Lettuce Salad Cups

These adorable cups will grab your attention instantly and increase your appetite. They can be filled with any of your favorite fresh vegetables or fruits.

Ingredients:
For Lettuce salad cups [4 servings]

Green Lettuce head – 1
English cucumber – 1
Sweet Onions -1
Tomatoes- 1
Cilantro – 2 tbsp finely chopped
Lime Juice – 1 tbsp fresh

Dry Ingredients:
Chaat Masala – 1 tbsp
Black Pepper – 1 tsp
Roasted Cumin seeds – 1 tsp (powdered)
Sugar – 1 tsp
Salt as per taste

Method:

• Peel and chop cucumbers in small cubes. Keep aside. .
• Chop sweet onions and tomatoes finely. Clean and chop cilantro finely as well.
• In a salad bowl, add chopped sweet onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and cilantro gently.
• Now add lime juice, chaat masala, freshly grounded black pepper, roasted cumin seed powder, sugar and salt. Mix the salad again.
• Separate the lettuce leaves gently. Take each lettuce and cut them in 3 inch diameter circular discs. Prepare 4 lettuce discs.
• In a paper cup, line the lettuce leaf and fill it with the prepared salad mix. Repeat the process for the remaining 3 cups.
• Arrange all the four salad cups in a serving plate.

Serve fresh with any meal or just as an anytime snack.

Holi Special: Namkeen Karele [Savory snack]

Namkeen Karele is an attractive treat that tastes as good as it looks. It is flaky, crunchy and super delicious. I bet not only kids, grown-ups get tempted to grab some of them. I have learned this recipe from my mother-in-law few years back. Since then, I try making them during festivities.

Ingredients:
For 50 pieces approx.

All purpose flour (maida) – 1.5 cups
Whole wheat flour – 1/2 cup
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Ajwain – 1 tsp
Salt as per taste
Water (enough to make firm dough)
Cooking oil to fry

Method:

• Combine all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, cumin seeds, ajwain seeds, vegetable oil and salt.
• Mix together well and add water very slowly to make dough. Knead well to make it a little firm dough (puri kind).
• Keep the dough aside for 10-15 minutes.
• Take a small ball out of this dough and roll a small puri.
• Cut it vertically, but take care not to cut all the way. Do not separate the cuttings.
• Slowly roll the slit puri and gently twist both the sides to give it a karela shape.
• Repeat the above process to make all the karelas.
• Fry them carefully in medium hot oil.

Serve them any time with tea of coffee.