Monday, 12 January 2015

Pizza & pasta sauce

Pizza sauce is a tomato based sauce use to spread on a pizza. It can also b used as pasta sauce and goes along with many other starters.
It's a tangy and spicy sauce & u can even store it in your refrigirator for almost 30 days.





Ingredients:

Oil 3 spoon 
Finely chopped tomatoes - 4
Finely chopped capsicum- 3
Red bellpepper- 1
Red chilly sauce - 2 spoons
Tomato sauce - 4 spoons
Basil leaves 
Chilly flakes
Oregano 
Salt 
Pepper
Sugar 
Vineger: half spoon


Method :
Heat a pan on very high flame.put some oil.
Turn On the gas burner roast oil- greased red capsicum for 2 minutes and then remove the burnt skin with help of a knife. Chop the red capsicum finely.
Add both the chopped bellpepper in the pan and cook for a while .Now add finely tomatoes to the pan and cook on very high flame. 

Add tomato ketchup, red chilly sauce, oregano, chilly flakes & salt 
& some freshly chopped basil leaves to the sauce 
Add some sugar to balance the taste 


Cook the sauce well and add vinegar to preserve it for long 

Your easy yet tasty pizza sauce is ready


Saturday, 10 January 2015

Cheese corn ball

The The Cheese corn ball is a very famous starter.
Combination of cheese and corn makes it very yummy. It's crunchy but soft centred. Melted cheese inside is the best part of it.
It is a best party appetizer And now a days quite famous too.
People of every age group like it.
Specially cheesy taste makes it more appealing for kids.
You can try many variations & use different types of cheeses as per your taste. 
It is best served with mayo dip or tangy tomato dip



It suits best as a starter. Try it. I m sure u will make it again and again 

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 4 spoon (maida)
Milk - 2 cup 
Corn - 1 small cup
Chopped Bell peppers ( red, yellow &green )- 1 small cup
Processed cheese-  2 cubes
Chopped Green chilly - as per taste
Basil leaves - as per taste
Bread crumbs - approx 10 breads 
Mozzarella cheese cubes 
Oregano
Chilly flakes
Salt 
Butter 


Method :

Heat a pan. Add 2 spoon butter and then add 2 spoon of maida to it and keep stirring for few seconds till the paste bus cooked. 

Then add milk and stir well. 
Take care that no lumps have been formed.



 After cooking for some time, when the mixture starts bubling , Add chopped bell peppers, corns, green chilly and basil leaves 

Add oregano, chilly flakes and  salt  to the mixture and cook till it becomes thick 


Add cheese and half cup bread crumbs keep the  mixture to cool.

Make small balls and put Mozzarella cheese cube in between and make perfect rounds out of it.

Now make slurry with 2 spoon maida , 1 cup water and salt.
And take bread crumbs in a plate 
Dip the ball in slurry and then roll bread crumbs.
Repeat this process once again so that there is no chance of ball getting spoilt in hot oil..

Heat the oil and deep fry the balls on  high flame.
Don't stir much while frying otherwise the balls may get broken. 


Take the balls out once it turns golden brown...
Your so cheesy cheese corn balls are all  ready to get served..


Some important tips: 
1. To centre the balls use mozzarella cheese cubes for best results. It is easily available in stores.

2. Don't forget to coat cheese balls in slurry  and  breadcrumbs twice..

Cheesy White sauce pasta

White sauce pasta is creamy and tasty Italian variety of pasta served as main course. White sauce is made with milk and cheese..
Kids just love this pasta.
Tasty herbs enhances it taste to better.
Penne pasta tossed in white creamy sauce is almost everyone's favourite and most demanded recipe..
Very Easy to cook...

Ingredients:

Penne pasta : 1 cup 
Milk : 2 cups 
Cheese: processed & mozzarella
All purpose flour: 2 spoon 
Butter : 2 spoon 
Veggies: corn, capsicum( red, yellow & green) , broccoli, basil leaves & baby corn 
Chilly flakes 
Oregano 
Salt


Method : 
For cooking pasta: 
Heat a vessel and add water to it. When the water starts boiling, add oil and salt.
And add pasta to it. Keep stirring after few intervals  so that the pasta doesn't stick. It will b cooked in 11 to 12 minutes.
See to it that the pasta doesn't get over cooked 

Heat a pan and add butter to it. When the butter melts add maida and stir well.
After the paste is properly cooked add milk and stir continuously with help of a silicon spatula. It will help the mixer to cook properly without lumps. Add oregano , chilly flakes and salt to it.

Take another pan and add butter to it.
Stir fry all the veggies. Make a note that u  boil broccoli , corn and baby corn before stir frying.
Add cooked pasta to the veggies and season it with herbs i.e oregano, chilly flakes & salt.


Add the pasta and veggies to white sauce.
And then add processed cheese and mozzarella cheese to the ready pasta.

Cook well and Your tasty pasta is ready 


Red sauce pasta


Red sauce
pasta :

Red sauce  pasta is cooked in spicy and tangy sauce made up of tomato and capsicum. I use my pizza sauce as red sauce for pasta. It will give you the same restaurant type taste. You can preserve the sauce for almost 30 days and make your favourite pasta in a very short time.



Ingredients
Penne pasta - 1 cup 
Veggies - 1 cup
(capsicum -red, yellow & green
blanched broccoli , baby corn & corn )
Pasta sauce - 1 cup 
Cheese - 2 cubes 
Butter- 2 spoon 
Cream- 1 spoon 
Oregano 
Chilly flakes
Salt 
Olives & cheese for garnish 

Method :
For cooking pasta: 
Heat a vessel and add water to it. When the water starts boiling, add oil and salt.
And add pasta to it. Keep stirring after few intervals  so that the pasta doesn't stick. It will b cooked in 11 to 12 minutes.
See to it that the pasta doesn't get over cooked 

For pasta sauce: use the same pizza sauce recipe available in my blog and grind it 

Heat the pan. Add butter n let it melt. Add veggies to the pan and stir well .
Then add boiled pasta to it.
Season the cooked pasta with salt, oregano & chilly flakes

Now add the pasta sauce paste and cook well. 
Add  cheese and cream and mix well 

Serve this delicious pasta in your serving plate and garnish it with cheese and olives. 
Enjoy and treat your family and friends with this mouth watering pasta 



Friday, 2 January 2015

Mexican salsa


SALSA:

Salsa is a Mexican dip served usually with nachos.
It's a combination of finely chopped tomatoes,capsicum and corn.
Salsa is a Spanish term used for sauce.
You can serve this dip with various other starters too.


Salsa ingredients:

  • 1 Capsicum
  • 2 Tomatoes 
  • 1 Onion
  • 1/2 bowl Sweet corn 
  • 2spoon Red chilly sauce
  • 2 Green chillies 
  • 4 spoon Tomato sauce
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Oregano & Chilly flakes 


Method:

Finely chop all the vegetables.
Basic veggies to make salsa are tomato, capsicum and corn ( you can avoid onions to make Jain salsa )
Half crush the boiled corns just once in the mixer grinder 


Take all these vegetables in a separate bowl and mix them.


Mix tomato ketchup, red chilly sauce and stir well.
Add salt, pepper,oregano, chilly flakes and mix well..
Add some lime juice for a tangy taste.
Your mouth watering salsa sauce is ready..


Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Vegetable korma

Ingredients 

1 bowl of mix vegetables diced 
(Carrot, French beans, babycorn, bell peppers red, yellow & green, onions ) 

For gravy:
1 Boiled onion paste
1 cup tomato purée 
1/2 cup cashew nut paste
1 spoon fenugreek leaves
1 spoon milk powder
Chilly powder 
Garam masala 
Ginger garlic paste
Chilly paste 
Salt to taste 

Method:
Heat a pain. Add some butter to it. Add ginger garlic paste & chilly paste and cook well
Saute all the diced vegetables mentioned above. Add salt & black pepper to it 
And take the cooked vegetable in an other bowl
For gravy:
Heat the pan. Add oil and butter to it. Add onion gravy (boil onion and make a paste of it) then, add tomato purée and stir well. When d paste becomes thick , add chilly powder, salt, garam masala, milk powder and stir well
Crush the dried fenugreek leaves to the gravy.
Add fresh cream and cashew nut purée to the gravy 
Add stir fried vegetables to the gravy  and cook well.
Transfer the Sabzi in a bowl and garnish it with lots of cheese, pieces of carrot and fresh coriander.

Taste it & you will love it 😊

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Schezwan sauce

Ingredients:
3 spoon  Chopped chilly ginger garlic mixture
1spoon Red chilly paste
1/2 spoonSoya sauce
1 spoon Chilly sauce
1/2 spoon Vinegar
1/2 spoon Cornflour 
2 spoon Tomato ketchup
2 spoon Oil 
Salt
Water 

Method

Heat the pan on high flame, add oil and sauté very finely chopped chilly ginger garlic mixture. Once it gets cooked add red chilly paste, tomato sauce,soya sauce,red chilly sauce,vinegar and mix well.take a separate bowl and dilute 1/2 spoon  cornflour with half cup water and make cornflour slurry.add it to the sauce and stir well.
Add salt as per your taste.
Cook well till the sauce gets a thick consistency.
Schezwan sauce is ready.


Serve it with any Chinese starter.