Vegetable Sandwich

Vegetable Sandwich

Ingredients

1 packet of Bread 

1 finely chopped Onions

1 finely chopped Capsicum

1 finely chopped Tomato

1 finely chopped Carrot

2 chopped green Chillies 

2 tbsp chopped Coriander leaves

1 boil Potato mashed

2 tbsp of Paneer

2 tbsp Curd

2 tbsp grated Chesse

Butter to spread on the breads

Salt to taste

Method

Take a mixing bowl and add in all the ingredients expect butter and bread. Mix the filling together. Apply butter on the breads. Add 1 or 2 spoons of the filling on the side where the butter is not applied on the bread. Put the bread in the toaster. Let it brown. Serve it with tomato sauce and green chutney..

Mirchi cha Thecha

Mirchi cha Thecha

Ingredients

12 Green Chillies silted

4 Garlic Cloves

1 tbsp Oil

Salt to taste

Method

Take oil in a pan. As the oil heats up add the chillies and garlic. Sauté it till the chillies starts to change it's colour. Add salt to the sauted chillies and garlic. Coarse grind all the ingredients in a grinder... Serve with Thalipeeth or Bhakri.. 

Fish Pie

Fish Pie 

Ingredients 

1/2 kg Silver Bassa Fish cut in to pieces

1 cup Prawns  medium pieces

1 l/2 cup   Fish Stock 

2 tbsp Butter

2 tbsp Fine flour

1/2 cup Cream

1/4 cup Cream + 1/4 cup milk for the potatoes 

2 Egg  yolks 

4 tbsp Grated Cheese

Few strands of Spinach  blanched, chopped

3 cups Mashed potatoes boiled and mashed 

2 Garlic cloves crushed

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp pepper powder

Method 

Take the mashed potatoes add cream, egg yolks and milk and mix it properly. Keep it aside. Sprinkle  salt and pepper.  Heat a saucepan. Add in the butter, allow it to melt, then add  the flour and whisk  it properly  using a whisk. Gradually add in the  stock whisking in between. Whisking the stock constantly, bring it to the boil and simmer until thickened. Whisk in 1/2 cup  cream in the sauce. Season the sauce with salt and pepper. Add  the fish pieces. Gently stir in the  pieces into  the sauce. Add the prawns. Cook very gently over a low heat to poach the fish in the sauce. Pour the sauce into a pie dish. Spread the spinach leaves  and then sprinkle crushed garlic and grated cheese. Sprinkle salt and pepper powder. Spread the mashed potato to form a thick, even layer on top of the pie, smoothing the mashed potatoes  with a spatula or palette knife. Bake at 190 degrees for 25–30 minutes in the pre-heated oven until golden brown.

Thalipeeth

Thalipeeth
Ingredients
2 cups Rice flour
1 cup Gram flour
1/2 cup Jowari flour
1 finely chopped Onion
2 finely chopped Green Chillies
2 tbsp  finely chopped Coriander leaves
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Coriander seed powder
1 tsp Cumin seed powder
1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
1/2 tsp Chilli powder
1 cup Curd or more
1 cup Oil
Method
Take a mixing bowl. Add all the flours, chopped vegetables and spices. Add 2 tbsp oil and  curd. Make a soft dough. Take a plastic sheet. Apply oil on the plastic sheet. Take a portion of the dough, make a round ball. Put the dough ball on the plastic sheet. Apply water on the palm.  Flatten the dough very gently by pressing it from all the sides. Apply water if it is sticking. Heat the pan. Brush some oil on the pan. Slowly left up the rolled  dough along with the plastic sheet with one hand and turn the plastic sheet along with the rolled dough on the other hand. Pick the plastic sheet gently. Put the rolled dough on the pan. Add oil and cook from both the sides. Serve it with mirchi cha thecha.

Saibhaji

As winter is in and with loads of fresh vegetables available in the market I like to cook different varieties of vegetables in different styles .. So this is one of the Sindhi delicacy call Saibhaji. Extremely delicious, healthy and easy to cook.
Saibhaji
Spinach cooked with assorted vegetables.
Ingredient
Few leaves of khatti paalak Or if not available add 2 extra tomatoes chopped
1 bunch of spinach leaves chopped
1/4 bunch of dill leaves chopped
2 chopped tomatoes
1 chopped brinjal
2 chopped onions
2 chopped potatoes
3 tbsp chana dal
2 tsp ginger - garlic paste
1 tsp chilli powder
2 tsp coriander  powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp oil
Salt to taste

Method
Heat oil in the pressure cooker and add cumin seeds. Once the cumin seeds crackle then add ginger garlic paste. Sauté for a minute and add all the vegetables chopped, all the powder masalas and salt. Sauté for another few minutes and add the dal. Add 1/2 cup water and pressure cook. Switch of the flame after 7 to 8 whistles. Mix the bhaji well and serve it hot with Palau rice.