Cheese rolls

My little one loves food. She's ever willing to try anything new and that's a mother's dream right?! But she hates milk and I try to get calcium into her whenever I can. She loves all milk products though, curd, cheese, butter, paneer... so I'm a happy momma.. :D... She loves opening her lunchbox to cheese sandwiches so I thought I'd try and give her something different... but essentially the same.

You'll need
2 slices of bread
2 cheese slices
1 tablespoon of butter

Cut off the sides of the bread. It helps if the bread is really fresh. Roll the bread to flatten it with a rolling pin. Put a slice of cheese on it and roll the bread into a tight scroll. Pinch the edges of the bread to make it stick. Repeat with the other slice. Heat the butter in a pan and place the rolled up bread in it. Keep moving it around to prevent one part of the bread from soaking up all the butter. Once the butter is evenly soaked up by the bread reduce the heat to a slow flame and toast the bread to a crisp. The slow flame will allow the cheese to melt wonderfully.
Done!

Cinnamon Sugar Popovers

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Cinnamon leaves that fresh taste in the mouth and is one of those tricky ingredients that if overused can ruin the dish but use it carefully and it takes the flavour to another level altogether. I love that this recipe doesn't call for yeast!! Take a look...

Rava Besan Sheera

Breakfast for us, as kids, wasn't usually heavy. We'd gulp down a glass of milk before running off to school and that was it. But my Little One doesn't drink milk! I know! I'm living every Indian mother's nightmare. She won't look at milk, no matter what I add to it. Even melted chocolate doesn't work :(. So I make sure she eats a hearty breakfast before she heads out for the day. She loves the staple fried egg and paratha. But sometimes I like giving her a little rava-besan sheera in the mornings. It's a breakfast of champions. Healthy, light and oh-so-yum.

So here goes:

2 tablespoons of rava (semolina)
2 heaped teaspoons of besan (chick pea flour)
3/4th cup of boiled water
2 tablespoons of sugar
4 Cashews chopped , a teaspoon of raisins and almond slivers
2 tablespoons of ghee


Heat the ghee in a pan. Add the rava and fry till slightly brown. Then add the besan and fry some more. The besan tends to lump so fry well till all the lumps have completely powdered. Add the sugar and fry till the heat dissolves the sugar and you can see just a few grains of it. Add the water and keep stirring. It'll tend to sizzle and sputter so be careful while stirring. Stir rapidly to prevent the besan from lumping. Just before it cooks to the consistency you want, add the dry fruits and stir some more to incorporate. Stir for 30 seconds and take it off the flame.

Done!

Tip: If you want the raisins to be nice and plump add it immediately after adding the water. :)

Chocolate pancakes

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Lovely golden pancakes make an awesome breakfast. Add chocolate to it and make it an even more delightful meal! Check out the super simple recipe. I love!

Breakfastish

Simple and nutritious

Bulgar wheat is one of those things that is found in most Indian kitchens. It's versatile and healthy and can be used in an array of dishes. The easiest of them all to make by far is sweet lapsi. Packed with nutrition, it's easy to make, elements can be adjusted easily without spoiling the taste and it makes a great breakfast!

You'll need
one cup bulgar wheat
3 cups of water
two tablespoons of ghee
and half a cup of jaggery (If you prefer using sugar use 1/4th cup to be on the safe side. You can always add more sugar if you feel it's not sweet enough)

Heat the ghee in a pan. Add the bulgar and fry on a low flame till you get a lovely delicious aroma. Maintain the low flame as the wheat can burn quite quickly. Once it's a nutty brown add the jaggery. and keep stirring to keep the jaggery from burning. Once the jaggery has completely dissolved, add water and bring to a boil while constantly stirring. The wheat absorbs the water and swells to twice its size. Once the water had dried up press a piece of the wheat to test if it's cooked through. If not, add some more water and continue cooking. Once it's cooked completely taste it to adjust the sweetness. Add more jaggery and stir if required.

If you want to improve the nutrition value of the lapsi, add chopped dry fruits (cashew, almonds and pistachios to it)

Done!

Atta Halwa

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Atta or wheat flour is rich in iron and nutrients and anything made from it is bound to be nourishing. Especially if you add in jaggery which increases the iron content of the dish. Atta halwa is one such dish that's easy to make, makes a great wholesome breakfast and is packed with the goodness of wheat, ghee and jaggery. It's easy to get kids to eat it too too since it's sweet, soft and oh so yummy. Check out the super-simple recipe. 

Pineapple sheera

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I thought I'd start off this blog simple, nutritious and Indian! And I think this pineapple sheera (semolina pudding) is all that and more! The pineapple lends a lovely tanginess to the sweetness of the sheera. The addition of dry fruits makes for a nutritious, wholesome breakfast! Thank you palakkadcooking. :)