Cream of Mushroom and Broccoli Soup

Hi all

Yesterday was a Sunday and I had decided that I would be trying one of those stuffed pull apart bread rolls. but I was in no mood to bake or cook anything. But in the evening my mood was alright :D and I went into kitchen and checked out what I could make for dinner. My Aaee had already made fish for dinner , so then i decided to make a light soup. There was mushroom and broccoli , which reminded me of white sauce first and then I thought I would use same idea and make the soup. Actually this soup is supposed to be very creamy but since I had to eat fish after that for main course I thought of using milk instead and hence totally replaced cream with milk. So if any of u'll are dieting you'll can go for this soup and rest can add a a couple of spoonfuls of cream :) This soup is very easy to make and takes hardly 15-20 minutes ! I forgot to click pics and just gulped the entire soup bowl :( Will surely post a pic when i'll make it again :) I found a pic online that looked similar.. I am sure you are gonna love this . Try and let me know

Serves : 4 bowls

Ingredients :
1/2 cup of sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup of broccoli
1 large onion chopped finely
3 garlic cloves chopped finely
2 tablespoon All purpose flour(Maida)/ Wheat flour
3 cups of water
1 cup of milk
1/4 cup finely chopped coriander
grounded pepper - 1/4 tsp or as per taste
salt - as per taste
Veg Maggie cube - 1
1 Bay Leaf
2 tablspoon ghee/butter

Procedure :
1. Heat butter in a soup pan and add Bay Leaf and saute. Then add chopped onions and garlic and cook till onions turn slightly brown in colour . (Tip : You can save gas by adding a pinch of salt to this and covering and cooking it.)
2. Once the onions are done , add sliced mushrooms and broccoli and mix well. Cover and cook for around 6-7 minutes or till you see mushrooms going brown .
3. After some time you will see the juices oosing out of mushrooms . Remove the lid and cook on high heat till water evaoporates . Now add the flour and cook for around 2 minutes or till the floury taste goes away.
4. Then add 3 cups of water to this , pepper , salt and Crushed Maggie cube powder. Once this starts boiling add 1 cup milk.
5. Once this bubbles up , add coriander leaves and turn off the heat and your soup is ready to serve.


Tips : You can have this as a light meal or if you want to have soup as a complete meal itself  add in some spoons of cream and have it with toasted bread with cheese sprinkled on it !!

Veg Healthy Burger out of Kabuli Chana !!

Hi all, Yeah .. you read the title right. :D I myself wouldnt have thought of that burger . Actually its shravan going on now and ladies have haldikumkum and many other activities going on. So for haldi kumkum usually chana is ditrbuted i.e. boiled chole chana and we cant have it all and it ends up being spoiled sometimes.

Yesterday my mother was also invited for a haldikumkum and she was home with chole chana as prasad. She reminded me to have it when i neglected for the first time. Then suddenly i thought ... y not ? I told her keep it in fridge i will have it for breakfast. And next day i prepared a pattice out of it and used it in burger :)
You can even have them as cutlets for snacks or as starters 

Ingredients

Burger Buns

For topping:
   Onion-sliced into round
   Tomato-sliced into round
    Cabbage Leaf / Lettuce leaf

Oil for shallow frying
1 tablspn Corn flour
Rava / Breadcrumbs
1 small onion finely chopped

To be grinded in mixer into coarse mixture
   1 small cup kabuli chana/ chole (boiled)
   1 tsp ginger garlic paste
   1/4 the cup coriander leaves
   1 tsp garam masala
   2 green chillies
   1/2 tsp lemon juice
   salt

Procedure :
1. Get the above ingredients grinded into coarse mixture without adding water and add finely chopped onion to it
2. Add one tablespoon of corn flour to it so that it will add a crispiness to pattice when fried.
3. Then make small balls out of this mixture and  press them into round shape to form pattice , then coat them using breadcrumbs/rava and shallow fry in oil on a hot pan with medium heat.
4. Now cut the bun into half. Apply tomato ketchup, place a slice of Amul cheese , lettuce leaf , pattice , tomato and onion slice. You can even use mayonnaise of your choice or whatever u like ! Its your personalized burger :)

Malwani Prawns Stuffed Squids !!

Malwani Prawns Stuffed Squids !! 

Hey guys ! So my this recipe is dedicated to all squid lovers ;)

I recently got this Malwani masala and was dying to use it ! And then just in market when i saw squids it struck me . ... I knew what I wanted to do and I imagined how it wud taste .. and was very happy that it turned out exactly how i wanted. Very few dishes give you that satisfaction of exactly what you want :)

Ingredients:

10 Squids
1 bowl small prawns
2 medium onions finely chopped
1 potato finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
6-7 garlic pods finely chopped
2 green chillies finely chopped
1 tablespoon malwani masala
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp red chilly powder
salt

Procedure:
Cleaning Squids and Prawns
Many people don't like to clean squids, don't worry you can get them cleaned in market. But those who intend to do it at home .. its very easy. Take a squid , now it has this tentacles and one fine flat bone buried kind if in its body. you can remove it with hand itself . Some people use this tentacles to stuff inside .. I dint do that way. So I got everything removed from the squid body leaving it like a conical shaped bag. Also there is a thin brownish layer on the skin which also was removed. You can then wash them once in water.

Now apply salt + 1 tsp turmeric  powder+ 1 tsp red chilly powder + 1tsp malawani masala and keep this for minimum 2 hours. More you keep them marinated , less time they will take to cook as they will get more soft. If you are preparing it for dinner you can keep them in fridge.

Apply salt and 1 tsp turmeric powder to cleaned and washed prawns and keep for 20 min. Remember if prawns are big in size cut them short since we need to fill it inside squids.

Stuffing
Heat a pan on medium heat , add 1 tablspn of oil and add onions. Saute them till they go brownish( add little salt to make this process fast). Add finely chopped garlic and chillies and saute for a minute.

Then add chopped potato and tomato and cover and cook till potato is cooked and tomatoes turn soft. Now add all the masala powder mentioned above in ingredients (i.e. haldi , red chilly powder , malwani masala). Last add prawns , salt and cover & cook for 2-3 minutes as prawns get cooked very quickly.

Remove it from heat and let it cool .

Now stuff the squids with this  filling keeping little space on top. Insert a toothpick as if you are stitching the mouth of squid.
You can see how toothpick is inserted in below pic

Now deep them in rava and shallow fry on low heat. While frying remember not to fry for long as they can get very chewy.

Add 2 tablspoon oil in a frying pan, put squids in pan , cover n cook for 1 minute. Now remove the lid and cook for 1 minute. Now turn the squids and again cover and cook for 1 minute. Remove the llid and cook for 1 minute. Then turn them sideways and cook for 1 more minute. Thats it ! :D

Fried squids ready !

Hope you'll will try , I am sure you'll will like it :)

Vegetable and cheese stuffed capsicum/tomato

Hi all
I tried out today a yummmy dish which is so simple to make ! I am sure ull will love it too :-) I made them as starters.. had 2 capsicums and 1 tomato at home n all ingredients just fell into place ! :-D

Ingredients :
For the stuffing:
1 tblsp oil
Cabbage - finely cut 1/2 cup
Carrot - small diced 1/2 cup
Capsicum - small diced 1/2 cup
1/2 tsp jeera powder
1 tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1 veg Maggie cube
Lemon juice
Salt

3 capsicum/tomato
Tomato sauce
2 Amul cheese cubes grated

Procedure
1. For the stuffing first heat oil in a pan. And all the cut vegetables to the pan and cover and cook for 15 minutes.
2. Add all other ingredients mentioned in the stuffing section above. Cook for 2 more minutes n turn off the heat and let it cool.
3. Now take capsicum or tomato and slice it on top to make a opening. Scoop out all excess from inside so that stuffing bcmes easier. You can even use this scooped out vegetable in the filling rather then throwing it out . If you are using tomato , cut a small slice at the bottom  taking care that it doesn't make a hole at the bottom so that the tomato does not fall and balances well .Tip : remember to pick capsicum tomato which are fat rather than elongated once. It will help to rest them on flat surface n provide gud balance.
4. Now brush the inside n outside f capsicum or tomato with butter. Brush inside with tomato sauce . Now put 1 layer of vegetable stuffing and 1 layer of grated cheese.  Continue till the entire capsicum fills up.  And sprinkle remaining cheese on top.
5. Now preheat otg on 150 degree fr 10min and then keep capsicum or tomato in a butter lined tray . Bake this in otg for around 15-20 min on same temperature or till skin of tomato or capsicum starts to wrinkle.

Enjoy ur starters !

Corn and mushroom canape in white sauce !

This is for those who like Italian food and Cheeese :) I and my friend amrita had tried this receipe for one competition n it was a hit ! She had tried to make this as healthy as possible by replacing maida in white sauce by wheat flour and trust me .. it tastes yummy :) 

Ingredients :
1 cup boiled corn kernels
1/2 cup mushrooms (diced ,sauted in salted butter till cooked)
3 tblspn wheat flour
1 cup milk
1 tblspn chilly flakes
11/2 tblspn oregano
1 cube Amul cheese grated
1 tsp pepper powder
1 tblspn low fat butter
canapes / crunchy toasted bread
salt

1. Put butter in a heated pan and saute wheat flour for some time.
2. Now slowly add milk , enough to make it saucy but not runny. Keep stirring constantly. You can remove it from heat if you see it getting thickened too quickly. If lumps are formed you can run it through mixer for smooth consistency.
3. Now add chilly flakes , oregano , grated cheese , pepper powder and salt. Keep it on the flame for some time.
4. You can remove pan from sauce. Its time to serve. You can even prepare the sauce and keep it in the fridge.
5. When you are serving you can add corn kernels and mushrroms and heat it on pan slightly to make it warm. You can even add a little more cheese and microwave it for 30seconds.
6. Place it into the canapes / toasted bread and serve !!