A heavy duty snack that not only fills up the stomach, but helps plug in the nutritional requirements of your loved ones!
It's well worth the time and effort required to make these wafers for the amount of caloric intake it helps reduce. All the fun without the fat.
If you love italian cuisine, you need to have this sauce in your larder! here is the quintessential tomato sauce recipe from the kitchens of italy. Try not to miss any of the ingredients including the tomato puree and pulp, the assorted spices and herbs, as each works their magic to produce a zesty sauce that you can use as is, or in other recipes like pizzas and pastas.
Mushroom might look and taste simple, but not after you have stuffed it with oregano-tinged spinach and corn. With a nutritious filling and a creamy topping, stuffed mushrooms is an awesome starter.
An attractively presented pasta with a creamy tomato sauce.
The best way to bring up independent kids is to catch them early. Pique their interest in cooking through interesting recipes like this, and watch them enjoy their time in the kitchen.
This love of cooking will grow with the years. The Noughts and Crosses Pizza is a fun way to make kids help in the kitchen. A sauce-lined base with crisscrossing cheese lines makes the playing board while crosses of capsicum and noughts of tomatoes and onions make the players’ coins.
Now you and your kids can play a mind-boggling game while preparing the
pizza for baking!
You can change the toppings as you like, but remember to season it well before baking, so that the aroma fills the house and brings everyone to the table to taste the food lovingly cooked by the kids!
Go for more recipes like
Pizza with Mushrooms, Garlic and Walnuts or
Pizza Twists An adaptation of the italian malfatti. This is the saatvik variation made without using any garlic or onions without compromising with the taste.
A superb Italian dish with 2 rich sauces.
Perfectly cooked macaroni in a white sauce base flavoured finely with chopped parsley and assorted spices, the macaroni supreme is universally liked across the world by people of all age groups. It is the nutmeg powder that actually sets this recipe apart from other macaroni preparations. You will surely note its special touch!
A superb Italian dish with 2 rich sauces.
Healthful spinach bound in soft cottage cheese flavoured with a novel combination of green chillies and nutmeg powder, is shaped into balls and steamed to make fluffy dumplings. Served with a topping of freshly made herbed tomato sauce, this sumptuous Oriental treat will make a great starter for your meal. Serve the Spinach and Cottage Cheese Dumplings in Tomato Sauce immediately after preparation to avoid sogginess and loss of aroma.
A calzone is a traditional
Italian oven-baked snack, which is often described as a folded pizza. Basically, a plain flour dough pocket holds delicious toppings, in some way comparable to our desi favourite, the samosa!
In this yummy and satiating calzone, the filling is a creamy, cheesy mixture of mushrooms and onions perked up with herbs and other seasonings.
The creamy mouth-feel of the stuffing really captivates your heart when you bite into the Mushroom Calzone!
You can also try other mushroom-based snacks like the
Mushroom Snack and the
Mushroom Pizza .
Stuffed pasta-cannelloni topped with yummy tomato sauce and low calorie white sauce! Cannelloni is made from plain flour, which when consumed in excess or regularly can be bad for health – this is because the flour is refined and gets converted to sugar quickly, thereby fluctuating blood sugar levels.
However, that is no reason to abstain from our favourite cannelloni! Simply mix in equal amounts of whole wheat flour to add a dose of fibre – this would prevent the rise in blood sugar levels. Stuff this cannelloni with a filling of your choice and lo and behold, you have an exotic dish.
I have combined pineapple and paneer to pep up the bland taste of cannelloni, and used low fat milk, paneer, mozzarella cheese and low calorie white sauce to further cut down on calories and fat.