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veggie pizza
Friday, December 26, 2008
Base
100 gm flour (maida)
30 gm butter
100 gm potato
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
Sauce
4 tbsp readymade tomato puree
½ tsp garam masala
½ tsp coriander powder
¼ tsp Oregano
½ tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp chilli powder
Topping
50 gm cheese
½ medium onion (thinly sliced)
½ medium capsicum (thinly sliced)
| 1. | Put the potato in a polythene bag and Micro high for 2 ½ minutes. |
| 2. | Mash the cooked potato to a smooth paste. Keep aside to cool. |
| 3. | Rub butter into the flour till it resembles breadcrumbs. |
| 4. | Add mashed potato, baking powder and salt. |
| 5. | Knead to a dough using a few tbsp cold water. |
| 6. | To prepare the sauce, mix all the ingredients. |
| 7. | Roll out pizza dough and spread out in the dish. |
| 8. | Spread the sauce on the base, leaving ¼" space all around. |
| 9. | Micro high uncovered for 6 minutes. |
| 10. | Mix a little salt to the onion and capsicum. Sprinkle this mixture on the pizza. |
| 11. | Grate cheese over it. Micro high uncovered for 1 minute. |
Kalakand
Sunday, December 14, 2008
2 cups full fat milk
1 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup sugar
Boil milk in a heavy bottomed saucepan until it
reduces to half. Add cottage cheese and sugar and mix
well till it attains a semi.solid consistency. Preheat the
oven. Transfer the mixture to a square shaped oven
proof dish and bake at 425F for 10 minutes. Let stand
in the oven for half and hour. Cut into squares and
serve.
Poha
2 cups flattened rice (poha)
available at any Indian grocery store.
2 cups water
1 potato, chopped small
2 tablespoons ghee
1 onion, chopped fine
1/4 cup groundnuts (raw peanuts)
1/2 teaspoon turmeric (just enough to color the rice)
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
Lemon juice, to taste
Salt and pepper
Soak the flattened rice (poha) in water and set aside.
In a large round.bottomed frying pan, heat the ghee till
very hot. Add mustard seeds, onion, potato and
groundnuts. When the mustard seeds are tender,
cover with water and cook till potato and groundnuts
are tender.
Drain off any excess water from the soaked rice. Add
the turmeric to the ricetill it รข ™s a nice golden yellow.
Add the rice to the frying pan and mix with the
potato.onion mixture until hot. Add salt, pepper and
lemon juice to your taste.
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