Ragda Patis

Ingredients

White round mutter(soaked overnight), 4-5 medium potatoes, 1 tomato, onion, corriander, chilli powder, jeera-corriander powder, salt to taste, oil for frying

Method

1. Boil the potatoes and mash them for making pattis. Add a little maida (2/3 bread pieces soaked in water and drained can also be used instead of maida) while mashing. Make round flat balls. Heat a pan and shallow fry the pattis till golden brown

2. Boil the mutter.

3. Heat oil in pan. Add cut onion, masala powders and fry them. Add tomato pieces and salt.

Add the boiled mutter and cook them for some time. Add water to make gravy - do not let the gravy dry.

Preparation

Put the pattis in a bowl. Add the mutter gravy on top of it. Add cut onion, tomato, corriander. Add sev on top of this. Add a little tamarind chutney for flavour.

Masala Dosa and Sambhar

Baby corn Manchurian

Ingredients

10 baby corn

1 medium onion

1 small size capsicum

2 green chillies

Tomato,ginger paste (2 tomatoes + 1/2 inch ginger)

4 pieces garlic

Little tomato ketchup

1 tblsp cornflour

2 tblsp maida

1 tsp red chilli powder

Method

1. Mix cornflour, maida and red chilli powder with some water

2. Dip the baby corn pieces in the mixture an shallow fry till it becomes golden brown

3. Cut the onion, capsicum, green chillies in long pieces

4. Heat som oil in a pan

5. Add the onion, capsicum and chillies, garlic pieces and fry them all together for some time

6. Now add the tomato + ginger paste and mix it together

7. After 2/3 minutes add the fried baby corn.

8. After 5 minutes add tomato ketchup to the mixture

9. Cook covered for 10 minutes

Garnish with corrianger leaves and serve hot.

Pav bhaji

Ingredients

100 gms cauliflower

100 gms french beans

3 medium size potatoes

50 gms peas

2 medium size tomatoes

2 tsp pavbhaji masala

1 medium onion finely chopped

1 tsp ginger garlic paste

2 tsp red chilli powder

chopped corriander leaves

4 tbsp butter

grated cheese

Method

1. Wash, cut and boil all the vegetables in a cooker.

2. Strain the boiled vegetables and mash them together.

3. Heat oil in a kadhai. Add chopped onions, ginger garlic paste and fry them together till onions turn golden brown

4. Add pav bhaji masala and red chilli powder and fry them

5. Add the mashed vegetables along with a little water and cook them for 10 minutes covered.

6. Add butter to the bhaji and keep it covered.

Add grated cheese to the bhaji before serving.

Heat the pav with butter on a tawa. And serve with the bhaji.

Baked vegetables

Ingredients

1/2 cup green peas

100 gms carrot

100 gms beans

1 small capsicum

1 small onion

2 green chillies

1 tbsp butter

salt, black pepper to taste

1 cup white sauce

1/2 cup grated cheese

Method
1. Wash and chop the vegetables

2. Melt butter in the oven

3. Add chopped onions, chillies to this and microwave for 2 mins

4. Now add rest of the vegetables and 1/4 cup water and microwave or 10 mins so that the vegies get tender

5. Add white sauce to this mixture, salt and black pepper for taste. Micorwave again for 5 mins

6. Preheat the oven at 250 degrees at convection mode. Sprinkle grated cheese on the mixture and bake the same for about 10-15 minutes.

Onion Potato Poha (कांदा बटाटा पोहा)

Ingredients

पोहा (Beaten rice)

1 potato peeled

1 medium size onion

some peanuts

1 tsp oil

1 tsp turmeric

salt to taste

chopped corriander

Method

1. Wash the beaten rice, drain the water and mix salt in the beaten rice

2. Cut the onion and potato in long slices

3. Boil the potato seperately for some time

4. Take some oil in pan, after the oil is heated up, add the cut onion pieces and fry them

5. Add peantus and boiled potato slices and fry them

6. Add turmeric to the mixture and finally add the poha(beaten rice).

Steam the poha for some time and poha would be done.

For garnishing, you can add chopped corrainder.

Dadpe Poha (aale paak poha)

Ingredients

Thin Poha (beaten rice thin)

1 small onion chopped

some peanuts

red chilli

grated coconut

curry leaves

oil

1 tsp turmeric

sugar and salt to taste

Method

1. Mix poha and grated coconut and keep them squeezed for 10 mins

2. Prepare tadka of curry leaves, peanuts, red chilli, turmeric 

3. Add the tadka in the poha along with salt and sugar to taste

Sweet Corn Usal

Easy to cook and tastes delicious.

Ingredients
1 Sweet corn
Mustard seeds
Jeera
Oil
chopped green chilli
Salt and sugar to taste

For garnishing:
Grated coconut
Chopped corriander
Method:
1. Boil the corn in some water
2. In a pan, heat some oil. Add mustard seeds and jeera seeds to the heated oil
3. When the oil starts to sputter, add chopped green chillies
4. Add the boiled corn in this mixture.
5. Add salt and sugar to taste
6. Cover the pan with a lid and steam the corn usal.
7. Remove from gas after 5 minutes or when the corn looks cooked.
8. Add grated coconut and chopped corriander to the usal before serving

Lauki ke kofte

Ingredients
500 gms Lauki (Bottle gourd) peeled and grated

2 tbl spoons besan/gram flour

2-3 green chillies

Little grated ginger

Salt to taste

1 tsp red chilli powder

finely chopped corriander leaves

Method

1. Grate the lauki and squeeze out the water from it.

2. To this, add grated ginger,chopped green chillies, chopped corriander leaves, red chilli powder and salt. Mix all well.

3. Now add besan to bind the mixture and make round/oval balls to prepare koftas

4. Heat oil in a pan. Deep fry the koftas in the oil to golden brown color.

5. Server with chutney and nice hot tea/coffee !!

Home made Pizza

Ingredients
Pizza base

Pizza topping sauce

1 small size capsicum

1 small onion

1 medium size tomato

Grated cheese

Tomato ketchup

Method
1. chop the capsicum, onion and tomato in circular piecies.

2. Take the pizza base and put pizza topping sauce on the base.

3. Put the chopped capsicum, onion, tomato on top of the sauce

4. Add grated cheese on top

5. Add a little bit of tomato ketchup

6. Preheat the oven at 190 degrees

7. Bake the pizza base in the preheated oven for 5 minutes.

Kachya pohya cha chiwda (Poha Chiwda)

Ingredients

0.5 kg Poha (Beaten rice - thin)

Oil to fry

Green chilli

curry leaves

peanuts

Method

1. Fry poha in a seperate pan with a little oil till the poha becomes crispy

2. Take some oil to fry in a kadhai

3. Add cut green chilli, curry leaves and peanuts in the pan and fry them together for sometime

4. Add the fried poha in this mixture and fry them for some time. Add turmeric to this mixture along with some salt to taste.

 5. Fry all together till the chiwda becomes crispy.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
1 cup flour (maida)
2 eggs
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup milk

Method
1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees in convection mode
2. Grease cake tin with a little butter
3. Mix flour,cocoa, baking powder together
4. Beat butter, sugar and egg till it becomes fluffy. Whip them properly.
5. Slowly mix the above two together. Add a little milk to smooth the batter. Add cherries, tutifruity, etc in the batter - if you want
6. Pour the cake batter into the greased cake dishand bake the cake for 35-40 mins at 180 degrees on convection mode only.

Chocolate cookies

I loved my own cookies. For a first try, they were pretty good.
Took the recipe from a book and modified them to my liking.

Goes well with hot or cold coffee.

Ingredients:
1.5 cup flour (maida)
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/4 tbsp baking powder
2-3 tbsp milk
1 beaten egg

Method:
1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees on Convection mode.
2. Mix beaten egg, butter and sugar together and whip them all together
3. Mix flour, cocoa powder and baking powder
4. Mix all ingredients together and knead them into a dough.
5. Make round balls of the dough (or any shape for your cookies)
6. Place the cookies on a greased dish and bake them for around 20-30 minutes at convection mode in the microwave
7. Let the cookies bake till they turn golden brown.