Cheesy Bread Rolls

There are days when your energy level is very low, you don't even feel like getting off the bed but with a kid around you cannot act lazy. There are few things which will never go wrong for kids i.e. cheese and bread.So I thought to make it interesting for him. Its very easy and super fast to make, best when you are lazy but want something yummy to eat.
This is for you my lovely kid Arav for being such a star and behaving well when your mommy was not so well 

Ingredients:

1. 2 slices sandwich bread
2. 2 cheese slices
3. 1 tablespoon butter
4. Tomato ketchup to serve with 

Directions:

Lay out pieces of sandwich bread on a flat surface. Use a rolling pin to flatten. Then, if desired, use a knife to cut the crusts off of each piece of flattened bread.

Place a slice of cheese on top of each slice of bread, then roll up tightly to form a cheese roll.

Heat 1 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat until melted. Place the cheese rolls joint side down in the skillet, and cook on all sides until the bread is toasted and the cheese is melted. You can press the rolls down with a spatula to be sure that they do not unfold while cooking

Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Egg Chicken Rolls- Orissa Style

When you are away from home you miss your city a lot specially the local food. No matter how big city you stay in, how many varieties of food you get to eat, there is something which keeps you attached to your own city, i.e.. the local food.

We spend our long holidays at home and during our visit to Orissa every single evening is spent relishing the taste of local food, but now being so far away from my home my country its impossible to go home every now and then. Oh! I miss the local street food so much that sometimes I wish I had a magic spell which would take me straight to those places within fraction of seconds.

Today my temptation made me prepare one of the famous street food of Orissa i.e. egg chicken rolls

Ingredients:

For Parathas:

1. 1:1 ratio mix of all purpose flour and wheat flour
2. 1 tablespoon oil
3. salt to taste
4. water to knead
5. 3 eggs ( for 3 rolls)

For Stuffing:

1. 400 gms boneless chicken cut into small pieces
2. 3 large onions Thin sliced
3. 2 medium onions finely chopped/ diced
4. 1 large tomato diced
5. 1 teaspoon chilli powder
6. 1 teaspoon curry powder
7. 1 teaspoon chicken masala (optional but I love the flavour)
8. salt to taste
9. 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
10. 1- 1/2 tablespoon Oil
11. tomato sauce
12. chilli sauce
13. pepper powder
14. lemon juice (optional)

Directions:

To prepare the stuffing:

• Heat oil in a pan add the chicken pieces and fry till golden brown.Take them out and keep aside.
• In the same pan add onions and sauté it till raw smell is gone.
• Add tomatoes and all dry spices and cook for 2 minutes, then add the chicken pieces and cook till the chicken pieces are cooked.

This is your main stuffing. Now time for making the outer cover i.e. the parathas

•  Take flour mixture in a bowl add salt and oil to it and mix it properly.
• Add little water at a time and knead the dough . keep kneading the dough till it becomes pliable and soft. 
• Cover it and let it rest for 10-15 minutes.
• Now make large balls of the dough (larger then what you make for normal paratha)
• roll them into medium thick chapattis of approx. 6" size in a lightly floured surface
• Lightly beat one egg at a time in bowl add a pinch of salt to it and keep aside.
• heat a flat skillet, place a chapati and cook on the griddle for 30 seconds then flip it.
• Pour 1 tsp oil on one side of the paratha and cook for a minute.Then remove the paratha from  Then remove the paratha from  the griddle and pour 2 tsp oil on pan. Pour beaten egg, tilt and rotate slightly to spread and place that paratha's no-oil side back on the egg mixture so that it sticks to the paratha.
• To stick better slightly press the paratha with the back of a spatula. Cook for 2 minutes and flip. Remove from the pan and follow the same steps for the remaining parathas.
• Place the paratha on a platform (egg side up)pour some tomato sauce and chilli sauce  over it and add some chicken stuffing along with diced onion season with salt, pepper and some lemon juice.
•  Roll the paratha with the chicken stuffing tightly so that while eating the chicken pieces shouldn't fall. Wrap the bottom half of the chicken roll in a tissue paper and tuck the remaining tissue inside the roll at the bottom. Your Chicken roll is ready to devour.

Chettinad Pepper Chicken

Its been ages since my husband was asking me to make pepper chicken for him, every time we plan for a chicken meal we end up with same typical chicken curry. After a little bit of research finally the happy day for my husband has come.. lol.. This is for you my dear husband enjoy your happy meal.

Ingredients:

1. 250 gm of boneless chicken pieces, cubed
2. A spring of curry leaves 
3. 2 tbsp of oil 
4. 1 tsp of black mustard seeds 
5. 1/4 tsp of fennel seeds/saunf 
6. 1 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste 
7. 1 big of onion, sliced 
8. 1 tomato diced 

Spices

1. 1 tsp of cumin seeds
2. 2 tsp of coriander seeds
3. 1-2 dry red chillies (as per your taste)
4. 1 tsp of whole black pepper
5. 3" piece of cinnamon
6. 3 green cardamom pods

Direction:

• Dry-roast the spices in a skillet until they turn a shade darker and fragrant.
• Cool and grind coarsely in grinder.
• Heat the oil in a wide pan and turn to low heat. Add the mustard seeds and fennel and when they sizzle, add the ground spices, fry for few seconds until nice aroma comes
• Then add the ginger-garlic paste, onions, and curry leaves. Sauté until the onions are soft and then add the tomatoes and mix well.
• Now add the chicken pieces and stir well to coat them with the spices.

• Add 1 cup of water, bring to boil, lower heat to simmer, and cook covered for about 15 mins or until the chicken pieces are cooked through.
• Don't forget to uncover and stir in between every 5 mins to make sure it doesn't burn. 
• After about 15 mins, the gravy should be thick and the spices should be coating the chicken. If this is not the case, cook in the open pan for a few more minutes. 
• Adjust the thickness of gravy according to your taste. If you are making as an appetizer cook till all gravy is reduced and if you are using for main course with roti or rice keep it bit gravy.

Crunchy Palak/ Spinach

You should eat healthy to stay healthy but how many of us likes to eat our greens specially when it comes to spinach. As a kid I always hated green leafy veggies but this recipe from my mom's kitchen never went wrong, every time she makes this we all ask for second round and same thing I noticed for my kid as well. So being a happy mom I proudly share my secret of eating greens. Hope it works well at your homes too...
Happy eating and healthy living..

Ingredients

1. 3 cups packed chopped spinach leaves/palak leaves
2. 1 medium size onion chopped to small dice
3. 2 tablespoon sesame seeds/ til seeds
4. 1 teaspoon salt/as per taste
5. 1 teaspoon chilli powder
6. 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
7. 4 tablespoon rice flour
8. little oil

Directions

• Wash and drain the spinach/palak leaves properly and then chop it .

• Add diced onions all dry spices except rice flour mix well and keep it for few minutes
• Add rice flour to the mixture and mix well. If the mixture is too dry then sprinkle little bit of water and mix.
• Heat a flat skillet /dosa tawa preferable a non stick one so that less oil is used. 

• Sprinkle few drops of oil .Take little bit of  this mixture at a time and put it as pancake. Cover and let cook  till sides starts to brown. Press it and flip to cook the other side too. 
• When both sides are cooked and the green colour of palak have shaded to brown and bit crispy.
• Serve hot as a evening Snack.

Note:

•  Instead of spinach you can use the same process for any green leafy veggies you get in market.
• One more all time hit ingredient is radish leaf, If you have not tried this with radish leaf then I bet you missed a delicious healthy snack.

Bread Rolls/ Pav/ Buns

As a kid I was very much fascinated about bakeries..I love the smell that comes out of the shop and the different shapes and sizes of the breads increases my eagerness to see how its made but never got a chance to visit the kitchen ..poor me.. now as I am into cooking n all  I was very excited to bake a bread of my own.. so here I am, its my first ever bake and it turned out to be really good, Never thought baking a bread is so much easy and I hope to try other fascinating shapes in near future

Ingredients

1. 2 -2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2. 2 tablespoon sugar
3. 2 teaspoon of rapid rise yeast
4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. 1/2 cup milk
6. 1/4 cup water
7. 2 tablespoon butter
8. 8 inch square or round baking pan

Directions

• Combine 3/4 cup flour, sugar, dry yeast and salt in a large mixer bowl and stir until blended. 
• Combine milk, water and butter in a small microwave-safe bowl.  Microwave on HIGH in 15 second increments until very warm but not hot to the touch  (Butter won’t melt completely). Add to flour mixture.
• Beat 2 minutes scraping bowl occasionally. Add 1/4 cup flour; beat 2 minutes. Stir in just enough remaining flour so that the dough will form into a ball. 
• Knead  on lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2 fingers, about 6 to 8 minutes. Cover with a towel; let rest for 10 minutes.
• Cut dough into 12 equal pieces; shape into balls using your hands. Place in greased  8-inch round or square pan.  Cover with towel; let rise in warm place  until doubled in size, about 30 minutes .
• Bake in preheated 190ºC oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and invert onto wire rack; brush with additional melted butter, if desired. 
• Serve warm with loads of love added as toppings.

Welcome readers....

Hello all the lovely people around,

I'm a common girl ,a little silly stubborn wife, a mother of a mischievous 2 year old boy and not to forget an architect by profession. I was noway related to any food related world or never entered the kitchen until I was married and the passion for food increased when I had a baby.My little one is not a fussy eater but he wants all his meals to be different and I try my best not to feed him same repeated dish twice. May be this is the main reason for me to be here sharing my thoughts with you all.

I had never thought of creating a blog specially a food blog but yes I have just created one . I will share my food experiments and research to feed my little one in a creative n interesting way .Hope you all will like all those crazy experiments I do in my kitchen.

Loads of love and keep reading my future posts

Rosy Subudhi