Here is a combination of 10 very easy, quick, low budget and tasty sweet and salty recipes. Even teens and kids can make these snacks themselves without any help, and without messing the kitchen. Homemade ice cream, Namak paray, instant pancakes and much more to explore ...
#Salt and pepper are according to taste in all recipes.
#Salt and pepper are according to taste in all recipes.
BREAD FRIES
Ingredients:
4 bread
slices
2 tb. Spoon gram
flour (Basin)
Salt
Red Chilli
powder
Oil for
frying
Method:
Cut bread slices lengthwise into 3 equal parts
or into
4 square pieces. Mix gram flour,
salt, chili powder
and water in a bowl to make it slightly thick paste. Take
fry pan and pour oil into it. Dip the bread
slices into Basin paste one by one and drop into oil at medium heat. Let them
fry until they are brown and crispy from both sides. Dish out the fries and
enjoy while playing your favorite video game or watching instagram chat.
2.
SUJI KEY LUDO (SEMOLINA BALLS)
Ingredients:
I cup suji
(semolina)
¾ cup sugar
1 tablespoon
cooking oil
3 tablespoon cream or Malai (freshly layered out from milk)
1 tablespoon
milk
1 cardamom
(green Elachi)
Method:
Pour oil
into pan on medium heat. Add one
cardamom (Elaichi). Add Suji into pan and stir
the spoon for 2 minutes. Add sugar into
pan while stirring the spoon and cook for 2 more minutes until suji is light
brown. Take out the pan from stove and add fresh cream and milk into suji
thoroughly. Let it be cool and make small balls or ludo. Serve it with tea.
Semolina balls or suji kay ladoo is low budget, quick
and tasty snack to be served as
snack or breakfast.
CHICKEN
CHUNKS
Ingredients:
Few pieces
of chicken
Corn flour
or white flour (maida)
Salt
Red chilly
Black pepper
Method:
Cut the
chicken pieces into smaller chunks. Mix corn
or white flour, salt, pepper and
black pepper into one bowl and add water to make it liquidly paste. Dip chicken
pieces into batter and fry it on medium heat. Enjoy crispy chunks with ketchup
or chutney at evening snack or pack the chunks for school lunch if you could
resist.
4.
PAN CAKES:
INGREDIENTS:
4 tb. Spoon
white flour
3 tb. Spoon sugar
1 egg
2 tb. Spoon
cooking oil or butter
½ cup
milk
SERVING: 2-3
children
Method:
Mix all ingredients
in the bowl and stir it to make a
slightly thick batter. Now there are two
methods of
cooking this batter.
1. Put frying pan or normal Tawa (griddle)
on stove with medium heat. Let it be hot. Put oil on it as we do to make
parathas then pour the whole batter on it and settle it with spoon. Let it cook
from one side thoroughly. Then turn it carefully and let it cook. Cut the triangular pieces once it’s ready.
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| tasty pancakes in triangular shape |
2. Heat the oil in frying pan and put
the batter in it with spoon and cook the fluffy and healthy pancakes from both
sides.
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| tasty pancakes with tea |
5.
GRATED POTATO EGG KEBAB
Ingredients:
1 potato
1 egg
Salt
Pepper
Chopped coriander (dhania)
Chopped green chilies
Method:
Peel and grate (KADOKUSH) the potato. Squeeze the grated
potato to let go the excessive liquid. Add one egg, salt, pepper, green chilies
and chopped coriander with grated potato and mix with spoon.
Heat the oil in fry
pan. Drop the potato, egg mixture in fry pan by using spoon at some distance
from each other. Let the kebabs cook from both sides. Taste it with ketchup or
make instant potato, egg sandwiches.
6.
COCONUT BARFI (NARIAL KI METHAI)
Ingredients:
1 cup grated coconut
¾ cup sugar
2 tb. Spoon cooking oil
3 tb. Spoon fresh cream
1 cardamom
Method:
Pour the oil in pan on medium heat. Put cardamom in it and
let it simmer for few seconds. Add grated coconut and stir it for two minutes.
Add sugar and continue stirring for two more minutes. When coconut started to
turn light brown then put off the heat. Add cream and mix thoroughly. Take out
mixture at 1 inch deep greased dish. Let it cool and cut in square pieces as
barfi.
Coconut barfi is an awesome evening quick snack that can also be
served as dessert in any feast at home.
7.
HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
Not so quick but an easy and low budget recipe of
homemade
ice cream
Ingredients:
2 cup milk
2 tb. Spoon sugar
2 tb. Spoon Jam e Shireen or any flavored soft drink of your
choice or chocolate syrup
Serving: 2-3 kids
METHOD:
Mix milk, sugar, jam e Shireen (or any popular red soft drink) or chocolate syrup in jug. Pour
portion of mixed liquid
into ice cream moulds or in any regular cups at home. Put the ice cream moulds or cups at freezer
and enjoy homemade tasty ice cream after it’s fully frozen. Don’t forget to put
spoon or ice cream stick in cups before putting it into freezer so that you can
really enjoy it like you do with popsicles buy from the market.
This homemade ice cream is so quick, easy and
chill in
hottest day of summer which kids can make themselves only they’ve to watch the tick
tock to pass the time.
8.
POP CORNS:
INGREDIENTS:
½ cup of regular corns (can be bought from
popcorn seller or
from retailer shop)
Pinch of salt
1 tb. Spoon oil
Serving: 2-3 kids
Method:
Take one big pan and pour one tablespoon of oil
in it. Add
corns and pinch of salt. Hold the pan
from both sides and mix it. Turn on the
stove on medium heat. Put the pan on stove and cover it with lid leaving a very
small gap from one side so that steam can find way to run out.
Wait for 2 minutes. The corns will start pop. Just
hold the pan from both handles with
napkin and give it a jerk so the corns go ups and down in pan. Just two minutes
more. The sound of pops will come to rest or will slow down. Put off the stove.
Uncover the pan keeping your face away and welcome the pan full of white
popcorns. Now just turn on your favorite movie and enjoy the popcorns.
9.
NAMAK PARAY
Ingredients:
1 cup white flour(maida)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cumin(zeera) powder
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1/4 teaspoon baking powder or meetha soda
1 cup lukewarm water
Cooking oil to fry
Method:
Take white flour,salt, cumin powder, baking powder and oil in pan. Make the soft dough (just like we make for making roti) with help of lukewarm water.
Now take portion of dough and set it in circle with rolling pin just like we make for roti. Once the round bread or roti is set then cut the square pieces just like namak paray we buy from market.
Drop all pieces into hot oil and keep on turning them. Tasty and crispy namak paray are ready.
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| how to cut namak paray |
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| homemade frying namak paray |
10.
DAHI BHALAY
INGREDIENTS:
3 tb. Spoon Basin( gram flour)
Salt of taste
Pepper of taste
Chopped coriander(dhania)
Green chili
¼ teaspoon Baking powder or meetha soda
Zeera powder
2 cup yogurt
1 Chopped boiled potato
METHOD:
Mix basin, salt, pepper, meetha soda and zeera
powder and add
water to make it thick paste. Heat the oil and put the basin mixture in oil
with spoon in circle form. Take water in
an open pan and put it aside. When bhalay is cooked from both sides then take
them out and put straight into water. Mix yogurt, salt, pepper and boiled
potato in separate dish. Squeeze the extra water from each bhlay one by one and
set all bhalas in dish. Now pour a layer of yogurt mixture upon the dish. Tasty
and healthy dahi bhalay are ready.
Garnish the dish with coriander and green chili and enjoy the
recipe.
All above dishes are simple, quick and low
budget maintaining
the taste. There is a
combination of
sweet and salty snacks which can
also be used as school lunch.