Preparing a good breakfast daily morning is becoming a difficult task for me these days. Whatever I do, I can’t get up before 6AM. I don’t like to eat out, so I prepare breakfast and lunch in the morning. I forget to do all the preparations for it on previous evening, so I start from scratch in the morning. Even though I work without stopping, I take one and half hours to finish both, get ready, eat breakfast and reach office. I try my best to reach office by 7.30. So I am on continuous lookout for easy recipes.
This recipe was sent to me by Aruna . She said this dish was born from the ragda patis recipe, which she had sent me few days ago. She also said they go well as a starter or a snack in the evening. I made them for breakfast and absolutely loved them. These have become a regular from then, as they get ready in a very little time and they have very good taste. Because of corn, they get the very distinct sweetish taste. This can be called as a healthy and very filling breakfast/snack.
Ingredients: 1 cup yellow corn kernels 1 cup boiled and chopped potatoes 2 bread slices 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1 tea spn grated ginger 1 tea spn finely chopped green chilies 1/2 tea spn grated garlic 1 tea spn amchoor powder 1 tea spn lemon juice A pinch turmeric 1-2 cups fine sooji/rava or bread crumbs 1 tea spn cumin seeds 2-3 strands coriander leaves Oil Salt
I used chaat masala instead of amchoor powder.
Method: If frozen corn is used, microwave it for 5mins. If fresh corn is used, cook it slightly. Heat oil and add cumin seeds. When they start popping, add turmeric, ginger, garlic, green chilies and onion. Fry for sometime. Do not allow the onion to become soft. They should remain crunchy. Add potatoes, corn, bread soaked in water and then squeezed to remove water, amchoor powder/ chat masala , salt, chopped coriander leaves and mix well. When they have cooled down a little, make round balls of this mixture and slightly press to give the patties shape. Roll these into rava/sooji or bread crumbs. Apply ghee /oil to tava and shallow fry the patties from both sides(like vegetable cutlets . Serve hot with sweet/spicy chutney or ketchup.
Serves : 3-4 Preparation time : 15mins
This is not a cake that I made for the class. I have already joined the course-2, for this class we bake less cakes compared to the course-1. We were supposed to practice a lot for all the courses and I was never finding any time. This weekend I made sure to bake one cake from the course-1 book just as a practice.
Though I baked the cake early, I went for my shopping and by the time I came home it was already 10PM. I started decorating the cake after that. I practiced writing, snow peas and leaves on this cake.
Lessons learnt, do not start delicate work like decorating cake when you are very tired :).
Updated: Now that most of you have guessed it right, here is the full story. I was planning for a birthday cake for my husband from many days. But I got very busy when the time came to actually bake it. I wanted him to cut the cake at 12, so I wanted to finish decorating that night itself. By the time I started, it was already 10PM and by the time I finished, it was too late and he had already slept. Finally he cut the cake next day. He was very happy with the decoration. I am happy that he liked it very much. It has come out totally different than what I had initially planned – I had picked up a design from the instruction book. Still I am very happy with the decoration.
Thanks for all your wishes.
