Battered vegetable – Tempura style (Indian Bhaji)

Ingredients:

• Potatoes                      2 (round cuts like crisps but thicker)
• Cauliflower                  ¼ of a flower (cut into small nodes)
• Onion                          2 (cut into rings)
• Long green beans       (cut into 2 inch pieces)

Ingredients Batter:

• Plain Flour                   300g
• Yeast                          1tsp
• Salt                             1tsp
• Cajun Spice                2tsp
• Coriander Powder      1tsp
• Water                         1 Mug
• Oil                              2-3  Mugs           

Method:

1. To make the batter, mix all ingredients in a large bowl. The consistency should be pouring custard like and cover for 30 mins and stand aside. 
2. Heat the oil in medium heat. A good way to check whether the oil is ready is to dip one end of a chopstick and check whether bubbles arise. If bubbles arise, then the oil is ready. 
3. Dip the vegetables into the batter and drop them in hot oil. Make sure the vegetables are covered fully with the batter. 
4. For a batch to cook would take 3-5 mins. 
5. Take it out of the oil and place it on paper towel lined plate.

Tips: Brush the pot with lemon juice before you add the oil to heat. This helps reduce the tempura from absorbing too much oil but still crispy.

Pickled lemon cabbage curry

Ingredients:

 

• Sliced cabbage                  300 g.
• Sliced carrot                     100 g.
• Soaked lentils                   100 g.
• Pickled lemon                   2 table spoons
• Chopped onion                2 table spoons
• Chopped garlic                 1 table spoon    
• Chopped ginger                1 table spoon

• Mustard seeds                  ½ teaspoon
• Cumin seeds                     1 teaspoon 
•  Chilli flakes                       2 teaspoons
• Salt                                   2 teaspoons 
•  Chopped tomato             1 small cup
• Oil                                   2 table spoons
• Water                              1 small cup

Method:

1.   Heat oil in a pot using medium heat, and then add chopped garlic, ginger and onion to fry for 1 minute. Add cumin seeds and mustard seeds into the pot and fry them for another 1 minute and then follow with chili flake.
2. Add chopped tomato and water into the pot and follow with the rest of the ingredients.  Mix them well, cover it and let it simmer for 15 minutes. (Stir it every 5 minutes)
3. Now this dish is ready and it’s best to eat with rice.

Northern Thai Style Mixed Beans Baked in Foil Wrap

Ingredients:

•  Cooked Mix-beans                300 g
•  Peas                                      100 g.
•  Thai Basils                             1 handful
• Oil                                         2 table spoons
• Water                                    3 table spoons
• Corn starch                            2 teaspoons

Chili paste ingredients:

• Green chilli                         10
• Garlic                                 3 cloves
• Chopped onion                  1 table spoon
• Salt                                    1 ½ teaspoons
• Soy sauce                          2 teaspoons
• Sugar                                1 ½ teaspoons
• Coriander  seed                 1 teaspoon
• Fresh turmeric                   1 tablespoon
•  Lemongrass                      2 tablespoons   

Method:

1.  To make chilli paste, put all chilli paste ingredients into the spice grinder and grind them well.

 2. Preheat the oven at 200 Celsius.

3.Put all ingredients into a big bowl and then follow with chilli paste and mix them well.

4.Prepare the foil and make it like a pouch. Pour all mixed ingredients into the foil pouch and close it. Bake it in the oven for 35 minutes.

Vegetarian Pizza

Ingredients – Topping

• Paneer  cheese               ½ cup
• Green peas                    ½ cup
• Onion (diced)                ½
• Chili flake                      1 teaspoon
• Mozzarella cheese         1 cup

Ingredients – Sauce

• Tomato sauce                2-3 table spoons
• Cajun spice                   2 teaspoons
• Salt                               1 pinch
• Olive oil                        2 table spoons

Ingredients – Pizza dough

• Plain flour                      1 ½ cups
• Salt                               1 pinch
• Sugar                            1 table spoons
• Yoghurt                         1 table spoon
• Olive oil                        2 table spoons
• Yeast                            1 teaspoon
• Warm water                  ½ cup

Method

1.       To make pizza dough, mix yeast in warm water and wait for 30 minutes, then mix the yeast mixture with all the rest of the ingredients. Mix them well or until it’s not sticky, then leave it covered for 30 minutes. Knead the dough again and then keep it covered for another 30 minutes and repeat this step one more time. The dough is ready for making pizza base. 

2.       To make pizza sauce, just mix all the ingredients together.

3.       Turn on the oven to 200 Celsius degree and preheat it for 20 minutes.

4.       Make pizza base by rolling the dough into a flat circle sheet, then place it on pizza tray or stone. Add pizza sauce on the base and spread it well, then put all topping on top of the pizza.

5.       Put the pizza into the oven and bake it for 10-15 minutes or until it turn golden brown.

Chapatti Bread - Flat Bread

Chapatti bread

Ingredients:

-Plain flour         500 g.

-Plain yogurt      2-3 table spoons

-Oil                   2 table spoons

-Sugar               1 table spoon

-Salt                  1 teaspoon

-Warm water     1 mug

-Dried yeast       1 teaspoon

Method

1.Mix yeast and water together and keep aside for 30 minutes.

2.Put all the rest of the ingredients into a big bowl, then add yeast and water mixture into the bowl little by little.

3.Keep kneading the dough until it doesn't stick to the bowl or hands, then keep it covered inside the bowl for 30 minutes. Repeat the kneading and keeping aside process for two more times.

4.Separate the dough into small ball size or egg size and you would get around 12-15 balls of dough.

5.Flatten the dough and using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a thin flat circle.  Use enough flour to ensure the dough does not stick to the rolling pin.

6.Transfer the thin dough to a heated pan. Cook the flat thin dough in low heat for 1 minute. You should see the bread rising with air inside.

7.Steps 5 &6 above should be conducted in tandem for best results.

8.Use a wet cloth to wipe out any excess flour from the pan.

***Note- The dough recipe can be used for a pizza base as well. 

              - Don't add yogurt too much because it can make the bread rubbery.