Veggie Spring Rolls

I was jus Sorting out things in my Freezer and found some pastry sheets. Poor Thing, its almost there for a month, so i decided to use it.

Veg Spring Rolls my favorite starter. I have tried it doing using Pastry Sheets as well as Homemade Wheat flour dough. Though both tasted same, the look/texture was much different.

Ingredients

Pastry sheets - # According to the no, of spring rolls u want. if u r going to make 10 rolls, u need 10 sheets.

Oil for deep frying

For the Stuffing

Cabbage - 1/2cup shredded

carrot - 1/2 cup shredded

potatoes - 1 no, boiled and cubed.
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
salt to taste

Method

Cook carrot, cabbage with little water. Strain the excess water. Strain it completely, if not spring roll will be come messy. Put the boiled veggies in a thin cloth and squeeze out completely.

Alternatively i dry roasted it in a kadai for a minute or two or till the moisture evaporates. Add chilli powder and salt and toss well.

Now take a pastry sheet. take a spoonful of veggie mixture keep it at one corner and start rolling.roll tightly. use a bit of water to seal the ends.

Deep fry in oil.

Using Wheat flour dough

Wheat flour - 1 cup
salt to taste.

Make a dough, not so loose and not so stiff. Divide them into balls, 1 cup gives approx 3 -4 balls.using a rolling pin roll it in to thin sheet, fill the stuffing and deep fry.

Serve with Sauce or Mint chuntney

Baked Apples with Ice Cream

We had some Friends home for the weekend, So lot of Fruits. Jus using them all in all forms i could. Had Squeezed some fresh Orange Juice yesterday. HomeMade is always Heavenly!!!!

Got some Apples too, I was going thru Kids Health Website Got this recipe there.

It was easy and less time consuming, so, i got to work immediately

Ingredients
1 apple, cored

2 tbsp. raisins
½ c. light vanilla ice cream
pinch of cinnamon

Method

Take a cored apple and cut it in half. Sprinkle raisins over the apple. Place on a baking sheet and bake it in the oven for 15 minutes at 350° Fahrenheit (176° Celsius).

Remove the sheet from the oven and put a pinch of cinnamon over each apple half.Place the ice cream over the apple halves and serve.

The original recipe is for one apple, i tried with two and increased the time to 30 minutes. Came out good.

Try sprinkling some brown sugar over the apples before baking. It tastes great.

For a Kids Version of the recipe, Peel and cut it into thin slices add cinnamon and brown sugar, raisins and bake for the given time.

Will post pictures for the kids version soon.

Deepawali Sweets - Ukkarai or Paruppu Puttu

Deepawali Sweets - Ukkarai or Paruppu Puttu

With Deepawali around the corner, a whole lot of sweets are getting prepared at home. Here is a very simple and yummy sweet. The UKKARAI also called (paruppu puttu) is a traditional sweet, which has an integral place in festival cooking. It is a protein rich dish prepared with lentils. Since it is steam cooked it is an appropriate sweet dish to go with breakfast.

Ingredients
Bengal gram dal – ½ cup
Green gram dal – ½ cup
Powdered jaggery – 1 cup
Cardamom – 2
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Cashew nuts – a few
Raisins - a few.


Method
1. Dry roast the dals together till they turn red and give out a pleasant aroma.
2. Wash and soak the roasted dals for 45 minutes.









3. Drain and grind the soaked dals into a coarse paste sprinkling a little water if necessary.










4. Steam the paste in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes and cool.
5. Break the steamed lump into pieces.
6. Heat ghee in a pan and roast the cashew nuts and raisins.
7. Add the lentil pieces and cook them on low fire until they crumble into a fine sand like texture, stirring now and then with a spatula.


8. In a separate pan, dissolve jaggery in one cup of water and strain.
9. Heat the jaggery water in another pan until it starts foaming to get a one string consistency.






10. Pour the jaggery syrup into the prepared dal and blend well.
11. If the UKKARAI becomes soggy you can put it on low flame and stir until you get the required texture.
12. Mix in powdered cardamom.






Relish it either hot or cold.