Coconut Sandwich

Heavy, easy, quick and wonderful breakfast on a Sunday morning.....
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 2

Ingredients
Bread slices (brown/white) 8
Fresh grated coconut 2 cups
Green chilli paste 1 tsp
Salt as per taste
Cheese grated 2 tbsp
Method
1. Apply a little butter on both sides of the bread slices.
2. Mix grated coconut, green chilli paste, salt and grated cheese with the help of a fork.
3. Put this mixture on one slice of bread and cover it with the second slice. Make all sandwiches ready, and put them in the sanwich maker to toast....
4. Once brown remove and serve hot with tomato ketchup.....

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Arbi Paraha

Alu called as Colocassia/ arbi in English. Colocassia is very rich in iron.... and all parts of this plants are very useful... the leaves can be used to make alu vadi or alu bhaji and the roots are rich in iron so can be used to make dry roasted vege or parathas as below....

Ingredients

250gms arbi roots

250 gms maida

1 tsp cumin powder

1 tsp carom seeds powdered (ajwain/ ova)

1 tsp nigella seeds (kalonji)

salt and red chilli powder according to taste.

Method

1. Wash and clean the arbi roots. Put in a pressure cooker and make 4-5 whistles. (just like we boil potatoes for potato paratha)

2. Once boiled let them cool and then peel the skin. Crush all the arbi's with hand and take care no lumps are remaining.

3. Add chilli powder, carom seeds powder, nigella seeds, cumin powder, salt and mix all the ingredients properly.

4. Add maida slowly to this mixture and make a stiff dough from it.

5. Put little oil to hands and make round balls of the dough and roll out dusting a bit of flour into thick parathas.

6. Roast on both sides nicely on medium heat and at the end leave some ghee from the sides and serve hot with any chutney or yoghurt.

Tip: Use wheat flour instead of maida if serving for small children.

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Potato and Peas Paratha

Today I was really feeling very tired and wanted to finish cooking fast. So was looking for something that can be made fast and only one item makes a full meal.. so browsed a book recently bought from India and found this something different... usually we make parathas with potato... in this an addition of some other things made it taste different... and everyone liked it too.... so here is the recipie..
Ingredients
For the filling
5-6 boiled potatoes
1 bowl boiled green peas
7-8 green chillies (if you dont want it too spicy then add chillies accordingly)
1/2'' piece of ginger (paste)
1/2 tsp garam masala
salt to taste
1/2 lime juice
For the dough
3 bowl plain flour (maida)
1/2 tsp salt
4 tbsp hot oil
1/2 lemon juice or 1 tbsp curd.
I had used 1 bowl maida and 2 bowl wheat flour... as I feel maida is not good for small kids to digest... so if you are going to serve this paratha to small children then use wheat flour mixed with maida or use wheat flour completely...
Method
1. Mix maida (or wheat flour), salt, hot oil and lemon juice (or curd) and make a dough.
2. Smash boiled potatoes. Add boiled and smashed green peas, green chilli paste, ginger paste, lemon juice, garam masala and salt to it and mix everything.
3. Make a 2 small puris of the dough and put the filling on one puri. Close it with the second puri and secure the ends.
4. Roll it out slowly to around 4'' to 5'' and then put on the hot pan and roast it on both sides leaving little ghee.
5.Serve with any chutney or simply pickle and yoghurt.
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