Soy Chaap Shawarma Hummus Bowl

I was looking for the recipes people who post about soy chaap and I was intrigue to try one,since I am in Us, it was not that easy to find and its not that easy to make homemade. So when I visited India last year, I had a chance to try one dish in Delhi with soy chaap was chaap butter masala and it was delicious. So I had that taste in my mind and was looking for chaap here in US. One day I found it in my Indian grocery store, without thinking I just grab the can. It says in brine. Didn't know how it's going be , I thought will make something out of it. I was looking for shawarma marinade and found it here.   so it was perfect for my soy chaap to use this marianade and stop my craving for NY Style Shawarma food. So made it and enjoy it and I just used 4 soy chaap, saved 4 to make tikka , will make soon and post also. Till then enjoy this Soy chaap Shawarma hummus bowl. You can add purple cabbage instead of quinoa, or have it with just Hummus and Pita bread. You don't have to use Chaap, you can use chicken, lamb, paneer, Tofu.

Ingredients  :

4 Soy chaap
1/4 cup olive oil
1 lemon juice
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 tbsp Honey
1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
1  1/2 tsp Paprika (you can use Kashmiri red chili powder)
3/4 tsp Ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground ginger powder
3/4 tsp dried oregano
3/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp each salt and black pepper

To serve : 
cooked Quinoa - I cooked quinoa, after taking all the marinade from the bowl, add some water in the bowl and added that water in quinoa to give some flavor.

Pickled onions
Hummus
Lime wedge
Kalamata Olives
Cucumber


Little goes way too much so don't afraid of the quantity.

Method : 

Take one small bowl and mix  the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, honey, cumin, paprika, cinnamon, ginger, oregano, turmeric , salt and pepper.

In a big bowl, add 4 chaap and mix the marinade nicely. Marinade these for at-least 2-3 hours, I kept  it for 7 hours in fridge.

When its time to cook, take out the chaap, cut it from the middle for better flavor. Spread the leftover marinade in bowl to inside the chaap.

Heat a non stick pan, add little oil in it and cook the chaap form the both sides,  till its nicely cook and golden. 

 While its cooking, cook your quinoa on other burner.

When everything is ready, In a bowl, have some quinoa, hummus , cut the chaap in 3 pieces from one chaap, cut the rounds of cucumber, pickled onions, olives, fresh chopped cilantro and lime wedge and enjoy your trip to Mediterranean.

If you want you can have side of yogurt sauce and hot sauce on side.

Zhug - Mediterranean Hot sauce

I am always on a look out for spicy , hot sauce or dishes. Since I was making falafel, I wanted to make different spicy sauce to go with that. I know about this zhug sauce, but I don't have or have seen red spicy peppers here in this part of world. So was thinking about making it green one using jalapenos. Zhug is sauce from Yemen, its pronounce different region to regions schug , shug, skhug , it can be red, green or brown but one thing is common is - its hot and spicy. It's a very simple sauce made with green or red spicy peppers, along with coriander, garlic and cumin.  I like smooth sauces that's why I made it smooth one in blender, if you like chunky , you can use food processor and keep it chunky. 

You can drizzle over your salad, or have it with falafel, shawarma, or any bbq meats or vegetable, it goes perfectly on those. Use the hottest peppers you find, I had it with jalapenos since that's widely available.

Ingredients : 

2 Jalapenos cut in big chunks

1 Large bunch of coriander leaves

4 big cloves of garlic

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ground black pepper

3 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp fresh lime juice

Method : 

Put Jalapenos, garlic and coriander in blender. 

Blend it till you got nice chunky puree. 

Add salt, pepper , cumin and blend it again. 

Take it out in a bowl and add olive oil and mix it , this will keep green color vibrant. 

Enjoy it where ever you want, salad, falafel, bataka poha, bread. Possibilities are endless. 

Store in glass bottle for the future use, it can stay good till 10 days in refrigerator. But for me, it lasted only 3 days. 

Easy 3 ingredients Strawberry Mousse

I am always looking for easy dessert recipes since I like to eat and not wait. This is easy, delicious and good for any party where you have to feed lot of people. You don't have to bake this mousse so its perfect for hot summer days. Just need strawberries, whipped cream and sugar and done. First make puree of strawberries with some sugar, add half the puree in whipped cream and half on the cup and chill it and enjoy it. I made this on Valentine's day for our dessert. And it was a hit, kids loved it since now a days strawberries are in full season, kids love to eat it with Nutella anyways so I just added in whipped cream and its done.



Ingredients : 

16 Strawberries
Sugar as per taste
1 tub of whipped cream 8 oz.
Extra strawberries for toppings

Method : 

Take 14 strawberries and washed them and cut the top green part and put it in blender with sugar in it.

Make a fine puree.





Remove half a cup of puree and leave it aside.

You can use bowls or tall glass, I used bowls.

Mix whipped cream and puree nicely.




Divide that leftover 1/2 cup leftover puree in your serving bowl.

and then top it off with whipped cream mixture.

Chill it for 2 hours and before serving cut the fresh strawberries and put it on top and enjoy.

I have made 8 bowls of mousse from this recipe.

Pull A Part Dabeli

So you can make lot of variation while making pull a part bread. Lots of cheese, different stuffings, sliders then why not Dabeli. It comes in bread, stuffing , with or without cheese  and you are done. I have simply heat up dabeli bread with oil and without taking apart the buns, stuff the masala in it and enjoy with the sides of your favorite chutneys. Since it is not a Pomegranate season, I didn't add it and I am not a big fan of cheese also, so If you like you can shred the cheese on top of it with sev and onion and pom. This is just for me so I only use 4 buns but if you are feeding more people, make more masala and use it.





Ingredients : 

For stuffing : 

2 Tbsp oil
1 red onion finely chopped
2 Big potatoes boiled and mashed
1 tbsp Chili powder
1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Garam Masala powder
1 tbsp Dabeli masala or as per you liking but don't put too much it has very strong clove flavors in it
1 cup water
salt to taste
1 tbsp Tamarind chutney
Coriander leaves chopped

Garnishing : 

Chopped onion, masala peanuts, coriander leaves, pomegranate seeds

For assembly : 

4 Dabeli bread
4 tbsp Garlic chutney or as per taste
2 tbsp finely chopped onion
4 tbsp tamarind chutney or as per taste
oil or butter for toasting
sev as needed

Method for Stuffing :

In a pan, add oil and saute onions till its pink. Add all powder masala in it and saute on a very low flame for a minute.

Add water in it and then add mashed potatoes in it and mix it well.
Add salt and see if you need to thin it out potatoes or not  , if stuffing is very stiff, add more water. You need loose stuffing but not runny.

Add tamarind chutney and mix it and transfer it in a bowl.

Layer first stuffing, then onion, masala peanuts, coriander leaves and Pom seeds.





Assembly : 

Cut the bread in between without breaking in to  apart, since its pull apart you need whole thing together.

Heat the pan, add oil / butter and toast the bread on both sides.

Once its warm, add garlic chutney on one side, tamarind chutney on other side and spoonful of stuffing , with little bit of onions in it.

Roll the whole bread in sev so it can cover the edges.

Serve immediately with some green(coriander) , red (garlic), brown (tamarind )chutney.

You might have seen Pull a part Pav bhaji also. Same concept, just stuff it with bhaji. You can do vada pav too.

Salatat Jarjeer - Middle Eastern Arugula salad

I am always look out for salad recipes that have minimum work and maximum satisfaction. This recipe has few ingredients but nice peppery arugula in it with tangy sumac, onion, and bite from Walnut. It takes no time to assemble it and you can eat it bowlful of it without guilt. If you don't have sumac, don't worry, mix the lemon zest with salt and you have your sumac. This salad goes perfect in summer BBQ parties, where lots of food is going on but you have to fill up your tummy with this healthy alternative. This is just for 2 people but you can adjust the ingredients as per the requirement.



Ingredients : 

2 cup Arugula
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 Red onion finely chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Dressing : 

Juice from 1 lemon
1 tbsp Sumac
3 tbsp Olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Method : 

Take a salad bowl, add onion, sumac, olive oil, salt and pepper, and lime juice. Mix it and let it sit for 5 minutes.

Then add arugula and walnuts.

Stir together and check the seasoning.

Enjoy alongside with any protein or meals.