Homemade Recipes

Today I am posting one of my favourite or everyone's favourite recipe i.e. Pizza and I made "Homemade Tawa Pizza". It's very easy to make and a simple recipe also. This is my first experience to make this tawa pizza, and it turned out great :)..am feeling so proud today and praised by my family, it becomes double maza to have tawa pizza :) :).

I have made pizza sauce at home for this recipe, which I already posted on my blog (here only Pizza tomato sauce). This recipe is vegetable pizza toppings, you can make choice of your toppings also.

In this recipe everything is homemade except mozzarella cheese. This is a basic vegetable pizza and I have used onion, tomato and capsicum. You can use your own veggies for the pizza like corn, mushrooms, paneer and so many.

This veggie pizza recipe is a request from one of my Facebook Foodie group fans , have taken the recipe idea from food channels but make pizza in my own way. I think it's time to say goodbye to all pizza corner. Now we can also make the pizza at home with simple process.

Let's start the vegetable pizza recipe step by step process.

1. Making the Pizza Bread / You can buy pizza bread from market also.
2. Making Pizza Sauce

3. Assemble the pizza

Ingredients

Tawa Pizza :

Recipe For making dough

Maida (all purpose flour) - 2 cup
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt - ½ tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Instant yeast - 1 tsp

Tip : For those who want yeast-free pizza. They can use both baking soda as well as baking powder instead of yeast

For pizza topping

Capsicum - 1/2
Onion - 1 nos
Tomato - 1 nos
Pizza sauce - ½ cup
Mozzarella cheese - ½ cup
Italian mix herbs / Oregano - ½ tsp

Preparation Method :

How to make Pizza on Tawa

1. Strain maida in a bowl, add dry instant yeast, oil, salt and sugar. Mix all ingredients well with help of lukewarm water knead the flour.

2. Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes until it becomes soft.

3. Grease a bowl and place dough in it for 2 hours so that it gets fermented well. Dough for making pizza is ready.

Note : If you are using dry yeast instead of instant yeast, then mix it in sugar and lukewarm milk so that it becomes active.

Prepare topping for the pizza

1. Cut capsicum, remove all its seeds and slice it thinly or as per you choice.

2. Cut onion in semi-circled and tomatoes in small round pieces. First cook capsicum and vegetables for 2 minutes in 1/2 tbsp of oil, stir well . Then use the same pan to cook tomatoes, flip tomatoes after 2 seconds so the can cook on both the sides.

3. Take half amount of pizza and make a round ball. With help of dry maida make a ½ cm thick chapatti with a diameter of 10-12 inch.

4. Preheat a pan or tawa. If you are not using non stick pan, then grease it with little oil and place pizza inside it. Cover it and cook for 2 minutes or until the lower side gets little brown.

5. Flip it up side down and reduce the flame to minimum.

6. Garnish pizza with topping. Firstly layer pizza sauce and then place capsicum, onion and tomato on the pizza as shown in below pic.

7. Sprinkle lots of grated mozzarella cheese as well from top. Cover pizza and cook for 5-6 minutes on medium flame until the cheese gets melted and the lower side gets little brown.

8. Keep checking after every 2 minutes. Very delicious pizza is made.

9. Sprinkle some oregano on top of the pizza. Serve pinning hot pizza and enjoy eating it.

Enjoy and Happy Cooking :)

This is one of the Indian perfect desert and easy and quick halwa recipe, so you don’t need any excuse or occasion to make it. Sooji halwa is often made for an auspicious occasion or a pooja, it could also be a festive occasion like Diwali, Ganesha chaturthi or a religious ceremony conducted in your home or you just want to have something sweet. In North India, its called sooji ka halwa and the same dish is known as rava sheera in Western India.

This is one of my family's favourite sweet dish. This is my Mom's recipe and nobody makes this yummy Sooji ka halwa like my mom. It is very easy to make. This sweet desert made from sooji (rawa / semolina), cooked in a ghee with sugar syrup and other dry fruits. This is perfect combination with Pooris and Parathas. Here's my mom's recipe of sooji halwa.

Ingredients :

Sooji / Rava / Semolina - 1 cup (thin one)
Sugar - 1.75 cups
Desi Ghee - 1/2 cup
Water - 4 cups
Chopped Almonds - 2 tbsp
Raisins - 1 tbsp. [drain in water and soaked]

Note* : You can adjust the dry fruits as per as your taste.

Preparation Method :

1. Keep a kadai or pan on a low flame, add the ghee and once the ghee becomes hot, add the semolina....keep on stirring the sooji/semolina so that it does not stick to the pan and is roasted evenly.

2. Keep on sauteing & stirring the semolina for 7-8 mins till the grains change their color.

3. Side by side - Make a Sugar Syrup by adding sugar and water and bringing it to boil on high flame until the sugar is completely melted.

4. Add the sugar syrup in a roasted sooji constantly stirring slowly see that no lumps are formed.

5. Add the soaked raisins and chopped almonds and keep stirring for a minutes in a medium flame. Keep on stirring often till the whole mixture starts thickening and starts to leave the edge of the kadai or pan.

5. Switch off the flame. Your Sooji Halwa is ready to serve.

6. Garnish with nuts, i used chopped badam /almonds, Serve it with Poori or Paratha also.

We usually made during 8th day of navratri festival, this sooji halwa is made along with dry kala chana and pooris for kanjak pooja as you seen in below.

Special Tips :

If you want cut into pieces once cooking is done, transfer the above contents into a greased pan spread evenly and cut it into diamond shaped pieces after cooling.

This sweet can be restored in the refrigerator for 10 days. Whenever wanted u can just microwave it for 20-30 seconds and enjoy the taste of melted ghee in the sweet.

Paneer Makhani Recipe | How to make Restaurant Style Paneer Makhani Recipe | Indian Cheese in Rich Onion-Tomato Creamy Gravy

Restaurant Style Paneer Makhani Recipe with step by step photos - Paneer Makhani Recipe, paneer or cottage cubes in a buttery, creamy and mildly sweet sauce. It is very simple to make and tasty dish.

Paneer makhani is best served with roti's, paratha's or with naans.

I served with simple roti , jeera rice and a side veggie salad. It is one the most popular dish in Indian Cuisine. Paneer is cooked in a rich buttery onion-tomato silky gravy and other Indian spices. This recipe is classic North-Indian dish served in restaurants but this is purely Homemade style. I learn this recipe from one of the food channel, just saw it and tried it at home and make very well in the first time experience. Me and my hubby just loved it :)

The method to make paneer makhani is similar to my paneer butter masala recipe except for the ingredients added. This is a rich curry and filled along with the butter and fresh cream i have also added cashews, a good paneer recipe when you have guests at home or to make during a festival or family-friends get together celebration. Paneer Makhani is often seen in the restaurant menus.

If you are looking more paneer recipe then do check below dishes
aloo matar paneer
kadai paneer
aloo-paneer bread pakoda

Let's start the recipe of "Paneer Makhani" with step by step process followed by pictures also.

Ingredients :

Roughly chopped Onion - 2 no
Finely chopped Ginger - 2 to 2.5 tbsp
Garlic - 6-7 no
Roughly Chopped tomatoes - 3 no
10 - 12 cashews
Butter - 50 gm approx 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds / Shahi Jeera - 1 tsp
Kashmiri red chili powder
Salt to taste
Black pepper powder - ½ tsp
Garam masala powder - ½ tsp
Tomato puree -2 tbsp
Paneer - 200 gms
Kasuri methi - 1 tbsp
Fresh Cream - 1 tbsp
Fresh Chopped Coriander Leaves - 1 tbsp for garnishing

Preparation Method :

1. To make the base for the "makhani" - take water in a pan, add the onions (roughly chopped), ginger (finely chopped), garlic and roughly chopped tomatoes. Add the cashew nuts and cook for 10-12 minutes, when onion changes the color and tomatoes becomes soft mash it with the help of spatula, turn off the flame.

2. Then strain the concoction and grind it into a puree in the mixie. (Don't throw the stock, it will reuse later)

3. Now take some butter in a pan put on slow flame. Add shahi jeera and Kashmiri red chilli powder. Now add the prepared puree and stir well. Now add some salt and black pepper powder.

Then add two big spoons of tomato puree and above stock..cook for few minutes.

4. Then cut the cottage cheese into small cubes and add. Allow cooking time of 10-12 minutes.

5. Roast kasuri-methi in tawa, cool it, crush with hand and add it to the gravy.

6. Now add a table spoon of fresh cream and stir well.

Now finally add a 1/2 tea spoon of garam masala powder. Mix well.

7. Garnish with a chopped coriander leaves and serve with roti, paratha or with any bread.

Happy Cooking & Enjoy !!

Hi All, Hope you all are doing good. I am back with new twisted paratha / bread recipe. Today, I tried it first time only and the results were awesome. So couldn't stop my hands to share my recipe with you all. They were really easy to prepare except the factor of time.

This weekend I’ll be sharing my very own version of the braided bread but . . . with a little “twist!” this is not the bake version, just shallow fry one.. Instead of pastry dough I simply use whole wheat-flour dough to make it much easier and healthy. Feel free to substitute any kind of vegetable you wish or mix it up with your favorite ingredients and spices.

But when I make these, I just use cooked vegetable ingredient is available at that moment. This recipe looks complicated and that’s what makes it awesome and your guests will think you went through all that trouble to prepare something amazingly good!! But it really is easy and simple.

I took some photos while I was making these so hopefully you’ll have a visual idea of how this thing goes. Without further delay, I present to you "Veggie Stuffed Braided Paratha". Enjoy your weekend with this braided bread. I am planning to prepare minced meat next time for the stuffing.

If you want more recipe for stuffing this braided bread, then do check aloo ka bharta , aloo-methi jeera aloo, aloo-gobhi-matar

Let's start to make this easy and quick recipe with simple step-by-step process with pictures.

Ingredients :

Wheat flour Dough
Cooked vegetable(you can take any of youur choice)
Tomato ketchup
Chopped coriander leaves for garnish
Butter / Oil

Preparation Method :

1. Take a ball and roll it in a kitchen surface into a oval shape. Use flour to help the rolling. Just spread little oil in it. Place the cooked vegetable in the center of the oval shaped dough leaving space around it.

2. Using a sharp knife, make inclined cuts of about an inch wide as shown in the picture.

Make sure there is an equal number of slices on each side and to make proper strips/fringed ribbons which helps for braiding.

3. Start braiding now. Fold the bottom and top of the dough towards filling and begin folding the strips over the filling, lapping them alternately as shown in the picture.

Finish the folding.

4. Preheat the tawa/ griddle with little bit oil/ butter, transfer the paratha into the preheated tawa. Shallow fry it in a low medium flame.

5. Brush the butter to paratha from top and turn it on other side and cook in a low medium flame.

With the help of spatula in one hand fork in other hand, just cooked it with both the sides.

6. Your Veggie Stuffed Braided Paratha is ready. Slice into pieces and Serve hot with any dip, tomato ketchup or any chutney.

Enjoy and Happy Cooking :)

A unique paratha recipe with papad stuffing. Papad Paratha is a easy to make and tasty recipe. It’s crispy and spicy taste increase the flavor of paratha. It’s a very simple and quick recipe of Indian bread and roti which easily prepared by anyone and anytime.

Very interesting and yummy recipe too. It’s crispy and chatpata increase the flavor of paratha. In most homes, left-overs vegetables are used for making delicious stuffed paratha's as I usually prepared it.

Since, I don't like papad but it's my husband favourite, I have invented this unique type of paratha with a spicy papad filling. I have used toasted papad for stuffing, but you can also fried the papad's if you wish. I am sure this paratha will be an all time favourite paratha for all papad lovers. Serve chatpata-kurkura Stuffed Papad Paratha with curd..
You can make end number of paratha's like leftover sambhar paratha, methi paratha, stuffed gobi paratha and many more...

Ingredients

Small Papad - 3 nos (roasted and crushed)
Finely chopped Onion - 1 small-sized
Wheat flour dough
Red chilli powder
Garam masala powder
Chat masala to taste
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander leaves
Oil for cooking

For curd

** Take a bowl of curd, sprinkle salt to taste, red chilli powder, garam masala powder from top and garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve it with any paratha. Its really yumm !!!

Preparation Method :

1. First roast the papad on direct gas and crushed it with your light hands just like as shown in below pic.

2. Now add chopped onion and all spices into crushed papad like salt to taste, red chilli powder, garam masala, chaat masala, finely chopped coriander leaves and mix it well.

3. Roll out the dough, add little oil into it and place portion of the papad filling in the center of the dough circle and make a potli. Make a paratha and It should be little bit thicker than roti with the help of a little flour.

4. Place it on a heated tawa and cook it as you would cook plain paratha. Cook one side with oil until light golden brown spots appear on one side.