Let's snack it up for a rainy evening

My tongue was yearning for something spicy yesterday evening... my son too woke up early from sleep, tummy was also wishing for something chatpata... quickly i had an idea of making Spicy tomato masala like the one chaatwalas do..

I opened the fridge and found all the ingredients and lo i started..

Ingredients:

1. Tomatoes sliced
2. Grated carrots
3. Finely chopped onions
4. Sev
5. Congress kadlekai (optional)
6. Khara Chutney (Grind some pudina, coriander leaves along with green chillies as per ur taste.)
7. Sweet Chutney (Soak dates in hot water, along with tamarind. Melt jaggery with very little water and add tamarind pulp and ground dates and cook it till it thickens. U can also add saunf for flavour).
8.Chaat Masala
9. Salt

Method:

1. Slice tomatoes evenly..
2. On this spread khara chutney, sweet chutney.
3. Sprinkle some salt as well.
4. Next add chopped onions, grated carrot.
5. Now garnish with sev and congress kadlekai..
6. Your spicy tomato masala is ready to be attacked upon..

Breakfast recipe - on demand from friends

The beginning was good... better than i thought it would be.. My blog actually has reached out some people but yet to reach more.. all thanks to facebook.. 


A few of my friends hold the opinion that i should share in some south indian as well as breakfast recipes, so here i come again with another recipe.. CABBAGE DOSA.. This one is a tried and tested recipe at home. The family loved it.. 


Ingredients:

1. Soak 1 cup of rice overnight along with a handful of urad dal and chana dal

2. 1/4 kg of cabbage finely chopped

3. 3-4 onions finely chopped                                           

4. 2-3 tomatoes finely choppped

5. 2-3 teaspoons of dhania seeds

6. 1 teaspoon jeera

7. 6-7 dry red chillies

8. 2-3 green chilles

9. salt to taste

Method: 

Grind the rice, along with dals, dhania seeds, jeera and alsothe chillies to dosa batter consistency.. .
Now slightly roast cabbage, onions with 2 teaspoons of oil. mix this along with the tomatoes and corriander leaves to the dosa batter and pour over the tava until baked.. cook both sides... 

tastes best with a dollop of ghee... :))

The very 1st post on my very own food blog

It was long pending in my mind to create a food blog... but the thought of how to go about it and how to reach out to people stopped me... well leaving all these thoughts behind here i have started one...

But now i wonder what should be my 1st post on a food blog... something traditional, something borrowed or something made on my own... after thinking so much my 1st post has to be something that i'm very fond of eating.. chocolates.... slurppp.. well who doesn't love chocolate.... the smell of chocolate is so heavenly.... ahh so fresh and yummy... So this is something that i combined and made... Some borrowed from the internet and some parts from my own experience... So people here comes my 1st recipe post "CHOCO BISCUIT ROLLS"  


CHOCO BISCUIT ROLLS

Ingredients

1. Marie Biscuits 2 Packets
2. Milkmaid tin  1 tin
3. Butter 250gm
4. Cocoa Powder 8-9 tablespoons
5. Dry fruits for garnishing


Method:

1. Break the Marie biscuits into small pieces and grind them fine in a mixer.
2. Now mix this powder along with cocoa powder, butter and milkmaid. Make sure you don't add too much of butter. The mixture should be fine enough for you to make small rolls.  You can alter the sweet content as per your taste.
3. Roll  this dough into small balls and garnish them with dry fruits or cherries even.
4. Freeze them for about an hour before serving.

Variation:

You can roll this balls in desiccated coconut or even fine biscuit powder.