Budget cooking

by Sanjeev Kapoor

Menu: Cooking in a tight budget can always be challenging specially with housewives and bachelors. Now, there’s no fear as these easy on the pocket recipes gives you the same delicious taste that you would look in for an elaborate dish. Try out Spiced Carrot Soup Shots, alongwith Baingan Canapés and Aloo and Capsicum Parantha.

Shopping list

3 carrots 

10 grams red chillies

1 bottle olive oil

1 medium brinjal

1 packet biscuits

1 packet dry mango powder

For faster preparation

Chop all the vegetables for the soup shots and sauté them till they are cooked. Blend them till smooth. In other pan make the garnish ready for the soup and keep aside. Process the vegetables for the canapés and make the mixture ready for them. Knead the dough for the parantha and sauté the mixture and keep it ready. Divide the dough and the mixture into equal portions and keep them aside.

How to go about it

Heat the soup and pour into the shots. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve. Arrange the biscuits on the platter and place the mixture on top of the biscuits and serve. Roll the dough into thick paranthas and cook till golden brown on both the sides. 

Recommended recipes-

Spiced Carrot Soup Shots,  Baingan Canapés,  Aloo and Capsicum Parantha.

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MasterChef Sanjeev Kapoor

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine. He is Chef extraordinaire, runs a successful TV Channel FoodFood, hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years, author of 150+ best selling cookbooks, restaurateur and winner of several culinary awards. He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women through power of cooking to become self sufficient. His recipe portal www.sanjeevkapoor.com is a complete cookery manual with a compendium of more than 10,000 tried & tested recipes, videos, articles, tips & trivia and a wealth of information on the art and craft of cooking in both English and Hindi.