If there's anything Bollywood has taught us during the Coronavirus lockdown, it is to use the time spent at home to build skills we've always wanted to learn. One of them is cooking. From Malaika Arora to Shilpa Shetty, all of Bollywood is whipping up hearty and healthy eats while at home. So why shouldn't you? Whether you're free as a bird or working from home, cook up a storm with these healthy vegetarian snacks which you can munch on at any time of the day without any guilt.
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1. Paneer Satay
Recipe by Chef Ashish Joshi, Executive Chef of Jaypee Siddharth
Ingredients:
200gms paneer
2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
6 tablespoons coconut milk
ADVERTISEMENT2 fresh red chilies
30ml oil
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2 lemon leaves
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5gms coriander
Salt to taste
For peanut sauce
1 cup coconut milk
Quarter cup peanuts
1 tablespoon red curry paste
3 lemon leaves
5gms coriander
2gms galangal
3 fresh red chilies
Salt to taste
Method:
For the satay, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl except the paneer. Cut paneer half-inch thick fingers. Put mixture over paneer, let it marinate for an hour, skewer with sticks, cook on a grill and baste with oil. For the peanut sauce, blend the ingredients together till smooth. Heat the pan with oil, add the paste to it and reduce till it is of a thick coating consistency. When paneer sticks are cooked, remove from grill and serve hot on a sizzling plate along with peanut sauce.
2. Vegetable, Sprouts And Oats Cutlets
Recipe by Chef De Cusine, Indian Anuj Mathur of Paatra Jaypee Greens Golf and Spa Resorts
Ingredients:
20gms chopped carrots
20gms chopped beans
20gms crushed green peas
100gms sprouts
30gms grated cottage cheese
40gms oats powder
5gms cumin
5gms chopped ginger
5gms chopped green chillies
Salt to taste
Hing to taste
20ml peanut oil to shallow fry
Few sprigs chopped fresh coriander
Method:
In a pan, add peanut oil. Saute cumin, ginger, chilies and hing in it. Add carrot, beans, peas and saute well till tender. Add turmeric, continue to saute. Then remove from flame and cool it in a plate. Mix together cottage cheese, oats powder and salt and chopped coriander. Divide in small portions as desired and give them shape. Then dust with oats powder. In the pan, shallow fry cutlets in peanut oil till golden brown from both sides and become crisp.
3. Kothimber Wadi
Recipe by Chef Nilesh Pawar, Head Chef - The Byke Group of Hotels & Resorts
Ingredients
250gm besan
100gms coriander leaves
10gm ginger
10gm garlic
Pinch of ajwain
5gm cumin seeds
5gm mustard seeds
10gm cumin powder
10gm garam masala
20gm roasted peanut
3gm hing
10gm turmeric powder
Salt to taste
500ml oil to fry
15gm green chilies
Method:
In a mixing bowl, make a batter of besan flour, add little water and ensure that it is free of lumps. The batter should be thick of pouring consistency. In a pan, heat little oil for tempering, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ajwain , crushed garlic, ginger and green chilies. Saute for few seconds. Then add hing, turmeric powder, jeera powder, garam masala and mix well. Now add besan batter stirring continuously until the batter become a thick paste without forming lumps. Reduce the heat if necessary. When the batter starts thickening, add salt, chopped coriander leaves, roasted peanut powder and mix well. Add little oil and keep mixing till it forms to a thick paste. Grease a tray and pour this mixture into the tray and spread evenly. Cool this mixture and cut them into cubes or desired shapes. Heat oil in a kadai for deep frying and when the oil is hot, fry the besan pieces until crispy and golden. Drain oil from pieces on paper towel and serve.
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