Roti \ Chappati Roll with Veggie Paneer Fry

Hi Friends....after a long break. !!!!! Summer vacation got over in homeland and back home.  Have so many traditional recipes in store to post...So you will be seeing those slowly in our blog this month.. Well, cooking has slowly started  at home here and made a quick chappathi \ roti roll for us on a lazy Friday night. It was delicious, filling, tastier with a side of greek yogurt cup. This time, I used the ready made chappathis available at our local Indian store

Lots of  home grown tomatoes, zucchinis, squash were given to us by our kind neighbours. To make use of those ones with some extra veggies and paneer , I decided to make this easier roll..

You can add any vegetables of your choice to this simple fry...With some mild seasoning, this veggie paneer fry is definitely a kids choice..for any time of the day.

Ingredients

Chappathi \ Roti -  Few

Olive Oil - 2 tbsp

Turmeric Powder - 2 teaspoon

Jeera ( Cumin) - 2 tsp

Garam Masala Powder - 1\2 tbsp

Red Chilli Powder - 1 teaspoon

Salt - To Taste

Sugar - a small pinch

Coriander Leaves  -  1 Handful

Vegetables

Tomato - 1

Potato - 1

Beans - 8 or 10 big ones

Carrot - 1 medium

Peas  - 1 Handful

Cauliflower -  12 small florets

White Onion - 1 Medium

Capsicum - 1\2  medium

Zucchini - 1 medium

Paneer Cubes - 15 to 20 medium cubes.

Procedure

1. Wash all the vegetables thoroughly and cut them into medium cubes and keep aside. Cut the panner into medium cubes and keep them ready.
2. On medium heat, add olive oil into the thick bottomed kadai. When oil gets heated up, add jeera first. When it sputters, then add onions, capsicum one by one and shallow fry them. Add turmeric powder and a pinch of sugar and little salt for them to cook quickly.
3. Slowly add all other veggies into the kadai and stir them nicely. Sprinkle some water and let them cook on low flame for few minutes.
4. After its cooked to a desired level, open the lid and all other seasoning powders to the kadai. Add required amount of salt to the mixture and stir the veggie mix thoroughly.
5. Add the paneer cubes into the kadai now and stir carefully without breaking the paneer cubes.
6. Keep the lid open and let the veggie paneer mix coated with the seasoned powders get fried on medium flame for few minutes.
7. Occasionally stir the contents so that they get fried uniformly.
8. After its done, switch off the flame. Garnish the dish with the crushed coriander leaves..Now the veggie paneer mix is ready.

9. Make a hot chappathi \ roti and keep 3-4 tbsp of the veggie paneer dish into the center of the chappathi, roll it perfectly and serve with a side of greek yogurt. A complete healthy meal is done very quickly with less efforts.

Variations

You can add any vegetables of your choice but not watery ones as they might spoil the fry.

Tips

Don't fry the paneer separately.  Add them to the veggie mix and coat them with the seasoning. Let the paneer get fried along with the veggies in the kadai itself.

HOW TO MAKE Sesame Rice \ Ellu Sadham \ Nuvula Annam

This is not a traditional version of the sesame rice which you generally think of. This version is purely made for my convenience with few ingredients I like and I think...!!!! Try this out and you will surely love this spicy  rice on any day. This can be a very good option for lunch box,  a good prasadam on festive days, a different rice for potlucks...I really  wanted to make some spicy rice which should be different from the regular ones and also wanted it to be very tasty, healthy and yummy for my kids too.  This goes very well with a side of vadams \ appalams or with a simple vegetable fry.

Ingredients

Cooked Sona Masoori rice -  1.5 cup

Olive Oil - 2 tbsp

Salt - To Taste

Jaggery Powdered - 2 tsp

Seasoning Powder for the Rice

White Sesame or roasted brown sesame - 4 tbsp

Coriander Seeds - 2 tbsp

Channal Dal \ Bengal gram \ Kadalai Paruppu - 2 tbsp

Red Chillies Dry - 2 Big

Jeera - 1 tsp

Tamarind - 2 pinches of tamarind

Coconut shredded or dry coconut powder - 2 tbsp

Tempering \ Tadka

Olive Oil - 2 tbsp

Hing \ Asafoetida - 1 dash

Mustard Seeds - 3 tbsp

Jeera \ Cumin - 1 tsp

Urad Dal \ Ulutham Paruppu \ Minna Pappu - 1 tbsp

Channa Dal \ Bengal Gram \ Kadalai Paruppu - 1 tbsp

Dry Red Chillies - 3 or 4 Medium Size

Curry Leaves \ Karivepillai \ Kadipatha - 1 full stem of leaves

Ground nuts - 4 tbsp

Method

1. Wash and cook the Sona Masoori Rice and spread it on a big bowl with little oil and keep it ready.
2. For the seasoning powder, fry the ingredients as mentioned above with little oil and grind them nicely and keep it ready.
3. On the same kadai, add remaining oil. When oil gets heated , add the ingredients for the tempering ( tadka ). Try to fry the contents to golden brown only and make sure that they don't turn black.
4. After its done, switch off the flame. Add the seasoning powder to the kadai. Mix well and slowly add the rice to the kadai and stir them carefully.
5. Add required amount of salt and jaggery powder to the rice and mix everything thoroughly so that the rice gets mixed with the salt, powder uniformly.
6. Now the sesame rice is get to be packed. This rice tastes very good after few hours of preparation.

Variations

You can customize the seasoning powder according to your taste buds and make the sesame rice in your own way too.

You can add cashew nuts along with groundnuts if this is made for a potluck, temple prasad or any other occasions.

Tips

Don't overcook the rice and make it pasty.  Texture of the rice plays a major role in any mixed rice preparation.