Baked Tortilla Chips

Baked Tortilla Chips

This recipe is for the BM#49 Week 1 under the theme ‘Accompaniments’

               Tortilla chips are the popular accompaniments in most of the Mexican restaurants and usually served with dips such as salsa or guacamole. For Today’s recipe, I baked the chips and served with homemade guacamole.

Ingredients ( For Chips )

Whole wheat tortillas – 3 to 4 medium size

Olive oil – for brushing

Method ( Tortilla Chips)

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2) Cut each tortilla into small triangle shaped wedges and arrange them in cookie sheet

3) Brush the chips with olive oil

4) Bake them for about 7- 8 mins or until they start little browning,

Serve it warm with salsa or guacamole.

Note : I did not season it with any salt or other spices like chilli powder. If you are seasoning the chips , you can avoid the dip. Below is the recipe for guacamole.



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(For Guacamole)

Avocado – 2 ripe ones

Onions – ¼ cup nicely chopped

Tomatoes – ¼ cup nicely chopped

Salt – as needed

Pepper – as needed

Lemon juice – from 1 lemon

Coriander leaves – little

Jalapeno or Chilli – 1 (Optional, I did not add it)

Method

1.      Cut the avocadoes and remove the seed.

2.       Mash avocados in a bowl leaving some chunks.

3.      Gently stir in remaining ingredients and mix it.

4.      Enjoy with the Chips



 

 

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Baked Vegetable Samosas

 

Its been a while I baked anything and today I felt like eating something crunchy and spicy and thought I can make samosas , but a baked one with less oil.

Ingredients

Spring roll pastry sheet - 6

Potato – 2  ( boiled )

Peas – 1/2 cup ( frozen)

Corn – 1/ 4 cup ( frozen)

Onions – 1 small medium

Chilly powder – 1 1/2  tsp

Salt – as required

Cumin powder – 1tsp

Garam masala – 1 tsp ( optional , I did not add it )

Preparation

Thaw the pastry sheet.

Boil the potatoes. Cut the onions into thin slices. In a pan , add oil , fry the onions.

Mash the potatoes and add it to the onions. Then add Peas , Corn and cook for sometime. Add salt , Chilli powder , cumin powder , garam masala and toss it well. Cook for 5 – 10 mins  and remove from stove.

Pre heat the oven at 400 F. Cut the Pastry sheet into half. Place the potato mixture on the sheet fold into triangle. Grease the baking sheet with oil and brush the samosas with oil . Bake the samosas for 15 – 20 mins and turn on both sides until they are slightly brown.

Remove from oven and enjoy with tomato sauce.

Bajji

 

Last Thursday , it was raining and both of us were feeling like eating bajji and hot chai. As soon I reached home in the evening and made potato bajji. Actually I planned to make some onion bajji as well , but ended up making only potato bajji. My daughter also enjoyed this bajji with tomato sauce..

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Besan / Kadala Maavu
• 1 tbsp. rice flour
• 1 large Potato
• 1/2 tsp Red chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp Hing / Asafoetida
• A pinch  of Turmeric powder
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

Method

Wash the potato and cut them into thin slices ( I used the mandolin slicer and adjusted it for correct thickness )

Take the Besan , rice flour , Salt , red chili powder , turmeric , hing in a bowl and add water slowly and mix it well to  a thick batter ( it should be too watery or too thick ) . The batter should be such a way that when you dip the potato it should coat well.

Heat the oil in the pan and once it is hot , Dip the potato in the batter and add it to the oil.  Turn the bajji and fry both sides until it is golden brown. Remove it and drain the excess oil using paper towel.  Repeat this in small batches

You can make Coconut chutney as a side dish , we all had it Maggi tomato sauce.

Variations : instead of potato , you can use onions , paneer cubes or raw banana to make bajjis. Bread or papad can also be used to make bajji’s