Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Bread and jam

So many kids love bread to eat with jam. so Here we can add cheese to same bread and jam..

Ingredients

2 Slices of sandwich bread
Jam here i used strawberry
Spread cheese

some may add omlet to it. it depends on kids taste

Preparation:

Apply Spread cheese to one bread slice and jam to another bread slice



Now add both slices .. If u liek u can toast the bread before applying jam and spread cheese.. my kids don't like toast bread with jam so i give bit light toast.
 
Now the the bread slices into small pieces by that little hands can pick it easily and eat theirselves

Cheese Bread Toast

Whenever i feel very lazy to prepare breakfast i go for this toast, especially during weekends...

i know most of the people will do this...

Ingedients
2 bread slices(go for sandwich bread)
one cheese slice
few spread butter

Preparation:

Apply butter inner side of the bread slices andkeep one cheese slice between two slices toast both sides...

Kids love this and excellent source of calicium...
u can add veggies with this

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Pulka

I love north indian style food but i am not that much good in that. I  saw this pulka in my elder brotherinlaw house his wife prepare very nice and soft pulkas with in a seconds. But i never asked her recipe, i tried myself

Ingredients
take 2 cups 100% wheat flour
Add salt
make a dough with the help of required water
and close it for 1/2 hour with wet cloth

Preparation:
Take a lemon size dough and make a ball
make a round shape pulka (I tried my level best but it is not 100% round shape.. sorry for that)
Take a tawa heat and kee the pulka on it and turn other side
Then bake it on Grill.


Serve hot

Chicken Butter Masala

I love chicken not only me my kids too.. Chicken in any form all love to eat.. here i tried this chicken butter masala by own style.. kids love it . I generally prepare this with veg rice or pulkas..

Ingredients
1/2 kg chicken (some people prefer white meat some red meat depends on their taste)
onion -1
tomato puree - 1 cup
cloves -2
bay leaf-1
gaam masala powder -1 spoon
ginger garlic paste - 1 spoon
cashew paste -1 spoon
curry leaves- few
kasurimethi - 1/2 spoon
tandoori masala - 1/2 spoon
chilli powder- 1/2 spoon
corainder powder - 1 spoon
coriander leaves few
spring onions -1 cut into small slices
oil or butter
milk cream
green chillies
mustard seeds
food color
salt
turmeic

For gavy
boil the peeled onion 15 min and make paste
soak the cashews and make it paste
cut the chillies into long thin slices

chicken marination:
Take the chicken and marinate with above ingredients like salt, chillipowder, coriander powder,turmeric, ginger garlic paste and keep aside, later add food color to it

After 10 min fry it in oil keep aside

Preparation:
1.Take a kadai pour butter or oil (Depends on your diet)
2. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves.
3.Now add green chilli slices fry well
4.Add onion paste and fry well
5. Add tomato puree and fry well
6.Add marinated chicken and mix well
7.Add kasurimethi, garam masala, tandoori masala bit food color and mix well
8.Add cashew paste
9. Add little water and cook on low flame.
10.Add milk cream at last and garnish with coriander leaves
11.Serve hot with pullka, chapathi, veg rice or jeera rice

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Vegetable Dum Biryani

Ingredients




Carrots
Radish
Mint leaves
Spring onions
Onions
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Beans
Peas
Corn
Potatoes

Masalas and other ingredients



2 Cups Basmati Rice
1 Cinnamon stick
2 Biryani Flowers
3 Cardamon
3 cloves
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon biryani masala
1 teasspoon garam masala
ginger garlic paste
salt
ghee

optional: 1/2 cup coconut milk (Which is not in this images)

Preparation:
1. Cut the all vegetables see pic1 for size and shape
2. Soak Rice in water for few minutes
3. Take kadai pour oil
4.Add cloves,cinnamon,cardamon,bayleaf,
5.Add onions and fry it well
6.Later add carrots,beans,potato, mushrooms, radish,peas,corn,mint,spring onion and tomatoes and fry well
7.Add ginger garlic paste and add rice to it mix well with 3 cups of water
8.Add salt and masalas..
9. Pour everything in rice cooker and cook
10.Garnish with ghee..

Cashew Upma

Ingredients:
 



1/2 cup roasted sooji
onions slices
mustard seeds
jeera seeds
red chillies -2
green chillies chopped
curry leaves few
ginger choped
chenna dal
uradh dal
peanuts
cashews
water
salt
ghee

Preparation
1.Take a kadai heat oil add mustard,jeera,ginger,lentils,curry leaves,peanuts,cashews fry it
2.Add 1 cup water let it boil well
3.Add salt to it
4.Add sooji and stir well
5.keep the lid closed and turn off the flame
6. Add ghee to it

serve with spicy pickle

Poha Upma

Ingredients

1 cup poha soak in water few minutes
ginger chopped
chopped onions
curry leaves
mustard seeds
jeera seeds
green chillies
 

Preparation:
1.Take a Kadai pour oil add mustard seeds,jeera,ginger,curry leaves, onions fry it..
2.Remove the poha from the water and check if any water is there with it.. if little bit water is just remove the water with the help of your hands and mix with the fried items and fry it on low flame
3.Add salt and turmeric and mix well..

This is very easy recipe good for growing kids..

Simply pack to your school going kids



serve with any spicy pickle