Herbed Mushrooms

Time Required: 30 Minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 500 gms Mushrooms (washed and sliced)
• 2 Tbsp Butter
• 5 Garlic pods (chopped)
• 2 tsp Mixed Herbs
• 2 tsp Chilli Flakes
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Take a pan, add Butter and heat till it melts.
2. Now add chopped Garlic, fry till it becomes slightly brown.
3. Add Mushrooms and cook uncovered till done.
4. Now add Salt, Chilli Flakes and Mixed Herbs and mix.
5. Herbed Mushroom is ready!

Note: Mushrooms release water and gets cooked on it own, so no need to add water to this dish.

Crispy Potatoes

Time Required: 20 Minutes
Servings: 4

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Crispy Potato is one of my son’s favorite snack. He had it first in a restaurant and then one of my friend also made it and gave us. That’s when he asked me to try it. He loves to have it in the evening with a cup of milk. You should serve it hot immediately after you make it. If you don’t then it becomes soggy and potatoes will loose its crispiness.

Ingredients:

• 20 Baby Potatoes
• Half a cup of Mayonnaise
• 1/2 tsp Chilli Flakes
• 1/2 tsp Mixed Herbs
• 1 tsp Onion Powder
• 3 tsp Garlic Powder
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
• 2 tsp Paprika
• 4tbsp Corn Flour
• 2 tbsp Maida
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash baby Potatoes thoroughly. Cook them in cooker for two whistles.
2. Take Mayonnaise in a bowl. Add Chilli Flakes, Mixed Herbs, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Black Pepper, Paprika, and Salt.
   
3. Prepare a thin mixture of Corn flour and Maida.
4. Now flatten the cooked Potatoes. Dip these Potatoes in the Corn flour and Maida mixture so that they get a thin coat on them.
   
5. Deep fry these coated Potatoes.
6. Place these Potatoes on a plate and put the Mayonnaise mixture on each of the flattened deep fried baby potatoes.
7. Crispy Potatoes are ready! Serve them Hot.

   

Quick Snack/ Drink Recipes

When you are in a hurry and you want to make some Snacks and drinks quickly then there are few recipes listed below. You can make them in 10 minutes. Try it!

Snacks

• Idli Mixture (Idli Kosambari)
• Idli Upma (Idli Upittu)
• Masala Bread
• Masala Poha (Pova Pittya Pova)
• Poha (Phanni Phovu)
• Poha using Sugar and Green Chillies (Sakkare/Valli Mirsangi Pova)
• Potato Poha (Batate Pova)
• Rice Roti using Banana Leaves (Mumbri)
• Shallow Fried Idli (Idli Podi)
• Sweet Poha using Jaggery (Goda Pova)
• Upma (Upittu)
• Vada

 

Drinks

• Berry Juice/ Smoothie
• Chocolate Milk Shake
• Cold Bournvita/ Chocolate Drink
• Dalgona Coffee
• Kashaya (Healthy Drink to replace Tea or Coffee)
• Kokum Kadi (Birnda Kadi)
• Lassi (Sweet and Salt)
• Lemon Juice/ Lime Juice
• Orange Juice
• Sesame Seed Panak (Tila Panak)
• Strawberry flavored Lassi

Paneer Tikka

Time Required: 20 Minutes (Marination time – at least 1 1/2 to 2 hour in refrigerator)
Servings: 4

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Paneer Tikka is one of my family’s favorite starter. Paneer has a fairly high level of fat and proteins due to which it has a great value in diet. It also contains calcium and phosphorus.

Ingredients:

• 250 gms Paneer
• 200 ltr Curd
• 1 Capsicum
• 1 tsp Chilli Powder
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
• 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder
• 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp Pepper powder
• 1/4 tsp Garam Masala
• 1/2 a Lemon
• 1 tsp Kasoori Methi
• 2 tsp Besan
• 2tsp Oil
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Cut Paneer into thin, big, and Square pieces. Cut Capsicum into square pieces.
2. Take Curd in a bowl. Add Chilli Powder, Turmeric Powder, Ginger Garlic Paste, Cumin Powder, Coriander powder, Pepper powder, Garam Masala, Kasoori Methi, Oil, Salt and Lemon juice. Mix it Well.
   
3. Add Besan to the mixture and mix it well so that no lumps are formed.
   
4. Add Paneer and Capsicum pieces into the curd mixture and mix it well so that each piece is well marinated. Place marinated Paneer and Capsicum in refrigerator for 2 hrs.
   
5. Now shallow fry Paneer and Capsicum pieces on grill pan with little oil or butter. I have used oil. The tawa should not be very hot. Shallow fry on low flame.
6. Yummy Panner Tikka is ready! Serve it hot.
   

Note: You can use onion and tomato pieces also along with capsicum. My family members do not like tomato and onion that much so have just added Capsicum.

Dalgona Coffee

Time Required: 30 Minutes
Servings: 2

Dalgona Coffee is a drink made by whipping coffee till its creamy and then adding this as a topping to chilled Milk. Its lock down and all you see on Facebook is Dalgona Coffee. This viral sensation has taken up the social media. So I thought why should I be behind. So here it goes ;)!

Actually its our own Pheti hui Coffee which is trending now as Dalgona Coffee!!! A quarantine dink we could say as it got its popularity during our quarantine days.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 liter Milk (freeze it for 4-5 hrs)
• 4 tbsp Sugar
• 4 tbsp Coffee Powder
• 4 tbsp Warm Water
• 8 Ice Cubes

Method:

1. Take a glass put 4 tbsp Sugar, 4 tbsp Coffee Powder, 4 tbsp Warm Water and whisk- till you get thick frothy consistency. This will take around 20 min if you hand whisk it, and lesser time if you use electric whisker.
2. Now take another glass, add chilled Milk 3/4th of the glass, add ice cubes, and now add the coffee froth.
3. Serve it immediately!

Note:

• Before you sip it, mix properly the Milk and the topped Coffee and have it.
• You can have this with hot Milk as well.

Chocolate Milk Shake

Time Required: 10 Minutes
Servings: 4

Summers are the time when kids dont like to drink anything hot. And it is understandable why they dont like to have. Our kids generally drink hot Bournvita in morning or in the evening. Summers they get fussy to drink hot, so decided to make cold Chocolate Milk Shake. And to my surprise they happy had Chocolate Milk Shake and demanded more! And they have asked me to make everyday!!!

Ingredients:

• 1 liter Milk (freeze it for 4-5 hrs)
• 8 tbsp Sugar
• 3 tbsp Chocolate Powder
• 8 Ice Cubes

Method:

1. Pour Milk in the Juicer/Blender.
2. Add Sugar, Ice Cubes and Chocolate Powder. Blend it.
3. Tasty Cool Chocolate Milk Shake is ready!