Easy Cheesy Avocado Toasts

It’s Christmas time, which means the best time of the year has arrived 😀 and Christmas would be incomplete without food and sweets. I really wanted to share a nice recipe with you all which would be easy to prepare and suitable for this holiday season as well. My friends and I wanted to make something with avocados. We could have easily gone with our good old Guacamole, instead we decided to make these easy cheesy toasts which I am really excited to share with all my readers over here. Hope you all give it a try and enjoy it as much as we did.

This recipe does not require any specific quantity of ingredients. We were able to use 1 big avocado for 6 slices. Feel free to make your own variations by adding mushroom, bell-pepper, broccoli, etc.

This is what you’ll need :-

Ingredients

Bread Slices

1 big piece avocado

Chopped garlic

Butter

Freshly Ground Black Pepper

Salt

Oregano for seasoning (optional)

Grated Processed Cheese (I used Britannia)

Method

• Cut avocado into fine slices

• Spread butter and sprinkle some chopped garlic. Butter will make the toasts nice and crispy.

• Place your avocado slices neatly and sprinkle salt to taste

• Top it up with grated cheese. Sprinkle freshly ground black pepper and oregano seasoning.

• Place your slices on the middle rack of the oven and bake it for 7-10 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

• Serve it with your favorite sauce. We had it with sriracha sauce. It goes really well with the toasts. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to All! 🙂

Broccoli Rice with Cottage Cheese in Chilli Garlic Cream Sauce

This dish is really simple and will just take you not more than 15 minutes to make it, as it requires very less preparation plus cooking time. It is definitely filling too. I won’t say the dish is healthy as the sauce does have good amount of butter and cream in it. So if you’re on a diet WATCH OUT, and as far as kids are concerned; they will definitely enjoy it. 😉

Ingredients

100gm Cottage Cheese

200 ml cooking cream

1 cheese slice

1 small broccoli head

4-5 cloves of garlic

2 green chillies

2-tbsp garlic butter (I have used Amul Garlic Butter here)

2 cups boiled rice

2-3 sprigs of fresh coriander

Freshly ground black pepper

Salt to taste

Method

• Brown cottage cheese slices in a non-stick pan on both sides. Sprinkle some salt and add a little butter to the pan. Toss and keep aside.

• In a separate wok add garlic butter and broccoli florets. Cut them into smaller pieces if you like. Add a little salt and ½ cup water and simmer for 2 minutes. Add boiled rice and toss well. Add chopped coriander.

• For the cream sauce, add butter to a non-stick pan. Next, add finely chopped garlic and chili. Let it release its flavor; then add freshly ground black pepper and cooking cream. Bring it t o a boil. Add cheese slice and salt to taste. Add cottage cheese and mix well.

• Serve hot.

Enjoy! 🙂

Paneer Pepper Garlic Rice

This recipe is really healthy and has very subtle flavors. It can be had with any Indian gravy or on its own as well. Freshly ground black pepper gives this rice a really nice punch. If you like, you can add more spices and veggies to it. Adding curd to the rice gives it a very mild flavor.

This is what you will need:
Ingredients
100 gm Cottage Cheese/Paneer
200 gm Curd
2 cups Boiled Rice
1 medium-sized red onion cut in julienne
½ cup green peas (I have used frozen here)
5-6 cloves of garlic
1 tsp finely chopped ginger
1 finely chopped green chili
Few sprigs of fresh coriander
1tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp red chili powder
2-3 tsp freshly ground black pepper powder
2 tsp refined oil
1 pinch asafetida
Salt to taste

Method

• Add cottage cheese to the curd mixture and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and add garlic, green chili and ginger. Saute until it releases its flavor.
• Add onions and saute until transparent. Add a pinch of salt and black pepper.
• Next, add green peas and cottage cheese we had kept aside. Make sure the heat in the pan is not too much. As soon as u add in the curd, give it a stir for a minute or two.
• Let it simmer for 10 minutes on a medium flame. You will know it is done when oil comes on top.
• Add coriander and give it a taste.

• In the end add boiled rice to it and mix well.

Enjoy 🙂

Garlic and Basil Hung Curd Dip

I would totally call this a lazy person’s style of dip. All one requires is hungry taste buds that help you add your favorite set of ingredients to a plain bowl of hung curd. This dip is refreshing; definitely very quick and easy to make. Use it as an early morning sandwich spread, or have it with your good old tortilla chips and other variety of crispies.

This is what you will need:

Ingredients (Preparation time: 5 minutes)

1 bowl of hung curd

½ finely chopped red onion

5-6 cloves of finely chopped garlic

8-10 leaves of fresh basil torn into tiny pieces

1 tsp finely chopped green chilies

½ tsp freshly ground black pepper

Salt to taste

Method

• Add all of the above ingredients to the hung curd and combine well. Serve cold.

Could this get any easier?

Happy Eating 🙂

Burnt Ginger Garlic Vegetable Fried Rice

When it comes to cooking delicious food, always make sure never to compromise on good quality ingredients. Try your best to find the the best possible quality available. There are so many different kinds of rice. If you want each cooked grain of rice separate from one another, it is important to use rice of a good brand.

If you have leftover rice, you will have yummy fried rice in front of you in no time. Toss it up with your favorite ingredients and you will be good to go.

This is what you will need:

Ingredients

1 cup uncooked basmati rice (Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes. Boil rice four cups of water. Add ½ tsp salt. Check after 5-7 minutes. Squeeze half a lime. Drain the water when done and let the steam escape. )

4-5 finely chopped garlic

1 tbsp finely chopped ginger

1 green pepper finely chopped

1 tbsp finely chopped green chili

2 medium sized finely chopped red onions

1 cup finely diced blanched carrots

1 tbsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp white vinegar

½ tsp asafetida

1 tbsp olive oil

Salt to taste

Method

• Heat olive oil in a wok and add ginger and garlic. Brown them completely on a medium flame. They will become crunchy. Add asafetida and green chili. Saute.

• Add onions and saute until translucent.

• Add soy sauce and vinegar. Next add in carrots, green pepper and rice. Season with salt.  Mix well and serve hot with your favorite gravy.

Note: We had fried rice with potato gravy. To make it, fry the potatoes and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan. Add asafetida, tomato ketchup, 1 tsp honey, chili flakes, soy sauce, water, cornflour to thicken the gravy. Add in the potatoes and season with salt. Sprinkle dry coriander.

Happy Eating! 🙂