Wine rice and Vegetable sauce

Wine Rice with Vegetable Sauce and sauteed vegetable by the side

Wine Rice and vegetable Sauce Served with Red wine

It has been a continuous learning process of learning for me in the kitchen. My first teacher in the kitchen was my grandmother and now I learn from my daughter and daughter in law as they have varied taste and keen desire to cook different dishes with their own variations. Once when I had gone to do some errands and came back tired my daughter in law had kept dinner ready and what a surprise it was to find such a unique and delicious fare laid on the table. I had to learn it and make under her supervision to get it perfect. It is a sheer delight from regular daily food and absolutely nourishing and healthy.

Preparation Time:30 min

Cooking time: 30 min. for rice, 20 min. for sauce

Servings: 4 large servings

Ingredients Required for making wine rice with sauce:

For Rice:

• 200 gm. Rice

• 200ml. Red Wine

200 ml. Red wine

• 1/2 Tea spoon Salt

• 1/2tea spoon Oregano

• 200 ml. Water

For Vegetable sauce:

• 4-5 Baby corn
  

  

  Baby Corn

• 10-15 Cherry Tomatoes
   

  

  Cherry Tomatoes

• 10-15 Mushrooms

• 1 Medium size Capsicum

• 3 Medium size  onions with green leaves

• 1 Medium size Carrot

• 3 Medium size Red Tomatoes

• 10-12 Cloves of Garlic

• 200 ml. Milk

• Salt to taste

• 2 Tea spoons chili flakes

• 1/4Teaspoon Basil

Directions For Making Wine Rice With Vegetable Sauce:

Making Wine Rice :

• Wash the rice and soak in excess water for 30 min.

• Drain all water and allow the soaked rice to dry in shade for 30 min.

Washed , soaked and shade dried rice

• Melt butter in a thick bottom wok.

Butter melting in hot wok

• Add rice in it and cook on low flame with continuous stirring till the rice becomes pinkish brown color. 

• It will take approximately 10 min. 
  

  

  Rice being fried in butter

  
  

  

  Rice before wine is to be added

• Add 200 ml. red wine and cook on low flame for 10 min.

Wine being added to roasted rice

Rice being cooked in wine for 30 min.

• Add 200 ml.water, oregano and salt and mix nicely.

Salt water herb being added to rice cooking in wine and vegetable sauce cooking by the side

Water and spices added to the rice cooking in wine

• Cover and cook on low flame till the rice is cooked to softness. Depending upon the variety of rice the quantity of water and the time taken for cooking the rice may change. So check in between every 2-3 min stir and if required add little more water.

Cooked Wine Rice

 Making Vegetable Sauce:

• Cut onions finely

• Wash and cut the baby corn to 2 cm. pieces.

• Wash and cut cherry tomatoes to half.

• Wash and cut 2-3 cm. cubes of capsicum.

Diced Vegetables

• Wash and cut carrots and red ripe tomatoes to1-2 cm. big pieces and grind them in a mixer to make soft thick puree.

• Heat oil in a thick bottom wok.
  

  

  Onion being fried in 2 tea spoon of butter

• When the oil is hot add the finely cut onions and cook on low flame till they are cooked to transparent state.

• Add finely cut garlic and cook for 2-3 min. with continuous stirring.

• Add all cut vegetables to the cooked onions and cook on high flame for 3-4 min. the vegetables will just start to get tender.

Diced vegetables added and being cooked

Vegetables ready for Tomato-Carrot puree to be added

• Add carrot tomato puree and cook for 5 min. on low flame. The carrot-tomato puree will get cooked and the color of vegetable will become nice red color.

Carrot-Tomato puree added to vegetables

Vegetable sauce and Wine rice cooking side by side

•  Add milk and red chili flakes, Basil and salt . 

• Mix and give just one boil on high flame.

• Switch off the gas.

• Vegetable sauce is ready to be enjoyed with wine rice. 

Vegetable Sauce for Wine Rice

 How to serve Wine Rice with Vegetable Sauce:

• Place a medium serving of wine rice on a plate and scoop 2-3 serving spoon of vegetable sauce on it.

• Place 2-3 sauteed baby corn, Capsicum strips and cherry tomatoes by the side.

Wine rice with Vegetable sauce

• Serve with piping hot wine rice with vegetable sauce with Red wine.

Tips:

• While draining the soaked rice make sure the grains do not break due to rough handling.

• Water should be added in little proportions to make sure that excess of water is not added.

• The vegetables should be crisp when puree is added.

Suggested Variations:

• Mushroom, Broccoli, Red bell pepper, Yellow bell pepper can be added to the vegetable sauce.

• Parsley can be taken instead of basil.

• Boiled shredded chicken pieces can be added by hard core chicken lovers.

French Toasts/फ्रैंच टोस्ट

French Toasts 

 Having egg in breakfast provides much needed nutrition for the whole day. A good wholesome breakfast is a must for everybody especially school going children. It has been medically proved that those children who eat good wholesome nutritious breakfast are more attentive and alert in school. Mothers of growing children are at dilemma how to make children eat egg daily. Well try these French toasts they would never say no to egg. Egg paranthas is another variation of egg. They are good Indian fast food fit for breakfast, brunch etc. When ever my children used to say we will eat only one egg mom, I used to smile and say fine we have French toasts for breakfast today and beat two eggs instead of one for four triangular pieces made from two slices of bread, They never found out till they grew up and I told them how I used to feed them two egg for breakfast when they wanted only one!!!

Preparation Time: 10 min.

Cooking Time:10 min.

Servings: 8 French Toasts

Ingredients Required for Making French Toasts:

• 2 eggs

• 4 slices of Brown/Multi grain/White Bread

• 1 tea spoons Honey

• 4 Tea spoons Whole cream / skimmed Milk

• 1 pinch of salt

• 1 Pinch of white Pepper Powder

• 1 Tea spoon Butter (Optional)

Directions For Making French Toasts:

• Cut the bread slices to triangular half.

• Break two eggs in a bowl. For making low cholesterol (fat) french toast, egg yolk can be removed from egg white and only egg white can be used for making french toasts.If you are using only egg white then take four eggs will be required instead of two.

Two Eggs in a bowl

• Beat eggs to stiffness.

Egg beaten to stiffness

• Add

• Honey,

• Salt

• Milk

• White Pepper Powder

• Beat the mixture again to stiff frothiness.

Honey milk added to beaten eggs and mixed and beaten again

• Heat a thick bottom non-stick pan / Tawa.

• Dip the triangular piece of bread in the egg mixture till soaked in mixture on both sides.

• When the tawa/pan is medium hot place the slice piece soaked in egg mixture on the hot tawa.

• Repeat the same with all pieces.

Bread slice dipped and soaked in egg mixture

Soaked slices cooking on one side

• Let the slices be cooked on low flame till brown on one side. It will take not more than 4-5 min.

Slices cooked on one side and cooking on other side

• Flip and allow to cook on low flame till light brown color on the other side also. It will not take more than 4-5 min.

• Apply 1/2spoon of butter and cook for 30 seconds. (Optional)

• Flip and apply butter on the other side also and cook for 30 seconds. (Optional)

French Toasts

• Take out on a plate and serve with Tomato sauce.

French Toasts

Enjoy hot french toasts with milk / tea / coffee or hot chocolate

Tips:

• Always cook on low flame else egg in the toasts will get burnt leaving unpleasant smell and taste.

• Honey will caramelize so the color will be always beautiful reddish brown.

• If you are not using non-stick pan then greasing the pan with butter is a must.

• Do not try to turn over till cooked to brown color on one side else the toast will break. To check just lift it from one side and check.

• Use broad sharp edged spatula for easy turning over the toast.

• Press the toasts when cooked yet on the pan to check if any uncooked egg is left in it. If so cook for a min or so more.

Suggested Variations:

• Slices can be cut to rectangular two or four pieces.

• One teaspoon corn flour/Rice flour/Black gram flour (Besan) can be added to the eggs mixture.

• Basil/parsley/celery can be added to enhance the flavor.

• I love to add finely cut onion (One teaspoon)/Spring onion(One teaspoon) to the egg mixture.

• Finely cut green chilies, coriander leaves along with onions give the French toasts wonderful tasty typical Indian flavor. I love my this version of French toasts.