Choba Ki Poori..(Diwali Snacks)

Choba Ki Poori.. You can call them as a (Big Gujia). choba ki poori method is same as gujia but without khova and they are big in size. This is muslim family recipe, they cook this on special occasions like marriage. From a bride side they have to cook this and send it to the grooms house before the day of marriage.. There are many other occasions we cook this if I start then I don't think one post will be enough to tell every thing.

This is my Husband's first Diwali away from home and I don't want him to miss anything because of that only I'm trying my best to make him not to miss anything. I cook gujia very often as he loves to eat them , but this time I wanted to try out something new for him so I thought of this recipe and it turn out to be tasty and he loved it. This is not the only thing, I have lots of plans and many dishes to cook. Hoping for the best :-)

Happy Diwali to my all blog readers and to my friends. May god bless you all with lots of happiness and many more years like this with your family and friends :-)

Ingredient's For Filling.

100gm dry coconut

1+1/2 sugar

1/4cup dry fruits (almonds, raisin, pistachio and cashew)

Ingredient's For Poori.

2 cups of maida

2tbsp ghee/oil

Water (to make a dough)

Oil for deep frying.

Cooking Method For Filling.

Grate the dry coconut.

Chop the almonds, cashew and pistachio into vertical small pieces.

In a vessel, add sugar, grated coconut and all the dry fruits. Give them a nice mix and set it aside. 

Filling is ready.

Cooking Method For Poori's.

Mix maida and ghee. 

Now add water and make dough.

Take small amount of dough and make a small chapatti, put the filling, apply water to the corners of chapatti and fold it giving a semi- circular shape. Press the corners of the puri with your nails.

In a deep frying pan heat oil, and deep fry the pooris to golden brown. Take out on to a paper towel.

Choba Poori is ready to serve.

Store them into Airtight container for more then a week..

Tomato Bhat.. Street Style. (Tomato Rice)

Tomato Bhat.. (Tomato Rice) There are many recipes for tomato rice and every person cooks in different way. Even I cook tomato rice in many ways, when I have more time I cook in pressure cooker and when i'm in hurry I cook with left over rice. Specially this recipe saves lot of time and the taste is also very good.. This is the quick street style recipe with my touch.. The ingredients are very simple and can be cooked with left over rice and serve with boiled eggs and papad...

Ingredient's.

2 cup cooked rice

2 large tomato, 1 medium onion, 1 green chili ( finely chopped)

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/4tsp turmeric, 1/2tsp coriander powder

1/4tsp mustard seeds

5 to 6 curry leaves

2 dry red chilli

1/4tsp channa dal, 1/4tsp urad dal

3tbsp Oil

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a deep frying pan, add oil, when oil is hot, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, dry red chilli, channa dal and urad dal, when they start spluttering. Add chopped onion and green chilly, fry for 2 to 3 minutes.

Then add chopped tomato, red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powder and salt, fry till the oil start separating.

Now add the cooked rice and give a good mix. Then add the boiled eggs to the rice and lower the flame and let it cook for another 5 minutes, keep stirring in between..

Serve hot with Boiled Eggs and Papad.

Chutney Wala Aaloo.. (Potato With Garlic And Coriander Chutney)

Chutney Wala Aaloo... This is very famous dish in UP and Bihar states in India, almost in every house this would be the morning break fast with pooris... Already I have 2 or 3 posts of different version of this dish, but I cook this often, because of the garlic taste in it.. In my opinion this dish should be eaten when you have nothing to do, just sit in one place and eat. I'm telling you, you will eat more then 4 to 5 pooris with this sabji. Usually my H wants me to cook this on weekends so that he can enjoy slowly and he don't have to rush to office after eating... This can be served as a side dish or even as a starter or snacks..

Ingredient's.

3 medium boiled potato (peeled and cut into big chunks)

4 cloves of garlic

Hand full of coriander leaves

2 green chillies

1/4tsp mustard seeds

1/4tsp cumin seeds

Pinch of turmeric

2tbsp Oil

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a blender, add garlic, coriander leaves and green chillies and grind it to a smooth paste, by adding little water.

In a deep frying pan, add oil, mustard and cumin, when they splutter, add grounded paste and turmeric and fry for 2 to 3minutes. Then add turmeric and salt, fry for another few sec.

Now add the boiled potatoes and mix them gently and cook till the potato are mixed well with everything, that will take about 3 to 4 minutes.. Sprinkle some more chopped coriander leaves on top.

Serve hot with Pooris, Roti's or as a Starters.

Omelette And Cheese Sandwich..

Omelette & Cheese Sandwich.. From past 2 to 3days I'm only having omelette and cheese sandwich for the breakfast.. Actually this is routine in my house that we eat bread and omelette atleast 3 to 4 times in a week, sometime I feel bore and try new recipe in the same ingredients... This is one of the best recipe of normal bread and omelette to cheese and omelette sandwich. To cook this sandwich you don't need and fancy ingredients or appliances, you can cook just with few ingredients like (eggs, bread, cheese and onion) and it taste great with juice or a cup of hot tea... It can be served as a snacks too..

Ingredient's.

2 eggs

4 slices of bread

2tbsp cheese (you can use how much you want)

1 medium onion, 1 green chili (finely chopped)

Pinch of black pepper powder

1tsp oil

1tsp butter

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a large mixing bowl. add eggs, onion, green chili, black pepper and salt, mix them all together, and make omelette by using 1tsp oil.

In a mean time apply butter on to the bread slices and set it aside.

Once the omelette is cooked, take out on to a plate. Then on the same pan place the bread slices and sprinkle the cheese on top, now place half omelette on top of the bread and sprinkle some more cheese on top and cover it with another bread, and fry both the side until golden brown on a slow flame..

Repeat the same process for rest of the bread..

Serve hot with Juice or Tea.

Instant Wheat Dosa..

Instant Wheat Dosa.. This is a very easy and healthy dosa prepared with just few ingredients (wheat flour, rice flour, curd and salt) and this is one of the healthy way to start your day or even when you have very less time to cook something healthy and delicious, then this is the best option.. There are many ways you can cook this wheat flour dosa, but I like this one because it looks neat like a normal dosa. or else wheat flour dosa usually looks very messy. This dosa batter is bit thick compare to the usual wheat dosa batter and it works very well on pan and keeps the kitchen clean. That is the most important thing I want in my kitchen.. Can change or add more ingredients according to your taste...

Ingredient's.

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 cup rice flour

1/2 cup curd or butter milk

1tbsp butter

1 cup water to make a dosa batter (you can even add more water if needed)

Salt to taste

Oil for applying on pan.

Cooking Method.

In a large mixing bowl, add both the flour and butter, mix it nicely.

Then add curd, salt and water, make a batter( batter should be the same consistency like normal dosa batter) and keep it aside for 2 to 3 minutes.

Now heat a tawa, once the tawa is heated, reduce the heat to medium, pour a ladle of batter and make round shape dosa and pour little oil from top and cook till crispy on the edges.. Repeat the same process for rest of the batter.

Serve immediately with Coconut or Peanuts chutney..