Pizza Chaat

Most of us like Chaat, a famous street side food in India. Its mouth watering flavors -salty, spicy, tangy, sweet can tickle anybody’s tongue. Today I am sharing a different version of it, an Indo-Italian version i.e. Pizza Chaat. 

 Ingredients :
1- Pizza base (I used whole wheat flour pizza base)
2- Refined oil - 1/2 cup
3- Finely chopped vegetables (Carrot, Cabbage, Capsicum, Beans) - 2 cups
4- Finely chopped green chilies -2
5- Finely chopped coriander -2 tsp
6- Horse gram flour (Besan) - 1 cup
7- Ginger, Garlic and Onion paste - 2 tsp
8- Boiled mashed potato - 1 medium
9- Salt according to taste
10- Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp
11- Red chili powder - 1 tsp
12- Coriander powder - 1 tsp
13- Cumin powder - 1 tsp
14- Chaat Masala -1 tsp
15- Finely chopped Onion - 1 medium size
16- Yogurt  - 1/2 cup
17- Sweet tamarind chutney / Imli Chutney - 1 tbsp
18- Green chutney (Coriander, Mint chutney) - 1 tbsp
19- Mixture/Sev - 2 tsp

Step- 1
Heat half of the oil in a Kadhai. Add green chilies, ginger-garlic-onion paste and fry for few minutes. when the oil starts separating add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and salt. Fry for few minutes again.

Step-2
Add the chopped vegetables (cabbage, capsicum, beans and carrot) and cook till the vegetables are done. Cover with a lid to cook it fast. Once vegetables are cooked add the mashed potato and mix it well. Then add finely chopped coriander and Chaat masla. Switch off the heat. Allow it to cool down.

Step-3
Make a batter with horse gram flour, salt, chili powder and water. Spread the fried vegetable curry evenly on the pizza base. Then cover it with a layer of gram flour batter.

Step-4
Heat oil on a flat pan. Then place this pizza base up side down. Cook it for 2 minutes on medium flame and then turn it carefully. Let the pizza base side to cook for 1 minute. Once both sides are done take it out and cut it as we cut pizza.

Step-5
Garnish it with yogurt, green chutney, sweet chutney, mixture/sev and chopped onions. Can also add tomato sauce.

So enjoy this Indian version of Pizza with your loved ones. 

You can add any vegetables of your choice or can make only with potato. 

Make the curry and keep it in freeze, so that can make it instantly whenever required. 

Can also go for homemade pizza base. 

* tsp (Tea spoon)

* tbsp (Table spoon)

Blissful Bottles

I believe a lot on the mantra of Three R's - Recycle, Reuse and Reduce and try to implement it on day today life to best possible way. Not a single bottle is thrown at my place, specially the glass bottles. All the bottles are reused. Sometimes even bottles of unique shape and size are collected from friends and relatives. 

Then they are given a new look................here are some. 

My art bottles. Had a desire to have a collection of different art forms, so came up with this idea of art on bottle.

Now lets have a look of these three bottles individually...

Black and white Warli art bottle. 

Madhubani art bottle. Just madly in love with this art form. 

An art bottle inspired from Meenakshi designs. An art form that she calls Madhukari... 

Pattachitra, an art form that is basically done on palm leave and cloth in Odisha by using natural colours. Got a place on a bottle. 

A simple Warli art bottle in my balcony garden.

Candle drop bottles. Will come up with the tutorial soon :)

I had just cut the embroidery from an old dress and glued it on a bottle. Then glued some twine and painted it. Here is the outcome. 

Mosaic art bottle. You can make you own bottle. Find the tutorial here...

A green plastic bottle painted with simple flower design...

Another bottle in the kitchen looks perfect with my handmade Paper Mache small pot and Pistachio shell lotus.  

It was a tomato sauce bottle and  now its a chalk board painted bottle. Find the tutorial here. 

Had these small blue medicine bottles. Now they are a part of my sea themed decoration. They got this look for the summer with some sea shells and twine. Sea themed decoration for summer coming soon on blog :) ...

Cold drink bottle planters with the concept of vertical gardening...

..............will continue adding more bottles to the collection and more content to this post :) :).