5 easy and instant food recipes for your craving times

In “lockdown times” being at home has become mandatory.

When at home, the food cravings are at their peak.

You can try out these 5 instant foods for your cravings.

  1. Cheese grilled sandwich
  • I make my cheese grilled sandwich on a Tawa. (concave fry pan)
  • Take 2 slices of brown bread.
  • Apply butter generously on one side of the bread and keep it on Tawa. (butter side on the Tawa)
  • Now place 2 cheese slices on the bread and sprinkle some coriander leaves.
  • Cover it up with the second bread slice.
  • On the upper side of the second bread apply butter generously.
  • Grill/toast both sides of the sandwich.
  • Your cheese grilled sandwich is ready. Have it with chilli sauce to get the spicy taste.

2.Crispy corn

  • Boil 1 cup peeled corn for 5 minutes in salted water. 
  • Drain the water out.
  • Take a frying pan, add butter (the more the better) and sauté the boiled corn till it turns a bit crispy.
  • Add ½ cup chopped onions, ½ cup chopped tomatoes and ¼ cup capsicum.
  • Add salt and chaat masala as per taste.
  • Sprinkle some coriander leaves and enjoy!!

3. Boiled Masala peanuts

  • Soak 1 cup peanuts (groundnuts) in the pressure cooker, add salt as per taste.
  • Pressure cook till 4 to 5 whistles.
  • Drain the water.
  • Take boiled peanuts in a mixing bowl and add ½ cup chopped onions and ½ cup chopped tomatoes. Mix well.
  • Add salt and chaat masala as per taste.
  • Squeeze some lemon juice as per taste.
  • Mix well and enjoy the crunchy and spicy masala peanuts.
  • 4.Sukhi Bhel
  • Take 2 cups of puffed rice in a bowl.
  • Add 1 cup of crispy mixed farsan. (namkeen mixture) 
  • Add ½ cup onions, ½ cup potato, ½ cup tomato and a handful of peanuts.
  • Then add chaat masala and some salt as per taste. 
  • Squeeze some lemon juice as per taste.
  • Mix everything well and your sukhi bhel is ready.
  • You can add Tamarind and dates chutney and coriander chutney to make it tastier. 
  • 5.Paneer chilli dry starter
  • Take 250 grams of paneer. Cut them into cubes.
  • In a flat frying pan, add 3 to 4 tbsps of butter. 
  • After the butter melts add the paneer cubes and fry till both sides turn golden brown. Remove it in a bowl once done.
  • In the same flat frying pan, add 1 tbsp. of chopped ginger and 1 tbsp. of garlic paste. Sauté till it turns golden brown.
  • Then add ½ cup chopped onions and sauté till translucent.
  • Then add ½ cup of chopped tomatoes and ½ cup chopped capsicum and mix well for 2 minutes.
  • Then add the fried paneer cubes, 2 tbsps of soya sauce and 1 tbsp. of chilli sauce and mix well.
  • In a bowl take 2 tbsps of corn-starch and add ¼ cup water and mix well into a smooth paste.
  • Add this paste to the pan and mix well till the gravy thickens/ becomes dry.
  • Your paneer chilli dry starter is ready. Enjoy!!

Make these simple and easy 5 instant foods for your craving times.

Bon appetit!!

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