Vegetarian cheesy beans quesadilla

Here, I have something which can be a real quicky and is sure to be delicious. The ingredients are simple and readily available in mostly in our kitchen, so you can please your kids without much a do this time.




Ingredients 

• Tortillas/ chapatis (thin rolled homemade chapati or ready to eat)
• Red capsicum - 1/4
• Green Capsicum - 1/4
• Boiled red kidney beans - 1/2 cup
• Grated Cheddar and mozzarella cheese - 1 cup
• Salt - a pinch
• Optional - Pasta sauce - 2 table spoon

Recipe 

Finely chop the red and green capsicum. 

In a bowl, mix grated cheese, capsicum, beans, pasta sauce together. Add salt to taste to this mixture.

Take a tortilla/ chapati top it up generously with the mixture prepared above. Cover this with another tortilla on the top.

Take a flat pan, grease its surface and put it on the low flame. Transfer the quesadilla to it and carefully keep checking for the cheese to start melting. Make sure to turn the side as the tortilla becomes nice, little crisp and colorful (not burnt). .

Tip : If you want cheese to start melt quickly cover it with a lid like above, your quesadillas will be done much quicker and yummier.

With this recipe kids wouldn't miss guacamole this time, as we have added a flavour of pasta sauce already in it. But very soon I will be adding a quick n easy guacamole recipe to go with it or you may would like to grab some from store. 

Sweet and savory Pretzels

To this series of treats, this one being the 2nd one, let me make a confession - I couldn't stop eating one after another knowing inside that its almost like committing a sin .....

So here I am with the recipe for all of you -

For the pretzel dough -

• Self raising flour - 3 cups
• Self raising wholemeal flour - 1 cup
• Active Yeast - 1 tablespoon
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1 spoonful
• Vegetable oil - 1 Tablespoon
• Warm water - 1 1/2 cup

For Baking Soda Mix -

• Hot Water - 1 1/2 cups
• Baking Soda 1/2 cup

For real professional flavours

• Butter - 1 cup melted
• Salt - crusher mill (for salted ones)

First, In water add a spoonful of sugar and then add active dried yeast in the warm water and leave it aside for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix self raising flour, wholemeal flour, vegetable oil, sugar and salt together. Now start kneading the dough with the warm water mixture prepared. Keep kneading till 5-6 minutes and then cover it with a lid or plastic film and leave it to raise double for an hour.

Now, divide the dough in equal parts,  dust the surface with flour . Start rolling them like a rope and give the rope a shape like above.

The most important part -  Prepare the baking soda mix by mixing the baking soda and hot water together. Take a much larger bowl as baking soda rises with a fizz when you mix it with hot water first.

 These pretzels have to be dipped in the baking soda mixture before putting into the baking tray.

Preheat the oven at 230 degrees and oil the surface of the baking tray.

For the salted pretzels -  while you dip them in baking soda mix. Keep in the baking tray and sprinkle the Kosher salt (I used my salt mill and that worked just fine)

Put them on the baking try for 7-8 minutes or till they turn golden brown in colour (not too brown though).

As you start taking them out, give a dip in the melted butter and now you can enjoy the salted ones.

Variation - 2

For vanilla sugar pretzels

Granulated sugar - 1 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tea spoon

Mix sugar and vanilla essence together well, may be give them a little grind (please do not powder them).

Now, its time for the unsalted baked buttery pretzels to take a bath in this mixture while they are hot. Enjoy these for a heavenly taste as a treat for family and friends.

(Easy variations to the flavours mentioned here are the cheesy salted pretzels, cinnamon sugar pretzels, sesame seeded salted pretzels etc.)

Lastly, would like to tell you that the next to put here on my list is - Donuts... yummmmmmm

Vegetable Paneer Roll

Every morning when we are ever so busy getting ready to reach in time to school or work. While we are looking at the time ticking away we are struggling find what to put in the lunchboxes. Sandwiches !!! quick and easy but have you looked at the faces... then..

So here we have something very quick and easy and which can have variations according to the adults and kids taste and health.

Ingredients - 

• Green Capsicum 1/4
• Red Capsicum1/4
• Spinach leaves a few
• Paneer chunks (Indian Cottage Cheese)
• Grated Mozarella
• Tortilla wrap

 Flavour -

•  Chat Masala
•  Ketchup
•  Green Chilly - 1 finely chopped (not necessary)
•  Oil to fry - 1 spoonful

Recipe - Finely chop all the vegetables (i.e capsicum and spinach). Dice paneer also in small chunks which are easier to get mixed and fill up.

In a pan take some oil, add vegetables to it. Fry for 1 minute then add paneer cubes to it.

Add 1/2 tea spoon of chat masala, chilles and keep frying for another minute.

Now, take the tortilla wrap, put this mixture in the middle. Top it up with grated mozzarella and ketchup to it.

Now the tricky bit, wrap it up or fold it, nice and tight.

Put this wrap in the grill for about 1 minute (mine does it in that time but if you are doing it for the first time please keep checking). We want it to come out nice and stripy - we love stripes, don't we ;-)