Combination of these three comfort food is deadly but delicious. As I always say, indulgence is acceptable once in a while. The patties made out of pasta and rawa is crispy and by adding some spice, it can create wonders on your taste buds. The recipe is my all-time favorite dinner to escape away from all the stress. It goes without saying that it can easily gain popularity with teenage audience.

Preparation time: 45 minutes

Servings: 4-5

Kitchen instrument: Nothing

Difficulty level: 5/10

Ingredient:

-         1.5 cup raw pasta of your choice (elbow pasta used here)

-         1 cup milk

-         1/2 cup rawa

-         1/2 cup Maida (all-purpose flour)

-         Salt per taste

-         2 tsp Red chilli flakes

-         1 tsp Italian seasoning

-         2 tsp Chilli sauce

-         6 burger buns

-         6 slices of cheese of your choice (Pepper Jack works best)

-         2 large tomatoes in slice

-         Pickled jalapenos

-         Ketchup

-         Mayonnaise or your favourite sandwich spread.

-         Pesto sauce (optional) (it is used for extra kick)

-         1/2 cup butter

Preparation:

1.      Boil pasta until tender.

2.      Drain and let them cool down.

3.      In a pan add millk and flour and mix well.

4.      Add chilli flakes, chilli sauce, and seasoning and mix well.

5.      Heat the mixture for 5-7 minutes and add pasta and mix well.

6.      Add Rawa and mix well.

7.      Now heat a skillet and grease with oil.

8.      Place a circular mould on the skillet and stuff it with pasta.

9.      Press hard to form a shape.

10. Remove the mould after 1 minute and now grill it until golden brown from both sides.

11. Pasta patties is ready.

12. Now slice burger into two and butter the outer portion of the bun.

13. Grill the outer portion for a minute.

14. Now spread Pesto on one slice and mayonnaise on the other.

15. Add the patties.

16. Make a layer of cheese, tomato slice and jalapeno on one side.

17. Cover with another slice and your burger is ready to serve.

18. Serve the burger with ketchup and hot French fries.

Tips:

-         Make sure you drain pasta completely and do not leave any water. Since this would create difficulty in forming the patties.

This recipe is invention from leftovers. Bowl full of rice is leftover from morning. There are various ways to use it but if you want burger for evening snack then here is how you will make it. Sesame and rice goes really well together so rice and sesame will be our key ingredients today. Addition of some vegies goes without saying

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Kitchen Equipment: Oven

Difficulty level: 3/10

Ingredient:

-         2 cups cooked rice

-         1/2 cup chopped bell pepper

-         1 tsp shredded ginger

-         1 tsp chopped green chilli

-         1/2 cup chopped cilantro

-         1/2 cup roasted sesame seeds

-         2 tsp wheat flour

-         8 to 10 bread slices of your choice

-         1 cucumber and 1 large tomato sliced

-         Plum or fruit of your choice to garnish

Preparation:

1.       In a large mixing bowl add cooked rice.

2.       Now add cut and chopped vegetables as above.

3.       Add salt per taste.

4.       Now cut the bread into round circles. Instead you can use buns.

5.       Add the leftover portion of bread to the mixture.

6.       Mix well and make round balls.

7.       Roll into the sesame seed to cover them.

8.       Preheat the oven at 370 degree F.

9.       Grease cookie tray and place all the balls into the tray.

10.   Apply butter spray on top of balls.

11.   Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the sesame seeds change the colour to light golden.

12.   Toast the bread rounds lightly.

13.   Now layer them with ketchup.

14.   Add layer of cucumber and tomatoes.

15.   Add the rice balls on top and put it in over to bake for 5 more minutes.

16.   Serve it hot with ketchup.

17.   Don’t forget to decorate with circles of plum as little hats.

Tips:

-         U can add the vegetables of your choice to the rice balls. Onions, beetroot and carrots can go well. Also, instead of bread you can use buns. My favourite is bread because I can toast it for the crisp.

There are lot of vegetarian versions of hotdog but this one is my favourite. Using Sago I can add all the crunch to it. I can add as many vegetables as I want while making the patties and do not have to add in the buns. Just add relish, pickles, mustard and ketchup and you get the feel of pearly hotdogs.

Ingredients:

-          200 gm Tapioca Sago (Sabudana)

-          200 gm plantains (raw banana) or Potatoes

-          1/4 cup chopped green chilli

-          1/2 tsp graded ginger

-          1/4 cup cilantro

-          1/4 cup small diced bell pepper

-          Salt as per taste

-          Oil to fry

-          6 Hot Dog Buns

-          5 cheese slices

Preparation:

1.      Wash Sabudana 3 to 4 times just like washing rice.

2.      Soak them in a bowl with 3/4^th of water in comparison of Sabudana for 2 -3 hours.

3.      Boil bananas or potatoes and mash them after peeling off the skin. Mash enough so that there are no lumps left.

4.      Mix drained and soaked Sabudana, mashed vegetables, bell pepper, green chillies, cilantro, salt and ginger.

5.      Mix well and form dough like texture.

6.      Now heat oil in frying pan.

7.      Form long tube like shapes from the mixture enough for the buns.

8.       Make a slit in the bun and if you like to toast the bun, toast it prior to adding the patties.

9.      Deep fry each Sabudana patties until golden brown.

10.  Now cut thin strips of cheese and wrap it around fried and crisp patties.

11.  It will melt and stick immediately.

12.  Add it to the bun and top it with relish, pickles mustard and ketchup.

Tips:

-          Make sure the Sabudana is soaked enough. They are soaked enough when they are spongy and soft when pressed.  Proportion of quantity of Sabudana can be more than other vegetables. It has to be enough to bind and form patties. 3/4th of Sabudana and 1/4 of vegetables should work.

This Sandwich sure is healthy and has a twist and crisp of semolina in it. It doesn’t require cheese for a change. Even though it is filling, it requires less of bread than a normal sandwich. It sure is friendly to health conscious group.

Ingredients:

-          4 slices of Bread of your choice (Multigrain, whole-wheat or Oat)

-          100 gm semolina

-          50 gm yogurt

-          1 cup water

-          4 green chilies finely chopped

-          1/2 onion finely chopped(optional)

-          1 small bell pepper finely chopped

-          1/2 finely chopped carrot

-          1/4 cup green peas finely chopped

-          1 spoon salt

-          2 table spoon butter

Preparation:

-          In a bowl beat the yogurt along with water.

-          Soak Semolina for one hour in the above liquid.

-          Mixture should be thick batter which you should be able to spread over the bread.

-          Now add all the chopped vegetables and salt.

-          Mix it well.

-          Now spread butter over one side of the bread.

-          Now spread the mixture 1/2inch thick on the other side of the bread.

-          Heat the griddle.

-          Place the slice (buttered side) on the griddle with low heat until the bread is golden crisp.

-          Turn it over and lower the heat.

-          Let it grill for 1 minute until the semolina is completely cooked and the layer is crisp.

-          Cut triangle of the slice and serve it hot with ketchup.

Tips:

-          If semolina mixture is too dry you can add little water.

-          If mixture is too loose, let it stand for another 15 minutes and you can drain the access water.

-          You can top with cheese shred to attract kids and serve with ketchup.

-          To give desi touch, you can top with sev and  serve with green chutney and imli chutney .

-          Anytime you want to control use of butter, use butter spray so that it easier to spread over entire bread with minimum quantity.