Green Veg. Pizza

Ingredients:

Pizza Sauce:

• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 1 cup milk
• ½ tsp pepper powder
• ¼ tsp oregano
• 1 bowl spinach (finely chopped & washed)
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp sugar (optional)

Toppings:

• 2 pizza base
• 2 button mushrooms (thin slices)
• 2-3 Black olives chopped
• ½ green capsicum (diced)
• ½ cup paneer (diced)
• ½ cup chopped & washed spinach
• 1 cube processed cheese (grated)
• ½ cup grated mozzarella cheese
• Oregano
• Chili flakes
• 1 tsp Olive oil
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Heat butter in a pan, add plain flour stir & cook for sometime till it gets light pink. Add chopped spinach & cook for 1 min. Now add milk and stir continuously till it gets cooked and of thick consistency. Finally add salt, sugar, pepper powder and oregano. Mix well and keep it in a bowl.
2. Heat olive oil in a pan and add chopped paneer, capsicum, salt, chili flakes and oregano. Stir for sometime and keep it in a separate bowl.
3. On pizza base spread prepared sauce evenly and sprinkle processed & mozzarella cheese on that.
4. Then arrange toppings of mushrooms, paneer, capsicum, spinach and olives. Sprinkle some more cheese on that and finally oregano and chili flakes on top.
5. Put it on a baking tray and bake it in preheated oven for 8-10 mins on 220°C.
6. Serve hot with soft drinks.

Thalipith

Ingredients:

• 4 tbsp wheat flour
• 4 tbsp gram flour
• 4 tbsp jowari flour
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 bowl chopped fenugreek leaves
• 1 onion – finely chopped
• 1 green chili – finely chopped
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl and knead dough with a little water.

• Make thick chapattis from this dough and shallow fry on a tawa, using a little oil.
• Serve hot with butter and yogurt/ketchup.

Mayo Rajma salad

Ingredients:

• 1 cup boiled small rajma (kidney beans)
• 1 carrot shredded or grated
• 1 cup shredded cabbage
• 5-6 chopped black olives
• ½ green capsicum shredded
• Slices of 1 orange (peeled & deseeded)

Dressing:

• 1½ tsp olive oil
• 1½ tbsp mayonnaise
• ¾ tsp mustard sauce
• 1-2 tsp honey
• 1 tsp freshly grounded black pepper
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Mix all the dressing ingredients in small bowl. Stir properly.
2. Mix all the other salad ingredients in big bowl and add prepared dressing in it.
3. Mix properly. Serve cold.

Corn Methi Pulav

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Basmati rice (Washed and soaked for half an hour)
• 2 bowls fenugreek leaves (chopped & washed)
• 1 cup corn kernels
• 1 small onion sliced
• 1½ tsp ginger-chilli paste
• 1½ tbsp ghee
• 4-5 cloves
• 2-3 cardamom
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1-2 bay leaves
• 6-7 cashew nuts
• 2 cups of water
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a pan, add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves & cashews. Stir it & add onion and ginger-chilli paste. Sauté for sometime till the onion gets light pink.
2. Now mix corn, fenugreek leaves, salt & little water. Stir it well. Cover and cook it for sometime.
3. Then add soaked rice and water. Stir lightly and let it cook with lid till the rice gets cooked.
4. Serve hot.

Grilled Subzi

Ingredients:

• 1 carrot – cut into thin round slices
• 2 capsicums – green, yellow or red – sliced into thin fingers
• 1 tomato – deseeded and cut into thin fingers
• 50-75 gms paneer – cut into thin fingers
• 3 tbsp oil
• ½ tsp ajwain (carom seeds)
• 3 tbsp gram flour
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• ½ tsp red chili powder
• ½ tsp coriander cumin powder
• ¼ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp garam masala
• ½ tsp aamchur powder (dry-mango powder)
• 2-3 tbsp milk
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. In a microwave proof dish, cook sliced carrots with little water for 2 minutes.
2. In another microwave proof dish, mix oil, ajwain, gram flour, lemon juice, red chili powder, coriander-cumin powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mango powder and microwave on high for 2 minutes.
3. Add milk and salt and mix properly. Then add carrots, capsicum and paneer and grill in the oven for 14 minutes. After 7 minutes, add deseeded tomatoes and mix gently and grill for the remaining 7 minutes.
4. Serve hot.

Lemon Rice

Ingredients:

• 1 cup long grain rice
• 2 tbsp gram dal (Chana dal)
• 1½ tsp urad dal
• ½ tsp mustard seed
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• ¼ tsp asafetida
• 1 tsp chaat masala
• ¼-½ tsp red chilli powder
• ¼ cup roasted or fried peanuts
• ½ cup coriander leaves
• 8-10 curry leaves
• 4 tsp oil
• Juice of 1 large sized lemon
• Lemon zest
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Soak rice and chana dal for 1 hour and cook it with salt, turmeric powder and 2 tsp oil with adequate water (enough to cook the rice grain, but not to make it very soggy)
2. Heat remaining oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, urad dal and hing. When urad dal gets light pink, add rice and dal mixture, salt, red chilli powder, chaat masala and mix properly.
3. Add peanuts and lemon zest and mix well. Allow it to cool to room temperature.
4. Add lemon juice and coriander leaves and mix softly.
5. Serve warm.

Apple Crisp

Ingredients:

• 2 apples – chopped in cubes – with skin
• 1½ tsp sugar
• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 2 tbsp wheat flour
• ½ cup wheat flakes – crushed coarsely with hand
• ½ cup corn flakes – crushed coarsely with hand
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 8-9 chopped almonds
• 1-2 tbsp softened butter

Method

1. In a bowl, mix chopped apples and sugar. Mix well till the sugar melts.
2. In a pan, heat oatmeal and wheat flour for 5 min. Stir continuously.
3. In another bowl, add oatmeal mixture, almonds, wheat flakes, corn flakes, brown sugar and butter. Mix them properly with hand.
4. In a greased baking tray, place apples in bottom and lay the mixture on the top of the apples. Press evenly. Sprinkle some butter on top.
5. Bake it for 20 minutes at 200°C.
6. Serve warm (Can be served with ice-cream also)

Source : I had seen this recipe on a cookery show on ETV.

Eggless Chocolate-Walnut cake (in microwave)

Ingredients:

1¾ cup maida (plain flour)

6 tbsp cocoa powder

¼ tsp baking powder

½ tsp eating soda

¾ cup vegetable oil / refined oil

1 cup curd (nor sour)

1¼ cup ground sugar

½ tsp vanilla essence

1 cup milk with 1 tsp coffee and 2 tsp drinking chocolate mixed in it

½ cup walnuts pieces

Ingredients:

• 1¾ cup maida (plain flour)
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp eating soda
• ¾ cup vegetable oil / refined oil
• 1 cup curd (nor sour)
• 1¼ cup ground sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 1 cup milk with 1 tsp coffee and 2 tsp drinking chocolate mixed in it
• ½ cup walnuts pieces

Method:

1. Sieve the dry ingredients viz. maida, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda for 2-3 times.
2. In a deep bowl, mix oil, curd, sugar and vanilla essence. Beat well with beater. Then add flour mixture and mix properly.
3. Now add the coffee-chocolate milk and beat again well.
4. Ensure that the mixture has a loose consistency.
5. Add walnut pieces and mix them gently.
6. Grease a round or square microwave-proof vessel. Pour the mixture in it and pour some walnut pieces on top.
7. Microwave this for 10 minutes on high power. Standing time 10 minutes.
8. Allow it to cool completely before unmolding it.

Crunchy Chocolate Shake

Ingredients: 

• ½ cup milk
• 4/5 scoop vanilla ice-cream
• ½ cup chocolate cake crumps
• Any Wafer chocolate (sticks)
• Chocolate sauce as required
• 2 tsp drinking chocolate powder
• Ice cubes 

Method:

1. In a bowl add milk, 2 scoop ice-cream, 4-5 small pieces of wafer chocolate, drinking chocolate and blend it in a blender with 2-3 ice cubes.
2. Now in a serving glass place some chocolate cake crumps in a bottom. Arrange some wafer chocolate pieces on that and pour prepared shake on that.
3. Finally garnish the glass with chocolate sauce & put the vanilla scoop on top & pour some chocolate sauce on that. Finally put one wafer chocolate on top for garnishing.
4. Serve chilled.

Pineapple upside-down cake

Ingredients:

• 60 gm white butter
• 30 gm brown sugar
• 6-7 tinned pineapple slices – (drained)
• 130 gm condensed milk
• 100 gm plain flour (maida)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp eating soda
• 50 gm pineapple stock (stock of approx 2 pineapple slices with little syrup)
• 2-3 drops of Pineapple essence
• Water as required

 Method:

• In a small bowl mix 30 gm butter & 30 gm brown sugar properly. Spread it in the cake tin evenly.
• Place the pineapple slices on that butter spread properly.

 

• Mix and sieve plain flour, baking powder & soda separately.
• Now in a deep bowl mix remaining butter & condensed milk and beat it with hand beater. Then add flour mixture and mix well. (You can add water if required). Then add pineapple stock & pineapple essence & beat for sometime.

• Pour the mixture over the pineapple pieces placed in the tin. Bake it in a preheated oven on 180 °C for 35-40 mins.
• Unmould the cake after 5 min. Serve hot with ice-cream.