Pizza

Pizza...when this word comes to our mind, all we can think of is home delivery from Dominos or Pizza Hut.
Our favourite pizza can be made all at home.
And it tastes really yummy...much better than the one from Dominos...and much healthier too :)

Ingriedients:
Pizza Base
Butter
Shredded cheese
Tomato Sauce
Grated cabbage - 1 cup
Grated carrot - half cup
Boiled Corn  kernels - 1 cup
Finely sliced capcicum - half cup
Sliced green olives
Salt
Freshly ground pepper
Panner - small cubes - half cup

Procedure:
1. Take all the veggies (except the sliced Olives) and fry in butter for about 5 minutes. Add pinch of salt and fresh ground pepper. Once done, keep aside.
2. Next take the Pizza base and apply butter on both the sides.
3. On a frying pan, fry the pizza base on both the sides till golden brown. Fry till it becomes crispy.
4. Next place the pizza base on a serving plate. Apply butter and then spread the tomoto sauce all over it. Also sprinkle some shredded cheese.
5. Sprinkle the veggies over it and distribute them equally over the pizza base. Make sure no corners are missed.
6. Then sprinkle shredded cheese
7. Finally top it with sliced Olives.

The delicious Pizza is all ready to be served.
Cut it into 4 pieces using a pizza cutter or a knife whiel serving.

Vegetable Cutlets

When you have lot of veggies in your pantry and you plan to prepare some nutricious snacks, then vegatable cutlets can be on your menu. You can add any veggies to spice up the cutlets. I have used carrots, beetroot, green peas.

Ingriedients:
3 potatoes - boiled and smashed
1 carrot - grated
1 small beetroot - grated
Green peas - boiled
Cabbage - grated
Cumin powder - 1 tablespoon
Pepper powder - half tablespoon
Corainder powder - 1 tablespoon
Garam masala - 1 tablespoon
Salt as per taste
Sooji rava - for frying
Oil for frying


Procedure:
1. In a bowl, add the grated carrots, grated beetroot, boiled green peas, grated cabbage, smashed potatoes, salt, cummin powder, pepper powder, corainder powder and garam masala and mix well.
2. Roll it into small balls.
3. Pat it to form round cutlets.
4. Cover it will rava and shallow fry with little oil on a non stick pan.
5. After 5 mins, turn it the other way round.

Delicious vegetable cutlets are ready to be served.

Serve with tomato or pudina chutney and lemon.

Beetroot Halwa

Ingriedients:
Beetroot - grated - 2 cups
Half coconut - grated
Milk - 1 cup
Khova - optional
Sugar - half cup
Elaichi powder(Cardomom)
Dry fruits
Ghee - 3 tablespoon

Procedure:
1. Take a thick vok and add 3 tablespoon ghee. Next add the grated beetroot and fry for 5 mins.
2. Next add grated coconut. and fry for 5 minites.
3. Next add boiled milk and let the betroot cook in the milk.
4. Keep stirring on a low flame, till the milk is absorbed by the beetroot.
5. Khova can be added optionally.
6. Add sugar and elaichi powder and mix well
7. Garnish with dry fruits

Beet root halwa is ready to be served.
It can be served hot or cold.

When refrigerated, it can stay upto 3-4 days

Corn Thalipeeth

Thalipeeth is a multi grain mildly spiced pancake usually served for breakfast or snacks. Adding corn to this just enhances its flavour as well as nutrition.

Ingriedients:
1 Corn
Haldi powder - 1 tablespoon
Chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
Wheat flour
Salt
Green chillies - 2
Water
Ajwain
Oil
Corainder leaves
Boiled tur dal - 2 tablespoon

Procedure:
1. Boil and grate the corn and keep aside.
2. Mix the wheat flour, grated corn, haldi powder, boiled tur dal, chilli powder, chopped green chillies, chopped corainder leaves, ajwain and salt.
3. Add water and knead to form a dough.
4. Make small balls from the dough.
5. Take a pan and sprinkle and pat each ball with fingers to roll out the thalipeeth.
6. If patting it directly on the pan is difficult, a thick plastic cover can also be used.
7. Make a small hole at the centre of the thalipeeth and pour 2-3 drops of oil. Additionally sprinkle oil from the sides.
8. After it turns golden brown, turn it over to the other side.
9. Repeat the same with the remaining balls.

The delicious Corn Thalipeeth is ready to be served.

Serve it with Pudina Chutney and Curds.

Pav Bhaji

The roadside Mumbai Pav Bhaji is everyone's favourite. This delicious pav bhaji can be made healthier by preparing at home, customised just to suit our taste buds.

Ingriedients:
1 Capcicum - chopped
Cabbage - chopped
Cauliflower - 300 gms
3 potatoes - chopped
Green peas - 100 gms
2 onions - chopped
2 tomatoes - chopped
Pav bhaji masala (preferably Everest)- 2 tablespoon
Turmeric powder - half teaspoon
Chilli power - 1 tablespoon
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tablespoon
12 Pav buns
Butter
Corainder leaves - chopped
Lemon
Oil
Salt

Procedure:
1. Boil the veggies like chopped capcicum, cauli flower, potatoes and cabbage with 1 tomato with a little salt. Mash and keep aside.
2. Take a vok, add 2 tablespoon oil and fry the chopped onions and green pead with pinch of salt till they turn golden brown. Next add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 mins.
3. Add the Pav Bhaji masala, turmeric powder, chilli powder and fry for another 2 mins.
4. Next add 1 chopped tomato and fry for 2 mins.
5. Finally add the mashed veggies.
6. Add a blob of butter and let it cook for another 10 mins.
7. Garnish it with chopped corainder leaves.

The delicious Pav Bhaji is ready.

Serve it with hot buttered Pav, lemon and chopped onions.

Notes:
1. You can also add veggies like carrot, corn to make it more healthy.

Sweet Potato Fry

Fry or Fodi as it is called in Konkani is one of the simplest delicious recipes that I have come across till now. It is prepared in Goan houses almost everyday and served with rice. In this blog, I have added the recipe for sweet potato fry. In the similar way, we can also make potato fry, brinjal fry, bhindi fry, karela fry (bitter gaurd), etc. Its really easy to prepare and yet tastes awesome.

Ingridients:
Sweet potato - 2 medium
Turmeric powder - 1 tablespoon
Chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
Salt - as per taste
Oil for frying
Rava - 4 tablespoon

Procedure:
1. Wash the sweet potato and peel off its skin.
2. Cut it into two pieces and then cut each half vertically into thin slices.
3. Sprinke turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt and mix it well so that the masala is applied almost equally on both sides of all sweet potato slices.
4. Take a non stick pan and sprikle little oil and spread over the pan.
5. Next dip each of the sweet potato slices in rava. Rava should cover both the sides of the slices completely. Then place it over the pan.
6. Similarly finish the other slices and place them one by one on the pan.
7. Once all are done, Sprinkle oil from top. Keep it on a low flame and cover the pan.
8. After 5 mins, turn the slices other way round and then again cover the pan. Continue to keep it on a low flame.
9. After 5 mins, it should be done.

The delicious sweet potato fry is ready to be served.
It can be served with rice.
It can also be served as starters with tomato sauce or chutney.

The below picture shows potato fry (which is made in the similar way).
The potato is cut into thin circular slices as shown in the picture.