Corn Toast.

I love to cook but since I hate doing the same repetitive jobs I like to keep it short and sweet. Corn toast was one such effort. I had made it long time ago, once my SIL told me that they taste good.

Green Chutney

Last year in the month of October about 20 of us had been to Delhi to visit our very good friends Shubhangiand Vinay. Shubhangi and Vinay are excellent hosts and saw to it that we had a very enjoyable trip. On the penultimate day we all decided to go for Delhi sightseeing. Lunch and dinner we were to have out but we all need breakfast and so not wanting to waste time we carried sandwiches.

Jam sandwich for the children and chutney sandwiches for the adults.

Jam sandwich mixed fruit jam of course!

 The discussion heated up  how to make chutney for the sandwiches as there was very little coconut left, it was late hence no shops were open and we were to leave very early in the morning. One of my friend mentioned that she used onions, it was a great idea but we wondered if the chutney will last as the raw onion may cause the chutney's untimely demise. So she and I decided to fry the onion and make the chutney.

The men made both the sandwiches admirably. The sandwiches we ate in the queue at the Bahai Temple.   

The older three kids were given the jam sandwiches packets to share with their younger siblings. The other packet of chutney sandwiches I passed around among the adults.

Then one of the men turned around that one sandwich of jam was enough for him he would rather have the chutney sandwich.  So I passed around the second packet then  one of the younger kids, Yuvraj came round and told my friend that the sandwich was very tasty and during the course of conversation with him it transpired that we had passed over the chutney sandwich to the kids and they had enjoyed every bit of it. 

We were stuck with the jam sandwiches as chutney ones were all over.

 This chutney we tried out many times again and it tastes good. This chutney is christened as "Delhi Chutney".

For Delhi Chutney the ingredients are:

1 cup coconut,grated

1 onion, sliced

1 tsp of oil

2 green chillies

Coriander a big bunch

½ tsp lime juice or a small marble sized ball of tamarind

Salt

Sugar  to taste.

½ tbsp Amul butter

Method:

1.       Heat oil in a kadhai and add the onion fry till translucent.

2.       Switch off the gas and add the coconut stir a bit.

3.       When the mix cools grind with rest of the ingredients to a fine paste in the mixer.

4.       In the last spin before you remove the chutney from the mixer add the butter and run for about ½ a minute. This way I find that the chutney not only tastes good but also the amount of butter you need to spread on the bread slices is less.

Mixed Vegetable

I have picked up dudhi or bottle gourd and every one is quite reluctant to eat it. The other day I made tahlipeeth out of it (it tasted great). Today this was my experiment on my unsuspecting victims. The vegetable smell good I will get the review from my critics in the afternoon. Though I have used the vegetable that I had a lot of others like mushrooms, corn kernels will taste good.


1 onion chopped fine
1 tomato
4 cloves garlic crushed
1 cup grated dudhi
1-2 florets cauliflower chopped in to small florets
1 capsicum chopped fine
½ tblspn oil
½ tblspn schzwan sauce
2 tblspn tomato sauce
Salt
Cheese for garnishing

Heat oil, add garlic. When the garlic becomes brown add onion fry till translucent.
Add tomato, mix, cover and cook till pulpy. Add the dudhi and cauliflower cook under cover for about 2 minutes. Add the capsicum, sauces and salt. Garnish and serve with chapatti. This can also be used as a filling for toast sandwiches or pizza.