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Fried Onion Rings

talat — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:37:19 +0000

Preparation time : 10 min. | Serves 8-10 persons

These fried onion rings are one of an easy and quick recipe to prepare at home and can be served as fried snack. It is served with any dip or sauce like ketchup, bbq sauce, etc.

Ingredients:

3-4 large red onions (cut into rings)
3 cup flour
Salt to taste
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp chili powder
2 tbsp ground cumin
2 tbsp ground black pepper
1 egg yolk
Cold water or milk as required
Hot oil in fryer

Procedure:

1. Sift together dry ingredients including flour and spices.
2. In a mixing bowl make smooth batter by combining dry mixture, milk and egg yolk. The batter should be no so thick or thin, the consistency is such away that if you drop from spoon it would not stick to spoon.
3. Heat oil for deep frying in a wok.
4. Dip onion rings in the batter and then deep fry until become golden crisp. It would take 4-5 min.

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Fish Ball Recipe

talat — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:24:07 +0000

Preparation time : 20 min. | Serves 12-18 balls

This fish ball recipe is from Thai cuisine in which Thai red curry paste is used which makes these balls hot and spicy. These fish balls are served with lime mayo dip which is prepared with cilantro, lime zest and mayo.

Ingredients:

3 cup fish (minced)
4 medium onions (finely chopped)
½ tsp turmeric powder
3 garlic cloves (minced)
1 tsp ginger (minced)
1 egg (lightly beaten)
Salt to taste
1 tbsp Thai red curry paste
Breadcrumbs as required
Oil for deep frying

Procedure:

1. Boil fish for just 5 min and then drain all the excess water from it.
2. Now mix all the ingredients in the boiled fish including onions, turmeric powder, ginger garlic, salt and red curry paste. Mix them well to make soft dough like texture.
3. Make small balls of the mixture of lemon size and set aside.
4. Now dip each ball in beaten egg and then coat with breadcrumbs.
5. Heat oil in wok for deep frying and then fry balls in batches at medium heat until become golden brown in color.

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Sunday Chicken

talat — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:16:47 +0000

Preparation time : 20 min. | Serves 16 pieces

This Sunday chicken recipe is one of a quick fast food meal, it is not necessary to use only chicken leg pieces you can also make it with wings or breast pieces. It is served with tempting Cole Slaw and ketchup.

Ingredients:

16 leg pieces of chicken
2 cup all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp salt
2 tsp dried whole thyme
2 tsp paprika
2 eggs (beaten)
2/3 cup milk
¼ cup lemon juice
Oil for deep frying

Procedure:

1. Combine dry ingredients together including flour, salt, thyme and paprika and keep it in air tight box.
2. Whisk eggs, milk, and lemon juice and set aside.
3. Put chicken legs in the dry mixture box and shake well so that coating is done on every side properly.
4. Now dip coated chicken legs in egg mixture.
5. Heat oil in a wok for deep frying and fry chicken pieces in batches for 5-10 min or more until become tender from inside and golden crispy brown from top.
6. Serve hot Sunday chicken with your favorite Cole Slaw.

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Garlic Potatoes

talat — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:16:19 +0000

Preparation time : 30 min. | Serves 6-8 persons

This recipe of baked potatoes is mainly prepared with garlic and herbs. If you want strong garlic flavor then you can add roasted garlic or green chopped garlic which also gives good taste. These garlic potatoes are usually served with spicy sweet and sour sauce of any kind.

Ingredients:

1 kg red potatoes (cut into large pieces)
¼ cup margarine (melted)
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
1 tbsp dried parsley
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried thyme

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Spread aluminum foil on a baking dish.
3. Marinate potatoes with the ingredients mentioned above.
4. Place potatoes on the aluminum foil and then cover tightly with another aluminum sheet.
5. Bake for 20-25 min in preheated oven.
6. After that remove the foil from top, turn on the upper burner of oven only and bake for 10 min more to give golden brown color.

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Breakfast Shake

talat — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:13:06 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 4 glasses

This recipe of breakfast shake is prepared with banana bread hence become little denser than usual banana shake. In this recipe vanilla ice cream is used, you can also use any other flavor of ice cream but to enjoy banana only flavor vanilla ice cream is best.

Ingredients:

4 cup vanilla ice cream (or any flavor)
3 slices of banana bread (crushed)
1 cup milk (thawed)
1 ripe banana
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ cup light brown sugar

Procedure:

1. Put all the ingredients in blender and shake well so that every ingredient combine with each other and form smooth mixture.
2. Pour the prepared breakfast shake in glasses and serve with banana bread. You can also reserve some crushed banana slice and use as topping for shake.

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Syrian Bread

talat — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:06:38 +0000

Preparation time : 50-60 min. | Serves 8 flat breads

This Syrian bread recipe is quite similar to pita bread; the only difference is that pocket is not necessary in this bread as it is not usually used as sandwich. It is better to knead this dough in dough mixer to save time and knead the dough properly but you can also make without it as describe below.

Ingredients:

1 1/8 cup water
2 tbsp vegetable oil
½ tsp white sugar
1 ½ tsp salt
10 oz all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp instant yeast
½ cup sesame seeds

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Take a wide mixing bowl or spread the flour on your kitchen counter to knead the dough properly.
3. Make a well of flour and add rest of the ingredients except water in the well.
4. Start mixing the ingredients with flour slowly so that every ingredients incorporate with the flour well.
5. After that slowly add water and start kneading the dough until become smooth and should not stick to your hands.
6. Leave the dough at room temperature for 30 min until it would rise to almost double.
7. Make eight equal pieces of dough and shape it to round balls.
8. Roll each of the balls in flat circular shape of ¼ in. thick, the size of the bread has to be 6-8 in. diameter.
9. Coat the rolled dough with sesame seeds and then bake them on baking stone until become golden brown and puffed up, baking time of each bread would be 4-6 min.

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Egyptian Bread

talat — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:55:21 +0000

Preparation time : 90 min. (approx.) | Serves 1 medium loaf

This recipe of Egyptian bread is prepared with fig and dates and thus become very healthy meal for breakfast. The method is simple and easy you just need to mix the ingredients as mentioned below and then bake in oven, it only takes time in baking otherwise all the procedure is very easy. You may add raisins and other nuts of your choice.

Ingredients:

2 oz butter (softened)
6 oz dried figs (chopped)
5 oz pitted dates (chopped)
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 cup boiling water
4 oz caster sugar
2 eggs
2 oz chopped walnuts
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2.5 oz cup all-purpose flour
3.5 oz whole wheat flour

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Take a mixing bowl and combine dates, fig and baking soda.
3. Add boiling water and mix well, leave it at room temperature for 15 min.
4. Meanwhile take another bowl and beat eggs and sugar until become fluffy and creamy.
5. Now combine egg mixture, date mixture and walnuts in a large mixing bowl and stir well to mix evenly.
6. Sift together both type of flour, baking powder and salt and fold it with the date mixture using spatula or wooden spoon.
7. Take a greased pan of any shape and pour the prepared bread mixture in it.
8. Place the pan in preheated oven for 60-70 min until become done. You can check it by inserting a toothpick in the center of pan if it comes out clean then the bread is ready to take out from oven.
9. After that cool the Egyptian bread to room temperature and then cut into slices.

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Chicken Croquettes

talat — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:43:10 +0000

Preparation time : 20 min. + 60 min. setting time | Serves 8-10 croquettes

These chicken croquettes can be prepared either by frying or by baking, in this recipe frying method is used. These croquettes are usually served as tea time snack but can also be served as iftar food.

Ingredients:

5 tbsp margarine
3 tbsp flour
½ cup milk
½ cup chicken broth
2 cup boiled chicken (shredded)
2 tsp ground black pepper
1 ¼ cup bread crumbs
3 tbsp fresh parsley (chopped)
Salt to taste
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Procedure:

1. Prepare white sauce for the croquettes, for that heat margarine in pan and cook flour in the melted margarine until pleasant roasting smell starts to come but flour would not get brown it should remain white in color.
2. Then slowly add milk and broth to the butter flour mixture and stir well so that lumps would not form.
3. When the sauce gets thick remove the pan from heat and then cool to room temperature.
4. In a mixing bowl, combine shredded chicken, 1 cup bread crumbs, parsley, salt, pepper and egg.
5. Mix the chicken mixture with half of the prepared white sauce and place this mixture in fridge to set for at least an hour.
6. Now make balls of this chicken mixture and give longitudinal shape, make 8-10 croquettes using this mixture.
7. After that roll the croquettes in remaining sauce and bread crumbs and set aside.
8. Heat the oil for deep frying and then fry croquettes until become light golden brown in color.
9. Serve the delicious croquettes with any sauce or ketchup.

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Shish Kebabs

talat — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:18:04 +0000

Preparation time : 20 min. + 2 hrs. Marinating time | Serves 4-6 persons

This recipe of shish kebabs is from Mediterranean cuisine and can be served as iftar meal. In this recipe the kebabs are prepared n grill pan and then give smoky flavor with burning coal, you may also bbq these kebabs to enjoy perfect bbq flavor.

Ingredients:

500 gm chicken breast (cut into small cubes)
1 tbsp garlic paste
½ tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp mustard powder
3 tbsp mayonnaise
3 tbsp yogurt
2 tbsp tahini sauce
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp dried oregano
Salt to taste
2 onion (cut into cubes and separate each layer)
2 capsicum (cut into cubes)
2 tomatoes (seeded and cut into cubes)

Procedure:

1. Marinate chicken pieces with the ingredients mentioned above and leave for 2-3 hrs.
2. After that insert chicken pieces and vegetables in skewers alternately.
3. Now grill the skewed chicken and veggies on griddle with little amount of oil until become light brown from every side. It would take 5-10 min.
4. When all the chicken have been grilled place them in a deep sauce pan, drop 1 tsp of oil onto the hot charcoal piece, then place it in the pan of skewers and cover the lid. Smoke starts to release form the coal and cover for 10-15 min until white smoke stop to release from the coal.
5. Serve the smoky shish kebabs with pita bread and hummus.

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Stuffed Bread

talat — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:23:14 +0000

Preparation time : 2 hrs. (approx.) | Serves 12-14 breads

This recipe of stuffed bread is prepared with veggies stuffing and is suitable for suhar food as it contains all the healthy stuff which require for suhar. You can use the stuffing of your choice.

Ingredients:

For Dough:

½ cup milk
½ cup water
3 tbsp oil
¼ cup sugar
1 egg (beaten)
1 ½ tsp salt
2 ¼ tsp instant yeast
4 cup bread flour
Sesame seeds for topping
1 beaten egg for brushing

For Stuffing:

¼ cup cream cheese
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup milk
Seasonal vegetables (cut into small cubes or shredded)

Procedure:

1. Heat milk and water in a sauce pan on low heat so that the mixture would not get boil.
2. Remove the pan from heat and allow to cool at room temperature.
3. Add beaten egg and yeast to the mixture and mix well.
4. Now make well of dough on your counter or take any wide bowl to knead the dough.
5. Pour the mixture into the center of bowl and slowly mix with flour until soft and smooth dough would form (add more flour if required).
6. Leave the dough to rise for at least an hour and covered with plastic or gelatin sheet.
7. After that make 12-14 equal pieces of dough, take one of a piece and roll it to make rope of thickness 1 inch, fold this roll onto the horn shape tube or cream horn tube.
8. Prepare all the rolls in similar fashion and place them on baking try, brush the top and sides of each bread with egg, sprinkle sesame seeds on top and press using hands so that seeds stick to the roll.
9. Bake the bread rolls in preheated oven for 20-25 min until become golden brown from top.
10. Meanwhile prepare stuffing for the breads, for that you need to mix veggies with mayonnaise, cream cheese, seasoning of salt and pepper.
11. When the breads become ready cool them to room temperature, remove the tubes and then fill with the prepared stuffing.

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Chicken Pastry

talat — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:46:12 +0000

Preparation time : 30 min | Serves 18 pastries

This chicken pastry is prepared with cooked chicken and veggies mixture with little amount of seasoning, the pastries are really good in taste and are best to serve as tea time snack.

Ingredients:

3 cup cooked chicken (shredded)
1½ cup cheddar cheese (grated)
4 oz green chilies (chopped)
½ cup spring onions (finely chopped)
1 tsp hot pepper sauce
1 tsp garlic salt
¼ tsp pepper
¼ tsp ground cumin
¼ tsp paprika
1 package puff pastry sheets
Salsa (of any kind)
1 egg (lightly beaten)

Procedure:

1. At first prepare filling for the pastry, for that you need to mix chicken, chilies, onions, cheese and seasonings of cumin, paprika, garlic salt and pepper.
2. Keep this mixture in fridge meanwhile prepare pastry rolls.
3. Divide puff pastry sheet in two pieces and roll one of the piece to make a large rectangle of thickness ½ in.
4. Divide it into 8-10 rectangles of equal size, take a piece of this rectangle and fill with 1-2 tbsp of prepared filling. Wet the corners of rectangle with water and then start rolling form one side to other, press the end with fork to seal the roll.
5. Similarly prepare rest of the pastry rolls. Place them on a greased baking dish, brush the rolls with egg and bake for 20 min at 450 degrees F.
6. Take out the chicken pastry rolls after turning into light golden brown in color from top.

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Indian Bread Recipe

talat — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:01:40 +0000

Preparation time : 50 mins. | Serves 4-6 persons

This is another Indian bread recipe which is mostly called layered paratha. In this recipe of paratha semolina is also used which makes it little crispy and use of wheat flour makes it soft so it’s a nice soft and crisp paratha. Its is usually served with tea or you can also serve it with scrambled egg.

Ingredients:

¼ cup ground semolina
1½ cup wheat flour
1½ cup refined flour
½ cup milk
¾ cup oil
Salt to taste
Oil for frying as required

Procedure:

1. Sift together wheat flour, refined flour, semolina and salt in a wide bowl.
2. Add oil to the mixture and mix well.
3. Now using water knead smooth dough and then leave for at least half an hour..
4. After that divide the dough into small balls of 2-3 in. dia.
5. Take a piece of ball and roll it out to make a flat circular shape, and then wrap it to form a ball. Again make flat circular bread using the ball.
6. Now heat the skillet and shallow fry the bread until become golden brown and crisp from both sides. Similarly prepare rest of the bread.

Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:58:00 +0000

Preparation time : 30 mins | Serves 8 persons

This is one of the kids lover recipe of chicken spaghetti. You may use noodles instead of spaghetti to make it quickly. This recipe can also be prepared by using left over chicken which also tastes great for that you have separate bones from left over chicken .

Ingredients:

4 chicken breasts
1/4 tsp garlic powder
2 cup chicken stock
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
2 cup frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
1 package egg noodles

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Procedure:

1. Saute chicken breasts with garlic powder on medium high heat for 5 mins.
2. After that add 1 cup of chicken stock and cook until become brown.
3. When the chicken has been done cut each breast into 1 small cubes.
4. Now heat the remaining stock and add basil, pepper and vegetables. Let them cook together on medium heat until the mixture starts to boil.
5. Add the uncooked noodles and chicken to the mixture and reduce heat to low. Simmer the mixture until spaghetti become soft ,stir in between.
6. When the spaghetti and chicken become completely tender and soft remove the pan from stove and serve in beautiful serving bowl or platter.

Vegetable Tempura

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:39:00 +0000

Preparation time 20 mins | Serves 6-8 persons

This vegetable tempura recipe is usually called “vegetable Pakora” in Pakistani cuisine. You may also add other vegetables in this tempura like onions and cabbage. Enjoy this vegetable tempura with ketchup or tamarind chutney.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup graham flour
1 tspn ted chili powder
1/2 tspn turmeric powder
1/2 tspn black pepper powder
1 tspn cumin powder
Salt to taste
1/2 tspn baking soda
1/4 cup spinach (shredded)
1/4 cup spring onion (coarsely chopped)
1/4 cup coriander leaves 9chopped)
4-5 green chilies (chopped)
1 cup cold water
Oil for deep frying

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Procedure:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine graham flour, all the vegetables, baking soda and water. Mix all of them together using you hands only until a thick batter would form. It would take 5 mins.
2. Now add rest of the spices and mix evenly into the vegetable batter.
3. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, pour the vegetable batter into oil in batches using hands or large spoon. The size of the tempura would be small ball of 2 inch. When tempura becomes brown in color, take them out from oil.

Chickpea Recipe

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:10:00 +0000

Preparation time : 30 mins | Serves 6 persons

This is typical Pakistani chickpea recipe and is one of the main items in traditional hi-tea party. It is preferred to cook it in pressure cooker to reduce cooking time otherwise it would take hours to cook on slow cooker.

Ingredients:

1 cup chickpea or garbanzo beans (soaked in water for overnight)
1 medium size onion (cut into large pieces)
1 medium size tomato (cut into large pieces)
1 tbspn red chili powder
1 tbspn cumin powder
1 tspn black pepper powder
Salt to taste

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Procedure:

1. In a blender, blend onion and tomato with very little water to make smooth paste.
2. Take a pressure cooker of best quality which cooks your food in quick time and for that I always prefer to use presto pressure cooker. Put chickpea, onion tomato paste, salt, red chili and 4 cup water or enough to cover all the chickpea. Cook them together in pressure cooker for 15 mins until chickpeas become tender and soft.
3. After that add cumin and black pepper powder and cook on high heat to dry all the extra water.

Serving:

Serve the hot spicy chickpea with dahi vada and sprinkle some chaat masala on top.

Beef Samosa

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Preparation time : 40 mins | Serves 12 samosa

Samosa is prepared in different styles in Pakistani cuisine. They differ only in stuffing which may be of meat, vegetables or potato only. This one is beef samosa recipe which is a bit spicy and sour in taste due to the addition of lemon which enhances its flavor.

Ingredients:

125 gm ground beef
4 medium size onion (julienne)
1 tspn ginger paste
1 tspn garlic paste
1 tspn red chili powder
Salt to taste
1 tspn cumin powder
1/2 tspn black pepper powder
1/4 tspn mix hot spice powder
5-6 green chilies (chopped)
2 lemon juice

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Procedure:

1. In a sauce pan, cook ground beef with ginger garlic paste, red chili powder and salt at medium heat for 15-20 mins until beef become completely tender.
2. After that dry all the extra water on high flame and then mix rest of the ingredients including green chilies, cumin powder, black pepper, onion and lemon juice. cook all them together until onion become soft, it would take 8-10 mins.
3. Cool the prepared ground meat filling at room temperature.
4. To make samosa you can take ready made flat bread to wrap the filling or you can make the dough at home for wrapping the mixture, go to vegetable samosa recipe for samosa dough and other instructions required for preparing samosa.
5. Deep fry all the prepared samosa for 3-4 mins on medium heat until become light golden in color.

Serving:

Serve the delicious hot samosa with ketchup.

Easy Noodle Recipe

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:19:00 +0000

Preparation time : 30 mins | Serves 6 persons

This is another noodles recipe with crumbs mixture. You can add or omit flavors you want while making the crumbs mixture. This is a very quick recipe for snack and is best for children. For making different types of noodle recipes, refer to the book Noodle, which contains 130 recipes made from 20 different type of noodles.

Ingredients :

For Crumbs Mixture :

2/3 cup butter
1 pack unsweetened cracker crumb
1 tspn paprika
2-3 tbspn lemon juice (according to your taste)
3 green chilies finely chopped
1 tbspn soya sauce
Minced fresh coriander as required
3/4 tsp sesame seeds
1/4 tbsp black pepper

For Noodles :

1 pack noodles
Water for boiling noodles
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil

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Procedure :

1. Take a deep sauce pan to boil water. When the water gets boil add noodles, salt and oil into the water and let it cook for -10 mins until spaghetti become soft. After that drain all the water from noodles and add half quantity of butter into the noodles and let it melt.
2. After that in a sauté pan, toss the noodles with butter for just 2 minutes.
3. In another sauté pan, toast crumbs with rest of butter until it becomes golden in color.
4. Now add rest of the ingredients including coriander leaves, sesame seeds, black pepper, paprika, lemon juice, green chilies and soya sauce. Mix all them together and then chop the mixture in food processor so that it become very fine smooth mixture.
5. Now mix crumbs mixture to the noodles and serve it in beautiful platter.

Falooda

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Preparation time : 20 mins + Chill time | Serves 6 persons

This is famous falooda recipe from Pakistani cuisine. Falooda is prepared in different styles for instance; “Creamy falooda” and “jelly Falooda”. This is original jelly falooda recipe in which you can also add ingredients of your own choice. This recipe can be prepared in few minutes if you use ready made ice cream. For more Asian dessert recipes, refer to the book : The Sweet Spot, which contain over 100 delightful recipes inspired from various Asian cuisines.

Ingredients:

2 cups thin white noodles (boiled)
1 ltr milk
3 tbspn strawberry sauce
Sugar to taste
½ cup crushed cashew
½ cup crushed almonds
½ cup crushed pistachio
½ cup roasted raisins
Any flavor ice cream as required
1 pack apple jello mix
1 pack banana jello mix
1 pack pineapple jello mix

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Procedure:

1. Take a deep sauce pan to boil milk.
2. When the milk starts bubbling, add crushed almonds, pistachio, cashew, sugar and raisins. Cook them on medium heat for at least 15-20 mins so that all flavors of nuts absorbs in the milk and the mixture become denser.
3. Now pour the milk mixture into a deep bowl and place it in freezer for 30 mins.
4. Then prepare each flavor of jello mixture separately(just dissolve jello mix in hot water) and freeze it.
5. After that in a beautiful serving glass of falooda put a big scoop of ice cream with some boiled noodles into the glass, add some pieces of fruit jelly and fill the glass with the chilled milk mixture, Delicious healthy falooda is ready to serve, it gives more taste when it is chilled for further half an hour after assembling.

Pita Sandwich

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Preparation time : 30 mins | Serves 6 persons

This pita sandwich is modified form of falafel sandwich in which green yogurt sauce is used in the assembling of sandwich and in preparation of garbanzo patties, flour is used to bind the mixture. The modification of these results in great healthy sandwich snack. For more ideas on making sandwiches, refer to the book, Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Book, which contains dozens of unusual ideas on making great sandwiches.

Ingredients:

1 cp boiled garbanzo beans
2 cloves garlic (chopped)
1/2 cup coriander leaves
¼ cup mint leaves
½ cup green onions (chopped only green parts)
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 tspn coriander powder
1 tspn cumin powder
Salt to taste
1 tspn paprika powder
All purpose flour as required (to bind mixture)
Olive oil for shallow frying
Pita bread as required
Sliced tomatoes as required
Salad leaves as required
Green yogurt sauce as required

Procedure:

1. Take a blender or food processor and add green onions, garlic, coriander and mint leaves, garbanzo beans and bread crumbs and blend them well to form a smooth paste.
2. Now add spices and seasonings into the puree including coriander powder, cumin powder, salt and paprika and blend until all the flavors mixes well in the mixture.
3. After that take out the mixture into a mixing bowl and add flour into it so that it would shape into patties shape easily.
4. Now make medium size patties of the mixture and shallow fry each of them in a frying pan for 8-10 minutes until they become golden brown in color.
5. To make falafel sandwich cut each pita from middle and fill the pocket with garbanzo patties, sliced tomatoes, salad leaves and green yogurt sauce.

Cheese Rolls

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Preparation time : 90 mins | Serves 10 persons

This cheese roll recipe is different in a way that the dough for roll is prepared in a same manner as pizza dough and hence it becomes very soft and crispy. The stuffing is made by mixing different types of cheese and you can add or adjust flavors of cheese according to your taste. For more delicious recipes with cheese, refer to the book Cheese, Glorious Cheese, which contains over 75 tempting recipes for cheese lovers.

Ingredients:

For dough:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered milk
1 egg
1/2 cup oil

For Stuffing:

1 cup cottage cheese (shredded)
1/4 cup parsley (finely chopped)
1 cup mozzarella cheese (shredded)
¼ cup cheddar cheese
¼ cup parmesan cheese
1 tbspn fresh oregano
Pinch of freshly crushed black pepper
Oil for deep frying

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Procedure:

1. In half cup normal water or lukewarm water (don’t use hot water) mix yeast and sugar and leave for 10 minutes until bubbles appear on the top of mixture and become foamy.
2. In a bowl of dough mixer combine flour, salt, milk powder, oil and egg and turn on the mixer at slow speed so that all ingredients mix together.
3. Now add the yeast mixture in the flour mixture and mix them. After a minute speed up the mixer so that dough would form and when dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl turn off the mixer.
6. Roll the dough and put it in the deep bowl and coat it well with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic and leave for an hour.
7. Mix all the ingredients of stuffing in a mixing bowl.
8. Take a small piece of dough and roll it using wooden roller. Make it a flat shape of thin size and cut into square.
9. Now at one of the corner place a tablespoon of cheese mixture or fill according to the size of dough and roll it in a way that the at first wrap the two adjacent corners towards the center and then start rolling the dough from the filling side till opposite corner. In this way a roll would form. You may also fill it to form balls or make two flat dough and place stuffing on one of them and then cover with another flat piece so that the sides are sealed properly.
10. Now you have a choice you may either fry these rolls or bake in oven.

For Deep Frying:

Take a deep fryer and heat oil to moderate temperature, then put rolls in the oil and fry them on medium heat. When they turn into light golden in color, take them out from the oil.

For Baking:

Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease the suitable baking tray and place rolls on it by keeping some space between them. Now place it in oven for 10 minutes and when they become light golden in color, take them out from the oven.

Serving:

Delicious cheese rolls are ready to serve with ketchup.