It’s already 2^nd of December yeah! That’s right, days just fly off like I said yesterday.  I can’t write something like my mother used to bake bread or how I loved my sandwiches in my Lunch Box.  Very rarely I used to take bread sandwich, actually I can’t even rememberJ.  The only thing I can remember of Bread is 2 things one is Jam / sugar sandwiched bread toasts and just bread toasts with my milk / coffee when I used to fall sick.  The Milk breads which we used to get in Bangalore were really tasty.  Have you ever tried my Milk bread you should give it a go.

When my kids started going to school, I used to give them sandwiches sometimes, they always loved it with Butter and Jam (Toast with butter and Sandwich with Jam)!  As they used to take Indian food in their lunch Box which they loved.   But they were all bygone days, soon as they started refusing to take Indian food in their lunch box.  The most they were ready to take was Indian flat breads (Chapatis /parathas).  They said they wanted something to hold in their hand and eat as they had no proper place to sit and eat or they would say they had no time to have a relaxed lunch break, well as they grow up they start giving me  reasons as they want their way.  In the beginning, I was worried then started looking for healthy breads to make sandwiches and started exploring new ingredients to sandwich between them.  Not just that until they finished their schooling every week I used to bake my own bread at least twice, they loved home baked breads as well.

This filling has always been one of our favourite, Each and every time when I send this bread toast I get texts from my hubby and children after their lunch break that it was awesome.  A filling which hearty healthy and a wholesome either as your breakfast or for your lunch box.

Avocado and Spring Onion Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Author: Jayasri
Recipe type: Breakfast / Lunch Box
Cuisine: International

Ingredients:
2 Avocado
1 Bunch Spring Onion
1 medium sized red onion/ Bombay onions
1 Large Green Capsicum
1 or 2 Green chillies finely chopped (optional)
½ tbsp. of Chilli flakes
1 and ½ tsp salt (as required)
1 or 2 tbsp of Lemon Juice
Any herbs of your choice
(Coriander leaves, parsley, chives, Basil anything you like)

Method:
Remove the skin from the Avocadoes and chop them into pieces, wash spring onions and chop into fine pieces, the same goes to capsicum and onions chop it finely as well.  Chop green chilies if using or use chili flakes and required salt, squeeze a tbsp of lemon juice.

Mash them a little bit mix them all together, just they all combine well together to this add finely chopped herb of your choice (I used coriander leaves). Combine them all well together and keep it aside for few minutes.

Take Bread of your choice butter it put the filling and some cheese on it and grill the sandwich for a wonderful aromatic Grilled sandwich.

You can make it VEGAN by not using Cheese.

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Avocado and Spring Onion Grilled Cheese Sandwich

A wholesome hearty and healthy meal in itself for a good start of the day or for a filling and tasty Lunch Box

Course Breakfast / Lunch Box

Cuisine International

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Author Jayasri

Ingredients

• 2 Avocado
• 1 Bunch Spring Onion
• 1 medium sized red onion/ Bombay onions
• 1 Large Green Capsicum
• 1 or 2 Green chillies finely chopped optional
• ½ tbsp. of Chilli flakes
• 1 and ½ tsp salt as required
• 1 or 2 tbsp of Lemon Juice
• Any herbs of your choice
• Coriander leaves, parsley, chives, Basil anything you like

Instructions

• Remove the skin from the Avocadoes and chop them into pieces, wash spring onions and chop into fine pieces, the same goes to capsicum and onions chop it finely as well. Chop green chilies if using or use chili flakes required amount of salt and squeeze tbsp. of lemon juice.
• Mash them a little bit mix them all together, just they all combine well together to this add finely chopped herb of your choice (I used coriander leaves). Combine them all well together and keep it aside for few minutes.
• Take Bread of your choice butter it put the filling and some cheese on it and grill the sandwich for a wonderful aromatic Grilled sandwich.

Notes

You can use this to sandwich around 1 pound of bread

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CRISPY RICE STUFFED CROQUETTES

Looks beautiful and Gorgeous isn't it......., Let's see what's its all about then, go on read ....,

INGREDIENTS:
1 to 1 and 1/2 Cup Cooked Rice
1/4 cup of peas
A few spring onions
1 small carrot
4 French beans
A few sprigs of Coriander leaves
1 or 2 tbsp of Lemon juice
2 to 3 Green chillies
A few curry leaves (optional)
1 tsp Black Mustard seeds
1/2 tsp of Coriander powder
1/4 tsp of Cumin powder
1/2 tsp of Turmeric
Salt as required
2 tbsp of oil

FOR THE COVERING
250 gms of Potatoes ( Increase potatoes if you wish)
3 to 4 tbsp of Corn flour (Increase as you wish)
1/2 tsp of Chilli powder
1tsp of Salt
Extra Oil for toasting

METHOD:
It's a simple recipe, nothing extraordinary.
First of all wash your potatoes and pressure cook them to 1 whistle, this would have made them quite soft, once it is cool take out the potatoes, peel the skin off and set aside to cool, as it will still very warm inside. Meanwhile take 2 tbsp of oil heat it in a wok then add the mustard seeds, after they splutter add chopped green chillies saute them for a minute, till they change colour, then add finely chopped, carrots, beans and then the peas sprinkle a little water, close a lid and keep it in a low flame until it is well cooked, check now and again so that they don't stick to the bottom of the kadai, sprinkle water if necessary, Once you know the veggies are well cooked add the chopped spring onions, and all the masala powders  mentioned above, Saute them for few minutes once they all soften up add Cooked Rice, mix well mash up the rice a little bit , then add Chopped fresh coriander leaves and lemon juice as per your taste with salt as required mix well and  set it aside to cool.

Now your filling is ready. Next is your covering.. how to go about it, well reading the Ingredients I think you know what I have done.
I have just given a approximate on potatoes, Increase or decrease according to your filling you have made.
Once the peeled potatoes are cool, mash them nicely until soft to this add salt, chilli powder and corn flour to make it into a firm dough, use Corn flour as necessary, I did not use too much as I wanted the potatoes to retain their taste, too much corn flour might change the texture!, Using less corn flour might be a bit of a problem, as the dough might be little bit sticky and difficult to handle but once you know what you are doing it is easy to shape them up, but they might be quite fragile to handle, so do be careful.
Once the dough is ready make small rounds put a 2 to 3 tbsp of stuffing press the ends nicely so they don't break up anywhere, and join them as shown in the picture, roll it on a flat surface so the covering is equally distributed then fry it on a Tawa/Girdle with tsp of oil and roast them to a golden brown colour, serve them with few salad leaves and sauces of choices.

FEW VARIATIONS: If you want you can make it round croquettes and deep fry them in oil.
You can make a Maida/plain flour or Corn flour dip (ie, make a paste of one of the flours) Dip the croquettes into the flour and then roll it on bread crumbs and then either deep fry them or grill them on a stove top or grill them in a oven, change as you wish.
Some children are picky to eat rice, I think this would be quite an interesting one for them to enjoy.
If you do not want rice at all for yourself then just add more vegetables which would be a fantastic meal in itself.
Have an other look at my Crispy Rice stuffed Croquettes

c u soon with an other recipe hope you all enjoyed it.
I would like to send this to Priya of Now serving who is hosting two event, One Fast food not fat food and her other event started by Pari of Food delicious - Only Fusion Recipe.

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