Egg roll

Ingredient

2 eggs 
Onion (1/2 small)
Cabbage finely chopped (1 leaf)
Carrot (grated) 1 small 
Lettuce 2 leaves
Salt ( to taste )
Black pepper 
2 tsp of mayonise 
1 pitta bread or Indian bread ( ready made )

Method

1. Mix all veggies with salt pepper and mayononise, keep aside .

2. Take two eggs whisk them with little salt and pepper  and fry them in a flat pan to make flat omelette . Cook for a minute on each  side. 

3. Warm pita bread or indian bread with butter  

4. Place bread first , then omelette .

5. Now put all veggies on the side from where you would fold .

6. Press veggies inside and fold bread with egg , press each time you fold so that veggies doesn't come out .

7. Hold with toothpick in the middle .

8. Serve hot .

NOTE:  make omelette in the end so that roll can be served hot . 

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 :-) 

Quick veggie bite

My successful  way of giving  raw veggies to kids . 
This small bite is crispy with fresh veggies and boiled egg , also whole meal for kids. 
Ready to eat 10 minutes .

Ingredient
Ready to cook prawn crispy 4 pcs 
1 egg boiled
1 pinch of salt 
1 pinch of pepper 
1 tsp of mayonise 
4 tbsp of finely chopped cabbage 
4 tbsp of finely grated carrot

Use more veggies depending on what your kids like . 

Method 
1. Mix cabbage and carrot with mayonise. 
2. Cut boiled egg into eatable bites .
3. Fry prawn crispy in hot vegetable oil . 
4. Take 1 or 2 tsp  of veg mix and put on  top of one crispy prawn. Put a slice of egg . Sprinkle some salt and pepper. 

Mackerel fried fish

Preparation time : 15 minutes 

Marination time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Serves 1

Ingredients
For marinade
1 small size mackeral fish
1 lemon
1 tsp freshly grounded black pepper
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp of salt

For shallow fry
1 tbsp of white all pupose flour dab out extra.
Salt to taste in flour .
Water about 1/2 cup
Oil to shallow fry about 1 tbsp

Method
1. Cut fish into 4 pcs .

2. Wash nicely .

3. Mix salt , black pepper, lemon juice , ginger garlic paste and oil toghether .

4. Apply mix gently on fish covering it throughly with marinade . Leave it for 20 minutes.

5. Mix white flour and salt with water.

6. Dip fish pcs in the flour for 10 minutes .

7. Shallow fry them on low heat for 8 minutes each side.

8. Your fish fries are ready . They are crisp frim outside and soft from inside.

Serve them with pasta or toasted bread for dinner.

Important : its imporatnt to cook fish on low heat for long .

Always marinade fish to get rid of smell .

Bhurji pao Mumbai style

Preparation time : 15 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Serves 2 adults
Difficuly level : very easy

Ingredients
1 finely chopped onion
2 finely chopped green chillies
1 finely chopped green bell pepper
1 finely chopped tomato
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp of pao bhaji masala
6 bread pieces or pao in hindi
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Oil to cook 
Butter 20 gm

Method
1.Heat oil in a pan .
2.Fry onion untill soft and light brown .
3.Fry bell pepper and green chilli   untill.soft .
4.Fry tomato untill soft and squashy.
5.Fry ginger garlic paste for minute .
6. Put spices like red chilli powder, salt , pao bhaji masala .
7. Whisk 4 eggs in separate bowl .
8. Thrown in eggs and stir continously in low flame slowly and gently .
10. Untill eggs are fully mixed with veggies .
11. Your egg burji is ready .
12. Serve with buttered and hot pao .

note : check consistency of eggs it should not be cooked on high flame for long time . Cooking on low flame help it to give soft consistency . 

Chicken pulav or chicken rice

Preparation time 2 hours
Cooking time 45 minutes

NOTE : Chicken cooks faster .
Cooking rice in chicken oil and stalk make them tasty and nutritious .

Ingredients
500 gm of chicken
11/2 cup basmati rice soaked for an hour
And drained

Ingredients for marinading chicken for 2 hours
1/2 cup of yogurt
1/2 tsp of yellow powder
Salt to taste enough for chicken
Black pepper about 1 tsp freshly grounded
1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp of garam masala
Handful of mint leaves
Handful of dhaniya leaves
Freshly grinded coriander seeds
2 tsp of biryani masala

Ingredients for frying
1 cup of slicer onion
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1/2 inch of cinnamon stick
2 small bay leaves
3-4 whole black pepper
1 whole big cardomom seed
Salt to taste
Oil 4 tbsp

Ingredients for garnishing
Handful of coriander leaves
Handful of mint leaves

Method

1. Marinade chicken for 2 hours with above ingredients .

2. Soak rice for an hour . This is very important step to make rice grain separated with each other . Drain and keep aside .

3. Start frying onions in hot oil in a big pot .

4. Followed by all the ingredients for frying . Now thrown in chicken.peices

5. Let it leave chicken's natural oil .  pour 2 cups of water and boil it . Put salt in this step enough to cook rice .

6. Thrown in rice.

7. Mix thoroughly.

8. Close lid and cook for 30 minutes .

9. Turn off heat and let the it stay with closed lid .

10 . Garnish rice with coriander and mint leave serve .

Pineapple raita or pineapple in yogurt

Ingredients
1 cup of pineapple chunks cut  into 1/2 inch pieces .

1 cup of fresh yogurt

1 tbsp of sugar

1/2tsp of freshly roasted cumin/jeera powder

Method
If pine apple is sweet and juicy straight away mix it with yogurt , sugar and cumin powder.Let pine apple juice mix with yogurt throughly . refrigerate for atleast 20 mi utes before serving. 

If pine apple is not sweet then take one pan and toss pine apple with sugar for a minute or two till it gets soft and then mix with yogurt and cumin powder.

Zunka or Jhunka

Serves 2
This jhunka version is semi dry one

ingredients

1/2 tsp mustard seeds
8 tbsp of yellow flour , besan or chickpeas flour
1 medium size onion chopped
1 tomato chopped
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 capsicum or green pepper
red chilli powder and salt
medium size cut
5-7 big curry leaves
coriander leaves to garnish
oil to fry about 8 tbsp(more oil in this preparation is the key for tasty jhunka)

method
In a hot oil put mustard seeds untill splutter ,chopped curry leaves, fry onion untill translucent . followed by ginger garlic paste. fry for a min . thrown in tomato and fry it untill.it gets fully cooked .  put capsicum and let it cook .

at this stage put red chilli powder and salt as per taste .

put besan and fry untill it leaves oil . you need to keep turning it constantly . sprinkle 1/2 cup of water from all sides mix and close the lid . let it sit for two minutes and turn off the gas . garnish with coriander leaves .

serve hot with bhakar or hot chapati .

Veg cheese sandwich

Serves 2 sandwiches
4 slices of wheat bread
2 sliced mozrilla or cheddar cheese
handful of lettuce ...cut fine
handful of cabbage ...cut fine
one small size onion about 1/4 cup..finely chopped
1 Tbsp of mayonise
butter for bread

Method
Mix mayonise with all chopped veggies.
Spread butter on the bread and warm a bit.
Put cheese slice on one bread .
Spread veggies mix on top .
close with other slice of bread .
cut into triangle or any shape .

Cheesy eggs on toast

Crisp buttery toasted bread ,scrambled semi cook eggs and hot melted mozrilla cheese on top for beautiful morning breakfast bite, with hot cuppa. Sure is heaven on earth.

Serves 4pcs of toast

Ingredients
2 eggs
4 pcs of bread round shape or square shaped
1 Tbsp of butter for frying eggs
4 Tbsp of butter for applying on bread
4 Tbsp of mozrilla cheese grated
Salt and freshly grounded pepper
Coriander to serve

Method
Break two eggs whisk them and
Semi cook them in butter with salt and pepper  . Apply butter on breads . Apply 1 Tbsp of scrambled eggs on bread followed by grated mozrilla cheese on each. Greese baking tray and broil them for 5 minutes or untill you see crispy golden brown bread and golden brown cheese.