Bread Chicken Croquettes

A delicious evening snack for all age group on rainy days. A healthy snack for school kids when they come home hungry.

Bread Chicken Croquettes

No. of Croquettes : 20

Ingredients for Croquettes

Sandwich Bread - 20 slices

Maida paste thick - 2 tbsp

Egg - 1

Pepper - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Ingredients for filling

Chicken breast meat - 250 gms

Onion - 1 medium

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp

Yogurt - 5 tbsp

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil -3 tbsp

Capsicum - 1 medium

Carrot - 1 medium

Preparation Method

For the filling

1. Cut the chicken breast meat into tiny bits.

2. Marinate the chicken bits for half hour with yogurt, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.

3. In a kadai heat oil and add finely chopped onion and fry till golden brown.

4. Then add ginger garlic paste and fry till a nice aroma comes.

5. Add the marinated chicken and cook for 5 minutes, add a little water and cover and cook till the chicken is done.

6. Add garam masala and finely chopped capsicum and grated carrot and cook till the carrots are cooked.

7. Turn of the stove and let the mixture cool down.

To make the Croquettes

1. Mix maida with little water and make a thick paste, keep aside.

2. Beat egg and add pepper and salt and keep aside.

3. Cut the corners of the bread slices and roll out with the chapati roller and flatten it.

4. Take each slice and damp it with little water with the finger tips and keep the chicken mixture in the center and apply the maida paste on all the borders. Roll and seal it.

5. Repeat for all the slices.

To bake the Croquettes

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees at mode "bake" for 10 minutes.

2. Place the croquettes on the baking tray and egg wash each with the egg mixture.

3. Bake for 20 minutes in mode "bake" at 180 degrees.

4. Serve hot with tomato sauce.

Indian Style Chicken Pasta

This is a fusion of pasta in Indian style. The best way to use up the breast meat of the chicken is by making good pasta dishes, it won't dry up the meat and it remains moist and tender to eat. Here I have used Indian style to make this pasta by adding Indian masalas. Hope you will enjoy the taste and flavour of it.

Indian Style Chicken Pasta

No. of Serving : 4

Ingredients

Chicken breast meat - 250 gms

Pasta - 250 gms

Onion - 2 medium

Tomato - 2 medium

Red chilli powder - 2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1 tsp

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp

Capsicum - 1 cubed (optional)

Salt to taste

Oil - 3 tbsp

Preparation Method

1. Boil the pasta for 10 minutes, strain and keep aside.

2. Chop the chicken breast meat into 1 inch cubes and marinate for 1/2 hr with red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt. Keep aside.

3. Puree tomatoes, keep aside.

4. In a kadai heat oil and add the onions and fry till golden brown.

5. Add ginger garlic paste and fry till a nice aroma comes.

6. Add the chicken and salt and sauté for 5 minutes. Add little water, cover and cook till the chicken is done.

7. Add the pureed tomatoes and garam masala to the chicken and sauté till the tomato is cooked and oil separates on the top of the gravy.

8. Add capsicum and sauté till the mixture is thick without any water.

9. Add the cooked pasta and mix well. Heat it for 5 minutes.

10. Serve hot with onion raita.

Eggless Mango Mousse

Delighted to have something cool and refreshing for this summer ? , here is an eggless mango mousse. Mango has lots of health benefits. Its healthy antioxidants help fight cancer, improves eye health, lowers cholesterol, improves digestion, helps fight heat stroke.

Mango is available only in hot summer season, but when you take it along with ingredients like milk and buttermilk the heat effect is reduced.

Eggless Mango Mousse

No. of Serving : 5

Ingredients

Mango ripe - 3 medium

Custard powder - 4 tbsp

Corn flour - 2 tbsp

Milk  - 3 cups

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Preparation Method

1. Peel chop and puree the mango, keep aside.

2. Mix custard powder, corn flour and sugar in milk and bring it to boil. Keep stirring till it thickens. Cool it and keep aside.

3. Mix the mango puree and the prepared custard.

4. Refrigerate it for 1 hr , serve chill topped with nuts and cherries.

Gooseberry Jam / Amla Jam

In this recipe I have not used any artificial preservatives. I have used jaggery instead of regular white sugar for more flavour and health benefits of jaggery. Jaggery is sweet and has more calorie but it is better than white sugar health wise.

Gooseberry / Amla has a lot of health benefits. It is low in calorie, fat and cholesterol. It is rich in vitamin C and A, manganese and dietary fibre.

Gooseberry Jam / Amla Jam

No. of Servings : 10

Ingredients

Gooseberry - 20

Jaggery - 3 cups

Water - 1/2 cup

Preparation Method

1. Wash, chop and remove the seed from the gooseberry and cook with very little water. Smash and keep aside.

2. In a pan mix jaggery with little water, bring to a boil and filter it.

3. Boil the jaggery syrup to a one string consistency, add the cooked smashed gooseberry and stir till the mixture comes thick.

4. Cool and refrigerate it.

Notes:

No preservatives are added

It stays for a month if kept in the refrigerator.

Cool it completely before you refrigerate it.

Beetroot Chapati

Today I have chosen beetroot chapati, it's a wonderful way of making your fuzzy kids eat their veggies.

Beetroot has a lot of health benefits. It is high in immune boosting vitamin c, fibre, essential minerals like potassium, manganese. It is rich in folate and reduces the risk of birth defects.

Beetroot Chapati

No. of Serving : 6 - 7

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour - 2 cups

Beetroot - 1 medium

Ginger Garlic paste - 1/4 tsp

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Water as required

Salt to taste

Preparation Method

1. Peel, chop and grind beetroot into a fine paste along with ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.

2. In a mixing bowl add whole wheat flour and salt and mix well.

3. Add oil and mix well.

4. Add the ground paste little by little and mix well, add water as required and make a thick dough.

5. Let it rest for 1/2 hr.

6. Roll out chappati and toast it in tava on both sides.

7. Serve with onion raita.

Cookies

This is the regular cookie recipe. I tried it out and it turned out crispy and tasty. I egg washed them for that beautiful glaze on top.

Cookies

No. of Cookies : 12 - 15

Ingredients

Maida / All purpose flour - 2 cups

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 50 gms

Egg - 1

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Almond slices - 1/4 cup (optional)

Preparation Method

1. Powder sugar and keep aside.

2. Sieve maida / all purpose flour and baking powder, keep aside.

3. Beat egg with vanilla essence and keep aside.

4. In a mixing bowl, mix together maida, powdered sugar and butter.

5. Add egg little by little and make stiff dough.

6. Roll out into balls, flatten it to 1/8 inch thickness, egg wash them and press almond slices on top.

7. Preheat oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes in mode "toast"

8. Place the cookies in the preheated oven and bake for 10 - 15 minutes in mode "bake" at 180 degrees. Baking time will different from oven to oven, so check to see if the cookies are baked after 10 minutes.

Millet Groundnut Cookies

This time I tried making cookies millet flour and it turned out perfect and delicious. For more flavour and nutrition I have added goundnut toffee. It smelled heaven in my kitchen the aroma of cardamom and groundnut and the millet.

Millet Groundnut Cookies

No. of Cookies : 15 - 20

Ingredients

Millet flour - 1 cup

Maida / all purpose flour - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 75 gms

Groundnut toffee - 100 gms

Cardamom - 1 tsp

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Preparation Method

1. Powder groundnut toffee and keep aside

2. Powder sugar and keep aside.

3. In a mixing bowl mix together millet flour, maida, cardamom powder, sugar powder, baking powder and groundnut toffee powder.

4. Add room temperature butter and mix well.

5. Add water as required and make a stiff dough.

6. Roll out as a chapati and cut into cookies with mould or make flat round shaped cookies.

7. Preheat oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes in mode "toast"

8. Bake the cookies for 10 - 12 minutes in mode "bake" at 180 degrees.

Apple Walnut Milkshake

Milkshake is a healthy and non fussy way to make your kids love milk. In this recipe I have chosen apple and walnut, both apple and walnut have a lot of nutrients.

Apple Walnut Milkshake

No. of Serving : 2

Ingredients

Apple - 1 medium

Milk - 2 cups

Walnut - 10

Preparation method

1. Peel the apple skin off, keep aside.

2. Pulse the walnut in a blender / mixer , then add apple and grind it to thick paste.

3. Add milk little by little while grinding.

4. Add the remaining milk and pulse it.

5. Serve chill topped with nuts.