Spicy vegetables rolled in spinach leaves make a delicious baked dish.
Cannelloni is a homemade pasta, generally prepared with plain flour and a rich garnish of cheese. Here is a healthy 207-calorie version of this tasty main course, prepared with whole wheat flour and low-calorie mozzarella cheese. The cannelloni sheets, stuffed with spinach and low-fat paneer, radiates a distinctive feel, further accentuated by the lovely topping of freshly prepared tomato sauce. Though tedious to prepare, this is a brilliant one dish meal to try your hand at occasionally.
Soufflé is a traditional egg-based baked dish from France. Having had more of sweet soufflés at bakeries, we often tend to forget that soufflés can be savoury too. They can even be made sumptuous enough to be a main course dish.
Basically, a soufflé is made by combining beaten egg whites and egg yolks with other ingredients and baking it. Here is a Spaghetti Soufflé that introduces you to the art of soufflé making.
Here, the egg is baked along with an exciting mixture of spaghetti and white sauce, flavoured with green chillies and coriander. Finally, a generous coating of cheese before baking makes the Spaghetti Soufflé as perfect as it can get!
Consider this the beginning of a long relationship with savoury soufflés. You will love this so much that you will continue your journey, experimenting with other combinations.
Enjoy this delicious Spaghetti Souffle for lunch or dinner paring it with a crunchy salad and warm bread like Cheesy Garlic Pull Apart French Bread or Garlic Bread . Slices of brinjal, coated with eggs and breadcrumbs, are cooked till they become a irresistible golden in colour. These are then drowned in homemade tomato salsa and baked with a topping of cheese, and more cheese!
The tomato salsa has a fabulous mouth-feel, with the crunch of onions and capsicum, and an exciting herby flavour. The salsa and cheese are an awesome match, made even better by a sprinkling of herbs and seasonings. Enjoy the Baked Cheesy Eggplant in Tomato Salsa, with Eggs, immediately upon baking to enjoy the freshest flavour and best texture!
Team up this cheesy baked dish with Garlic Spaghetti and a salad for a sumptuous meal that you will love to dine on. Ravioli is one of the best-known stuffed pasta dishes, famous beyond the shores of Italy. It is said that ravioli originally came from Liguria and was invented to use up left-over food. This recipe of small square envelopes of pasta dough enclosing a mixed vegetable stuffing served with a tomato sauce, spiked with oregano and chilli is sure to tickle the Indian palate which craves for spice. You can divide the making of ravioli into easy stages that can be completed well in advance. Make the filling and the sauce one day, then make the pasta dough and shape the ravioli the next day. Remember to toss the ravioli in the sauce just before serving and then to eat it quickly!
Stuffed Bulgur and Brinjal Bake is a really off-beat and totally exotic dish that is sure to be enjoyed by everybody! Bulgur wheat is cooked with delicious veggies, tangy tomato sauce, aromatic herbs and spices, and stuffed into large brinjals.
This mouth-watering arrangement is then baked with a topping of grated cheese, to make a totally outta-this-world dish, which will excite your taste buds and ensure that you remember it for a long time!
Served with Cheese and Herb Potato Fries and a bowl of hot soup makes for a satisfying meal. A very different baked dish, which features a tangy tomato gravy upon a bed of spinach and paneer. The spinach and paneer layer has a very interesting texture due to the combination of crumbled paneer and blanched spinach.
The flavour and texture of the Spinach and Paneer in Tomato Gravy is further improved by sprinkling some grated cheese on top of the tomato gravy before baking. As the cheese melts and fuses into the tomato gravy, which in turn combines with the spinach and paneer mixture, you get a totally fabulous baked dish, which can be enjoyed as it is, or with toasted bread slices . The French Casserole is a classy one-dish meal with subtle flavours. It is basically comprised of three components – rice, spinach-onion mixture and tomato gravy – that are arranged and baked with a topping of cheese.
Spinach gives you a creamy mouth-feel, while the onions give you a pungent crunch and the tomato gravy endows the dish with an irresistibly tangy taste.
The rice is cooked in milk, which gives a classic taste and creamy texture to the dish. With a touch of spices and the appetizing aroma of herbs, the French Casserole is a sure-shot hit!
Try your hand at making more French favourites like the Spaghetti Souffle or Baked Vegetable Pancakes in White Sauce with Eggs An assortment of veggies are roasted with chopped garlic and olive oil and pasta mixed with a gooey cheese sauce made of grated cheese, plain flour and butter and with a generous sprinkling of cheese on top.
Au Gratin is a famous continental dish, which features veggies in white sauce baked with a topping of cheese and sometimes bread crumbs. Here is a delectable Corn Au Gratin, which as the name suggests focuses on the juicy texture and mildly-sweet flavour of corn.
A few green chillies are added to the Au Gratin to give it a mild touch of spice. The Corn Au Gratin is best when it is fresh and hot, right out of the oven. You can relish it with toasted bread slices or apply it upon small triangles of toast and serve as a starter . Juicy sweet corn and exotic asparagus in a perfect white sauce, baked with a topping of cheese and red chilli flakes, this is a sumptuous and tasty dish.
The key to getting the Baked Corn with Asparagus right is the consistency of the white sauce – it should neither be too thin nor too thick. If you keep that in mind, then this dish will turn out to be a really fabulous treat!
This baked dish is self-sufficient, so on a busy day you can serve it with just some toasted bread slices and is also perfect to serve with soups and pastas to make a heartier meal. Rice, simply and elegantly flavoured with tomato ketchup, is topped with a tangy, tomato-based mixed vegetable gravy, peppy pineapple and juicy tomato slices. The interesting arrangement is then baked with a garnish of cheese, to get a super-tasty one-dish meal
You will really enjoy the tangy notes of the Baked Mixed Vegetable Layered with Rice, as well as its fabulous texture that combines the crunch of veggies and the gooeyness of cheese. Enjoy it fresh. In a small portion, this might be a snack, but have a substantial quantity and it becomes a satiating meal!
Indeed, the Veg Lasagne with Paneer is a self-contained meal as the lasagne sheets play host to a basketful of juicy and crunchy veggies, succulent paneer and a tangy tomato sauce, all of which is bathed in luscious white sauce and coated with grated cheese before baking.
Once the lasagne is golden brown in colour, it is ready to serve. Baking not only cooks the ingredients and melts the cheese, but also boosts their flavours and helps them fuse with one another.
The end-result is a nice, moist, cheesy and flavour-packed dish that can be served as a one-dish meal.
You can also try other such dishes like Lasagne and Original Lasagne . A lusciously creamy sauce of paneer and milk flavoured with nutmeg and pepper plays host to boiled noodles, which is then topped with spinach and grated cheese. What makes this Noodle and Spinach Bake convenient to prepare is that it is microwaved for two minutes to fuse the cheese with the other ingredients, rather than baking the setup for a longer time. While this is a quick alternative, it is equally important that it is served immediately to enjoy the best texture and flavour.
The Cheese Soufflé is a savoury treat, which you will devour with delight! A combination of eggs, cheese and milk gives this soufflé a fabulously cheesy texture, while mustard paste and a dash of pepper give it an irresistible flavour.
Remember that each serving of the soufflé has to be baked in an individual container, as it has to be served in the same container – you can’t unmould it. Serve the Cheese Soufflé immediately after baking.
Serve with French Beans with Sesame-Seeds or Pasta Salad with Basil Vinaigrette and Melba Toast .