snacks recipe

Stuffed Tomato Snack

This is a quick and easy snack. You can also use it as a starter. I’ve tried some stuffing , you can try and make many many variations with it. So much fun!

Firstly, slice off  very thin slices from the top and bottom of the tomatoes. Then cut the tomato into two pieces. Scoop out the centre carefully. It would look like this:

Now the tomato is ready to be stuffed.

I’ve tried out three themes for it, as I said, you can make many different varieties with this.

Mr. Tomato goes to Italy

Ingredients:

Carrots – chopped into small pieces

Spring onions –  finely chopped

Garlic – 4 cloves, chopped

Milk – 5 spoons

Cheese- one cube

Pepper powder

Oil – one teaspoon

Salt

Procedure:

Heat the oil in a pan. Add garlic spring onions and carrots to it. After a min, add milk to it. Turn the flame off after a few seconds. Add grated cheese to this, and after it begins to melt, mix well. Add a pinch of salt. Let this mixture cool down.

Stuff this in the tomato and sprinkle some pepper powder over it and serve.

Mr. Tomato goes to China

Ingredients:

Cabbage

Capsicum

Carrot

Garlic – 5 cloves

Soya sauce – One teaspoon

Oil- 1 teaspoon

Pepper powder (as per taste)

Salt (as per taste)

Procedure:

Chop cabbage, carrot and capsicum into thin, long slices.

Heat the oil in a pan and add garlic and the chopped vegetables to this. Mix well and let this cook on a high flame for a couple of  minutes. Then add salt according to taste and pepper powder. Add soya sauce to this and mix well. Let it cook for a minute. Turn off the flame and let this cool down.

Stuff this in the tomato and serve.

 

Mr. Tomato goes to India

Ingredients:

Boiled potato – cut into small pieces

Amla – cut into very thin slices

Ginger – finely chopped

Tomato sauce – 2 teaspoons

Salt

Coriander for garnishing

Procedure:

Mix together all of these ingredients.

Stuff this in the tomato and garnish with coriander and serve.

Maladu – Visual Recipe

Maladu or Pottu kadalai urundai is an easy to make laddu variety.

Ingredients:

• Bhuna Channa (roasted gram / pottu kadalai)
• Sugar
• Ghee

Step 1:

Take a measure of bhuna channa (pottu kadalai) and sugar as per your choice.

Step 2:

Grind bhuna channa (pottu kadalai) and sugar together into powder form.

Step 3:

Add ghee to the grinded flour.

Step 4:

Mix well to the consistency as shown in the picture below.

Step 5:

Make balls out of the mixed flour to make laddus.

Delicious maladu is ready to eat.  Enjoy the yummy dish!

Black Til Laddu – Visual recipe

This is a simple, easy to make , healthy traditional snack made with black sesame seeds ( black til seeds) . In Tamil the dish is called Ellu urundai.

Ingredients:

• Black Til (black sesame seeds)
• Jaggery

Step 1: Roast the til (sesame seeds) in low flame till they crackle.

Step 2: Grind the roasted til in mixie grinder  to make a powder. Add shredded jaggery to it and grind again. You will get the final mix like how its shown in the picture below.

Step 3: Make balls  with the mixture. Your delicious black til laddu is ready to eat.

Black til laddu makes a healthy, nutritious and delicious  laddu for your kids.

Eat healthy, Stay healthy.