Learning-to-cook

Pizza cups | Pizza cups using leftover bread

2016-08-11T21:27:00.001+08:00

Pizza cups using leftover bread - After the hit of the bread pizza recipe in my family, I started doingit regularly. Sometimes with the whole bread and sometimes with the sides cut. I mostly bake the bread sides to make bread crumbs. But I had enough bread crumps at home and I don't want to throw them away. When checked in net could not find best recipes using the bread sides. So I created my own recipe of this pizza cups using the leftover bread sides. The cups were not so crunchy, but it tasted good. If you have any idea to make it more crunchier please drop your comments so I can try it the next time.

You can check the other bread toast recipes below

Bread Pizza

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread
Rava Bread Toast
Potato Toast

Pizza cups

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 6 cups

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients

For making cups

Leftover bread sides - 20 to 30

Salt - 2 to 3 pinch

Sugar -1/2 tsp

Milk - little

To make fillings

Tomato - 2 tbsp (chopped)

Capsicum - 2 tbsp (chopped)

Onion - 2 tsp

Pizza or tomato sauce - 2 to 3 tsp

Mozerella cheese or pizza cheese - 3 tbsp or as needed

Green chillies - 1 (finely chopped) (optional)

Other Italian herbs - 1 tsp for sprinkling (optional)

Vegetable oil - for spraying

Method to prepare Pizza cups using leftover bread sides

1. Collect the leftover bread sides and grind to a powder form.

2. To this add salt, sugar and milk little by little and make it to a pliable dough.

3. Take small portion from the dough and make a cup using the muffin moulds. Let it sit for 10 minutes.

4. Meanwhile chop your veggies required for the pizza. I used tomato, onion, capsicum. Spray little oil on the cups and add the chopped veggies, pizza sauce or tomato sauce, mozerella cheese, green chilli. Bake it in the convection oven for 10 to 12 minutes in 170 degree Celsius or till the sides become crispier.

5. Remove it from the oven and serve the hot hot pizza cups..

Yummy yummy Pizza Cups are ready.

Notes

1. Since we use the sides of the bread, to adjust the taste we add little milk, sugar and salt. But they are purely optional.

Food Panda - Delicious Food In Few Clicks

2016-08-07T13:07:00.000+08:00

Food panda is an online food delivery website which helps ordering food of our choice from restaurants of our locality to our home or office in the correct time. So you do not need to go and buy your food. Relax at home and concentrate on your work. At present they have their branches in 12 cities in India namely Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune etc., and branches in 27 countries. There are nearly 2000+ restaurants across India which are found on Food Panda which offers different types of cuisines like Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Indian. In Indian they also have the options like South Indian, North Indian, Punjabi, Pizza, cakes etc.,.

Ordering with Food Panda is very easy - Just 3 clicks. Yes, just in 3 clicks.

Go to Food Panda website - 1. Select your city, 2. Select your area, 3. Select your menu from the list of restaurants displayed. We can pay the bill by voucher or by cash on delivery or by online. There is also a facility for prior orders up to 3 days with Food Panda. They provide many deals, where you get your favourite food with less price.

You can also get daily and latest deals of your favourite food through their Facebook and Twitter.

So why wait for - Go and order your food !!!

Milagai Bajji | Mirchi Bajji Recipe | Chilli Bajji Recipe

2016-06-14T23:03:00.000+08:00

Milagai Bajji Recipe - Who can say NO to this Milagai Bajji that too Chennai People. Most of the Chennai People when they go to Marina Beach never fail to taste this milagai bajji, sundal, appalam and for non veg lovers this fried small fish. In my childhood days I used to eat this like crazy. But you know, it will be little spicy, so I eat one kadi bajji and one sip of water and I finish that whole bajji. 😜😜. I already have another version of Marina Beach Milagai Bajji Recipe in this blog. Now let's go to this simpler version of Milagai Bajji Recipe.

Other Evening time Snacks you can check on this blog
Soya chunks fry
Crispy cauliflower fry
Baby corn golden fry
Drumstick leaves masal vadai
Cabbage pakoda

Milagai Bajji Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Bajji Milagai - 4 to 5
Besan - 1/2 cup
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Corn flour - 1 to 2 tsp
Cooking soda - 2 pinches
Asafoetida - 1/6 tsp
Cumin seeds / Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Oil for frying

Method for preparing Milagai Bajji

1. Wash and make a slit on the Bajji Milagai. Try to remove the seeds as far as possible.

2. Mix all the flour and mentioned powder and add water little by little and make a batter. Add hot oil now. (See notes)

3. The Batter should be ineither too thick nor too thin in consistency. If it is too thick, the Bajji may not be well cooked and if it's too thin, it will not be properly costed on the Bajji. Dip the Italian peppers/Milagai slowly in the batter till it fully covers.

4. When the oil is hot, reduce the flame and slowly drop the dipped Milagai into the hot oil. Increase the flame to medium and roll the Milagai slowly to cook on all sides. When it is light brown golden colour on all sides, filter the oil and serve it.

5. These Milagai Bajji need to served hot hot with any spicy chutney to taste it's real taste. I had with spicy coriander Coconut chutney and Rose milk for my evening snack ☺️.

Notes:

1. Seeds sometimes give more spiciness. You cannot eat more than one Milagai Bajji if it is more spicy. Also if you try to eat, it might give trouble to your stomach later. 😜

2. Once you make slit in the Bajji, you can soak it in salt water, or tamarind water to reduce its spiciness. After 1 HR of soaking dry the peppers and then add to batter.

3. By Adding hot oil to the mixture, Bajji won't suck more oil during frying.

4. You can avoid baking soda while giving to kids, but it gives nice crunchiness to the Bajji.

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Small fish fry | Indian Fish Fry Recipes | Sunday Special Recipes

2016-06-04T23:28:00.000+08:00

Small Fish Fry Recipe - Fish fry is always our family favorite dish. Though I prepare different fish fry recipes like vanjaram fry, masala fish fry etc., I always admire the taste of small fish fry. I don't know why, but I love them a lot. In Singapore whenever I get a chance to see the small fishes, I immediately buy them. This small fish fry I tried last but before week and last week tried Village style Fish Curry with these small fishes and I don't have any words to describe it. Will see that fish curry in my coming post and today lets see the small fish fry preparation.

You can check all the fish recipes here and some fish fry recipes I have given below

Masala fish fry

Vanjaram fish fry

Anchovies Fish fry
Andhra style fish fry

Anchovies dry fish fry

Pomfret fry in Kerala Style
Indian Style Salmon Fish Fry

Small Fish Fry Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min (+ 1hr marination) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Any small fish - 12 to 15 pieces
Chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Rice flour -1 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1tbsp
Salt - as per taste

Method to prepare Small Fish Fry

1. Wash the fishes nicely with salt and turmeric powder nicely. Drain the water. When most of the water got drained, add half the amount of the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and turmeric and all the lemon juice and mix well. Apply this mixture inside the fishes. Leave it aside for 30 minutes.

2. Add the remaining quantity of the powder and the corn and rice flours and mix well, so that fishes are well coated. Leave it again for another 10 minutes.

3. Now in a fish frying pan, add the oil and when it is hot, slowly drop one fish at a time and start frying them on both the sides, till they become golden brown colour on all the sides. Do fry the fishes in small batches.

4. Once you finished frying the fish, fry some curry leaves in the same oil and add on to the small fish fry before serving. Serve the fish fry with the hot hot fish kuzhambu and white rice.

Yummy yummy Small Fish Fry Recipe is ready.

Notes

1. You can prepare this fish fry, with any kind of fishes.
2. Marinating the fish is important as it gives more taste to the fish fry recipe. So try to marinate atleast 30 to 40 minutes.
3. Adding corn flour and rice flour, increases the crispiness of the fish and also can reduce the spiciness, when giving to the kids. If you do not like it, you can just omit it.
4. Adding lemon juice, gives a mild tangy flavor to the fish. If you do not like it, you can very well omit that too.

Tags: Small Fish Fry Recipe, Fish Fry Recipe, South Indian Fish Fry Recipe Sunday special Recipe, Chennai Fish Fry Recipe, Marina beach Small Fish Fry Recipe

Kulfi ice cream using khoya | How to make Kufli Ice cream

2016-05-31T23:31:00.000+08:00

I have tasted Kulfi Ice cream when I was a kid. When I go to marina beach with my parent and uncle, they used to buy and give it to me. I love the taste. But I am not able to get it near my home place. I get only normal kuchi ice or ball ice. After that I really forgot how it actually tastes, as I started tasting different ice creams. Then after I started preparing ice creams at home, I always think I should prepare kulfi atleast once. But somehow i keep postponing it, because I don't have the kulfi cones and sometimes, I will not have the exact ingredients etc.

Two weeks back, I got the ready made khoya from Mustafa centre and prepared this Mango Kalakhand. Half the packet of khoya was left over and I wanted to do something which i never tried before. So when browsing net, I saw the Kulfi Ice cream using Khoya recipe here and thought of using my khoya and also fulfil my long wish of preparing the kulfi ice cream at home. Kulfi came out superb and we all loved it a lot. My kids asked me to prepare the same one more time. I too have decided to prepare different kulfi's in coming posts.

You can check all my Ice cream Recipes here. Some have given below.
Almond Ice cream
Chocolate Ice cream
Vanilla Ice cream
Rose Milk Ice cream
Mango Ice cream
Strawberry Ice cream

Kulfi Ice Cream using Khoya

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 40 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Full cream milk - 1 litre

Sugar - 5 to 6 tbsp (adjust by increasing or decreasing according to your taste)

Khoya / Mawa - 4tbsp

Corn flour - 1 tbsp

Milk - 3 to 4 tbsp ( to mix corn flour)

Pistachios - 10 to 15 (crushed)

Almonds - 10 to 12 (crushed)

Cashews - 10 (crushed)

Cardamom powder - 2 pinch

Saffron - few strands

Rose water or vanilla essence - 1 tsp (optional)

Method to prepare Kulfi Ice cream using Khoya

1. Start boiling the milk in a flat bottomed vessel. Now and then stir it well. It might take around 20 to 30 minutes for the milk to reduce to 1/3rd. Meanwhile start preparing the other things needed Mix the 4 tbsp milk with corn flour and keep it ready in a small bowl.

2. Crush all the almonds, pistachios and cashews in a mortar or grind in a food processor. If you have whole cardamoms, then grind 2 to 3 of them now and keep everything ready.

3. Grate the khoya or crumble it very well. There should not be any large pieces of khoya. If so, then might take time to dissolve. After 20 to 30 minutes, the milk would have reduced to 1/3rd of its quantity.

4. Now add the sugar and mix it well. When the milk is still boiling add the corn flour mixture to the boiling milk. Stir them well. The milk gets thickened by now.

5. Now add in the almond, pistachio and cashew powder and cardamom powder as well. Mix well. Add the saffron strands.

6. Milk would have thickened nicely by now and colour would have started changing.

7. It's time to add the khoya. Add the khoya and mix nicely so that no lumps are found. After 5 minutes Simmer the stove now and add the rose water. Switch off the stove and let it cool down.

8. After it cools down, transfer the kulfi mixture to kulfi cones or kulfi moulds or any small serving bowls or in a tray. Scrap the remaining milk solids from the sides of the vessel and add them too in the moulds. Cover and freeze the kulfi for 6 to 8 hours.

9. Once the Kulfi is set nicely, remove it from the freezer and unmould the kulfi by sliding a knife along the sides of the kulfi mould or rub the mould between your hands fastly or even keep the mould immersed in warm water for 5 seconds and remove immediately.

10. Slide down the kulfi on the serving plates and serve immediately.

Yummy Yummy Kulfi Ice cream using Khoya is ready to be eaten

Notes:

1. Instead of corn flour, you can also use rice flour to make the milk thicker.

2. If you are keeping the kulfi mould in warm water, do not keep it for long time.

3. Any nuts of your wish can be added to the kulfi.

4. Adding rose water or essence is purely optional.

5. Traditional kulfi moulds would be available in many shops. You can also use earthen pots for making kulfi.

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Potato Corn Toast | Indian Bread Toast Recipes

2016-05-28T00:26:00.000+08:00

Potato Corn Toast Recipe - This is the latest addition to the bread toast recipes. After I started doing many bread recipes I started trying out different varieties in the toast and this one actually I bookmarked long before from here. It is simple yet tasty and me and my mom loved it to the core as we both are potato and corn fans. Also this would become a great evening snack when kids come home tired and give this kind of hot hot bread toast to them with their favorite side side, then they will really love it. Now let's go to Potato Corn Recipe immediately.

You can check my other bread toast recipes below

Bread Pizza

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread
Rava Bread Toast
Potato Toast

Potato Corn Toast

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 15 min | Serves: 2

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Potato - 1 big or 2 small sized
Corn - 1/2 cup
Pepper powder - 1/5 tsp
Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
Salt - as per taste
Olive oil / butter - 2 tsp

Method to prepare Potato Corn Toast

1. Pressure cook the potatoes and corn. While cooking corn, add a pinch of salt. Smash the potato nicely adding little water and add the corn, pepper powder, coriander leaves and salt.

2. Mix them nicely so that when you apply them to bread, it spreads easily. Sprinkle some oil or butter to the spread.

3. Spread the corn, potato mixture evenly on the bread slices. Keep your oven to 160 deg Celsius and toast till the sides turn to crispy and light brown in colour.

4. Take out from the oven and serve them hot with chilli sauce or tomato sauce.

Yummy and crispy Potato Corn Toast is ready to munch on....

Notes:

1. The potato should be gooey while applying on then read.

2. If planning to give to kids reduce the pepper and you can add some cheese too. But do not add more cheese as it many alter the taste. Add around 2 tsp of grated cheese.

3. If you like the spicier version you can add the green chillies too.
4. Instead of the coriander leaves, you can also add Italian herbs to give a unique taste. Check my Bread Pizza recipe to know what are the Italian herbs.

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Milk Halwa | Paal Halwa | Indian Desert Recipes

2016-05-25T22:50:00.002+08:00

Milk Halwa or Paal Halwa Recipe - This Milk halwa is my hubby favorite dessert. During my early marriage days, he used to ask me whether I know to prepare Milk Halwa.. That time cooking is a nightmare for me. Also as I am not fond of any milk desserts I didn't show much interest in learning this Milk Halwa recipe.

After I came Singapore, One day, my father brought this Halwa from India and I loved the taste. From then on, I wanted to prepare the halwa, but somehow kept postponing. So finally last week took the recipe from here n tried to celebrate my blogs anniversary month (6th year) and it came out good. Kept for 3 days and finished it. Let's check on the Preparation of Milk Halwa.

You can check out other desserts below -

Chocolate Burfi

Almond sweet

Kaju Katli

Rasgulla

Rasmalai

Bread Gulab Jamun

Milk Halwa Recipe

Preparation time: 0 min | Cook Time: 60 min (+ or -) | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Milk - 2 litres

Rava - 3 tbsp

Sugar - 1/2 cup ( + or - as per your taste)

Ghee - 8 - 10 tbsp

Cardamom - 1/5 tsp

Saffron - a pinch (optional)

Lemon juice - few drops

Method to Prepare Milk Halwa

1. Fry the rava till light brown and keep it aside. Now start boiling the milk.

2. Keep stirring the milk and do this process until the milk comes to 1/3rd of its quantity.

3. Add the fried rava. Stir it. After 5 minutes add the sugar and mix well.

4. Now add the ghee. Then add lemon juice. Keep stirring till the milk comes to a consistency shown in below.

5. Now add the cardamom powder and mix well. Now hold the handle tightly and mix as the milk halwa becomes very thick.

6. At a stage, you may notice the ghee start oozing out from the halwa. This is the correct stage to switch off the stove.

7. Remove the Milk Halwa from the stove and serve hot. You can also store this halwa for 3 to 4 days when refrigerated.

Yummy Milk Halwa is ready. Do you want it??? 😊😊..

Notes:

1. Try to use non stick pan as it would be easy to stir.

2. Always use a thick and flat bottomed pan for making this halwa, so that milk thickens faster.

3. If you like, you can add your favorite nuts as toppings and serve it.

Tags: Milk Halwa Recipe, Paal Halwa Recipe, how to make Milk Halwa Recipe, Indian Dessert, Festival Recipe

Tomato Bread Toast Indian Style

2016-05-23T21:49:00.002+08:00

Tomato Bread Toast is an easy and spicy toast to have for a lazy day without any jiffy. When I was searching in net I found many tomato bread recipes in western versions. Could not find much in Indian style. So thought why can't we prepare our own indianised version for the tomato toast and this recipe is born. Everyone in our family loved this very much. Do try in your house this Tomato Bread toast Indian Style and let me know how it came for you.

You can check my other bread toast recipes here. Some I have given below.
Bread Pizza

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread
Rava Bread Toast
Potato Toast

Tomato Bread Toast

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 2

Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Bread - 4 slices

Tomato - 1 big (chopped finely)

Onion - 1/2 big or 1 small size (chopped finely)

Tomato sauce - 3 tbsp

Chilli powder - 3/4 tsp

Garam masala - 1/4 tsp

Chat masala - 1/5 tsp

Roasted cumin powder - 1/5 tsp

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp + for garnishing

Green chilli - 1 chopped finely (optional)

Olive oil - little (optional)

Method to prepare Tomato Bread Toast

1. Add all the ingredients except bread in a bowl. Mix them well.

2. Sprinkle little olive oil on bread and spread the prepared mixture. Toast it in convection oven at 170 deg celcious for 6 to 8 minutes or until the edges of bread becomes crispy.

3. Remove from the oven and serve it hot.

Notes:

1. If you like adding more onions you can add.

2. Also instead of tomato sauce, you can add tomato chilli sauce. But it will be more spicy n sweeter version.

3. You can reduce the garam masala when preparing for children.

4. You can also sprinkle chat masala just before serving.

5. My small one strictly said not to add the green chilli, so I did not add. Chilli powder and garam masala itself gives enough spiciness for our dish. If you want more spicy, you can add green chilli.

Try this Tomato Bread Toast and enjoy your day!!!

Tags: Tomato Bread Toast, Bread Toast, Tomato Bread Toast Indian Style, Indian Bread Toast Recipes, Break fast Recipes

Aloo Raita | Potato Raita Recipe | Raita Recipes

2016-05-20T23:06:00.000+08:00

Aloo Raita or Potato Raita is actually a new recipe for me as I have never tasted this raita before. When I prepared the Babycorn Biryani, I want to try any new raita and searched for the recipes on net. When I saw the recipe here, I was thinking how the taste would be with plain aloo and the yogurt. So I decided to try and to my surprise I really loved it very much. Not only me, everyone in my family liked it as this Aloo Raita is new recipe for all of us. Also, when read about this Aloo raita, I came to know it is prepared for the Navratri fasting days and in those days, chilli powder are omitted sometimes by the devotees. Now let's go to the recipe.

You can check other raita recipes in my blog and below are some for you to view.

Vegetable Raita

Kathirikkai Thayir Pachadi

Mango Raita

Carrot Cauliflower and Coriander Raita

Capsicum Raita

Aloo Raita Recipe

Preparation time: 05 min | Cook Time: 12 min | Serves: 3-4

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients

Boiled potato - 1 (medium sized)

Curd / Yogurt - 4 tbsp

Black salt - 1/4 tsp

Roasted cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Chat masala - 1/5 tsp

Chilli powder - 1/5 tsp (optional)

Chopped coriander or mint leaves - little

Salt - as per taste

Sugar - 3 pinch

Method

1. Cut the boiled potato into small cubes. Beat the curd/yogurt nicely. It should be smooth consistency.

2. Once the yogurt attains the smooth consistency, add the black salt, salt, roasted cumin powder, chat masala, sugar and Chilli powder. (In this recipe I didn't add the chilli powder as my lo didn't eat the mango raita, in which I added the chilli powder).

3. Add the potato cubes and mix thoroughlly.

4. Garnish with coriander leaves or mint leaves and serve it.

Yummy yummy Aloo Raita is ready.

Top this Aloo Raita with some crispy boondi and serve with hot hot Pulao's.

Notes:

1. As I mentioned already in step 3, I didn't add the chilli powder., as my lo doesn't eat if it is spicy. But the original recipe calls for chilli powder.

2. You can also add chopped green chillies and chopped mint or coriander leaves to the raita. I used coriander leaves for garnishing alone.

3. Chat masala can also be replaced by little amchoor powder or dry pomegranate powder.

Tags: Aloo Raita Recipe, Potato Raita Recipe, Raita Recipes, Indian Raita Recipes

Baby Corn Biryani | Indian Biryani Recipes

2016-05-17T22:14:00.000+08:00

Baby corn Biryani Recipe - This biryani has become one of my favorite in recent days. If I didn't prepare any non veg biryani, then I choose to prepare this biryani. The crunchiness of the babycorn makes the recipe more yummier. Everyone in my family loved this and my lo's were asking for the babycorn more than the rice ☺️. I have baby corn Pulao posted already in the blog which I can say is a simpler version of this Babycorn Biryani. Though it is not prepared in the traditional way of preparing Biryani, it still tastes great.

You can check other pulao and rice recipes here. Some I have given below.

Peas Pulao

Channa Pulao

Crumbled Paneer Pulao

Vegetable Pulao

Vegetarian chicken Biryani

Baby corn Biryani

Preparation time: 15 min | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Spices to add

Cloves - 6 to 7

Cardamom - 1

Cinnamon stick - 3 inch crushed to pieces

Star anise - 3 to 4

Bay leaf - 1

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

Mace - 1 (optional)

Other ingredients

Basmati Rice - 2 cups

Onion - 1 big

Green chilli - 2 slit lengthwise

Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup

Mint leaves - 1/4 cup

Baby corn - 200 gms

Biryani masala - 3 tbsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp (optional)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Thick Coconut milk - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Salt - as per taste

Method

1. Soak the rice for 20 to 30 minutes. Strain and keep aside. Heat the pressure cooker or a big vessel. Add 2 tbsp ghee or oil. When it is hot add the spices mentioned in Spices to add. When they start spluttering add the onion, green chilli and salt.

2. Add the ginger garlic paste and sauté them till the raw smell goes off. Add the chopped coriander and mint leaves. Sauté then till nice aroma comes.

3. Now add in the babycorn and little turmeric and sauté for 5 min in medium flame. Add the biryani masala and mix them. Sprinkle little water now.

4. When the babycorn is well coated with the masala, add the coconut milk and water.

5. When it starts boiling, immediately add the rice. Give a stir and close the pressure cooker. Let it cook in slow flame to 10 to 12 minutes and switch off the stove.

6. When the pressure completely goes off open the lid and add the remaining ghee. Give a stir slowly without breaking the rice and close the lid again for another 5 minutes.

7. Now open and serve the hot hot babycorn biryani with Aloo Raita ☺️.

Notes:

1. The timing for the pressure cooker depends on the cooker make. Check for the manual if in doubt. Normally 10 to 12 minutes should work out good.

2. I didn't add any Chilli powder and garam masala in this as my kids feel it will be spicy and also the biryani masala which I use gives correct spiciness to the biryani. If you don't have biryani masala, then replace them with Chilli powder and garam masala and adjust accordingly to your taste buds.

Tags: Baby corn Biryani, Biryani Recipes, Baby corn Recipes, one pot meals, Baby corn Pulao

Chilli chicken | How to make Chilli Chicken Recipe

2016-05-15T23:45:00.002+08:00

Chilli Chicken Recipe is one of our family favorite recipe next to chicken manchurian. I often get confused with the chilli chicken and the chicken manchurian as both are prepared in the same way with very slight difference. One of my friend said in chilli chicken, boneless chicken breast is marinated and fried and while preparing chilli sauce is added along with tomato sauce but in chicken manchurian shredded chicken pieces are marinated with corn flour mixture and fried to a crispy balls and prepared with tomato sauce and bit sweeter in taste. If you know any other difference between the chilli chicken and the chicken manchurian just let me know.

In restaurants, you can notice that chicken pieces in chilli chicken would be tender and juicy. But when we do it in house, chicken may become dry and rubbery while we fry it. In order to get juicy and tender chicken, we need to do brining. Brining is a process similar to marination in which meat or poultry is soaked in brine before cooking. Salt is added to cold water in a container, where the meat is soaked anywhere from 30 minutes to a few days. The amount of time needed to brine depends on the size of the meat. Instead of salt water, you can do it with salted buttermilk also. After brining, drain the pieces and use it. Eggs can also be used to keep the chicken from drying. In this chilli chicken recipe, I used eggs in marination. So now lets go to chilli chicken recipe.

You can try other chicken recipes from my blog and some I have given below.

Chicken 65 Restaurant Style
Crispy Chicken Fry
Ginger Chicken Fry
Butter Chicken Roast
Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast

Chilli Chicken Recipe

Preparation time: 50 min (+1 hr soaking time) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Appetizer | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

For Marination
Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg

Soya sauce - 1 tbsp

Chilli sauce - 1 tbsp
Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Egg white - from 1 egg (or 2 tbsp all purpose flour + 2 tbsp corn flour)

For Seasoning

Soya sauce - 2 tsp
Chilli sauce - 2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Vinegar - 1.5 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp

Other Ingredients
Onion - 2 medium sized (Cubed)
Capsicum / Bell peppers - 1 cup (cubed)
Green chillies - 2 cut lengthwise
Spring onion - 1 (chopped finely) + little for garnishing

Method for preparing Chilli Chicken

1. Wash the chicken nicely with salt and turmeric powder. Add the tomato sauce, pepper powder, soya sauce, egg white.

2. Add the chilli powder and marinate for 1hr at least.

3. Now add the corn flour and all purpose flour and mix well.

4. In a vessel add oil and when hot add the marinated chicken pieces in little batches and fry them to crispy. When they turn golden colour, Filter the excess oil in kitchen towel and keep them aside.

5. Meanwhile prepare the sauces in the bowl. Add the tomato chilli sauce, soya sauce, vinegar, sugar, pepper and keep it ready. (Got this tip from here).

6. In the vessel, add the oil and add the garlic and green chilli. Fry them. Add the cubed onions.

7. Add the capsicum and let them cook till 70 percent as we want them to be crunchy and not mushy. Now add the prepared sauce and mix them.

8. Add the fried chicken pieces and mix them till they are well coated with the sauces. Check for the salt and adjust it.

9. Yummy chilli chicken is ready. Garnish with spring onions and serve it hot.

10. I served this chilli chicken with Veg Fried Rice

Notes:
1. In seasoning, instead of chilli sauce, you can also add the tomato ketchup.
2. Try to do brining the chicken pieces the before night to make it tender and for best results of chilli chicken. If you are short of time, atleast do it for 1 hr and keep in fridge then prepare as ususal.
3. To get the bright red color to the chicken you can use the kashmiri chilli powder. If unavailable, you can use edible red colour.
4. Soya sauce already contains salt. So check before adding the salt.
5. You can avoid or reduce green chillies, when giving to children, as chilli sauce gives enough spiciness.

Tags: Chilli Chicken, how to make Chilli Chicken Restaurant Style Chilli Chicken Difference between Chilli Chicken and Chicken Manchurian

Bread Pizza | How to make Bread Pizza Indian Style

2016-05-13T21:53:00.000+08:00

Bread Pizza Recipe - After my Cheese Chilli Toast, my kids started asking me some varieties in Bread Recipes. So tried this Simple Bread Pizza and my kids loved the taste and asked me to do one more time in the night also 😊. It is very simple and tastes great with simple ingredients at home. But you know, I tried only 6 pieces and I didn't even get a single bite 😏. My kids were standing near the oven and they were now and then checking whether it got cooked 😜. Somehow I managed to click the pictures in a hurry. So let's go to the Bread Pizza Recipe now.

You can also check on the other Bread toast recipes in my blog.

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread
Rava Bread Toast
Potato Toast

Bread Pizza Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 2

Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Bread Slices - 6

Onion - 2 tbsp (chopped finely)

Tomato - 2 tbsp (chopped finely)

Capsicum- 2 tbsp (chopped finely)

Tomato sauce or ketchup - 3 tbsp

Olive oil - little for spraying

Mozzarella cheese - 3 tbsp

Italian herbs - 1 tsp (optional)

Pepper - 2 pinch (optional)

Chilli flakes - little for garnishing (optional)

( My friend Mini gave this info - Italian herbs mix composed of and to make 5 tsp Italian herb: crush and store in an airtight container for multiple use

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 teaspoon dried rosemary

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 teaspoon dried sage )

Method to Prepare Bread Pizza

1. Keep the ingredients ready. Take the bread slices and spray little oil.

2. Add the tomato sauce and spread it over the bread. Immediately spread the veggies and also add the cheese. Sprinkle some Italian herbs.

3. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celcious and toast the bread till the aides become slight brown colour.

4. Serve them hot with tomato sauce.

Notes:

1. Any bread can be used for this. But milk bread tastes better.

2. Other veggies like corn, chopped broccoli can also be added.

3. I used mozzarella cheese. You can use cheddar cheese also.

4. I sprinkled little pepper before serving. You can serve with chilli flakes and Parmesan cheese also.

5. Do not keep the bread too long after applying tomato sauce as it may become soggy. If you have pizza sauce you can use that also.

6. Adding Italian herbs gives authentic taste for the bread pizza. But it's purely optional.

Try this Bread Pizza and let me know how it turned to you.

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Veg fried rice | How to make Vegetable Fried Rice

2016-05-11T22:20:00.002+08:00

Vegetable Fried Rice is one of my favorite rice dish in any Chinese restaurant. Even in my office canteen I used to order veg fried rice if i forget to pack my lunch. I knowingly forget to get this fried rice 😜 sometimes. Mostly they used to prepare the veg fried rice with egg. But I used to tell them to prepare only with vegetables and sprouts. I felt very tried to explain to them on first time. But later they used to prepare by themselves when they see me ☺️☺️. I prepared Chilli chicken as the side dish for this fried rice. Ok now let's go to the recipe of vegetable fried rice.

Veg Fried Rice

Preparation time: 15 min | Cook Time: 15 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Vegetables used - any crunchy veggies works well. (Carrot, bell peppers, spring onions, bean sprouts, cabbage, etc)

Olive oil - 2 tbsp

Rice - 2 cups (Any long grained rice looks and tastes better)

Garlic - 1 tbsp (finely chopped)

Soya sauce - 2 to 3 tsp (adjust according to your taste)

Vinegar - 1 tbsp

Salt - as per taste

Sugar - 1 tsp (optional)

MSG/ajinomoto - 2 pinch (optional)

Pepper powder - 1/5 tsp

Spring onions - 3 tbsp

Star anise - 1 (optional)

Mace - 1 (optional)

Method

1. Wash the vegetables and keep it ready. Cook the rice with a pinch of salt and star anise and mace to 75%. Do not use more spices.

2. Filter out the water and cool down the rice as we want a grainy texture and not a mushy rice.

3. Now in a large skillet, add oil and when hot, add garlic. Fry for a minute. Add the vegetables and fry them in high flame.

4. Add sugar, so as to keep the colour of the veggies. Finally add the bell peppers as we want to retain the crunchiness of the capsicum.

5. Add the pepper powder and the msg. Fry for a minute. Add the soya sauce and vinegar and salt for Chinese Style fried rice and add only vinegar and salt form the Indian style veg fried rice. (This tip I took from here). Keep frying the vegetables.

6. Add the rice and mix it. Check for the salt now as the soya sauce already contains the salt. If less add the salt. Keep frying the rice too in high flame so that we get the smoky flavor in the rice which is what we want in the fried rice.

7. Yummy and tasty Vegetable Fried Rice is ready.

8. Garnish with spring onions and serve it.

Notes:

1. For fried rice any crunchy vegetables suits well. You can add cauliflower, broccoli, bean sprouts etc.,

2. After adding rice, you should fry the rice in high flame so only we get the perfect fried rice.

3. I did frying of the rice in batches as my skillet is small.

4. Try to use the light soya sauce as dark soya sauce change the color of the rice.

5. Soya sauce already contains salt so check before adding salt.

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Potato Toast | Aloo Toast | Indian Bread Toast Recipes

2016-05-08T11:02:00.002+08:00

Potato toast or the Aloo toast is yet another simple bread toast recipe to try when you feel lazy to cook 😜. In my Bread Pizza recipe I told that I didn't get a piece at all and so for me and my mom I prepared this Aloo Toast which I have bookmarked from Padhu long before. I made this one a bit spicy to suit my taste and it really tastes good and my mom loved it and asked the recipe to try later 😜. Now let's go to the easy recipe of Potato Toast.

You can check other bread toast recipes below

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread
Rava Bread Toast

Potato Toast

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Bread slices - 6

Potato - 1 large

Green chilli - 1 chopped finely

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Roasted cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Garam masala - 1/4 tsp

Salt as per taste

Water - to sprinkle

Butter or Ghee to toast

Method

1. Boil the potato and smash it nicely. Now add all the ingredients except bread and butter.

2. Mix them nicely. It should be Ina spreadable consistency. If not sprinkle little water.

3. Spread the potato masala on one side of the bread. In a tawa or pan, add ghee and start toasting the normal side and toast it first. Add little ghee on the masala spreaded side of the toast.

4. Flip the bread and toast it again till it gets nicely toasted. It should take roughly 3 to 4 min. You can slowly flip and check if it has become light brown.

5. Serve it hot with Chilli Tomato Sauce.

Easy and Spicy Potato Toast is Ready. Yummy... 😋😋

Notes:

1. This would be little spicy as we add chilli powder, green chilli as well as garam masala. So while giving to kids, you can avoid the garam masala and the green chilli.
2. White or wheat bread suits to prepare this toast.

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Pudhina Chaas | Mint Buttermilk | Summer Special Recipes

2016-05-03T22:03:00.000+08:00

Pudhina Chaas or Mint Buttermilk is a great coolant to our body in this hot summer days. I always love simple buttermilk and when I saw the recipe here, immediately bookmarked to try. Mint as many people know, has so many benefits to our body. (Check Benefits of Mint). If you are dehydrated in this summer, try this Pudhina chaas instead of the normal chaas. You will really love it's taste.

Here I give some more summer recipes for you to get hydrated ☺️☺️.

Cucumber Lassi

Mango Lemonade

Masala Chaas

Dates and Almond milk

Strawberry Lemonade

Pudhina Chaas

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 0 min | Serves: 3

Recipe Category: Drinks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Mint leaves / Pudhina - 1 cup

Yogurt / curd - 1 cup

Green chilli - 1

Black salt - 1/5 tsp

Roasted Cumin Powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt - as per taste

Water - as required

Mint leaves or coriander leaves for garnishing

Method

1. Wash the mint leaves nicely. Add the mint leaves, green chilli, yogurt / curd, black salt, cumin powder and salt.

2. Grind then to a smooth paste first. Then add the required water and give once round.

3. Your tasty, refreshing and cool pudhina chaas is ready.

Refreshing and Cooling Pudhina Chaas is ready.

Notes:

1. You can adjust the amount of green chili as your taste.

2. Try to use black salt as it gives unique taste. If not, use normal salt.

3. Be careful while grinding second time after adding the water. Some old mixie can splash the water out. If you are beginner in handling mixie, then add water and just mix it in a bigger bowl.

Tags: Pudhina Chaas, Pudhina buttermilk, mint Chaas, mint buttermilk, summer special drinks

Mango Kalakhand Recipe

2016-04-30T21:34:00.000+08:00

Kalakhand that too Mango Kalakhand, the name itself makes me drooling as I am big fan of Kalakhand recipe. I already have regular version of Kalakhand recipe and as I had remaining mangoes after preparing the mango raita, I decided to prepare Mango Kalakand. Also I am happy to share that this is my 500th post. I didn't prepare particularly for this. Just it came as a coincidence. 😊

Here are some other sweet recipes for you to check

Chocolate Burfi

Badam Halwa

Mango Halwa

Kalakhand

Paneer Jalebi

Mango Kalakhand

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 40 min | Serves: 9

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients
Mango Puree - 3/4 cup
Paneer / Cottage cheese - 3/4 cup
Koya - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup (adjust the sugar according to the sweetness of the mango)
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp + 1 tsp
Nuts of your choice - as your wish (like Cashews, pistachios, almonds, melon seeds)
Saffron for garnishing

Method

1. Keep all your ingredients ready. In a pan add the sugar and the mango puree.

2. When the sugar got dissolved well, check on the single string consistency. Add the crushed koya.

3. Koya also gets dissolved. Keep on stirring. When the koya slightly thickens, add the crumbled paneer.

4. The mixture starts to thicken to half the quantity. Add 2 tsp ghee at this stage and keep stirring. Add the cardamom powder.

5. Add the crushed nuts and keep stirring. It might take another 8 to 10 minutes in medium flame or check if the kalakhand is not sticking on the sides and ghee separates.

6. Keep mixing for another 5 minutes in slow flame. Meanwhile, take another vessel and spread 1 tsp of ghee and keep it ready. Now switch off the stove and transfer it to the ghee sprayed vessel.

7. Flatten it slightly and garnish with some more nuts and saffron.

8. Again flatten by pressing it using a butter paper for even surface. Let it rest for 1 hr. Remove the butter paper and cut into squares.

9. Serve the yummy Mango Kalakhand.

Tasty Mango Kalakhand is ready.

Notes:
1. My mangoes are not that much sweet so added more sugar. So check the sweetness of the mangoes and add sugar accordingly. If you have added more also, you can adjust by increasing the paneer or koya.
2. In 3rd and 4th step, while the mixture is boiling, it may get splashed on you. So be careful while stirring.
3. You need to keep on stirring to avoid the mixture get burnt.
4. I added only almonds. You can add any nuts of your choice.
5. If mango puree is not enough to dissolve the sugar, you can add little water.

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Mango Raita | Aam ka Raita | Mango Recipes

2016-04-28T22:01:00.000+08:00

Mango being in the season, while searching for mango recipes, I got struck with this Mango Raita here and immediately tried this out last Saturday. I kept it on the dining table, but I could not able to wait till my lunch and started eating them now n then whenever I crossed the dining table. 😜😜.. My kids were teasing me, I will finish the whole mango raita before lunch.. 😝.. Though my mangoes were not that much sweet, still I liked the taste with the combination of chilli powder and chat masala.. It's too tempting even now. Will definitely try this mango raita one more time with the sweeter mango...

You can view some more mango recipes below
Mango Lassi
Mango and Oats Smoothie
Mango Lemonade
Mango Muffins
Mango Kheer
Mango Jam
Mango Halwa
Mango Icecream

Mango Raita Recipe

Preparation time: 8 min | Cook Time: 0 min | Serves: 3

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Mango - 1
Yogurt / Curd - 1 cup
Roasted cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Black salt - 2 to 3 pinch
Salt - as per taste
Chat masala - 2 pinch
Mint or coriander leaves - for garnishing

Method
1. Beat the fresh curd nicely to a thick and smooth consistency.

2. Add the cumin powder, black salt, sugar, chilli powder. Mix them thoroughly. Add the mangoes.

3. Sprinkle some more chat masala and chilli powder and garnish with coriander or mint leaves and serve it.

Yummy yummy Mango Raita is Ready to be served.

Notes:

1. Adding sugar is optional. But it gives a unique taste to the raita.

2. Also I didn't add the chilli powder in step 2 as I planned to give to my kids. So don't get confused with the picture and the 2nd point. I added at the final stage.

3. Go for the ripe mangoes for the best taste.

Tags: Mango Raita, Aam ka Raita, Mango Recipes, Mango pachadi, Mangai pachadi

Rava Bread Toast | Sooji Toast | Indian Bread Toast Recipes

2016-04-26T22:21:00.002+08:00

Yes, yes, yes... I can hear what your are saying... Another bread toast recipe???😳 This time I am with a tempting Indian Toast - Rava Bread Toast. Yeah.. Now a days I have become bit lazy to prepare our Indian breakfast items in the Saturday mornings and going with the simple bread toast recipes and have bookmarked so many recipes. I am going to try those in the coming weekends always and share the recipe here.. So bear with me 😜😜. I took the basic recipe from Padhu and altered a bit for my taste and it came out good. So here is the simple Rava Bread Toast Recipe..

Below are some other bread toast recipes in the blog...☺️

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

French Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread

Rava Bread Toast

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 15 min | Serves: 3

Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine:Indian

Ingredients

Rava / Sooji / Semolina - 1/2 cup

Curd / yogurt - 3 tbsp

Grated carrot - 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Green chillies - 1 chopped finely

Onion - 1 finely chopped

Coriander leaves - few chopped finely
Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/5 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch (optional)

Salt - as per taste
Butter/ghee/oil - as needed for toasting

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients together except bread and butter.

2. Spread the mixture on one side of the bread. Meanwhile heat the tawa or pan and add little butter. Place the normal side and toast for few minutes.

3. Now flip to the other side and toast it adding little butter on the sides. Turn and check if they are cooked. It should turn light brown colour.

4. Serve it with ketchup or eat as it is. In either way it will be good.

Tasty and easy Rava Bread Toast is ready.

Notes:

1. You can avoid green chillies, if you giving to your children.

2. If you want you can add the Rava mixture on both sides and toast it. I did in only one side.

3. You can sprinkle some chat masala before serving if you want.

4. You can add finely chopped bell peppers, If you want.

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Paneer and Jeera Pulao | Indian Pulao Recipes

2016-04-16T21:00:00.000+08:00

This Paneer and Jeera Pulao, I tasted in my friends house. In this recipe, she used the crumbled paneer and it tastes great when combined with the smell of jeera (cumin seeds). So I tried the same at home last Saturday and prepared the mushroom matar curry as the side dish to go with it and the crispy mushroom pakora as snack. Everything goes very well together. So let's see the preparation of easy crumbled paneer and jeera pulao recipe.

You can check some of the tasty pulao recipes in the blog here.. Below given some links..

Peas pulao

Capsicum pulao

Mushroom pulao

Vegetable pulao

Channa pulao

Paneer and Jeera Pulao

Preparation time: 15 min | Cook Time: 35 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 2 cups

Onion - 1 big (cut lengthwise)

Jeera - 2 tsp

Crumbled Paneer - 1/2 cup

Green chili - 1

Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp

Water - 3 cups

Oil - 2 tsp

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Salt as per taste

Coriander leaves for garnishing

To Temper

Cloves - 4 to 5

Cinnamon stick - 1 crushed

Cardamom - 1 pod

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

Star anise - 1

Bay leaf - 1 crushed

Method

1. Start soaking the basmati rice now or soak it for 20minutes and filter the water and keep ready. Now in the cooker, add oil. When hot, add the ingredients mentioned in To Temper. Also add the cumin seeds.

2. When the seeds splutter, add the onions, ginger garlic paste and sauté till the raw smell of ginger goes off. Then add the green chillies.

3. Meanwhile crumble the paneer and add to the pan.

4. Now add the soaked rice and the 1tbsp ghee and fry for a while. ( around 2 minutes in medium flame).

5. Now add the water and when it starts boiling, check for the seasoning and close the lid and cool at low flame for 10 minutes exactly. Switch off the switch off the stove. After a while open the lid and add the remaining ghee and slightly mix the pulao without breaking the rice.

6. Close the lid again for another 5 min and then serve the Paneer and Jeera Pulao with the yummy Mushroom Matar Curry.

Tasty and yummy crumbled paneer and jeera pulao is ready to be eaten. ☺️☺️

Notes:

1. Here i didn't add bay leaf, as I don't have that time. So don't get confused seeing the Ingredients and the picture.

2. Since we need the rice to be our white color, I haven't added the coriander and mint leaves. If you want you can add after sauting the onions.

3. My daughter crumbled the paneer very nicely, so it's hard to see in the picture. Try to crumble it slightly.

4. Cooking time depends on the pressure cooker. So check your pressure pan or pressure cooker instructions accordingly. Mine always takes 10 minutes, in low flame.

Tags:Paneer Jeera Pulao, Paneer Pulao, Jeera Pulao, crumbled Paneer and Jeera Pulao, Indian Pulao Recipes, Easy Pulao Recipes

Garlic Bread Recipe | Bread Toast Recipes

2016-04-14T21:31:00.003+08:00

Garlic Bread Recipe - Now a days I started preparing different Bread toast recipes and Garlic Bread is the one which I tried last week. I have tasted Garlic bread in dominos, pasta mania and many more, but I loved the taste in Bread Talk. I don't know why 😜. So tried to replicate the same with the full bread. You can also try this using Bruschetta bread or any Italian breads. I also have made Garlic Rolls long before. Here is the easy recipe of the Garlic Bread Toast.

Here I give some other Bread Toast Recipes for you to check...

French Toast

Sugar Bread Toast

Cheese Chilli Toast

Besan Toast

Garlic Bread Recipe

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 8 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Break fast | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients

Bread slices - 4

Garlic - 5 cloves ( medium sized, chopped very finely )

Italian seasonings - 1/5 tsp

Parsley or Coriander leaves - 1.5 tsp (chopped finely)

Salted butter - 1.5 tsp (room temperature)

Shredded Mozzarella cheese - 1 tsp

Olive oil - 2 tsp

Method to prepare Garlic Bread Recipe

1. Chop the garlic and coriander very finely. Mix all the items nicely except the bread.

2. Now spread the mixture on the bread slices. Heat the convection oven to 130 deg Celsius and toast it for 6 minutes.

3. Easy and hot hot Tasty Garlic Bread Toast is ready.

Notes:

1. You can use any bread for this recipe.

2. Italian seasonings are optional, but they enhance the flavor of the bread.

3. If you like to add more cheese, you can sprinkle some more and toast it again for 2 more minutes.

Tags:Garlic Bread Recipe, Garlic Bread Toast, Indian Garlic Bread, Indian Bread Toast Recipes, Breakfast Recipe

Mushroom Matar Curry | Mushroom Green Peas Curry Recipe

2016-04-12T22:08:00.001+08:00

Mushroom Matar Curry I have tasted once or twice only in Little India. I always preferred Mushroom Masala or babycorn mushroom masala (my fav) 😜😜 than this Mushroom matar. Last Sunday since it is Krithigai, I didn't cook any non veg recipes and thought I could try this mushroom green peas curry, as I need to finish the mushroom which I bought 4 days back. Half the mushrooms I used for this curry and other half I prepared the mushroom pakora. I had this Mushroom Matar Curry with the Crumbled Paneer Pulao.

You can check some of the mushroom recipes in my blog

Mushroom Pulao
Mushroom Pepper Gravy

Mushroom Soup
Mushroom Masala
Babycorn Mushroom Masala

Stuffed Mushrooms

Mushroom Matar Curry

Preparation time: 20 min | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients

For Onion tomato paste

Onion - 1 big

Tomato - 3 medium sized

Ginger - 1.5 tsp

Garlic - 1 tsp

Green chilli - 1

For Curry

Oil - 3tbsp
White Button Mushrooms - 10 (cut in to small pieces)
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Dried Fenugreek leaves (Kasoori methi) - 1 tsp (crushed)
Heavy cream - 1/4 cup (or milk - 3/4 cup)
Water - 1 cup
Salt - as per taste.

For Tempering
Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/4 tsp
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon stick - 1 crushed

Method to prepare Mushroom Matar Curry

1. Watch the mushrooms and cut into bite-size pieces.

2. Now grind the tomato, onion, green chilli, ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Keep it aside. In another pan, add oil. When it is hot add the cumin seeds, fennel seeds, cloves ad cinnamon stick.

3. When the fennel seeds splutters, add the onion tomato paste. Saute it till the raw smell goes off. Now add the chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt and the crushed fenugreek leaves.

4. Then add the frozen peas and the mushrooms. Add water. Cover and cook for a while.

5. When the gravy starts thickens, you can see the oil starts oozing out. Now add the garam masala powder.

6. Mix it well. Now add the cream or the milk.

7. Cook in low flame for 3 to 4 min. Garnish with coriander leaves.

8. Switch off the stove and serve the Mushroom Matar Curry with Crumbled Paneer and Jeera Pulao.

Yummy and tasty Mushroom Matar Curry is ready.

Notes:

If you want you can saute the mushroom and add it at the final stage before adding the cream or milk.

I used frozen peas. If you are using fresh peas steam cook and use. Else will take more time to get cooked.

I was in a hurry preparing this curry. So I didn't grind the tomato paste to a smooth consistency. Mine was a bit coarse and hence the coarse consistency of curry. So grind to a smooth paste.

I didn't have cream and I added milk. You can add cashew nut paste also to give a more rich taste. Adjust the cream according to your spiciness of the curry.

Try to use the fresh mushrooms. If you do not like the black part of the mushroom, you can remove it and use.

You can also make this curry as No onion No garlic curry by avoiding the garlic and onion.

Tags: Mushroom Matar Curry Mushroom Green Peas Curry Kaalaan Curry Mushroom Matar recipe North Indian Side Dish

Cheese Chilli Toast | Indian Bread Toast Recipes | Breakfast Recipes

2016-04-08T23:36:00.000+08:00

I have never tasted Cheese Chilli Toast before, but through blogging, the name becomes familiar to me. I plan to prepare this easy toast recipe, but somehow, I keep postponing it. I bookmarked the recipe long ago and last saturday, along with Quinoa idly, I prepared this Cheese chilli toast for breakfast. When I remove the toast from oven my whole kitchen is filled with aroma of cheese and the veggie and my kids, left the idly and finished this toast first 😜😜. They also asked me to prepare this for their lunch box. I should have tried this recipe before itself. Lets go to the easy and simple recipe of Cheese Chilli Toast now.

Here are the some of the easy Break fast recipes to try.

French Toast

Masala Bread Upma

Sugar Butter Toast

Besan Toast
Garlic Bread Rolls

Cheese Chilli Toast

Preparation time: 05 min | Cook Time: 06 min | Serves: 2

Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients

Bread - 6 slices

Mozerella and cheddar cheese - 4 tbsp

Green and yellow capsicum - 2 tbsp chopped finely

Green chillies - 1/2 tbsp finely chopped

Freshly ground pepper - 2 pinch

Salt - a pinch or as per taste

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method to prepare Cheese Chilli Toast

1. Mix all the ingredients together except the bread.

2. Spread this mixture on the bread slices evenly. Now toast them in conventional oven. ( I kept the degree to 150 deg C and kept in first rack ).

3. Hot hot, Yummy yummy cheese chilli toast is ready.

4. You can have it as it is or have it with tomato sauce.

Easy and Tasty Cheese Chilli Toast for you...

Notes:
1. You can use any kind of bread. I used Milk bread.
2. I used both Mozzarella and cheddar cheese. You can use both or either one.
3. You can keep for more time to get the sides to brown. (I kept for 6 min).
4. Try to use large green chillies, as it will be less spicy compared to the shorter ones.
5. If you want you can add some Italian seasonings for more flavor.
6. If you don't have oven, you can toast the bread first and then add the toppings. Cover and cook. do not flip to the other side.

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Kadai Prawns Recipe | Indian Prawn Recipes

2016-04-06T22:06:00.000+08:00

Kadai prawns is very similar to the kadai chicken or kadai paneer and tastes great with the blend of kadai masala and the crunchy bell peppers. Last Sunday, when I was thinking what to cook for the lunch as I have prepared many South Indian Prawn recipes already and wanted something new to try. Then while searching for net, I saw kadai chicken images and suddenly, I made up my mind to try this kadai prawns, following the recipe of kadai chicken here. But did slight changes to adopt to our family taste.

You can also view some the tasty prawn recipes from this blog
Prawn roast in kerala style
Goan Prawn Vindaloo
Malabar Prawn Curry
Andhra Style Spicy Prawn Curry
Prawn Thokku

Kadai Prawn Recipe

Preparation time: 15 min (+1 hr for marination) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients

Prawns - 1/2 kg
Onion - 2 (chopped finely)
Tomato - 1 (chopped finely)
Tomato Puree - from 2 tomatos
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Capsicum/bell peppers - 1 cup
Oil - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp (Optional)
Lemon - 1/4 piece (or lemon juice - 1 tsp) (optional)

Ingredients II (For Marination)
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp
Corinader Powder - 1 /2 tsp
Turmeric - 1/5 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Ingredietns III (For Kadai Masala)
Dry Red Chilli - 5
Coriander seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Pepper corns - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp (crushed)

Method to prepare Kadai Prawns

1. Wash and devein the prawns. Keep the kadai masala ready.

2. Add the ingredients mentioned in Ingredietns II list and marianate the prawns for 45 to 1 hr. If keeping in freezer 20 to 30 min is enough.

3. Now dry fry the masala mentioned in ingredients III till nice aroma comes.( around 3 to 4 min). Then ground them to a coarse powder. Keep it aside.

4. Wash and Cut the bell peppers into cubes. In a kadai, add a tsp of oil and when it is hot, add the bell peppers and a pinch a salt and start cooking. Care should be taken that it retains its crunchiness and don't let it brown.

5. In a wok or kadai, add oil and when hot add the cumin seeds. When it splutters, add the onion and when onions becomes soft, add the ginger. Saute them well.

6. Now add the chopped tomato and cook until soft. Now add the tomato puree. Let them cook well of around 4 to 5 min.

7. Now add the prawns. The prawns start to leave out water. Add the ground kadai masala that time and allow them to cook.

8. When the gravy turns to thick as shown in the picture, squeeze quarter lemon. (This step is optional. I added for tangy taste). Keep the flame low.

9. Now add the cooked capsicum or bell peppers and give a stir. Let it cook in low flame for 5 minutes, so that bell peppers absorb the kadai masala. Do not cook for more, as the capsicum looses its crunchiness. Add kasuri methi along with bell peppers. Add the sugar now, mix it well. cook in low for 1 minute and switch off the stove.

10. Garnish with coriander leaves and ginger and Serve the Kadai Prawns with roti or naan or even with plain rice.

Tasty and yummy Kadai Prawns are ready to be served.

Notes:
1. You can always adjust the spice leaves according to your family taste buds. The above one is a medium spicy one. But still my little ones, complained it is bit spicy.
2. For a rich gravy, you can add 3 tbsp of heavy cream, while adding the capsicum.
3. Instead of ginger pieces, you can add ginger paste also. But cook, till the raw smell goes off.
4. Adding capsicum is optional, it gives really nice taste to the gravy.
5. Adding sugar is also optional, but I like to add it to North Indian dishes normally.
6. Adding lemon juice is also optional, but adding it, gives a nice tangy taste. If your tomatoes are tangy already, then you can skip adding lemon juice.

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Sugar Bread Toast | Indian Bread Toast Recipes

2016-04-04T21:23:00.002+08:00

This Sugar Bread Toast is very very simple and easy toast to make and at the same time, very tasty too. Actually, last saturday, I felt very boring and wanted something to eat. I thought of taking just the bread and butter. But I had only the unsalted butter sitting in my fridge. So I just added the sugar with the butter and tried this recipe Sugar Bread Toast. It came out good and I liked it very much. The same I tried in oven also, but it didnt taste that good as that of the toast done in normal pan. So here is the easy recipe - Sugar Bread Toast...

You can check other bread recipes below

Masala bread upma

French Toast
Besan Toast
Garlic Bread Rolls

Sugar Bread Toast

Preparation time: 05 min | Cook Time: 08 min | Serves: 2

Recipe Category: Breakfast | Recipe Cuisine: International

Ingredients

Bread - 4 slices
Unsalted Butter - 2 tbsp

Sugar - 1.5 tbsp (or as per your taste)

Method to prepare Sugar Bread Toast

1. Add butter and sugar in a bowl and mix it well.

2. Spread the sugar butter on both sides of the bread. (You can spread one side and on other side spread normal butter). Toast them on the dosa tawa or in a pan. When the bread becomes light brown flip on another side. Toast it and remove from the pan.

3. Sprinkle some sugar crystals on top of the bread and serve.

Tasty and yummy sugar bread toast is ready.

Notes:

1. It is purely optional to spread the butter and sugar on both the sides. Spreading one side is more than enough.

2. Sugar may try to crystallize quickly if kept on high flame. So try to toast in medium flame.

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Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast | Chicken Recipes | Sunday Special Recipes

2016-04-02T20:26:00.000+08:00

Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast... Do you feel the name is different?? Yes I too thought the same, when I first saw the recipe here. Since it looks simple and I love the garlic flavor, I thought I can give a try to the recipe and bookmarked the recipe. Finally last Sunday, I took the recipe as a base and slightly modified according to my family taste. It came out good and everyone in our family loved it. So here goes the tasty and yummy Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast Recipe.

Here are the other chicken recipes for you to check..

Pepper Chicken Dry

Butter Chicken Roast

Ginger Chicken Fry

Crispy Chicken Fry

Karaikudi Chicken

Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast Recipe

Preparation time: 20 min (+1 hr marination) | Cook Time: 50 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Chicken - 1/2 kg

Garlic cloves - 20 cloves (with or without skin)

Tomato - 2 tomatoes (pureed)

Chilli powder - 3/4 tbsp

Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp

Garam masala powder- 1/4 tsp

Ginger paste - 1/2 tsp

Salt - as per taste

Oil - 4 tbsp

Coriander leaves - for garnishing

To temper (Optional)

Cinnamon stick - 1

Cloves - 3 to 4

Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 spring

Star anise - 1

Method to prepare Garlic Tomato Chicken

1. Crush the garlic nicely. (you can use your mortar or food processor to do so). Keep it ready. Now wash the chicken to remove the smell. (How to remove the poultry smell from chicken). Let the water drain out. Now add the mentioned powders and salt and mix well.

2. Add the ginger paste and the crushed garlic cloves. Mix them thoroughly and let it rest for 1 hr.

3. Add 2 tbsp oil and add the tempering items and fry for a minute. Then add the chicken pieces and start cooking. Cover and cook it.

4. The chicken leaves out water and let the chicken cook by its own water. It might take around 10 to 12 minutes. Meanwhile puree the tomato and add it to the chicken. Again close and cook. Now and then mix the chicken and also check if chicken has water or else it gets burn at the bottom.

5. Now add the remaining 2 tbsp oil and cook it. No need to add water. Keep stirring the chicken. Finally add the coriander leaves and switch off the stove.

6. Serve the chicken with plain rice or as a side dish.

Yummy and tasty Garlic Tomato Chicken Roast is ready.

Notes:

1. All the tempering items are optional. I added for our family taste. The original recipe, doesn't call for the tempering items.

2. If you feel, chicken not cooked properly, then add slight water. Do not add more.

3. After adding the oil for the second time, do not close and cook. Keep it open and cook.

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