Pasta salad with Asian dressing

Ingredients:

Penne pasta - 1 cup
Sliced carrot - 1 cup
Sliced babycorn - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Soy Sauce - 1 cup
Green chilli sauce - 2 tsp
Vinegar - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1 tsp
Minced garlic - 2-3 cloves
Roasted and cut peanuts - handful

How to make:

1. Bring water to boil with salt and one teaspoon oil
2. Add pasta to the water and let it boil for 5-10 min
3. In another bowl, add carrots boil for 5 min
4. Add babycorns with carrots and boil for 5-10 min
5. Mix soysauce, chilli sauce, sugar, vinegar and whisk till sugar dissolves
6. Drain pasta and add mined garlic, carrots, babycorns to it
7. Add the dressing, keep it aside for half an hour
8. Before serving sprinkle peanuts

Verdict:

Beware, its going to be sweet and sour. So, be prepared for authentic Asian flavors. Nevertheless worth a try.

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Shahi Tukda

Ingredients:

White bread - 4 slices
Full fat milk - 1/2 ltr
Fried and chopped nuts - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Ghee
Cardamom - 4
Saffron - pinch

How to make:

1. Bring the milk to boil in a pan
2. Keep heating the milk, cleaning off the dry edges and adding back the cream
3. Add cardamom powder and saffron
4. As the milk comes together, add 3 tbsp of sugar and the chopped nuts
5. Remove the pan from the stove when the sugar completely dissolves
6. Chop the bread slice into triangles and fry them in ghee
7. Make sugar syrup with rest of the sugar and water
8. Take the bread slices into a plate and pour the sugar syrup with a spoon over the slices
9. Coat each slice with spoonful of rabdi

Verdict:

The best sweet ever. A traditional recipe and everyone loved it. Definitely, try it.

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Baingan Paneer

Ingredients:

Brinjals - 8-10

Tomatoes - 3

Garlic cloves - 6
Paneer cubes (medium) - 16-20
Salt and Pepper - To taste
Oil

How to make:

1. Chop brinjals and deep fry them in oil
2. In a pan, saute garlic and tomatoes
3. Grind the brinjals and tomatoes together
4. Take the puree into a heated pan
5. Add the desired seasoning (salt, pepper, chilli powder, garam masala etc)
6. Add paneer cubes and cook it for couple of minutes

Verdict:

This is actually a sauce for pasta, I have seen it done with egg plant. I had eaten with roti as well as rice, since the sourness was pumped up by tomatoes, it tasted better with rice. May be using two tomatoes would make it a better flavor.

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Aloo-Pepper Roll

Ingredients:

Tortillas - 2

Mashed Aloo curry - 2 tbsp

Green chutney - 2 tsp
Mayonnaise - 1 tbsp
Chopped Bell peppers (3 types) - 1 cup
Tomato sauce - 4 tsp
Salt and Pepper - To taste
Oil

How to make:

1. Saute the bell peppers with salt and pepper in oil
2. Warm the tortillas
3. Place tortilla on a flat plate
4. Apply the tomato sauce on the tortilla
5. Place the aloo curry in the center line
6. Add peppers on to the curry
7. Add green chutney and then mayonnaise
8. Close the tortilla from left and right

Verdict:

There was aloo curry leftover from lunch and this was a quick snack for evening. It was really yum. You can add coriander and sweet corn too for enhancing the taste. Feel free to add your choice of seasoning to the peppers.

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Two-bean salad

Ingredients:

Two kinds of beans of your choice (I chose kidney beans and black eyed peas)  - 1 cup

Tomato - 2

Onion - 1
Green chillies - 3
Chopped Bell peppers (3 types) - 1 cup
Salt, Pepper, Garam masala- To taste
Lemon juice - to taste

How to make:

1. Finely chop onion, tomato and green chillies
2. Mix all the ingredients and serve

Verdict:

I tried a protein diet and it was tasty too. Remember, eat this during the day only as it is hard diet and takes time to digest. You can add olive oil too for better flavor.

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