Paneer & Cheese Stuffed Veg Cutlets

Hey guys .. I am back :) Last week was exciting as well as boring. Exciting because I made a superdelicious pineapple upside down cake , recipe of which I will post next ... & boring because I had back pain n I had to take leave and couldnot go to office. And to add to this , I bought wrong mobile. :( I am super sad.. ohh yeah !! A mobile means a lot to me .. I always do a lot of research before I buy a mobile and I am always proud abt it. Last mobile I was using was HTC  Desire X which had an awesome  camera , lovely headphones and sound and real smooth touch .. probably the best phone I had. But since I dint put any scratch guard for it and handled it reallly rough the screen behaved preety badly for last few weeks for which I got frustated and just went in a shop and grabbed Samsung Galaxy Core Prime and its a real disaster which I released next day ! Now its on OLX and quicker .. waiting for someone to call :D:D

Anyways , We had a long weekend this time due to Holi on Friday and was busy because of my best friend's engagement. It was real fun ! On Sunday my cousin paid a visit at my place so tried out this cutlets which turned out amazing ... Hope you'll like it too

Serves : 4
Makes : 8 Cutlets
Preparation time :10 min
Cooking Time :15 min
Ingredients :

• Cutlets :

         Boiled and grated or mashed
         (3 Potato + half Beet Root + 1 Carrot )
         1/2 tsp jeera powder
         1 tsp coriander powder
         1 tsp ginger garlic paste
         1 medium onion , finely chopped
         1 green chilly , finely chopped
         2 tablespoon corn flour  mixed in water
         1 tsp Garam Masala
         1/4the cup chopped coriander leaves
          2tablspn Corn Flour
          2tablspn Rice flour          
         Salt to taste

• Stuffing 

         5 tablespoons of grated paneer
         2 Amul cheese Cubes grated
         some dryfuits like kaaju , kishmis finely chopped
         1/4 tsp garlic powder       

         Bread Crumbs
         Oil for shallow frying

Procedure
1. Heat a pan , add 1 tablespoon of oil and fry onion and green chillies till onion turns translucent.

2. Remove it from heat and add into a bowl. To this add all ingredients mentioned under Cutlet section and mix well

3. Also mix all ingredients mentioned under Stuffing and keep aside.

4. Now make balls out of stuffing mixture and flatten them .  Now take the cutlet mixture , make balls out of it , flatten it and in the center add stuffing and cover it well . Dip your hands in water when you are working with Cutlet Stuffing, so that it doesn't stick to your hands. You can even shape the cutlets as you want using cookies cutters.

5. Next dip the cutlets in mixture of water and cornflour and then roll them into breadcrumbs. Keep the cutlets in fridge for around 30 min and then shallow fry till golden brown. Serve with chutney or tomato sauce.

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 :)