Showing posts with label Evening Snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evening Snacks. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Poha Snack / Chivda / Atukula Mixture


Recipe Source: Show Me The Curry

Serves: 2 people

Ingredients:

Thin Poha (Atukulu) --- 1 cup
Salt --- 1/2 tsp
Oil --- 1/2 tblsn
Mustard Seeds --- 1/2 tsp
Peanuts --- 1 tblsn
Dalia --- 3 tblsn
Curry Leaves --- a few
Red Chilly Powder --- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp

Note:

We don't like our poha snack to be sweet. So, I didn't add sugar and raisens to it.

Process:

Add a cup of thin poha into a microwave-safe bowl.

Microwave it for 1 minute.

Give a good mix and again microwave it for a minute. The poha should by crispy and crunchy. Keep it aside.


Add half a tsp of salt in a motar and crush it to a fine powder with the help of a pestle. Keep it aside.



Heat 1 1/2 tsp of oil in a pan. Turn the heat to medium.

Add 1/2 a tsp of mustard seeds and let them splutter.

Add a tblsn of peanuts and fry till done half.

Add 3 tblsn of dalia, curry leaves and 3/4 th of crushed salt too.



Roast dalia till done.

Add a big pinch (half of the 1/4 tsp) to the pan. Stirfry for a while.

Add microwaved thin poha.

Stirfry for 2 minutes till the turmeric is well coated to the poha.



Transfer it to a serving bowl.



Let it come to room temperature and then serve.

For detailed explaination watch this video:




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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Vegetable Burger & Cutlets


Recipe Source: My friend Kalyani. She told the recipe long back. But I tried out recently.

Ingredients for the Vegetable Patty & Cutlets:

Potatoes --- 3 big
Carrots --- 4 big
Frozen Green Peas --- 1 cup
Oil --- 2 tblsn + for deep fry
Ginger-Garlic Paste --- 1 tsp
Salt --- to taste
Red Chilly Powder --- 1 tsp
Garam Masala --- ¼ tsp
All Purpose / Maida Flour --- 1 tsp + ¼ cup
Corn Flour --- 1 tsp
Chilly Garlic Sauce --- 1 tsp
Tomato Ketchup --- 1 tsp
Coriander Leaves --- 15 stalks
Cake Rusks or Bread Crumbs --- to dip the cutlets


Other Ingredients for the Burger:

Hamburger Buns --- 4 buns
Tomato Ketchup --- as required
Ripe Tomato --- 1 medium
Lettuce --- 8 leaves (small)
Ranch Sauce (for dressing) --- as required (I have used ‘Hidden Valley’s ‘The Original Ranch’)
Black Pepper Powder --- a pinch (Optional)

Process Of Making Cutlets & Burger Patties:

Boil, Peel & Grate Potatoes.
Peel the skin of carrots. Chop and add these to the pressure cooker bowl. Clean and add a cup of frozen green peas too. No need to add water in the bowl. Just add water at the bottom of the pressure cooker.


Pressure cook it for 3 whistles. Wait till the pressure goes off.

Drain the water from the pressure cooker bowl if any. Mash the cooked carrots and peas with the help of the masher.

Add the stuff to a muslin cloth or a neat and new hanky. Squeeze it tightly to remove the excess water from the vegetables. Try to remove all the moisture from the vegetable. (Don’t skip this step) Keep it aside.

Chop 15 strands of coriander leaves. Keep them aside.

Heat 2 tblsn of oil in a wide non-stick pan.

Add 1 tsp of ginger-garlic paste. Sauté for a while.


Add cooked, mashed & squeezed carrots and green peas.

Add a tsp of corn flour and a tsp of all purpose flour.

Add a tsp of red chilly powder, a quarter tsp of garam masala, enough salt, a tsp of ketchup and 1 ½ tsp of chilly garlic sauce.

Stir fry till the rawness of ingredients and the excess moisture from the vegetables goes off. At the same time the bottom should not be burnt. Look at the bottom how clean it is. Try to use a non-stick pan for this.(Do this step perfectly.)

Add chopped coriander leaves. Stir fry for a minute.


Turn off the heat.

Add mashed potatoes. Mix well. Adjust salt and mix well.


Make soft and small round balls. Give a shape to them as you wish. Keep them aside. (I made 4 patties for burger and 7 as cutlets.)



Heat oil in a steel pan for deep fry. (Next time I will try to shalllow fry the vegetable patties instead of deep fry.)

In the meanwhile, take a bowl add ¼ cup of all purpose flour. Add equal amount of water and mix without lumps. Add ¼ th cup of water again and make a thin batter out of it.

Grind 4 cake-rusks to a coarse powder. You can use bread crumbs too.


When the oil is at right hot. Dip the cutlets or burger patties in the maida batter just to coat them. Take the cutlets or burger patties immediately out of it. Don’t let them stay in it. Drop them immediately in the cake-rusk powder or break crumbs.


Drop them gently in the hot oil and fry till golden brown.

Have / Serve the cutlets with tomato ketchup.


In the same way, fry the burger patties too.

Process Of Making Burger:

Divide the hamburgers into half. No need to toast them.


Place the vegetable/burger patty which you have made on one of the tops of the burger like this and add little ketchup on the top of it.


Place sliced tomato on the top of it.

Add little Ranch sauce as a dressing. I like this so much. So, I will add more than required.

Add chopped lettuce or a small lettuce leaf on the top of it.


Cover it with another half of the burger.


Have it. (By looking at theses pics again I want to eat burgers. I looooooove Burgers.)

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Chapathi / Pulka Chaat


As soon as I saw this recipe in Eenadu paper, I decided to give a try. I got sev from outside and tried it. In the recipe she told that you can try this with leftover chapathis. But I made them with fresh pulkas. It is like ‘Dahi Sev Puri’. It’s wonderful. It’s a tasty and healthy chaat.

Learnt From: ‘Ruchulu’ Eenadu Telugu Paper.

Serves: 2 People

Ingredients:

 Chapathi’s / Pulkas --- 4 medium
 Oil --- 2 tblsn
 Beaten Curd --- 5-6 tblsn
 Date & Tamarind Chutney --- 6-8 tsp
 Salt --- a pinch
 Red Chilly Powder --- a pinch
 Dry Roasted Cumin Powder --- a pinch
 Sev --- 3-4 tblsn
 Coriander Leaves --- 10 stalks

Process:

 Make thin pulkas or chapathis. If they are leftover’s it is a very good way to consume them in this way.


 Cut each pulka or chapathi into 4 parts.
 In a pan, add a tblsn of oil and fry the torn chapathis till golden brown. After removing from the heat they should be crispy.


 Repeat the process till they are done.
 Make small pieces out of fried pulkas or chapathis.


 Add beaten curd on the top of the fried pieces.
 Add tamarind sweet chutney which you made and kept aside.
 Add a pinch of salt, red chilly powder and cumin powder on the top of that.


 Add sev on the top of that.


 Add chopped coriander leaves.
 Serve or Have immediately. Like this make one more plate.

Still more closer view.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Garlic Bread - Frozen

Many of you may know about this. But I came to know after 1 year. Here in US we will get Garlic Bread. - Frozen . When I don't have mood to cook and feel hungry in the evenings I have this.



If you don't know about this give a try. But don't take too much. It is made with butter which is not good for health.



Buy this:



Keep it in the freezer.
Whenever you want, take it from the freezer.
Heat a non-stick griddle on medium heat.
Toast the bread till becomes soft.
Have it.


Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Chekkalu / Crackers


Learnt From: My Mom.

Makes: 25 crackers

Ingredients:

Raw-Rice --- ¾ cup or Rice Flour --- 1 cup
All Purpose Flour / Maida --- ½ cup
Channa dal --- 1 tblsn
Yellow Moong Dal --- 1 tblsn
Peanuts --- 2 tblsn (optional)
Red Chilly Powder --- 1 tsp
Salt --- ½ tsp
Oil --- ¼ cup + for deep fry

Pre-Requisite:

Soak raw-rice overnight in plenty of water.


Note:

You can even make with ready made rice which is available at store. But my mom does in traditional way and I followed her.


Process:

In the morning, drain the water from rice and keep them in a strainer.


And soak a tblsn of channa dal & yellow moong dal in water.


Let them become partially dry. In the afternoon, grind the raw-rice into fine powder.


Sieve it.


Take a cup of sieved flour to a bowl.
Add half a cup of all purpose flour.
Drain the water from channa dal & yellow moong dal.
Add them to the bowl.


Dry roast peanuts till brown on medium heat. Remove skin of the peanuts when they come to room temperature. Grind coarsely till the peanut breaks to 1/4th of its size. Add them to the bowl.(This step is optional. My mother adds peanuts. But I didn’t.)
Heat ¼ th cup of oil till hot. Add the heated oil to the bowl. First mix with a spoon because the oil is hot.


Then mix with bare hand till the oil incorporates to the flour nicely.


Then add enough water to make a tight dough. (like poori dough).


Heat oil in a pan for deep fry. For deep fry use a steel pan rather than non-stick pan. Non-stick pan is not good for deep fries.
Knead the dough nicely.
Make small balls.


Take an aluminum foil. Grease foil with oil.
Place the small dough. Press the dough to a thin patty.


Remove gently from the foil with your thumb from one edge. Check whether the oil is right hot or not by dropping a tiny ball into the oil. Deep fry till golden brown.


Transfer the fried to a paper towel.


Enjoy the taste of crackers.

Storage:

Wait till the crackers come to room temperature. Transfer the crackers to an air-tight container.

They will be good for a week or more.
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