White Sauce Macaroni

White Sauce Macaroni

White Sauce Macaroni

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 15 mins
Serving: 1 person

Ingredients:

For boiled Macaroni-

Macaroni: 1 cup

For White Sauce-

Butter: 2 teaspoon

Garlic (crushed): 1 clove

All purpose flour: 1/2 teaspoon

Milk: 1/2 cup

 

For Dressing-

Carrot, Capsicum, Beans (small diced): 1/3 cup

Onion (chopped): 1 small

Tomato (chopped): 1 small

Grated cheese: 1/2 cup

Red chilly flakes: 1/8 teaspoon

Oregano flakes: 1/4 teaspoon

Butter: 2-3 teaspoon

Refined oil: 1 teaspoon

Salt: to taste

Tomato sauce: to taste

Coriander leaves (finely chopped): 1 tablespoon

Method:

For Boiling the Macaroni-
1. Place a pan on burner half filled with water, salt and 1 tea spoon of oil.

2. let it come to a boil.

3. Pour the macaronis in it for getting boiled.

4. Check the macaronis after 5-6 mins, if they have been boiled turn the burner off.

5.Drain out the hot water from the pan and wash the macaronis with cold water so as to make then non sticky and keep aside.

For White Sauce-

1.Take a pan, add butter in it and let it get warm.

2. Add minsed garlic and saute till it is light brown.

3. Add all purpose flour to it and saute for 30 seconds.

4. Add milk slowly so that no lumps are formed and keep stirring.

5. Take out the white sauce in a bowl and keep aside.

6. Add chilly flakes and oregano spices to the white sauce to be used later.

Lets cook our macaroni-

1.Take a pan, add oil and butter and let it get warm.

2. Add diced vegetables and saute.

 

2. Saute the veggies well for a minute and then add onions.

3. When the onions turn pink, add the chopped tomatoes.

4. Now add the macaronis in the pan and stir with a light toss.

5.Grated the cheese and mix it in the macaroni along with the white sauce.

6. Toss the macaronis well with all the ingredients, sprinkle salt to taste, add tomato ketchup.

7. Garnish the macaronis with cilantro leaves and they are ready to be served hot.

Enjoy the delicious, Hot and cheesy White Sauce Macaroni :) 

Note: 

1. You can make this recipe replacing the macaronis with pasta of your choice.

Paneer Stuffed Aloo Tikki

 

Paneer Stuffed Aloo Tikki

Paneer Stuffed Aloo Tikki 

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 15 mins
Serving: 2 person

Ingredients:

For Covering of the Tikki-

Boiled & finely mashed potato: 200 grams

For Stuffing of the Tikki-

Grated cottage cheese (Paneer): 150 grams

Chopped Ginger: 1 Inch

Red chilly powder: 1/2 teaspoon

Garam Masala: 1/8 teaspoon

Dried mango powder (Amchoor): 1/4 teaspoon

Chaat Masala: 1/8 teaspoon

Salt: to taste

Coriander leaves (finely chopped): 1 tablespoon

Desi ghee/refined oil: for shallow frying the tikkis

For garnishing of the Tikki-
Imli ki Khatti Meethi Chutney
Hare Dhaniye ki Chutney
Dahi Rayta 
Grated Salad of Radish & Carrot

Method:

For Stuffing of the Tikki-
1. In a bowl take the grated paneer.

2. Add all the ingredients and mix them well.

3. Adjust the salt as per taste.

4. Divide the stuffing mixture into 6 portions.

Making the Tikki-

1. Take the boiled mashed potato in a plate.

2. Grease your palm with some oil.

3. Take 2 spoonful of mashed potato prepared for making the covering of the tikki in your hands.

4. Now flatten it and make space for the stuffing in the center.

5. Put 2 tablespoon stuffing at the center of the flattened covering of aloo and start folding it in such a way that the covering covers the stuffing from all the sides.

6. When all the tikkis are made place them on the a tava and add oil from the sides of the tikki.

7. Keep shallow frying the tikkis till they are nice crisp and golden brown.

8. Take the tikkis out on serving plate and decorate with Dahi Rayta; Imli ki Khatti Meethi Chutney; Hare Dhaniye ki Chutney and Grated Salad of Radish & Carrot.

Enjoy the Crisp, Hot and Delicious Paneer Stuffed Aloo Tikkis - Home made :) 

Please try these Paneer Stuffes Aloo Tikkis at home and let me know how it made you feel delighted :)

Note: 

1. You can prepare the stuffing with any other ingredient of your choice for eg. mushrooms, mix veggies, dry fruits, seasonal fruits seasoned with some condiments.

Kadhayi Paneer with mouth watering Daal ke Parathe

Daal Parathe with Kadhayi Paneer

 

Kadhayi Paneer with mouth watering Daal ke Parathe

Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Serving: 2 person

Ingredients:
For Kadhayi Paneer-

 Cottage cheese/Paneer: 200 gram

Medium sized onion (cut in cubes) : 2

Medium sized green capsicum (cut in cubes): 1

Medium sized tomato (cut in cubes): 2

Ginger: 2 inc piece (Crushed roughly)

Green chilly: 2 (Crushed roughly)

Turmeric powder: 1/2 tea spoon

Kasoori methi: 1/2 tea spoon

Cumin seeds

Oil: 5 tea spoon

Salt: to taste

For Kadhayi Paneer Masaala-

Coriander seeds: 2 table spoon

Bay Leaves: 2

Cloves: 2

Elaichi: 1

Black paper: 6-7

Cumin seeds: 2 table spoon

For Daal ke Parathe-

I had a cup of left over daal in my fridge, so I thought of utilizing it by making nice flavorful parathe out of it :) 

For this I needed the following ingredients:

Wheat flour: 1 cup

Gram flour (besan): 2 table spoon

Kasoori methi: 1/2 table spoon

Ajwain: 1/2 tea spoon

Small sized onion (finely chopped): 1

Red chilly powder: 1/4 tea spoon

Salt: 1/4 tea spoon

Oil: 1 tea spoon (for kneading the dough)

Oil: for making the parathe

Method:

For Kadhayi Paneer Masaala-

1. Keep a pan on the flame and when the pan is warn enough let all the condiments poured in it.

2. Keep stirring them all the time by keeping the flame on simmer.

3. When a nice aroma starts coming out from the pan's condiment, they have been roasted nicely.

4. Switch the flame off and let the condiments get cooled down to room temperature.

5. When they are at room temperature, grind them coarsely and keep aside to be used later.

Coarsely grind condiments

For Kadhayi Paneer-

1. In a pan take oil and switch the flame on to high flame, add cumin seeds.

2. when the cumin seeds start spluttering, bring the flame to medium and add ginger and chilly.

3. Keep stirring the mixture for 30 seconds.

4. Meanwhile cut the cottage cheese into small pieces (as you like the shape and size) and keep aside.

5. Add onion followed by capsicum keep stirring them.

Onions tossed

Capsicum added

6. When the onions are turning pink in color add tomatoes and cover it for a minute.

Tomatoes added

7. Open the lid and add turmeric powder and salt to it.

8. Let it simmer for one more minute.

9. Now, add the paneer cuber into it and the kadhayi paneer masala prepared along with kasoori methi; mix well with light hands so that the paneer is not broken.

Cottage cheese added

10. Cover with a lid and let it simmer for 2 minutes by adding some water (I used just 1/4th cup of water; you may add water as to how thick you want the gravy to be).

11. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and ginger julienne.

Kadhayi Paneed is ready!!

For Daal ke Parathe-

1. Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients for preparing the dough for parathe.

2. When the dough has been prepared, keep it aside for 15-20 mins to rest.

3. Now make small pede from the dough and roll it in round or triangular shaped parathe (as you wish to make them).

4. On a heated tava place the nicely rolled paratha and cook it untill it turns out nice and crisp from both the sides by applying some oil over its both the surfaces.

Daal Paratha

 You parathe are ready to serve with nice aromatic Kadhayi Paneer. You can accompany it with some sweetened curd  or chaach as you like it. :) :)

Note:

1. You can use Soya Tofu in place of Paneer as it is rich in protein, less in fat and if thought economically a cheaper option to cottage cheese.