Let’s celebrate this day in our own way. Apart from singing the National Anthem and watching the Parade, we can gorge ourselves with a few TriColour Delights.
TRICOLOUR LASAGNA
Preparation Time : 60 minutes
Serves : 4-6
Ingredients :
- Lasagne Sheets – 200 gms
- Parmesan Cheese – 300 gms
- Fresh Button Mushrooms – 100 gms
- Water – around 3 cups
- For Garnishing :
- Mushroom – Few, thin slices
- Tomato – few strips
- Capsicum – few strips
- Corn seeds – few
- Tomato – 3, designed in flowers
- For Green Layer : (For Bottom Green Layer)
- American Corn, boiled – 50 gms
- Spinach Purée – 100 gms
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Salt – to taste
- Ginger, chili, garlic paste – 2 tsp
- For Béchamel Sauce : (For Middle White Layer)
- Butter – 1 tbsp
- Refined Flour – 1 tbsp
- Milk – 1 cup
- Salt & Pepper – to taste
- Nutmeg powder – a pinch
- For Tomato Salsa : (For Top Saffron Layer)
- Tomatoes – 200 gms
- Onion – 2
- Capsicum – 1 small
- Spring Onions – a few sprigs
- Cumin Seeds – a pinch
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Tobasco Sauce – 2 tsp
- Mixed Herbs – 2 pinches
- Salt – to taste
- Boil enough water to immense the Lasagne sheets. Put the sheets in the water for 10-15 minutes, covered.
- In the meanwhile, finely chop the tomatoes, onions, capsicum and spring onions.
- Heat oil in a microwave open for 20 seconds on HIGH. Add a pinch of cumin seeds, reheat it for 10 seconds. Now add the onions to it and cook for 1 minute.
- Now add the tomato and capsicum and cook for 2 minutes. Add a little water if it starts drying. Stir it nicely. Add the spring onions, tobasco sauce, mixed herbs, salt and cook for 30 seconds.
- Take out the Lasagne sheets and lay them on a kitchen towel to let them dry. Turn them after few minutes to let it dry on other side.
- In another pan, mix the boiled corn, spinach puree, ginger-chili-garlic paste and salt. Cook for 2 minute and keep it aside.
- In another oven-proof pan, melt the butter, add the flour and stir it properly and cook for 2 minutes or until brown in colour, stirring at regular intervals.
- Add the milk, stir and cook for 3 minutes on HIGH till it thickens. Add the seasoning and cook for another 30 seconds. Add the boiled mushrooms and cook for 1 minute and keep it aside.
- Method for assembling: Layer a few sheets of lasagne to cover the bottom of a deep rectangular oven-proof dish. Now, pour the corn-spinach mixture to make a thick llayer. Sprinkle grated cheese and mixed herbs.Cover with few sheets.
- Now its turn for the mushroom-bechimal sauce to form a thick layer over the sheets. Spread grated cheese again. Sprinkle little mixed herbs over it and cover with again a layer of lasagne sheets.
- Pour the salsa evenly on the sheets to form a thick layer.
- Sprinkle generous amount of cheese and mixed herbs on the top. Dot with little butter. Bake for 5-7 minutes on GRILL mode until the desired browning is done.
- Let it settle for 2 minutes and then garnish it. Re-warm if required.
- Serve hot as it is or with fresh green salad.
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TRICOLOUR SUNDAE
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Serves : 1
Ingredients :
- Orange flavored ice cream – 1 scoop
- Vanilla flavored ice cream – 1 scoop
- Mint flavored ice cream/ Vanilla ice cream topped with khus syrup to get the green color – 1 scoop
- Some nuts to garnish
- Wafer biscuits to garnish
- Mixed fruits (optional) 1 tbsp
- Cherry on top
Method :
- Take a long stemmed glass.
- Put in few fruits, if using them.
- Put in the scoop of Mint ice cream, or the vanilla ice cream. Put a generous amount of khus syrup all over to get the green color.
- Now top it with vanilla ice cream.
- Add some fruits again.
- Now top it with Orange ice cream. You can even add little orange syrup to enhance the color.
- Garnish with nuts and top it with a cherry.
- Place a cherry on top and serve immediately.
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TRICOLOUR RIMZHIM MOCKTAIL
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Serves : 1
Ingredients :
- Khus syrup – 2 tbsp
- Sprite/ 7UP / any soda – ½ cup
- Mirinda Orange – ½ cup
- Lemon Juice – 2 tsp
- Salt – a little
- Crushed ice – a generous amount
Method :
- Take a mocktail glass.
- Pour in khus syrup.
- Put some crushed ice. Add a dash of lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Do not mix it.
- Add Sprite very gently through the sides of the glass. Do it very gently, so that the liquids do not mix.
- Again add some ice, lemon juice and salt.
- Now add Mirinda Orange very gently through the sides.
- This may need a little practice and patience.
- But believe me, the results will show wonders and give you lots of praises.
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Vaishali Parekh
www.Indian-Cooking.Info 