Grilled Sandwich 2

This is in continuation with my previous post about the grilled sandwich with veggies. This is another version of it.. Since my twin, started giving trouble to eat the first one, I tried this one. In the first sandwich, you can literally see the vegetables and you have to chew them which was the problem with my little lazy princess. In this one, we don't have to chew the vegetables. The quantity given below may be enough for one or two sandwiches. Increase the quantity accordingly. Here goes the recipe...

Ingredients:-

1. Bread slice - 2
2. Cheese slice (acc to taste) - 2
3. Potato - 1 (small)
4. Carrots - 2
5. Green peas - 1 tbsp
6. Green bean - 1 tbsp
7. Salt to taste
8. Pepper - to taste
9. Butter - to spread

First cook all the given vegetables in microwave or stove top. Let it cool and grind it into a fine paste. In the mean time, half toast the bread and keep it aside. Spread the butter and now spread the mashed vegetable paste on top of butter. Sprinkle salt and pepper according to your taste. Place the cheese slice on top of it. Again spread butter and vegetable paste on top of the other slice of bread. Place it on top of cheese and toast it on the stove top in a pan till it becomes golden brown. Serve it hot with tomato ketchup. I tried this sandwich with my twin and she really likes this than the first one. I am trying to change the vegetables everyday. I hope this helps me for atleast 10 days :)

Rava Upma

This may sound easy to many of you.. But for me it was not... When I got married, I had no idea of how to make upma. I remember my mom making upma within 10 to 15 mts and bring it to me. I didn't bother to ask her how to prepare it when I was in college. But after marriage, there is no choice for us. We have to learn everything. This is something I learned from my MIL. I used to make upma before, like measuring rava and water and then adding it to tawa etc etc. It will be a mess as usual and it will come out like a paste :(. My MIL showed me the trick on how to make upma without measuring with cups...

Ingredients:-

1. Sooji/Rava - 1 cup ***
2. Water - 2 1/2 cups
3. Semolina/vermicelli - 3 tbsp
   
4. Salt to taste
5. mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
6. Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp
7. Channa dhall - 1/2 tsp
8. Asafoetida powder - a pinch
9. Green chillies - 1 or 2 (acc to taste)
10. Ginger - 1/2 tsp finely chopped (acc to taste)
    
11. Onion - 1/2 cup finely chopped
12. Tomato - 1/2 cup finely chopped
13. Lemon juice - 1 tsp (acc to taste0
14. Curry leaves - few
15. Coriander leaves - 2 tsp (chopped)
16. Oil - 2 tsp
17. ghee - 1 tsp (optional)

Take a pan, pre heat oil and ghee, splutter mustard seeds, add urad dhall, channa dhall and asafoetida powder and fry it till golden brown. Add green chillies and ginger and saute' for a minute. Now add the semolina/vermicelli to it and saute for another 2 mts. Add chopped onion and stir it till it becomes transparent. Add chopped tomato to the ingredients and mix it well. When everything is finely cooked, add the water, salt and let it boil for another 4 mts. Now add the rava/sooji to the water and stir it and make sure no lumps are formed in it.. Cover it with a lid till it fully cooked. Reduce the flame. When it is fully cooked, garnish it with fresh curry leaves and coriander leaves. Serve it hot with chutney.

*** - What I usually do is, I first add water in the tawa after seasoning. The quantity will be 1/2 or 3/4 of the tawa(according to the required quantity of upma). When it starts boiling, I will just add rava and the quantity of rava will be 3/4th of the water. So I usually don't measure water and rava. The 1/4th water will help the rava to cook.

Dhum Aloo

This is another recipe I tried last week after reading the recipe from a tamil magazine. It came out pretty well. Check this out..

Ingredients:-

1. Potato - 4 (if its big ; 7 to 8 if its small) Chop it into cubes
2. Tomato - 2
3. Onion - 1
   
4. Red chillies - 4
5. ginger - Garlic paste - 1 tsp
6. Cumin - 1 tsp
7. Cardamom - 1 (powder it finely)
8. clove - 3 or 4 (acc to taste)
9. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
10. Chillies powder - 1/2 tsp (acc to taste)
11. Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
12. Salt to taste
13. OIl - 1 tsp
14. coriander leaves - 2 tsp
    

First cook the potatoes adding a pinch of turmeric powder and salt. Put holes in the cooked potatoes using fork and keep it aside. In the mean time, grind tomato, onion and red chillies along with salt (required only for this and chilly powder and not for potato) in to a fine paste. Pre heat oil in a pan, splutter cumin, when its done, add ginger garlic paste, powdered cardamom, cloves and stir it for a minute. Now add turmeric powder, chillies powder, coriander powder and saute' for a second. Now add the grounded paste with a little amount of water. Add the potatoes to it. Let it cook for another 3 to 5 mts. Garnish it with coriander leaves. This is a wonderful side dish for chapathi, poori or even for rice...