We'd asked you, dear readers to share your favourite monsoon recipes.

From tasty cheesy snacks to crunchy bites, monsoon calls for yummy food.

Here are four easy-to-make recipes that our Rediff reader Reshma Aslam shared with us.

Don't forget to share yours too!

Cheesy Chicken Lasagne

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg chicken (minced)
• 6 tbsp all purpose flour
• 6 tbsp butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tsp white pepper powder
• 2 cup cheddar cheese
• 6 to 8 lasagne sheets
• 2 tomatoes (chopped)
• 1 medium sized onion (chopped)
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 2 tsp red chilli powder
• Few garlic flakes (chopped)
• 1 cup boiled pasta
• 2 tbsp oil
• Salt as per taste

Method

For white sauce

• Heat a pan and add butter.
• Once it's half melted, add flour and fry until golden in colour.
• Add milk slowly and keep stirring with a whisk. Make sure that no lumps form.
• Add water and pepper powder.
• When a nice thick consistency is obtained, switch off the gas.
• Add salt and a cup of cheddar cheese. Stir well and keep the white sauce aside.

For chicken lasagne 

• Take oil in a pan and heat it. Add chopped onions and fry it well until soft and pink.
• Add chopped tomatoes and fry. When tomatoes are soft, add ginger garlic paste and fry.
• Add minced chicken. Let it cook on low flame.
• Add chilli powder and cook for about 15 minutes. Add cooked pasta and mix well.
• Take a nice oven proof flat bowl. Spread the minced chicken evenly over it.
• Add white sauce and spread it well.
• Add cheddar cheese and cover it with two lasagne sheets.
• The sheets should cover everything which we have spread in the bowl
• Repeat the process the same way -- chicken, white sauce, cheese and lasagne sheets until chicken is used completely.
• Once done, top it up with cheese.
• Preheat oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
• Bake it for 15 minutes on 200 degrees Celsius.
• Cut and serve hot.

Note: The number of lasagne sheets depend on the size of the bowl.

Onion rings

Ingredients

• 3 large white onions
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 eggs
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Oil for deep frying

Method

• Peel the onions and cut them round. Make about three round cuts of each onion.
• Separate the onion rings.
• Add them in a mixing bowl with salt and lemon juice. Mix well.
• Add chilli powder and mix. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, pour oil in the pan for deep frying. Heat it.
• Remove the onions from the fridge and coat each onion ring with flour.
• Dip it in beaten egg and coat it with flour again.
• Dip it in egg and coat it with bread crumbs.
• Deep fry in hot oil until golden in colour.
• Serve hot.

Baked Jacket Potato

Ingredients

• 3 to 4 large potatoes
• 2 to 3 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese (grated)
• 1 tbsp pepper powder
• 1 tbsp oil
• Salt to taste

Method

• Wash the potatoes well.
• Pat them dry and prick them with a fork on all sides.
• Apply salt and rub some oil all over.
• Preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for around 10 minutes.
• Place the potatoes on the oven tray. Bake for 25 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
• Once done, remove the potatoes. Make cuts like a cross on them.
• Cut the potatoes half way and not throughout.
• Add butter in the cuts made on the potatoes.
• Add grated cheese all over it.
• Add pepper powder. Serve hot.

Chatpata Chicken Tortillas

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg chicken (boneless)
• 1 medium size onion (chopped)
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp garam masala powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 tbsp tomato sauce
• 1 tbsp chilli sauce
• 6 tbsp mayonnaise
• 6 to 7 ready tortillas
• 2 to 3 cubes cheese (grated)
• Salt as per taste
• Water if needed

Method

• Wash and drain chicken well.
• Cut the chicken into very small pieces.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped onions and fry until soft.
• Add tomato puree and ginger garlic paste. Fry for two minutes.
• Add salt, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, half teaspoon of tomato sauce and chilli sauce and little water if needed. Fry the mixture for five minutes.
• Add chicken and fry again
• Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook. You can add some water if required or you may not need to add water as the chicken will give off water while it cooks.
• Cook it for over good 15 to 20 minutes.
• If there is some water left in the chicken, cook it on high flame for the water to dry out.
• Once done, switch off the flame. Let the chicken masala which we have prepared cool.
• Warm the tortillas on the tawa. Keep aside.
• Take mayonnaise in a small bowl and add tomato sauce in it. Mix well.

To assemble

• Apply the mayonnaise and tomato sauce mixture on the tortillas. Spread it well.
• Place the chicken masala in the centre and some grated cheese on top.
• Roll the tortillas and serve.

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