We invited readers to share some of their favourite recipes with us. As part of a continuing series, we publish four of these lip-smacking recipes we've received so far:
First up, here is Ruchika Ghai's preparation for Instant Rawa Pizza:
Cuisine: Indo-Italian
Type: Vegetarian
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rawa (suji)
- 1 cup sour curd
- 1/4 tsp sweet soda powder
- 50 gms cabbage
- 1/2 tsp ajwain
- Salt to taste
For topping:
- 1 onion
- 1 capsicum
- 1 tomato
- 100 gms paneer
- 2 tbsps white or yellow butter
Preparation:
- Mix the rawa, curd, salt, ajwain and soda powder. Place in a greased aluminium bowl.
- Place a jaali in a cooker and heat, then place the above bowl on the jaali and heat the cooker for 20 minutes. The pizza base is ready.
- Cover the pizza base with tomato sauce.
- Cut onion, capsicum into fine pieces and grate paneer. Spread on the base, sprinkling the paneer last.
- Dot the other side of the base with butter.
- Put in cooker and bake for 10 minutes on a slow flame till the toppings get soft and butter melts. Serve.
Health quotient: It's not microwaved and homemade -- in only 30 minutes!
Next we have how to make Vermicelli from Aisha Sanobar:
Cuisine: Indian
Type: Vegetarian
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 cups vermicelli
- 1 onion cut in thin slices
- 1 tomato cut in small pieces
- Few curry leaves
- Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- A pinch of haldi
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp chillie powder
- 2 tbsp oil
Preparation:
- Heat oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds and once they crackle, add the onions.
- Let them soften up a bit, then add the ginger-garlic paste, salt, chillie powder, haldi and tomatoes.
- Let the oil separate and then add the curry leaves and turn off the stove.
- In another utensil, boil water and then add the vermicelli. Boil for 5 minutes and strain. Pour cold water over it to cool and then add to the mix made previously. Stir well, heating for about a minute on the stove and serve hot with coriander garnish.
Here, Sheenu Garg tells you how to cook Italian-style Paneer Tawa Tikka:
Cuisine: Indo-Italian
Type: Vegetarian
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 250 gms paneer
- 1 pinch chillie flakes
- 1 pinch oregano
- 5 gms malai (cream)
- 5 gms desi ghee
- Salt
Preparation:
- Make cubes of the paneer.
- Take the malai in a bowl, add the salt, chillie flakes and oregano. Mix well.
- Add the paneer cubes and mix again.
- Heat a tawa on a high flame and pour in ghee. Add the paneer cubes one by one and keep flipping them so they cook evenly.
- Delicious Italian-style Paneer Tikkas are ready. If need be, garnish with a pinch of oregano.
Health quotient: It's the least fatty, lightest paneer tikka you can prepare.
And finally, we have Meenakshi Singh's recipe for Stuffed Mushroom Omelette:
Cuisine: Unknown
Type: Vegetarian
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 10 mushrooms
- 1/2 a small onion, chopped
- 1/4 of a small green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Grated cheddar cheese
- A few drops of milk
- Black pepper
- Red chillie powder
- Oregano
- Salt to taste
Preparation:
- Microwave or pan-cook mushrooms for 2-3 minutes, adding chillie powder, ginger-garlic paste and salt.
- Beat the eggs separately and add a few drops of milk.
- In a pan, heat oil and add onions, green pepper, oregano, salt and black pepper. Then add the eggs.
- When the base sets in, add the mushroom fried mixture and grated cheese and fold the omelette. It is ready to serve.
Health quotient: Mushrooms and eggs are healthy.