Mumbai Veg Sandwich Recipe

Veg Sandwich is a popular street food of Mumbai. You can find this sandwich almost in every corner. It is one of my favorite street food. All that you need to make this dish are bread, butter, green chutney, potato, cucumber, beetroot, tomato, onion, chaat masala and black salt. You can even use sandwich masala instead of chaat masala and black salt that is readily available at the store. You can also make sandwich masala powder at home. I will post the recipe of Sandwich Masala Powder soon.

Vendors normally use white bread but today I have used brown bread. You can use any bread of your choice. You can have this as breakfast or snacks. It is very tasty and easy to make recipe. If you are from Mumbai you must have tried this dish but if you are not and ever happens to come down to Mumbai, do give this dish a try. I am sure you will fall in love with it. Till then just try this at your home and enjoy the dish.

How To Make Mumbai Veg Sandwich?

Ingredients

Brown Bread - 6 Slices
Butter - As Required
Potato - 1 Large Size
Onion - 1 Large Size
Cucumber - 1
Tomato - 1 Large Size
Beetroot - 1
Chaat Masala - As Required
Black Salt - As Per Taste

For Green Chutney

Coriander Leaves - 1/2 Cup
Green Chili - 2
Ginger - 1/2 Inch
Salt - As Per Taste

Instructions

First pressure cook potato and beetroot till 3 whistle.

Meantime lets make green chutney. Wash coriander leaves.  In a blender add all the ingredients listed in green chutney i.e. coriander leaves, green chili, ginger and salt. Grind it till smooth without adding water as the washed coriander leaves are wet and thus they release water while grinding.

Now peel off the skin of potato and beetroot and cut it to thin slices. Slice onion, cucumber and tomato too.

Take two slices of bread and spread butter on one side of both the bread. Remember the butter should be at room temperature.

Now spread green chutney on both the slices of bread.

Then on one bread, place few slices of cucumber. Sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and black salt.

Place few slices of tomato and sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and black salt.

Place few slices of onion and sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and black salt.

Then place few slices of beetroot and sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and black salt.

Lastly, place few slices of potato and sprinkle a pinch of chaat masala and black salt.

Now cover with the other bread on which we have spread butter and green chutney.

You can slice the sandwich in whatever shape you want.

Top it with some chutney and ketcup.

Your Mumbai Veg Sandwich is ready to serve.

Rava Upma Recipe

Rava Upma is a one of the easiest Indian breakfast. We often make this dish at home. It is made with semolina, you can even add in some veggies if you wish. I have even added little sugar as we prefer slightly sweeter version but you can skip it.

You can even have this as a tea time snacks. It hardly takes 15 mins to make this dish, so if you are in hurry then this is the best dish to make for breakfast or snacks.

How To Make Rava Upma?

Ingredients

Rava / Semolina - 1 Cup
Grated Coconut - 1/4 Cup
Onion - 1 Medium Size
Green Chili - 2
Mustard Seeds - 1/4 Tsp
Urad Dal - 1/4 Tsp
Curry Leaves - 6
Sugar - 2 Tsp
Chopped Coriander  Leaves - 1 Tbsp
Hot Water - 2 Cup
Salt - As Per Taste
Oil - 1 Tbsp

Instruction

First finely chop onion and green chili. Heat a kadai and roast rava for 1 min or till you get a nice aroma of rava. Don't roast for longer time or the color of rava will change. Once done transfer it to a bowl.

Now in the same kadai add oil. Once the oil is hot add mustard seeds and urad dal. Let it splutter. Now add onion and cook till it turns transparent. Add green chili and curry leaves. Cook for 1 more min.

Now add rava/semolina and mix well. Pour hot water, add grated coconut, sugar and salt. Mix well. It will start thickening and will absorb the water. Now cover the lid and cook till done.

Now add in coriander leaves and mix well.

Your Rava Upma is ready to serve.

Serve hot with chutney.

Eggless Doughnut Recipe

Doughnut is one of my and my niece favorite snacks. Whenever there is a doughnut in front of me I just forget everything else and I can never stop at one. First time I had doughnut with my sister and niece at a doughnut shop 'Mad Over Donut'. It was so tasty that I started searching for the recipe on net. I found lot of recipes and decided to make eggless version.

Now I often make this dish at home. You can have it as a snack or as a dessert, its all up to you. Do give it a try and I bet even you can't stop at one.

How To Make Eggless Doughnut?

Ingredient

All Purpose Flour - 2 Cup
Unsalted Butter - 4 Tbsp
Milk - 3/4 Cup
Sugar - 3 Tbsp
Dry Active Yeast - 1 Tbsp
Salt - 1/4 Tsp (If using salted butter then skip salt)
Oil - For Deep Frying
Dark Chocolate - 100 Gram
Milk Chocolate - 100 Gram

Instruction

In a bowl mix all purpose flour, butter, sugar, yeast and salt. Now add milk little at a time and knead it. Make a soft dough. Now cover the dough with a cling wrap or with a clean cloth and set it aside to rise.

Now knead it again and dust the rolling board with some flour and roll the dough. Keep it 1/2 inch thick.

Now cut it with a doughnut cutter. If you don't have a cutter you can use glass and a small lid of any bottle.

Place the doughnut on a baking tray or any plate and brush it with little oil. Keep it in a warm place to rise.

Now heat a pan and add oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot drop the doughnuts in the pan. Deep fry it on both the side till it turns  golden brown in color.

Transfer it to a tissue paper.

Now melt the dark chocolate and milk chocolate in a separate bowl in microwave or you can heat a sauce pan, add 1 cup of water and bring it to simmer. Now place the chocolate bowl on sauce pan and melt the chocolate.

Let the chocolate cool down a bit. Dip the doughnut in melted chocolate only on one side till well coated.

Your Eggless Doughnut is ready to serve.

Chapati Ladoo Recipe

Chapati Ladoo is tasty snacks made from leftover chapatis. We always make a specific number of chapatis for breakfast or tiffin but sometime it happens that the chapatis are leftover. If chapatis are leftover I sometime make ladoo from it. I even make Chapati Upma or Chapati Noodles from leftover chapati.

To make this ladoo you need some chapatis, jaggery, ghee, nuts and cardamom powder. Its very easy to make and you will love it. If your kids are not fond of chapati you can trick them to eat it by making this ladoo with fresh chapati.

How To Make Chapati Ladoo?

Ingredients

Leftover Chapati - 3
Jaggery - 3 Tbsp
Ghee - 1 Tbsp
Cashew Nuts - 5
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 Tsp

Instruction

Break chapatis into small piece and bake it in oven for 5 to 10 min. You can even roast it on tawa.

Now grind the chapati pieces into powder. Transfer it to a bowl.

Add jaggery and cardamom powder to the chapati powder bowl.

Now heat ladle and add ghee to it. Once the ghee is hot add cashew nut and fry it till slightly brown. Switch off the flame and let it cool down for some time.

Pour ghee and cashew nuts to chapati mixture bowl. Mix it well.

Take some mixture and make lemon size ball of it.

Your Chapati Ladoo is ready to serve.

Kothimbir Bhajiya Recipe

Kothimbir Bhajiya / Bhaji / Pakoda is a crispy and tasty snacks. It is basically a coriander leaves fritter. It is one of my favorite tea time snacks. It is made by preparing gram flour batter and mixing coriander leaves and some aromatic spices to the batter and then deep frying it. If you want you can even bake it. It tastes good both the way.

It goes well with green chutney or ketchup.

How to Make Kothimbir Bhajiya / Bhaji / Pakoda?

Ingredient

Gram Flour - 1 Cup
Chopped Coriander Leaves - 2 Cup
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 Tsp
Carom Seeds - 1/2 Tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1 Tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 Tsp
Chaat Masala - 1 Tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Tsp
Salt - As Per Taste
Water - As Required
Oil - For Deep Frying + 1 Tbsp For Batter

Instruction

In a bowl add gram flour, cumin seeds, red chili powder, chaat masala, asafoetida, turmeric powder, salt, 1 tbsp of oil. Add little water at a time and mix well to make a thick batter. There should not be any lumps left.

Now add chopped coriander leaves to batter and mix well.

Heat a deep pan and add oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot, pour spoonful of coriander leaves mixture to the pan. Fry it on a low flame till the bhajiya turns crispy and golden brown.

Transfer it to tissue paper to absorb excess oil.

Continue the same procedure with rest of the mixture.

Your Kothimbir Bhajiya / Bhaji / Pakoda is ready to serve.

Serve it hot with green chutney or ketchup.

Masala Dosa, South Indian Recipe

Masala Dosa is a very popular South Indian dish. It is basically a Dosa filled with potato veggie in the center. It goes well with green chutney, tomato chutney and sambar. You can also have it without chutney and sambar.

It is a perfect dish for breakfast or tea time snacks. You can find it in almost all the restaurants here. We often make this dish at our house and is loved by every one.

How To Make Masala Dosa?

Ingredients

Rice - 500 Gms
Urad Dal / Split Black Lentils -  150 Gms
Salt - As Per Taste

For Filling

Potato - 1 Kg
Onions - 5 Nos.
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 Tsp
Curry Leaves - 6
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Tsp
Green Chillies - 4
Oil - 1 Tbsp
Salt - As Per Taste

Instruction

Soak  rice and urad dal separately in a bowl for three to four hours. Then grind it in a grinder by adding little water to make a smooth batter. Remove this batter in a bowl and add salt to it. Keep the batter aside for fermentation overnight.

Now pressure cook the potatoes till 5 whistles.Once done keep it aside to cool down. Meanwhile chop the onions lengthwise and green chillies as well.

Remove the potatoes from the pressure cooker, peel off the skin and mash it. Now add turmeric powder and salt to the mashed potatoes. Mix it well.

Heat a pan and add oil to it. Now add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Then add onion, curry leaves and green chilies to the pan. Cook it till onion turn slightly brown.

Now add mashed potatoes to it and mix well. Cook it for 2 to 3 min. Once cooked remove it from flame.

Now heat a non stick pan and pour a ladle full of dosa batter to it and with the back of ladle spread it in a circular motion. Cook till the dosa is slightly brown.

Now put 3 to 4 tsp of potato veggie in the center on dosa and fold it. Transfer it to a plate.

Continue the same procedure with rest of the batter and veggies.

Your Masala Dosa is ready to serve.

Serve it with green chutney, tomato chutney or sambar.

Mandas Mangalorean Recipe

Mandas is a traditional Mangalorean breakfast. It is sweet in taste. You can also call it cucumber & rice cake. Though it is not soft like cake it has a dense texture. It is made by grinding rice, cucumber, coconut and adding jaggery to the batter then steaming it. You can even bake it if you want.

Traditionally it is steamed on banana leaf but as I didn't find one today, I steamed it in a plate directly.

How To Make Mandas?

Ingredients

Rice - 500 Gms
Cucumber -250 Gms
Coconut - 1
Jaggery - 1 + 1/2  Cup
Salt - A Pinch

Instruction

Soak rice for 3 to 4 hours. Now grate coconut & cucumber separately. Keep it aside.

Drain the water from rice. In a mixer vessel put rice, grated coconut, cucumber and water as required. Grind it well. The consistency of batter should be like dosa batter. Transfer it into a bowl.

Add water in the idli cooker and pre-heat the water.

Now add salt and  jaggery to the batter and mix well till it melts completely.

Take a baking pan or a plate and grease it with some oil or ghee. Pour the batter in the baking pan or a plate.

Steam it in the idli cooker for 30 mins.

Once done let it cool down in the idli cooker but don't forget to remove the lid.

Now cut Mandas into a desired shape and serve.

Serve with some ghee.

Note:

• If you can get a banana leaf then place the banana leaf on the plate or baking pan and grease it with ghee. Then pour the batter of the banana leaf and steam for 30 min.

Sweet French Toast Recipe

French Toast is a perfect dish for breakfast. Its one of my favorite dish. It is healthy and can be prepared in less time. It is made with slice of bread dipped in the mixture of beaten egg, milk and sugar. Well, I have added cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and vanilla essence but its optional, you can skip this. Though adding this gives a nice flavor to the dish.

During my college days my sister used to make this dish for breakfast. She got this recipe from our dad. I have never mentioned this before that my dad was a very good cook. Though he used to cook very rarely but whenever he cooked it was for sure to be an awesome one.

How To Make Sweet French Toast?

Ingredients

Breads - 4 Slices
Eggs - 2
Milk - 2 Tbsp
Sugar - 2 Tbsp
Cinnamon Powder - A Small Pinch
Nutmeg Powder - A Small Pinch
Vanilla Essences - 1/2 Tsp
Butter - As Requried
Honey - As Requried

Instruction 

In a bowl beat eggs. Add milk and whisk it well. Now add sugar and mix till it melts completely.

Now add vanilla essences, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder. Mix well.

Now soak bread in egg mixture on both the sides.

Heat a pan, add little butter. Put the soaked bread in the pan and toast it on both the sides.

Transfer it on a plate.

Drizzle some honey on the bread slice and serve.

Sweet Methi Dosa Recipe

Sweet Methi Dosa is a very tasty and soft Mangalorean dish. In Tulu we call it Bella Metthe Dosa. It is basically rice, fenugreek seeds, coconut and jaggery pancake. You can serve this as a breakfast or tea time snacks. It tastes even better if served with homemade makhan.

For this dosa you will need to ferment the batter overnight or atleast 5 to 6 hours.

How To Make Sweet Methi Dosa?

Ingredients

Rice - 500 Gms
Fenugreek Seeds - 2 Tbsp
Fresh Grated Coconut - 1 Cup
Jaggery - 1 & 1/2 Cup
Salt - As Per Taste

Instruction

Soak rice and fenugreek seed for 3 to 4 hours. Drain the water and in a grinder or mixer, girnd rice fenugreek seeds and coconut by adding water as required. The batter consistency should be little thinner than dosa batter. Transfer it to a bowl and add salt and jaggery. Mix well till jaggery is completely melted. Keep the batter in a warm place overnight for fermentation.

Now heat a pan and grease some oil on it. Take a ladle full of batter a pour in a pan and with the back of ladle spread it in a circular motion. Cook till you get brown spots and flip it on the other side cook again till you get brown spots.

Transfer it on a plate. Continue the same procedure with rest of the batter.

Your Sweet Methi Dosa is ready to serve.

Serve it with butter or makhan.

Tutti Frutti Cake Recipe

Tutti Frutti Cake is a soft and spongy cake. I made it today for my niece as she loves it a lot. I made this for the first time and used oil instead of butter so was just worried whether it comes out perfect or not. But it turned out really good, soft, spongy and tasty. My niece was very happy, so was I.

I got this recipe from my sister-in-law. Thanks Archana for the recipe.

How to Make Tutti Frutti Cake?

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour - 1 and 1/2 Cup
Sugar - 1/2 Cup + 2 Tbsp
Oil - 1/2 Cup
Egg - 2
Milk - 1/2 Cup
Tutti Frutii - 3/4 Cup
Vanilla Extract Or Essence - 1 Tsp
Baking Powder - 2 Tsp
Salt - 1/4 Tsp

Instruction

Pre-heat a oven at 180 Deg C. And line a baking pan or loaf with parchment paper and grease little butter.

In a bowl add all purpose flour, salt, baking powder and tutti frutti and mix well. Keep it aside.

In another bowl add sugar and oil. Whisk it well till creamy.

Now add egg one at a time and keep whisking. Now add vanilla essences and mix well.

Add  flour mixture and milk alternatively in three part. Fold it gently.

Transfer the batter to loaf or baking pan. Tap the pan or loaf to remove any air bubble.

Bake it for 45 min at 180 Deg C. Insert a tooth pick or knief in the centre of cake, if it comes out clean its done. If it is sticky bake it for 5 to 10 min more.

Leave it in the loaf or baking pan for 15 to 20 min. Now transfer it to a cooling rack and let it cool down completely.

 

Your Tutti Frutti Cake is ready to serve.







 

Crispy Egg Pakoda Recipe

Egg Pakoda / Pakora is a very tasty and crispy snacks and street food of India. It is one of my favorite dish. It is basically an egg fritters. You can serve this as a tea time snacks. Traditionally pakodas are made from gram flour batter but today I have made it with all purpose flour and rice flour.

I got this recipe from my aunt. Thank you Mami for the recipe. Few days back my mom visited my aunts place, there she had this pakoda. She liked it so much that I could not resist asking the recipe from my aunt.

How To Make Egg Pakoda / Pakora?

Ingredients

Eggs -3
All Purpose Flour - 1/2 Cup
Rice Flour - 2 Tbsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1/2 Tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1/2 Tsp
Amchur Powder - 1/2 Tsp
Baking Soda - A Pinch
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 Tsp
Chopped Coriander Leaves - 1 Tbsp
Salt - As Per Taste
Oil - For Deep Frying (1 Tsp For Batter)

Instruction

Boil eggs and let them cool down. Once cool down peel the skin and cut it in halves. Sprinkle some salt and red chili powder on the eggs. Keep it aside

Now for batter, take a bowl and add all purpose flour, rice flour, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, amchur powder, baking soda, turmeric powder, asafoetida, 1 Tsp of oil, coriander leaves and salt. Mix it all well.

Now add water little at a time and make a thick batter.

Heat a pan and add oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot, dip eggs in the batter and pour it in pan. Fry it on a low flame till golden brown and crispy.

Transfer it to tissue paper to absorb excess oil.

Your Egg Pakoda is ready to serve.

Serve it hot till green chutney or ketchup.
 

Wheat Dosa South Indian Recipe

Wheat Dosa is a different version of South Indian dosa. Its very crispy, healthy and tasty dish. Whenever I am left with no idea or short of time I make this dosa. As this is an instant dosa, it requires no early preparation and it hardly takes any time. You don't have to soak anything, grind it and ferment the batter. There are other instant dosa such as Rava Dosa, Oat Dosa, Rice Flour Dosa, Ragi Dosa, All Purpose Flour Dosa, Mix Flour Dosa, etc.

It can be served as breakfast, tea-time snacks or as a meal. It is made with wheat flour, buttermilk, rice flour, baking soda, salt and water. Rice flour is added to give that crispiness to the dosa. You can even add some onion, green chili and coriander leaves to the batter.

How To Make Wheat Dosa?

Ingredients

Wheat Flour - 1 Cup
Buttermilk - 1/2 Cup
Rice Flour - 3 Tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 Tsp
Salt - As Per Tast
Water - As Required

Instruction

In a bowl add wheat flour, baking soda, rice flour and salt. Mix it well. Now add buttermilk and water. Make a thin batter.

Now heat a non stick pan. Pour a ladle full of batter evenly on the pan. Do not spread it with ladle. Now pour few drops of ghee on the dosa. Cook on medium flame till crispy.

With a spatula remove it from the pan and transfer it on a plate.

Your Wheat Dosa is ready to serve.

Serve it hot with green chutney, tomato chutney, pickle or ketchup.

Crispy Onion Pakoda Recipe

Onion Pakoda is a very popular Indian street food. It is also known as pyaaz ke pakode or kanda bhajji. It is basically an onion fritters. It can be served as tea time snacks. It goes well with green chutney or ketchup along with fried green chili

It is made by mixing onion, gram flour, red chili powder, turmeric powder, asafoetida, carom seeds and salt. It is one of my favorite snacks. We offen make it at a home.

How To Make Onion Pakoda or Pakora?

Ingredients

Onion - 2 Medium Size
Gram Flour - 1 Cup
Carom Seeds - 1/2 Tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1 Tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4  Tsp
Salt - As Per Taste
Oil - For Deep Frying
Water - As Required

Instruction 

Chop onion as thin as possible and lengthwise. Now in a bowl add chopped onion, salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder and asafoetida. Mix well.

Now add gram flour and carom seeds to the bowl. Mix well.

Add water little at a time and make a thick batter of it. Keep it aside for 10 min.

Heat a pan and add oil for deep frying . Once the oil is hot enough, drop a spoonful of batter to the pan. Fry on both the side till golden in color and crispy.

Now transfer it to tissue paper.

Repeat the same procedure with rest of the batter.

Your Onion Pakoda is ready to serve.

Serve it hot with green chutney or ketchup.