Paneer (Indian cheese) Pakoda

Ingredients:

Panner- 100 grms

Gram Flour- 4 tbspn

Rice Flour- 1 tbspn

Red chilli powder- ½ tspn

Geera powder and dhaniya powder(optional)- 1/4 tspn each

Garam masala(optional)- ¼ tspn

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Cooking Method:

• cut the Panner into thin long blocks and keep aside for now.
• Mix all the other ingredients in a mixing bowl with water to form batter.(except oil and panner)
• Heat oil in a frying pan. Dip the panner pieces in the batter and fry till golden brown.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve with tomato sauce or coconut chutney. For coconut chutney recipe click here.

Veg Manchurian Soup

Ingredients:

Vegetables (Carrot, potato, cabbage, Green Pepper or Capsicum, Beans)- 1 cup(altogether), finely chopped

Vinegar- 2 tbspn

Soya sauce-  2 tbspn

Tomato sauce(optional)- 1 tbspn

Pepper powder- ½ tspn

Corn flour- 1 tbspn

Salt to taste

Oil- 1 tbspn

Cooking Method:

• Heat oil in a kadai or pan. Add all the vegetables. Fry for 5 mins.
• Put salt and cover it with a lid and allow the vegis to cook.
• When the vegis are cooked, Add vinegar, soya sauce, tomato sauce(if using), pepper powder. Fry for 2 mins.
• Add 2 cups of water. (u can add more or less ,its up to u.)
• Take the corn flour in a bowl and mix it with some water and pour it into the pan. (if corn flour is added directly, lumps are formed.)
• Cook for 2 mins. The soup will be thickened now. If you want it more thick, add some more corn flour. Or if its too thick add water.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve  hot with bread.

Vegetable Samosa or Veggi Samosa

Ingredients:

For dough:

There are two ways in which you can make dough.

First one is:

Atta or wheat flour(wholemeal)- 2 cups

Oil- 2 tbspn

Salt-1 tspn

Geera- ½ tspn

Ajwain- ½ tspn(optional, but good for digestion)

Second one is:

Atta or wheat flour(wholemeal)- 1 cup

All-purpose flour- 1 cup

Oil- 2 tbspn

Salt-1 tspn

Geera- ½ tspn

Ajwain- ½ tspn(optional, but good for digestion)

For filling:

Vegetables (Carrot, potato, beans, capsicum or pepper, peas, cauliflower)- altogether 3 cups chopped or diced or cubed.

Oil- 2 tspn

Onion- 1 finely chopped

Geera-1 tspn

Ginger-garlic paste- 1 tspn

Garam masala- 1 tspn

Coriander powder- ½ tspn

Geera powder- ½ tspn

Sugar- ½ or 1 tspn

Red chilli powder or green chillies- acc to your taste

Salt to taste

Turmeric- ¼ tspn

Cooking Method:

For dough:

• Put all the ingredients together mix with water to for a smooth dough (as that of bread dough or chapatti dough)
• Cover it with a vessel and keep it aside till you prepare filling

For filling:

• Heat 2 tbspn of oil in a vessel or kadai or pan.
• Add geera let them splutter. Add onion and fry till golden brown.
• Add all the vegetables and fry for 4 mins.
• Add salt, mix and cover it with a lid and allow all the vegetables to cook.(if the vessel surface starts getting brown then sprinkle some water so that the vegetables don’t burn.)
• When the vegetables are cooked, add all the spices and mix well.
• Let it cool down a little. meanwhile  roll the dough into small circles of 10cm diameter and cut into half.
• Make apramid shape out of it as shown in the pic above and deep fry in oil.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with tomato sauce.

Vegetable Samosa

Cucumber Dosa

Ingredients:

Wheat flour(wholemeal) or atta- 1 small cup

Jowar flour- 1 small cup

Gram flour- 1 small cup

Rice flour- 1 small cup

Geera- 1tspn

Cucumber- 1 cup grated

Onion- 1cup finely chopped

Tomato-1 medium sized finely chopped

Coriander and curry leaves(about 1tspn)-finely chopped

Green chillies or red chilli powder- according to your taste

Salt

Cooking Method:

• Put all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Mix them well.
• Add water to make a thin batter(as pan cake batter or dosa batter. shown in the above picture)
• Taste the batter to check salt. Salt is very important,it should be correct no less no more.
• Heat the pan and grease it with oil if u like.  Pour 1 spoon full of batter on the pan and cook both sides.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with butter and tomato sauce.

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Puran Poli or Holige

Ingredients:

For filling:

Yellow spilt peas- 1 cup

jaggery- 1 cup

cardamom powder- 1/2 tspn

water-1/2 litre

For dough:

plain flour- 1/2 cup

wheat flour(wholemeal or chapati flour)-1/2 cup

salt

oil

Cooking Method:

• In a mixing bowl, add plain flour,wheat flour, salt.
• Heat 3-4 tbspn of oil and add to the mixing bowl.Mix it well with water and make into a smooth dough.dont make it too though.let it be very smooth.
• keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
• Put the water in a vessel and bring it to boil.add yellow split peas and boil until they are cooked well.
• drain the water and add jaggery and heat till the jaggery melts.
• Take it out from heat and grind the mixture to very smooth paste.Dont let any yellow split pea to remain.
• Now grease your hands with oil.take small amount of dough. Make it flat.
• Take  double size filling and fill it into the dough so that the dough covers the whole filling.
• Apply oil and roll it on a flat surface by applying oil.
• shallow fry on the pan both sides.

Serving Suggestions:
Serve hot with ghee and popadum.

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Handmade Bread or Bread without machine

Ingredients:[for 1 small loft]

Strong bread flour- 350 grms       

Dried Yeast-1/2 sachet(3-4 grms)

Sugar-1/2 tspn

Salt-1/2 tspn

Warm water(usually made of 1 part boiling water and 1 part chilled water.)

Cooking Method:

• Put all the ingredients for the base except water in a mixing bowl.
• Gradually add water and mix till soft dough is formed.
• Put this on some flat surface so that you can kneed. Kneed it for 5 min. you can always sprinkle some flour if its being sticky.
• Place the dough in a greased tray and cover it with the greased polythene.
• Leave it in a warm place till its double its size.(usually takes 1 or 1 ½ hours)
• When its double, take it out. Remove the polythene.

Keep it in the pre-heated oven for 25-30mins at the temp of 230 deg cel.

Veggi Pizza

Ingredients:[for 1 medium sized pizza]

For base:

Plain flour- 1cup                          

Dried Yeast-1/2 tspn

Sugar-1/2 tspn

Salt-1/2 tspn

Warm water(usually made of 1 part boiling water and 1 part chilled water.)

For toppings:

Cheese- as much as you like

Tomato sauce- 2 tbspn

Green pepper(capsicum)- ½ sliced

Tomato- ½ chopped

Onion- ½ chopped

Mushroom- 2 or 3 sliced

Cooking Method:

For base:

• Put all the ingredients for the base except water in a mixing bowl.
• Gradually add water and mix till soft dough is formed.
• Put this on some flat surface so that you can kneed. Kneed it for 5 min. you can always sprinkle some flour if its being sticky.
• Place the dough in a greased tray and cover it with the greased polythene.
• Leave it in a warm place till its double its size.(usually takes 1 or 1 ½ hours)
• When its double, take it out and make it flat and round. Dont make it too thick.

For toppings:

• Spread the tomato sauce evenly. Then add pepper, tomato, onion, mushroom, and cheese.
• Keep it in the pre-heated oven for 15-20mins at the temp of 200 deg cel.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with some drinks.