Veg nutrela Lasagne

I tasted lasagne first time in US in 2011. Slowly I developed this flavor and now I like it very much. While shopping in a food store in Bangalore I saw lasagne sheets so thought of trying it at home. So, here is my version of veg lasagne.

Ingredients :

1. 9 lasagne sheets
2. 25-30g parmesan cheese
3. 50g mozzarella cheese
4. 500 ml milk
5. 2 tablespoon all purpose flour
6. 2 tablespoon butter
7. 1/2 teaspoon of oregano
8. Black paper to taste
9. 150g small nutrela chunks
10. 3 medium tomatoes
11. 3-4 garlic
12. 1 teaspoon oregano
13. 1 tablespoon olive oil

Method :

For red gravy :

• Soak nutrela chunks in warm water for 10-15 minutes.
• Heat olive oil in a pan. Puree tomatoes and garlic and add to oil. Add salt and black paper and little oregano to taste. Cook for 3-4 minutes
• Squeeze out nutrela and add that to tomato mix. Cook for another 3-4 minutes. Keep aside.

For white sauce :

• Take a pan and add butter to it. Melt it on medium heat.
• Add all purpose flour and stir it continuously till the raw small of flour goes and it becomes golden brown. Keep it stirring so that no lumps are formed.
• Add milk to it and boil. Add salt, black paper and oregano to taste. Keep aside.

• Grate mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Take a rectangular baking tray.
• Spread white sauce first. Place 3 sheets of lasagne over it. next layer is of red nutrela gravy. Put grated cheese over it. Next layer is again lasagne pasta sheets. Put white sauce and grated cheese over it. Layer lagne pasta sheets again and cover it completely with red, white sauce and leftover cheese. Save little red sauce for later use.
• Cover lasagne with foil and bake on 180 C for 20 minutes. After that remove foil and again bake for 20-25 minutes.
• Take it out of the oven cut it into 4 or 6 pieces. Serve hot with a table spoon of red gravy over it.

Try this recipe and let me know your reviews :)

Mushroom Pasta

I tried this pasta at my cousin's place and it was yummy. She came to Bangalore to stay with us for a few days. Here, I got time to get the recipe from her. I am not a big pasta lover but this one is something I can never say no to.

Ingredients :

1 packet of penne pasta (200 grams)
1 large capsicum
1 packet of button mushrooms (200 grams)
1 large onion (preferably white)
Black paper
Salt to taste
500 ml milk
2 tablespoon all purpose flour
2 tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon of oregano

3 teaspoon olive oil.
20-25 grams of mozzarella cheese

Method :

• Boil water. Add 1 teaspoon salt to boiling water and add pasta. Let it cook till tender (5-7 minutes)
• Chop capsicum and onion in small pieces. Chop mushroom into big pieces.
• Cook onion in a teaspoon of with a pinch of salt and black paper.
• We repeat same process with capsicum and mushrooms as well.
• And keep all of them separately.

White sauce :

Take a pan and add butter to it. Melt it on medium heat.
Add all purpose flour and stir it continuously till the raw small of flour goes and it becomes golden brown. Keep it stirring so that no lumps are formed.
Add milk to it and boil. Add salt, black paper and oregano to taste.
Add all vegetables to this sauce.

To serve :

In a plate put boil pasta and pour white sauce on top of it. Serve hot.

Serves 3-4 people.

Try it and let me know your reviews on this recipe.

Banana Walnut Bread

I visited my uncle in December 2011 and at his place I tried this Banana Walnut Bread and guess I loved it at very first bite. I came back to India and decided to buy an oven and with this bread I started my baking experience. We make this bread almost every alternate week now. Rakesh (my hubby) and Aashna (my cute daughter) just love it :)

This is how I make banana walnut bread in my kitchen :

Ingredients :

1. 100g butter
2. 120g sugar
3. 2 large eggs
4. 3 large ripe bananas
5. 200g all purpose flour (maida)
6. 4-5 drops of vanilla essence
7. 1/2 tea spoon of baking soda
8. 2 tea spoon of baking powder
9. Handful of walnuts

Method :

• Preheat oven on 175 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). 
• Break eggs in a bowl. 
• Add vanilla essence to eggs and start beating them with an electric beater. Continue beating them for 3-4 minutes. 
• Take butter and sugar in another bowl and beat them together until this mixture becomes light and fluffy. It should take 5-7 minutes to reach this consistency. 
• Mix eggs into butter sugar mixture. DO NOT over mix anything after this step.
• Mash bananas and put into mixture. 
• Break walnuts into smaller pieces and mix it into the mixture.
• Sieve all purpose flour with baking powder and baking soda into mixture. Mix everything together (by cut and fold method)
• Grease and dust a baking pan. Put mixture into this pan and put into the pre heated oven.
• Bake for 60 minutes. Take it out of the oven and let it cool for 15 minutes. Take it out of the pan and serve.

I will post pictures very soon.

Tips :

1. Beat eggs first instead of butter sugar because if you beat butter sugar first, you have to wash beater before beating eggs. If you beat eggs with a dirty beater eggs won't become fluffy at all.
2.  Use electric beater because it helps in adding more air to butter sugar mixture and eggs which makes your bread fluffy.
3. Always make sure oven is pre heated for atleast 15-20 minutes before baking.



Try this recipe and let me know how you like with your comments. If you have any query regarding this recipe you can ask in comment box and I will get back to you as soon as possible.