Tomato Onion Sandwich

Bored with sandwich which is bland and not spicy? Here is a simple spicy stuffed sandwich which is easy to prepare and tasty to eat.

 

Ingredients:

Bread slices - 4 nos

Butter - 2 teaspoon

Onion - 1 medium size, finely chopped

Tomato - 1 large size , finely chopped

Red chili powder - 1 teaspoon

Green chili - 1

Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon

Split urid dal - 1/2 teaspoon

Oil - 2teaspoon

Curry leaves - 1 string (optional)



Method:



1) Remove the brown edges of the bread using knife.

2) Take a wide pan and heat oil on it.

3) When oil is warm enough, add mustard seeds and urid dal. Let the seeds pop up.

5) Add curry leaves, green chilies. After few seconds, add onions and saute them well.

6) When onions turn translucent, add tomatoes and fry the mixture continuously until the tomatoes are mashed completely.

7) Add salt and red chili powder to the pan and mix them well. Cook for 5 minutes and turn off the flame.

8) Now apply butter both the sides of the bread and gently heat them.

9) Lay two roasted breads on a plate and spread the Onion Tomato mixture evenly to cover the whole surface of the bread.

10) Cover both the breads just like a sandwich.

11) Your simple bread sandwich is ready.

Palkova / Milk Sweet

Palkova is a mouthwatering Indian sweet made up of milk and sugar.There are specific places in Indian famous for certain dishes. One among them is Srivilliputhur, Virudhunagar district, TamilNadu. Though Palkova is prepared in many places the taste of Srivilliputhur palkova is unique and unmatched.



To make one cup of palkova, we require atleast 2-3 litres of milk.Though the process is simple, it consumes a lot of time. However the outcome is so delicious that you'll simply forget the time you spent in kitchen.

Ingredients:



Whole Milk -2 litres

Sugar - 1 cup

Cashew nuts, Pistachio, Saffron - 3 nos each(optional)



Method:



1) Take big heavy bottomed Pan.

2) Pour milk into it and boil it in high flame.

3) Keep stirring continuously or at an interval of 5 minutes when you see the level of milk slowly rising up .

4) Follow this stirring for one and half hour.

5) After one and half hour, the milk is reduced in quantity and would have become thick.

6) Turn the flame to medium level now.

7) Now add sugar to the thickened milk and stir it continuously.

8) Stir continuously without any pause. To ensure that you get an optimum colour, make sure the bottom of the pan doesn't get burnt due to overheating .

9) After 20-30 minutes, milk looks like a thick white paste.

10) Further cooking thickens the milk paste.

11) Turn off the flame, when the milk paste is a bit watery (like a thick paste having some water content in it). The paste slightly hardens when it starts to cool down.

12) Transfer this paste to a bowl and allow it to cool down.

13) If you want your palkova to be of a square shape, pour the paste to a plate and spread it evenly. Cut them into equal squares as it cools down.

14) Decorate with cashew nuts.

15) Delicious Palkova is ready.

Note:

1) If you do not have time to do this lengthy process, add a tablespoon of lemon juice after step 4 which means when the milk starts to thick, add lemon juice and remove the whey if you find it more.

Coffee flavored Wheat & Almond Biscotti

It was one fine afternoon last week, I was munching some almonds and reading when it stuck that I had never really baked anything with almonds. Oh how wonderful it would be to get some baked goodies with almonds fresh from the oven. I tried googling for some butterless recipes since I ran out of butter and came across these wonderful and flavorful Coffee and roasted almond biscotti at Deeba's