Showing posts with label kids' tiffin box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids' tiffin box. Show all posts

Friday, 3 April 2015

Corn cabs toast

#varietytoasts#teatimesnacks#starters#babycorncabbage#toasttoppings#toast flavours

Ingredients: 1 cup finely sliced cabbage, 1 cup 1 inch sliced babycorn, 1 tsp olive oil, 1 tsp mustard sauce, salt to taste, 2 tsp oregano flakes, 100gms mixed herbs garlic flavored butter, 15 brown bread slices cut diagonally halved
Preparation time: 25 min
Recipe:
1. Heat a pan at low gas.
2. In the meantime, take another pan, heat it and add olive oil. Heat oil for a minute and add cabbage and babycorn. Sauté for 2-3 min. Add salt and mustard sauce, mix well and allow cooking for two more minutes
3. In the meantime, place about 6-7 bread cuts on the pan and turn gas at medium flame. After half a min, turn over the slices and butter the top side of each piece. Turnover again. Butter the other side now. Turnover and wait half a minute. The pieces will turn crisp. If not turnover the pieces every half a minute till crisp.
4. Now add half tbsp of the sauteed cabbage corn mixture and sprinkle grated cheese on each of the piece. Cover with lid and turn gas low. Wait for two min till the cheese starts melting.
5. Serve it hot.

Saturday, 24 January 2015

Vegetable Daliya (Bulgur/ Bulgar)

Vegetable Daliya (Bulgur/ Bulgar)


#daliya#namkeendaliya#bulgur#oats
#lowoncaloriefood#simpleNYummy


Ingredients: 1 cup of daliya, 1/2 finely chopped carrot, 1/2 finely chopped onion, 1/2 finely chopped green capsicum, finely chopped coriander 1 tbsp, 4-5 black pepper, black mustard seeds 1 tsp, 1 tsp ghee, salt to taste, 4 cups water, lemon

Preparation time: 20 min

Recipe:

1.      Take a deep pan and heat it. Add ghee to it. After ½ a min, add mustard seeds followed by black pepper. Wait till they pop.

2.      Add onion. Cook till color change. Then add carrots and capsicum. Allow them to cook for a minute or two. Then add daliya to this and mix well. Allow to cook for 2 min.

3.      Heat water on separate burner.

4.      Add water to the daliya and vegetables. Add salt to taste. Let this cook by placing a lid on the pan with burner at medium flame.

5.      Check after 4 min. Daliya would swell up. Stir it and mix it well.

6.      Keep it on low flame for 3 min more and then done.

Veg. Daliya alias Bulgur is all ready to be served hot with a dash of lemon!
 

Tomato Onion Chillas


Tomato Onion Chillas
 
 
#childa#chillas#tomatochillas#besan
Ingredients: 2 cups of besan or gram flour, 1 finely chopped tomato, 1 finely chopped onion, 1 finely chopped green chilly, finely chopped coriander 1 tbsp, asafoetida 1 tsp, cumin seeds, 3-4 tbsp oil, 1 tsp turmeric powder, salt to taste, water.
Preparation time: 25 min
Recipe:
1.      Mix all the ingredients but for oil and water.
2.      Add only ½-1 tbsp oil to this mixture and mix well. Add little water to the mixture with one hand while mixing the ingredients continuously with other till a thick paste forms. Leave this for 5- 10 min.
3.      Take a pan (kadhai) and put it on gas. Spread ½ tbsp oil and heat it properly in the meantime.
4.      Add some more water to the paste above to make the batter.
5.      Take a tbsp to pour the batter and spread on the pan as shown in the pic to make chillas. Allow it to cook from one side. Sprinkle 2-3 drops of oil on these chillas before
      tossing them. Let the other side cook now.
6.      Chillas are almost done.
7.      Garnish them with grated cheese and chopped coriander!
Tips:
Serve it with green chutney or curd chutney.