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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Pita sandwich - filling and dressing.

Prep time: 10 min.
Total Time: 30 min.

Ingredients :


1. Pita Bread.
2. For the Filling:
i. Onions - 1/2 medium sized.
ii. Tomato - 1 ripe and fresh small sized.
iii. Green, red, yellow pepper - 1/2 each.
iv. salt, pepper and lime.
3. For the dressing:
i. onions - 1 small sized. (cut finely)
ii. Tomatoes - 3 small sized. (diced)
iii. Red kidney beans - one cup. (pre-boiled)
iv. ginger - small stem.
v. Garlic - one clove.
vi. cinnamon power, cardamom.
vii. salt, paprika, cumin powder and lime.

Preperation:

1. Start with making the Dressing.
a) In a blender, put in onions, tomatoes and the red kidney beans and blend well along with some lime extract. Add at least a cup of water or more to bring it to constancy
b) Once it is evenly blended and is in a puree form, put it in a saucepan and allow it to come to boiling, then add the spices kept aside and salt, paprika to taste.
c) Once the flavor of the spices have infused into the puree, set the saucepan aside. The dressing is done.

2. For the filling.
mix the cut onions, tomatoes, and the peppers together with a tea spoon of salt and pepper.
And squeeze half a lime on top of the mix. And stir once.

3. Cut the pita bread in half and Heat the Pita bread on top of a pan. Once the Pita is soft, open the Pita, carefully (a lot of steam accumulates inside).
4. Apply some butter onto one side of the pita bread insides and cover the bottom side of the insides with a layer of the Pita dressing. Fill with the FIlling to your content and enjoy a nice snack.
:)

You can store the Filling and the dressing in your refrigerator.

Aloo Gobi..

Prep Time: 10 min.
Total time:
45 min.

Ingredients:
1. Oil - Canola, sunflower, Olive.
2. Onions - 1 medium sized.
3. cumin seeds - 1tea spoon.
4. Tomato - 2 small sized.
5. Green Chilli's - 4 nice and fresh one.
6. Potato's - 4 medium sized. (diced well and square shaped)
7. Cauliflower - 1 medium sized. (cut in small florets)
8. Turmeric power - 1 tea spoon.
9. Salt and Paprika to taste.
10. Ginger - a small stem.
11. Garlic - 2 small cloves.
12. Garam malasa and cumin malasa.

Procedure:

a) Heat the oil and add cumin seeds to it till it becomes golden brown.
b) Add onions and cook till translucent.
c) Add the chili's and the turmeric powder and salt and Paprika. (salt and paprike can be added later to adjust the taste)
d) Add nicely diced, fresh tomato's and allow it to become well mashed and almost puree like.
e) Add mashed ginger and garlic to this and mix well.
f) Add the diced potato's to the puree and mix well. Add a cup of water, enough to cover the potato's. Cover the lid and let it Boil for 10 minutes and then add the florets of cauliflower to it. Mix well. Allow it to boil for an additional 10 minutes after covering the lid again.
g) Mix well again and add garam masala and cumin power to season. Adjust salt and paprika level. And keep the vessel on low flame till you get the consistency you need.
h) Garnish with fresh Cilantro sprigs.

Comes out real good.
Try it out some time.