Thursday, October 9, 2014

Besan capsicum cheela


Besan ka cheela is a very delicious and famous recipe for breakfast. It becomes very tasty when roasted with oil. Cheela can be cooked with different vegetables but using capsicum in cheela changes its taste completely. Just try it once.


Ingredients for Besan Capsicum Cheela:


  • 1 Cup Besan/gram flour
  • 1 Cup Rava/Semolina 
  • 1/2 Cup Curd 
  • 1  Green chili , finely chopped
  • 1/4 tea spoon  Red chili powder (for colour)
  • 1/2 tea spoon Turmeric powder 
  • Salt as per taste
  • Asafoetida/heeng a pinch

Method to cook Besan capsicum cheela:


  • Take a bowl and add gram flour, semolina,curd,red chili powder,turmeric powder,green chili, asafoetida , finely chopped capsicum and salt to it.


  • Mix all the ingredients very well and add some water to make thick batter. Leave the batter aside for 10 minutes.

  • Now heat a pan on high flame and then drop 1 tbsp oil on pan .
  •  Now put the flame medium and pour 1 or 1-1/2 spoon batter and spread it evenly on the pan. For fisrt cheela add more oil on pan(2 tbsp) because there is a possibility of cheela to getting stuck on the pan. Now pour few drops of oil at the corners of the cheela, and spread the tea spoon of oil over the cheela evenly. 
  • Cook the cheela till upper layer changes its color and bottom layer becomes golden brown.
  • Now flip the cheela with the help of spatula and cook back side as well golden brown.
  • Prepare all the cheela in same way and serve with green chutney. 





Posted By Unknown 6:01 AM

Vegetable Chowmein

Recipe Type:


Chowmein is a dish in which we cook noodles seperately and then topping them with different vegetables and ingredients in different styles. The indian way is being described here.it is very much liked by children.



Ingredients for Chowmein:

  • 200 gm Noodles 
  • 150 gm Cabbage 
  • 2 Onions , small size
  • 2 Capsicum , small size
  • 1 tea spoon Azenomoto 
  • 1tbsp Soya Sauce 
  • 1 tbsp White Vinegar 
  • Salt (as per taste)
  • 3-4 tbsp Refined oil 











Method to cook Chowmein:

  • Boil 10 cup of water in a large pan and let the water bubble. 
  • Add 1 tbsp oil in boiling water so that noodles does not stick to each other. 
  • Drop noodles in boiling water for 5-8 minutes so that noodles get half cooked.

  • Drain the noodles and wash under running water. 
  • Spread noodles on a flat surface.
  • Now cut thin and large slices of onions,capsicum and cabbage. If available you can add thin slices of carrot and spring onions as well. This gives nice colour in chowmein.



  • Now heat a pan and add 3-4tbsp oil into it. Add onion,capsicum and cabbage one by one into pan and toss them slightly. 
  • We need not to cook vegetables much.Just toss them a little bit.  

  • Now add noodles,soya sauce, vinegar,azenomoto and salt to pan. Mix everything very well. We need not to add much salt as soya sauce itself contains some salty texture.

  • If required add 1tbsp water to pan so that noodles does not stick to the surface of pan.
  • Cook for 5-6 minutes on medium flame .Your chowmein is ready.


  •  Serve hot with chili sauce and tomato sauce.




Posted By Unknown 2:48 AM