and coated with breadcrumbs. Spicy in taste and best served with chilly tomato sauce or sezwan sauce. 
It's a great starter and it will definitely bring you lots of compliments. 
So next time when u feel like making a Chinese starter, forget regular manchurian and paneer chilly and make this Chinese kabebs. 




Ingrediants

Cabbage( shredded ) : 1 cup
Onion ( finely sliced) : 1 medium size
Capsicum (finely sliced) : 1/4 cup
Carrot ( graded) : 1/4 cup 
Potato (boiled and  mashed) : 1 medium size 
Corn ( boiled and half grinder) : 1/2 bowl
French beans (finely chopped) : 1/4 bowl
Ginger garlic chilly paste : 1 spoon 
Schezwan sauce : 1 spoon full 
Tomato ketchup: 1 spoon 
Salt
Pepper powder (pinch)
Red food colour (optional)
Chilly flakes - to taste 
Breadcrumbs- 1 bowl
Maida( all purpose flour) : 4-5 spoons 
Cornflour: 2 spoons 
Besan (gram flour): 2 spoons 

Process

Take a bowl : 

Add shredded cabbage, onions, French beans, mashed potato, carrots, capsicum and crushed corn mixture. 
Now put ginger garlic chilly paste, schezwan sauce, tomato sauce, salt, pepper powder, red food colour and mix well. 
Now add Maida, cornflour and besan and mix well. Add Little water 
Add breadcrumbs if required.

Make small round kebabs of the mixture and coat it with breadcrumbs 

Deep fry the kebabs till it becomes golden brown 


Note: 
Fry the kebabs in high flame 
Do not stir much while frying 

Monday 22 February 2016

Pizza chaat

Hello friends, 
Pizza chaat is my latest experiment on fusion food. Pizza is a Italian dish and chaat is our very Indian all time favourite dish. Have you ever imagined what if these two completely different dishes merge together. I tried it and it worked very well. Cheesy n crusty taste of pizza and tangy and spicy taste of chaat will impress all your guests from children's to elderly people.It's a confusion that lands to perfection. 
Try it today 





Ingrediants 

Pizza base : 2 
Boiled potato (mashed) : 2 nos 
Onion (finely chopped ): 3-4 spoon 
Capsicum( finely sliced) : 3-4 spoon 
Tomato (finely chopped): 3-4 spoon 
Raw mango( finely chopped ): 1 spoon 
Cheese cube: 1 nos 
Cheese spread : 2 spoon 
Pizza sauce: 2 spoon 
Green chutney: 1 spoon 
Tarmarind chutney: 2 spoon 
Garlic chutney: 1 spoon 
Tomato ketchup: 1 spoon 
Nylon Sev: 1 bowl 
Butter : 1 spoon 
Chat masala 
Salt 
Coriander leaves 


Process

Take a ready pizza base and apply some butter on both the sides 
Heat a non-stick Pan and on a slow flame, toast the pizza base on both the sides till it is crispy and brown as you can see in the collage shown below 
Now apply some more butter 
Add green chutney, cheese spread, tomato ketchup and pizza sauce on the base and apply nicely.
Now add capsicum and onion and put it back in pan for 5 mins 
Now take it on working table again and add mashed potato.
 Press evenly with ur fingers. 
Now sprinkle chaat masala and salt 
Put some chopped tomato 
And again some chopped onions 
Put green chutney, garlic chutney and tamarind chutney 
Top it with nylon Sev, raw mango and coriander leaves 

Now cut your pizza in slices and Serve your guests with chips and sauces.

Let them enjoy the taste of pizza and chaat together.


Monday 15 February 2016

Cocktail Samosa

 
Cocktail samosa is a dish which is a perfect party snack. People are now bored of regular samosa's. And with growing craze of multi cuisine, I thought to give my samosa's a international twist.
With changing the filling inside and also a easy outer layer. It's easy to make. And tastes best. 



Ingredients

Samosa sheets : 5-6 
Butter: 1 spoon 
Maida : 2 spoons 
Milk :  cup 
Corn : 1/2 bowl  
capsicum: 1 bowl 
Tamoto : 1/2 bowl finely chopped 
Cheese slices: 2-3
Red chilly sauce 
Tomato sauce
Oregano 
Chilly flakes 

Cheese and salad for garnishing 

For slurry: 
Maida : 1/2 cup
Water : as required for making a paste
Salt : pinch 

Process

For filling :
Take a Pan and heat it. Add butter and just as butter melts add maida to it.
Keep the burner on slow flame and with the help of a silicon stapula cook it well.
Now add milk to it. Add extra milk if required. 
Now stir it confinuously so that lumps are not formed. 
Now white sauce is ready 
Put half cup of corn and half a cup of capsicum to it 
Season it with salt, pepper, oregano and chilly flakes.
Your filling is ready 

For salsa
Take a bowl 
Add finely chopped tomatoes 
Half cup of capsicum 
And 2 spoons of boiled corn 
Add 2 spoons of tamoto sauce 
1 spoon chopped jalapeños 
1 spoon of red chilly sauce 
1/2 spoon of red chilly powder 
Salt and chilly flakes. 
You can also add freshly chopped basil to it 
Keep it in refrigerator to chill 


For Making cocktail samosa 

Take samosa sheet 
Put some filling in triangular shape 
Now cover it with a same sized cheese slice 
Apply slurry on all the sides of the sheet so that the filling doesn't come out while frying.
N keep folding the samosa in triangular direction as shown in the picture

Now your classy samosa's are all set for frying 

Fry them on first high then slow flame so that it gets an amazing golden colour. 

Your samosa's are ready to serve 
Garnish it with graded cheese 
Best served with salsa or any other tangy cheesy dip.