Loaded Baked Potato Balls

• 4 Large Potatoes (Cut up and boiled until tender) 
• 3 Strips Bacon (Diced and cook until slightly crispy) 
• ¼ cup Onions (Thinly Sliced) 
• 1 Pound Butter 
• Half Cup Sour Cream 
• 4 oz Cheddar Cheese (cut into cubes) 
• Salt and Pepper (According to taste) 
• For Breading : 3 Eggs, Bread Crumb, Flour 

Method :

• Mash the boiled potatoes. Add butter, sour cream, and reserved bacon fat while still warm and continue to mash until smooth. Fold in scallions, bacon, salt and pepper. 
• Roll potatoes into golf ball sized balls; insert cheddar cubes into the ball and seal with potato. 
• To bread the potato balls: roll in flour, dip in egg, and cover in bread crumbs. 
• Fry at 325 degrees temperature until golden brown. The breading should be crispy on the outside and the cheese to be melted on the inside. For this, you have to adjust your fryer temperature to achieve this. 

Servings : 20-22

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Fruit Salad with milk and custard(Indian dessert)

EASY LEMON MERINGUE PIES

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGG SLICE

Oats Soup

Ingredients (one serving) :

• One and half table spoon Oats
• 6 flakes of Garlic (finely chopped)
• Half cup of  Skimmed Milk
• 1/2 tsp Pepper Powder
• 1/2 tsp Ghee
• Salt to Taste

Method :

• Grind oats coarsely and keep it aside.
• In a kadai put half tsp ghee.
• Add chopped garlic and fry till it turns brown.
• Remove half of the fried garlic from the kadai and keep it for garnishing.
• Along with the remaining fried garlic, add ground oats and fry for two minutes.
• Add enough water and boil till it gets cooked.
• Add milk, salt and pepper powder and cook for two minutes.
• The consistency of oats mixture should be similar to any soup consistency.
• Garnish with fried garlic pieces.
• Serve hot with whole wheat bread.

Hara Bhara Kebab

This recipe is a simple and extremely delicious. Make a perfect blend of flavours. This can be made and frozen and stored over a period of about 3 months.

Ingredients :

• Potatoes (Boiled) - 3 Medium
• Onion - 1 Medium
• Garlic - 3 to 4 Cloves
• Ginger - 1/2 Inch Piece
• Green Chilies - 2 Medium
• Cottage Cheese / Paneer - 100 g
• Spinach (Blanched) - 100 g Pureed
• Green Peas (Boiled) - 1 Cup
• Cornflour - For binding only
• Bread (Ground in the Grinder) - 4 Slices
• Salt - As per Taste
• Oil - For Frying 

Method : 

Pre-Preparation : Boil the potatoes and peas, Grind the Onion, ginger, garlic, green chilies together, Grind the bread slices, blanch the spinach and puree it.

1.  Mash the potatoes and Add ginger, garlic, onion and chili paste. Add the peas, bread powder, spinach puree, salt, crumbled cottage cheese and mix everything together.

2.  Add the corn flour if you feel it is required (i.e. if the mixture is too wet)

3.  Keep the mixture aside for about 10 minutes and in the meanwhile heat the oil for frying.

4.  Make small ball and flatten them and fry in hot oil till they get a brown coating on the top.

5.  Serve hot with green chutney, ketchup, etc

Cupcake Trio (Strawberry - Tangerine - Blueberry)

Ingredients : 

• Condensed Milk - 1 Tin ( Milkmaid)
• Butter - 8 tbsp
• Vanilla Extract - 2 tsp
• Refined Flour / Self Raising Flour / Maida - 2 Cups
• Baking Powder - 2 tsp
• Soda Bicarbonate (Meetha Soda) - 1 Pinch
• Fruit Salt - 1 tsp
• Milk - 1/4th - 1/2 Cup
• Club Soda - 1/4th Cup

Method :

1.  Preheat the oven at 250 degrees.

2.  Melt the butter and take it in a mixing bowl. Add the condensed milk and the vanilla extract and keep aside.

3.  Sieve the flour, Baking powder, fruit salt and soda together in a separate bowl.

4.  Add the flour mixture spoon by spoon and mix either with a double beater or mix with a wooden spoon.

5.  Add 1/4th to 1/2 cup milk. Batter it too thick.
6.  Add the soda and beat

7.  Spoons this cake batter in cupcake moulds lined with cupcake liners and bake at 180 degrees for about 20 - 25 minutes. (Note - Do not open the oven once the muffins have been put in.)

8.  Check with a wooden tooth pick. If the tooth pick comes out clean, then the cupcakes are done.

Mac and Cheese

This is a very popular American dish. It can be a casserole dish for a large gathering. It should have nice rich Cheddar. It is extremely simple to prepare and barely takes minutes.

Ingredients :

• Macaroni - 100 g
• Oil - 1 TSP 
• Butter - 2 TSP
• Refined flour- 2 TSP
• Milk - 1 and a half cup
• Processed / Cheddar Cheese - 1 and a half cup
• Salt - if required 
• Pepper – Optional

Method :

1.  Boil water in a vessel, add the macaroni along with salt and oil. Both salt and oil are important as oil prevents them from sticking and salt to balance the taste as macaroni will not absorb salt later.

2.  Prepare mornay sauce with other.

3.  Mix the sauce and the macaroni together and either put in a baking dish or plate as desired. Grate some cheese on the top. Bake them for about 20 minutes at about 150 degrees C. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. Dig into this.

Mornay Sauce

Béchamel Sauce is the classic white sauce which is used as the base to make hundreds of other variations. This sauce is liked by all specially kids.

Ingredients :

• 1 tbsp Butter
• 1 tbsp Maida
• 1 cup Milk
• 1 tbsp Chopped Garlic (Optional)
• 1 Bay Leaf (Optional)
• Very small piece Nutmeg (optional, only for flavouring)
• Salt and Pepper (for Taste)

Method :

Melt the butter in a saucepan, sauté the garlic and add the Maida and stir until the mixture is well blended. Slowly add the milk and stir continuously until there are no lumps. Now add the bayleaf, nutmeg and keep stirring till the sauce starts to boil and thickens. Add the salt and pepper and remove from the flame. Remove the bay leaf from the sauce. This recipe makes about 1 cup béchamel sauce.

Mornay Sauce : Cheese can be added to this sauce to make mornay sauce. (Cheese Sauce)

Berry Strawberry Trifle

It has different flavors, colors, textures to give that complete feel. It can have as many layers as desired. Cakes, Biscuits, Macaroons, Cookies, etc along with custard, fresh fruits, fruit sauces, Whipped cream. Yoghurt, cream cheese, sour cream, Mascarpone cheese can be used as well. So its time you whip up some creativity.

Ingredients :

• Cake / Cookie / Biscuits – (Into 1 inch squares) - 200 g
• Cut Fruits - Strawberry - 1 Cup
• Custard (made by following the instructions on the pack) - 2 Cups
• Whipped Cream - 1 Cup
• Fruit Juice - for soaking the cake
• Glasses / Trifle bowl

Method :

1.  Take a glass / bowl and place the cake pieces at the bottom and soak them with juice.

2.  Spoon some custard on it and top some fruit and then fruit sauce and then place some cake pieces and repeat the layers.

3.  Pipe out some whipped cream and top some fresh fruits and desired toppings.

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