buns

Nutritional buns
Ingredients:
½ cup of wheat flour, chickpea flour (besan),millet flour (bajri flour, you will get in the Indian store)
1 tsp of yeast
1 cup of warm water
Bunch of cilantro
Chopped green chilies (optional)
2 table spoon of Oil or butter
Salt to taste
Method:
Add all the ingredients keep aside for 5 to six hours.
Then pre heat your oven at 350° bake the buns for 20 mins or till it is done.
Serve it hot

Baked cauliflower masala (gobhi masala )
Ingredients:
1 small cauliflower (10 to 15 florets)
Handful of peas
½ tsp of turmeric
½ tsp of cumin powder
1 tsp of chat masala
½ tsp of chili powder (the more spicy you need add more)
Salt to taste
1 table spoon of oil
Method:
Take a oven proof bowl add all the ingredients and bake for 20 min at 350° or till it is done.

baked chana masala

Today I tried something very interesting. I baked the recipe and also made without using onion garlic and I was really tasty. For this recipe you need :
1 can of chickpea (you can also use boiled chickpea--chana)
1 medium potato (cubed)
1 tomato (diced)
1 tsp of turmeric
1tsp of cumin powder (jeera)
1 tsp of coriander pwder (dhaniya)
2 tsp of chana masala
2 tsp of chili powder
2 tablespoon of cooking oil.
Salt to taste
Method:
Pre heat a oven toaster on 350 °. In the meanwhile take oven proof bowl add oil and all other ingredients.
Place it in the oven for 30 min. when the potatoes are done smash some of the potatoes and chickpea with spatula serve it with chapati or rice.

onion pakora khofta

Khofta curry. Khoftas (onion pakora) are special from Bengal. I tried something different.
For this you need
10 to 12 onion pakoras (make the pakoras ,follow the recipe of onion pakoras)
For the gravy
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 medium tomato
2 tsp of ginger garlic paste
2 green chilies
1 tsp of cumin, coriander powder
½ tsp of turmeric
1 medium size potato (diced)
1 tablespoon of cooking oil
Salt as per taste
Method: heat the oil in heavy bottom pan add onion, ginger, garlic paste. Sauté for a while, add tomatoes and potatoes, add all the dry powders. When the ingredients are well cooked add little water for the gravy. when the gravy is done, bring it down from the heat and add the koftas. Serve it with rice or chapattis.

dahi vada

My all time favorite. Dahi vada. These are deep fried in oil and dipped in yogurt
For this you need
For the vada
½ cup soaked urad dal ( lentil )
2 chilies
Small piece of ginger
Salt to taste (2 tsp )
For the sauce
Oil for frying (1 cup)
2 cups of yogurt
Salt as per taste
For garnishing
½ tsp of cumin, coriander, chilie powder, chat masala.
Method: blend all the ingredients for the vada into a smooth paste.
Heat the oil in a pan fry the batter and soak into water. After a while make the yogurt sauce. Take a bowl add yogurt and ½ cup water, salt. Soak all the vadas and garnish . Serve it as a side

tapioca pulao

Today I am going to make sabudana (tapioca) pulao. Its really tasty and satisfies your hunger.
for this you need
1 cup of soaked sabudana (tapioca)
2 tablespoon of oil
4 curry leaves
2 chilies (chopped)
½ cup roasted peanut (roughly grinded)
1 tsp of cumin powder
½ tsp of coriander powder
½ tsp of turmeric
½ mustard seeds
½ chana dal (optional)
Salt to taste
Method: heat the oil in heavy bottom pan. Add mustard, chana dal, curry leaves. Let it crackle add the sabudana. Sauté for a while, add the peanut and all other dry ingredients. Sauté for a while and serve it hot.
You can also make variation by adding boiled potatoes. Garnishing with cilantro.

onion pakoras

Onion pakoras are too yummy. We all know that deep fried food is always welcome.
Ingredients:
2 cup onion sliced
2 tablespoon chickpea flour(besan)
2 tablespoon of rice flour
2 green chilies finely chopped
Handful of cilantro finely chopped
Oil for frying
Salt as per taste
Method : mix all the ingredients except the oil keep aside. Heat up the oil start frying when the oil is hot enough. Serve with ketchup .

Bengali style chana masala . It is little different from the regular chana masala.

Ingredients:
2 cup of boiled chickpea (chana)
1 medium onion
2 tbls ginger garlic paste
1 big tomato
4 table spoon of cooking oil
2 tsp of turmeric
2 cinnamon stick
4-5 cloves
2 cardamom
2 bay leaves
Salt and chilies as per the taste

Method: heat up a heavy bottom pan, add oil ,add onion and ginger garlic paste, sauté for a while add the chopped tomatoes, add the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, add turmeric boiled chana . Add water if you want gravy, smash few boiled chana (chickpea) to make the curry little thicker. Serve it with hot rice or chapattis.

chowmein

Today I had Chinese lunch. I made chowmein. It tasted so delicious. So thought of posting here the preparation.
Ingredients:
2 cups of boiled egg noodles
2 tbs of soya sauce
2 tbs of chilies sauce
4 tbs of vinegar
1 medium onion chopped
1 small bell pepper chopped
½ cup of shredded cabbage
1 small carrot chopped
4 tbs of cooking oil
Salt to taste
Method: Heat the oil in heavy pan ,add onion and all other vegetables sauté for while. Add all the sauces then add the noodles and sauté. Add salt, cook for a while. Serve it hot.