Spicy gravy for veggies.

Take a lot of dried chillis - soak em in water for 10 minutes.
Take onions, garlic, ginger and blend them in a mixer. Add the chillis and blend them too.
Take the entire gravy and fry it in oil. Add jeera powder, salt and some aamchur.
Add vinegar and lime.
In it put in potatoes and let the whole thing cook till the potatoes are cook.
Same gravy can be used for paneer/mushrooms too.

Hot Tabasco Mix-Veggie Salad!

Tonight I wanted to make an interesting cooked salad. Wanted it to be a little spicy as well...so yeah here's what I did.

What you need is:
Diced veggies (you get these at good vegetable vendors in sealed packages. I had...green onion leaves, capsicum, carrots and cabbage.)
Chilli-Garlic pase
Chilli-Vinegar
Garlic Tabasco
Pepper
Salt
Olive oil
Mixed herbs

Take the oil & heat it in the pan. Add the chilli-garlic paste to it. Put in the chopped onion leaves and capsicum. Put pepper and mixed herbs on this and let it cook till the capsicum softens a bit. Add in the cabbage and carrots. Mix this nicely and let the spices coat all the vegetables nicely. Put a bit of the chili vinegar and tabasco on this and mix it again.
Cover and let it cook till the cabbage and carrots are nicely cooked.


Take it out...have it just as it is...or put in between a couple of slices of fresh brown bread and have it as a sandwich.

Good healthy stuff!
Try it out!

Garlic-Pepper Babycorn

Was just looking for something to eat...and the only thing I saw were some boiled baby corns...so I thought lets make something from that. Well something interesting came out.
This is what I did.

You need
Olive oil
Black pepper
Garlic Paste
Pizza masala (brilliant masala mix which has oregano, basil, rosemary and all the other good herbs.)
Boiled baby corn
One lemon

Take the oil in a pan. Put in the garlic paste...add pepper and pizza masala. Let it cook a bit. Bung in the baby corn. Cook till the oil and spices nicely cover the corn. Let it cook for a while and let the juices marinate into the corn. Squeeze a lemon on this.

That's it! You're ready.
Tastes awesome!

Sunny Salad

Its a corny name...but thats okay because its got a lot of corn in it! :)

Okay...I'm not the funniest guy...I know it. But here's what I can do fairly well.
Coming up...one more new recipe from the kitchen of the Musicman! :)

So...the Sunny Salad has
Extra virgin olive oil (or any oil you want to use.)
Garlic paste (if you have fresh garlic...make it into a good paste)
Onion (finely chopped.)
Cherry tomatoes (chopped in half. They are the tiny ones and they taste awesome in a salad)
Corn (boiled kernels)
Green olives (chopped in 3 parts. I love the ones with the pimento chillies in them. They're yummy!)
Iceberg lettuce (chopped in big pieces. Like the kind you have in the McDonald's burgers)
Salt
Pepper
Vinegar
Lemon

Great if you're on a diet by the way.
This is how I did it.

Take a pan and heat some olive oil in it. When the oil is hot put finely chopped onion into it. Let the onion just whiten a bit and add some garlic paste. Mix em well. Add a bit of salt on the onions.
Add the boiled corn next. Let em cook for a bit and add the cherry tomatoes. Squeeze one entire lemon in all of this.
Cook em all for a bit.

Take the chopped lettuce, put it in a nice big bowl. To it add vinegar and a bit of olive oil. Get your hands in and mix em well. The leaves don't need anything else.

Now...transfer the mix from the pan on to the lettuce leaves. Toss them well. Add the chopped olives on top. They taste brilliant just like that...and voila!
You've got yourself a Sunny Salad!
I think I call it that because it looks so bright and sunny.
Again...the name may not be that good...but the salad...well just try it out and you'll see what I'm enjoying right about now!
Oh yeah...eat it nice and fresh while the leaves are still crispy :)

Chinese Maggi

Another Maggi recipe.

Let the maggi noodle boil. Take em out before they're properly done, strain the water, add a bit of oil to the noodles so that they don't stick to each other and keep em on one side.

While this was happening on one burner, take a pan on another and heat some oil in it.
In the oil put some chilli-garlic paste. To this hot oil add the noodles. Put some white pepper, vinegar, soya sauce and some salt. Let the noodles cook for a minute or two and get it off the burner.

You can obviously put in onions and carrots and beans and all the other veggies you see in chinese noodles but I like em without veggies.

And this gets done in about 5 -8 minutes flat.
When you're bored of the same old maggi...this rocks!

Maggi Italiano

I love trying out stuff with Maggi noodles. Frankly I'm fed up of eating maggi noodles the same old masala style.
Here's one of the things I do with the noodles.

Cook the noodles in water. Don't put the tastemaker. Take em out and put a little bit of oil in them to keep em nice and separate. Make the pasta sauce like I had mentioned in my pasta recipe or just take any old pasta sauce straight out of the readymade bottles.
Put the sauce in a pan...add the noodles...add a little bit of cheese if you like.
Let it cook for a few minutes.

And bam! You've got a kick ass Maggi...Italiano style! :)