quick snacks
Chicken Wontons
A wonton is a type of dumpling commonly found in a number of Chinese cuisines.
Wontons are commonly boiled and served in soup or sometimes deep-fried.
You can try your hand at making various unique fillings, and also steam or deep-fry the wontons as per your taste.
Prep Time : 21-25 minutes
Cooking time : 26-30 minutes
Servings : 4
Ingredients
10 Wonton wrappers
1 cup boiled and shredded chicken
1 medium Spring onions thinly sliced
2 Carrots cut into thin strips
2 medium Green capsicum cut into thin strips
1 medium Cabbage finely shredded
Salt to taste
1 tsp Red chilli powder
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1/4 teaspoon Soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon Vineger
1 tablespoon Cornflour/ corn starch
2 tbsps oil
Oil for cooking
For Serving
schezuan sauce
Direction || How to prepare Chicken Wontons
To make the stuffing, heat 2 tbsps oil in a non stick pan.
Add carrots, capsicum, cabbage and salt and toss.
Add ginger garlic paste,red chilli powder ,vineger and soy sauce and mix.
Add spring onion greens and mix. Cook till the vegetables soften.
Take the pan off the heat and set aside to cool.
Heat sufficient oil in a wok. Make a paste of cornflour with 2 tbsps water.
Place a wrapper in your hand, place a teaspoon or tablespoon of filling and fold it to make a rectangle.
Dab water on the left corner,push the middle inside and bring the right corner to the left corner,seel it tightly.
Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 9 more wontons.
Heat the oil in a wok / kadhai and deep-fry in batches till they turn light brown in colour.
Serve hot with schezuan sauce.
Kool Fruit chat
The bright, colorful, and refreshing fruit chaat is a perfect starter to a Ramadan Iftar meal.
A combination of fruits and chat served with sev and tamarind chutney makes it delicious and energetic food. A must make item in Iftar. Chill before serving for more nice taste.
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time:
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Watermelon as Required
Musk melon as Required
Pineapple as Required
1cup Finely chopped apple and banana
½ tsp Chat masala
Tamarind chutney as Required
For Garnish:
As Required Sev
Pomegranate as Required
Direction || How to prepare fruit chat
Make scoops of watermelon, musk melon with a scooper.
In a cup take finely chopped apple and banana and add chat masala and mix it well.
Now fill the mixed fruits in the scoops, and tamarind sauce, pomegranate and garnish with sev.
Your cool fruit chat is ready.
Tips:
You can add any fruits of your choice to fill in the scoop like strawberry, papaya, orange and kiwi.
Smiley Sushi Rolls
Sushi is a traditional food from Japan. It is a popular dish in other countries as well, such as America, Canada, and the UK, along with many other countries.
Sushi is made with specially prepared rice and it mostly contains raw or cooked seafood, and sometimes vegetables as well. I tried to prepared homemade Sushi roll
for my kids with raw vegetables. Trust me it’s not only healthy but yummy as well.Since it bought smile on my daughter’s face , i called this dish as smiley Sushi.
Do try and let me know if you were successful to get the smile on your kids face 🙂
Preparation time : 15 mins
Cooking time : Nil
Serves :2
Ingredients
4 bread slices
¼ cup cream cheese
½ cup finely cut green capsicum juliennes (also know as juliennes )
½ cup yellow bell pepper juliennes
½ cup cucumber juliennes
½ cup carrot juliennes
¼ cup boiled corn
Salt to taste
chat masala powder to taste
Blanched spring onion stalk as required
For garnishing
Salad bouquet
Tomato ketchup as required
Direction || How to prepare Sushi rolls
Cut the sides of the bread.
Flatten the bread with the help of a rolling pin.
Apply cream cheese on this bread.
On these bread slices fill cucumber juliennes, carrot juliennes, green bell pepper juliennes, yellow bell pepper juliennes, boiled corn, salt, chat masala powder and make a roll.
Cut the sides of the roll.
Wrap the rolled bread with the help of blanched spring onion stalk. Make similar rolls.
Place the rolls on the plate and decorate it with Bouquet of Salad (Tie the carrot,cucumber,green capsicum and yellow bell pepper with the help of blanched spring onion stalk).
Decorate with tomato ketchup.
Smiley Sushi rolls are
Prawns Popcorn(shrimps 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.
Prep time: 10 mins with 30 mins prawns to marinate
Cooking time: 10-15 mins
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS
For marination
250gm Prawns washed and cleaned well.
½ tsp. of black pepper powder
½ tsp. of turmeric powder
½ tsp. of red chili powder
½ tsp. of ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp. of lemon juice
1 tsp of mint(pudina) paste.
Salt as required.
For cooking
1 cup all-purpose flour(Maida)
½ beaten egg
1 cup Bread crumbs
Oil to fry.
salt to taste
Directions | How to make Prawns Popcorn
First, marinate 250gm prawns for half an hour in: black pepper powder,turmeric powder,red chilli powder, ginger-garlic paste,
lemon juice, mint(pudina) and salt.
When ready to fry, take ½ cup of all-purpose flour mixed with quarter tsp. of salt and ½ egg, beaten well.
One at a time, roll the prawns in the remaining flour,then roll them once more in the bread crumbs.
This normally gets messy and sticky with hands but once you get hold of it,it will take much time.
Heat oil in a pan, then deep fry them in batches at medium heat until golden and crispy.
After frying, remove from heat and place the prawns on absorbent paper or paper towel to drain out excess oil.
Serve with fries or a simple tomato ketchup dip!!
TIP: Do not over-fry as prawns harden if over-cooked.
Thalipeeth Maharashtrain pancake
Thalipeeth is a Maharashtrain multi-grain pancake popular.The flour is made up of Bajra atta,Chana daal, Urad daal, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, wheat, and rice.
It’s highly nutritious and serves as very heavy breakfast or snacks for your family. Very easy and simple to cook. Check out the recipe below.
Preparation Time – 10 minutes
Cooking Time – 10 minutes
Serves – 2
Ingredients
250 gm thalipeeth flour(easily available in stores)
1 finely chopped onion
2 finely chopped green chilies
1 Tbsp coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Pinch of red chili powder
Warm water for kneading
Oil for cooking
Directions || How to prepare thalipeeth
Take thalipeeth flour ,add onions, chilies, coriander leaves, salt to taste, red chili powder and 1 tsp oil.
Knead the mixture into a dough by adding little warm water at a time. Make small round balls from the dough and set it aside.
To flatten these balls into round breads, take plastic sheets and cut them in large squares from zip lock bags.
If you don’t have any , don’t worry I used aluminium foil.
Place the dough ball on the sheet and using your palm start flattening the dough into a small round circle.
Apply some oil on your palm to avoid the dough to stick
Add about 1/2 tsp oil on the tawa and with the help of the sheet pick up and place the thalipeeth on the tawa/pan. make sure your that the sheet
doesn’t touch the hot pan)
Cook approximately for two minutes on medium heat on both the sides.
Serve hot with any pickle or tomato ketchup.
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