Showing posts with label Appetizers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Appetizers. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Cheese Paneer rolls - Rakshaben

Take 2-3 boiled & smashed potatoes, add 100 gms of grated paneer, 50 gms of grated cheese,1/2 finely chopped green capcicum , coriender finely chopped, salt, pepper to it mix it properly & make roll . Prepare Maida nu khiru or you can deep it in corn flour also and deep fry it.

For this you can also make it attractive by covering it with sali potatto. For it take 1-2 big potatto & prepere sali in water add salt to it , keep it in fridge for some time, than remove from water and let it dry for some time. cover the roll with it,make it tight and deep fry it. If u feel that u want be able to fry it than coat it with thin maida layer. (Maida nu khiru-add more water to prepare thin coating).

Ratallo na vada - Rakshaben

As we are preparing Allo vada, same way you have to boil rataloo & smash it, add salt, green chiiie paste, garlic paste, coriender leaves chopped finely, limboo, kismis, sugar (optional).Mix everything & prepare balls.
For coating prepere chana na lot nu khiru adding some rice flour and maida in it. Cover the balls of rataloo & deep fry it.

For pattice instead of allo cover you can use rataloo , it taste really good.

Crispy Vegetable - Rakshaben

Long strings of flower, carrot, potatto, French beans: cut every thing in long strings & half cook it.
take 3-4 tbsp of corn flour, 1 vati of maida add salt, black pepper, mix all the vegetable along with it, keep for some time, after that if required add little water and deep fry it. You can take bitter guard (Karela) also.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Cheese Straws..quick appetizer - Pallika

I took these to a friend's birthday party..and worked out well. The recipe is from

SmittenKitchen


Combine 11/2 cups grated sharp cheese like cheddar (I used a mexican blend), 1/2 cup soft butter, 3/4 cup of flour, salt, red chilli flakes, and a table spoon on cream into dough. Roll out and cut into strips. Bake at 350 for 10-15 mins. Cool and serve.

Matar Kachori - Pallika

Here's a Sanjeev Kapoor recipe that I've made a couple of times, and it works great!

MATAR KI KACHORI
These kachoris are stuffed with spicy peas and served with a chutney.
Preparation Time : 30-35 minutes
Cooking Time : 15-20 minutes
Servings : 4
INGREDIENTS
FOR COVERING
Refined flour (maida)
1 1/2 cups
Salt
to taste
Desi ghee
5 tablespoons
Oil
to deep fry
Stuffing
Oil
1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds
1 teaspoon
Coriander seeds
1 teaspoon
Fennel seeds (saunf)
1/2 teaspoon
Green chillies, finely chopped
2
Green peas, blanched & crushed
1 cup
Asafoetida
a pinch
Split Bengal gram (chana dal), roasted and powdered
1 tablespoon
Garam masala powder
1 teaspoon
Chaat masala
1/2 teaspoon
Salt
to taste
Fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped
a few sprigs
METHOD
Place maida and salt in a bowl. Add desi ghee and mix well. Knead into a smooth dough using sufficient water. Cover with a moist cloth and set aside for half an hour. Heat oil in a pan, temper with cumin seeds, coriander seeds, fennel seeds and chopped green chillies. Sauté for half a minute, add crushed green peas and asafoetida and mix. Add chana dal powder, garam masala powder, chaat masala and salt. Mix well. Remove from heat and cool.Add chopped coriander leaves and divide into twelve to sixteen equal sized portions. Divide dough into twelve to sixteen equal sized balls. Flatten a ball slightly and place a portion of the stuffing. Cover, seal edges and flatten. Roll out lightly with a rolling pin. Repeat with the remaining dough. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai and deep fry kachoris on medium heat till brown and crisp. Drain and serve with a chutney of your choice.

Lilva kachori - Pallika

This is not exactly our family recipe, but it's pure gujarati, and I've made it a few times. It's a big hit. I got the recipe from vahrevah.com

ngredients:

MASALA

1 bag Boiled Lilva/Peas

Little bit Green Chilies,

Little bit Coriander Leaves

Little bit Zeera

Little bit Ginger/Garlic Paste

Little bit Hing

Little bit Turmeric

Little bit Salt

Little bit Sugar

Little bit Coriander Powder (optional)

Little bit Lime Juice



DOUGH

1 cup Maida

Little bit Salt

½ Tbsp Suji (soaked in warm water)

1 Tbsp Ghee/Oil

Water for Dough

METHOD

Into a food processor add Lilva, add green chilies, add coriander leaves and blend to a coarse paste.

Into a pan heat little bit oil and add zeera, add ginger/garlic paste, add Hing, add turmeric and mix it, add the mixture and mix it well.

Make the mixture dry and cook little further until the chilies are cooked as well. Add pinch of sugar, add Coriander Powder, squeeze some lime juice and keep aside. MAKE SURE THE MIXTURE IS DRY

In another dish, add Maida, and some salt and make nice crumbles add soaked Suji, and make crumbles, add little water and kneed it to a SOFT dough, let it rest for few minutes.

Take little bit dough and spread out on a flat surface, add spoonful of Masala, hold the edges together and join them with your hand, pull it out with your index finger and thumb, remove the extra dough and roll the ball slightly between your hands. Do the same with the rest of the dough.

Fry them of a little less then medium heat, for about 4 minutes, until the kachori get nice light color.

DON’T FRY THE KACHORIES IN HOT OIL, BUT FRY IN LITTLE LESS THEN MEDIUM HEAT

Patra - Pallika

I haven't made these in years, so please let me know if there are changes in this recipe. I'm writing from my memory of how mummy taught me.

Wash, clean and wipe dry the Patra leaves. Remove stems and thick veins. For the batter, mix besan, salt, tamarind juice, Gud, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and a pinch of garam masala. Make a thick batter. With your hands, paint the batter on the leaves, layer two leaves, and make sure there' enough batter between and over each later. Then roll it tightly. Steam till the batter sets. Cut into slices. Heat oil, add mustard seeds, hing, Tal, and add the patra slices, and saute till slightly crispy.

Bateka wada, Bhajiyas - Pallika

This recipe is not really a family recipe. I've adapted it to match the taste of roadside wada pav.

Bateka Wada:

Boil, peel and mash potatoes.

No tadka, Homestyle version - add salt, sugar, hing, lime juice, chopped cilantro, and green chilli - ginder paste.

With Tadka, Roadside version - For the tadka, heat some oil, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, hing, finely chopped green chillies, ginger and lots of garlic, may also add some coconut at this point, then add turmeric, small pieces of cashew nuts, and finally some chopped cilantro. Add this mixture to the potatoes, mix well, add salt and lime juice as per taste.

Batter: Besan, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, dhana-jeeru, pinch of garam masala, amchur or chat masala, baking soda, and a tsp of hot oil. Add water and make a smooth batter.

Make medium sized balls of the filling (I flatten the roadside version a little bit). Then coat with the besan batter and deep fry. Serve with garlic chutney, and pav (if making wada pav).

Bhajiyas:

Use the same batter as above. Things you can dip in this batter are endless. Fry on a medium heat in oil, till golden brown.

Sliced raw potatoes, diced bell pepper, pieces of paneer (marinated in some spices), pieces of cauliflower (also marinated in basic spices), spinach leaves, sliced bananas, diced ripe mango, galka (a vegetable like zucchini), baby corn, sliced baby egg plants...

There's an interesting story about bhajiyas and dadaji. He used to say that any bhajiya whose name starts with a 'K' should be eaten carefully as it might be hot from inside, even if you feel they've cooled down - examples - kanda (not the dry version), kela, keri...his theory kinda worked...

Samosa - Pallika

Every one has a different recipe for this, I'm sure. Here's how I make them.

If I'm feeling really traditional, then I make a dough with Maida, salt, oil, and ajwain and make a stiff dough with cold water. Knead it, make into small balls, roll and cut into half to make one cover.

For the filling: Boil, peel and mash potatoes (try and use Russet potatoes in the US. Yukon Gold tastes good, but might become gluey if overcooked). Add boiled green peas. Add salt, chopped or ground green chillies or red chilli powder, chopped cilantro, chopped mint, chat masala powder or amchur, garam masala powder, Samosa masala (I coarsely grind together fennel seeds, corriander seeds, and anaar dana), corriander cumin powder, lime juice and mix well. Prepare a cone with the covers and stuff them with the filling, press and seal properly. Deep fry in hot oil on a low to medium flame till golden brown.

For more Samosa ideas, see my blog entry.


Tips:
- For the cover, I use Goya Empenadas covers (you might find it in the mexican food section, and they are frozen).
- Try and grind the samosa masala fresh. It tastes fabulous. I grind it using a small coffee grinder. It can also be used for making aloo paratha or gobhi paratha
- You can either freeze the stuffed raw samosas or better still, half fry and freeze them. I lay them out on a cookie sheet or tray, let them freeze, then remove and store them in a big plastic ziploc bag. This way they won't stick to each other and you'll be ready to fry up some samosas any time you want.

Safed Dhokla (Idada) - Pallika

Some households make these thick, but as far as I know, in our family, they are made super thin, and served steaming hot with raw oil and green chutney on the side. I'm not confident about the proportion, so please comment!!!

2 part rice, 1 part udad dal. Soak for a few hours, grind, add some yogurt and ferment overnight (or soak overnight, grind in the morning, and make dhokla in the evening). Add salt, green chilli - ginger paste. If the mixture is not fluffy enough, may add aatho (oil, water and soda, heated till foamed) or add Eno. Make very thin dhokla (see previous recipe). You may also sprinkle some crushed black pepper on top before steaming.

Quick and easy starters [tasty but not time consuming] - Beena

Quick and easy starters [tasty but not time consuming]



1] Masala papad



2] parle Monaco with cheese slice and some other toppings



3] puri with some toppings



4] sing[ground nuts with chat

· Soak ground nuts for 4 hrs

· Pressure cook them without much water[+salt]

· Add chat masala+corriender +black salt

· Serve with limbo!!!



5] papad paua[always hit –less work more appreciation;)---10 min starter

· Take thin poha[પૌંઆ]

· On shallow frying pen take some oil

· Once oil is hot add quickly some hoha and shallow fry them

· Fry papad [crush them]

· Add salt[ a little less then you think]+sugar+red chilly powder+haldi]

· Serve with or without chopped onion+chopped corriender +limbo!! recipie



6] crispy vegetables[what we eat at Sharanam hotel] pl some one give recipe



7] vegetable salad [not popular but advisable]

· Carrots[cut in to long slices]

· Baby corn

· Couli flower [blenched]

· Capsicul

· Potato rather thick slices]

· Onion sliced in to rings

· Cabage cut in to square leaves

· Toss them on frying pen on high flam with a little olive oil

· Salt and black paper

Serve hot [ I use this as a main course in summer !!!]

8]

Potato panir crunch starter





Material : potato pilled grated and put it in water [squeeze dry and put it in plate ]

Corn flour

Panir

Oil for frying



Method : make medium size finger chips size panir pieces

Roll in corn flour

Gentaly roll potato greted

Deep fry

Serve it with chatani or tomato sauce and tooth picks





9] Kapuria

* One part of wheat
* One part tur dal
* One part rice
* One part jawar
* One part bajari
* Two part mataki



Coarsely powder [jado lot]



Material : kapuriano lot –one wati

Water [ two wati ],

haladi / hing/ adu marcha ni pest/ salt to taste/ oil

method : boil water/add oil, salt/ past/haldi / hing/ Vatana/sing[ground nuts/

sprouted mung/ matki / chana [any one]

add kapuria lot stirring with balan [wooden spatula]

Once the consistency is achieved remove from gas

Prepare muthia steam it in charani in a presser cooker without using ring

Waghari nakhavu [ with oil/ musterd seeds . hing and til

Serve hot



10] Baby utthapa

Matirial: dosa batter

Blanched palakh crushed

Boiled and crushed Corn[crushed] onion, tomato , coriander leaves

Method: mix palakh in to dosa batter

Prepare small utthapa and top it with ingredients

Serve with chatany

11] Panaki



Material :

· rice flour

· dahi[butter milk]

· salt

· haldi

· jeera [rosted and powder]

· fresh butter

· enno

· adu march ni paste



method: mix all the ingredients previous night [ then you don need eno]

use a pan [ haldi ka pan or khakhar ka pan or kela ka pan]

greez it with ghee/ butter cook it on slow flame covering panki



cook it on other side using one more pan



serve hot with amul butter

12] ત ળેલા મગ



મગ ભીંજવવા---કોરા કરી સોડા નાખવો.

તેલ માં 2 મિનીટ ઢાંકી ને

પછી ખુલા રાખી ત ળ વા

લીમ્બુ ના ફુલ ૢ

દળેલી ખાંડ મીઠુ નાખ વુ

મસાલા સીંંગ ૢ કાંદા ૢ કોથ મીર ૢ લીમ્બૂ નો રસ નાખી સર્વ કરો

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

NACHOS WITH SALSA-Prachi

SALSA-
INGREDIENTS-
3tomatoes
2 tsp chillies in vinegar
1 small onion,finely chopped
1/2 tsp chilli pd
1 capsicum
1,4 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tsp oil

METHOD
1. Put the tomatoes in hot water for 10 mins. remove the skin. chop.
2. piercethe capsicum with a fork and hold over the flame until the skin blakens. remove from the heat, rub off the burnt skin and chop.
3. Heat the oil and fry the onion for 1/2 mi. add the remaining ingredients and cook for 3 to 4 mins.

NACHOS-

INGREDIENTS-
11/2 CUP Maize flour
1 cup maida
4 tsp oil
1/2 tsp ajwain
1/2 tsp jeera
salt to salt

oil for deep frying

METHOD-
mix all the ingredients. make a dough by adding warm water. roll out small portions and deep fry the chips.

U CAN SERVE NACHOS WITH SALSA OR CHEESE IS MELTED OVER CORN CHIPS . SPRINKLE SOME CHAAT MASALA,
AMERICAN SWEET CORN AND CAPSICUM ON IT.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Baflo - Rakshaben

Palli , here in April it is so hot that cool.... cool traditional drink will be more preferable.
Everybody will be aware of Baflo , still I am giving receipe

Take 2-3 Kacchha Batli Keri, remove the skin and cut it in large pieces , boil it , add appro. 80 gms of sugar,salt,sanchal powder, some elaichee powder, kesar and crush it to smooth paste in mix.. Fill it in bottle and keep it in freeze, you can keep it for 5-6 days. Whenever you wish to have the drink add chilled water and ice cubes to it.If someone don't like elichee, than instead of Kesar, Elaichee you can add fresh mint leaves(50gms) to it.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Onion Pakoda - Prachi

its very simple....and tastes yum...
INGREDIENTS-
ONIONS-2 [CUT IT STRAIGHT NOT ROUND]
CHANA FLOUR-1 CUP
CORIANDER-1/2 CUP NICELY CHOPPED
RED CHILLI POWDER-1 TB SP
TURMERIC PD-A PINCH
SALT TO TASTE
CHAAT MASALA-1/2 T SP.
OIL-2 TB SP
OIL TO FRY

METHOD-
CUT ONIONS IN TO THIN SLICES [STRAIHT].ADD SALT, CHILLI, TURMERIC,CHAAT MASALA TO IT . MIX IT WELL . ADD CHANA FLOUR TO IT.
LEAVE IT ASIDE FOR 4 HOURS. DONT ADD WATER. ADD 2 TB OIL AND CORIANDER TO IT. MIX IT WELL AND DEEP FRY IT.

U CAN SERVE IT COLD ALSO . IT REMAINS NICE AND CRISP.MITU JUST LOVES THIS PAKODA.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Dahi Vada - Pallika

I recently made dahi vadas during L.'s fasts. This was also one of mummy's favorite thing to make when lots of people come over, since they can be made ahead. This is the classic recipe, and I'm sure there are variations (like adding corn, spinach etc).

Take Udad dal, soak overnight, wash and rinse. Add Salt, green chillies, ginger, and Hing and Grind to a coarse paste. (This batter can also be used for making medu vadas). Deep fry small vadas and dunk them in water immediately. Press lightly with hands to remove water and keep on a plate. Just before serving, spread churned yogurt, followed by sweet chutney. Sprinkle salt, red chilli powder, chaat masala, roasted jeera powder, and chopped coriander leaves.

Here's how I make sweet chutney: Soak tamarind for about 2-3 hours. Also soak some seedless dates and jaggery. Grind together the dates and jaggery, and sieve through a big strainer, along with the tamarind. Add salt, roasted and crushed cumin seeds and red chilli powder.

Green Mung dal vadas with Dip - Beena

1] Take chilta walla mung dal. Soak it for a couple of hours

2] Add salt + ginger +chilli past+ a pinch of asaphotida/ hing

3] prepare batter in a blender. Add hot oil.

4] deep fry

serve with dip

1] hung curd+ green onion+ salt+pinch of black pepper+ green chilli+ coriander leaves

Blend the dip and serve

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Bateka na Patra, Papad Roll - Rakshaben

Prepare batakavada no sanjo( Boil aloo, crush it add salt, green adu-marcha ni paste, lemon juice, garam masalo) . Take atta, add little of maida, add ghee , salt, black pepper powdwer to it with cold water prepere a daugh. Prepare big roti not very thin from it . Spread the aloo sanja on it, spread it evenly on the roti & roll the roti. from side cover the roll, if the atta is dry take little water so it is covered properly, deep fry the roll & with sharp knife cut it in to pieces & serve it with green chuteny or ketch-up.

Prepare aloo sanja and instead of roti spread it on papad and prepare roll of papad & deep fry it. Serv it after cutting in to pieces. This is Sanjiv kapoor's recipe & Zalak's speciality.

Ratalu na Dabba - Rakshaben, Beena

Ratalu na Dabda was speciality of my father in law, ya he use to invite all his friend for the feast.


Take a Lamba Ratalu not gol one. Cut thick approx. 5-6 mm slice . Scoop out middle portion with knife. This is very specially done , the piece should not be cut. Scoop out all the pieces keep aside. Take Ghughra no sanjo( take mutter crush it & cook it in microwave for 5-7 min, in between mix it, after it is cooked add salt, green adu marcha ni paste, til, lemon juice, sugar, garam maslo & mix it properly, add kothmir, cocconut to it) Feel this sanjo in the scopped pieces, take other piece feel it & put it ulta on the first piece, tie with string.
Take a deep pan add oil not for deep fry but little more than we use for shallow fry , arrange all the prepared dabbas in it, cover it with lid & let it cook on slow flame for atleast 20-30 mins. In between turn it upside down.before serving cut the string.

Here's another variation from Mummy.

Even i have my version of ratalu na dabba taught by Ba. In a party when all gandhijis[ sorry all from ganghi family had come they had enjoyed.

1] take ratalu

make in thin slice

2] boil them with a pinch of salt

3]dry the slices and marinate with salt and pepper. Keep aside

4] prepare a filling with roasted wall nut powder+ fresh coconut+chopped coriander leaves and salt+ sugar+ lemon+ chilli + adu

5] with filling in the center make sandwich /tie thread / shallow fry but make it crispy

shashi bhabhi liked it

good starter

FARALI PANCHAM GOTA

NGREDIENTS- RAJAGRA ATTA -1 CUP
CURDS- 1 CUP
PEANUTS- PARTIALLY GROUNDED 1/4TH CUP
POTATO-1/2;SWEET POTATO-1/2;SURAN-SMALL PIECE;RATALU-SMALL PIECE;KACCHA KELA-1/2
CHILLI-GINGER PASTE-AS REQUIRED;
SUGAR-1 TB SP
LEMON JUICE-1 TB SP
SALT AND CORIENDER AS REQUIRED
PEPPER-FEW
WHITE TIL-FEW

METHOD-
SOAK RAJAGRA ATTA IN CURDS OVERNIGHT. BOIL POTATO,SWEET POTATO,SURAN,RATALU AND KACCHA KELA AND SMASH IT. ADD ALL INGREDIENTS. HEAT OIL TO FRY GOTA.
TAKE EACH SMALL PORTION OF GOTA IN HAND , SPRINKLE TIL ON IT AND DEEP FRY IT.
IT LOOKS V ATTRACTIVE.
SERVE IT WITH COCONUT CHUTNEY.

PALAK CHAAT PAKORA - Prachi

INGREDIENTS:

palak or spinach -1 bunch
chana dal - half cup
onion - 2 (nicely chopped)
coriander - half cup (nicely chopped)
turmeric powder - a pinch
oil - 2 table spoon
salt - to taste
chilli ginger paste - 1 tea spoon


METHOD:
Soak chana dal 5 to 6 hrs grind it in the mixer.Add chilli ginger paste, turmeric powder,salt,onion and coriander.Add 2 spoons of hot oil to the batter.Mix it nicely.Wash and clean spinach leaves.Apply the prepared thick batter on both the sides of it and deep fry it.Serve hot with green chutney or sauce.