Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Babycorn Fritters

   Crispy, crunchy and a little soft from inside, babycorn fritters will be surely loved by you. A must try with your evening tea.


INGREDIENTS FOR Crunchy  BabyCorn Fritters


  • 20-25 Pieces of Babycorn
  • 1 Cup Refind Flour(Maida)
  • 1 tbsp Corn Flour
  • 2 tbsp Curd
  • 1/2 teaspoon Red Chili Powder
  • 1-2 Green Chili
  • 1/2 Inch Ginger
  • 4-5 Cloves of Garlic
  • A Pinch of Soda Powder
  • Salt(As per taste) 
  • Oil (for deep frying)

METHOD TO COOK CRUNCHY  BABYCORN FRITTERS


  • Wash babycorn and cut them vertically into two pieces. Now sprinkle 1/2 tea spoon salt on it and leave for 10 min. After 10 minutes, wash babycorn and strain the water through strainer. 

  • Now take refind flour in a bowl. Make a paste of green chili, ginger and garlic. Mix this paste into maida ,add some salt as per taste ,red chili powder,curd and a pinch of soda. Prepare a thick batter by adding some water slowly into it.

  • Now heat oil in a wok/pan. Dip each babycorn into this batter and coat properly from all sides. Deep fry these babycorn coated from the batter of refind flour. Fry upto 5-6 babycorn in each time. When babycorns become golden brown take them out to a blotting paper to soak excess oil.

  • Now serve with chili sauce or green chutney. 


Posted By Unknown 8:21 AM

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Spring Onion Pakoda/Fritters

       Pakoda or fritters are all time favorite for everyone . Fritters are great choice for tea time snacks.  Here presenting a recipe for spring onion Fritters , this is so light to eat and super tastier. 




INGREDIENTS FOR SPRING ONION Pakoda/Fritters


  • 1/2 Kg Spring Onions
  • 250 gm Gram Flour
  • 2 tbsp Semolina
  • 3-4 Greeen Chili (Finely Chopped)
  • Heeng (asafodetida ) a pinch
  • 1/2 tea spoon Red Chili Powder
  • 1/2 tbsp Turmeric Powder
  • Salt (As per taste)
  • Oil (For Deep Fry)

METHOD TO COOK SPRING ONION PAKODA/FRITTERS

  • Clean and wash spring onions and finely chop them on a plate.

  • In a bowl take gram flour. Add chopped green onions, chopped chili,heeng,semolina, turmeric powder , red chili powder and salt.Semolina gives a nice crunch to fritters. 
  • Add some water slowly and make fritters mixture . 

  • In a wok heat some oil for deep frying . Now drop fritters into hot oil one by one from this mixture .

  • Fry them till they turn into golden brown.Take out fritters on a blotting papers to soak excess oil.  

  • Now serve in a plate with green coriander chutney.  

Posted By Unknown 2:27 AM

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Cheese Corn Balls

Cheese with corn gives  an excellent taste together. This is loved by all age group people. These re deeply fried but easiest to cook. You can also prepare the ball in advance and just fry them at the time you want to serve hot.



Ingredients for Cheese Corn Balls:

  • 1 Cup boiled and crushed sweet corn.
  • 2 Tablespoon all purpose flour
  • 1 Green  chili (finely chopped)
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Red chili powder
  • 1 Tablespoon corn flour
  • 1 1/2 Grated mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 Tablespoon cumin powder
  • 1 Tablespoon grated ginger
  • 1/2 Tablespoon black pepper powder
  • Salt (as per taste)
  • Oil (for deep frying)

Method to cook Cheese Corn Balls:

Take a plate and add corn,all purpose flour,green  chili,red chili powder,corn flour,mozzarella cheese,cumin powder,ginger,black pepper powder and salt as per taste.



Mix everything well together and prepare a dough.



Now prepare small (1/2 inch) balls from this dough and place them into a plate.



Now deep fry these balls into batches initially on low flame to cook all purpose flour and corn flour well.



Now golden fry them on medium flame and serve hot with chutney or sauce.






Posted By Unknown 11:30 PM

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Veg Momos

Recipe Type:

Veg momos is a street food which is loved by most of the person. This a zero oil recipe and prepared with steam only. This is very delicious and nutritious snacks as consumes zero oil. So why not to try them at home .


Ingredients For Veg Momos Dough:

For 7-8 Piece of momos-
1 Cup / 100gm maida(refined flour)
1/3 Cup Water
1 Tbsp Cooking oil
Salt( As  per taste) 


Ingredients For Filling :

1 Cup /100gm cabbage (grated)
1/2 Cup Capsicum (grated)
1/2 Cup Carrot (grated)
1 Tbsp Oil( To fry filling)
1/2 Tbsp White Vinegar 
1/2 Tbsp Soya Sauce
1/2 Tbsp Salt
1 Tbsp Garlic Paste
1/2 Tbsp Black pepper powder


Ingredients For Red Chutney

2 Small Tomatoes
4-5 Red Chilies or Kashmiri Chilies
1/2 inch Ginger
1/4 Tbsp White Vinegar
1/4 Tbsp Soya Sauce
1/2 Tbsp Salt
1 Tbsp Oil 


Method To Cook Veg Momos:

  • 1. Take refined flour in a bowl and add all ingredients of dough then add water slowly to knead stiff dough. Leave dough aside for 20 min.
  • 2.In a pan heat 1 tbsp oil and add garlic paste to it. fry garlic paste till it becomes a little brown. Add Cabbage to it and fry for a minute. Now add Capsicum and carrot one by one and fry them for 1 min.
  • 3.Now add salt, vinegar and soya sauce to it and fry for 1 min.
  • 4.Turn off heat ,add black pepper and mix well. Now filling is ready.
  • 5. Divide the dough in 8 equal pieces and prepare thin discs. Fill 1 tbsp filling to each disc and bring sides together to center, pinching firmly together to form a dumpling.
  • 6. Steam all prepared momos for 10-12 min in a steamer. Serve hot with chutney

Method To Preprae Chutney:

  • 1. In a mixer prepare paste of tomatoes ,chilies and ginger.
  • 2.Take a pan and heat 1 tbsp oil to it. Now add tomatoes ,chillest and ginger paste to it. Fry on high flame till oil separates . 
  • 3.Now add salt , vinegar and soya sauce. Take out in a bowl , cool down and serve with hot momos.

Posted By Unknown 11:48 PM

Monday, November 17, 2014

Stuffed Mirchi Pakoda

Recipe Type:

Stuffed mirchi pakoda is a very delicious and spicy recipe for mirchi lovers. This is mostly enjoyed in winters and rainy season. Its very easy and simple to cook it.



Ingredients for Stuffed Mirchi Pakoda:

1/2 Kg . Larger Green Chili  
1/2 Kg. Besan (for batter)
1/2 tea spoon  Red Chili Powder
1-2 Spoon Semolina(To make pakoda crispy)
1 tea spoon Turmeric Powder
Salt as per taste
Oil for (deep fry) 

Ingredients for filling :

6-7 Medium Size Potatoes
Salt as per taste
1/2 tea spoon dry mango powder
Asafoetida/heeng a pinch
1/2 tea spoon  Red Chili Powder

Method to cook stuffed mirchi pakoda:

  • Take a big bowl and add besan, red chili powder ,turmeric powder,semolina , salt and some water to it. Prepare a thick batter by mixing all these ingredients well. 


  • Boil potatoes and mash them on a plate. Mix salt, mango powder, heeng, red chili powder to potatoes well. 

  • Boil chilies till the color of chilies gets changed. Now cut a mark by knife vertically to all chilies. 

  • Now fill stuffing of boiled potatoes to each chili. 

  • Pour chilies into batter now and deep fry in hot cooking oil till they become golden brown.

  • Serve hot with green or red chutney. 




Note: Few people do not boil the chilies. They fill the stuffing without boiling chilies. You can try it by both the way.

Posted By Unknown 3:18 AM

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

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Poha

Recipe Type:



Poha is a very popular recipe for breakfast. It take very less time to cook . It is very good fr health as it takes low oil to cook.

Ingredients for poha:

  • Poha or Chiwda 200 gm.
  • Peanuts 1/2 cup (Roasted )
  • Potato 1
  • Green Chili 2
  • Mustard Seeds 1 tea spoon
  •  Onion 1 (For Granish )
  • Turmeric 1/2 tea spoon
  • Red chili powder 
  • Salt (as per taste)
  • Oil 2 tbsp



Method to cook Poha:

  • Take poha in bowl ,wash it and straing water quickly Now leave it for 10  minutes.
  • Peel potatoes ,cut into thin slices and wash them.
  • Finely chop green chilies . 
  • Take a pan and heat oil into it.
  • Crack mustard seeds int hot oil . Add green chilies into pan.
  • Now add potatoes into pan and roast it.
  • Add turmeric powder, red chili powder to potatoes and mix well.
  • Now add poha to the potatoes and mix well. When poha completely mixed with potatoes. Put a lid on pan and leave for 2 minutes on slow flame. 
  • Now  add peanuts to poha, mix wel and serve in a bowl or plate. Garnish with finely chopped onion. 

Posted By Unknown 12:26 AM

Monday, September 29, 2014

Quick Besan Dhokla


This is a very tasty and yummy recipe. It does not take much time to prepare this. This is spongy and can be taken at tea time or as a snacks anytime . Generally we use to prepare the mixture for dhokla and it took 4-6 hrs for its fermentation but here we are using Eno Salt which causes to ferment the mixture instantly.


Ingredients for Quick Besan And Rava Mix Dhokla:

For Batter or Mixture: 

  • 1 Cup Gram Flour or Besan
  • 2 tbsp Semolina (Optional )
  • 1 tsp Ginger Paste
  • 1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Eno Salt
  • 1 tsp Salt (for taste )

 For Tadka and Garnishing:

  • 1 tbsp Lemon Juice 
  • 1 tbsp Rie/ Mustard Seeds
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 4-5 Green Chili 
  • 1 tbsp Chopped Coriander Leaves (for garnishing) 


Method to cook Quick Besan And Rava Mix Dhokla:


  • Take gram flour in a bowl and add semolina to it. Now keep it a side for 20 minutes.
  • After 20 minutes, take the mixture and add ginger paste , red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt as per taste.
  • Now add Eno Salt to it and mix well. 
  • Quickly pick a bowl and apply some cooking oil to its base and transfer mixture to it. 
  • Pre heat some water in a steamer and now transfer bowl of mixture to steamer and cook for 20 minutes.
  • Get a fork and insert into dhokla , if fork comes out clean this means dhokla has been cooked well.
  • When dhokla gets cool ,take it in a plate and and cut them into pieces. 
  • Now prepare tadka. Take a tadka pan and heat some oil into it. Cracker mustard seeds and green chili into oil.
  • Mix lemon juice ,salt  and sugar together and add into tadka pan.
  • Now pour this tadka on each and every piece of dhokla. 
  • Garnish with coriander leaves and serve. 

Posted By Unknown 4:44 AM