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Monday, 11 June 2018

Chole Bature

14:25 by Sumana5 comments

Ingredients for chole:

Black chickpeas – 1 and ½ cups

Chopped onion – ½ cup

Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp

Salt

Tomato puree – ½ cup

Turmaric powder – 1 tsp

Red chilli powder –1 tsp

Chana masala – 1 tbsp

Garammasala powder – 1 tsp

Chopped coriander leaves – ½ cup

Chopped green chilli – 2 tbsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Oil – 2 tbsp

Chole Bature

Recipe for Chole:

Soak the chickpeas for 4-5 hours, then boil it with some water.

After boiling strain the chickpeas from water and keep the water aside. We will use that water for gravy.

Heat oil in a pan and put cumin seeds.

When you start getting the aroma of cumin, add chopped onion and fry it.

After that add ginger-garlic paste and fry it.

Add tomato puree, turmeric and red chilli powder and stir it.

Add boiled chickpeas and salt.

Mix it and add chana masala powder, coriander leaves and chopped green chilli.

Stir it gently and add the water (used for boiling chana) that you kept aside.

Let it boil for 5 minutes and sprinkle few drops of lemon juice.

Ingredients for Bature

Flour – 2 cups

Rawa (semolina) – 1/4 cup

Yogurt – 1cup

Baking soda – 1/4tsp

Salt

Oil – 2 tbsp

Oil – for deep frying

Recipe for Bature:

Take a large mixing bowl and mix all dry ingredients. Now add 2 tbsp oil and mix it. Now add yogurt and knead it and make a dough. I did not use any water to make the dough. Cover the dough with a wet kitchen towel and keep aside for 45 minutes or allow to raise it to double.

Form this quantity of dough you can make 10 bature. So from this dough make 10 balls.

Heat oil in a pan for deep frying the bature. On other hand roll out the ball and make some puri, try to give it oval shape, for rolling you can use dry flour or oil, I used oil. Now fry it.

Serve with hot bature with chana, pickle and salad.

Fish Chop

07:54 by Sumana2 comments

Bengalis are fond of different type of chops - aloor choop (potato fritters), onion fritters, vegetable chop, dimer chop or egg devil, fish chop or macher chop etc. Hot chops and tea with a group of friends and relatives is the ideal way of spending evenings after a hard working day or even after a lazy afternoon siesta on holidays. Fish has a special place in Bengali cuisine. So it is obvious there will be fish chops when we are discussing various types of chops from Bengali food habits. Fish fry can again be of many types and is made of different types of fish. Today I would like to share my recipe of fish chop that I made on a chilly winter when a couple of my friends came to visit our place. This is prepared with a normal fish.

To make it clear to all, fish chop is different from fish fry. See the different type of fish fry recipes from my blog.

Ingredients:

Ruhu or katla fish – 10 pcs

Chopped onion – 2 medium

Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp

Chopped green chilli – 1tsp

Chopped coriander leaves – ½ cup

Salt

Turmeric powder – 1 pinch

Bread crumbs – 200 gms

Egg – 1

Red chilli powder – 10 pcs

Cumin seeds – 2 tbsp

Cloves – 10 pcs

Green cardamoms – 10 pcs

Cinnamon – 2 inches

Bread without side – 4-5 pcs

Regular flour – ¾ tbsp

Oil – 2 tbsp

Oil for deep-frying

Recipe:

Marinate the fish pieces and boil it till cook.
In a pan dry roast the whole spices like cumin seeds, dry red chilli, green cardamoms, cloves and grind it. Grind it till it becomes like powder and keep aside with a lid for aroma.
Now take the boiled fish and smash it. At this time remove the skin and bones.
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and put the chopped onion and sauté it.
Remove from heat and add the fish. Then add ginger-garlic paste, chopped green chilli, coriander leaves and salt and mix it.
Now add bread slices and mix it very gently. These bread slices help to bind the dough.
Then add the powdered spices and mix very well to make a dough.
Make some balls from this dough and give shape as per your choice, I made here oval shape.
Take a bowl and beat an egg with a pinch of salt.
Take some regular flour in a plate and roll each chop to coat with flour.
Now dip the flour coated balls into beaten egg.
Take bread crumbs in a flat plate and role all the balls nicely, make sure all balls coated nicely with crumbs.
Heat oil in a pan for deep frying and fry them till golden brown.
Serve hot with salad and tomato sauce or kasundi (Bengali mustard sauce). I always prefer kasundi.

**If you want you can make the chops early and keep in refrigerator. Whenever you need just take it out of the refrigerator and fry them.

**If you use regular flour, chops will consume less oil. Whenever you make any deep fried starter which will be coated with bread crumbs or anything else, try to coat them with flour first.

Mixed Vegetables Bread Canapes

14:22 by Sumana2 comments

This is a very yummy snacks recipe. First time I made for my daughter’s evening snacks and she liked it. Then I decided to make for one potluck party and there it was finished just like a hot cake. Not only kids’, elders also liked it. Then I decided to share in my blog. Most importantly it is very healthy and low calorie snacks because it is baked and made with lot of vegetables.

Actually “canapé” is a small piece of bread with some savory toppings, served with drinks at party. This is generally a cracker topped and a type of finger food.

Mixed Vegetables Bread Canapes

Ingredients:

Bread slices – 12 pcs

Chopped onion – 1tbsp

Chopped tomato without seeds – 1 tbsp

Chopped capsicum – 1tbsp

Chopped carrot – 1 tbsp

Sweet corn – 1tbsp

Chopped parsley – 1tsp

Chilli flakes – 1tsp or as per taste

Black pepper powder – as per taste

Salt

Grated cheese – 4/5 tbsp

Butter – 1 tbsp

Tomato ketch up – 3tbsp

Oregano – ½ tsp

Black olives – 6/7 slices

Oil – for brushing

Mixed Vegetables Bread Canapes

Recipe:

1. Take a bowl and put butter, 1tbsp tomato ketch up and grated cheese 1 tbsp and mix together. This is the spread.

2. Take another mixing bowl and put all chopped vegetables, parsley, chilli flakes, pepper powder, salt, oregano and mix well. This is the filling of canapés.

3. Now cut the bread slices in round shape with the help of a sharp edge glass or bowl or cookie cutter if you have.

4. Now take half of the slices and cut the middle of the piece in round shape with the help of a smaller cookie cutter or sharp edged bowl. This will look like donut or a disc with a whole.

5. So you will get six pairs from 12 bread slices. Each pair will have once round shaped slice and one donut or disc shaped slice.

6. Take one bread slice and spread the ketchup – butter spread prepared earlier.

7. Now keep one disc slice on the bread and put some filling in the middle of the disc. Just lightly press once with your palm from top otherwise there will be a chance to detach both slices.

8. Make more 5 canapes like this way.

9. On the top of the canapes put some grated cheese and place an olive slice.

10. Now brush some oil on the edges of the bread.

11. Bake them into 200c preheated oven for 8/10 minutes or till the breads turn golden.

12. Serve hot.

Zucchini Fritters - an Easy Evening Snacks Recipe

02:30 by SumanaNo comments

Zucchini Fritters is one of my daughter’s favorite snacks. She is always ready to eat it. And I am also ready to make this because this is very healthy, tasty as well as low calorie. It is really very easy to make with very few ingredients. If u r vegetarian u can avoid the egg. If you are not calorie conscious you can make it deep fried but as per my recipe it is pan-fried because me and my family like it.

Ingredients:

Zucchini -1 large

Chopped garlic – 1tsp

Olive oil – 1 tbsp

Egg – 1

Black pepper – crushed

Corn flour _ 2 tbsp

All-purpose flour – 2 tbsp

Salt

Grated cheese – 2 tbsp

Herbs – as per your choice

Zucchini Fritters

Recipe:

Grate the zucchini first and keep in a large bowl with pinch of salt. Keep aside for 15/20 minutes.

Now squeeze out the water from zucchini with your palms.

In a mixing bowl put the zucchini and add an egg, salt, crushed pepper, chopped garlic, 1 tsp olive oil, any herbs and mix it.

Then add corn flour and all-purpose flour and make a dough, consistency like cookie dough.

Grease your pan with remaining oil and heat it. Take small portions of the batter and put it in the pan while giving a circular shape like fritters. Cook for 2/3 minutes. Then flip off and cook the other side.

Serve hot with mayonnaise or English mustard sauce.

Chicken Shawarma Wrap

13:44 by SumanaNo comments

This wrap or roll whatever you can say, me and my husband is ready to eat any time. This is a Mediterranean food and is like one pot meal. One roll is normally enough for a meal.

Shawarma, doner kebab, durum, gyro are all same thing with very minor differences in how they are served. This is believed to be a Turkish way of making kebab which spread around different countries in Europe and Middle East and got different names. It is very interesting to know the history of this food and how it got different names in different countries based on their style of pronunciation and way of serving this. I found an interesting article in the following link:

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-gyros-shawarma-d%C3%B6ner-kebab

Doner is derived from the Turkish word “dön-mek” which means ‘spins’. That is why traditionally it is cooked in a rotisserie either vertically or horizontally.

At home, it is quite difficult to follow the original style of stacking up meat slices one above the other and then shred them as they are cooked in vertical cooking element. This is primarily served in pita bread, but I used wrap. So I followed a simple recipe as follows:

Chicken Shawarma -durum-doner kebab-chicken roll home recipe

Chicken Shawarma Wrap

For Doner Kebab

Ingredients:

Chicken minced – 200 gms

Garlic minced – 1 tsp

Ginger paste – ½ tsp

Red chilli powder – ½ tsp

Garam masala powder – ½ tsp

Cumin powder – 1tsp

Salt

Milk – 3 tbsp

Black pepper crushed

Chopped coriander leaves

Corn flour – 1 tbsp

Egg – 1 (optional)

Oil – 2 tbsp

Recipe:

Take a mixing bowl and mix all the ingredients except milk, corn flour and oil.

Mix very well and now add milk and mix it.

Then add 1 tbsp oil and mix.

Now add corn flour as per your necessary to bind the dough.

For 1 hr keep aside this dough.

From this dough divide two portion and make 2 kebab because this proportion is for two wraps.

Grease the grill pan or whatever you have with remaining oil and grill the kebabs.

You can do in microwave.

Garlic Sauce:

Ingredients:

Yogurt – 150 gms

Crushed garlic – 1 ½ tsp

Salt

Lemon juice – 1tsp

Water – 1 tbsp

Sugar – 1 pinch

Crushed black pepper

Recipe:

Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix very well.

Salad:

Here I have used tomato, cucumber, sliced onion, carrots and lots of lettuce.

For Roll

Ingredients:

Wrap

French fries

Recipe:

Take a wrap and sprinkle some sauce with spoon.

Cut the kebab into bite size and keep on the sauce,

Put some French fries and salad.

Again sprinkle some sauce and wrap it.

Your Shawarma Wrap or Durum is ready to eat.

Potato Smiley

05:54 by SumanaNo comments

Potato smiley….yppee; what a mouthwatering tentative snacks for kids, rather to us also. And it is very much available as a frozen ready to cook item in any grocery shop. But these are not healthy and we have to say them good bye now. I tried it at home to make fresh smiley and it is very easy and off course very healthy. So this is the perfect time to say no to frozen food and enjoy your healthy life.

Ingredients:

Boiled potato – 2 large

Corn flour – 3 - 4 tbsp

Egg – 1 (optional)

Salt

Bread crumbs – 2 tbsp

All-purpose flour – 2-3 tbsp

Black pepper powder

Oil – for deep fry

Straw

Round cookie cutter

Potato Smiley

Recipe:

At first smash the boiled potato.

In a mixing bowl take the boiled potatoes and smash them. Take egg (optional), salt, pepper powder and mix very well with smashed potatoes.

Add bread crumbs, it will give crunchiness.

Add all-purpose flour and corn flour both as per your need for binding to make a dough.

Now keep it in fridge for 15-20 minutes.

Keep on a butter paper and cover with one more paper.

Roll out like roti but it should be thick like 1 cm.

Take a round cookie cutter or whatever you have to make the cut out of a face.

Take a straw and make both eyes and with spoon edge make smiley face.

Now your smiley is ready for frying.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the smiles.

Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Corn Fritters

11:00 by Sumana1 comment

Corn fritters is an easy to cook snacks recipe. This can be prepared in a ziffy with out much preparation and is savored by all age groups. This is cereal snacks is healthy too as it has a low carb count and low fat content but has high fiber content.

Ingredients:

Baby corn – 10 -12 pcs

Gram flour – 4 tbsp

Rice flour – 4 tbsp

Ginger-garlic paste – 2 tsp

Black pepper powder – 1 tsp

Salt

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Water

Oil

Corn Fritters

Recipe:

Cut the baby corns horizontally.

Now take a mixing bowl and marinate the corn with ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice, black pepper powder and salt. Keep aside for 20 minutes.

Make a batter with gram flour, rice flour, ginger-garlic paste, salt, black pepper powder and water.

Now deep the pieces of corn into the batter and deep fry it till golden.

While serving, sprinkle some chat masala.

Serve hot as evening snacks with tea or coffee or as veg starters at lunch or dinner.

Happy cooking J

Fish Kabiraji Cutlets

23:35 by Sumana1 comment

Fish kaviraji cutlet is a very mouthwatering snack and is very popular in Bengal. Actually Bengali occasions are incomplete without any form of fish fry. It can be better fish fry, fish kabiraji, topse fry or fish cutlet. This Bengali style fish fry is called Fish Kabiraji Cutlet. This cutlet has a specialty that is the cutlet is wrapped by egg which is very crunchy and has no specific shape. It is specially made by fillets of Bhetki fish or any boneless fish. But obviously nothing compares the taste of Bhetki. Even if you are a calorie conscious person, you will forget about calories once you taste this kabiraji cutlet.

This type cutlet is crispy but not very hard like other type of cutlets. This is a medium version of fish batter fry and fish cutlet.

When I was child I had tasted it for the first time in a marriage ceremony. After that I have tried it so many times in various occasions but still, the first tried kabiraji is very nostalgic to me for its taste. I am a fish lover like other Bengali. I love every types of fish preparation but fish kabiraji is very special. The aromas of fish fry attracts me so much that wherever and whenever I get the aroma, I start filling hungry. J

Fish Kabiraji Cutlet

Ingredients for fish kabiraji:

Fish fillets – 4 pieces

Egg – 4

Ginger paste – 1tsp

Garlic paste – 1tsp

Onion paste – 2 tbsp

Lemon juice – 1tsp

Salt

Black pepper powder

Soda bai carb – 1 pinch

Bread crumbs

White oil

How to make fish kabiraji:

Marinate the fish lemon juice, onion paste, ginger-garlic paste, pepper powder and salt. Keep aside for sometimes like 30-45 minutes.

Now take a flat plate and spread the bread crumbs. Then coat the fish fillets one by one and keep aside.

Take a bowl and beat one egg with salt, pepper powder and a pinch of soda bai carb.

Heat a wok and take enough oil to deep fry.

Now put a fish into the hot oil and fry it. When the colour is changed, spread some beaten egg with your fingers or a spoon. As a result you will see that your cutlet will get a wrapper. Many bubbles will form due to egg. Flip off the cutlet with a spatula and spread some egg in same way on the other side. When this egg portion turns golden, remove from the oil and keep it on a paper napkin. Then serve it with some green salad and tomato ketch up or kasundi (a Bengali style mustard sauce).

It is always served hot.

Sometimes I have seen some recipe with rice flour instead of egg. But I have never tried it. This is the other way to make crispy kabiraji. But somehow I think that rice powder cannot give same crispiness like egg. And obviously this is my own opinion.

Bengali Style Vegetable Chop (Fritters)

02:27 by Sumana4 comments

Vegetable chops or vegetable fritters are one of the most famous veg snacks for Bengalis in winter. Earlier vegetable chop was regularly served as starters in all Bengali occasions and ceremonies in winter. The reason for being seasonal is the availability of its key ingredients - beetroot and carrots. This Bengali style vegetable chop recipe is a pure veg recipe, ie. excluding onion and garlic. Serve hot vegetable chops with salad, kasundi (a Bengali style mustard sauce) and hot tea or coffee. The good thing is you can make the chops ready when you have time and keep them in refrigerator. Fry it just before eating.

Bengali Style Vegetable Chop

Ingredients:

Grated beet – 1 medium

Grated carrot – 2 cups

Boiled potato – 2 large

Ginger paste – 1 tsp

Chopped coriander leaves – ½ cup

Sugar

Salt

Cumin powder – 2 tsp

Coriander powder – 2 tsp

Red chilli powder – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Dry red chilli – 3-4 pcs

Cloves – 3-4 pcs

Cinnamon – 2 pcs

Cardamom – 1 inch

Ground nuts – ½ cup

Bread slice (without side) – 2-3 pieces

Regular flour – 1 cup

Bread crumbs

White oil

vegetable chops in Benali style with beetroot and carrots

Bengali Style Vegetable Chop (Fritters)

Recipe:

Dry roast whole spices and grind it. Keep this spice powder aside with a lid.

Then take boiled potato and grate it. Now heat 1 tsp oil in a pan, fry the nuts and crush it.

Then heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and put ginger paste. Fry it and add cumin – coriander powder and red chilli powder and stir it. Then add all types of grated vegetables and mix with spices. Also take two pieces of bread and cut the edges. Smash them with the vegetables mixture. Now add crushed nuts and salt and sugar for taste. Mix it well and add chopped coriander leaves. At last sprinkle the dry roasted spices and mix well. This vegetables mixture is like dough. Make medium balls from this dough, and give them oval shape and keep aside.

Now take a flat plate and spread some flour and roll out the oval shaped vegetable chops.

Take another flat plate and spread bread crumbs.

Then take a bowl and mix some flour and water to make a very thin batter. Now deep the chops into the batter and roll out on the bread crumbs and your chops are almost ready.

Now heat oil in a pan and deep fry them.

Serve hot vegetable chops with salad and kasundi (Bengali style mustard sauce) and enjoy your high tea.

Bread Rolls With Stuffed Potatoes - An Easy Evening Snacks

03:26 by Sumana1 comment

Bread roll is an easy evening snacks recipe. Team this up with a hot cup of tea or coffee. Bread rolls are basically stuffed with potato fillings and deep fried with a gram flour coating for a quick munchy bite of evening snacks. Learn this easy bread rolls recipe to win a quick round of applause at your evening adda.

Bread Roll

Ingredients:

Bread without side

Boiled potato – 1 medium

Boiled green peas – 1 tbsp

Finely chopped tomato – 1 tbsp

Roughly chopped onion – 1 tbsp

Grated ginger – 1 tsp

Chopped green chilli

Chopped coriander leaves – 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder – 1 pinch

Red chilli powder (optional)

Garam masala powder ½ tsp

Gram flour – 1 cup

Salt

White oil

Recipe:

At first smash the boiled potato and mix with green peas.

Then heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and put chopped onion and sauté it. Then add grated ginger and chopped tomato and fry it for 1-2 minutes. Then add a pinch of turmeric powder and red chilli powder (optional) and mix. Then add smashed potato and salt and mix it very gently. Now add chopped green chilli and coriander leaves. At last sprinkle some garam masala powder and remove from gas. Your stuffing is now ready.

Now take a bowl and mix gram flour, salt and water to make a smooth batter.

Damp your palm and take a bread slice and as a result the bread slice will be slightly damped. Then take 1 spoon of stuffing and place it in the middle of the bread slice and fold the slice. Now deep it into the batter and deep fry till golden.

Serve as evening snacks with tomato ketchup.

Monday, 11 June 2018

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