Corn Chips with Salsa & Sour Cream

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Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups makai ka atta (finely ground maize flour)

1 cup maida

1 tbsp oil

3/4 tsp salt

1 tbsp dried parsley

1 tsp red chilli flakes

luke warm water for mixing dough

1 Sieve both the flours together. Add oil, salt, dried parsley and red chilli flakes and combine. Add luke warm water and make a soft dough similar to a roti dough.
2 Make lemon sized balls and roll out thinly with a rolling pin, dusting some flour as you roll them into 9″-10″ size rotis or rounds. Prick lightly with a fork.

 Toast the rolled out roti lightly on both sides for a few seconds on a hot griddle. Remove and cut into desired shape of chips.
3 Heat oil in a heavy bottomed vessel and deep fry the chips till golden brown. Drain onto absorbant paper. Serve with salsa and sour cream. You can store them in air tight containers.

Tomato Salsa Recipe

Ingredients:

6-7 bright red tomatoes

2 big capsicum, cut into 4 longitudinal pieces

4-5 green chillis

4-5 cloves garlic with skin

1 onion finely chopped

olive oil to coat the vegetables

juice of half a lemon

salt and pepper to taste

1/2 tsp sugar

fresh parsley, chopped

- Pre-heat oven. Coat tomatoes, capsicum, green chillis and garlic with olive oil such that they are oiled all over. Arrange in a greased shallow baking tray and keep and broil 10-12 mts. Remove and cool.

Discard the skin of garlic, the tomato cores and skin. Combine the garlic, tomatoes, capsicum and green chillis in a bowl and using a hand blender, puree roughly. Alternately, run in a mixer grinder for a few seconds. Be careful not to make a smooth paste of it. It should be chunky and coarse.
 Add chopped onions, salt, pepper, sugar and fresh parsley to the coarse paste and your salsa is ready. Serve with nachos, tacos and quesadillas.

Note:You can store salsa in the refrigerater for a few days and in that case don’t add the onions. Add onions only at the time of serving.

Sour Cream Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup malai/Amul cream/slightly hung curd (at room temp)

approx 5-6 tbsp lime juice

salt to taste

1 tbsp dried parsley

1/2 red chilli flakes

1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped

1 Take a bowl, add the cream, chilli flakes, dried parsley, salt and combine well. Blend the mixture slowly till it form a smooth consistency.
1 Now slowly add the lemon juice and keep blending smoothly and you will find that the cream will begin to thicken. Add lemon juice till it reaches a sour stage.
1 Add the chopped parsley and chill. Serve chilled sour cream with nachos, tacos,quesadillas or mexican rice.