Spinach-Feta Rolls

Had a box of Feta cheese bought 2/3 months before.  I have never used/tasted feta cheese before. So, i just cut open the box and took a small piece to taste  it. Ohhhhhhhhh!!!! My God, it was damn salty!!!!!!!!! i didnt expect it to be this salty, seriously!!! Just thanked god,for giving me the thought to taste it before i used it!!!!

Now coming to the recipe. This recipe is an inspiration from Priya's Cheese Palmiers and Raks's Vegetable Puff.  Both make a great evening snack, So i just mixed and matched both and tried this Spinach-Feta Rolls. Came out great. 

Ingredients
1 bunch Palak
1 large potato,Peeled and boiled.
2 medium-sized onions, finely chopped
1 1/2 - 2 tsp red Chilli powder
1 tsp Ginger-garlic paste
2-3 tbsp Feta Cheese (No Salt added to the Filling, since feta cheese has enough salt!!!!!)
hing,turmeric each a pinch

Method

Wash, Blanch and finely chop the Palak. Mash the Potato. Heat oil in a wok, crackle cumin seeds, add hing and turmeric. Add Onions and saute Till translucent. Add ginger-garlic paste. Add Mashed potato, Red Chilli powder. Cook in a low flame, to avoid burning of masalas, sprinkle water. When the masalas are mixed well, add chopped palak, mix well and Cover and cook in a slow flame for 10 minutes. Open the lid and stir in between. 

When the rawness of the masalas escapes, add the cheese and Mix well. Take it off the flame. Let it cool.

Preaheat the oven to 190C. Roll the Pastry Sheets to not-so thick/not-so thin Discs. Place 2 tbsp of Spinach-Feta Filling and roll it and seal the ends by pinching it. Make 4-5 rolls, Brush some oil on top.  Bake it for 40-45 minutes. Enjoy with Tomato Sauce. 

Sending this to BB4 - What's Lurking in the Kitchen @ One hot Stove and also to Healing Foods - Onions hosted by Priya, Event by Siri


You Can Also find this @ LYRO#Potato happening @ Sindhi Rasoi

Tangy Tomato Baby Corn (Brown) Rice

What to do when your tummy grumbles and you have nothng but Onion and Tomatoes @ home. This Happened to me last week, Luckily had some Brown Rice. Made this Tomato rice. mm, Happy Tummy!!!

Ingredients
2 cups Brown Rice Cooked
1 Large Onion, thinly sliced
3 Large Ripened Tomatoes, Finely chopped
2 nos Baby Corn
2 green Chillies
1/2 tsp Red Chilli powder'
1 tsp Ginger Juliennes
Salt to taste
1 tsp Oil for the seasoning
hing/asafoetida, turmeric each a pinch

Method

Heat oil in a pan, Spluter Mustard seeds, add hing, turmeric and Green chillies. then add Onions and saute till translucent. Add Tomatoes and saute for 3-4 minutes.Then add Chopped baby corns ,red chilli powder and a cup of water. Add salt. Let it cook in a slow flame for 15 minutes.

Once the rawness of the chilli powder escapes and the tomatoes are well cooked, take it off the flame. 

Mix it with Brown Rice, garnish with Ginger juliennes and enjoy with a raita.

Keep the flame low while cooking. Incase, if you feel the veggies are getting burnt, try sprinkling water.  This way you can avoid adding extra oil. Whether you are in a Diet or Not, Try this!!!! you will definetely feel the difference.

Bourbon Biscuits

After the chocolate cake, the next chocolate bake for my nephew and niece (S & S) was bourbon biscuits. I had bookmarked Nina's recipe as soon as it was posted. As with many other bookmarked recipes, it remained in the to-be-tried list. So when S & S was here, I thought this is the best time to give that a try. And it will surely be a hit with the kids. My niece was truly thrilled to see the look-alike of bourbon biscuits. He was falling short of words to express his feelings. For the first batch, I cut the dough into rectangles and sandwiched two bsicuits with chocolate cream. The second batch I cut with cookie cutter. In the hurry to make, I forgot to prick some holes and sprinkle sugar on top to resemble the store bought ones. For the second batch, I remembered coat with sugar. The glee on their eyes with the first bite said it all.

 

 

You need

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Butter - 1/4 cup

Baking soda -1/4 tspn

Honey - 1 tspn

Baking powder -1 tspn

Cocoa powder - 3 tblspn

Vanilla essence - 2 tspn

Cold milk - 4 tblspn

Method

Cream butter and suga until light and fluffy. Add essence, honey and baking soda. Seive together flour, cocoa and baking powder. Fold in the dry ingredients into butter vream mix. Bring together the dough. Roll into a rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Cut into bars of sixe 3 " x 1/2 ".

Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 15 minutes. Though the cookies are brown in color, you can make out from the color change from a dark to pale brown on cooking. The timings may change depending on the thickness of the cookies. Cool the cookies before filling with the chocolate cream.

For the filling

Butter -1/4 cup

Icing sugar -1/3 cup

Cocoa powder - 1 tspn

Vanila essence - few drops.



Beat all the ingredients together till its creamy.  Sandwich two biscuits with the cream and press lightly. It sets very fast.
 
 
 

 
 
Have a look at the bookmarks made by my neice, S , for me.