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Potato Sandwich

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Ingredients for 2 people- Potato- 2 (Boiled) Onion - 1 small(Chopped) Green Chilli - 2 (chopped) Salt to taste Black Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp Chat Masala - 1 tsp Bread - 4 Slice Oil-4 tsp Directions -  Mash the potato, In a heated pan add Oil w/chopped onion, green chilli, salt, black pepper powder and chat masala, Mix them together. Add mashed Potato in the mix and saute at high flame for 5 minutes, until it is well mixed. Apply this mixture on 1 slice of bread, cover it with another slice. In another heated pan, Add a spoon of oil and cook the sandwich on either side, until it's a liht brown in color. Enjoy it hot either with Tomato sauce or Cilantro chutney .

Potato Lasagna

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Ingredients for 8 people - Lasagna noodles- 1 lb Potato (Boiled and mashed) - 3 big Paneer or firm tofu - 1/2 lb Garlic -2 cloves (peeled and minced) Lemon Juice - 2 tbsp Salt to taste Pasta Sauce - 4-6 cups as required Directions - Boil Lasagna Noodles and drain the water and keep aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mash Potato and mix it with paneer or tofu, salt, lemon juice, garlic and milk, add it to the food processor and process until it is blended smooth. At the bottom of 9X 13 inch pan, lay a thin layer of pasta sauce, then a layer of noodles, with a following layer of Potato - paneer(tofu) mix, then half of the rest pasta sauce, with a layer of noodles, potato mix, layer of noodles and end with a layer of pasta sauce. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until it is bubbling. Enjoy it hot. Can be refrigerated and reused for a week.

Mutter-Mushroom Pulao (Rice cooked w/ Peas and Mushroom)

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Ingredients for 2 people- Rice - 4 handful Onion - 1/2 big Onion (sliced) Peas - 1 small cup Mushroom  - 5 mushroom (sliced) salt to taste Safflower - 1 pinch Cloves - 2-3 Almonds - 1/2 small cup  Directions -  Wash rice, drain out the water and keep it aside for 10 minutes. In an empty heated pan, fry washed sliced mushroom. It will start leaving water, fry till all the water is evaporated. Take the mushrooms out of oan, and add 1 tbsp of oil in the same pan. Add Onions and saute till it turns light brown in color. Add Peas and Mushroom, slat and fry them for another 2-3 minutes. Add salt, washed rice, cloves and Safflower, and fry them for another minute or 2. Add double amount of water, compared to rice. Let it get cooked open in a pan at high flame for another 10 minutes. By the time water gets evaporated, rice will be cooked. Enjoy it hot with Yogurt/ Stew. Garnish it with small pieces of Almonds.

Egg Chowmein

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Egg Chowmein - A Perfect meal for weekend. Ingredients for 2 People- Time to prepare- 10 minutes. Time to cook- 25 minutes Egg Chowmein Spaghetti Oil - 2 tablespoon Salt to taste Bell Pepper- 1/2 chopped Carrot - 1/2 chopped Onion - 1/2 chopped Potato - 1 Small Soya sauce - 2 tbsp Mustard sauce - 1 tbsp Chilli Sauce - 1tbsp Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp Egg - 4 Whole Directions -  Boil Spaghetti, til the time it becomes soft and properly cooked.  Drain all the water and keep it separately and let it cool down. Take oil in a dry pan and heat it. Add all vegetables in the oil when heated, add salt and cover the pan. When the vegetables are cooked, add tomato sauce, mustard sauce, chilli sauce and soya sauce in it. Mix it well. Now, add spaghetti in the mixture , mix it well on high flame. Boiled Spaghetti In another Pan, add 1tsp of Oil and break all eggs in it, add salt, black pepper powder. Stir it, to mix properly. Mash by Spatula and them mix