#Eventreport & Recipes: Indoindians Cooking Shooking with Friends

Since the coronavirus has sheltering at home, What’s Up Chef has changed its location online. The Cooking Shooking with Friends event is an online session in which home cooks share their tried-and-true recipes that are healthy, easy to make and could boost our immunity at times like these.

This online session was moderated by Jyoti Chawla.

The first recipe was by Aparna Narang, in which she makes a healthy, spicy, sweet and sour Beetroot salad recipe for you to enjoy.

Beetroot Salad

Instructions:

• 1 beetroot (broad shavings)
• Half Onion Finely Chopped
• 1 tomato diced
• Green Chillies
• Salt
• 15 raisins
• Walnuts
• Black Pepper
• Lemon Juice

Directions:

1. Mix all of the above ingredients.
2. Wait for 20 minutes so all the juices are absorbed.
3. Serve and enjoy your beetroot salad.

Dabeli by Archana Garg

The second recipe is by Archana Garg, in which she makes delicious Dabeli which is a gujarati street food.

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbsp Oil
• 3 mashed potatoes
• pomegranate seeds
• onion, finely chopped
• coriander, finely chopped
• masala peanuts, roasted
• coconut, dry grated
• Burger Bread
• 2 Tbsp Dabeli Masala
• 2 Tbsp Dates and Tamarind Chutney
• 1/2 lime juice
• Gram Dal Sev
• Garlic Chutney

Directions:

1. Take 2 Tbsp of oil, dabeli masala and tamarind and dates masala. Then add in mashed potato. Mix it well. Taste accordingly, as both masalas have salt in it.
2. Add a bit of water until it has a watered-down consistency. Afterwards, fry it.
3. After done, put into a dish and add dry grated coconut, coriander, roasted peanuts, pomegranate seeds.
4. Take the bread. In the bottom side, slather on some garlic and chili chutney.
5. Put in Tamarind and dates chutney on the top bread.
6. Put the potato masala.
7. Add little cut onions and coriander.
8. Put some pomegranate seeds.
9. Optionally, you can put peanuts for more peanut taste to your dabeli.
10. Close both of the bread together.
11. Add some butter on the pan. Roast both sides of the bread.

Beetroot Burgers by Geetika Sainani

The third recipe is by Geetika Sainani, who makes healthy and delicious Beetroot Burgers which is a good blend of Greek & Indian cuisine. It was inspired by her daughter.

Ingredients:

• Grated Beetroot
• Instant Quaker Oats
• Red Rice, half-cooked
• Red chilli powder (optional)
• pink salt
• coriander leaves, chopped
• Ghee or olive oil
• Wheat bun
• spinach
• slice of onion
• slice of tomato
• grilled beetroot
• chat masala
• sesame seeds
• white pepper

Tzatziki Sauce ingredients:

• 2 Tbsp grated cucumber
• 2 Tbsp greek yoghurt
• white pepper
• himalayan salt
• lemon drops
• garlic
• coriander

Instructions:

1. Add coarsely grated beetroot with instant quaker oatmeal and half cooked red rice. Then add in red chili powder (optional), pink salt, sesame seeds and coriander leaves. Mix all.
2. Make balls out of the patty and flatten on greased tava and brush with ghee or olive oil.
3. Grill the patty for 3-4 minutes each side. The heat must be kept medium, then low.
4. Take the whole wheat bun, split in two and grill.
5. Make sautéed spinach with garlic, white pepper, butter/ghee and pink salt. Cook for one minute.
6. Make tzatziki sauce using 2 Tbsp of grated cucumber with 2 Tbsp greek yoghurt, white pepper, Himalayan salt, lemon drops, garlic and coriander
7. Assemble the burger by putting on sautéed spinach, tzatziki sauce, slice of onion, slice of tomato and grilled beetroot. Sprinkle roasted cumin seeds powder and chat masala on it.

Vegetable Fingers by Sarita Pansari

Ingredients:

• 1 cup mung dal
• 1/4 cup besan
• 1/4 tsp soda,
• Salt to taste
• 1tsp chilli – ginger paste
• 1/4 cup dhaniya patta
• 1 cup mixed boil vegetables (potato, carrot, peas, beans)

Method

1. Soak mung dal for 3-4 hrs and grind it add the boiled vegetables, besan, and other things. Mix well and make dhokla out of it.
2. When cool cut long fingers and deep fry in oil.
3. Serve hot with chatni or sauce.

Gluten Free Banana Bread by Madhu Laroya

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cup spelt or almond flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 7/8 cup of cane or coconut sugar
• 1/3 cup of coconut oil
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp Apple cider vinegar
• 3/8 cup water

Method: All ingredients in a bread maker in the same order and bake on standard settings.

Immunity Boosting Chutney by Geeta Seth

Ingredients:

• 15 cloves of garlic
• Half cup bhuna chana
• One handful moringa leaves
• One handful curry leaves
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoon mix sunflower n melon seeds or pumpkin
• seeds
• One amla ( Indian gooseberry )
• One tablespoon flaxseeds
• Lemon juice
• Pink salt
• Hing 1/4 teaspoon
• 1 teaspoon jeera (cumin ) seeds
• 2 dry red chilli
• Half teaspoon turmeric powder

Method:

• In a pan dry roast cumin n flaxseeds
• Dry roast garlic for few minutes
• Deseed amla
• Now mix everything together and grind coarsely
• Adjust the taste of salt and chilli as per your likes. Also lemon juice as per taste
• Store in a glass container n refrigerate
• The chutney can be grinded to a paste too by adding little water
• Also another way is to heat coconut oil 1 tablespoon
• To it add jeera, Heeng, Flaxseeds, moringa and curry leaves
• Roast for 5 mnts
• Cool it
• Now add other ingredients and grind it
• This is a great immunity booster
• During lock down days presently people make limited varieties of food
• Adding this chutney one tablespoon a meal compensate for all immunity boosting foods

It was a fun and interactive session watched by over 500 from around the world. If you would like to participate in our next session, please register below