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Saturday, May 10, 2008

pasta salad


Ingredients


  • 2 cups boiled pasta
  • 1 bowl lettuce leaves
  • 2 small carrots(diced)
  • 1 capsicum(sliced)
  • 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
  • 1 tsp jeera
  • 2 tsps olive oil
  • 2 tsps black pepper powder
  • 1 tomato(chopped into big pieces)
  • 1 small onion (sliced)
  • 2 tsp coriander leaves
  • Salt
  • 1 tbsp diced beetroot

Directions

  1. Wash lettuce leaves,and tear into big pieces in a bowl.
  2. Add all vegetables,pasta,salt ,black pepper and lemon.Toss.
  3. Heat oil,add jeera when they crackle, remove from fire, cool and pour on salad, toss again and garnish with corriander leaves. Cover with cling film and keep in refrigerator.
  4. Pour salad cream on top (optional) and serve cold.

tuna salad


Ingredients


  • 2 tins tinned tuna (solid chunk or flaked)
  • 1 Medium Onion (chopped fine)
  • 1 green chilli (de-seeded and chopped fine)
  • 2 tbsp coriander
  • 2 tbsp mayonnaise
  • fresh ground black pepper to taste

Directions

  1. Open the tuna tins and drain the contents into a sieve, letting the water flow out
  2. In a mixing bowl, mash the tuna with a fork
  3. Add the chopped onion, green chilli and coriander
  4. Add the mayonnaise
  5. Add the pepper
  6. Mix well with fork
  7. Note: if the mix is too dry, add some more mayonnaise, taking care not to make the mixture too wet (since this is a filler for sandwiches - you don't want soggy sandwiches)
  8. Take four slices of bread, spoon the mixture evenly onto all of them, cover with slices of bread and cut into diagonals and cling wrap and refrigerate to be used in a few hours.

russian salad


Ingredients


  • 1 cup pasta (boiled with salt in water)
  • 1 cup chick peas(white chole) (boiled with salt in water)
  • 2 small boiled potatoes
  • 2 spring onions
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 cucumber
  • 2 green chillies
  • 2 tbsp any salad dressing or mayonaise
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 lemon

Directions

  1. Cut potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cucumber into small pieces.
  2. Mix them with boiled pasta.
  3. Then mix rest of the things into it.
  4. You can decorate it with split green chillies also.
  5. Keep it in fridge for half an hour.
  6. Your Russian salad is ready to serve.

spicy aloo


Ingredients


Ingredients


  • 1 kg potato
  • 1 tbsp red chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 tbsp mustard seeds
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  • 3 tbsp oil
  • 1 drop of red food colour
  • coriander leaves for garnishing

Directions

  1. Boil potatoes & keep aside.
  2. Heat oil in a pan. Crackle mustard seeds& cumin seeds. Lower the flame. Add red chilli powder,coriander powder, turmeric powder & salt.
  3. Fry for 1min. Add food colour & finally add potatoes (cut into 4 pieces).
  4. Mix well till the potatoes get mixed with masalas
  5. Garnish with coriander,You can add lemon if needed.
  6. Ready to serve.