Vegetable Pizza Bites

Vegetable Pizza Bites

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 4-5

Ingredients
1 Sliced medium size Onion
1 Chopped medium size Tomato
2 Garlic cloves chopped finely
1 1/2 teaspoon chilly powder
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
Salt to taste
1 1/2 teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon oil






Toppings
Yellow Baby corn
Jalapenos or bell pepper
Olives or Capers
Mozzarella Cheese

Method

• Heat oil in a pan. Add garlic, onions let it cook for few minutes till the onions are transparent.
• Add tomato, salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder and mix it well. cover the pan and cook it for 2 minutes.
• When tomatoes are almost dissolved with onions, add sugar, black pepper and again mix it well.
• Remove it from flame and keep it aside.
• Pre-heat oven at 350 degree F or 180 degree C and place bread slices for 2 minutes, till the downside of the bread becomes a little crisp.
• Remove the bread from the oven and place it upside down. On the crisp part evenly spread the onion-tomato spread which was made before.
• Then spread mozzarella cheese last add baby corn,jalapenos, capers and again keep it in the oven for 4-5 minutes.
• Serve them hot.

Tips:

1. Can cut bread in different shapes before keeping it in oven.
2. Can sprinkle black pepper after adding all the toppings

Vegetable Thai Red curry

Vegetable Thai Red curry

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Thai red curry paste
1 cup sliced halved mushrooms
1 green bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
1/2 cup sliced carrots
1 onion, quartered then halved
1 (14 ounce) coconut milk
1 tablespoon Thai basil leaves.
Lemon Zest (as per taste)

Method

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. 
• Add the curry paste, mushrooms, bell pepper, carrot and onion. Cook and stir for a few minutes.
• Add coconut milk and Thai basil leaves. 
• Bring to a boil,sprinkle some lemon zest and then simmer over medium heat for a minutes.
• Serve the curry with hot steamed rice.

Thai red curry paste

Thai red curry paste

Ingredients-

Dried Thai Red Chilies – 20 or to taste (de-seeded)
Galangal – 1 Tbsp (Ginger can be substituted but use galangal for authentic Thai flavor)
Shallots – 1/2 cup, chopped
Lemon Grass – 2 Tbsp, chopped
Cilantro Stems – 2 Tbsp
Garlic – 1/4 cup, chopped
Lime Leaves – 4 to 5 (Lime zest can be added)
Black Peppercorns – 1 tsp
Salt – to taste
Chilly powder – as needed
Oil – 3 Tbsp
Hot Water – 1 cup


Method-

• Soak Dried Red Chilies in 1/3 cup hot water.
• Remove the soaked chilies from the water and grind them with remaining ingredients (except Oil) in a blender. You can use the same hot water so the ingredients blend well.
• Grind all of the ingredients into a smooth paste.
• Heat Oil in a skillet.
• Add the paste and cook it until the oil starts to separate.

Scallops in Black Sauce

Scallops in Black Sauce

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Serves: 2-3

Ingredients-
Baby scallops - 1 pound
Soy Sauce - 1 tablespoon
Corn Starch - 1 tablespoon
Garlic Cloves finely chopped - 1-2
Green Chilies finely chopped - 2
Black pepper - 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste.
Oil 2 tablespoon
Water 1/2 cup

Method-

Making Black sauce:

• Take some water in small bowl and dissolve the corn starch and keep it aside.
• Heat up 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan. Add garlic, green chilies. 
• when garlic starts becoming golden brown,add soy sauce,black pepper,water and salt if necessary.
• After a minute add corn starch which is dissolved in water and keep on stirring the sauce till it starts thickening a bit.
• Once the sauce has reach a thick consistency remove it from the flame and keep it aside.

Cooking the scallops:

• Heat up 1 tablespoon of oil in another pan. Add the baby scallops,salt to taste if necessary and suate it for 3 minutes or till the scallops cook.
• Once the scallops are cooked, add the black sauce on top of it and simmer it on medium heat for a minute.
• Garnish it by sprinkling finely chopped spring onion
• Server it hot with rice.

Potato Sabzi

Potato Sabzi

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Serves: 2-3

Ingredients-
Big sized Potatoes– 2
chopped Green Chillies – 3
Turmeric Powder – 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves – 7-8
Coriander Leaves or Cilantro
Oil – 3 tsp
Salt to taste.






Method-

• Boil the Potatoes. After potatoes are boiled remove the potato skin from top and then chop it into small cubes.
• Heat Oil in a pan, add Mustard seeds. Once the seeds splutter, add cumin seeds,curry Leaves and green chilies and fry for a minute.
• Add turmeric powder and then chopped potatoes and mix it well.
• Then add salt and mix properly. Cook it for 2-3 minutes by closing the lid. 
• Garnish with Coriander Leaves.
• Enjoy potato sabzi with fried hot puris.

Malvani Masala

Malvani Masala


Ingredients-

Dried Red Chillies 1 kg,
Coriander Seeds 1/2 kg
Fennel Seeds 100 gm,
Cumin Seeds 25 gm,
Shahi Jeera(Black Cumin Seeds) 25 gm,
Masala ilaichi(Black/Brown Cardmom) 50 gm,
Cinnamon Sticks 50 gm,
Dagad Phool 50 gm,
Cloves 20gm,
Black Peppercorns 50gm,
Nag Kesar 25 gm,
Black Mustard seeds 25gms
Dried Turmeric Root (can use powder form)25 gm
Badal Phool 10 gm
Whole Asafoetida (Hing) Stones(can use powder form) 25 gm
Nutmeg 2 Whole (can use powder form),


Method-

• Break the turmeric, asafoetida and nutmeg in powder. 
• Other than red chilies, coriander seeds and nutmeg, saute all the other ingredients in a litle oil individually. 
• Lastly saute the chilies and coriander seeds and then make a fine powder of all the ingredients together.
• Keep it in an air-tight container, will last for a year. 

Kombadi Vade

Kombadi Vade
(Chicken Curry with puris)


Prep Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Serves:  4-5





Ingredients :  
Chicken
Coconut (dry) 1/2 cup
Fresh coriander leaves a few sprigs
Green chillies 2-3 (as per taste)
Ginger 1 inch piece
Garlic 3 cloves
Onions 4 medium sized
Red chillies whole 4 (chillies are too hot just add 3)
Oil 4 tbsps
Malwani masala 2 1/2 tsps
lime juice (as per taste)
Salt to taste

Method -

• Wash, clean and cut chicken into pieces. 
• Clean, wash and roughly chop fresh coriander leaves. Chop green chillies . Peel, wash and chop ginger and garlic roughly. Peel, wash onions and chop finely.
• Grind coriander leaves to paste along with garlic, ginger and green chillies and marinate the chicken in this paste..
• Heat one tablespoon of oil in a pan, chopped onions, stir fry till golden to it add dry coconut, continue to cook on medium heat, stirring continuously till coconut changes its color to light brown. Add red chillies and grind to a fine paste, adding a little water.
• Heat remaining oil in a pan, add above made onion,coconut paste stir it in pan for sometime. 
• Add the green paste coated chicken pieces and two cups of water and bring it to a boil.
• Add Malwani Masala and stir it well.
• Continue to cook for three to four minutes on medium heat.
• Add salt, lime juice and mix thoroughly.
• If want it more spicy can add red chilly powder as per taste.
• Garnish with chopped fresh coriander leaves. 
• Serve with Malwani wada which is a special rice flour puri.
• It can be eaten with puris, bread, chapattis or rice.
• Server it hot and with love.