Paneer Paratha

Paneer Paratha

              Stuffed paneer paratha with variety of spices. It is an perfect punjabi style paratha with grated spicy cottage cheese .very tasty and softy paratha. Serve this for your kids lunch box.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

For the stuffing:

• Paneer - 200 grams (grated or crushed)
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Onion - 1 (Very finely chopped)
• Green chiilies - 2 (Chopped)
• Ginger/garlec paste - 1/4 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
• Hing - a pinch
• Coriander leaves - few (Chopped) 
• Salt - as needed
• Butter or ghee - as needed

Method:

How to make paratha dough:

• In a large bowl add the wheat flour , salt, ghee and kneed the flour with hot water to prepare a soft and smooth dough.

• Grease your hands with little ghee and kneed the dough well with the heel of your hands. Apply oil on top and, rest it for 15mins.

• Our paratha dough is ready.

Paneer stuffing:

• Grate the paneer and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a pan. add cumin seeds and all the above ingredients in stuffing except paneer and saute it for 5 to 6mins. Switch off the flame and rest it down to cool.(Don't want to saute the paneer with masala)  

• Atlast, add the grated paneer , mix well and keep aside.

How to make sookhi dal paratha:

• Now take tha paratha dough, make equal small lemon size balls.

• Take a wheat ball and press it equally like poori size and keep a tbsp of stuffing on it , bring the edges or corners together and seal it.

• Press it and roll out the dough with stuffing into a circle of approximately 6-7 diameter dusting wheat flour. paneer should appear on top.

• Heat a tawa well, place the rolled out dough on it .when you see the bubbles forming on top. apply a tsp of butter and flip it over to the other side of the paratha and cook both sides well until golden brown spots appear.

• Repeat the process for rest of the dough to make paneer paratha's.

• Serve the hot paratha with butter floating on top with raitha or pickle.

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Sookhi Dal Paratha

Sookhi Dal Paratha

              Stuffed sookhi dal paratha with variety of spices. It is an perfect rajasthani delicacy.Serve this for your kids lunch box.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

For the stuffing:

• Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Onion - 1 (Very finely chopped)
• Green chiilies - 2 (Chopped)
• Ginger/garlec paste - 1/4 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
• Hing - a pinch
• Coriander leaves - few (Chopped) 
• Salt - as needed
• Butter - as needed

Method:

How to make paratha dough:

• In a large bowl add the wheat flour , salt, ghee and kneed the flour with hot water to prepare a soft and smooth dough.

• Grease your hands with little ghee and kneed the dough well with the heel of your hands. rest it for 15mins.

• Our paratha dough is ready.

Sookhi dal stuffing:

• Pressure cook the moong dal for 2 whistle by adding little water and 1 tsp ghee.

• After when dal get pressure cooked it will look like soaked the dal in water for 4 hrs.

• Heat oil in a pan. add cumin seeds and all the above ingredients in stuffing except dal and saute it for 5 to 6mins.

• Atlast, add the cooked dal and saute for 2mins and keep aside.

• You can eat this as sookhi dal sundal as evening snack.

How to make sookhi dal paratha:

• Now take tha paratha dough, make equal small lemon size balls.

• Take a wheat ball and press it equally like poori size and keep a tbsp of stuffing on it , bring the edges or corners together and seal it.

• Press it and roll out the dough with stuffing into a circle of approximately 6-7 diameter dusting wheat flour. dal should appear on top like balls like below image.

• Heat a tawa well, place the rolled out dough on it .when you see the bubbles forming on top. apply a tsp of butter and flip it over to the other side of the paratha and cook both sides well until golden brown spots appear.

• Repeat the process for rest of the dough to make sookhi dal paratha's.

• Serve the hot paratha with butter floating on top with crunchy kaara boondi on top of raitha.

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Dry Sweet Corn Masala

Sweet Corn Masala - Dry version

                 Normal sweet corn and pepper corn will get boring to eat , so try this spicy dry version of sweet corn masala with bread as evening snack for kids. 

Ingredients:

• Sweet Corn - 1 cup
• Onion - 1 (Chopped)
• Tomato - 1/2 (Chopped) - optional
• Ginger/garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Green chillies - 2 (Chopped)
• Red chilly powder - 2 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Coriander leaves - few
• Salt - as needed.

For Tempering:

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Steam american sweet corn in idly mould for 10 mins and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds , urad dal when it get splutters add the chopped onion and saute it until it get translucent, then add the ginger garlic paste and suate it for 5 mins.

• Now add the green chilies, turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder,salt and saute it for another 5 mins.

• Then, add little water and close the lid and cook well until raw smell goes off and should get dry as well.

• Atlast, add the american sweet corn and mix well.

• Serve hot and spicy corn masala dry With bread. 

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Baby corn biriyani

Baby Corn Biriyani

       Baby corn gives sweetness to the biriyani and delicious taste to rice. This biriyani will be one of the favouritre dish for kids. Try and taste it.

               

Ingredients:

• Basmathi rice - 1 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• Onion - 2 no's (cut length wise)
• Tomato - 1 no (chopped)
• Baby corn - 10 - 12 (Cut Lenthwise or round like star)
• Green chillies - 2 no
• Capsicum - 1 (Cut lengthwise)
• Carrot - 1 (Chopped) - Optional
• Ginger & Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric Power - 1/4 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
• Mint leaves - one hand full
• Yogurt  - 3 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp.
• Salt - 1 tbsp.

Spices:

• Bay leaves - 1 no
• Cloves  - 1 no
• Green cardamom - 1 no
• Cinnamon stick - 1 inch
• fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp

Half Cooked Rice:

• Boil 3 cups of water in a vessel , then add the rice and little salt to it, once if u able to break the rice with your finger (It should be half cooked), drain the water and keep aside.

Methods:

• Soak the Basmathi rice in water for 20 mins .In that mean time proceed to the below procedure.

• Heat a pan, saute the capsicum in oil and keep aside.(If we pressure cook the capsicum it won't be crispy , later in last stage add the sauted capsicum into rice) 

• In a pressure cook , heat oil and add all the spices. Let them fry for few seconds.

• When they crackle, Add the Onions and saute till it turns transparent.

• Then , add ginger & garlic paste,tomatoes and saute it for 2mins.

• Add green chillies,carrot,baby corn mint leaves, chilly powder , tumeric powder, garam masala powder, salt, yogurt and saute it for 5 mins.Then add half cup of water and let it boil for 3 mins.(now taste the water, if needed add salt as per your taste)

• Atlast, add the half cooked basmathi rice. 

• Mix well and cover the pressure cook with the lid and leave pressure cook in simmer for 10 to 12 mins.  

• Open the pressure cook when the steam completely releases. add the sauted capsicum mix it well without breaking the rice.

• Serve hot dum baby corn biriyani with raita or chips.

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Baby corn Masaledar

Baby Corn Masaledar

        Spicy baby corn masaledar is an easy and quick evening snack. Spicyness plus baby corn sweetness combination taste will be delicious snack for kids.

Ingredients:

• Baby Corn - 10-15
• Gram flour - 1 tbsp
• Rice flour - 1 tbsp
• Tamarind water - 1 tbsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
• Ginger/garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Salt - As needed 
• Oil - For frying 

Method:

• Blanching baby corn, In a bowl boil water, in that add turmeric powder, salt and baby corn. Let it boil for 3 to 4 mins. Switch off the flame and drain the water immediately and keep aside.

• In a bowl add all the above ingredients and mix well and marinate for 15mins.

• Heat an non stick tawa, apply oil in sides of tawa and roast the baby corn's,  flip over all the sides in low frame until golden brown in color. Let it cook well until raw smell goes out.

• (If you use microwave grill it is an perfect tandoori baby corn ,add curd and garam masala powder for marination because king masala raw smell won't go easily in tawa. microwave for 10 mins. It helps to cook evenly)

• Serve hot with tomato sauce.

• Spicy baby corn is ready for evening snack.

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