Free to innovate

Locked indoors and bored of bread and butter everyday? Gulsheen Sabharwal, a resident of Uniworld City, New Town and a second year student of IIHM, rustles up fancy dishes made of ingredients you are sure to have at home

Dalgona Coffee

• 1tbsp coffee powder
• 1tbsp sugar (you can even go for brown sugar)
• 1tbsp hot water
• 1 cup cold milk

Method

1. Put the coffee, sugar and water in a bowl and whisk until it turns creamy, frothy and light brown.
2. You can also use a hand-held mixer, which is quicker, but personally I recommend using a normal whisk as it is fun to watch the thin coffee transform into something so creamy and light brown in colour.
3. Next, pour the milk in a glass, add some ice cubes if you want, spoon out the foam on top and you’re done!
4. You can also use the same foam with hot milk if you prefer.

Leftovers Pakora

Ingredients

• Moong daal (cooked)
• Any type of rice preparation (peas pulao, veg pulao or even plain boiled rice)
• Alu ki sabzi
• Besan (gram flour)
• Chopped onion
• Turmeric powder
• Ajwain
• Red chilli powder
• Salt
• Water
• Oil for frying

Method

1. Mash the potatoes, rice and daal in a bowl. Add chopped onions and mix it well.
2. Next, oil your palms and make round balls from the mixture.
3. Prepare the frying batter with remaining ingredients by adding water.
4. Gently dip the balls in the batter and fry until golden brown.
5. You can serve this as an evening/ tea-time snack.

Bread pizza

Ingredients

• 2 slices of white/multigrain/brown bread
• Toppings like tomatoes, onions, capsicum, mushrooms
• Cheese
• Tomato sauce/ ketchup
• Chilli flakes and oregano

Method

1. Prepare the toppings by washing and chopping them and then set them aside.
2. Grate the cheese and keep aside.
3. For the pizza sauce, take ketchup and add chilli flakes and oregano, and mix well.
4. Spread the sauce evenly on the bread slices and add the toppings, cheese, salt and pepper.
5. Bake the bread pizza for 5-8 minutes until the cheese has browned.