French Toast

Ingredients

Bread slices      2
Egg                     1
Milk                     1 cup
Sugar                 4 tbsp
Oil                       4 tbsp

Method:

-         In a bowl, add beaten egg, milk and sugar. Beat together until all ingredients are well combined.

-         Dip bread slices in the mixture (do not over coat bread slices with mixture) and fry in hot oil on medium oil.

-         When both sides of bread color changes to nice golden brown, French Toast is ready to serve.

Nauratan Vegetables by chef Shireen Anwar

Ingredients
Spinach (palak)                                  2 cups (chopped)
Potato                                                   1 (cut into cubes)
Green beans                                       1 cup
Brinjal                                                    1 (cut in cubes)
Carrots                                                  2 (cut in cubes)
Tomatoes                                             4 (chopped)
Peas                                                      1/2 cup
Cauliflower (phool gobhi)                  125 gm
Turmeric powder (haldi)                    1/2 tsp
Salt                                                         1 tsp heaped
Cumin seeds (zeera)                         1 tsp
Chili powder (lal mirch powder)       2 tsp

Ingredients for Baghaar
Oil                                                        1/2 cup
Red chili whole (sabut lal mirch)  6
Cumin seeds (zeera)                      1/2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds (methi daana)  1/4 tsp

Method

-       Cut all the vegetables in cubes, put in a pan with 1/2 cup water, chopped tomatoes, salt, chili powder, turmeric and cook till vegetables are tender,

-       Heat oil, add fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds and whole red chilies, add this baghar to the prepared vegetable mixture, mix well, simmer (dam par rakh day) for 10 minutes.

French Fries by Chef Shireen Anwer

Ingredients:
Potatoes                                     1 kg
Salt                                              1 1/2 tsp
Corn flour                                   hand full

or rice flour

or refined flour (Maida)

(French fries becomes more crispy, if we apply rice flour)

Method:

-       Peel and slice potatoes in medium size fingers, soak in salted water, boil till half done for 5 minutes.

-       Remove and add handful of corn flour or rice flour to coat well and allow it to cool.

-       Heat oil; deep fry them on high flame till crisp and golden, serve with different sauces.