MERI RASOI

I was looking for some fresh snacks and didnt want to spend too much time and I got this idea.. If you have some namkeen lying with you , just dry grind it in the mixer and your filling is ready.Or you can take any daal mix from Haldiraam and grind it. Then knead some maida with some oil and water. make it a hard dough, now you can make small samosas and .Bhakar badi.........both for samosa take a small ball of dough, roll it in an oblong shape, cut into half and make a little samosa and deep fry on medium heat. For..Bhakhar badi....take a medium size ball and roll it like a chapati, then spread the filling with a spoon and press it a little so that it sticks. Then roll the chapati int o a roll and then cut into small pieces and then deep fry on medium heat. You can eat it fresh and keep it also for long period

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...

Once you make this receipe you will never be able to eat the nankhatais in the market. They are so good:).This receipe was told to me by my very old friend Anuja, an expert in baking .ingredients 1cup sugar-ground 1cup ghee 1and half cup of maida half cup besan sieve maida ; besan and mix all the ingredients together thoroughly and nicely ,then make small flat balls ,put them on a greased tray a little apart. make a cross over them with knife. and bake them in a preheated oven at 400 degree for 15 minutes(time may vary a little depending upon the oven and quantity, so please check it.

Quantity : Approx 10-15 What you'll need : 1/4 cup chana dal 1/8 cup chopped onion 2 tbsp chopped cilantro 1 tsp grated ginger 1-1.5 tbsp chopped green chillies Salt to taste Oil for deep frying Method Soak the chana dal overnight in sufficient water. Grind the dal with as minimum water as possible. The final texture should be coarse, there maybe a few whole grains left. The more you churn the batter, the more fluffy the vada will be which we don't want. Add the rest of the ingredients to the batter and mix well. Heat oil in a fry pan (for deep frying the vadas). Initially keep it at high flame so that the oil gets heated quickly, once the oil is hot reduce the flame to med-high. Take a heaped tbsp of batter in your paln, pat it a little to form a small disc and drop it in the oil. Fry them well so that the dal inside gets cooked properly. Each vada may take around 3-4 minutes. While frying turn over the vada when one side is done to let the other side cook. Remove when they...

Now.a days navratri is going on, so we fast for all the days and take some different food, sabudana bada is one of them, i forgot to take the photo but I am writing the recipe . Ingredients: 1 cup sago or sabudana --soak in 3 cup water for 1 hour 300 gm Potatoes 2 green chilli 1 inch ginger piece salt red chilli powder 2 tbsp peanut..roasted. oil for shallow frying curd and green chatney and tamarind chatney Boil the potatoes and mash them or grate them. Squeeze the water out of sago. Chop the green chillies and ginger finely. Pound the peanuts coarsely. Mix ......sago, potatoes, green chillies, ginger,peanuts, and add salt and red chilli powder to taste. Now make flat tikkis ...make balls and flatten them . They can be either deep fried or shallow fry as you want, both ways tasty. Serve them either with green chatney only or like Chaat ...spread curd, and both the chatneys .

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

For serving as starters before dinner or even as a snack with tea its a tasty accompaniment.Its a non fried tasty snacking. Ingredients 200gm peanuts---roasted----normally if you put them in microwave at high for 3 minutes, shaking them once in between-----they are well done. 2 tomatoes finely chopped 1onion finely chopped 3 green chillies finely chopped half cup cucumber finely chopped. 2-3 tbsp. green coriander-finely chopped 1lemon salt to taste just before serving mix everything together and the sprinkle the lemon juice and serve it garnished with green coriander. its a very tasty, crunchy snack. In the garnishing you may add Bhujia also. I'm sending this to "Let's go NUTS!" , hosted by aquadaze!

This one is like fast food, prepare in a haste and enjoy with leisure:), and no oil is used, so healthy also, my sis prepared it for me and I really relished it so much that I am sharing it with you, try it once and tell me how did it go? 4 bread slices 1/2 cup milk 1/2 tsp sugar 1 tablespoon raisins 1 tablespoon chironji 1 tbsp. coconut grated-optional 1tbsp. green coriander leaves chopped 1 tsp ginger finely chopped. salt & pepper to taste 1tsp. cumin powder or Chaat masala 1 cup fresh curd..sieved to make it smooth Cut of the crust from bread slices. add sugar in the milk. Mix coriander ,ginger, chironji ,raisins in a plate........fillingTake a slice in hand, dab it with the milk and then put one tsp filling and close the ends by hand pressing it firmly. Put dahibaras in a plate and pour the curd over them. You may put a little ( half tsp ) sugar in the curd. after 2-3 minutes...sprinkle salt, pepper and cumin powder..........ready to be e aten :),Its a healthy and tasty dis...

yesterday it was ahoi ashtami , this day i keep fast for the the welfare of my children. and the goodies we make consitute Khakri ---salted and sweet. Salted are the same as on Papdi chat.and i am writin the recipe here- Ingredients :- 1cup flour 1tbsp.oil salt to taste. oil for frying. beaten curd -1cup Tamarind chatney salt,red pepper powder,roasted and ground cumin seed. 2 potatoes boiled and diced into small pieces a little bhujia nad coriander leaves chopped to garnish. add 1 tbsp. oil and salt to taste in the flour and knead a dough adding a little water. Dough should not be very soft. Now roll a little pooris of 1 inch diameter and spread them on a paper. Prick them with a fork. Now deep fry them. The papdis are ready and tasty to eat as it is, but we can make papdi chaat also ---- put 5-6 papdis in a quarter plate. put a little potato on the top of each. spread curd over this......then tamarind chatney and sprinkle the spices-salt,pepper and cumin . u can make ...

paneer roll Paneer is the all time favourite of my whole family, rather all young generation be it paneer parantha, or any paneer dish, they relish it so much. I have prepared paneer rolls for my guests three times, and all the times I have been flooded with the compliments and appreciation,so I thought of sharing my recipe, here it comes:-- ingredients: 100 gm. paneer 4 potatoes-medium sized--boiled and mashed 2 slices of bread. 1 tbsp. green coriander finely chopped 1tsp ginger-finely chopped salt to taste 1/4tsp.red chilli powder or according to taste. 1 green chilli finely chopped 1/4 tsp. chaat masala or any other like paani poori or jaljeera. 1/4 tsp. garam masala oil for frying For the filling Mash the paneer and add in this salt, green coriander,ginger,chilli, chat masala,garam masala and mix thoroughly and make 8 small balls. For the covering Soak the slices into water for 1 minute and then squeeze them thoroughly and add to the mashed potatoes and add green coriander, salt an...

FRYING ALL MADE.......... .....FINALLY READY pOTATOES BOILED AND DICED CONICAL SHELL Ingredients...... For the dough..1 cup refined flour, salt to taste and 2 tbsp oil For the filling----4 potatoes boiled and cut into small pieces 1tsp. each cumin seeds,red chilli powder,dry mango powder 1 tbsp coriander powder and salt to taste oil for frying Chatneys ..as u like.....I prefer green chatney made of coriander leaves for the dough ,mix all the ingredient and make a dough adding a little water, dough must not be very soft. for the filling,put a tsp oil in the pan, when it becomes hot, add cumin seeds. When they start spluttering, add all the spices and potatoes , mix well. Now make the balls from the dough,take a ball and roll it into an oblong piece, now cut it into to vertically, Take one piece and put some water on the cut edges and seal them together by pressing, now it will be a conical shell, Fill one tsp of filling and seal the top with the help of water and pressing it toget...

Ingredients:--- sooji or semolina-1cup 3/4 cup sour curd 1/2 tsp salt. 1 sachet of eno fruit salt 1/4 cup water. 1tsp. mustard seeds 2-3 green chilli chatneys ....any one u like.....coconut or corriander Roast the semolina in the pan for 2-3 minutes then add curd and salt mix it and leave for 30 minutes. now in a cup take water, a pinch of sugar and add eno fruit salt, mix it and add to the sooji . Now take a flat plate with edges and oil it, pour this batter and steam it in dhokla maker, or in a cooker without whistle. It must be ready in 20 minutes. Take it out and cut into pieces. In a frypan put 2 tbsp oil and when it becomes hot add mustard seeds and green chilli . when mustard seeds start spluttering, take it off and add to the prepared dhokla . You may garnish it with chopped fresh coriander leaves and grated cocnut . Serve it with chatney . For green chatney ....... Take a bunch of fresh coriander and grind it with 3 green chilli ,1/2 tsp salt and 1 tbsp dry mango powder....