Monday, June 23, 2008

Vegetable Wrap

Ingredients
Boiled Potatoes
Green Peas (Mutter)
Grated Cabbage
Grated Carrot
Sliced Onions (Sliced long)
Maida (Plain Flour)
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Tomato Ketchup
Garam Masala
Bread Powder (Crushed Bread)

Procedure
Prepare a dough with Flour and make chapatti's and keep aside.
Now in a frying pane heat 2 tbsp of oil and fry sliced onions until they turn golden brown and put aside in a bowl/dish. Heat 2 tbsp of oil and fry grated cabbage and after 2-3 minutes, add the grated carrot to this and fry for another 3-4 minutes. Keep this aside in a bowl/dish. Again heat 2 tbsp of oil and fry potatoes and green peas for around 2-3 minutes until the ingredients are fried and keep aside in a bowl/dish.
Now take the already prepared chapatti and spread tomato ketchup evenly across the chapatti. Take all the above fried ingredients, one after the another in small quantity and cover the chapatti with these. Add salt and pepper to taste and spread the crushed bread across. Now roll the chapatti into a wrap.
And your Vegetable Wrap is ready to eat.

Author's Note
Quick to prepare and good for the times when you have all the vegetables just sufficient to not make any curry or not have enough time to prepare a dish. You can have this with chilli sauce (Ketchup).

Aloo Dum Gobi

Ingredients
Boiled Potatoes - 6/7 whole potatoes small in size
Boiled Gobi (Cauliflower) - 1/4 cup
Curd - 1 cup
Onions - 1/2 cup chopped
Red Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tbsp
Jeera (Cumin seeds) - 1 tbsp
Salt - To taste
Haldi (Turmeric) - 1/4 tbsp
Ginger - 1 tbsp (finely sliced/chopped)
Tomato Puree - 1 cup (Alternately, you can take 2/3 tomatoes and grind them to paste and make a cup of puree)

Procedure
Take 2 tbsp of oil in a deep frying pane (Kadai) and heat for couple of minutes. Add potatoes (peel after they are boiled) and the gobi into this and stir well. Continue the same for 5 to 7 minutes until potatoes and gobi are a little fried. Now take another frying pane (Kadai) and heat 3 tbsp of oil. Add to this the Garlic slices, chopped onions, turmeric, Jeera Powder, Coriander Powder, Red Chilli Powder and Salt to taste. Stir well until all are mixed well and onions start to turn brown. While heating the above ingredients, make sure that the gas is kept at low flame. After the onions turn to brown, add the tomato puree to this and leave this for 3-4 minutes for a boil. Now add the already fried Potatoes and Gobi and if required add Salt to taste. Stir well and heat for 3-5 minutes, until the time the curry (Masala) ingredients enter the pototoes and the gobi.
Take the curd and remove all the water from this and add it to the above ingredients and mix well. Stir well and leave it for 3-5 minutes on low flame.
And your Aloo Dum Gobi is ready to be served.

Author's Note
This goes quite well with a bowl of Rice. Easy to prepare dish, can be made in 20-25 minutes and can serve upto 6 people.