Snacks
Bean and Corn Tacos
A taco is a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling.
You can add great versatility to this dish with variety of fillings like chicken, seafood, vegetables,beans and cheese.
My daughter Nuha relishes her favorite Mexican snack – tacos and hence I set myself the task of preparing home made tacos
So lets dive right in to see how to make the Mexican Tacos.
Ingredientshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm90zqKmG2c
8 Taco shells (easily available in stores)
1 cup soaked and boiled beans
1/2 cup Spring onion shredded
2 tbsp Mexican tomato salsa
1 cup boiled corns
2 cubes of Low fat cheese
1/2 bunch Iceberg lettuce
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese grated
Directions || How to prepare Tacos
for Tacos filling
In a bowl take the boiled beans,corn ,spring onions and add grated low fat cheese, spring onions and tomato salsa .
Add salt and mix lightly
To prepare Tacos
Warm the taco shells in a preheated 125c oven for a few minutes.If you don’t have oven,micro oven the taco shells for 1-2 minutes till its crispy to eat.
Wash and shred the lettuce leaves
Fill the taco shells till about three fourth with shredded lettuce
Then add a spoon of mixture on top of the shredded lettuce leaves evenly
Top the shells with grated cheddar cheese and little tomato salsa.
Serve immediately.
Tips
You can use any type of filling – vegetables,beans ,fish or meat and top it with cheese and salsa.
Bread cheese Bhajiya
Bread bhajiya ,also know as pakora are usually served as snacks or appetizers.The most popular varieties are pyaaz pakora, made from onion and aloo pakora, made from potato.I tried to give slight new variation to it using bread and cheese. If you are feeling hungry and you have some left over breads at home and kind of bore to have the same sandwiches or jam butter bread.Try out this new simple and easy recipe. My kids just loved it and I am sure your kids will too 🙂
Prep Time : 10 Mins
Cooking Time : 20 Mins
Serves 4
Ingredients:
6 Bread Slices
3 cheese slices
1 tsp ginger garlic paste (optional)
2 tsp Garam Masala Powder
2 tsp Pav Bhaji Masala Powder
1 tsp Chilly Powder
250 gm Chana Powder (Gram Flour)
1 cup Water
2 tsp Salt
½ cup Oil
Direction || How to prepare Bread Bhajiya’s
Take one piece of bread ,place cheese slice over the bread in a single layer. Top with another slice of bread.
Cut the bread evenly into 9 pieces. Repeat this will the remaining bread and cheese slices.
Take chana powder, ginger garlic paste (if u don’t have paste ready skip it) garam masala powder, pav bhaji masala powder and chilly powder in a bowl and mix well.
Pour water in it and blend into medium thick batter. Flavor with salt to taste.
Immerse the bread pieces into the chana batter.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the each bread piece until light brown in colour.
Serve hot with ketchup or any green chutney.
Tips
Coat the bread evenly with the batter so avoid the cheese spread out into the oil.
Bombay Vada Pav
Vada pav (in Marathi) sometimes called as Batata vada is a vegetarian fast food dish native to the Indian state of Maharashtra, especially Mumbaikars consisting of a potato fritter in a bread bun.Check this famous vada pav so called Indian burger recipe.
Preparation Time – 20 minutes
Cooking Time – 10 minutes
Serves – 4
Ingredients
8 ladi pavs
Dry Garlic Chutney
Green chutney
For the vada filling
2 large size potatoes boiled and mashed
1 small size onion finely chopped
2 green chillies, chopped
2 tbsp grated garlic
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)
6 to 8 curry leaves (kadi patta)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
1 tbsp oil
oil for deep-frying
For the outer covering
3/4 cup besan (Bengal gram flour)
1/2 tsp of red chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
a pinch of baking soda
1 tsp oil
salt to taste
Direction || to prepare the vada filling
Heat the oil and add the mustard seeds. When they crackle, add the asafoetida and curry leaves , add onions and saute till turns golden brown.
Meanwhile pound the green chillies, ginger and garlic using a mortar and pestle.
Add the pounded mixture and sauté again for a few seconds.
Add the potatoes, turmeric powder and salt and mix well.
Turn off the gas and allow it to cool.
Divide into 8 equal portions. Shape into rounds.
Direction || to prepare the outer covering
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and make a batter using approximately 1/3 cup of water.
Dip each round of the vada filling into the batter and allow it to coat the mixture well .
Deep fry in hot oil, till golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper and keep aside.
Slice each pav into half and spread one side with dry garlic chutney and other with green chutney inside.
Place one vada in each pav and serve immediately.
Tips
Do not over burn the onions else the vada will taste bitter.
Make sure the batter is thick and evenly coated around the filling else the vada will break inside the hot oil.
Turai(Ridge Gourd fritters) Pakoda
A ridge gourd , also commonly known as Turai or Turiya or Dodka (in Marathi) is a well beloved in India.
Its hard skin is peeled off and chopped and cooked as desired.But do you know you can also have this veggie as snacks.
Check out this soft yet crunchy Turai ke pakore(fritters) recipe.
Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Servings : 4
Main Ingredients
4 medium size (turai)ridge gourd
2 cups besan/gram flour
½ tsp red chili powder
¼ tsp garam masala powder
a pinch of asafoetida powder
a pinch of turmeric powder or haldi
a pinch of baking soda or baking powder (optional)
water – add as required to make a thick flowing batter
oil for deep frying or shallow frying the pakoras
1 tsp chaat masala to sprinkle from above
Directions || How to make Turai ke Pakoda
Peel and cut ridge gourd lengthwise on all four sides, cutting around the stem, seeds, and ribs. With a sharp knife,
remove any remaining rib. Slice it as desired.
Mix turai, gram flour, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, turmeric powder,soda, salt and hing.
Add sufficient water to make thick batter.
Heat oil in a kadai. Drop pieces of turai one by one in oil and deep fry the pieces till all pieces turn crisp and cooked.
Drain on an absorbent paper. Serve hot with tomato ketchup or mint chutney.
Chicken Patties
One more flavorful snacks or a side dish to a main menu, Chicken Patties cooked with meat (mutton or chicken) stuffing that is fried with a batter/covering.
This is one of my kid’s favourite and i discover that she loves having it so i made some addition to the patties and added Green Peas(Matar) to this recipe.
We can also add more veggies to it,specially its good for kids who loves chicken and hate having veggies,this will add nutritional value to the patties.
Please leave any comments or feedback if any.
Prep time: 30-40 mins
Cooking time: 10-15 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
250 grams of boiled Shredded Chicken
1 cup boiled green peas(Matar)
1 boiled potato
1 tsp of Ginger garlic paste
1 tsp of Red Chilli powder
1 tsp of Garam Masala powder
1 tsp of Tomato Ketchup
1 egg
1 cup of Bread Crumbs(optional)
Salt to taste
Oil for frying.
Directions | How to make Chicken-Green Peas Patties
In a bowl mix all the ingredients (shredded chicken,green peas,potato,ginger-garlic paste,red chilli,garam masala and tomato ketchup)
and knead lightly to form a soft dough.
Divide the mixture into equal portions. Shape each portion into a round and flatten slightly.
Whip the egg in a bowl and dip each patty into the egg beaten and then roll it in the bread crumb
Deep-fry the patties in hot oil until they are golden brown in colour and drain on absorbent paper.
Fry it for about 10 minutes and serve hot with tomato-garlic sauce or any chutney of your choice.
Tips
You can any veggies of your choice like shredded cabbage or carrots.
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