Friday, August 29, 2008

Vegetable Cutlet

Ingredients:-
Potato - 4
Carrot - 1
Beans - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Peas - 1/2 cup
Turmeric Powder - 2 pinches
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Egg - 1 (instead of egg corn flour can be used)
Bread Crumbs
Oil for frying
Method:-
Cook potatoes, beans, carrot and peas in a pressure cooker.
Mash all the cooked vegetables.
Add turmeric powder, garam masala, chilli powder ,salt and mix well.
Make balls out of it.
Beat one egg and keep aside in a bowl.
Pat the ball in hand and dip it in the egg.
Roll it in the bread crumb so that it is fully coated with bread crumbs.
Heat oil in a tawa and put 3 -4 pieces and fry on both sides and see to that the side is also fried.
Fry in medium flame.
You can have this with tomato sauce.

Bread Toast

Ingredients :-
Bread - 5 slices
Egg - 2
sugar - 4 tbsp
salt - 2 pinches
oil as required

Method:-

Take the eggs in a bowl.
Add salt and sugar to it.
Beat the eggs nicely till the sugar dissolves in it.
Dip the bread slices in this egg mixture so that both the sides of the bread gets coated with the mixture.Do not soak the bread in the egg mixture for a long time.
Heat the tawah and pour 1 tsp oil in it.
Put the dipped bread slices in the tawa and cook on both sides till it becomes golden brown.
while cooking add oil to the sides of the bread.
Now your yummy toast is ready to be served with sauce or any spicy chutney.

Vegetable Egg Sandwich


Ingredients :-
Bread – 2 slices
Boiled Egg – 1
Cucumber – ½ sliced
Tomato sliced – 1 small
Big Onion sliced – 1 small
Cheese slices – 2
Red Chilli sauce – to spread
Butter – to spread
Method :-
1. Toast both the sides of the bread in tawa using butter. Make sure that the bread doesn’t become hard. Just a light toast is enough.
2. Take two bread slices and spread Red Chilli sauce on one side of both the slices.
3. Take one of this bread and keep a cheese slice on top of it.
4. Cut the boiled egg into small pieces and spread it over the cheese.
5. Put some Black pepper on top.
6. Spread the sliced cucumber, Onion, Tomato on top of it.
7. Put Mayonnaise on top of these vegetables and cover using the other bread slice.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Malabar Coco - Egg

Ingredients :-
Egg – 4
Coconut – 1/2
Red onion – ½
Refined Ground Nut oil – 30 ml
Turmeric Powder – ½ tbsps
Black pepper – ½ tbsps
Red chilly powder – 1 tbsps
Coriander leaves for garnishing
water 50-75 ml
Salt – as desired
Method :-
First boil the eggs and once boiled cut the eggs into 4 and separate the yolk from the eggs. Chop the onion and Coconut finely, now heat the Refined ground nut oil and once heated add Finely chopped onions and coconuts and fry till turns to partly golden yellow, then add Turmeric powder, Chilly powder, black pepper powder and salt as desired. Once you get a distinct aroma add the yolk (yellow) part of the Egg and mix it up with base masala thoroughly and later add some water (50ml -75ml) just to get a paste sort and cook it in slim flame for 2 mins, later add the White part of the boiled egg, cook it for 2-3 mins, garnish with Coriander leaves and ready to serve.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Grain Vegetable Sandwiches


4 slices whole grain bread
1 avocado, mashed
1 tomato, sliced
1 small cucumber, sliced
1/4 cup spanish onion, thinly sliced
2 tsps. low-fat mayonnaise
sea salt, to taste
pepper, to taste
Evenly spread the mashed avocado on two slices of the whole grain bread and lightly sprinkle the salt and pepper over the avocado. Spread 1 tsp. mayonnaise on each of the remaining two slices of bread. Add the tomato, cucumber and onion. Serve immediately.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Vegetable Paneer Pizza

Ingredients :-
2 - medium sized pizza bread
2 tsp - butter (for applying on the pizza bread)
8 tbsp - pizza sauce
1 bunch - spinach (finely chopped, washed and blanched)
200 gms - paneer (cut into small cubes)
2 - capsicums (cut in thin rings)
150 gms - mozzarella cheese (grated)
For Pizza Sauce :-
4 tbsp - butter
6 - medium sized onions (finely sliced)
6 - medium sized tomatoes (chopped)
5 tbsp - tomato sauce
2 tsp - red chilli sauce
11/2 tsp - red chilli powdersalt to taste

Method :-
For Pizza Sauce:-

Lightly heat butter in a heavy bottomed vessel.
Add onions and saute on a low flame till the onions turn pink in colour.
Add tomatoes and sauté for 5 to 7 minutes.
Add tomato sauce, garlic sauce and red chilli powder and salt.
Saute for another five minutes.
Remove from fire and cool completely.
Blend coarsely in a blender.
For Pizza :-

Butter the pizza breads.
Spread about 4 tbsp of pizza sauce on each pizza bread.
Arrange a layer of blanched spinach on the bread.
Top it with paneer cubes.
Arrange capsicum rings on it.
Evenly grate the cheese on it.
Bake the pizza in an oven at 160 degrees C till the cheese melts and the bread a little crisp.