New dishes using LEFT OVERS

Hi to all,

In this world, we must not waste anything. So here are some ways, tips, to protect or maupulate leftovers food items, and make new dishes out of them.
In this thread we are going to see many items and as usual I need your suport for that.
Thank you in advance.:-D

 

Fruit Ice cream Medley

Ingredients

2 scoops basic vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup mixed chop fruit
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2 tbsp. fresh fruit sauce
1 ice cream wafer for topping
10 tbsp. tiny cubes of leftover cake
2-3 tbsp. orange juice sweetened and chilled

Method

Toss the chopped fruit and cake together.
Place at bottom of glass. Pour the orange juice over it.
Place the ice cream scoops over the fruit.
Pour sauce over scoops.
Cut wafer into 4 small triangles.
Poke into top of scoop to form a fan shape.

 

Brown and White Triangulars


Ingredients

6 slices left over brown bread
6 slices left over white bread
3 potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed
3-4 green chilies
4-5 pods garlic
1 piece ginger
1/2 tsp turmeric
Salt to taste
2 tbs cheese grated
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander
Butter to apply

Method

Crush together chilies and garlic.

Mix all ingredients except bread and butter.

Cut bread -- any uneven side of bread, so that one brown slices matches one white
slices.

Apply butter on inner side as well as out side of each slice.

This will give a rich look for the sandwiches.

Place some potato mixture on white slice.

Cover with brown slice.

Press into a preheated sandwich toaster.

Toast them.

Serve with tomato ketchup.

 

Bread Upma (Another Method)

Ingredients

Bread - 1 loaf
Onion (big) - 3 finely chopped
Green Chilies - 3 finely chopped
Tomato - 3 finely chopped
Mustard seeds ½ sp.
Channa dal 1 sp
Ghee - for frying and roasting bread
Sugar - ½ sp
Salt - to taste

Method

Cut bread slice into cubes.
Roast the bread cubes using ghee and keep aside.
Pour ghee in a tawa, and make seasoning.
Fry till golden brown.
Add finely chopped onions and fry till golden brown.
Add chilies and tomatoes.
Add salt to taste.
Fry till there is no water content in the mixture.
Add the bread cubes to the mixture.
Mix well till the mixture gets mixed with the bread cubes.
Add sugar and then mix well.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Tomato sauce will go well along with Bread Upma.

Note: You can add boiled and diced potatoes in upma.

 

Masala Buns

Ingredients

2 – 3 left over buns
3 potatoes, boiled, peeled, mashed
1 large onion finely chopped
1 tsp ginger grated
1 tsp garlic grated
1 tbsp coriander finely chopped
4-5 green chilies finely chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil

For the Stuffing:

Heat oil in a pan.
Add ginger, garlic, chilies, stir for a moment.
Add onions, fry till tender and pinkish.
Add potatoes, lemon juice, salt, coriander.
Mix well and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Cool well before stuffing.

To proceed:

Cut the buns into 2.
Put the masala in that and just press.
Serve immediately with ketch up.

 

Bread Manchurian


Ingredients

Left over Bread slices - 5 - 6
1/2 cup all purpose flour
3-4 tsp Corn flour
2 tsp Ginger finely chopped
1 tsp Garlic finely chopped
Spring onions - 1 bunch finely chopped
Soya sauce - 2 spoons
Ajinomotto - a pinch
Chilly powder
Salt
Oil for frying
Water

Method

Cut the bread slices into small squares and keep them aside.

Make a batter out of the all purpose flour and corn flour.

The consistency of the batter should be neither thin nor thick (little thinner than

Semi solid consistency).

Add little ginger and garlic to this batter.

Now add salt and chilly powder to the batter and mix it up well.

Heat oil in a kadai & dip the bread pieces in the batter and fry them in oil and keep

them aside.

Take little oil in a pan put the remaining ginger-garlic and fry.

Now add spring onions and the fried bread pieces.

Sprinkle little ajinomotto, add the soya sauce and spread well.

Serve Hot ! Enjoy Bread Manchurian.

 

Bread Bajji

Ingredients

Basin (Gram Flour) - 2 cups
Rice Flour - 1/2 cup
Ajwain seeds - 1 Teaspoon
Cumin - 1 Teaspoon
Bread Slices - 5
Salt
Red Chilly Powder - 2 Teaspoons (depending on how spicy you want)
Baking soda - pinch
Oil to fry

Method

First of all toast the bread slices for a minute in a bread toaster or on plain tawa just
to make them little crisp

Cut the bread slice from corner to corner diagonally to make 2 triangular pieces.
( totally 10 pieces out of 5 slices). Keep them aside

Mix all other ingredients together with some water to make batter.

Batter should not be too thin or too thick.

Heat oil. Apply some butter or ghee on each bread piece and dip it in batter and
slide it into oil.

Fry till golden brown.

Serve hot with Sauce or Chutney.

 

Bread soft Pakoda


Ingredients

Left over Bread slices 8
Boiled Potatoes 2
Green Chilies 2
Mustard Seeds 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves Few
Turmeric Powder 1/2 tsp
Gram Flour 5-6 tbsp
Water
Oil for frying
Salt as per taste
Red Chilly Powder as per taste
Cooking soda/baking powder ¼ sp one pinch

For Filling

Heat one spoon of oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds and allow it to crackle... then add curry leaves and finely chopped green chilies.
Add in his turmeric powder and stir.
Now add boiled and mashed Potatoes and salt.
Mix well and stir for 2-3 mins.
Keep this curry in a plate and allow it to cool.


Now mix gram flour with water, salt, red chilli powder and soda make a fine batter.
Take the bread slices.
Fill one slice of bread with potato filling and cover with other slice of the bread and cut this in to four equal squares.
Dip this properly in the gram flour batter and deep fry in oil till it is done.
Serve hot with Green Chutney or Tomato Sauce. You can also enjoy this with hot
tea.

 

Bread Potato Cutlet


Ingredients

Bread with its edges cut - 4 or 5 slices
Potato - cooked and mashed - 2 nos
Salt - to taste
Green chilly - cut into pieces - 4
Grated cheese - 1 cup
Coriander leaves - cut - a little
Sooji powder/Maida - 2 tablespoon
Bread crumbs - as required

Method

Mix (rava) sooji powder and little water and keep aside. Grind for a min. in mixer grinder.

Soak bread slices, take it out and squeeze the water from that.

Mix the grated cheese, cut green chilies, required salt, cooked and mashed
potatoes, the bread, and make a dough.

Make small balls and flatten them in the shape of your choice, (heart shaped,
square, triangular or rectangular, circular etc) dip it in the sooji powder mix
and then in the bread crumbs and deep fry them in well heated oil.

 

Bread Uthappam

Ingredients

Left over Bread 15 to 20 slices
Sour butter milk 1 cup
Large onion 1
Large tomato 1
Green coriander leaves (chop them finely and keep aside)
Green chilies, crushed black pepper (optional) salt, ghee etc (keep aside)

Method

Take the bread slices and soak them in butter milk

Add salt and give a soft grinding in the mixture to make a smooth dough (dropping
consistency like dosa atta)

Mix chopped onion, tomato, green coriander leaves, green chilies and pepper .

Heat the frying pan and put ghee.

Spread the dough evenly to uthappam shape and allow to brown, turn to the other side

Remove from the fire.

Serve hot with coconut chutney.