Cauliflower Whole Wheat Fritters/Gobi Atta Pakora

Winter evenings are so chilled here, obviously after a long day work, everyone at home love to have some crispy fritters. Fritters makes everyone happy, and needless to say kids love to munching hot pakoras for their snacks. Hence i prepared this cauliflower pakodas aka bajjis with a combination of wheat flour and gram flour. Adding wheat flour may sounds completely different from the usual way of dishing out these fritters. But trust me wheat flour works awesome for making puffy and dangerously delicious fritters as well.

Zucchini Tikkis/Zucchini Cakes

Vegetables, whenever we feel like feeding our kids with veggies, most of the kids refuses to take them easily without any fuss. Fussy eaters are seriously very difficult to handle and everyday each mom struggles in their own way to feed their kiddos. Even i crossed all these situations,fortunately i always followed few tricks and tips to include veggies everyday in my kids diets. Now they are grown up, intaking veggies in their diet is quite a routine now. Most of my cooking involves vegetables though we are meatoholic. We get fresh vegetables every week from our farmer's markets without any fail. Some vegetables are seriously versatile and you can make some fabulous fusion dishes with them. My most favourite zero calorie vegetable is always Zucchini. Zucchini is quite an interesting vegetable to dish out any sort of dishes/bakes/cakes with them.

Leek Masal Vada/Leek Channadal Fritters/Leek Paruppu Vadai

Leek is one of the most fabulous vegetable which i never forget to grab whenever they shows their head in our farmer's market. Usually they can be found easily during fall and winter season. French people uses this vegetable for making some creamy or chunky soups out of them. But being an Indian, i do make some delicious Indian dishes out this vegetables. Leek belongs Onions, scallions, chives,garlic, shallots familly, their edible part is their leaves though people calls them as stalk or stem. I came to know about this vegetable once i came to France, seriously i love this vegetable, as they have a subtle flavor personally for me. Earlier my kids are not fans of this vegetables but now they are grown up hence they know very well the nutritional benefits of this vegetable and they just love their bowl of leek soup.

Dhingri Batata Vada/Mushroom Potato Fritter in Appe Pan

Mushrooms, though am a great fan of this edible fungus, my lil one is a complete hater. However i dont forget to feed him with this antioxidant rich mushrooms which is quite low in fat and calorie. I know adding those mushroom chunks with his favourite vegetable, he just cant discard them, hence i opted for our favourite batata vada. Batata vada is quite a popular street food which is quite known for their deep fried outer layer with a delicious potato masala inside. I have made my own twist by adding finely chopped mushrooms to the usual potato masala to dish out some ultimate Mushroom potato fritters. And i opted for Appe pan aka Paniyaram pan just to avoid deep frying.

Egg Bhurji Tikki/Scrambled Eggs Patties/Egg Cutlet

Have you ever tried dishing out tikkis/patties with Scrambled eggs aka egg bhurji. I have tried my hands in dishing out some tikkis with scrambled eggs. Trust me, this tikkis came out extremely delicious and we enjoyed thoroughly having these incredible cutlets with some spicy chutney for our evening snacks. You might have noticed that am posting three different dishes with an ingredient, yes my theme for this week's blogging marathon is One ingredient in three ways, obviously after making a lipsmacking Egg white cubes kurma, i couldnt stop myself dishing out this easy yet a delicious evening snacks for this theme. You can prepare these tikkis before a day even for a get together or a party as these patties stays prefect in fridge for a day.

Chinese Style Stir Fried Noodles

Noodles are our family favourite, obviously i always have dried noodles packet in my pantry which i never fail to pick from Chinese stores. Noodles are seriously life savers if you have less time to prepare your meal. My today's recipe is a prefect example for a quick meal, you doesnt any vegetables to peel or chop, just a packet of sprouts and scallions is quite enough to add the nutrients and flavor to this simple dish. Actually this Chinese style stir fried noodles makes an excellent lunch box meal definitely a kid's favourite dish as well.

Egg &Capsicum Chappathi Roll/Egg Bellpepper Wrap

I always have partially cooked rotis/parathas/chappathis in my freezer as they are very easy to cook to finish a dinner or lunch. They are seriously handy and quick to finish your meal without any fuss. If you are tired after a long day, just make some side dish and bring the already frozen rotis to the room temperature, cook them to serve for your dinner or for your breakfast. Not only for making your breakfast or dinner, you can even dish out some incredible rolls to pack your kid's lunch box with their favourite filling. One among the recent chappathi roll, i prepared this time is with egg and capsicum with home made chappathis, which makes an excellent lunch box friendly/kid's friendly wrap to satisfy their hunger.

Spicy & Easy Guava Salad

This salad was sitting in draft since a long, yep almost a year, i simply tried making this quick, easy and spicy guava salad with unripen green guavas. Those green guavas suits absolutely prefect to make this easy salad with less efforts, apart from chopping guava as thin sliced you doesnt need anything to do,obviously you can make this incredible salad just in few seconds. I had a chance to enjoy Guavas after a long when i was in India last year. Everytime,i miss Guava season there and its been ages i had them, obviously when i saw them in markets, i couldnt resist to get them often until the season ends, thank god i could make some drinks and salad out of this incredible fruit.

Parath Parantha - 16 Layered Paratha

Parath Parantha - this paratha is quite famous in Delhi especially from Prathen Wali Gali in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. Parath means layers, hence this paratha is named as Parath Parantha. These parathas can be made in any size with different shapes, though i sticked with a square shaped one. The best part of this paratha is the spice mix used in making layers.This paratha have 16 layers, once rolled the dough, a spice mix with chilly powder, cumin powder, garam masala and chaat masala is spread over the rolled dough and cut it as 16 pieces. Once stacked, this paratha is rolled either as round or square shaped paratha.

Beguni - Bengali Eggplant Fritters

Beguni aka Bengali eggplant fritters makes an excellent evening snacks, the traditional way of enjoying this beguni is to serve this fritters with puffed rice and green chillies.The dish may be prepared by coating eggplant with besan paste and then frying the pieces in oil.The eggplant is usually cut lengthwise and are dipped in a batter of Bengal gram flour with salt and turmeric, and deep-fried in mustard oil. Sometimes a small amount of poppy seeds is added to the batter. Some people prefer adding a small amount of baking powder to the batter to make it more crunchy. Beguni is an extremely popular street food in the cities. It is normally an evening snack in Bengali households and is a very common component of Iftar in Bangladesh during the month of Ramadan of the Islamic calendar.

Fried Rotis Chaat

I seriously want to give a try to a different chaat food than the usual one,finally i went with rotis, yes my today's post goes for a simple roti cut as small circles with a round cookie cutter which is later fried in oil. While serving,i simply served this fried rotis simply topped with cubed potatoes,chopped onions, cubed tomatoes along with sweet and green chutney.If you have partially cooked chappathis or rotis, just give a try to this chaat, actually you wont miss the papdis here, fried rotis ressembles as much as like papdis and we loved it very much. You can also top this fried rotis with sweet corns,chickpeas etc depending upon your desire.

Aloo Tikki Chaat/Potato Cutlet Chaat

Chaat foods are my weakness  and i can survive for many days with chaat foods. All chaat foods are my favourite, i can have them even at midnite but unfortunately we dont get chaat foods here easily. Chaat foods are only available at home if i make them myself else its definitely a hard task to get them from stores, yes we dont have chaat food stalls here. If we crave for some chaat foods i'll make myself everything from scratch at home. Earlier my H wasnt a fan of this fingerlicking foods but now after having couple of homemade chaat foods, he became an ardent fan of this street foods. Needless to say Chaat foods are royal feast for us eventhough i try to make quite often at home.