Masala Bread

Ingredients :

Oil

Onions - 2, chopped

Tomato - 1, cut

Capsicum - 1, chopped

Green chillies - 4

Salt for taste

Turmeric

Brown/white bread

Preparation method :

1. Add oil in a kadai/pan and fry onions till they turn slight brown.
2. Add cut tomato, green chillies & capsicum and fry well.
3. Add salt and turmeric powder and little water.
4. Cook for 1-2 min (do not over cook).
5. Spread this masala on the bread and cover with another slice of bread.
6. Leave it for an hour and when ready to eat, heat it in a microwave for 30 seconds.

Mutter Paneer

Ingredients :

1. Fried paneer
2. Boiled Peas - 100 gms
3. Onion - 2 nos
4. Ginger garlic paste - 1tsp
5. Tomato - 1 no
6. Garam masala - 1tsp
7. Cloves - 2 nos
8. Cashews - 3-4 nos
9. Grated coconut - 6-7Tbsp
10. Chilli powder
11. Turmeric powder
12. Salt
13. Oil for frying

Preparation method :

1. Grind the onions and keep aside.


2. Grind the tomatoes seperately with 3 cashews and coconut and keep aside.


3. Add oil in a kadai or pan and add the onion paste and the ginger garlic paste. Fry till the onion paste turns golden brown.Add the tomato, cashew and coconut paste now and fry a little.


4. Add cloves, boiled peas, chillie powder, garam masala, turmeric powder & salt and fry.


5. Once the water content in the mixture evaporates, add the fried paneer and water.


6. Cook for 7-8 minutes and Mutter paneer is ready.

Pal Payasam

Ingredients :

1. Milk - 2 cups
2. Semiya
3. Sugar - as reqd
4. Ghee - 3 Tsp
5. Cashews - 5-6 nos
6. Raisins - 5-6 nos
7. Saffron - a pinch

Preparation method :

1. Add a teaspoon full of ghee to a kadai and fry the semiya (do not deep fry)
2. Keep this aside and add the rest of the ghee and fry the cashews and raisins. Keep aside.
3. Pour the milk in a pan and once it comes to a boil add sugar.
4. Mix the sweetened milk and add a pinch of saffron.
5. Once the saffron turns the milk light yellow in colour, add the semiya, cashews and raisins.
6. Cook for 2 minutes and turn off the heat.
7. Serve hot or cold.

Curd/Thayir Vada

Ingredients :

1. Whole Black gram – 200 gm
2. Pepper - 20 nos
3. Asafoetida – A pinch
4. Grated coconut – 1 cup
5. Green chillies – 5 – 6 nos(finely chopped)
6. Dried red chillies - few
7. coriander leaves
8. curry leaves
9. Salt – As reqd
10. Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
11. Oil for deep frying vadas

Preparation method :

1) Wash the black gram well and soak it in water for about 1½ hrs.

2) Grind it to a thick paste.

3) Add salt, pepper and asafoetida and mix well.

4) Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.

5) Make vadas with a small hole in the middle and fry until golden brown.

6) Once the vadas are made, drop them in plain cold water for a minute.

7 ) Meanwhile, grind together grated coconut, green chillies and curry leaves into a thick fine paste.

8) Mix together the above paste with the curd along with salt.

9) Add seasoned mustard seeds, dry red chillies and curry leaves into it and mix well.

10) Remove the vadas from the plain water and drop them in the curd mixture.

13) Garnish with coriander leaves.

I would like to send this to Innovative-in-laws "Garnish the dish" event.