Saturday, September 15, 2012

French Fry Chilly

Dear Friends,

Here I am posting a simple but yet delicious and easy Recipes" French Fry Chilly"




Ingredients:

French Fries: 2 Cups
Capsicum: 1 (thinly sliced)
Onion:1 (thunly sliced)
Green Chillies:2 (thinly sliced)
Ginger Garlic Crush:1 tsp
Crushed Black Pepper"1/2 tsp
Red Chilly Powder: a pinch
Honey: 1/2  tbsp
Soya Sauce: 2 tbsp
Tomato Sauce: 2 tbsp
Vinegar: 1 tbsp
Lemon Juice: 1 tbsp
Oregano: 1 tsp
Salt to taste.

Method:


  • Deep fry the French Fries till golden brown. Take them out into a absorbent Paper or Kitchen Towel and keep it aside.
  • Meanwhile heat pan add oil. Once oil is heated add green chilles and crushed ginger garlic paste and sorted them for few seconds.
  • Add onions and fry till it attains golden brown color,
  • Add Capsicum and cook tillthe capsicum is half cooked.
  • Add crushed black pepper,Red chilly powder,Tomato Sauce,Soya Sauce,Vinegar honey and fry them for a minutes.
  • Add french fries to this. mix well. Add Salt,Oregano and lemon juice and mix well and fry it for 2 minutes.
  • Switch off the flame and serve hot as a snack.

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Cheesy Pizza Sandwich




Ingredients:

Pizza Base:1
Capiaum: 1 (Small finely sliced)
Onion:1 (Small finely sliced)
Tomato:1 ( Sma;; finely sliced)
Mushroom: 2-3 tbsp (finely sliced)
Butter:
Green Coriander Chutney: 2 tbsp
Oregano: 1 tsp
Red Chiily Flakes: 1 tsp
Salt: to tadte
Mozzarela cheese :1/2 cup


Direction:


  • Take a pizza base and cut them into two halves from between.
  • On the bottom part of pizza base apply coriander Chutney.
  • Over the top of Chutney arrange Onions, Capsicum,Tomatoes, Mushroom
  • Sprinkle oregano, Red chilly Flakes and salt over the vegetable.
  • Cover the pizza base from Mozzarella Cheese.
  • Apply butter on upper side of pizza base and cover it.
  • Heat butter in a pan.
  • Put the pizza slices. Press them gently. Once done from one side.
  • Flip it to another side and allow it to become golden brown.
  • Take out in a plate and cut it into 4 equal hales and serve hot with chutney of your choice.

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Rajma Tikki Chat



RAJMA TIKKI CHAT








Ingredients:

For the Tikki or Cutlet:

Rajma (Kidney Beans):1 Cup
Potatoes: 2 (Boiled ,peeled and mashed)
Poppy seeds: 2 tbsp ( Dry roast them for 2 minutes & Keep aside)
Green Cardamons:2 nos
Black Cardamons:1 nos
Ginger-Garlic: Green chilies paste:1/2 tsp
Clove: 2 nos
Cumin seeds:1/2 tsp
Spinach Paste: 1 tbsp (blanched & grind into a blender)
Green Peas Paste: 1 tbsp (boiled and mashed)
Onion: 1 (small. finely chopped)
Sooji:1-2 tbsp

For assembling the Chat

Curd: 1 cup
Sugar: 1 tbsp
Onion: 1 (finely chopped)
Sweet Tamarind Chutney: 3-4 tbsp
Green Chutney: 4 tbsp

Method to Prepare Tikki


  • Wash & soak Rajma in sufficient amount of water for 5-6 hours or overnight.
  • Pressure cook Rajma in same water with salt for 20-25 minutes. Strain the Rajam from water . Keep the Rajma aside & allow it to cool down completely.
  • Mash the Rajma well so that no lumps are there. Now add boiled & Mashed potatoes mixture in the Rajma and mix well.
  •  
  • Dry roast all the spices and once they are cool down grind them along with Poppy seeds into a fine Powder.
  • Add ginger garlic paste, spinach paste,green peas paste and the dry powder mixture in the Rajma and potatoes mixture and mix them well.
  • Heat oil in a pan,add finely chopped onions & saute the onion in a medium flame till them turn translucent.
  • Now add Rajma and Potatoes mixture and salt  & cook on a medium flame for about 4-5 minutes while stirring continuously.
  • Allow the mixture to get completely cool.
  • Add Sooji to the mixture and divide the Dough into equal Portion.
Note: You can also add cornstarch or Bread Crumbs instead of Sooji. I was not having either of them so I added Sooji to the mixture.
  • Flatten the each ball from top and keep them aside.
  • Heat a griddle or Tava & fry all these tikkis til they attain golden brown color. Take all the tikkis out in a plate and flatten them & shallow fry them again onto a Tava or Griddle to give Tikkis a crisp crust.
  • Your kabab or tkkis is ready. You can serve yours tikkis as a kabab after this Step,
Method for Assembling Chat:
  • Mix sugar in a curd and beat the curd till sugar fully dissolves.
  • Arrange the tikkis onto a plate .
  • Pour green & sweet chutney on the top of the Tikkis.
  • Add finely chopped onions over it
  • Add Curd on the top of the tikkis at last.
  • Serve hot.



Sunday, June 10, 2012

DABELI

Last Week i came from office early and i was watching TV. I was seeing the Serial Ek dusre se karte hain Pyaar mein where a girl asked for Dabeli in a street food and was enjoying  it. Suddenly that name strikes me and I just googled to Know what is Dabeli. Then i got to know that Dabeli is street food originating from Kutch in Gujrat, India. Dabeli literally means 'to be pressed' in Gujarati. So i jusr read out the recipes in google and wants to try it. I am extremally thanks to Amarendra of AMU'S RECIPES to brief in detail about the recipes.

As I have never tasted Dabeli before so I did little variation and tried my version of Dabeli. Which me as well as my Hubby really liked it as todays evening snacks.

Ingredients:

For Dabeli Filling:

Boiled & Mashed Potatoes: 5 (small)
Tamarind & Sweet chutney: 4 tbsp
Dabeli Masala:3 tbsp
Red chilly Powder:1/2 tsp
Chaat Masala:1/4 tsp
Amoochur Powder:1/4 tsp
Asafoetida: a pinch
Water:1/2 cups
Oil: 2-4 tbsb
Dry Roasted Peanuts: 6-8 tbsp
Chopped Onion: 6-8 tbsp
Pomengrate seeds: 4 tbsp
Coriander Leaves(finelly chopped): 4 tbsp

For Dabeli Masala:

Dry Red Chillies: 3
Cumin Seeds: 2 tsp
Dalchini Piece(cinnamon stick):1/2"
Coriander Seeds: 2 tbsp
Methi seeds: 1/2 tsp
Cloves:7-8

Method to make Dabeli Masala:

Dry roast all the ingeridents for dabeli masala for 3-4 minutes and once cooled down gring them into a fine Powder.

Other Ingredients:

Burger Buns(Pav: 6)
Butter: for cooking
Green chutney: 4 tbsp
Sweet Chutney: 4 tbsp
Sev:1/4 cup
Haldiram mixture:1/4 cup

Method:

For Dabeli filling: 

  • Heat oil in a pan.
  • Add asafotedia,dabeli masala and dates & tamarind dates chutney.
  • Now add mashed Potatoes and mix it well.
  • Add Red Chilly Powder,Chaat Masala and amoochar Powder and mix well.
  • Now add water and salt.
  • Cook it for 5 minutes. Switch off the flame.
  • Now take a small plate and spread the filling evenly on the plate. Now allow it to cool for 15-20 minutes.
  • Now one by one add layers of roasted peanuts,chopped onions,pomengrate seeds,chopped coriander and haldiram mixture over it.

  • Divide them into 6-7 equal parts and keep aside.


To Make Dabeli:

  • Slit the Pav horizontally.
  • Add sweet chutney on one side and green chutney on another side.
  • Now we have to place one portion of dabeli filling between the buns.
  • Now dip the sides of dabeli in sev.
  • Heat tawa or griddle and add tsp of butter.
  • Roast the Dabeli from bot the sides.
  • Serve hot.