Recipes for You

  Ingredients  Foccacia sourdough bread or any other bread 2-3 tomatoes chopped  3 green chillies  6-7 garlic cloves  1/4 tablespoon salt  2 tablespoons oil for sauce Oil as needed for bread Serves 2-3 people  Preparation  Grind tomatoes, green chillies, cloves and salt to a fine paste. Heat oil on medium flame. Add the puree and cook for 2 minutes until it thickens. In a pan, grease oil. Cut the bread into 2 parts if needed. Place it on the pan. Cook for a minute. Add oil to the other side of the bread. Cook for a minute. Repeat one more time. Switch off the flame. Put one part of the bread on a plate. Add the tomato puree on the bread. Add a cheese slice. Close with another part of the bread to make it into a sandwich. Enjoy. 

  Ingredients  1/4 of a big pack of pasta 5-6 tomatoes chopped  7-8 garlic cloves 1 onion chopped  1/2 tablespoons salt  1/2 tablespoons red chilli powder Serves 2-3 people  Preparation  Boil pasta in a vessel till it softens. Add oil to avoid pasta from sticking together. Once cooked , drain the pasta. Pour cold water over the pasta to avoid it from sticking together. Keep aside. Grind tomatoes, onion, garlic and salt in a mixer. In a vessel, heat oil on a medium flame. Add the tomato puree. Let it boil for 2-3 minutes. Add the pasta and mix well. Serve hot.

  Ingredients  1/4 pack spaghetti  1 big cup basil leaves or pluck leaves from 4-4 stems 7-10 pine nuts 5-6 garlic cloves  2 cheese slices 1/2 tablespoon salt  Lemon optional Oil as desired and required 1/2 cup water Serves 1-2 people  Preparation  Boil spaghetti in water. Add oil to avoid spaghetti from sticking to eachother. Drain and keep aside. Add basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic cloves and salt to the mixy. Add oil enough to grind the mixture. Grind for few seconds. Add more oil and stir. Grind again for few seconds. Add water and grind again.  In a pan , add the pesto sauce and heat for a minute. Add cheese slices and heat on medium flame till the cheese melts. Stir the sauce. Add the spaghetti. Mix well. Enjoy yummy pesto spaghetti.

  Ingredients  1 capsicum chopped  2-3 tomatoes chopped  1-2 potatoes chopped  2-3 Brinjal chopped  2-3 tablespoons vangi bath powder 1 tablespoon salt  2 teaspoons turmeric  Water as desired 1 1/2 cups to cook veggies 3-4 tablespoons oil Serves 3  Preparation  Heat oil in a pan. Add turmeric. Add capsicum, potatoes, Brinjal and fry for 1 minute. Add tomatoes and fry for 2 minutes. Add water and cook the veggies till water lessens and evaporates and till veggies are cooked. Allow some water to remain. Add vangibath powder and salt. Stir well. You can add more water at this stage if salt is more or if you want watery consistency. Serve hot with dosa.