Sausage easy peazy pop sticks

These sausage pops are easy to make and loved by kids  . I give them for their snack time in school .

Cooking time : 5 min 
Preparation time : 10 min or less. 

Ingredients

2 sausage pcs
1 bread crumb of seasoned bread
1 egg 
1 tbsp of corn flour with pinch of salt 
Water enough to make batter 
4 Sticks 
Oil to deep fry .

Method 
1. Cut sausage into half making 4 pcs . 
2. Insert sticks in sausage .
3. Make batter with corn flour , salt and      water . 
4. Dip one sausage stick in corn flour first . 
5. Dip it into egg . 
6. Roll it into bread crumbs . 
7. Deep fry in oil carefully keeping stick up . 
8. Let it be golden brown from all sides . 
9. Drain them into steel sieve. 
10. Serve them hot with garlic mayonise sauce.

Butterfly Prawns

We usually order butterfly prawns in our favourite chinese restaurant . And these deep fried prawns are my family's favourite starter .

I struggled many times to create same softness same taste until yesterday when  my family couldn't resist them . And thats the reason i was able to take picture if only two fried prawns in a hurry . 

They were soft from inside and crisp from outside and it had almost same taste as we usually enjoy in Chinese food joint . 
I am sure with this recipe you won't fail .

Ingredients 
    To marinade 
. 12 large prawns deveined and raw.
.  2 tbsp soya sauce 
. Grinded ginger 
.  Lemon or vinegar (i used lemon) 
.  Black pepper freshly grounded
.   Salt if needed as soya sauce has salt .

  To fry 
. About 2 cups of bread crumbs 
. 1 large egg 
. 2 tbsp of white flour or corn flour .
  Oil to deep fry .

Method 

1. Wash prawns keeping tail intact . I      bought deveined large raw prawns.

2. Slit prawn from the center and open wide from both sides . Press it gently with both hands . Refer How to butterfly a prawn.

3. Marinade prawn gently with mentioned ingredients .

4. Keep it for 1 hour shrink wrapped in fridge .

5. When its time to fry , keep white flour, bread crucrumb and an  egg in bowl .

6. Take one piece coat with white flour 
    Then dip in egg 
    Then coat it with bread crumbs . 

7. Fry in high heat for 1 minute on both  sides untill it gets golden brown .

Serve with spicy red pepper side dish or garlic mayonise sauce . 

Corn flakes twist

Another healthy school snack for short break . My Kids love corn flakes with milk any time , but sometimes when we are on move i prefer to give them dry version of corn flakes . Mostly either sugar frosted or chocos or salty corn flakes .These corn flakes are so tasty even adults can enjoy at tea time .

Ingredients 
About 1 pack of corn flakes normal ones
2-3  large onions thin sliced
3-4 green chillies or fresh red chillies if available 
About 100 gm of roasted peanuts 
Cumin seeds (optional) 
Poppy seeds (optipnal) 
About 4 tbsp of oil 
Salt to taste

Method 
1. Take large pan , and heat oil .

2. Fry onions and chillies in batches to make them crisp light brown or slightly dark brown . Keep them separate or with last batch fry cumin seeds and poppy seeds with peanuts . You must put salt enough for onions you are frying in batches . 

3. Turn off heat .

4. In separate large pan dry roast corn flakes for a while untill they get slightly light brown .

5. Let everything get cool .

6. Now mix everything .

7. And you are  good to go . You can keep these corn flakes for a month or so in air tight container and use them .

Cheese sandwich

This cheese sandwich is super easy , simple and it can still win so many hearts .
I made it in breakfast on valentines day morning for my lovely family .

Ingredient 
Fresh Slice sandwich bread 
Salted butter 
Mozrella cheese pack sliced 
A heart shaped cookie cutter 
And thats all

Method 
1.Take two slices of bread toast them with butter in low flame till it gets just crisp .

2.While hot, take mozrella cheese slice and place it in between two slices of breads .

3. Press them gently , you will see cheese is melting .

4. Cut them from middle with cookie cutter of you choice .

5. Just ready to eat :-) 

Fruits bite for snacks time

Fruit Bite

Ingredients
Any 3 or 4 types of  seasonal fruits .
Toothpicks
salt to sprinkle
You can take banana , apple , water melon , papaya , guava , peach , plum , grapes .

Method
Take took pick and arranged fruit in order .  Sprinkle some salt .
Kids love something different in school for snack time break .

Soft scrumptious wheat donut

INGREDIENTS

1 CUP of wheat flour
3 tbsp of sugar
1/2 tsp of salt
1 tbsp of oil or butter
1/2 cup of warm water
1 tsp of yeast

METHOD
Mix all dry ingredients and oil . Activate yeast in warm water.
Knead dough for 5 minutes .
Let the dough be little sticky .
Let it stay untill.it gets double in size . It will take about 1 hour 30 minutes .
Now punch dough again with your hands . And keep it for overnight . At the time of serving divide dough into 10 portions . Make round discs about an inch and half . And use a small bottle cap to make a hole at the centre.
To make the donuts soft and fluffy and cooked from inside you must fry them in low heat untill they get golden brown .
Sprinkle sugar on top or pour melted chocolate on them . Serve hot and fresh .mmm its a divine pleasure .

Soft spongy Almond coconut cake gluten free

Ingredients
1 cup whole almonds (grind them coarse)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp of baking powder
2 tbsp of coconut powder

1/2 cup non melted non salted butter
1/2 cup eggs or three eggs

METHOD
Mix all dry ingredients in a pot.

In a mixer , churn eggs for 1 minute.
Slowly mix all dry ingredients in a mixer and churn it for another minute.
Put butter and churn it for another minute .

Then bake your cake in an oven or microwave or pot .

Courtesy : Edible garden

Banana shake

Serve 1 glass large
Ingredients
2 riped bananas cut into pcs
3/4 cup of milk
2 drops of vanilla
2 cubes of ice

METHOD
Mix all ingredients toghether into mixer and churn them for a minute.
serve cold.

Wheat pasta/ noodle

Try making this pasta at home and you and your kids will love it for sure , apart from extra 1 hour of cooking time there is not much to it . And i feel thats not a big price to pay when you are making it sure  your family is taking healthy food. This recipe is for sure will give you boost of making it so perfect.

Serves 2
Ingredients

1 cup of wheat flour 

2 eggs big size 

1/2 tsp of salt 

1 Tbsp of olive oil 

White flour or corn flour to dust and roll . 

Method 

Make dough with egg and salt . Knead it nicely with olive oil on your hands . 

Leave it for 20 minutes . Divide dough into 8 portions and make them round . 

Leave it for another 20 minutes . 

Now dust the surface and use a roller to make long and thin shaped discs . Use dry flour as much and strech it with roller as thin as you like your noodles to be .

 Now roll all the discs and keep them separate make sure you dust them well . When you finish all, take knife and cut into thin strips one by one , lift it with knife from one side carefully and dry them on hanger.

Or 

You could use pasta maker to cut them and save all these efforts .