Showing posts with label Picnic Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picnic Recipes. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Corn Peas Money Bag/Wontons/Potli







Kids  hate vegetable, so we can hide and give through this type of snacks.

 
Corn Peas Money Bag/wontons/Potli 


Ingredients

For Dough

Maida – 200 gram
Salt – ¼ tspn
Sugar – ½ tspn
Hot water – ¼ glass
Oil or butter  – 1 tspn

For filling

Sweet Corn (Frozen) – 100 gram
Green Peas – 50 gram
Cabbage ( grated) – ¼ cup
Carrot grated – 1 tspn
Chopped Capsicum – 2 tspn
Chopped green chilli – 1no
Chopped Onion – 1 tbspn
Chopped garlic – 2 pod
Salt – to taste
Oil – 2 tspn
Coarsely grounded black pepper – ½ tspn
Lemon juice – ½ tspn
Sugar – 2 pinches

Oil – for frying
Method

1.    In another wide bowl, mix the Atta,sugar, oil and salt.
2.    Prepare a soft dough with those ingredients.
3.    Make small lemon size balls and roll it in atta, as needed.

4.    Make a the balls in to a flat rotis (like puris) .


5.    In a non stick pan add oil and add onion and garlic and sauté for 2 min.
6.  Add Corn and peas saute for 1 min,   Add cabbage, carrot and capsicum , sauté for 1 min.
7.    Add salt and sprinkle little water and cook about 2 min

8.    Finally add sugar, pepper pwd and lemon juice salt mix well and remove from the heat and allow it to cool.


10. Place the flattened dough Keep 1 heaped teaspoon of the
11. Prepared cabbage filling in the center.


12. Close it gently like modak shape like a money bag and keep aside.

13. Heat oil in a pan keep the fire in Medium flame deep fry the all money bags.


Note: This is very interesting recipe, kids will love the shape,In olden days Grannies use  the moneybags to  keep the money. money bags symbolise wealthy, whereas this corn peas moneybag symbolise healthy.
we  can also  use mutton or  chicken filling instead of veggie.
if there is any  fear in closing the bag  you  can  use  spring onion   to tie up this bag.



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Paneer Channa Pulao


Paneer Channa Pulao ( One pot meal)Pressure Cooker Method


Serves : 5 kids or 3 Persons
Ingredients

Basmati Rice – 300 gram
Channa (White) – 100 gram ( cooked or Ready made)
Amul Brand Paneer – 100 gram
Broccoli - 7 florets 

To grind

Coriander leaves – few
Mint leaves – few
Small Onion –  10 nos
Green Chilli – 2 nos (depends on your Spice level you can add more)
Curd – 1 tbspn

To tempering

Oil – 3 tspn
Ghee or butter – 1 tspn
Bay leaf – 2
Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tspn
Red chilli pwd – ¼ tspn
Garam masala -  ½ tspn
Sugar – 1 pinch
Hot water – 450 ml
Salt – to taste

Method

Wash and soak the rice for 10 min.Wash the paneer in a hot water strain it and add  little Red chilli pwd and salt keep it  aside. Grind “To given” under grind ingredients in a mixer. (Not smooth paste ¾ )
In a pressure cooker and 1 tspn butter and and fry the paneer and transfer to a bowl.
In the  same cooker add oil temper with bay leaf and ginger garlic paste and sauté for  1 min and add ground ingredients and stir it well.
Add channa ,Broccoli, paneer ,garam masala,  pinch of sugar,red chili pwd and sauté and add hot water and after it start boiling add soaked rice and salt cook for  2 min and close the cooker lid keep the flame in medium heat, leave for 2 whistle. After pressure releases  gently mix the rice with fork and transfer it to a serving bowl.

Healthy kids special paneer and chana pulao is ready. send your kids in lunch box. 
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Tandoori Tofu with Spinach Macaroni




Tandoori Tofu with Spinach Macaroni

Breakfast is the main meal of the day, many organs restart to  work after a fast so we can eat as much heavy and healthy during breakfast.
Many kids always skip the breakfast due to School. If we give them attractive and tasty food at least they will try to eat.






Preparation Time :  15 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Serves: 3 to 4 kids
Recipe Source: My Own

Ingredients


Macaroni – 300 grams (cooked)

Marination for Tandoori Tofu

Tofu – 150 gram
Salt – ¾ tspn ( to taste)
Kashmiri red chilli – ½ tspn
Eastern Tandoori masala – 2 tspn or you can use any Brand shan, Basha kitchen king etc .,
Lemen juice – ½ tspn
Ginger garlic paste – ½ tspn



for tempering

butter + oil – 2 + 2 tspn
green chilli – 2 nos ( chopped)
chopped capsicum – 2 tbspn
Mixed vegetable ( frozen) – 100 gram
Corn  - 50 gram (frozen)
Sugar – 2 pinches
Knor vegetable Stock – ½ cube
Soy sauce – 1 tbspn
Chilli sauce – 1 tspn
Tomato ketchup – 1 tbpn
White pepper – ½ tspn
Salt – ¼ tspn
(left over) Spinach pesto – 2 tbspn ( see Note.no1)

Garnishing

Walnut - few (Chopped)


Method

  1. Cook maccroni as per packet direction and strain it ,mix little olive oil and keep aside.



2.Add above (marination) masala to tofu and marinate for 10 min, then  heat a non stick pan add 2 tspn oil + butter do shallow fry.





3.In a wide non stick pan add 2 tspn butter + oil add green chilli , sugar , add all the veggie , knor vegetable stock stu soy sauce, chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, salt stir it well and cook for 2 min in low flame

4. Now add fried tofu, cooked macaroni and gently mix it well, and sprinkle white pepper stir it and remove from the heat. You can also Send this kids to lunch, may be his whole class will be around his box for his  yummy Tandoori tofu macaroni.




Note: 1. Spinach Pesto: Boil hot water and add spinach and little salt and sugar cook for 1 min and strain, wash with cold water, grind along with green chilli and walnut.
2. Please be careful in adding the salt, because already soy sauce, knor cube have salt.
3.In this recipe ingredients are more but easy to prepare. Kids would love this recipe definitely.
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