Thursday, January 19, 2012

Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients:
Whole button Mushroom - 6
Corn- 1/8 cup
Peas- 1/8 cup
grated carrot
finely chopped onion- 1/8 cup
creen chilli(finely chopped)- 2
Bread crumbs - 1/8 cup
Cheddar Chease - 1/8 cup
Milk- 2 tsp
salt to taste

Method
Preheat Oven at 350

clean mushrooms with damp cloth and keep aside
Fry onion and green chilli in a pan
Add carrots, peas and corn
fry till done
add salt and pepper to the vegitables

Carve out the stem and scales from mushroom
chop into small pieces
Mix bread crumb, cheese and milk

Add the vegetables to the mixture

Fill the mixture in the Mushroom heads
Repeat for all six mushrooms and bake for 20 minutes

Remove from Oven when done and serve as snack or appetizer


Sunday, January 15, 2012

Masoor Daal Kofta

Ingredients:
Masoor daal (soaked) - 1 cup
ginger - 1/2 inch
Green chillies- 2
Red chilli powder- 1/4 tsp
1 tbsp oil
Salt to taste

For tadka
curry leaves - 4-5
red chilli-1
oil- 1tsp
mustard seed - 1 tsp
lime juice- 1tsp

Method
Grind Masoor daal, green chillies and ginger
Heat a pan with 1 tbsp oil.\
Add salt and red chilli powder to the paste and put it in the heated pan keeping a low flame

Keep stirring and cook till the paste stops sticking to pan
spread the paste on a greased plate and allow it to settle

heat the oil and add mustard seed red chilli and curry leaves to it
spread the sizzling tadka over the paste
spread lemon juice on the paste
cut into desired pieces
Serve with chutney


Sunday, January 8, 2012

Spicy Sweet Potato

Ingredient:
Sweet potato

Fennel seed - 1 tsp
Garam Masala- 1 tsp
Red Chilli - 2
Coriander seed - 1 tsp
Black pepper - 5
Chat masala - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Method:
Pre heat oven at 480 deg
Grind all the masala into powder
Cut sweet potato to Thin slices
Put the sweet potato and masala in a box and cover the lid.Shake well to evenly spread the masala
Spread each piece in a oven safe sheet
Bake for 15- 20 mins (till potato is crisp) serve as snack

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Farey

Ingredient:
For stuffing:
Urad Dal (soaked over night) - 1 cup

Salt to taste
green chilli- 2
Dough
Rice flour - 2 cups
water
Frying
Curry leaves- 5
green chilli - 2
chopped Onion - 1/3 cup
Musturd seeds
Red Chilli - 1
Method:
For stuffing
grind all the ingredients and set aside

Dough
mix enough water in rice and knead to make dough

Preparation:
make small balls of the dough
press the balls to give a flat shape


put filling in is as shown below


Repeat for all the balls

Put the farey in the steamer and cover to steam.

Eat with Ghee and salt or fry using the ingredients for frying