These chicken kebabs made with noodles, chicken and potato go as an excellent dish for Iftari party or a starters. I am sure your guest will be quite impressed by this dish. Especially our junior guest kids love to eat such different and wonderful tasted food. This recipe was first introduce to me after my marriage by my in laws during Ramadan month and I was quite amazed as it tasted yummm !!!
Try this for sure , as its very simple easy and quick recipe as well as it tastes delicious !!!..Read more…
Left over Chicken Bread Rolls
An innovative crispy tasty bread rolls made from mashed potatoes,left over bread slices and chicken curry. Now no need to worry about your leftovers anymore.
These bread rolls are favorite at my home and I usually pair them with the evening chai as a snack served with tomato ketchup. Hope you too will try this at home.Its very simple and easy to prepare. Watch out this step by step recipe of these yummy chicken bread rolls.Read more..
Left over Rice and Chicken cutlets
Do you always seem to have leftover rice and chicken curry on hand and you don’t want to waste them, no need to worry !!Here is some easy way to turn your leftover white and left over chicken into a new side dish!
I tried it out and it really turned out delicious.You too give it a try and do leave your feedback or comment about your experience.Read more..
Prawns Popcorn
Prawns popcorn,this crispy golden fried popcorn makes as an easy appetizer and your guest will love it ,
It can be served with fries,creamy coleslaw or a simple tomato ketchup dip.Read More…
Chicken Momos Desi style
Momos are the famous fast food Himalayan origins. It’s a traditional delicacy in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Northeast India.
Momo(dumpling) are made with a simple flour-and-water dough—white flour is generally preferred ,it can be either steamed or fry.Read more…
Chicken Pattice
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.Read More…
Do you always seem to have leftover bread lying in the kitchen and you don’t want to waste them, no need to worry !!!
Do you love Dosa and you feel boring and time consuming to make it often at home because of soaking and fermentation process ?
Here is some easy and an excellent way to turn your leftover bread into Instant Dosa/Uthapam.
I tried it out and it really turned out delicious.You too give it a try and do leave your feedback or comment about your experience.
Prep Time : 15 minutes
Cook time : 10 minutes
Serves : 6
Ingredients : Makes about 8-10 dosa
4-6 slices any Bread (White/Brown/Multigrain)
1/2 cup Semolina/Suji Rava
3/4 cup Rice flour
Salt to taste
For Uthappam
2 tsp Chopped coriander leaves
1 small onion – finely chopped
1 Green chilli
Direction || How to prepare Bread Dosa
1) Remove the brown edges of all the bread slices and soak in water for 2-3 mins.
2) Squeese out the extra water.
3) Grind together in a mixer soaked bread ,semolina and rice flour.Add enough water to help grinding. Grind to a smooth batter.
4) Transfer the ground batter to a big bowl ,add salt and mix well. Check the consistency of the batter. it should be pouring consistency.
5) Heat a tawa.Pour a laddle full of batter. Spread it in circular direction to make it to thin dosa.
6) Drizzle few drops of oil around it.Cover and cook on medium flame for abt 1-2 mins.
7) No need to flip over and cook.Once its done, the dosas come out easily from the tawa .
Direction || How to prepare Bread Utthappam
Add onion , chopped chilli and coriander leaves to the batter and mix.
Repeat the above 5 ,6 and 7 steps.
Fold and serve crispy bread dosa accompanied with any chutney or sambhar.
Lollipops are famous among kids whether it be a sweet candy lollipop or a chicken lollipop. This summer vacation my kids visited their grandma’s place and since my mom is a veg lover,she wanted to try out a lollipops but a veg lollipops for her grandchildren and of course her daugther 🙂
Thanks mom for such a delicious and mind-blowing vegetable lollipop.
So here’s presenting you a secret step by step recipe with pictures from my mom’s kitchen 🙂
This dish tastes spicy & delicious with a combo of any sauce or dips. It can also be served as snacks with hot tea..!
For this recipe, we need cottage cheese i.e. paneer,carrots and all time favorite of kids none other than potato.
Recipe Courtesy : Mangal Shewale
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves : 6 people
Ingredients:
6 medium size Boiled potato
2 medium size Carrots (grated)
200 gm Grated Paneer/cottage cheese
1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp Red chilli powder(optional)
1 pkt Maggi masala/maggi magic cubes (optional)
1 tsp Chat masala powder
1/4 cup coriander(finely chopped).
250 gm breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon Cornflour
Cooking oil for fry
Toothpick/skewer(I used candy sticks)
Salt to taste.
Method :
Fine grate the paneer/cottage cheese and carrots and mix it together.
Peel off the boiled potato and mash it with grated paneer and carrots mixture .
Add ginger garlic paste and all the spices and chopped coriander into mashed potatoes, mix it properly.
Make equal size small oval balls of the mixture like lollipop and keep in refrigerator for an hour.
Mix the cornflour into a bowl and add little water to make thick batter.
Take out the balls from refrigerator.
Take one ball at a time, dip it in the batter and roll over on the breadcrumds till its propery coated.
Heat oil into a pan, Put the coated balls one by one into the hot oil.
Fry it on low flame for 1-2 minute then flip it and cook other side for 1-2 minute(fry till it turns light brown).
Take out on the kitchen towel to absorb extra oil, add the fried balls to toothpick or skewer like lollipop.
(I used candy as skewers and toothpicks both were not available)
Serve hot with tomato Ketchup and chips.
Directions ||Step by step with pictures to prepare vegetable lollipops
Fine grate the paneer/cottage cheese and carrots and mix it together.
Peel off the boiled potato and mash it with grated paneer and carrots mixture .
Add ginger garlic paste and all the spices,salt and chopped coriander into mashed potatoes, mix it properly.
Make equal size small oval balls of the mixture like lollipop and keep in refrigerator for an hour.
Mix the cornflour into a bowl and add little water to make thick batter.
Take out the balls from refrigerator.
Take one ball at a time, dip it in the batter and roll over on the breadcrumbs till its properly coated.
Heat oil into a pan, Put the coated balls one by one into the hot oil.
Fry it on low flame for 1-2 minute then flip it and cook other side for 1-2 minute(fry till it turns light brown).
Take out on the kitchen towel to absorb extra oil, add the fried balls to toothpick or skewer like lollipop.
(I used candy as skewers and toothpicks both were not available)
Serve hot with tomato Ketchup and chips.
Gulgule is a very easy and simple recipe in Maharashtra. Gulgule Pua is in the shape of a Pakora. I tried this dish especially for my husband who loves sweet and this is one of his favorite childhood dish.
My kids just loved it , this can be the good snacks for your hungry kids after school.If you like sweet then you will surely like these sweet Gulgule.
Try this out and do share me your feedback.
Ingredients:
Wheat flour/Atta – 1 cup
Jaggery/Gur – 1/2 cup
Ripe mashed banana – 1
Ghee – 2 tbsp
Salt – to taste
1/2 tsp baking powder
Oil for cooking
Directions || How to prepare Gulgule
Add hot water in the gur and stir till dissolved.
In another bowl, add wheat flour ,ghee, mashed banana , salt and baking powder.
Add the gur solution to it to form a batter of dropping consistency (adding more water if required).
Heat oil and add equivalent to a tbsp of the batter over high heat.
Lower the heat and let the gulgula cook over medium heat.
Remove the fried piece with a slotted spoon.
Increase the heat and then drop as many lumps as come in comfortably without touching each other.
Lower the heat and cook, turning once or twice till brown.
Repeat this process with the rest of the batter.
You can have this yummy gulgule’s hot or at room temperature.
Ukadiche modak is one of the most popular modak variety made during Ganesh chaturthi festival in maharashtra.
Modak is one of my favorite sweet and this time I wanted to try a something new too.
we all like the sweet jaggery and coconut filling inside the modak but I added chocolates to the filling to try this new
Ukadiche Chocalate Modak. Do try this out and let me know how did you find this modern style Modak.
Preparation time : 30 mins
Cooking time : 15 mins
Serves : 4
INGREDIENTS (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml)
For the outer modak covering:
1 cup rice flour
1.5 cups water
¼ tsp oil or ghee
a pinch of salt
For the inner sweet filling:
1 cup fresh grated coconut
½ tsp grated almonds
¾ cup grated jaggery
½ cup melted choclate (hershey syrup)
¼ tsp cardamom powder
a pinch of nutmeg powder or grated numeg
½ tsp ghee or oil
½ tsp rice flour (optional)
Direction || How to make Ukadiche Chocolate Modak.
For the sweet filling :
Heat ghee in a pan.
Then add grated fresh coconut ,almonds and grated jaggery.
Mix well and cook this coconut-jaggery mixture on a low flame. the jaggery will melt first.
Add cardamom powder and nutmeg powder and saute it for a minute
stir at times and cook this mixture till the moisture from the jaggery begins to dry.
Next add melted chocolate to the mixture and cook it for a minute or so.
Switch off the flame. don’t overcook as the mixture then hardens.
Keep this sweet filling aside.
on cooling the mixture will thicken more.
For making the outer cover of the ukadiche modak:
In a pan add the water, oil and salt. keep it on the stove top.
Let this mixture come to a boil.
Reduce the flame and add the rice flour gradually. quickly stir and mix the flour with the water.
stir till all the rice flour is mixed with the water.
switch off the flame. remove the pan from the stove top and then cover this pan with a lid for 4 to 5 minutes.
Now take all the dough in a plate or in a bowl.
Gather the dough together and begin to knead it.
the dough will be hot when, you begin to knead. so apply some water on your palms and knead the dough. knead the dough very well.
if you feel the dough looks dense or hard or dry, then just add a few teaspoons of warm water and continue to knead.
Make small balls from the dough. roll the balls till smooth in your palms.
you can also apply some water on your palms, while rolling the balls. keep the balls covered with a kitchen towel.
The balls should be smooth in appearance and should not have any cracks.
For assembling & shaping modaks:
Take a ball and flatten it with your fingers to a round disc or a shallow bowl shape. you can apply ghee/oil in your palms, while flattening.
place the modak filling in the center.
Press the edges as shown in the pic below.
you can also press the edges first and then add
Bring together all the edges and join them.
Remove the extra portion of the dough from the top, if any. shape and taper the top of the modak with your fingers.
Make all the modaks this way.
Next keep water for steaming in a steamer.
Grease the steamer pan lightly with oil or ghee
keep the modaks in a steamer pan.
Cover the pan with a lid and steam for 10 to 15 minutes on a low flame.
Some modaks may crack whilst shaping or steaming, buts its alright as you are trying it for first time as I did.
Enjoy this modern ukadiche modak , your kids will love it for sure 🙂