Garlicky Creamy Spicy Tuna Pasta....

A quick meal for a lazy day. Any type of Pasta can be used in this recipe. Instead of Tuna, boiled shredded chicken can be added. Absolutely love the flavour and it is very easy to make. 

Ingredients 

250 grams Spiral Pasta boiled and drained 

1 canned Tuna flakes or fresh Tuna boiled and shredded 

1/2 cup Fresh Cream 

1/4 cup Marinara Sauce 

1 tbsp Garlic chopped 

1 Jalapeno Green Chilli chopped

1 Pickled Red Jalapeno Chilli Chopped 

1 tbsp Green and Black Olives chopped 

1 tbsp each Cheddar and Mozzarella Cheese grated 

1 tbsp Butter 

1/2 cup Starch Water from the Pasta which was boiled 

Method 

Take a wok, add butter, let it melt. Add the garlic and the green  jalapeño. Sauté it for few minutes.  Add the cream and let it simmer for a minute. Add the marinara sauce and mix it with the cream. Add the pasta and the tuna flakes. Toss it. Let it cook for a minute. Add the starch water. Let it cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until the liquid reduces. Before serving garnish with red jalapeño, olives and grated cheese. 

Spicy and Salty Strawberry Cookies

 

 This cookies are spicy and salty in taste. Instead of water, I have used strawberry pulp. It is perfect to have them with your evening tea or just to munch on. 

Ingredients 

225 grams All Purpose Flour 

75 ml Strawberry pulp

1 Green chilli minced 

1 tbsp Pickled Red Jalapeno Chilli Chopped 

1 tbsp Mint leaves minced 

1 tsp Roasted Cumin seeds crushed 

1 tbsp Sugar powder 

Rock Salt as per taste 

110 grams Butter 

40 ml Oil

Method 

Beat the butter well. Add the flour and mix it, till it forms crumbs. Add the strawberry pulp and oil. Beat it well. Add the salt, sugar, cumin, mint leaves and green chilli. Beat it again. Add the red chillies and mix it. Take a big star nozzle and a piping bag. Fill the cookie mixture in the piping bag and pipe out small cookies on a baking tray. Bake at 170 degrees celcius for 15 to 20 minutes. Let it cool completely before eating. Store it in an air tight container.

Instant Crispy Dosa with Mix Lentils and Semolina... Served with Turnip and Coconut Chutney....

I wanted to make something instant as I was super hungry and did not feel like having bread for breakfast and as I am alone for lunch, did not feel like making a meal. So this dish was great for brunch and it is healthy too. 

So here is the recipe of how I made this Instant Dosa with mix lentils and semolina..... which is served with spicy Turnip and Coconut Chutney. 

For the Dosa

Ingredients

2 cups of Semolina or Idli Rawa

1/2 cup Sago flour 

1/4 cup Black split lentil

1/4 cup Green split lentil

2 tbsp split Bengal Gram 

1 tsp Eno 

Salt to taste 

Method 

Wash all the lentils together and soak it for 15 minutes. Take a grinder and grind the lentils and salt together  into a smooth paste. Add the sago flour, semolina and some water. Make it into a medium thick batter. Remove it into a mixing bowl. Add Eno and mix it. The batter is ready for making dosas. Take a dosa skillet. Let it heat on low flame. Add 2 ladles of the batter. Spread it and drizzle some ghee. Let it cook on low flame until crispy and brown. Serve it hot with the turnip and coconut chutney.

Turnip and Coconut Chutney 

Ingredients 

1 medium size Turnip cut into pieces 

1 small piece Ginger 

2 Green Chillies cut into pieces 

1 small piece raw Mango or preserved Mango piece 

1/4 cup Fresh or Desiccated Coconut 

Salt to taste 

Few Curry leaves 

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds 

1 tsp Oil

Method 

In a grinder, grind all the above ingredients except curry leaves, mustard seeds and oil into a thick paste. Take a small pan. Add oil, let it heat. Add the mustard seeds and curry leaves. Let the mustard seeds crackle. Add the seasoning into the chutney.

Kachki Maach er Tak Jhal Achaar... (Ganges River Spratt Sour and Spicy Pickle)...

This is a sour and spicy pickle made with very tiny fish found in the stream, river or pond. I absolutely love this pickle and goes well with dal, aloo bhate or borta and hot rice. This is an experiment in my kitchen. 

For the Wet paste

Ingredients 

1 small to medium sized Raw Mango peeled and cut into pieces 

20 Garlic cloves

6 to 8 Green Chillies 

1 medium size Ginger cut into pieces 

3 tbsp Black Mustard seeds 

2 tbsp Coriander seeds

1/2 tsp Turmeric powder 

Salt to taste 

Method 

Add all the above ingredients in to a grinder and add little water to make it into a smooth paste. 

For the  Pickle 

Ingredients 

500 grams Ganges River Spratt washed well and dipped into hot water for few seconds and drained the water out. 

Wet paste 

1 Medium size Ginger cut into strips 

8 Garlic cloves 

4 to 5 Green Chillies slit into 2 

1/2 tsp Panch Phoran 

2 tbsp Vinegar 

1/2 cup Mustard Oil

1 tbsp Mustard Oil 

Method 

Take a wok, add oil and heat it up. Once hot fry the fish till crispy. In the same oil add panch phoran, ginger, garlic and chillies. Sauté it for 2 minutes. Add the wet paste and 2 tbsp water. Stir and cook the paste for 2 minutes. Add the fish, let it cook till the oil starts to separate from the paste. Add the vinegar and 2 tbsp raw mustard oil. Stir and let it cool. Store it in a dry clean bottle and store it in the refrigerator for 6 months.

Donuts with a twist filled with Rose Pistacho Cream...

Some Donuts for the evening... I hope you all enjoy the twist.. 

These donuts  are made with whole wheat flour, oat flour, brown flatten rice flour and pomegranate juice. The filling is made with hung curd, Amul cream, rose syrup and crushed pistachios. This is a good snack for children. This is an experiment in my kitchen.

For the Rose Pistacho Cream..

Ingredients 

1/2 cup Amul Fresh Cream

1/2 cup Hung Curd 

3 tbsp Pistachio coarsely ground

2 tbsp Rose Syrup 

Method 

In a mixing bowl, beat the cream. As it thickens up, add the hung curd and beat it well. Add the ground pistachio, fold the cream with a spoon. Add the rose syrup and gently just mix it once. 

For the Dough 

250 grams Whole Wheat Flour 

75 grams All Purpose Flour 

125 grams Brown Flatten Rice flour

50 grams Oat Flour

20 grams Milk Powder 

14 grams  Dry Yeast 

50 grams + 1 tbsp Sugar  powder 

40 grams Butter 

260 ml Pomegranate Juice 

30 ml Water

Oil for frying 

Method 

Sieve whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, oat flour and flatten rice flour together. All all the flour, 50 grams  powder Sugar and milk powder together. Take the pomegranate juice and make it lukewarm. Add 1 tbsp powder sugar and yeast. Let it rise. Add the yeast water into the flour. Start to make a dough. Add the butter and water and knead it for 10 minutes. Cover it and let the dough rise. Knead the dough again and keep it on a flat surface. Roll the dough into a thick sheet with a rolling pin. Take a donut cutter or a round cutter and cut out the donuts. Cover and keep till it rises. Heat oil. Fry the donuts till golden brown. 

Once it has come to room temperature, cut the donut into half horizontally and add the cream in the centre with the help of a piping bag and a big nozzle. Sprinkle powder sugar from top.