MERI RASOI

I got this recipe from Nita Mehta's book. The bread is very " khasta ", not sure how to translate that to english - maybe you could say butter crisp. It's not crisp like potato chips but crisp like phyllo pastry. You can fill the bread with any filling of your choice. The original recipe called for a mushroom filling but since we don't eat mushrooms I made a potato filling like the one used for samosa. For the bread: Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup butter (cold) 1 tsp baking powder 3/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup milk 1/4 tsp ajwain (carrom seeds) Method: Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut butter into small cubes. Rub the butter lightly into the flour till it resembles like bread crumbs. Add milk and kneead lightly to form a dough. Cover and keep aside in a cool place or in the fridge till you have the filling ready. Roll out the dough into a square about 10" long. It's more important that the dough layer be thin - so if it's com...

This is the favourite dish of my family for breakfast. Very easily prepared , and the ingredients are also almost all the time available at home. its a complete food with all the nutrients....protein( gram flour) and vitamins (vegetables). Ingredients:----- Gram flour( besan ) 250 gm. 1 carrot grated 1 radish grated a bunch of spinach leaves chopped finely. 2 green chilli finely chopped. salt to taste. oil to saute or shallow fry make a thick batter of gram flour adding water. Add al the ingredients..now it must be of flowing consistency. Now heat a tawa or pan. Spread 1 tsp. oil and spread 2 tbsp. batter at a time . shallow fry it just like Dosa , but both the sides. Enjoy it with curd and chatney . As a variation you may add any other vegetable also, like cabbage, onions. For making it more nutritious for kids, you may mix the fortified flour..multi grain flour....make it 50-50

This is a very healthy breakfast for me and I like it also, almost no oil is used and it has lots of vegetables. and not much cooking even. Ingredients:----- 1cup broken wheat 250 gm cabbage..julienned 1small capsicum..julienned 1 carrot grated 1 tsp. oil 1tsp. mustard seeds. 1/2 tsp. turmeric 1/2 tsp salt or as you like it 1/2 lemon 2 tbsp. roasted peanuts. Green chilli (optional) coriander leaves..finely chopped for garnishing. Dry roast the broken wheat, till it is golden. In a pan put oil, and when it is hot add mustard seeds. When they start spluttering add all the vegetables. saute them for 5-8 minutes, till they get shiny or loose water. Keep them aside. Now cook the broken wheat with 2 cup water, turmeric and salt, slow the fire and cook till all the water is absorbed. Mix the vegetables in this. Now while serving spread some peanuts and then sprinkle lemon. TIPS:.....even you can roast the wheat in microwave also, you will have to stir it once or twice. Some people add tomatoe...

I make Upma once a week in breakfast, i learned it from a north India friend who was very good in cooking, then improvised it with a maharshtrian friend. Actually I dont know Upma belongs to which region.. maharashtra or south, but i like it as its a healthy breakfast, though i dont put the same quantity of oil one sees in the restaurants. Ingredients: one and half cup semolina 4 cups water 1 tsp mustard seeds 3 greenn chillies split salt to taste(half tsp. for me) 5 french beans..chopped very finely 1small carrot..chopped finely 1 onion..chopped..optional( I dont use it) 1tbsp. roasted chana daal few curry leaves oil 4 tsp. juice of one lemon Take a pan, and roast the semolina on medium fire for 4 minutes., then take it off. Now in the pan, put 1 tsp. oil, heat it. add mustard seeds and when they start splitting add chana dal and roast till it is light brown. Add curry leaves and green chilli and stir add the vegetables and stir for 2 minutes. Now add water. Add salt, res...

This dish is a very healthy and tasty breakfast or tiffin item. And a speciality of my Bhabhi . She prepares it really well...yummy.... Ingredients: 250 gm. semolina ( sooji ) 250 gm sour curd, the amount may be adjusted as needed to soak the sooji . 1 tbsp. oil. 1/2 tsp. mustard seeds. 1/2 tsp. soda bicarb . salt to taste. 2 greenchilli ground 1/2 kg. cabbage finely chopped, 1tsp.sugar 2 carrots grated,(optional) 1 capsicum finely chopped (optional) soya suace 1 tsp...optional. Tomato ketch up and green chutney. Soak the semolina in the curd for 1 hour. Add green chilli and salt. Now add soda and sugar in the batter and mix it properly . Steam in small size idli maker. In the mean time take a saucepan. Add oil and when hot put mustard seeds and then add all the cut vegetables and saute them for 5-10 minutes till it shines. Then add idlies and stir. For serving......... Put them in the plate and spread green chutney and tomato ketchup. If you like then in the vegetable put the s...

This the moong daal prepared in the breakfast. Its very tasty and healthy. In the north,most of the wedding receptions have this in menu. Ingredients:--- moong daal one and a half cups( without cchilka ) salt to taste a pinch of asafoetida green chatney --optional juice of one lemon 1tsp.cumin seed 2 green chilli finely chopped 1inch ginger finely chopped a dollop of butter--optional few leaves of green coriander..finely chopped. Wash the daal . Heat the cooker, add 1 tbsp ghee . Add asafoetida , cumin seeds and when they start splitting add daal . Now add 3 and half cup water and salt. When the whistle comes, slow the fire for 1 minute then take it off. When it cols of a little open it. for serving put the daal in a bowl, sprinkle ginger, add lemon juice,green chillies, chatney , butter and garnish with coriander leaves. In the mornings, it doesnt take much time and a very healthy, non oily breakfast snack . Take it with milk or juice.

Ingredients---- 1cup flour 2potatoes boiled salt to taste 1/4 tsp chilli powder 1 tbsp. green coriander finely chopped 1 green chilli finely chopped Mash the potatoes .Mix all the ingredients and knead a hard dough adding water a little little, as required. Take a medium size ball and roll into a poori. And deep fry them. Relish them hot in breakfast with pickles. Do not try to roll into a thin poori.You should not knead the flour and keep it, knead only when you are going to make it, as otherwise potatoes leave water and the dough becomes too soft to roll. You can prepare simple alu bhaji with this.