Stuffed Green Chillies

Ingredients	Quantity
Big Green Chilles/Peppers	10
Mashed Potatoes	1/2 cup
Chopped Coriander Leaves	1 tbsp
Blanched Almonds	10
Garlic Cloves	3 or 4
Lime Juice	1 tsp
Gram Flour	1 cup
Salt	to taste
Soda bi carbonate	1/4 tsp (optional)
Oil	for deep frying

 

 

Method

1. Slit the green chillies in the centre so as to stuff them.
   
2. Cook the chillies in boiling water for 3 to4 minutes till half cooked if chillies  have a tough skin. Put them aside.
   
3. Grind the blanched almonds and garlic and mix them with the mashed potatoes,salt,lime juice and chopped coriander leaves to make the stuffing. Stuff each chilly with one tablespoon of stuffing and keep them aside.
   
4. Make a batter with gram flour,salt and soda.
   
5. Heat oil in a pan and dip each chillie in the gram flour batter and deep fry till golden brown.
   
6. Serve hot with tomato sauce or salsa.
   
7. If one does not want to deep fry,the chilles can just be brushed with oil on all sides  in a greased pan and put them in a preheated oven  and bake them for 25minutes or  till the chillies become brown.
   

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Spicy Corn Fritters

Ingredients	Quantity
Sweet Corn	1/2 cup
Plain Flour	1 tbsp
Corn Flour/Corn Starch	2 tbsp
Finely Chpped Green Chillies	1 tbsp
Finely Chpped Coriander Leaves	2 tbsp
Finely Chpped Spring Onions	2 tbsp
Small Onion	1
Salt	to taste
Oil	to deep fry

Method:

1. Steam the sweet corn first.
   
2. Mix the sweet corn with plain flour,corn flour,finely chopped coriander leaves and salt. Add water only if necessary that is if it is too dry. The mixture should be just wet.
   
3. Deep fry the corn mixture in hot oil till golden brown dropping the mixture in such a way that the corn is separated but coated with the flour.
   
4. Chop the onion finely and fry them in a tablespoon of oil till transparent but not brown.
   
5. Serve hot the corn on a bed of fried onions and spring onions in a plate.
   

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Stuffed Coconut Dessert

Ingredients:

• Plain flour                                                           1/2 cup
• Salt                                                                        a pinch
• Oil                                                                          for deep frying

For the filling:

• Grated Coconut                                                     1/2 cup
• Brown Sugar/Jaggery                                          1/4 cup
• Cardamom Powder                                               1/4 tsp

For the Topping:

• Honey                                                                      1 tablespoon
• Chopped Nuts/Dryfruits                                     As per desire
• Vanilla Ice Cream                                                 6 scoops

Method To Prepare The Filling:

1. Take jaggery or brown sugar in a pan and add a tablespoon of water and cook till it becomes a thick syrup on low flame.
2. Add the grated coconut and cardamom powder and mix it in
3. Cook till it thickens, stirring occasionally.
4. Cool this mixture

Method To Prepare Stuffed Coconut Dessert:

1. Make a stiff dough with plain flour, salt and water, and keep it aside.
2. Divide the dough into six balls.
3. Roll out each ball into circles.
4. Place a tablespoon of coconut filling in the centre of the circle and cover the mixture with a half-fold of the dough circle and shape them into long pieces which are well sealed.
5. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
6. Fry the long stuffed pieces in the oil till they are light brown and crispy.
7. To serve, place one fried piece on a plate and a scoop of ice cream and drizzle a little of honey on this. Chopped nuts can also be sprinkled on this.

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Ramani's Recipes

This blog is to share my culinary skills in making multi-vegetarian foods with everyone. Recipes which would make your children never fuss to eat different groups of food and also train them to be little chefs.

I have written one book called A Casket of Vegetarian Recipes published by Orient Blackswan.

I hope you all find the recipes in the book and those I share here useful.

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