Mushroom Lasagna - Vegetarian Meatless Lasagna Recipe

Mushroom Lasagna Recipe

Ingredients
Lasagna sheets - 250 gms
Canned mushroom - 1 can
Celery minced - 1/4 cup
White onion minced - 1/4 cup
Roma tomatoes - 5 nos
Peeled and crushed garlic - 2 nos
Dried oregano - 2 tbsp
Sugar and Salt to taste
Parmesan cheese - 2 cups
Olive oil - 4 tbsp
Fresh chopped Basil and Parsley - 3 tsp each

Vegetarian Lasagna Recipe

Method to make mushroom sauce
1. Cook lasagna sheets al-dent as per boxed instructions, spread little oil to the cooked lasagnas and set aside.
2. Drain the canned mushrooms from brine, wash mushroom in water and drain again, thinly slice the mushroom and set aside.
3. Blanch tomatoes in hot water for 8 to 10 mins or until tomatoes skin slightly cracks.
4. Remove blanched tomatoes from hot water, allow tomatoes to cool and remove its skin.
5. Puree the blanched and peeled tomatoes along with garlic in a blender.
6. Heat oil in a pan, add minced onion and celery, saute on low heat for 2 mins.
7. Now add the thinly sliced mushrooms to the pan and saute for few seconds.
8. Add ground tomato puree, chopped parsley, chopped basil, dried oregan, sugar and required salt to the mushroom mixture in the pan, stir everything well and cook on low heat for 5 to 6 mins until sauce thickens.
9. Once sauce thickened, remove from heat and allow to cool.

Parmesan Mushroom Lasagna

Method to make lasagna
1. Take a non stick loaf pan or lasagna pan, spread mushroom sauce mixture at the bottom of pan.
2. Next place a layer of cooked pasta sheet over top of sauce.
3. If there are any gaps found, cut some pasta sheet into strips and layer on the gap.
4. Again spread mushroom sauce mixture over cooked pasta sheet.
5. Generously sprinkle parmesan cheese over mushroom sauce and top it again with pasta sheet.
6. Continue the same process with rest of pasta sheet, mushroom sauce and parmesan cheese.
7. The final top layer of lasagna should be generously layered mushroom sauce and parmesan cheese.
8. Pre-heat oven at 200°c and place the loaf pan filled with lasagna in the middle rack of the oven.
9. Bake the lasagna for 8 to 10 mins or until top layer of cheese turns golden and bubbly.
Serve hot

Chef's tip
You can substitute freshly chopped parsley and basil with dried ones

Quick Mushroom Lasagna

Mushroom and Capsicum Thin Crust Pizza

Learn how to make pizza base , how to make pizza sauce and top it with juicy mushrooms and Capsicum.

Mushroom and Capsicum Pizza

Serves- 2 personal pizzas

Prep time- 1 and 1/2 hours

Cooking time- 15 mins

Ingredients for pizza base

Maida flour / All purpose flour- 1 cup

Active dry yeast- 1 and 1/4 tsp

Warm water- 1/2 cup

Sugar- 1 tsp

Salt- 1/2 tsp

Olive oil- 1 tbsp

Homemade Pizza

Method

In a bowl dissolve sugar in warm water, sprinkler yeast on top and gently mix, cover with lid and set aside for 10 mins until yeast mixture becomes frothy.

In a large bowl combine maida flour, salt, olive oil and yeast mixture, knead for 15 mins until dough becomes soft and smooth.( If dough is sticky sprinkle few tbsp flour, knead and adjust). Set aside dough covered with damp cloth for 45 mins. After 45 mins when dough doubled in size, punch dough until air escapes and knead again for 10 mins. Again set aside for 20 mins covered with damp cloth. Once again when dough has doubled in size its ready for making pizzas.

Ingredients for topping

Pizza Sauce- 1 cup ( For pizza sauce recipe click here ) 

Sliced mushroom- 1 cup( 100 gms)

Sliced Capsicum ( Green Bell Pepper )- 1 no

Dried oregano- 1 tsp

Garlic powder- 1 tsp

Grated Mozzarella cheese / Pizza cheese- 2 cups

Olive oil- 2 tbsp

How to assemble pizza and bake

Pre- heat oven at 200° C. 

Divide dough into two equal parts, roll out each dough into 1/4 " thick round. Placed rolled dough on baking sheet and wait for 5 to 7 mins until it slightly rises. Spread 1/2 cup pizza sauce on the top of rolled dough, arrange 1/2 of mushrooms and 1/2 of sliced capsicum on top, sprinkle 1/2 tsp oregano and 1/2 tsp garlic powder on top. Finally sprinkle 1 cup mozzarella cheese generously on top of pizza and drizzle 1 tbsp olive oil on top of cheese.

Place the prepared pizza in the center rack of the oven and bake at 200°C for 15 mins or until pizza base is slightly browned and cheese melted on top. Serve hot.

Home made Thin crust pizza

Tips and Tricks for perfect pizza

Do not top pizza with too much of sauce, too much of sauce makes pizza soggy.

Do not over crowd pizza with lots of toppings, again too much of topping does not give enough space to cook pizza properly, which again leads to soggy pizza.

Two to three toppings and 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of pizza sauce is good enough for an perfect pizza.

Indian Style Pizza / Desi Pizza / Chatpata Pizza recipe

Learn how to make easy Indian style pizza with ready made pizza base.

Indian Style Pizza Recipe

Serves: 2 personal pizza

Prep time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 8 to 10 mins

Ingredients

Ready-made Pizza base- 2 nos

Mint chutney- 1/2 cup( for mint chutney recipe click here)

Mushroom sliced- 50 gms( 1/2 cup)

Capsicum sliced- 1/2 no

Tomato sliced- 1 no

Dried oregano- 1 tsp

Garlic powder- 1 tsp

Grated Mozzarella cheese/ Pizza cheese- 1 and 1/2 cup

Butter- 2 tbsp

Olive oil- 2 tsp

Desi Pizza

Method

Pre heat oven at 200°C, spread both sides of pizza base with 1 tbsp butter and grill pizza base in oven for 2 mins. Allow to cool the grilled pizza base, once reached room temperature, spread 2 tbsp mint chutney on top of pizza base, arrange required mushrooms, capsicum slices and tomato slices on top of mint chutney. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp oregano and garlic powder on top of veggies and top it with 3/4 cup grated mozzarella cheese. Drizzle 1 tsp olive oil on top of cheese. Place the prepared pizza in the center rack of the oven and bake at 200°C for 6 to 8 mins or until pizza base is slightly browned and cheese melted on top. Serve hot.

Chatpata Pizza

Veg Pasta Italiano Red/ Tomato Pasta Domions India style - Restaurant Pasta Recipes

This is Domions India style pasta recipe. Bow tie pasta tossed with olive oil, aromatic italian herbs, exotic veggie and with generous amount of flavourful Italian red tomato sauce. For non vegetarian pasta Italiano red, top with marinated grilled chicken.

Tomato Pasta

Ingredients

Bow tie or Penne Pasta cooked- 2 cups

Home made easy tomato sauce for pasta---click for recipe- 1 cup

Chopped olives- 1/4 cup

American sweet corn- 1/4 cup

Onion thickly sliced- 1/4 cup( optional)

Shredded cheddar cheese- 1/2 cup

Parmesan cheese- 1/4 cup( optional)

Olive oil- 2 tbsp

Dried oregano( or parsely, basil)- 1 tsp

Restaurant Italian Pasta

Method

Boil pasta with enough salt until aldente( firm) as per box instructions.

Heat oilve oil in a sauce pan on low heat, add cooked pasta, oregano and home made tomato sauce, sweet corn, chopped olives, Parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese to the pan. Toss well and serve.

Or

Heat oilve oil in a sauce pan on low heat, add cooked pasta and oregano, toss well and place on plate. Pour generous amount of home made tomato sauce on pasta. Garnish with sliced olives, sweet corn and generous cheese.

Tomato sauce for Pasta/ Pizza

Learn how to make home made easy tomato sauce for Italian  pasta or for pizza.

Tomato sauce for pasta/ pizza

Ingredients

Tomatoes large- 6 nos

Tomato sauce/ ketchup- 1/4 cup

Onion medium minced- 2 nos

Garlic cloves- 4 nos

Dried Oregano- 2 tbsp

Sugar- 1 tbsp( +/-)

Salt to taste

Olive oil- 4 tbsp

Easy pizza/ pasta sauce

Method

Blanch tomatoes, allow to cool and remove its skin. In a blender or mixer, grind together blanched tomatoes, garlic cloves, oregano, tomato sauce, sugar and salt to smooth puree. In a large sauce pan heat olive oil on low flame, add minced onion and saute until onions are transparent. Add the pureed tomato mixture to the onions, check the seasoning and cook the tomato puree on low flame for 20 to 30 mins until thickens.

For italian red pasta

Serve prepared tomato sauce hot over pasta topped with parmesan cheese or cheddar cheese.

For italian pizza

Cool the tomato sauce, spread over pizza base top it with veggi, cheese and meat of your choice.

Tips

This tomato sauce for pasta/ pizza can be stored for an week when refrigerated.

Home made tomato sauce

Mango Custard Recipe

Mango Custard Recipe

Ingredients

Mangoes ripe- 2 no( medium sized)

Custard powder vanilla- 4 tbsp

Milk- 2 cups

Sugar- 4 heaped tbsp

Mango pieces to garnish

Mango Custard Recipe

Method 

Heat 1 and 1/2 cup milk in a pan and bring it to boil. 

In a bowl add 1/2 cup of cold milk and dissolve 4 tbsp custard powder without any lumps.

Add the custard dissolved milk mixture to the boiling milk and stir continuously until the milk thickens like cream. 

Remove custard from heat and allow to cool at room temperature.

Next wash mangoes and remove the mango skin, cut the mango flesh and discard the seed. 

Coarsely chop the mango flesh until pulpy.

In preferred glass or dessert bowl, first add the mango pulp then top with custard, again add mango pulp over custard and top with custard until it reaches rim of glass or bowl. Garnish with few mango pieces and refrigerate mango custard for atleast 4 hours and serve cold.

Mango Custard

My Cookery Show for "Makkal Tv" demonstrating how to make Salsa Picado, Chicken Quesadilla and Tiramisu.

Hello friends here is my next cooking show for Makkal Tv program Inippu Kaaram. I'm showing makkal tv viewers on how to make Tiramisu Italian Dessert, Salsa Picado Mexican Dip and Chicken Quesadilla Mexican Entrée.

Click on the below image or link to view my cookery show telecasted on 13/July/2012

http://www.istream.com/tv/watch/133868/Inippu-Kaaram-EP-64-Complete

Grilled Chicken and Broccoli Salad.

Step 1.

Ingredients for Grilled Chicken

( I used McCormick-Garlic Lime Chicken Fajitas recipe.)

Chicken tenderloins-400gms

Lime juice-3tbsp

Olive oil-2tbsp

Salt required

McCormick minced garlic-1tsp

McCormick minced onion-1tsp

McCormick ground cumin-3/4tsp

McCormick oregano leaves-3/4tsp

McCormick cilantro leaves-1/2tsp

McCormick coarse ground black pepper-1/2tsp

Method for preparing Grilled Chicken

In a small bowl mix the above said marinate ingredients along with chicken, In ziplock freezer bag add the chicken along with marination and keep in refrigerator for atleast 4 hours( overnight marination is preferable). Preheat the oven at 400 F and place the chicken strips in the center of rack and cook for 20 mins or until chicken is well done.( This is a basic grilled chicken recipe, you can use these grilled chicken while preparing salad, chicken rolls, fried rice or in noodles.

Step 2.

Ingredients for Caesar Dressing

( Courtesy: Paula Deen's Family cookbook)

Olive oil-1/2cup

Anchovy fillets, rinse and dried-4

Lemon Juice-2tbsp

Garlic cloves-2

Dijon mustard-1tsp

Worcestershire sauce-1/2tsp

Salt-3/4tsp

Pepper to taste

Method for preparing Caesar Dressing

In a blender combine the Caesar dressing ingredients and blend until smooth.

Step 3.

Ingredients for Salad

Broccoli florets-3cups

Pasta-1cup( I used tri-color Rotini)

Grilled chicken( cut into bite size pieces)-2cups

Caesar dressing-1/4cup

Salt and Pepper to taste 

Method for preparing Salad

Cook the pasta in boiling water with salt, when cooked drain them and set aside.

Blanch broccoli florets in boiling water for 3min, when they are 3/4th cooked drain them and add the broccoli florets to ice cold water. Allow them to rest for 5 mins, after 5 mins again drain the florets and set aside.

Next in a large salad bowl add the pasta, broccoli and grilled chicken pieces. Add the prepared caesar dressing and toss everything well, if required season with salt and pepper and serve.

Curried Pasta( Penne pasta in Indian curry sauce)

Ingredients

Pasta( Cooked)-400gms

Onion large( sliced)-1

Tomatoes large( sliced)-2

Garlic Cloves( crushed)-6

Red chili powder-2tsp( +/-)

Curry powder-2tsp( +/-)

Soy sauce-1tsp

Parsley chopped- few tbsp

Salt to taste

Olive oil-4tbsp

Method

Heat 2tbsp oil in a sauce pan, when hot add the sliced onions, tomatoes and garlic. Saute well till tomatoes are cooked and tender. Add red chili powder, curry powder, soy sauce and salt. Cook for few more minutes and remove from heat. Allow the mixture to cool completely and grind the mixture to smooth paste. Heat the sauce pan again and add rest of the oil. Add the ground tomato paste and 1/2 cup of water. Bring the mixture to boil and check the seasoning. When the gravy thickens add the cooked pasta and give good stir so the sauce coats well on the pasta. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve hot. 

Mushroom and Spinach Pizza

Pizza Base Ingredients:

Water- 250ml

All Purpose flour/Maida- 5cups

Olive oil- 5tsp

Salt- 1tsp

Sugar- 2tsp

Yeast- 7gms

Topping Ingredients:

Onion small sliced-1

Capsicum/ Bell pepper small sliced-1

Mushroom chopped-1/2cup

Spinach chopped-1/2cup

Readymade Pizza sauce-1cup

Dried Oregano, Basil and Parsley-few tsps.

Mozzarella cheese-2cups.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

Take a large bowl add warm water, sprinkle in yeast, sugar, salt, olive oil

and a cup of all-purpose flour. Mix well and let it stand covered for 10

minutes. Mix this yeast mixture into the dry flour. Knead this mixture

till soft dough for 5 mins. Set aside, cover with wet cloth for 1 hour. After an hour knead again for 3 minutes and rest it for another 30 mins. Take a lump of dough and roll into a pizza base. On the pizza base spread the pizza sauce, sprinkle pepper and salt and dried herbs as required, add enough toppings. Cover the pizza toppings with mozzarella cheese and 2tbsp of olive oil. Pre-heat oven at 450F and bake till base is crisp and light or about 10 mins.

Hawaiian Pizza (Homemade Pizza with Pineapple, Cottage cheese and Bell pepper)

Pizza Base Ingredients:

Water- 250ml

All Purpose flour/Maida- 5cups

Olive oil- 5tsp

Salt- 1tsp

Sugar- 2tsp

Yeast- 7gms

Topping Ingredients:

Onion small sliced-1

Capsicum/ Bell pepper small sliced-1

Pineapple chopped-1/2cup

Cottage cheese/ Paneer-1/2cup

Ready made Pizza sauce-1cup

Dried Oregano, Basil and Parsley-few tsp.

Mozzarella cheese-2cups.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

Take a large bowl add warm water, sprinkle in yeast, sugar, salt, olive oil and a cup of all-purpose flour. Mix well and let it stand covered for 10 minutes. Mix this yeast mixture into the dry flour. Knead this mixture till soft dough for 5 mins. Set aside, cover with wet cloth for 1 hour. After an hour knead again for 3 minutes and rest it for another 30 mins. Take a lump of dough and roll into a pizza base. On the pizza base spread the pizza sauce, sprinkle pepper and salt and dried herbs as required, add enough toppings. Cover the pizza toppings with mozzarella cheese and

2tbsp of olive oil. Pre-heat oven at 450F and bake till base is crisp and light or about 10 mins.

Vegetarian Lasagna Recipe.

Simple and yummy Italian treat for your taste buds.

Ingredients

Lasagna pasta sheets-8

Onion large chopped-2

Garlic cloves minced-3

Tomatoes petite diced can-2

Tomato Sauce can-1

Tomato Paste can-1

Fresh Parsley minced-2tbsp

Sugar-1tbsp

Oregano Leaves dried-1tsp

Basil Leaves dried-1tsp

Salt and Pepper to taste

Olive oil-2tsp

Parmesan cheese-1/2cup

Method

Cook the lasagna sheets in boiling water, drain and set aside. Heat oil in a sauce pan, add the onions and garlic, saute for a minute and add the chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Add enough water and bring it to boil. While tomatoes are boiling add the parsely, oregano and basil leaves. Season with sugar, salt and pepper. When the sauce thickens remove from the fire and allow to cool down. Grease bread loaf pan with butter. Lay two sheets of cooked lasagna pasta. Now spread adequate sauce on the pasta layer and sprinkle adequate amount of parmesan cheese on the sauce layer. Now once again lay the pasta sheets continue with the sauce and sprinkle the cheese. Continue with the rest of pasta sheets, sauce and cheese until you reach the top layer of the pan. On the top layer of pasta cover with enough sauce and lots of cheese. Pre-heat oven to 425F/220C, bake the lasagna for 10 mins or until the cheese melts. Serve Hot.

Macaroni recipe with Lima Beans

Ingredients

Cooked Macaroni-2cups (cook macaroni with little salt and butter)

Lima Beans-1cup

Crushed Tomato-2cups

Onion medium(chopped)-2

Garlic cloves(minced)-4

Green chilly (minced)-1

Oregano-1tsp

Bay leaf-1

Pepper-2tsp

Salt to taste

Butter-1tbsp(optional)

Oil required

Method

Heat oil in a pan, saute the onions, garlic and green chillies. Add the lima beans and bay leaf stir fry for 5mins. Add the crushed tomatoes and season with oregano, pepper and salt. Add little water, bring to boil and cover with lid for 5 mins. When the mixture becomes thick add butter and turn of the flame. While serving place the macaroni on a plate and top up with Lima sauce. Serve Hot.

Spicy Chicken Pizza

Ingredients for Pizza base

1 teaspoon white sugar

1 1/2 cup warm water

1 tablespoon active dry yeast

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups whole wheat flour

1 1/2 cup Maida flour

Ingredients for topping

1 cup shredded mozzarella

3/4 cup shredded Parmesan

1/2 medium red onion, thinly sliced

1/2 cup tomato sauce

1 cup chopped chicken tenders

4 tsp chili flakes

4 tsp oregano

Salt to taste

Method

In a large bowl, mix sugar in warm water. Add yeast and let stand for 15 minutes, until foamy. Now add olive oil and salt into the yeast mixture, then mix in wheat flour and Maida flour to make soft dough. Place dough in a bowl and cover loosely with a towel and let stand in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Roll a ball of dough with a rolling pin until it will not stretch any further. Then, drape it over both of your fists, and gently pull the edges outward, while rotating the crust. When the circle has reached the desired size, place on a well oiled pizza pan. Spread adequate amount of tomato sauce on the top of pizza base, place sliced onions and chicken, sprinkle chili flakes, oregano and salt. Cover the entire pizza with both the cheeses. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes (depending on thickness) in the preheated oven, until the crust is crisp and golden at the edges, and cheese is melted on the top