Corn - Spinach Vegetable Kabab

In Bangalore our favorite family restaurant is “Holiday Village” which is in Kanakapur road since there you can enjoy Karaoke singing, dedication of songs to special one, good service and good food in reasonable price. Whenever our family units we plan for this place after 9 o’clock in the evening. Our dinner starts with vegetable kabab and platters as starter, whenever we go there always I thought I should try these kababs in home... J  So today finely my thought is going to execute and hoping to get good comments from my husband…J Kababs come out very nice and served hot one with sauce… in time of 20 min we both finished all of them.

They are tasty… J

Prep Time: 30 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Corn – 1 cup

Spinach – 1 cup

Potato – 3 (which makes smashed 2 cup full)

Corn Floor – 1tbsp

Rice Floor – 1 tbsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala – 1tbsp

Chilly Powder – 1tsp

Green Chilly paste – 1tsp

Coriander powder – 1tsp

Fresh Coriander leaves – 2tbsp
Bread crumbs - 4tbsp

Salt

Oil

Direction for Preparation:

1. Wash all vegetables, Pressure cook all vegetables separately.

2. Pressure cooks Potato with pinch of salt for 4-5 whistles.

3. Pressure cooks Corn and chopped Spinach for 3 and 2 whistles separately.

4. In bowl smash boiled potato, to this add boiled corn and spinach mix well.

5. To the mixed vegetable ingredients add all dry powders like corn floor, rice floor, Chilly, garam masala, coriander powder, baking soda.

6. Now add green Chilly paste and salt adjust according to your taste.

7. Adjust the corn and rice floor according to consistency of your mixture (to make kababs)

7. Add finely chopped fresh coriander leaves and mix well.

8. Apply some oil drops to your palm and make vegetable kabab of desired shape (I made cylinder shape)
9. Roll out these kababs in bread crumbs and keep aside.

10. In Tava add 2tbsp of oil, when it is hot shallow fry these kababs by putting some more oil on top. When they are fried one side just turn for other side for boiling and put some more oil (you can even deep fry them, as all the vegetables are already cooked I made them with shallow fry, taste wise fried one become more crispy but these are also not so soft )

11. Serve hot vegetable kabab with spicy tomato ketchup which are crispy outside and soft inside.

Venilla - Sponge Cake

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups (225 gms)

Plain yogurt(Curd) - 1 cup (250 ml)

Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (200 gms)

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder - 1 and 1/4 tsp

Cooking oil - 1/2 cup (125 ml)

Vanilla essence - 1 and 1/2 tsp

Milk - 1 tbsp (just for brushing the top)

         

Direction for Preparation:

1. Sieve Maida, granulated sugar, baking powder, and baking soda and keep aside.

2. Mix all the above dry ingredients well.

3. Now add slowly all dry ingredients to curd and mix well.

4. Leave aside for 5 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence, cooking oil and mix well

5. Beat well with a whisk until creamy and thick. Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins.

6. Meanwhile grease a cake tin and pour the batter to the tin and keep it ready.

7. Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 7-8 min, and bake till a fork inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

8. Just brush the top of the cake with 1 tbsp milk, just 1 mins before the ending time to get a nice polishing glaze.

9. Allow the cake to cool down for 10mins, Then cut/slice them into pieces and enjoy!

Cold - Coffee

I am big fan of Coffee, So today I tried cold coffee it turned out very delicious. Try this whenever you are having extra milk in fridge….

Prep Time: 5 min

Cook Time: 5 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Chilled Milk – 2 glass or ½ lt

Sugar – 2tbsp

Instant Coffee powder – 2tbsp (I used more coffee powder since I like coffee)

Ice cubes - 2 to 3 cubes crushed

Chocolate shavings – 1tbsp

      

  

Direction For Preparation:

1. In juicer jar or normal big mixer jar add 2 glass of chilled milk, sugar, coffee powder and grind for 1 min.

2. Now add ice cubes and grind until all ingredients are blend together and milk lather is started forming.

3. Pour in serving glass. And garnish with chocolate shavings and little bit of coffee powder to enrich the taste.

Mango - Lassi

My husband is big fan of Lassi so wanted to try it as I am having mangoes in my fridge thought of trying “Mango Lassi”.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Mangoes chopped - 1 cup

Thick Curd(Yogurt) - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 tbsp (adjust according to taste)

Water - 1/4 cup

Salt - Pinch

Ice cubes - 2 to 3 cubes crushed

Chopped nuts - for garnish (I used almond and some cherries for garnish)

Direction For Preparation:

1. Mix chopped mangoes, sugar, salt and curd in a mixer jar. Grind for a min.

2. Now add water and ice cubes if required otherwise you can skip adding these ice cubes.

3. When curd and all other ingredients are well blend than pour in serving glass.

4. Garnish the Mango Lassi with chopped almond. Garnishing is left to individual imagination.

Mango - Lemonade

Mango season is back, so let’s try out possible recipes and enjoy this season..:)

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Thick mango pulp - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup (adjust according to the sweetness of the mangoes)

Water - 1 cup for sugar syrup

Cold Water - as required to mix with concentrate

Lemon juice - from 2 lemons

Direction For dough Preparation:

1. In 1 cup water add sugar and bring it to boil. And turn off the gas.

2. Grind mango pulp in mixer until it become smooth paste.

3. Squeeze out the lemon juice in bowl.

4. Add grinded mango pulp paste to the sugar syrup and stir well until both mixes well.

5. Once both mango pulp paste and sugar syrup are completely blend together, add lemon juice and stir well.

6. Let it cool the above mixture.

7. In serving glass add 3/4 cup of above prepared mixture and add chilled water.

8. Stir it and serve Mango Lemonade with some ice cubes if required.

Baby Corn - Manchurian

Today I took off from office, to relax and bring back my lost energy by preparing some delicious food.So started my day with morning breakfast Vegetable POHA, followed by very lite lunch Maggie since I was alone in home...;) and now its evening time to show my cookery skill and get tap on shoulder by my husband once he is back from office..;) I thought and surfed of many recipes which are not tried by me till now..:) Came across this fantastic spicy Baby Corn Manchurian immediately I checked for availability of ingredients in my home.. thank god all of them I am having. Now its time to try this spicy recipe and pen down recipe in my blog..

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

For the batter :

Baby Corn - 10 cut into small pieces

Cornflour - 4 tbsp

Maida - 1 tbsp

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp

Red chily powder- 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Oil - to toast 

For the manchurian:

Oil - 1 tbsp

Capsicum - 1 medium size cut into ½ inch squares

Big Onion- 1

Soya sauce - 2 tsp

Tomato sauce - 3 tbsp

Salt - to taste

Spring onions - 2 tbsp

Coriander - 2tsp

Corn Flour water mixture - Mix 1 tbsp of cornflour with water

Direction For Preparation:

1. Finely chop onions, capsicum, spring onion and coriander.

2. Boil baby corn with water and salt. Drain water and keep aside.

3. In a mixing bowl mix cornfloor, maida, ginger and garlic paste, red chili powder and salt with babycorn

4. Add little water to form a thick paste and marinate for 15mins.

5. Toast the baby corn with oil in dosa tawa until crispy/roasted well (You can deep fry too if you are ready to consume more calories, in both cases taste will remain same).

6. In another hot pan add oil and spring onions saute for a minute.

7. Then add onion saute until slightly browned then add capsicum and saute for 2mins. (Let the onions and capsicum retains its crispiness and do not let them turn brown)

8. Add soya sauce and mix well in high flame.

9. Now reduce flame and add tomato sauce, cornflour mixture and required salt and bring the sauce to boil.

10. Add the toasted baby corn and mix well. Garnish with spring onions, Coriander and serve hot.

Mint ButterMilk.

Again summer is back with very hot climate...its always good choice to try something new cool drinks in home rather than ending up soft cold drinks outside. I made simple yet cool Mint Buttermilk, try this at home with simple ingredients.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 10 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:
Thick Curd - 1cup
Fresh Coriander 
Fresh Mint leaves 
Water - 2cup
Salt

Direction For dough Preparation:
1. In juicer jar add curd,coriander leaves,mint leaves,water and salt to taste
2. Add more mint leaves than coriander.
3. Grind the above mixer for 3-4 min until coriander and mint leaves are powdered along with curd and gives nice colour to your buttermilk.
4. Pour this buttermilk in a glass and present it with fresh mint leaves on top.
5. Serve this cold and minty buttermilk.

Bread - PIZZAAA

Always I love to have PIZZAA that to with extra cheese...When I was watching some cookery show in TV I came across this recipe, than I thought why not to try this where I can avoid bringing PIZZA base or eating outside. My thought recipe turned out yummy..And now succeeded with one more feather in my cooking cap and book... :) 

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 20 min

Serves for: 2 persons

Ingredients:

Bread - 5 slices (I used Sweet bread)

Butter - 2tsp

Carrot - 2

Capsicum - 1 small

Creamy Milk - 3tsp (kene Halu)

Sooji - 2tsp (Chiroti Rave)

Chili sauce

Tomato sauce

Grated Cheese - 1 cup

Direction For dough Preparation:

1. Grate carrot and finely chop capsicum. You can even use finely chopped Onion to increase taste.

2. Cut Bread in round shape using any kitchen utensils to give PIZZAA look, you can skip this if u doesn’t like to do so.

3. Apply little butter to bread on both side and roast it on Tava or in microwave.

4. In bowl mix carrot, capsicum, sooji, creamy milk and chili sauce according to taste, and let this mixture set it for 10 min.

5. Now apply layer of chili and tomato sauce each according to your taste on roasted bread.

6. Now on the chili and tomato sauce layer apply above mixture and roast it for while until the mixture is stick to bread, make sure to roast it in simmer flame.

7. When the mixture on the bread is to hot add grated cheese and let it melt and spread all over the PIZZA.

8. Serve hot PIZZAAA'S with spicy tomato and chili sauce.