Ashwini's Kitchen Unbox recipes

NOODLES SALAD Cooking time: 15 minutes Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Chinese Noodles -2 cups boilled, chilled for 20 minutes Corn - 1 cup Carrot - 2 chopped Tomato - 2 medium sliced Paneer - 1 cup cut into small cubes Egg - 2 scrumbled (optional) Coriander - 1 tbsp chopped Mint - 2 tbsp chopped Italian Herbs - Oregano, Chilli flakes, Parsley Salt to taste Salad dressing Olive oil - 1 tsp + 1/2 tsp for fry Plain Vinegar - 3 tsp Garlic - 2 tsp chopped finely Procedure Bring the noodles for room temperature. In a sauce pan add 1/2 tsp oil, add chopped garlic, carrot, corn and paneer stir fry for a minute on high flame and keep aside to cool. In a bowl, add boiled noodles,raw tomato, above mixture, scrumbled egg, salt and mix well. In another bowl add 1 tsp olive oil 3 tsp vinager, garlic and whisk well and pour this mixture on the noodles. Sprinkle mint and coriander, mix well serve chilled.  

DRY FRUIT VANILLA COOKIES Cooking Time - 30 minutes Ingredients Maida - 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar - 3/4 th cup Butter - 2 tbsp Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Egg - 1 Dry fruits coarse mixture - 1 cup  Raisins - 2 tbsp Procedure Prehaet oven to 180 degrees In a bowl add butter mix well. Add powdered sugar and mix well. Now add egg and vanilla essence mix well. Add maida, and make a soft dough. Make small round balls and coat with dry fruits mixture. Press and make a small hole with raisins, so that raisins will sit in the dough... Bake for 13 - 15 minutes in a preheated oven. cool and serve  Note:  Butter and eggs should be at room temperature. Store the cookies in air tight container.  

PUDINA EGG MASALA Cooking Time: 30 minutes Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Boiled Eggs - 3 Pudina - 1 cup Onion - 1 large for paste and few sliced Green Chilli - 2-3 Tomato - 2 small chopped Ginger - 1 inch piece Coconut - 3 tbsp Oil/Butter - 2 tbsp Jeera - 1/2 tsp Coriander powder - 1tsp Garam masala - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Coriander for garnish Jaggary/ Sugar - 1/2 tsp Fresh Cream - 2 tbsp For the paste Grind coconut, onion, pudina, chilli and ginger with 1 cup water to a paste and keep aside. Procedure Heat oil/butter in a kadai. Add jeera, onion and saute for a minute. Now add the above paste and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook for a minute.  Now add all the masalas, salt and jaggary mix well. Now add fresh cream mix well, add boiled eggs garnish with coriander and serve hot.  

MAKKAI METHI THALIPEET This is one of my favourite breakfast recipe, from North Karnataka(my home town). Its really tasty, lightly sweet... Cooking time: 15 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients Makkai flour: 2 cups Whole wheat flour: 2 tbsp Rice flour(optional): 2 tbsp Methi leaves: 1 1/2 cup chopped Onions: 2 small chopped finely Ajwain: 1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Green chilli: 4-5 chopped finely Tomato: 1 small chopped(Optional) Salt to taste Oil for drizzle Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl to a hard dough and keep aside for 10 minutes Other things : Muslin cloth/ or any thin cloth Preparation Take a muslin cloth, wet it in water and spread it. Take lemon size dough, keep on a muslin cloth and pat it into a thin roti with the help of water. Heat the tawa and drizzle oil on it. Now take the muslin cloth with the roti and put it upside down, slowly remove the cloth and immediately drizzle oil at all the sides. Turn it over and cook again. Serve hot with cu

HOME MADE VEGETABLE PIZZA I always use to wonder, how to make pizza at home. Then one fine day i experimented it just to see, but fortunately it came out very well, I and husband enjoyed....  So its your turn now... cook the pizza in just 10 minutes and serve..... Cooking time: 10 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients 8" Pizza base: 2 bases Pizza sauce (I used Fransesco Mutti): 2 tbsp for each pizza base Any vegetables (carrot, corn, beans, cauliflower, paneer etc): 2 cups Mozerella/ any Processed cheese salt as per taste For Seasoning Italian Herbs: Red chilli flakes, Oregano, parsley and tulsi. Preparation Preheat wide pan on a high heat for 3 minutes  Spread 2 tbsp of pizza sauce on each base. Grate some cheese on the bases. Now cover each base with vegetables. Sprinkle some Italian herbs for taste  Finally grate more cheese on all the vegetables If required again sprinkle Italian herbs. Simmer the flame, Place one pizza in that pan and close the lid, coo

TUTTY- FRUITY CAKE (Baked in Pressure Cooker) Total Cooking time: 1 hr. Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Unsalted Butter: 1/2 cup Milk maid (condensed milk): 1 1/2 cups Egg Whites: 2 Maida: 1 cup Vanilla essence: 1 tsp Warm milk: 1/4 cup Baking powder: 1/2 tsp Tutty- Fruity: 3/4th  cup Equipments Cake tin, Egg beater/ blender, Pressure cooker without whistle and safety valve and 2 inch thick metal ring. Preparation Sift maida and baking powder for 4-5 times, Mix tutty fruitys well with the flour and keep aside. In a large bowl add butter and condensed milk, whisk well. Add egg whites one by one and whisk again. Add vanilla essence and mix. Now start adding flour mixture slowly little by little and mix softly. In between add little milk also and mix well, continue till all the flour is added and make the cake batter ready. Heat the pressure cooker on high flame for 3-4 minutes with closed lid. after that simmer the flame. Grease the cake baking tin with butter and s

MUSHROOM IN GREENS Cooking time: 30 mins Serves: 3-4 Ingredients Palak bunch: 1 big washed and chopped roughly Mushrooms: 250 gms washed and chopped into big pieces Spring Onions (white and green): 2 medium chopped roughly Tomato: 1 small chopped Green chilli: 3-4 chopped Dhania powder: 1 tsp Salt as per taste Sugar: 1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Hing: 1/4 tsp Garlic: 3-4 cloves chopped finely Oil: 2 tbsp Fresh Cream: 2 tbsp for mixing and for garnish. Coriander leaves (optional) Preparation Roast onion and tomato in a pan for 2 minutes, cool it and grind to a smooth paste keep aside. Put palak in a boiling water, boil for a minute, drain and add cold to it, drain water immediately and grind to a smooth paste to retain green colour. Heat oil in kadai, add jeera, hing, garlic cloves and chilli saute well. Put spring onion -tomato gravy and palak gravy saute for 4-5 minutes on medium heat, till its cooked. Now add raw mushrooms, dhania powder, salt, sugar boil

SPECIAL BRINJAL RICE (VAANGI BAATH) Cooking time - 20 mins, Total preparation time: 1 hr, 30 mins Serves - 3- 4 Ingredients Brinjal: 1/2 kg, cut into 2" strips Basmati rice: 2 cups soaked for 1 hr and drain it.  Onions: 2 medium sliced Green chilli (optional) Coriander: 2 tbsp  Oil: 3 tbsp Turmeric: 1/2 tsp Salt as per taste For the Masala Channa dal : 2 tsp urad dal: 2 tsp hing: 1/2 tsp Coconut: grated 1/2 cup Dhania seeds: 2 tbsp Sesame seeds: 1/2 tsp Red chilies: 2-3  Roast all the above ingredients in 1/2 tsp of oil and grind to a paste. For Seasoning Mustard:1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Hing a pinch Procedure Mix 1/2 tsp of turmeric to brinjals and keep aside. Heat oil in a Pressure cooker, add mustard, jeera and hing. Add onions saute for a minute Add the ground masala, saute for minute until it is cooked. Add turmeric coated brinjals and mix well. Now add rice, 2 cups of water, salt and red chilli powder as per taste and spicy. Close th