Few months ago, our friends Kalpana and her husband had invited us to their home for dinner. Kalpana is a great artist. She had such beautiful paintings all over her home. We were in awe looking at her master pieces. She is also a very good cook. We both started talking about food and she told me that she makes tofu chapatis. She mentioned, this adds protien to the chapatis and also makes them soft.
I usually don’t buy tofu. But I want to make it a point to use it more in my cooking because of its high protein content. This time I bought firm tofu. I crumbled half of it and made these chapatis. They came out really good.
Ingredients: 1 cup crumbled firm tofu 2 cups wheat flour Salt
Method: Crumble tofu. Add wheat flour, salt and enough water to it and make dough. Take small balls from the dough and make chapatis.
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I had many requests for palak paneer in last few months. The thing is, I don’t prepare palak paneer. V and I must be the only two people in the whole world, who do not care much for this dish. About 5 years ago, I saw a recipe on one of the TV shows, where the chef had used kasoori methi in palak paneer. I tried it once and then gave up. Last week, I had to use up a lot of palak and some firm tofu. So I thought of mixing spinach and some frozen methi (fenugreek) leaves. I did not remember the recipe from TV show, so I made something up. I was wondering what to call it, then I saw this post . So I thought of calling it Saag Paneer. It came out pretty good.
Ingredients: 3 cups spinach 2 cups fenugreek leaves 1/2 tea spn garam masala 2 green chillies 1 tea spn ginger paste 1 tea spn garlic paste 1 tea spn cumin seeds 1/2 cup onion 1/2 tea spn amchoor powder 1/2 tea spn red chilli powder 2 cups firm tofu or paneer cubes A pinch of turmeric 2 tbl spn cream (optional) Salt
Method: Blanch spinach and fenugreek leaves in boiling water for 2 mins. Grind to a smooth paste with green chillies. (I take out some water and use it for chapatis/parathas, remaining water I use for making the paste). Heat oil and add cumin seeds, ginger paste, garlic paste, onion. When they turn brownish, add turmeric, chilli powder, amchoor powder, garam masala. Fry for few minutes. Heat a little oil and add tofu or paneer. Fry for few minutes (this step is optional). Add the paste, salt to onion mixture. Add paneer or tofu. Cook for 5-6 mins. Add cream, cook for a min.
Serves : 3-4 Preparation time : 20mins
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