Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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 .

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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 . 



Monday, February 22, 2016

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 :-) 

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Restaurant style coconut chutney

Ingredients

1 cup coconut grated
2 tbsp of roasted chana daal 
2 dried red whole chillies
1/2 inch pc of ginger 
Few curry leaves 
Mustard seeds 
1 tsp Oil for tampering mustard seeds
1 tsp oil for frying curry leaves

Method 
1 . Put curry leaves in hot oil . 
2.  Grind fine coconut, fried curry leaves , chana dal, whole red chillies, ginger with salt to taste and  little water to soften . 
3. Tamper mustard seeds and pour in the chutney . 
4. 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 .


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. 

Monday, July 20, 2015

Gits gulab jamun

After so many failures i finally discovered  a way of making "gits gulab jamun" just right .
Important points to prepare jamun

1.Take warm water in a cup .
2.Take damp cloth.
3.Take a flat dish and take little water just enough to make one round gulab jamun . 4.Making one gulab jamun with little water at a time makes sure that jamun is  moist and not cracked and dried .
5. Cover it with damp cloth to keep it moist untill you fry them .

Important points to fry
1. In a deep frying pan let oil be hot enough to let jamun come from bottom to up slowly .
2. Oil should not be too hot , else jamun will get burn from outside and will not cooked from outside.
3. The heat should be between medium low and high in intervals.
4. Watch for jamun getting bigger in size .
5. If they dont rise it means water is not enough and they will.turn hard .

Prepare sugar syrup
1. Grind 1 cup sugar with four small cardomoms.
2. Take 2 cups of water and one cup of sugar . Boil for a 2 minutes .
3. In a warm sugar syrup soak your jamuns .
4. Refrigerate and enjoy .