Mushroom and Vegetable Pie

Making a pie crust is NOT difficult. Have heart and try sometime.
Knead together 2 cups of flour with 50 grms of salted butter (butter should be soft but not melted). Add a little water as required. Knead for 10 minutes. Rest the dough in the fridge for 20 minutes.
Take it out. Make two balls out of the dough. one slightly larger that the other


Roll the larger ball into a round, 1/2 inch thick and large enough to cover the base of your pie dish. I made this one at my mom's place and she din't have a pie dish. So i used the upturned cover of a microwave dish. Grease and dust the dish.
fill up the pie base with raw rice/rajma/any dal and bake for 10 minutes in a 180 dregree oven.

To prepare filling:
Heat a tbsp of butter on low flame. Add a clove of garlic, a bayleaf, two cloves (laung). Add 1 tbsp of flour and whisk well till no lumps are there. Cook for 2 minutes. Add a cup of milk and whisk again till no lumps are there. keep stirring till you get a sauce like consistency. Add salt and pepper.
Seperately, fry 1 cup of mushrooms sliced in quarters, thinly sliced carrots and beans in butter for 5 minutes or till the water evaporates. Add salt and pepper. Add 1/3 cup of sweet corn. Switch off the gas.
Add the mushroom mixture into the sauce. Take the bayleaf, cloves out of the sauce.


Once the pie crust is baked and ready, take the rice/rajma/ dal out of it. It is perfectly good to be used again.

Pour the filling in the pie base. Roll out the other ball of dough into a 1/2 inch thickness. Cover the top of the pie. Bake for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees, till top in browned.
Cut in kische slices and serve.

Mushroom and Potato Rosti

Parboil 2 medium sized potatoes...which means boil till half done. Grate it

Chop a small onion finely

Chop 200 gms of mushrooms finely.

Chop parsley finely. You can replace it with coriander.

Grate 1/2 cup of processed cheese.

Mix 2 tbsp of melted butter with 1/2 cup milk and 1/3 cup flour till smooth. Add all chopped/grated ingredients, salt and pepper. Mix well. The mixture will be thickish, not too runny. slightly thicker than pouring consistency.

In a non-stick pan add ladle full of this mixture. Cook for about 8 minutes on low flame. When the side becomes crispy, turn over carefully. Cook again for 5 minutes.

Serve hot cut in pizza slices.

Gnocchi with Mushrooms

Shall go straight to the recipe. my 8 month old will wake up anytime.

Buy a packet of gnocchi. The process of making it is long and you may not get desired results each time.

Dunk the gnocchi into boiling water. When they rise up on the surface you know they are done.

Prepare the sauce : melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add a clove of crushed garlic. Add 2tbsp of flour (maida) and whisk like hell for 2 minutes on low flame. Switch the gas off. Add 1 cup of milk gradually. Keep stirring. There shouldn't be any lumps. Add 1 cup of cream. Switch the gas on. On low flame, keep stirring till the sauce thickens. Add freshly grated nutmeg, just a pinch.

Take a tsp on butter and add mushrooms. Fry for about 6-7 minutes or till mushrooms are done.

Add gnocchi to the mushrooms to let it soak up the mushroom flavour. Toss the mixture in the sauce. Grate a lot of parmesan on top and serve.