Bhool na Jaana, Lasagna toh banana.

Too much love with lasagna I have. I cook it too often, too and with variations every time.This time, it was very fusion-ist. Only, waiting for the day when I successfully cook that smooth non-lumpy white sauce. =\ 

Practice, more of it is needed. 

Anyway, Blender  comes to the rescue. :D Shush! never let any secret out. :D

So here is the recipe of my favorite style lasagna. 

Ingredients:

10 Lasagna Sheets- Boiled;

Cheese- whichever you like. 

For Tomato Relish:

4 nos Tomatoes (Big);

2 nos Onions (Medium) Shredded;

1 nos Capsicum (Medium) Shredded;

Small portion of carrot Shredded;

4-5 French Beans- Chopped;

4-5 nos Mushrooms- Shredded (Optional);

2 Tbsp Olive Oil;

1 tsp Ginger garlic paste;

Salt, pepper and Oregano to taste.

For White Sauce:

1 tsp Butter;

1 tsp Flour;

1 cup Milk;

Few baby corns or corn kernels;

Salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

For Tomato Relish:

• Blanch the tomatoes and peel off their skin, puree them with a Hand blender.
• Heat Olive oil in a pan, add ginger garlic paste.
• Now add all the shredded and chopped veggies and saute them.
• Add the tomato puree. Stir nicely to mix all the vegetables. Let it cook while stirring in between. See the oil gets absorbed in the gravy.
• Add the salt, pepper and oregano.
• Get the desired consistency, add a little water if it is getting dry. We'll need nice gravy.

For white Sauce:

• Heat the butter in a separate pan, add and roast the flour. 
• Take the pan off the heat and start adding the milk in smaller quantities while stirring continuously.
• When you are done adding the milk, put the pan back on the flame and keep stirring so that no lumps are formed. (I suck at this)
• When the sauce get enough thick, put the flame off and add the salt and pepper and also the baby corn/ kernels.

Putting the dish together:

• Grease the baking dish and line it with two lasagna sheets.
• Now layer the Tomato relish on the lasagna nicely.
• Cover with another two lasagna sheets.
• Next layer the white sauce over it and cover it with lasagna sheets.
• Make 4-5 layers of lasagna sheets repeating the above mentioned process.
• Grate the cheese and some oregano on the top.
• Bake in the Microwave for 6-7 minutes or till the cheese is brown.
• Serve with Garlic bread.

The Outcome:

I used the heart shaped mold to cut it out and plate it.

The Fiasco:

Like I said, I need to learn to make nice White sauce. =\

Additional Benefits:

Your kitchen will smell awesome with all the oregano also the microwave will smell awesome for days. :D

Cookie Cookie! Healthy Cookie! Tasty Cookie!

I happened to have been looking for an egg less oats cookie recipe for sometime. Because, I simply can't gulp down a single spoon of oats porridge. I can vomit, but not eat it. Happened to buy the 200g rolled oats pack last month, for the healthy way of diet, which did not work out for obvious reasons. Anyway. So, I was looking for this recipe, and dint find any very convincing over the internet. And, Somehow, I was bombarded with a Cakes and Bakes recipe book by Sanjeev Kapoor. Treasure.

There it was.

Also,I am sending this recipe for a cooking event encouraged by wonderful @MonicaManchanda, I happen to know from twitter, whose recipes I keep trying :D 

Here is the link to her wonderful blog Sin-a-Mon and the entry where this event is discussed, and Sanjeeta's Last Bite where she originally announced this Whole Grain Cooking Event.

Egg less Oats Cookie quick recipe.

Ingredients:

150g Rolled Oats;

100g Refined flour;

60g Soft Butter;

1/4 tsp Baking Soda;

1/4 tsp Tartic Acid;

1/4 tsp Salt;

1/2 tsp Cinnamon Powder;

3 tsp Sucralose Powder;

4 tbsp Milk

Method:

• Sift flour, salt, baking soda and tartric acid together.
• Cream the sucralose powder in the softened butter.
• Add oats, cinnamon powder in the flour. Now add the blend of butter and sucralose powder and rub in firmly.
• Add the milk and make the dough.
• Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour wrapped in cling film.
• Preheat the oven at 190 degrees Celcius/ 375 degrees F in the meantime.
• Take the dough out when it is cool. Now divide the dough into small balls and flat them to shape in your palms.
• Grease and flour a baking tray and place the cookies, bake them in the oven for 15 minutes or until light brown.
• Serve warm, or cold. 

The Outcome:

The Fiasco: NONE :D