American Pancakes

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
milk, just enough to make pourable batter

Preparation:

Combine dry ingredients. Stir in egg, oil, and enough milk for batter to pour easily. Mix lightly to blend. Cook pancakes on a hot, well greased griddle. This recipe for pancakes makes 2 to 3 servings.
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Maple Syrup 


Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
1 cup boiling water
1/2 teaspoon maple flavored extract (I used vanilla essence)

Directions

In a saucepan, combine sugar and water. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, and stir in maple flavoring. Serve warm.

Serve it with some butter on top. One can also garnish it with fresh strawberries on top and some ice cream to go with it.

Tip for strawberry : Froze fresh strawberries when in season and they taste same whenever you use them

Bread Rolls

Ingredients 

For Potato mixture

Potatoes -4 to 5 (boiled)

Red chilly powder - About 1/2 tsp

Salt- about 1/2 tsp

Onions- few pieces

Green chilly- few pieces

Coriander- to sprinkle 

Ghee- 1 tsp

Bread Rolls

Breads-5 to 6 ( Stales if there or else use fresh)

Bread corners removed if one wants to make bread fries

For Frying 

Oil ( According to requirement 

Recipe

1. Boil potatoes in a cooker with salt for 2-3 whistles.

2. Peel skin off the potatoes and mash them nicely in a large bottomed utencil.

3. Add all the potatoes ingredients to it except ghee and mix properly.

4. Take a tawa and heat it and then add some ghee to it.

5. Add the potato to mixture to it and fry by changing sides till its golden brown.

6. Take down the mixture and let it cool for a while.

7. Take breads and remove it corners.

8. Take water in a large bottomed pan and soak bread in it for a while ( long time if stale bread)

9. Take the bread out and squeeze water out of it.

10. Heat oil in a kadai in the meantime.

11. Take bread in the hand and put some potato mixture in the centre and circle bread around it and press tighly so it holds.

12. Put the roll in the kadai and fry on both sides.

13. Make rest of the rolls in the same way.

14. In the end fry bread corners in the same oil till nicely fried.

Bread Rolls and Bread Fries are ready.

Vada Pao (Batata Vada)

Ingredients

4 Boiled Potatoes

1 tbsp. Oil for tempering

1/2 spn. Mustard seeds

4 Green chilies chopped ( +/ - according to individual taste)

A few curry leaves, torn to pieces

1/2 spn. Turmeric

3-4 cloves of garlic finely chopped

1 inch piece Ginger grated

Salt to taste

1-2 spns. finely chopped Cilantro

For Covering : (No measures here, I use approximates)

Besan / Chickpea flour- 1 cup almost

Red chilly powder- 1/4 tsp

Salt (only so much that the covering does not taste bland)

Pinch baking soda (optional)- 1 tsp

Saunf- 1 tsp

Water to make a batter

Oil for deep frying

Procedure:-

1. Mash the boiled potatoes.In a kadhai, heat 1 tbsp. oil, add mustard seeds,after they sputter, add green chilies and curry leaves, ginger-garlic, turmeric. Saute a while. Add mashed potatoes, salt. Add chopped cilantro.

2 To make the batter for covering, mix all ingredients listed above. Mix well to ensure that there are no lumps. Careful with the water, the batter mustn't be too runny nor too thick.

3.Heat oil in a kadhai. Make balls of the potato vege. Make like tikki / kebab by beating so they dont open up. Dip the ball in the batter and deep fry in oil till it turns a nice golden brown. Drain on a tissue.

Serve hot with garlic chutney, fries green chilly and Pav.

I served these with green chutney -Grind together 1 bunch Cilantro, 5 Green chilies, 1/2 inch Ginger, 1 small clove Garlic, Salt to taste , juice of 1/2 lime

And Sweet n Sour Tamarind Chutney : (I used approximately) Lime sized ball of Tamarind soaked in hot water for about 15-20 mins., Jaggery twice the amount of Tamarind , 1/4 tsp. red chilli powder, Salt to taste, 1/4 tsp. cumin powder

Squeeze out the tamarind pulp, discard solids. Heat a saucepan, add all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Boil the mixture for about 10 mins. till it thickens to the desired consistency. Cool and serve with wada-pav.

Typically Wada Pav is served with dry Garlic / Lasun Chutney. put chutney on either side of pav and then but vada in it and eat.

Upma

Ingredients

1-cup semolina(Suji) (not too fine)

1 tsp. urad (dhuli ) dal

1 tsp. mustard seeds

One stalk curry leaves

Some grated cocunut/ cocunut powder

Three green chilies chopped ( or more depending on you)

One onion chopped coarsely

2 tbsp. oil

Salt to taste (1/2 tsp)

Pinch of sugar

2 cups water

Cashews ( 1 tsp)and Peanuts ( 2 tsp)

( if available...since I didnt have them so I didnt otherwise add them and its tastes awesome)

Coriander for garnishing

Recipe

1.Heat oil in a kadai.

2. Add the mustard seeds and cover with a plate so spluttering doesn't spoil the kitchen.

3. Once spluttering stops add green chillies, urad dal and curry leaves and nuts and fry on low till light golden.

4. Add onions. Stir and sauté till the onions are pink.

5. Add the semolina and stir continuously till the semolina gives out a nice aroma. It Takes about 7-8 minutes to roast the semolina on low.

8. Add the salt and sugar and stir. Carefully pour in a cup of water and stir well.

9. If it feels too dry, add more water( 1 cup) and stir. Keep on low and simmer for 2-3 minutes.

10 . Garnish with coriander (optional) I didnt add coriander. One can garnish with more cocunut too.

Serve hot with steaming coffee or tea or as breakfast.

Note: Always soak dals in water for 10-15 minutes before cooking and fry them till pink in the oil so that they get done.