Lauki nu thepale

I tried this today for the breakfast. Thepale is a nutritious and tasty Gujrati bread that is made using different fillings like methi, jowar, etc. This one uses bottle guard or lauki and is a good breakfast, tiffin for kids.

Take:
2 cups of wheat flour
3/4 cup- grated lauki (drain water out )
curd- 1/2 cup
salt to taste
ajwain- 1 tspn
garam masala- 1 tspn
kasuri  methi- 1 tbspn (optional)

Mix all the ingredients and knead the dough using additional water if required.
Roll them in 10" thepalas and cook them on medium hot skillet using oil on both sides.
Serve hot with green chutney and curd.

Fried baby potatoes

I wanted to use the leftover marinade as I personally do not prefer wasting anything. This idea came to my mind and I attempted this one...it turned out awesome.
I took around 400gms baby potatoes, washed them clean to remove all the coated mud. Then I boiled them in salted water in pressure cooker. (I also trued using baby corn, capsicum, mushroom along with boiled veggies, they turned out good. just microwave the these veggies for a minute before throwing them in pan with fried potatoes.)
I chopped the boiled potatoes into half longitudinally, and deep fried them in 5-6 tbspn vegetable oil over high flame (2-3 turns) till they are crispy brown. Potatoes absorb very little oil when fried in very hot oil. I didnt peel the potatoes.
To fry  I took very little oil-1 tspn, heated it, added the fried potatoes, pepper (2 tspn), 1 tspn (chat masala), 1 tspn black salt and tossed the potatoes to mix the masala. I then added around 1 cup of left over marinade on high flame and tossed the potatoes to coat them with marinade. The potatoes tasted yum when hot.

Barbecue veggies

Its chill in the evenings (in Delhi) and a long week end was the right time to have season's first barbecue last evening.. had an awesome time, three of us together with our favourite things. I had set up a traditional coal  grill apart from the electric BBQ grill and the traditional one proved better..plan to do some more this season. Here's the marinade that I had put together-
Medium sized onion: 2 nos
garlic cloves- 7-8
ginger shoot- 1" piece
green chillies -2 nos
curd- 2 cups
salt to taste
kitchen king or tandoori masala- 4 tspn
red chilly powder- 2 tspn

Grind onion, garlic, ginger and green chillies, add it to the beaten curd. Add kitchen king/tandoori masala, red chilly powder and salt.
Take all veggies u wish - baby potatoes (parboiled), capsicum green, red, yellow (1" pieces), baby tomatoes, paneer(cottage cheese) 1" cubes; onion, button mushrooms and baby corns. Pour the marinade over the veggies and let them marinade for 4-6 hrs before taking them to BBQ.