Food tricks

Wishing my lovely readers a Healthy and Prosperous New Year! A tasty snack made with sandwich bread, stuffed with vegetables. These Vegetable Bread Pockets can be customized to your liking. Other vegetables like capsicum. beans, peas could replace cabbage. I happen to have cabbage so use that for my filling. Feel free to add meat such as a cup of shredded cooked chicken or cooked mince meat if you like, Don't forget to add extra spices if you use meat. I shallow fried my Vegetable Bread Pockets instead of deep frying. These turned out crispy but soft inside. Proper sealing is essential to avoid filling leakage, Make a thick paste of water and plain flour as a sealant. These yummy pockets go well with tomato ketchup or chutney but we love to eat them as it is, full of beautiful flavors! Other snack recipes your might want to try: Vegan Homemade Doughnuts Egg Curry Puffs from scratch Braided Masala Bread

This Perfect Blueberry Pancake was super easy and fail proof. You can also make it ahead, store in a fridge and make them fresh at the time of serving. You can also check my Banana Pancake w/Brown Sugar Syrup. or savory Semolina and Oatmeal Pancake or Onion Pancake for a change. This versatile pancake can be made with other flours too, adding fruits like apple, strawberry, pear or pineapple. For best result, allow the batter to rest for 15 minutes before frying them. I used 1/4 cup measure to make this Perfect Blueberry Pancake , so get about 9 pancakes.

Super tasty treat made of banana. This Fried Banana w/Chocolate is dipped in coating batter, fried then drizzle with chocolate. The combination works better than you might expect. these sweet and juicy dessert taste even better when served hot. I used ripened banana, slice it diagonally. It is best to slice it last to avoid discoloration. After mixing the batter, you could add one or two tablespoon more water if it is too thick. The batter should be the right consistency to coat the banana well. Instead of deep frying, I prefer to shallow fried them as not to waste so much oil. Always avoid re-using the same oil. Fried Banana w/Chocolate turned out awesome. We clean up the whole batch immediately. Eating them on their own was delicious but with chocolate. it tastes even better! Other dessert recipes: Low Fat Banana Cake Dates Yogurt Cake Pineapple Upside Down Cake

A quick raisin bread made over the stove top. If you are away from your oven or your oven was no longer working. you should check out this Stovetop Raisin Bread to continue enjoying your favorite bread. To bake bread without oven, the following utensils could be used: Saute pan Deep pot Dutch oven Pressure cooker Skillet Wok Whatever utensil you choose, make sure to have sufficient space for distribution of heat and even cooking. That means after putting a loaf pan or cake tin. it has a gap between the sides and top of pan before putting the lid on. Another important measure to consider, avoiding the bottom part to get burned. Either put a layer of salt or trivet, pot holder rack/or ceramic plate before putting the pan. I baked my Stovetop Raisin Bread using 36 cm wok Layer the bottom with salt before putting the loaf pan. The downside of the method was that your can't get golden brown color top as you get using conventional oven.