Vada Bhat

A nagpuri style Bhat...

Ingredients
1 1/2 cup besan
1tsp Garlic paste
1tsp red chilli powder
salt as per taste.
2 cups rice.
water as required

Method
1. Mix besan, garlic paste, salt and chilli powder. Add water and make small marble sized balls out of it.
2. Wash rice and keep it for half an hour.
3. In a thick bottomed vessel add rice and enough water to cook the rice. Keep a strainer on this vessel and keep the besan vadas in the strainer.
4. Cover the strainer.
5. Let the vadas cook on the steam of rice water.
6. Serve hot with some sour saar or kadhi.....

Note: you can add the vadas in the rice and steam them together.
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2 Tier Paneer Sandwiches

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Sufficiently sustaining for a light meal. Afew ready made potato chips can be served along with sandwiches to make the meal wholesome.

Serves 2

Ingredients

3 white bread slices

6 brown bread slices

14-15 paalak leaves-steam by pacing them in a big steel strainer kept upon a pan of boiling water for 2 minutes, till leaves turn a little soft

3 tbsp grated cheese

Curd Spread

1 cup curd hung for ½ hour

100gm paneer grated or ½ cup home made paneer smashed

½ tsp roasted cumin powder

½ tsp mustard powder

1 tsp red chilli sauce or tomato sauce

Vegetable mix together

½ cucumber-peeled, grated (½ cup)

1 small carrot finely grated carrot (½ ucp)

1 tomato-finely chopped without pulp

¼ tsp salt and 2 pinches pepper or to taste

Method

1. Tie curd in a muslin cloth and hang for 30 minutes.
2. Mix grated vegetables & tomato together. Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Beat hung curd till smooth. Add paneer, salt, pepper roasted cumin powder and mustard powder. Add chilli sauce or tomato sauce. Keep aside.
4. Spread 1 heaped tbsp curd paste on one slice of brown bread.
5. Cover with palak leaves. spread 1/2 portion of the vegetables.
6. Top with a butter white slice and with buttered side down. Press lightly.
7. Spread 1 tbsp curd spread again on this slice. Sprinkle 1 tbsp cheese.
8. Top with a buttered brown slice with the buttered slice down. Press.
9. Keep aside. Similarly make 2 more sandwiches. Wrap them in a cling film and refrigerate.
10. At serving time, remove the side crusts and cut into half diagonally to get 2 triangular 2 tier sandwiches from each. Serve with a salad and a summer soup or a cooler.

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