Baked Vegetables

Baked Vegetables in Marathi



Serves: 3 persons

Time: 30 minutes



Ingredients:

1 tbsp butter

1 tsp paste of - ginger + garlic + green chili

1 cup Cauliflower florets, small (I used 3/4 cup cauliflower + 1/4 cup broccoli)

1/2 cup carrot, small dices

1/2 cup sweet corns, (I used canned one)

1/4 cup french beans, 1 cm round slices

1/2 cup onion, finely chopped

1/2 cup green bell pepper, small dices

salt to taste

Spice mixture of - 3 pinches of Cinnamon pdr + 2 pinches crushed black pepper + 2 pinches cardamom powder

White sauce - Click here for the recipe

Other Ingredients:

1/2 cup Italian cheese blend

1/2 cup Cheddar Cheese

1/4 cup bread crumbs (optional)



Method:

1) Preheat the oven at 350 F.

2) Heat butter in a pan. Add ginger-garlic-chili paste. Saute for few seconds. Add onion and saute until translucent. Now add cauliflower, carrots, french beans, and bell peppers. Saute for a minute. Add sweet corns, salt and spice mixture. Mix well.

3) Put vegetables in baking glass pan. Pour in white sauce as much as needed. Mix in some cheese. Sprinkle the remaining cheese and bread crumbs, evenly on top.

4) Increase the temperature to 400 F. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or cheese on top melts and turn slightly brown.



Serve with brown bread.



Tips:

1) You may use other vegetables of your choice.

Oatmeal Cookies

Eggless oatmeal cookies in Marathi

Time: 45 minutes
Yield: approx 15 cookies

Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
1 + 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
Egg Replacer powder for 2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 and 1/2 cups rolled oats (old fashioned)
1 cups chocolate chips or chunks

Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 350 F (175 C)
2) In a medium bowl, sieve flour + baking powder and baking soda.
3) In a large bowl, add butter and brown sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add necessary amount of water to egg replacer and mix well. Add vanilla and egg replacer to sugar-butter mixture. Beat until mixed. Add all purpose flour and mix well.
4) Now introduce oats to the bowl and mix until well incorporated. Add chocolate chips and mix nicely.
5) Scoop the mixture onto greased baking tray or baking sheet (you can line it with parchment paper to avoid sticking). Press with hand to flatten into disc. Put the trey into preheated oven and bake the cookies for 16 to 18 minutes or until golden brown (Tip).
Let the cookies cool on baking sheet completely before removing.

Tips:
1) You can add raisins or dried cranberries to the mixture.
2) Baking time may vary according to oven's heating power and size of the cookies.
3) You can add eggs instead of egg replacer.

Butter Naan

Naan bread in Marathi

Yield: 4 to 5 medium Naan
Time: Fermentation - Approx 1 and half hour । To make Naan 10 to 15 minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups Maida (All purpose flour)
1 tsp dry yeast
1/4 cup Yogurt (Tip 1)
1/4 cup warm water
1/2 tsp Sugar
Salt to taste (approx 1/2 to 1 tsp)
2 to 3 tbsp Oil

Method:
1) In 1/4 cup warm water dissolve sugar and yeast. Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes. This mixture will become frothy within 10 to 15 minutes.
2) Take maida in a mixing bowl. Add salt, yeast water and mix nicely. Then add 1/4 cup yogurt and knead the dough. If required, use little warm water to knead the dough. Make a soft dough. Knead the dough until it becomes elastic. Use little oil while kneading. Cover the bowl with a plate and keep at a warm place for an hour to ferment.
3) After one hour, the dough will be fermented and doubled in size. Punch down the dough to remove air bubbles. Put the oven on Broil. Grease and keep ready a baking tray. Divide the dough into 4 to 5 equal balls. Sprinkle little dry flour on a flat surface and roll the dough ball into 1/4 inch thick naan. You can give any shape. But generally naan has uneven triangular shape or oval shape. Put the rolled naan on baking tray. Two naans would easily fit on the baking tray.
4) Put the tray on the top rack of the oven. Cook one side for one and half minute. If required, bake for 30 seconds more. Once you see brown spots on one side, remove the tray out and flip the side. Cook the other side for a minute.
Butter and Sesame Naan
Remove baked naan from the oven. Rub a teaspoon of butter on each naan and sprinkle roasted sesame seeds for garnishing. You can also sprinkle some chopped coriander. Serve hot.
Garlic Naan
Before baking the naan, keep ready a mixture of 2 tbsp butter and 3 garlic cloves (minced). Once naan is baked, rub 1 or 2 tsp garlic butter on the naan and serve hot.

Serve Naan with delicious North Indian curry dishes.

Note:
1) Do not use cold yogurt. It should be at room temperature. Cold yogurt slows down fermentation process. In winter season, use some hot water while kneading the dough.

White Bread Dinner Rolls - Ladi Pav

Pav Bhaji Bread in Marathi

approx 12 breads

Health Tip: How to choose the healthiest bread?

Ingredients:
3 cup All purpose Flour or Self Rising Flour (Note 1)
2 tsp Dry Yeast
1.5 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Salt
4 tbsp Oil
1 and 1/2 cup to 1 and 3/4 cups warm water
2 tbsp Milk

Method:
Activate Yeast
1) Take 1/2 cup warm water in a small bowl. Water should not be too hot or cold. Mix sugar in it. Add dry yeast and mix nicely, cover the bowl for 5 minutes. Yeast will activate within 5 to 10 minutes. After 5 to 7 minutes, water should become frothy. If it becomes frothy, that means yeast has activated.
Dough
2) In a big bowl, sift 3 cups flour and salt. Add yeast's frothy water, and warm water. Knead to soft dough, use some dry flour while kneading. Knead till dough become elastic (approx 3 minutes). Incorporate oil into the dough and knead for few minutes. Make a nice ball. Surface should be very smooth. Place the dough ball into deep bowl. Cover with a plate and place it to a warm place for 1.5 hours.
3) After 1.5 hours dough will rise and become double in volume. Use little Oil and slightly punch down the dough. Now divide the dough into 10 equal parts. Use little dry flour while handling. Grease a baking pan (I have used 10" dia pie bakeware) with little oil and sprinkle little dry flour. Make 10 smooth surface balls. Arrange on the baking pan. Cover with plastic paper for 30 minutes. In this 30 minutes, dough balls will rise a little.
Bake
4) Preheat oven at 370 F for 7 to 10 minutes. Brush the surface of dough balls with milk. Bake for 22 minutes. Turn off the oven, remove pan after 3 to 4 minutes. Let the bread cools down for 10 minutes.
Serve these Bread rolls with Misal, Pavbhaji, Batata Vada, Chole, Pindi Chole

Note:
1) I have used Self Rising Flour to make this bread. Self Rising Flour is a mixture of All purpose flour, salt and Baking powder. Therefore one can use self rising flour in this recipe. But some salt is already exist in this flour, so for 3 cups of self rising flour add 1/2 tsp salt. While using All purpose flour, add the salt according to the given quantity.
2) The more you knead the dough, the finer texture you will get.

Homemade Pizza base

Pizza Base Recipe in Marathi



Serves : 1 Thin Crust Pizza Base

Ingredients:
¾ cup Maida (All purpose Flour)
1 tsp Dry Yeast
½ tsp Sugar
½ tsp salt
¼ cup lukewarm water
Little flour to roll Pizza

Method:
1) Take 2 tbsp lukewarm water in a bowl. Dissolve ½ sugar and then 1 tsp dry yeast, mix well. Cover the bowl and stand aside for 10 minutes. Mixture will become frothy within 5-10 minutes.
2) In a mixing bowl add ¾ cup Maida flour, salt, pour frothy mixture and little oil and start kneading. Add lukewarm water little by little and knead the dough for atleast 7-8 minutes. Dough should be smooth and elastic. Grease the dough with oil and put into a deep glass bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and keep in warm place. Set the dough aside for 1 ½ hour to rise.
3) Once the dough rested, it becomes double in size, put it on rolling board. Preheat oven to 480 F (250 C). Knead and punch the dough to remove air bubbles. Use little oil or flour to avoid sticking.
4) Sprinkle little dry flour over rolling board and roll the dough into 1 cm thick circle. Prickle with Fork to avoid puffing the pizza while baking. Brush very little oil on the surface of Pizza.
5) Bake Pizza base for 6-8 minutes.

Pizza Sauce Recipe
Paneer Pizza Recipe

Labels:
Pizza Base, how to make pizza base at home, Pizza Dough, Yeast, Eggless Bread

Hummus

Hummus in Marathi

Hummus Dip generally served with Pita bread. Click here for the recipe of Pita Bread.

Serves : 1/2 cup

Ingredients:
¾ cup cooked Chickpeas
1-2 Garlic flakes
1-2 tsp roasted Sesame seeds
1 tbsp Lemon Juice
¼ cup water
1 tsp Olive Oil (Note 1)
¼ tsp Black pepper
2 tbsp chopped Cilantro
Salt to taste


Method:
1) Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend it to fine thick paste. Refrigerate for few hours. Chill and serve with Pita bread.

Note:
1) I did not add Olive Oil as per traditional recipe, still it tasted good. So if you want to make Hummus dip more healthy and Oil free, don't use Olive Oil.


Labels:
Hummus dip sauce, homemade hummus, hummus recipe, pita bread and hummus, middle eastern food

Pita bread recipe

Pita bread in Marathi

Ingredients:
¼ cup All purpose Flour
1 tsp Active Dry Yeast
3 tbsp lukewarm water (Note 1)
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Sugar
1 tbsp Olive Oil



Method:
1) Take lukewarm water in a small bowl. Dissolve ½ tsp Sugar in it. Then add and dissolve Active Dry Yeast in that water. Cover and let it stand for 10 minutes or until mixture become frothy.
2) In a bowl, take All purpose flour. Add salt and mix together. Add yeast mixture to all purpose flour and mix with hands. Add little more lukewarm water if needed. Knead to smooth and elastic consistency. Use little oil to avoid sticking dough to hands.
3) Apply little oil to the dough to evade from drying and put it in a bowl. Cover the bowl and place it in warm place for about 1 hour to rise.
4) After an hour dough will rise to double in size. Punch down the dough to remove air bubbles.
5) Preheat oven to 450 F. Punch the dough and roll it out to ¼ inch thick circle. Try to gently brush off dry flour on rolled out bread. Try to keep the surface plain and not bumpy, this will help to puff up the bread.
6) Brush little Olive Oil on the rolled out dough. Put it on baking sheet and bake for 3-4 minutes. Then remove from oven, turn the side and bake for 2-3 minutes.
Serve hot Pita bread with chilled Hummus Dip.

Note:
1) Yeast should be dissolved in warm water (100-110 degrees F), but not hot water or it will die.

Labels:
baking, how to bake pita bread, pita bread recipe, middle eastern food, flat bread recipe

Short Bread (Nankhatai)

Short Bread in Marathi

Ingredients:
5 tbsp Unsalted Butter
1/4 cup Sugar (Superfine)
1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
1/4 cup Rice Flour
1/8 tsp Baking Powder
Pinch of salt

Method:
1) Sift All Purpose flour, Rice flour, Baking powder and salt five times.
2) Put soft butter in bowl and add sugar to it. beat them with Hand mixer until the mixture become frothy and smooth (approximately 8 minutes).
3) Now preheat oven at 325 degree F. Add sifted flours slowly to frothy butter mixture and mix well. Remove lumps. Mixture should be soft and light.
4) Grease an ovensafe container (Pie bakeware). Put Short Bread Mixture in it and make 1/2 inch layer, spread the dough evenly. Make the surface plain.
5) Using a sharp knife, give shallow marks gently without disturbing the dough and cut in any shape you prefer. When we bake short bread dough, it will become hard and crispy. If we cut short breads after baking it will crumble while making pieces.
6) Bake about 30-35 minutes or until color changes to light brown. Remove from oven and cool to the room temperature.
7) Using sharp knife start cutting gently, where you had made marks on the dough. Separate the pieces.

Labels:
Short bread, Nankatai recipe, shortbread cookie, nanakhatai

Samosa Puff

Samosa Puff in Marathi



Ingredients:
Refrigerated Crescent Rolls
For stuffing:
2 boiled potatoes
1 cup cooked Green peas
3-4 hot green chilies
1 tbsp Garam Masala
1 tsp Amchoor Powder
1 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tsp Fennel Seeds
1-2 tbsp Oil
For Tempering: ¼ tsp Mustard Seeds, ¼ tsp Cumin Seeds, ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
4-5 Curry Leaves
Salt to taste



Method:
1) Peel and mash the potatoes.
2) In a nonstick pan, heat 2 tbsp oil. Temper with Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, Turmeric Powder and curry leaves. Add Fennel Seeds and chopped green chilies. Put steamed Peas. Stir for 1 minute.
3) Then put mashed potatoes, Garam Masala, Coriander Powder, Amchoor Powder and salt. Mix very well.
4) Generally, there are eight triangles of dough. Separate each triangle gently. Put 1 tbsp of stuffing on the smaller side of the triangle and make rolls.
5) Preheat oven to 370 degrees F. Bake the rolls 15 to 18 minutes.
Serve hot with Tamarind Chutney or Green Chutney.

Note:
1) You can prepare any stuffing of your choice.
2) Add Chili paste for more hotness in stuffing.

Labels:
Samosa Puff, Samosa stuffing recipe, samosa recipe, spicy samosa recipe

Cucumber cake

Cucumber cake

Ingredients:
2 cups peeled and grated cucumber (Method step 1)
1 cup Semolina
1 cup Jaggery
4 to 5 tbsp unsalted Butter
1 tbsp Pure Ghee
1 tsp Cardamom Powder
1 tbsp Almond pieces


Method:
1) Peel and grate Cucumber. Squeeze shredded cucumber and remove all the water. We need 2 cups of squeezed cucumber.
2) In a nonstick pan, add 1 tbsp Ghee and Semolina. Fry until color changes to light golden. Temporarily, transfer Semolina to other plate.
3) Add 4-5 tbsp butter to the nonstick pan. Let it melt. Once butter melted; add semolina, Jaggery, and shredded Cucumber. Keep stirring for 5-10 minutes. After 5-10 minutes, the mixture will thicken. Add Cardamom Powder once mixture becomes thick.
4) Preheat Oven to 375 Degrees F. Grease baking pan (Cake pan or bakeware Pie pan) with Ghee. Pour the mixture. Spread evenly and make 1-inch layer. Sprinkle Almond pieces. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until edges become light brown.
5) Remove from oven. Cut into squares.

Note:
1) It tastes great when it is warm. So if there is leftover cake. Heat it for few seconds in microwave while serving.
2) After baking, pour little Fresh Coconut milk over the cake to enhance the taste.

Labels:
Egg less Cake, Cucumber Cake, Homemade Cake, Cake recipe, Cucumber Semolina Cake, Semolina Cake

Mix Baked Vegetable

Mix Baked Vegetable in Marathi

Serves: 3 to 4 persons

Ingredients:
1 cup boiled and peeled potato cubes
½ cup thinly sliced Onion
¼ cup Carrot cubes
¼ cup French beans (1 inch pieces)
¾ cup half-cooked Green peas + Corn
½ cup Bell pepper, sliced lengthwise
Tomato Puree of 2 tomatoes
(Boil and peel tomatoes. Do not add water. Add 2 garlic cloves and purée)
8-10 Cashew nuts
3-4 curry leaves
2 dry red Chilies
1 tsp Garam Masala
2 tbsp butter
Salt to taste
3 tbsp chopped Cilantro
1 tsp lemon juice

Bake Potato cubes, Carrot cubes, half of the sliced Onion, French beans, and Bell pepper to 350o F for 13 to 14 minutes or until vegetables become golden brown. Baking gives nice flavor to vegetable.

Method:
1) Heat a nonstick pan over medium heat. Put butter and let it melt. Add Curry leaves, remaining sliced onion and Cashew nuts. Sauté until onion become translucent. Add red Chilies and baked vegetables.
2) Cover pan with lid and let the vegetables cook for couple of minutes over medium to medium low heat. Add Garam masala, Tomato puree and mix well. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add green Peas and Corn, cover and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add salt and sprinkle chopped cilantro, and lemon juice.
Serve hot with Naan, Roti, Chapati or even with slice bread.

Labels:
Mix baked vegetable, Mix vegetable recipe, North Indian Recipe, mix veg recipe

Mint potato balls

Mint potato balls in Marathi

Time: 40 minutes
serves: 15 Balls


Ingredients:
2 potatoes (Boiled and peeled)
1 cup grated cheese (Mexican cheese blend)
Paste of 7-8 Mint leaves and 4-5 green chilies or chop them finely
2 tbsp Butter
1 tsp Corn Flour
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:
1) In a mixing bowl add all ingredients, mix, and make dough. Cover with lid for 20 minutes.
2) Add more butter if needed. Make 1-inch balls of this mixture. Bake these balls over 350 F for 7-8 minutes. Once the color changes slightly, remove from oven. Keep these balls aside for 20 minutes to cool down.
3) After 20 minutes, deep fry balls in oil to Golden brown color.
Serve hot with mint chutney or Tomato ketchup as an Appetizer.