Spiced Chickpea salad with Spinach
As an alternative to spinach, try red or green Swiss chard leaves-they are delicious. Because chard is not as tender as spinach, blanch or steam it for a minute or two before assembling the salad. Soaking time: 8 hours or overnight Cooking time: (after assembling ingredients): about 2 hours Ingredients • Chickpeas, soaked in water 8 hours or overnight, then drained – 1 ½ cups (290 g) • Black mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon (5...
Spinach Triangles
Ingredients • All purpose flour (maida, plain flour) – 1 cup • Semolina (fine sooji) – ½ cup • Salt – ½ tsp • Baking soda – ¼ tsp • Butter – 3 tbsp • Cumin seeds – ½ tsp • Chili flakes – ½ tsp • Grated cheese – 3-4 tsp • Spinach puree – ¾ cup • Oil to fry Preparation 1. Mix all purpose flour, semolina, salt, chili flakes, cumin seeds, and baking soda in a bowl together. 2. Add the...
Seasoned Spinach with Julienne Potatoes
India’s city dwellers have been influenced by numerous international cuisines, but the villagers are slow to accept change, if at all, and this recipe is real village-style cooking-simple and straight forward. Spinach is often coupled with mustard greens, kale or collard greens in this dish and because of the potatoes, it is a good way to be introduced to new flavors. This is a “dry” dish, and the fried potatoes are added to the...
Spinach Pakora with Ajwain Seeds
This is a wafer-thin, crunchy pakora. Because the batter is assembled just before frying, with ground rice and ice water, the pakoras turn out crispy and delicate. The batter should be thin enough to allow the irregularly shaped leaves to get a good coating of flavor. The predominant seasoning is ajwain seeds. The seeds and flour are available at Indian grocery stores, and they lend a spicy, lemony twist to the otherwise plain...
Wheat Bran Cutlet (Chokker cutlet)
Ingredients • Wheat bran – 1 cup • Cauliflower or Brocolli- ½ cup grated • Spinach- ½ cup finely chopped • Carrot- 1, grated • Potato-1, boiled, peeled and grated-3/4 cup (I used chick pea flour ¾ cup in place of potato) • Green Chilli- 1, chopped • Green Coriander- chopped, 2 tbsp • Salt- ¼ tsp. • Black pepper powder-1/2 tsp • Chat masala- ½ tsp • Lemon juice- 1 tsp • Elaichi (green cardamom) powder- ½ tsp • Curd- 2 tbsp • Oil- 2-3...