Indian Recipes » Snacks

Aloo Tuk Recipe

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:18:26 +0000

Allo tuk is crispy delicious vegetarian snack. This made by frying potatoes, which can be delicious starter for your meal. This goes very well with tomato sauce or chutney. It is very simple to prepare at home. Let us see how to prepare this Aloo Tuk at your home in very less time.

Ingredients Required for Preparing Aloo Tuk

Potatoes – 1/2Kg
Green Chillies – 4
Pepper Powder – 1/2 Tsp
Amchur Powder – 1 Tsp
Coriander Leaves – 1 Bunch
Salt
Cooking Oil

Method for Preparing Aloo Tuk

Wash the potatoes and peel off the skin.
Cut them into slices (medium fat)
Take frying pan and add cooking oil to it.
Heat it on medium flame.
Once the oil gets heated enough, add potato slices and fry them till then turn-up into golden brown color.
Take them into a plate and leave them for cooling.
Once these slices gets cold enough, take a slice in your palm, and flatten them by pressing it with another palm. Continue the process with each slice.
Now again fry these potato slices again in the frying pan till they turn-up into red color.
Take them into a plate and sprinkle pepper powder, finely chopped green chilli pieces, amchur powder, and coriander leaves.
Your Aloo tuk are ready. Serve them hot.

Palak Corn Recipe

admin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:51:14 +0000

Palak corn recipe is a delicious veg snack recipe made out of palak and corn for evening time. This is a healthy snack recipe with full of nutrients. This is simple and easy to prepare, and even takes less time for preparation. Now, let us learn how to prepare this Palak corn recipe at home.

Ingredients Required for Preparing Palak Corn Recipe

Chopped Palak – 2 Cups
Corn – 2 Cups
Corn Flour – 4 Tsp
Badam (Fried) – 5 to 6
Red chilli powder – 1 Tsp
Cooking Oil
Salt

Method for Preparing Palak Corn Recipe

Clean the chopped palak thoroughly.
Add 3 teaspoons of corn flour to it and keep aside.
Take a frying pan and add oil to heat. Heat it on medium flame.
Now deep fry the chopped palak and take it into a separate bowl.
Add teaspoon corn flour to corn and mix well.
Now deep fry these corn also and take it into separate bowl.
Now take a bowl and add these deep fried palak, corn and fried badam pieces.
Heat it on sim flame. Add salt, red chilli powder, and water to it and mix well.
Allow it for cooking for 2 to 3 minutes.

Banana Chips Recipe

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:08:58 +0000

Banana chips is a popular delicious snacks, especially in Kerala. These are rich in saturated fat. This is great snack that goes well with almost all pre-dinner drinks. Let’s learn how to make this easy homemade banana chips.

Ingredients Required for Preparing Banana Chips

Banana – 2
Red Chilli Powder – 1 Tsp
Cumin Seeds Powder – 1 Tsp
Salt – As per taste
Cooking Oil – As required

Method for Preparing Banana Chips

Peel the skin off the Bananas and slice them into the shape of chips
Take a frying pan and heat the cooking oil in it
Now fry these sliced banana pieces by dropping the pieces one by one
Remove the fried banana pieces into a plate with steel skimmer.
Once all the banana pieces are fried and taken into plate, fry them once again all together.
Now remove these pieces from the oil and spread them on a bigger plate.
Immediately pour red chilly powder, cumin seeds powder, and salt on the fried banana pieces and mix well.
Once they get cooled, take them into a separate plate and serve them.
Your potato chips are ready to eat.

Murmura Chaat Recipe

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:12 +0000

Murmura chaat is spicy evening snack made out of murmura (puffed rice) and few raw veggies. It is very tasty and healthy too. This is a nutritious and a good diet food. Now let’s learn how to prepare Murmura Chaat.

Ingredients Required for Preparing Murmura Chaat

Murmura – 2 cups
Onions Chopped – 2 tbsp
Cucumber Chopped – 1 Medium sized
Tomato Chopped – 2tbsp
Carrot Grated – 2 tbsp
Capsicum Chopped – 2 tbsp
Hing – 1/4 tsp
Lime Juice – 1/4 tsp
Tamarind, Date and Jaggery chutney – 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli Powder – 1/4 tsp
Turmeric Powder – Little
Curry Leaves – Few
Oil – 1 tsp
Salt – As per taste
Coriander Leaves – Few

Method for Preparing Murmura Chaat

Take a wide pan and heat oil in it.
Add mustard seeds, turmeric powder, chilli powder, hing, salt and curry leaves to oil and fry.
Once mustard seeds starts crackle, add murmura to the mixture.
Heat the mixture for few minutes.
Take the mixture in a separate container and keep aside.
Now add 1/2 tsp oil to the pan, and heat.
Now add chopped onions and fry them till the raw smell goes off.
Now add this fried onions, cucumber, tomato, capsicum, tamarind, date and jaggery chutney, and lime juice to the murmura mixture and stir well.
Take the mixture in a plate and garnish it with coriander leaves.
Your Murmura Chaat is ready to serve.

Rava Dosa Recipe

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:02:38 +0000

Rava Dosa is a popular variant of Dosa typically made of Bombay Rava. It is crispy and very tasty to eat. It goes very well with coconut chutney and sambar. This is very famous all over South India. Now let us find out how to make Rava dosa.

Ingredients required for Preparing Rava Dosa

Rawa (Sooji / Semolina) – 2 cups
Rice Flour – 1 cup
Butter Milk – 2 cups
Onion – 1 finely chopped
Green chilies -2 chopped
Curry Leaves – 10 to 12 chopped
Scraped Coconut – 1/4 Cup
Cashew Nuts – 8 to 10
Sodium-bi-carbonate – 1/4 Tbsp
Salt as per the taste
Oil – 4tbsp

Method for Preparing Rava Dosa

Take a vassel and mix rava, rice flour, green chilies, chopped onion, curry leaves, sodium bi- carbonate, and salt in it.
Now add buttermilk to the mixture and make a batter of medium consistency.
Add finely chopped coconut and cashew nut to the batter.
Leave the batter for an hour.
Take a non-stick tawa and grease it. Pour a large spoon of batter over it. Spread the batter by swirling the griddle.
Pour 1 tbsp of oil on and around the dosa.
Cook till it gets crisp and golden in color.
Now remove it from the tawa.
Now your rava dosa is ready to serve.
Eat it with coconut chutney and sambar.

Onion Dosa Recipe: A Popular South Indian Tiffin Recipe

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:43:03 +0000

Onion dosa is one of the various delicious variants of Dosa. It is one of the most popular tiffin recipe of South India. It is a bit heavy recipe item, made with fresh onions. Onion dosa goes well with coconut chutney or sambar. It is rich in carbohydrates and proteins. Now, lets learn how to prepare this Onion Dosa.

Ingredients required for Preparing Onion Dosa

2 cups Rice
1 cup Urad Dal (Black Gram)
2 large Onions (chopped)
5 Green Chillies (chopped)
4 twigs Coriander Leaves (chopped)
1 tbsp Cooking Oil
cumin powder
1/4tsp Jeera Powder
Salt

Method for Preparing Onion Dosa

Soak urad dal and rice in cold water separately, preferably overnight.
Grind the soaked dal and rice to make a smooth paste. Add salt to this paste and mix well until it becomes a batter of semi-liquid consistency. Allow it to ferment for at least 3 hours.
In the meanwhile, mix the chopped onions, green chilies and coriander leaves with salt and cumin powder in a bowl. Keep it aside.
Now heat a flat pan on high flame. Apply little oil to the heated pan and then carefully pour a tbsp of batter onto the pan and immediately spread it evenly in a circular shape.
Add a little oil to it and spread about 2 tsp of the onions-chilli-coriander-cumin and salt mixture on the uncooked side and wait for a few seconds.
Turn over the dosa and again apply some oil to cook the other side.
Onion Dosa is ready to eat. Serve hot with coconut chutney.