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Vegetable Pulaov

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Medley of vegetables of your choice with rice, cooked with wholesome spices and served with curd. This dish is one pot dish and can be served as anytime hungry meal. Nutritional Value The meal is packed with vitamins, carb and proteins. This dish serves around 6 adults and each helping is around 300 k cal. Ingredients Veggies - Capsicum, Cabbage, Potato, Beans, Carrot (all chopped) Rice - 2 cups (washed) Basmati or any long grain Cottage Cheese (Paneer) - Cubed Onion- 2 diced small Tomatoes- 3 medium Ginger- 1 inch grated Garlic- 20 cloves chopped Green chili- 2 sliced Tej Patta- 2 Big cardamom- 1 Spices Turmeric, Coriander Powder, Garam Masala- 1 tbsp each Salt- 2 tbsp Ghee/Clarified butter- 3tbsp Method  Take a big pressure cooker, if its not available then a big pot with heavy base and add oil to it. Add the slit chilies, Tej patta, cardamom, garlic and ginger to it and fry it for 30 seconds and then add the chopped onions to it. Let the onion fry till they are translucent and t...

Chicken Manchurian

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The Indio-Chinese fusion food which is very popular and easy to make at home too. Serve it over rice or make it dry as a snack, it never dissapoints. Nutritional Value   The oil or butter we use to prepare makes a real difference in calories.  Calories*- 1500 (whole dish)    *calories are an estimation of my cooking.     Servings- 3     Ingredients     For chicken marination  500gms cubed chicken, boneless 1 egg Soya sauce 4 garlic pods (finely chopped) 1/2 inch ginger (finely chopped) 2 tbsp corn starch and all purpose flour Salt - 1tsp   For veggie induce sauce ( veggies are optional) optional   1 cup of fine chopped vegetables (cabbage, bell pepper, carrot, green onions) 1- Red onion finely chopped 4 garlic pods (finely chopped) 1/2 inch ginger (finely chopped) 1/2 cup low sodium Soya sauce 2 tbsp tomato ketchup ( if you want a little sweeter add more) 1/4 cup chilli sauce Salt as per taste  Oil- 1/4 cup around ...

Bread Lasagna

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Lasagna was originated in Italy in the city of Naples during the Middle Ages but over the years, many versions with different sauces had replaced the main sheets with veggies like zucchini which is very popular in vegan lasagna with no milk cheese. Here I have used simple whole wheat bread as a replacement for the lasagna sheets. With all respect to original lasagna my bread lasagna came very close to it and melts both in your mouth and heart.   Nutritional Value Here the recipe give around six portions (100 gms each) bread, cheese and veggies bring around 140 kcal per portion. Ingredients Mushrooms, roughly chopped- 200 gms Bell Pepper- 1 chopped Chopped onion- 1 big Chopped spinach- 1 cup Garlic chopped- 5 big cloves Cheese (any kind)- 1 and 1/2 cup shredded Dried thyme- 1 tbsp Whole wheat bread  flattened like sheets with roller pin- 6 White Pasta sauce- 1 cup Olive oil- 1 tsp  Salt- 1 and half tsp Method Take a heavy bottom pan, heat the oil, add onion, bell pepper, m...

Paneer Kathi Roll

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Paneer kathi rolls are usually served as snack in India. I have mixed paneer with fried capsicum and rolled it in flat chapatis. Paneer can be replaced with tofu and the same recipe can be made with chicken strips too. Nutritional Value I have used 100 gms of paneer and two bell pepper and some spices for stuffing. The parotha is made of mix dough (whole wheat and all purpose flour) with oil in it and also used for cooking. Paneer- 265 kcal Whole wheat- 200 kcal All purpose flour- 225 kcal Ingredient For Dough 1/2 cup Whole wheat 1/2 cup All purpose flour 2 tbsp refine oil 1 tsp salt For filling Paneer-100gm Bell peper red and green- 1 each Onion- 1 medium size  Oil- 2 tbsp  1 tsp- coriander powder 1 tsp- turmeric 2 tsp- salt (according to taste) Method Mix all the dry ingredient of dough together add 2 tbsp of water one at a time to make the dough, keep kneading with more water unless it can ...