Midnight Snacking (contd)

Here is another Healthy recipe for all u scholars out there, who burn midnight oil, who overpower their strong urge to go, and have fun in the dreamlands, and all that.

This one is quite healthy as compared to the one before, ingredients are the same, its a type of salad, you might have know this, but its quite tasty. I call this "Salad, with White Sauce". This is actually my sister's find. I just take credit of publishing it in my blog.

Ingredients:

2 Boiled Potatoes
2 Carrots
2 Tomatoes
2-4 Cabbage Leaves
2 Onions
(any other salad veggies you can think of)
Salt and pepper according to taste
Chaat Masala for that indian touch

for the white sauce you require

2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk or 1/2 cup evaporated milk and 1/2 cup water

Recipe:

To make white sauce,
Melt butter in a sauce pan and whisk in flour and salt until smooth. Gradually stir in cold milk, cooking over direct heat and stirring constantly until sauce boils; reduce heat slightly and continue to stir until sauce becomes smooth and thick. When sauce thickens, simmer for an additional 10 minutes over very low heat, stirring occasionally.

Stir carefully to avoid lumps. If sauce becomes lumpy, use a stick blender or rotary beater to blend out lumps or else press through a sieve. Wondra flour may be used to great advantage since this flour does not have a tendency to lump.

To make our Salad,
Chop all our ingredients. Dont chop them into very small pieces, instead chop so as to get a better quantity. Mix them all up in a big mixing bowl, along with the white sauce, along with some salt and pepper according to taste, also if you wanna add some chaat masala. Put this in your fridge for 20 mins, and cool salad is ready for you to eat. Bon Appetite!!

Midnight Snacking!!

Considering the amount of studies we do in the night time (none in my case), especially with these engineering exams around the corner(wtf!!, i completely forgot about the exam part man!!) we are bound to get hungry in the night. Instead of waking up your parents there are several stuff you can do on your own to fulfill this untimely bhook.

Out of those many things I discovered a recipe by accident.All you Madrasis out there, am sure you must have those Dosa Batters left at home. Non Madrasis might be able to do this since, they finish off the batter as soon as they make it, but us madrasis make fresh batter which stands for an entire week. Its like, we get to eat Dosas and Idlis every day of the week, and believe me, it sometimes gets on your nerves. Here is the recipe i made up yesterday night, and was it delicious or what!!

Ingredients:

1 Onion
2-4 Cabbage Leaves
1 Capsicum
1 Tomato
1 Carrot (optional)
1 Cauliflower (optional)
Dosa Batter
Some Green Chillies(as per ur body's limits), 2-3 cloves of Garlic(Lasun), A very small piece of Ginger.

Optional Ingredients:

Lasun Chutney (Maharastrians have this)
Masala that is used to make Masala Chaval by the Maharastrians as well as Kannads (Dont ask me where i got it, coz I found it in my kitchen, and thats the only place in my house where i am not very much familiar with)
Chaat Masala (If u dont know what this is, wtf are u doing in the kitchen!!!)

Method:

1) Finely Chop all the Vegetables, except the batter (duh!!)

2) Take a Pestle (Khalbuda known in marathi, Kundi known in hindi) and finely smash the ginger, garlic and chillies, so as to get a fine paste. This paste has the most delicious aroma.

3)Next, take all the finely chopped vegetable as well as this paste, and put them in a mixer bowl, and give it a turn, what we want is, all these vegetables to blend together along with the paste, but we dont want the entire stuff to be like a paste. Just 2-5 secs in the mixer will be more than enough. Remember we do not want a paste of all the vegetables, all the vegetables should hold their respective shapes (I dunno how to explain this part, but I think you will understand).

4)Take the Dosa Batter in proportionate quantity and add this mixture to it, and mix them together well. The Dosa Batter should be 1/4th more than the mixture, so that while making the Dosas we dont end up getting a tattered and torn dosa. Also add salt to this according to taste.

5)After mixing them all together, we can put in the optional ingredients. Please do not put all the three masalas, as it may cause problems next day morning. Either put in the Lasun Chutney, or put in the Masala Baath's Masala or Chaat Masala. The quantity of these stuff is as per ur body's capabilities. If you dont want to put in these optional masala, will also do. Mix the masala that you have put, well with the batter.

6)Now if you are experienced enough to make Dosas, then only try this, otherwise ask your mom to do it for u. I used to make Dosas with the usual Dosa Batter for myself, so i am quite experinced in putting the batter on the tava and makind nice dosas; at first i ended up making pieces of dosas instead of the complete round thingy, but as time passed, i got the knack. So before making them on ur own, try making dosas with the usual Dosa Batter.

Thats it, your Snack is ready to be eaten. The Lasun Chutney Dosa tastes superb, when it becomes a little warm, not very cold mind you, whereas the Masala Baath's Masala Dosa tastes best with some Yogurt (curd or dahi), that too the one which is a little sour (khatta or ambat). The Chaat Masala Dosa isnt that tasty, but it gives u that tangy flavour. You can use a wide variety of vegetables that are used in salads, except for cucumber (kakadi). Non Veggies can add some Chicken Masala instead of the other masala, I havent tried it, but i think that should work, plz let me know if someone has tried it.

Many more recipes will be posted as and when I discover them, since I am quite the midnight snacker type.