Cheesy Veg sandwich

This is another nice recipe I learnt from my dear neighbor and friend Ramya. I make this sandwich quite often it is very filling and healthy breakfast loaded with vegetables. Tastes divine on rainy days and perfect for a lazy weekend morning. You can make it for evening snacks/ dinner also but its good to have cheese in morning than night. Lets see the recipe :)

Cheesy Veg Sandwich

Cuisine: Indian Category: Breakfast Difficulty level: Easy Prep Time: 10 mins Cook time: 30 mins Servings: 4

Ingredients Bread slices 16 Potato 1 large sized Capsicum 1 Salt 1 tsp flat Turmeric A small pinch Chili Powder 1 tsp flat Garam masala 1 tsp flat Oil 1 tbsp Butter 2 tbsp Cheese 1/4 cup Preparation      1.     Chop the vegetables into small cubes and grate the cheese.

Method            1.     In pan add oil along with chopped vegetables. Add salt, turmeric and cook in medium flame. Once they become soft add chili powder along with garam masala and saute for few more minutes and switch off flame.     2.     Take a bread slice and spread a thin layer of grated cheese. Add the vegetable stuffing.      3.     Top up with another thin layer of cheese. Cover with a bread slice.     4.     Apply little butter to tawa and toast the sandwich till both sides become golden brown.     5.     Serve hot with tomato ketchup!!                                            Notes

·         I used tri colour capsicum. You can use just green bell pepper alone.       ·         You can add other veggies like onion, tomato, carrot, beans as per your taste.       ·         If you have cheese slice cut them into 4 small squares and use for layering. But I would recommend block cheese as it is easy to spread uniformly.

Looks colourful is'nt it? :)

Cauliflower stir fry

Gobi stir fry is a very simple and super easy recipe. Since I had a busy week and I am yet to get grip in using my new camera I decided to safe play with few simple posts!  As I mentioned earlier my hubby is not a big fan of cauliflower :( so whenever he skips lunch at home I make this sabji to relish my taste buds. Though this is a simple recipe it goes very well with any rasam, sambhar or even curd rice and roti! I personally love to pair it with paruppu podi and garlic rasam :). Its very healthy and filling. Do try out if you have not made gobi this way!! 

Cauliflower stir fry

Cuisine: Indian Category: Main Course Difficulty level: Easy Prep Time: 10 mins Cook time: 20 mins Servings: 3-4

Ingredients Cauliflower 1 medium sized Salt 1 Tsp flat Turmeric 1/4 Tsp Chilli powder 1 Tsp flat Besan/ Gram flour 1 Tsp To Temper Oil 2 Tbsp Mustard 1 Tsp Urad dal 1 Tsp Curry leaves 1 spring Asafoetida A generous pinch Preparation      1.     Cut the cauliflower and separate the florets. To get an idea about how to chop cauliflower refer here.

Method            1.     In pan add 1 cup water and bring it to boil. Add the cauliflower florets along with salt and turmeric and boil for 5 minutes. Drain the cooked florets.     2.     In pan add 1 tbsp oil and temper with ingredients mentioned. Add cauliflower along with chilli powder and saute in medium flame for 10 mins. Finally add another tbsp oil along with besan and stir well.      3.     Serve hot with rice/roti.

Notes       ·         Adjust salt and spice level according to your taste.       ·         You can skip besan if its not available but adding it gives nice taste.

Simple and yummy :) 

Maa ladoo : Roasted gram ladoo

Maa ladoo is a very simple yet drooling sweet which we make mostly for special occasions like krishna jeyanthi, deepavali etc. It can be made easily for sudden guests as it needs very less ingredients. Even begineers can make this sweet . I wanted to start new year post with some sweet recipe. Since my hubby likes this sweet and its very easy I choose to go with this yummy sweet :). Let this year be as sweet as this ladoo to all of you !! 

Maa ladoo

Cuisine: Indian Category: Sweets/desserts Difficulty level: Easy Prep Time: 5 mins Cook time: 20 mins Servings: 15

Ingredients Roasted gram dhal (or) Potu kadalai 1 cup heaped Sugar 3/4 cup Ghee 4 Tbsp + 1 Tbsp (1/4 - 1/3 cup) Cardamom 4 Cashews 5 Badam (optional) 5 Raisins(optional) 8

Preparation             1.     Chop the nuts. You can break them into small pieces too. Method      1.     Sauté the potu kadalai in medium flame for few minutes till it gets warm. Cool down the dhal. In meantime grind sugar with cardamom smoothly.        2.     Sieve the powdered sugar if needed. Grind the dal to smooth powder and sieve it.         3.     Mix both the powders well. In pan heat 1 tbsp ghee and roast the nuts till golden brown. Add it to the dhal+ sugar mix.     4.     In the hot pan add 3 Tbsp ghee so that the ghee will melt utilizing the heat in the pan. Add this to the maa ladoo powder and mix well to get a crumbly dough. Now shape them to small balls.     5.     If you feel the ladoo is bit dry as shown add 1 tbsp melted ghee and shape the balls to get the glowing round ladoos! This is purely according to personal preferrance. Just a pic to show difference :).

Notes   ·     Sieving the floor is purely optional. Grind the potukadalai/sugar for a minute give some rest and again grind for a minute to get really smooth powder.       ·         For bulk preparations you can grind them in mills. Even if the floor is bit coarse that never affects the taste.      ·         I prefer adding ghee gradually. If you fry nuts in 1/4 cup ghee and add the mix will become too hot to handle. Also we may end up in adding more ghee.       ·         If you dont like much sweetness reduce 1 tbsp sugar.         ·         Sauting the dal is again optional. It helps to remove moisture but take care not to change the colour of the dal.

Stays good upto 10 days if stored in air tight container :).