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.

Potato and Peas Kurma

Ingredients:

Potato- 2 or 3 cut into small cubes

Peas- 1 cup

Onion- 1 chopped

Tomato- 1 big size chopped

Dry coconut- ¼ cup grated

Coconut- ¼ cup grated

Garam masala-1 tbspn

Red chilli powder-1/2 tspn

Termeric-1/2 tspn

Geera- 1tspn

Oil  -2 tbspn

Curry leaves-4 to 5

Coriander

Salt

Cooking Method:

1.      Heat a kadai or pan. Fry onion tomato, coconut, dry coconut separately.

2.      Grind each separately.

3.      Meanwhile boil potato and peas.

4.      Heat oil in pan. Add geera, let them splutter.

5.      Add onion paste, curry leaves and fry till golden brown.

6.      Now add tomato paste fry for 2 mins

7.      Add both coconut powders and cook for 3-4 mins (you can add tamarind juice and jaggery to taste more stronger)

8.      Add garam masala, chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt, boiled potato and peas. Stir and mix well and allow it to cook for 10 mins.

9.      Garnish with coriander. Can add any sprouted grains. I have added green grams which were left over.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with poori or chapatti or dosa.

Chilli Panner

Ingredients:

Panner (Indian Cheese)- Cut into small cubes

Ingredients for sauce:

onion- 1 chopped into thin and long slices

Garlic chopped- 1 tspn

Green chillies(optional)-chopped

Chilli sauce-1 tspn

Tomato sauce- 3 tbspn

Soya sauce 1 ½ tbspn

Oil  -2 tbspn

Salt

Capsicum(green pepper) - 1/2 chopped into thin and long slices

Cooking Method:

1. Fry panner in oil/ghee till slightly golden brown (or you may try it without frying as well. Both taste good.)
2. Heat oil in kadai or pan. Add onion, garlic, capsicum and fry till they are soft.
3. Then add Sauces and mix well.
4. add fried panner and fry for 2 min.
5. If the consistency is very think just add some water(1 or 2 spoon). You can  add salt and sugar if desired. 

Serving Suggestion:

Tastes best when served hot.