Punjabi Special: Chole Masala Recipe

Authentic Punjabi Chole Recipe

Authentic Punjabi Chole

Hello Everyone,

Yes, you got it right.... Today, I am gonna share with you recipe for the most delicious and lip smacking authentic punjabi curry recipe. And the curry is none other than Punjabi Chole.

Wear your apron and let's get started...

Ingredients

To prepare chick peas

200 grams White Chick Peas

1 black tea bag

Salt to taste

For gravy

1 cup onion puree

1 cup tomato pure

1 tsp ginger garlic paste

1/4 tsp turmeric powder

1 tbsp red chilli powder

1 tsp dry mango powder

1 tsp garam masala

2 tbsp oil

Salt to taste

For authentic masala

2 cardamom

1 inch cinnamon

3 black pepper

2 cloves

1 bay leaf

2 dry chilli

Method

1. Rinse and soak chick peas over night. Rinse the soaked chick peas.
2. In a pressure cooker, add chick peas along with tea bag, salt to taste and enough water. Cook in the cooler till 12 to 15 whistles. Switch off the gas and check if the chick peas got soft.
3. Next, roast all the whole spices in a pan. Stir often let the spices get the brown color on them. Be careful not to burn it. There would a beautiful aroma once they are ready.
4. Let the spices cool. Once the are cool, add all in a mixture jar and grind it to a fine powder.
5. Now, let start making gravy for our curry. Place a pan on stove, add oil to it. Once it's hot add ginger garlic paste to it. Next, add onion puree and cook untill it gets translucent. Add tomato puree to the pan.
6. After cooking for a while add the authentic masala we made, chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala.
7. Stir the dry masala. Add our cooked chick pea to the gravy. Stir well.
8. Add salt and 2 cup water into the pan. Stir well and cover the pan. Let it cook on medium flame. The chick peas will absorb all the flavours into it.
9. Cook untill the gravy becomes thick and is in medium consistency.
10. Now, its time to add dry mango powder. Give a quick stir. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve with rotis, kulcha, paratha, Puri or bhature. It even go well it jeera rice.

Enjoy!!!
Happy Cooking!!!

Chocolate Mug Cake

2-Min Delicious Chocolate Mug Cake

Hello Everyone, how you all doing?

I am back after so so many day 😊. 

The reason for this long vacation, I and my family where shifting to a new place, our dream house.

Let's come back to the post. I know after reading the title you all be having water in your mouth...ha..ha..ha. 

Alright, let me all show you hero of our today's post....

Chocolate Mug Cake

Here is our dashing hero....I am in love with him... Reason he was there when no one was during the packing and moving of our house holds.

Let's run through the recipe now..

Ingredients

3 tbsp All purpose flour

2 tbsp Coco powder

4 tbsp icing sugar

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

3 tbsp oil

1/2 cup milk

3 to 4 drops vanilla extract

Sprinkles of choice

Method

1. Take a huge microwave safe mug.

2. Add all the dry ingredients into it. Give a quick mix using fork to break lumps if any.

3. Add vanilla extract and oil to the mug.

4. Lastly, add milk and mix well.

5. Put mug into the microwave for 2 mins at 180 C.

6. Your mug cake is ready. Add sprinkles and serve.

Happy Cooking.

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Hello folks,

Healthy eating and simple living is the secret to better life. This is very true but in today's world people get fade up with eating that simple food. People think that boiled food is for the old ones. Many of them may try healthy simple boiled food but skip it after seeing those yummy, hot, spicy and tasty street food.

Don't you think we should make food that is healthy and at the same time tempting. Though it is not going to help you as the boiled food but it is far more better than the street food you love.

With the thought in mind for the health version of a most tempting dish I tried my hands on Bhakhri Pizza. Yeah, it's healthy and tempting at the same time.

For the one's who don't know what is bhakhri? Let me brief it out. Bhakhri is a Indian flat bread made from wheat flour. It's almost thick like a think crust pizza base.

Now, without wasting much more time let's jump to over tempting recipe.

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Ingredients:

For making Bhakhri

2 cup wheat flour

2 tbsp butter

1 tbsp mixed herbs

Pinch of salt

Water as required

For topping

1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped capsicum

1 cup boiled corn 

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp Chilli flakes

1 tsp Italian seasoning

1 cup home made pizza sauce

1 cup cheese

Method:

For Bhakhri dough:

• In a bowl, mix all the ingredients of bhakhri and knead into a dough. Dough needs to be hard than the one we prepare for pizza dough.
• Keep the dough aside for 1 hr.
• Now, take a small portion of dough and roll it to a flat bread.
• On a slow flame, roast this flat bread. You need to press bit using a cloth to make it really good.
• Once ready keep it a side.

For toppings:

• In a pan, take olive oil and add the onion, capsicum and corn to it.
• Cook it for 5mins, now add salt, Italian seasoning, Chilli flakes to it. Turn off the flame and let it cool down.
• Next take our bhakhri, spread home made pizza sauce or ready made pizza sauce over it. Top it with the veggies mixes. Lastly, spread grated cheese over it.
• Bake it in the oven untill the cheese melts.

Our Healthy Bhakhri Pizza is ready to eat.

Serve it with ketchup.

Happy Cooking!!

Sweet Braid Buns

Sweet Braid Buns

Sweet Braid Buns

Hello Friends,

I am back with ma special sweet bun recipe. Yeah, it's ma first time. And as you can see it turned out to be great. Isn't it? Well it tasted great too 😋

Today evening I had some spare time in my hands so thought of using it and try some delicious food. 

When I opened my fridge, found a unused package of dry yeast. That's when a thought of making these delicious sweet braid buns came to ma mind.

Quickly wore my apron and collected the required ingredients and got started with ma dish.

Here goes my recipe of Sweet Braid Buns....

Ingredients

2 cup all purpose flour

1 cup whole wheat flour

½ cup warm milk

½ cup water

1 tbsp dry yeast

1 tbsp sugar

½ cup chopped dry fruits

½ cup melted white chocolate

2 tbsp grated dry coconut

2 tbsp ghee

1 tbsp suger

Milk for brushing

Method

To prepare dough

In water, add dry yeast and sugar. Mix well untill sugar and yeast dissolves. Place a lid on the bowl and allow yeast to activate for 10mins.

In meantime, grab the all purpose flour and add whole wheat flour to it. Add warm milk to it. Now, take the activated yeast and add it to the flour. Knead it proper with light hands. 

Cover the dough and place it aside for half hour. It will raise double from it's original size.

To prepare stuffing

Heat a pan, add ghee to it. Add dry fruits to it. Let it fry till golden brown. Add dry coconut and sugar next. Now off the stove. After 5mins add melted white chocolate to it. Mix well. Let it cool for some time.

Grab our dough and divide it into 6 equal parts. Roll it into a ball. Spread the ball to flat with hands. With help of knife make cuts for braid. Now place the stuffing in center. Place strips overlapping each other in form of braid.

Prepare all of them. Brush the braid with milk. Let's bake them for 10mins.

Our Sweet Braid Buns are ready to eat. I enjoyed them a lot with rain. 

Happy Cooking!!

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate loved by all and can solve all sorts of problems isn't it?

Few days back, it was my birthday and I thought of giving surprise treat to all my office colleges. After thinking for hours of what can be done I came to a conclusion: Chocolate Truffles. 

Why chocolate truffles? Mainly due to two reasons. Firstly, chocolate is loved by all and over here in my city we don't find bakery selling Chocolate Truffles so definitely everyone was going to be amazed. Secondly, I had never tried these colorful treats so new experience and new recipe to be added to the list.

Here goes my Chocolate Truffles recipe...

Ingredients

2 cup All purpose flour

1 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp baking soda

1 tbsp baking powder

4 tbsp drinking Chocolate

2 tbsp Coco powder

1 cup warm milk

1 cup water

1 cup Choco chips

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp cream

1 cup melted Dark Chocolate

1/2 cup melted white chocolate

Sparklers

Method

Mix the dry ingredients first. In another bowl, add butter, milk, vanilla extract and mix well. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together. Pour this batter to the tray and bake it just like the normal Chocolate cake base. Once ready, let it cool.

Now, crumble your base and add chocolate chips to it. Add cream to the crumble and mix well to dough. Make small bowls from it. Freeze the balls for 30mins. 

Dip all the balls in the dark chocolate and freeze again. Once dark chocolate gets freeze using spoon pour some white chocolate over it. Sprinkle sparklers over it and refreeze it.

Chocolate Truffles

Our Chocolate Truffles are ready. Looks good isn't it? Do try at home and let me know your feedback.

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Hello Everyone,

Today I am going share with you all a yummy and cheesy Recipe. I am going to write this post real quick so that I can have my toast :p

Our today's recipe is Cheese Chilli Corn Toast, yeah as the name suggests its going to be full of cheese. This is an Indian street  side recipe. Most popular in Mumbai. Cheese loves do try this at your home.

Ingredients required for chutney:

1 cup mint leaves

1 cup  coriander leaves

3 green chillies

Salt to taste

1 tbsp jaggery

1 tsp black salt

3 tsp lemon juice

Ingredients required for stuffing:

1 cup grated cabbage

1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped capsicum

1 potato boiled and mashed

1 cup boiled corn

1 tbsp black pepper

1 tsp black salt

2 tbsp butter

Salt to taste

Cheese cubes

1 tsp mix herbs

Process:

To make chutney:

In the grinding bowl, take all the ingredients and add some water to it. Grind it to fine paste.

To make stuffing:

Heat a pan, add butter to it.

Once butter gets melt, add onion, cabbage, capsicum, corn and potato to it. Saute it for some time.

Now add salt, black pepper and black salt to it. Mix well.

Cook for 5mins and light off the store.

Let the mixture cool for some time.

Take a bread slice, apply chutney on it, top the mixture on it. Now, grate cheese on it. Sprinkle herbs on to it.

Grill it for 5mins.

Your Cheese Chilli Corn Toast is ready to eat. Do try it yourself and let me know your feedbacks.

Happy Cooking!!

Republic Day Special: Cheese and Bell Peppers Filled Pasta Shells

Republic Day Special : Cheese and Bell Peppers Filled Pasta Shells

Tricolour Pasta Shells

Ingredients- 

1cup pasta sauce

3 jumbo shells of three colours(orange-white and green ) 

2garlic cloves, minced,

1 medium sweet onion, diced,

2 tsp extra virgin olive oil,

2tbsps fresh basil leaves, chopped finely,

1/2cup finely chopped three colors bell peppers

1 cup grated cottage cheese,

1sp processed cheese,
salt, or to taste,
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste,
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice,
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional),
Parmesan cheese-(optional)

Method -

Cook shells in a pot of boiling water until al dente, about 8-11 minutes. Be careful not to overcook. Drain shells and set aside to cool.

Grease a casserole dish. I used 3shells but you’ll need to cook more than that as some shells will break during the cooking process.
 Cook shells in a pot of boiling water until al dente, about 8-11 minutes. Be careful not to overcook. Drain shells and set aside to cool.

Preheat oven to 400F. In a large pan sauté the garlic and onion in the oil for about 5 minutes.Add chopped three colors bell peppers .Season with salt and pepper. Add in the chopped basil, and sauté for another 2minutes.Add grated cheese. Stir in processed cheese ,salt, pepper, lemon, all to taste. Over medium heat, cook for about 2-3minutes or until most of the water cooks off.

Spoon about ¾ cup of pasta sauce into the casserole dish and spread around. Add about 2 tbsp of cheese mixture into each stuffed shell and place shells on top of pasta sauce.Arrange first orange,then white in the last green.Cover shells with the remaining pasta sauce and cheese. Cover dish with tin foil and poke several air holes. Bake at 400F for about 10 minutes or until heated throughout.

Sprinkle red chill flakes and Parmesan cheese .Garnish with basil leaves. Can serve with a basic green salad and garlic bread.

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY..

Vegetarian Baguette Sandwich

Vegetarian Baguette Sandwich

Hello Everyone!!! How have you all been??

I am back again with a sandwich recipe. Hope you all gonna like it. Please do share your comments/ feedback on same. I have been waiting for them since long.

Alright lets get started with today's recipe. Today we are gonna make a vegetarian baguette sandwich. For those who don't know about what is baguette let me give you some information.

A baguette is a long thin loaf of French bread that is commonly made from basic lean dough. It indistinguishable by its length, crisp crust and soft from inside. It is orgined from french. Now it is easily available in India.

Vegetarian Baguette Sandwich 

Ingredients :

1 baguette bread

Melted butter to grease

2 tbsp bell papers (red, yellow, green)

2 tbsp french beans

2 tbsp carrots

2 tbsp sweet corn

2 tbsp cabbage

2 tbsp onion

2 tbsp oil

1 tsp black pepper

Salt to taste

3 tbsp ketchup 

2 tbsp chilli sauce

2 tbsp mayonnaise 

Steps to follow:

1. Cut the baguette bread into small pieces. Scoop out the inner bread to fill the filling inside.

2. Grease the bread with melted butter and toast them in oven at 200 c for 5min.

3. In a pan take some oil, and sauté all the vegetables.

4. Add some salt to taste and a pinch of black pepper.

5. Once the veggies get warm add the ketchup and chilli sauce to it. Also add mayonnaise and mix well.

6. Fill the bread with filling and garnish them with the veggies we used.

Hope you all will enjoy it. Please do share your feedback.☺ 

Happy Cooking !!! ☺☺☺

Basic Cutlet Recipe

Basic Cutlet Recipe

Hello friends!!!

Hope you all are doing well.....

Today i am gonna share with you all a basic indian cutlet recipe. First of all cutlet is a snack that people over here in India enjoy in afternoons.

Cutlets are crispy from outside and soft from inside. They taste really yummy. It is also everyone's favourite snack during monsoon.

Let's get started with the recipe. Please share your valuable feedbacks on my posts.

Basic Cutlet Recipe

Ingredients :

5 Boiled and mashed potatoes

4 slices of bread

1 onion finely chopped 

1/4cup boiled  green peas 

3/4cup grated carrot 

1/2 cup cabbage finely chopped 

1/2 cup poha wash lightly and keep in strainer.

1 tspn red chilly powder

1 tspn aamchoor 

1 tspn jeera powder

1 1/2 tspn dhania powder

Salt to taste

Steps to follow :

Mix all ingredients together and make a dough

Make small balls from this dough and flatten lightly in shape of pattice. Roll in a rawa plate.

Keep aside for 1/2 hour 

Deep fry till golden brown and remove on tissue paper.

Serve with chutney and tomato sauce.

Hope you all will like it....😊

Crunchy Yummy Cutlet

Crunchy Yummy Cutlet 

Can you imagine biscuits that taste as exciting as any of Indian cutlets or pav bhaji? Well, here is a creation that will just about fulfill that dream! Salted biscuits with a topping of tomatoes, onions and mixed vegetables sautéed in butter and perked up with tomato ketchup and coriander, is sure to be quite interesting to the palate. One thing to keep in mind is that you can keep the topping ready, but should assemble the Mixed Vegetable Topping on Salted Biscuits just before serving so that biscuits remain crunchy.

Crunchy Yummy Cutlet 

Ingredients

24 salted biscuits3/4 cup finely chopped and boiled mixed vegetables (french beans , carrots and green peas)1/4 cup finely chopped onions

1/4 cup finely chopped tomatoes
2 tsp butter
1 tsp finely chopped green chillies
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander (dhania)
1/2 tsp chilli powder
salt to taste
12 tsp grated processed cheese for sprinkling

Steps to follow : 

1. Heat the butter in a broad non-stick pan, add the onions and green chillies and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute.
2. Add the tomatoes, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring occasionally.
3. Add the boiled mixed vegetables, tomato ketchup, coriander, chilli powder and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
4. Put a little mixture on each salted biscuit and sprinkle ½ tsp of cheese evenly over it.
5. Serve immediately.

Cream Paneer Cassata Recipe

Hello everyone!!! How are you all doing?


Cassata ice cream is very famous and well known for all most all of us. But today I am gonna share with Cassata sweet recipe.


It's very easy and require few ingredients to make this yummy and colourful sweet.


Lets get started with the making process. Hope you all like it. Happy Cooking Friends!! 😄😄😄

Cream paneer cassata

Ingredients required

Grated paneer 4 tbsp
Vanilla icecream 4 tbsp
Crushed Waffle Biscuits in 4 different flavour (1 cup of each flavour- vanilla, pineapple, strawberry and orange)
Powdered Sugar 4 tsp
Dry fruits roughly chopped 4 tbsp

Steps to follow:

1. In a bowl take vanilla crushed waffle biscuits into add 1 tbsp vanilla ice cream, 1 tbsp grated paneer, 1 tsp powdered sugar and 1 tbsp dry fruit. Knead it into a smooth dough.


2. Make similar type of dough using pineapple, strawberry and orange crushed waffle biscuits.


3. Take the dough and flatten it into round using the rolling pin. Do this with all the other three dough.


4. Now pile all this flatten rounds onto each other. Cut into the desired shape.


5. Decorate it with cake decoration. Keep into refrigerator for 30mins. Serve chilled.

Uttapam with Italian Twist

Hello Food Lovers!!!

Pizza it is??? What if I say.. NO 😜

Shocked!! No doubt it looks like a pizza but it is not a pizza.. it's Uttapam. Yes heard it right it's Uttapam with Italian Twist.

Basically, Uttapam is a South Indian recipe made using rice and rava/samolina topped with veggies like onion and tomato.

To add twist to this Uttapam today, I am gonna serve you with Uttapam Pizza. Happy Cooking!!

Uttapam Pizza 

Ingredients:

1cup rawa/samolina 
½ cup rice flour 
¼ cup maida 
800ml water 
Salt to taste
Italian seasoning

Topping- 
2 nos tomatoes-small diced 
1 no green capsicum-small diced 
2 no onion small diced
2 tsp coriander-chopped 
1 cup grated pizza/mozzarella cheese 
Oil to shallow fry

Process:

1. Make a thick batter with rawa,rice flour & refined flour using water.

2. Add salt to taste and Italian seasoning. Whisk well.allow to rest for 15 min. 

3. Heat dosa tawa and add ½ tsp oil. Pour the batter to make a mini uttapam like a pancake. 

4. Top with vegetables and cook. 

5. Now , sprinkle pizza cheese and Italian seasoning (optional).
Cover to melt or put the pan under a grill for 5 min (optional). 

Our Uttapam with Italian Twist is ready to serve. 😃😃😃

TIPS: 
* For easiness, instead topping veggies separately we can add the veggies in batter itself. So, after cooking just top with cheese and seasoning.