Channa Chaat

     Am a hige huge fan of chaat varieties. If its just a simple pori/puffed rice with raw onion and tomato, i can gobble it without sharing it anyone (Literally am mouthwatering here). This i learnt from one of my friend during our potluck day which she prepared for evening snack. I really loved it and grabbed the recipe from her.

ALL YOU NEED:

Chickepeas	2 cups
Chopped Onion	1 Nos.
Chopped Tomato	1 No.
Red Chilly Powder	1 1/2 spoon
Coriander Leaf	Few
Boiled Potato	1 No.
Amchur Powder	1/2 spoon
Garam Masala	Pinch
Cumin Powder	1 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Lemon	To Squeeze

METHOD:
     Soak channa for 6 hours and pressure cook it by adding water and pinch of salt for 3 whistles. Once pressure gets released, pour channa cooked water in the pan. Add red chilly powder, cumin powder, garam masala and amchoor powder, let it boil until raw smell goes off, now add cooked chall. Mix well with the masala evenly. Adjust with salt. Take a serving bowl, add a cup of masala channa, top it with chopped onion, chopped tomato, chopped coriander leaf, chopped boiled potato, besan sev/omapodi and squeeze some lemon. Gobble it with hot tea.

Note: You can also add Tamarind and Green Chutney if you like it.

- Sangeetha Nambi

Paneer Pinwheel

"Paneer Pinwheel" I tasted this recipe an year's back during our potluck get together. From that day on, was so eager to try this at home. So waited for the "THE DAY" to try this at home. So, there comes my daughter's first birthday party. Hence tried it finally and the output was really yummy !

ALL YOU NEED:

Puff Pastry sheet	1 sheet
Grated Paneer	3 cups
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Chilly Powder	1 1/2 sp.
Fennel Seeds	1/2 spoon
Cumin Powder	1 spoon
Garam Masala	1 spoon
Coriander Leaf	1/4 cup
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 tbsp

METHOD:
     Before starting the preparation. Take out the puff pastry sheet from the fridge and let it sit for 40 minutes. Crumble the paneer and all all the dry powders like chilly powder, turmeric powder, Cumin powder, garam masala powder, fennel seeds, required salt and some chopped coriander leaf. Mix well until it all get mixed evenly. Now heat a spoon of oil in a pan, add paneer mixture and saute it for 2 to 3 mins and put off the flame.

ROLLING:
     Lets start the rolling part, dust some maida on a flat surface. Take a puff pastry and roll it gently (not very thin). Now add the paneer filling and gently roll the pin across just once. Once done, roll the pastry sheet. Once it reaches the edges, apply some water to the edges and press it firmly,make sure the edges are joined to the roll. Grease a sharp knife with oil. Cut the both sides of the roll which will be irregular. Now cut further to get the pinwheels.

BAKING:
     Makesure you preheat the oven to 350 F before you starts the rolling process. Take a grill plates or oven tray, cover it with aluminium foil and grease it with oil. Arrange the round shaped pinwheels with some gaps inbetween two pinwheels. Spary some oil on top of each pinwheels. Place it in the oven and bake for 15 mins, until it turns into golden brown. Once done, take out and let it cool down for sometime. Transfer it and Serve hot with tomato ketchup ! Yum !!!

Note: You can also add Amchoor powder and chaat powder to enhance the taste.

Tandoori Chicken

     "Tandoori Chicken" - Being not a big fan of non veg dishes. I was keep on postponing to try my hands in this dish, at the same time i was thought this is a big cumbersome process. During my visit to friend's place, she decided to prepare this dish. I was helping her in marinating process, by thinking its going to take hell lot of time. But to my surprise, she just done her cleaning and marinating part within few minutes. Even cooking process took hardly 45 mins. From then on, i was eagerly waiting for my day to try it. Final THE DAY came and tried. Here comes....

ALL YOU NEED:

Chicken leg pieces	4 Nos.
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Red Chilly Powder	1 1/4 sp.
Coriander Powder	2 spoon
Cumin Powder	1 spoon
Garam Masala	1 spoon
Red Food Color	Pinch
Hung Curd	1 cup
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 tbsp

To Marinate:
     Clean and wash chicken leg pieces. Make a slit and let it sit down for a while. Now take a wide bowl. Add red chilly powder, corainder powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, garam masala powder, red food color(optional) and required salt, mix well. Now add hung curd (strain the curd in strainer to get thick hung curd) and a tbsp of oil. Mix well. Make sure the masala should not be watery. Once done, add all the chicken pieces, mix well until the masala coats the pieces evenly. Refrigerate it for 5 to 6 hours. Usually i allow it to sit for overnight and will prepare the next day.

To Prepare:
     Preheat over for 350 F. Meantime, take a grill plate, and place it over the oven tray covered with foil. Line up the marinated chicken (shaking off the excess masala) with some gap in-between. Just spray some oil on top of each pieces. Now place it in the middle rack. Close the oven. Strictly NO PEEKING, in-between (Bcos i will do this :) ). Let it cook for 20 mins. Now open the oven and toss the pieces to the other side and spray or grease some oil. Close the over, again some-more 20 mins to cook. Once done finally, turn the settings to "Broil" mode. Let it be in for 5 mins and again toss it to the other side and keep it for another 5 mins. Put off the oven. Let it be in the heat for 10 mins.

     Take out the oven tray and serve hot with mint chutney garnished with lemon and sliced onions.

Note: You can mariante chicken just with storebought tandoori chicken masala (I prefer Everest Brand) with hung curd, by skipping all those dry powders.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬