Monday, August 30, 2010

Aloo Toast

When i got married, my two friends who were my room mates in hostel gifted me an electric toaster. It was a very thoughful and nice gift for a couple like us who were setting up out home.Nowthat i got the toaster i started experimenting different kinds of sandwiches and toasts for breakfast. Among those, i like aloo toast the most.So i thought to share this recipe here.

Ingrediants

Bread slices - 8
Potato - 2 small or 1 medium sized
Green chilly chopped - 1 tsp
ginger chopped - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
meat masala - 1 tsp
salt - as required
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
oil - 1 tbsp
Butter or ghee(optional) - as required

Boil the potatoes. Heat oil and season mustard seeds. Fry green chilly and ginger and add mashed boiled potatoes. Mix the other powders and salt and fry well.



Now slice the bread to triangular pieces as shown.




Take each pair of bread slices and apply the potato masala on one of the slices and cover with the other piece and press well.



Apply little bit butter or ghee on both side of the sandwich.



Now toast the bread slices with the filling in your toaster. If you don't have a toaster then don't worry. You can make the same tasty aloo toast on heated tawa also. Only thing to take care of is to keep the bread slices in position with the filling and press them well while toasting.



Your tasty aloo toast is ready

Easy Brinjal Fry

Brinjal is a vegetable which i am not very fond of. But when i feel lazy,i make an easy dish out of brinjal. Brinjal fry tastes good with dal and rice.You can make it without much hard work. For a change i try this recipe at times.

Ingrediants
Brinjal - 5
Ginger garlic paste - 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
chilly powder - 1 teaspoon
masala powder - 1 teaspoon
salt - as required
oil - to fry

Slice the brinjals to thin round pieces.Mix all the ingrediants apart from oil and coat the brinjal pieces with it. Keep aside for half an hour. Fry the brinjal pieces in oil.




Now this is the most simple way. But if you want to enhance the taste as well as the look of the dish. Chop one onion and 2 green chillies and mix with the fried brinjal.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Aloo Mutter

This is a recipe which is like a quick fix side dish with roti or paratha. Very easy and tasty.Sometimes when i return from office i feel lazy to cook any special dish for dinner.Roti is a default item so i am always confused what to do about the accompaniments.At this time, aloo mutter is a real life saver...
Aloo is a readily available vegetable in almost every house,if u have some frozen green peas then there you go!



Ingrediants

Aloo(Potato) - 2
Mutter or green peas - 1/2 cup
Onions - 2 thin long slices
Green chillies - 2 slit length wise
Ginger - 1 inch piece
turmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoon
corriander powder - 1 tea spoon
garam masala or meat masala - 2 tea spoon
curry leaves - as required
salt - as required
oil - 2 table spoon

Cube the potatoes,boil and peel them. Mash it and keep aside.
Cut the onions length wises into thin long slices and slit the green chillies. Crush the ginger piece well. Now heat the oil in a frying pan and add onions,ginger and green chillies and fry adding turmeric.Once they are golden brown add mashed potatoes and green peas and fry again.Now add corrainder and masala powders and salt and fry well adding curry leaves. Close the pan and cook for few minutes till the green peas are cooked well.

Note : If you are not using frozen green peas then boil it once and then use.