Category Archives: Snacks

Kids Special Menus, Snacks

Butter Chakli

Ingredients: Butter Chakli
2 cup rice flour
1 cup roasted chana dal (used for chutney)
 1 tbsp sesame seeds
salt to taste
2 tbsp White butter
Hing
For Sprinkling Masala:
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp coriander jeera powder
Salt
Hing
Mix all the sprinkling well and keep aside.
Method:
Grind the fried gram powder to fine powder. Now in a large mixing bowl take rice flour, fried gram flour, add salt, hing, sesame seeds, white butter, mix all the dry ingredients mix well, now add water and make soft dough.
Heat oil in a Kadai keep in a low flame .
Take the dough put in in a chakli mould and squeeze  it to a round shape on a silver wrap paper. Fry the chaklis till semi golden brown. Remove on a tissue paper. Sprinkle the dry masala over the hot chakli. Garnish with fried curry leaves.
Store in an airtight container.
TIPS:
Fry the chakli in low flame till it becomes crispy .
For a spicier version you can add green chilly paste or red chilly powder or pepper powder.
Kids Special Menus, Snacks

Special Sweet Potato Tikki with Chilli Dip

Ingredient
Sweet potatoes 2 to 3 boiled
Rock salt
Green chilli crushed (thecha)
Curd

Method
Mash the boiled sweet potatoes.
Add rock salt and crushed green chilli and roll it.
Wrap it up in an aluminium foil and freeze for 30 mins
Take out from the fridge and cut like tikki.
In a tava, drizzle some oil and roast the tikki till crisp golden brown.

For the dip
Mix hung curd and green chilli.
Serve the hot Sweet Potato Tikki with chilli dip
Note: While crushing chilli add some salt so that when you are preparing the dip you need not add salt..

Breakfast, Fasting Snacks, Snacks

Water Chestnut (Singhara) Pancake

It is a very healthy fasting snack. Water Chestnut flour is easily available in the market. I prepared this specially for those who fast in Navratri.

Ingredients for pancake:

1 cup Singhara flour
1 mashed potato
Rock salt
Crushed peanut
Green chilly chopped as per taste
Jeera powder
Oil for roasting

Topping:
Pineapple chopped
Jeera powder
Mint powder (optional )

Method:
Mix all the ingredients for the pancake and add water as per requirement . Now in a frying pan, heat oil and make pour 1 spoon of the batter for making pancake. Roast till it is cooked on both the sides till golden brown in color.

Serve with cut pineapple cubes, jeera powder topping

Note:
You can choose topping of your choice
You can prepare this recipe other fasting flour too ..
Serve the dish with your favorite dip

Breakfast, Snacks

Stuff Moong Dhokla

Ingredients

2 cup soaked green gram
1 inch ginger
3 to 4 green chillies
Salt

Stuffing
Chopped coriander leaves
1 cup grated coconut
Lime juice
Sugar
Salt

Method
Soak the green gram overnight. Blend the soaked moong in a blender with green chilly and ginger. Add salt, sugar and mix well .

Greese the thali with little oil and steam in a steamer for about 20 Minutes. Repeat one more time.

Now take out from thali, spread green chutney on dhokla and spread the stuffing and place one more dhokla over it
Cut according to ur choice serve with green chutney.

Breakfast, Kids Special Menus, Main Course, Snacks

Tomato Omelette Sandwich

An easy to cook recipe.. Have it as a breakfast, evening snack or dinner.. Choice is yours…

Ingredients
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup chopped Chinese cabbage
1 to 2 chopped green chilly (optional )
Coriander leaves finely chopped.
1 cup besan( gramflour)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1tbsp red chilly powder
1/2 tbsp coriander jeera jpowder
Salt to taste
Oil

For sandwich
4 to 6 bread slices
Green chutney
Tomato ketchup
Butter

Method
In a bowl, add tomatoes, onions, green chillies, cabbage, coriander leaves. Now add besan, all dry masalas, salt and mix well. Make smooth batter with consistency of dosa or chila.

In a pan, heat 1 tsp oil and pour batter and prepare nice soft and fluffy omelette.

Now take a slice bread, spread butter, ketchup and on another slice spread butter and green chutney. Now place the tomato omelette on it and grill or toast in toaster till crispy. You can toast in tags too. Serve hot.

You can add cheese or cheese spread if you are a cheese lover.