Malai sandwich

Malai Sandwich - Fast to cook, good to eat :)

Ingredients

• Malai - 1 cup
• Bread - 8 slices
• Sugar - 4 tsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
  

Note: The quantity mentioned above is to prepare 4 sandwiches which serves 2 people

Preparation

• Whip malai till it gets a little creamy
• Take bread slices and on one side of each bread, apply a little oil
• On the other side, spread the whipped malai evenly
• Keep one slice as the covering slice for one sandwich and on the other slice, put a teaspoon of sugar on top of malai. Add another layer of malai on top of sugar
• Put the other slice on top, with the oiled side on top
• Now cook the sandwich in a toaster till golden brown
• Serve hot with tea
  

Cheese Tomato (Paneer Masala)

Cheese Tomato - One of mine and my husband's favorite dishes :) Very easy to cook and simply delicious to eat. Here goes the recipe:

Ingredients

• Onions (Sliced) - 3 medium
• Tomatoes (Chopped) - 5 medium
• Green chillies (Chopped) - 2 small
• Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam masala - 1 tbsp
• Amchoor - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Malai or cream - 1 cup
• Milk - 1/4 cup
• Paneer (Cut into small cubes) - 100 gms
• Coriander (finely chopped) - 2 tbsp

Preparation

• Take out paneer from freezer. Wash the pieces properly and keep aside so that it becomes soft with room temperature.
• Heat some oil in a pan. Add chopped green chillies and onions to it. Fry them till the onions become golden brown in color. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for about 5 more minutes.
• Remove the mixture from pan and keep it aside for sometime to let it cool. Add some tomatoes and fried onions,garlic paste to a mixer and make a paste of these.
• Add this paste to the same pan and without adding more oil, saute the paste. Add the spices listed above and saute till oil begins to separate from the mixture.
• After that, add the paneer cubes and mix them well with the paste. Do this for about 5-10 minutes.
• Add malai(or cream) and milk to the mixture and stir well so that no lumps are formed. Continue stirring for about 2 minutes. Keep on flame for 2-5 minutes more.
• Cheese tomato is ready. Garnish with finely chopped coriander.

Punjabi Kadhi

This is the most lovable mouth-watering Punjabi dish prepared in most north-indian homes. Here I share my recipe of the yummy dish.

Ingredients

For the Pakodas:

• Onions (Sliced) - 3 medium
• Potatoes (Sliced) - 2 medium
• Gram flour (Besan) - 2 cups
• Red pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Amchoor powder - 1/4 tsp
• Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as per taste
• Oil - for frying
• Water - to create batter for pakodas

For the Kadhi:

• Onion (Sliced) - 2 medium
• Tomato (Chopped) - 1 medium
• Kadhi patta ~ 5-10 leaves
• Ginger (Grated) - 1 tbsp
• Garlic (Chopped) - 1 tbsp
• Curd - 3 cups
• Gram flour ~ 7-10 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - for frying
• Salt - as per taste
• Water - to add to curd
  

Preparation

For pakodas:

• Add water to gram flour and mix so that no lumps are formed. Add pakoda spices listed above and mix well. Put sliced onions and potatoes to the mixture.
• Heat oil in a kadhai. Take the mixture in a spoon and deep fry in the oil till golden brown. Repeat the process with the whole mixture.
• The pakodas are ready.
  

For the Kadhi:

• Add water to curd and beat it so that it turns out into a smooth batter. Add gram flour to it and beat the mixture again and keep it aside. (While beating using a mixer, beat only for 3-5 seconds)
• Heat oil in a kadhai and add heeng, kadhi patta, ginger and garlic to the oil. Fry for few minutes and add onions to it. Add tomatoes after 3-5 minutes. Add the kadhi spices listed above and stir fry for 5 minutes
• Add the curd-gram flour mix and a glass of water to the above mixture. Keep on high flame for about 10 minutes and keep on stirring so that no lumps are formed. After that , simmer for 20-30 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally.
• Add fried pakodas to the mix and keep on low flame for about 5-10 minutes.
• Serve Punjabi kadhi with hot jeera rice.