Baby corn dry sabji

What you need:
Baby corn
Onion
Tomato
Garam masala
Chat masala
Red chilly powder
Salt to taste
Mint leaves
Coriander leaves
oil
Jeera
Mustard seeds
Asafoetida
Turmeric powder

How do we make it?:
1. Cut baby corn into circles.
2. Cut onion lengthwise.
3. Cut tomatoes into cubes.
4. Chop the mint leaves and coriander leaves as well.
5. Put oil in a kadhai and heat it.
6. Put some Asafeotida, turmeric powder, Jeera and mustard seeds and allow to splatter.
7. Then add the onion fry till golden brown. Now add tomatoes and fry well till they become soft.
8. Now add baby corn and mix well.
9. Add salt, red chilly powder, garam masala and chat masala and mix well. Close the kadhai and allow to cook.
10. After about 10-15min add the chopped coriander and mint leaves and mix well and serve hot.

Magic Wrap (Frankie)

Magic Wrap name because this wrap has all the nutrients Dietary fibers, Proteins, calcium, iron with Zero Cholestrol and very low in fat content.

Preparation Time: 20 mins.
Cooking Time: 40 mins.
Serves 4

Ingredients:
For the filling:
Moong
Beetroot
Onion
Tamarind juice
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder
Tomatoes
Long Brinjal
Black pepper powder
Amchur powder

For the cover:
Wheat Flour - 2 cups
Mint leaves
Salt to taste
Water to kneading the dough

How to make the cover?
1. Take wheat flour in a kneading vessel.
2. Put some salt to taste.
3. Chop the mint leaves and add to the wheat flour.
4. Add water as needed and make the dough (Similar to chapati). Keep it aside for 15min.
5. Now make some balls of the dough.
6. Roll the balls into rounds and roast it using very little oil and allow to cool.
Now the cover is ready.

Now comes the filling
Part 1:
1. Soak the moong daal in water for 2 hours. Then pressure cook it, till its cooked so much that you can mash it.
2. Now add some salt, tamarind juice and red chilly powder. Mix well and keep aside.

Part 2:
Now how to make the long brinjal chips
1. Cut the brinjal into thin circles.
2. Put salt, pepper powder and amchur powder and mix well.
3. In a non-stick pan put these circles and spray some oil to shallow fry them.
4. Allow them to become crispy. Keep aside.

Part 3:
1. Chop the onion into semi circles.
2. Chop the beetroots, to long thin stick like.
3. Chop tomatoes into semi circles.

Here comes the final setting up the wrap
1. Take one cover on a flat surface.
2. Put a layer of mashed moong.
3. Then put a layer of Beetroot and tomatoes.
4. Then next layer of Brinjal chips in Part 2.
5. Now the final layer of Onions. The wrap is ready to serve. Can be served with ketchup.

Tomato-onion soup with crostini

TOMATO-ONION SOUP

Preparation Time: 10 mins.
Cooking Time: 20 mins.
Serves 4

Ingredients:
Onion - 2 medium sized
Garlic - 6 to 8 cloves
Ginger - 1/2 inch
Butter - 2 tsp
Tomatoes - 3 to 4 medium sized
Wheat flour - 1 tbsp
Green chilly - 1nos
Salt to taste
Black Pepper powder

Method:
1. Cut the onion and tomatoes lengthwise.
2. Peel Ginger and cut into small cubes. Also peel the garlic and keep aside.
3. Cut the green chillies about 2cms in length.
4. Now pressure cook tomatoes, Onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies with some water. Let it cook very well.
5. Allow the above to cool completely.
6. Separate out the vegetables only and put it in the mixer-grinder with almost no water. Make it into very fine paste. Keep in mind that there should be very minimal water, else the vegetables will not grind into fine paste.

7. Now in a kadhai heat the butter and allow it to melt. Now add the Wheat flour and fry it till you get a good aroma.
8. Now add the ground paste to the kadhai. Add the water left out after we pressure cooked the vegetables. Let the soup boil.
9. Now add salt and pepper and stir it.
10. Serve the soup hot with some crostini or bread or breadsticks.




CROSTINI
Preparation Time: 10 mins.
Cooking Time: 15 mins.
Serves 4

Ingredients:
Panini bread or garlic bread or normal bread
Green chillies - 2nos (Depends on how spicy you need)
Green Bell peppers - 1/2 medium sized
Butter or ghee
Beetroot - 1/2 small sized
Garlic - 8 to 10 cloves
Tomato - 1 medium sized
Onion - 2 medium sized
Oregano
Salt to taste


Method:
1. Cut the bread into the shape you like. I cut into triangles.
2. In a Kadhai, heat some butter or ghee and allow it to melt.
3. Now add the chopped garlic and fry it for about 5min.
4. Next add bell peppers and onion. Fry till slightly brown.
5. Now add salt and mix well. Bring it down from the gas.
6. Cut the tomatoes in small cubes.
7. Grate the beetroot and keep aside.
8. Now arrange the breads. The toppings will be 1st onion-bell peppers mix, followed by tomato and then beetroot. Sprinkle the Oregano and serve with hot Soup.