Recipes for QUICK Cooking in the hostel!

Cooking tasty food is possible without being a Master Chef! So I decided to write down the recipes for all those people who like hassle free cooking, but still care about the taste.

P.S.: All the following recipes serve 1 person only!

Scrambled Eggs:

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• ½ spoon butter/ghee/oil
• Salt
• Pepper

Method:

• Beat the 3 eggs in a bowl. Add 3 pinches of salt & pepper each.
• Put the butter/ghee/oil in the hot plate/hot pan (or whichever substitute that you have)
• Add the beaten eggs to the pan & keep mixing them with a spatula (or spoon). Break it as much as you want to.
• To give an Italian taste to your scrambled eggs, add 1 spoon of red chilli flakes & oregano each (which you could pick up at your next visit to Domino’s or buy it from a store)
• Serve with bread/chappati.

Semi-poached semi-fried eggs (little time consuming but uniquely tasty!)

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• ½ spoon butter/ghee/oil
• Salt
• Pepper

Method:

• Put water (till the max level) in your pan (can also be made in a kettle). Let it boil for 5 minutes.
• Put a steel bowl on the boiling water.
• Put the butter/ghee/oil in the bowl.
• Allow it to heat for 1 minute
• Then break the eggs directly on the bowl. Add 2 pinches of salt & pepper each.
• You can take a break, finish assignments or listen to some music while your eggs cook.
• After about 10-15 minutes they will stop being runny & then turn off the heat & (VERY) carefully take the bowl out.
• You could use a spoon to scoop your eggs out of the bowl.
• Serve with bread/chappati.

Italian Oats

Tired of eating the regular oat flavors? Try something new!
(Pick up a few packs of red chili flakes & oregano from Domino’s or you can buy them from a store!)

Ingredients:

• 100 ml milk
• Small pack of oats (or approx. 6 spoons of oats)
• Red chili flakes
• Oregano

Method:

• Pour the milk in your pan; add 2-3 spoons of water.
• Add the oats to the milk.
• Let it cook for 5 minutes (if you like it runny, then 3 minutes)
• Turn off the heat.
• Add the red chili flakes & oregano as per your taste.
• Mix properly while hot.
• Eat after it has cooled a little.

Masala rice

Have some leftover rice? Have some leftover (or fresh) maggi masala? Or do you love the WAI WAI masala? Here’s a recipe for you!

P.S.: if you don’t have leftover rice, you could buy some plain rice from a nearby canteen (Eg: BQ)

Ingredients:

• ½ plate rice
• 1 packet of maggi masala or WAI WAI masala
• ½ spoon butter/ghee
• Salt

Method:

• Put half a cup of water in the pan
• Heat for 1 minute then add 3/4^th of the masala.
• Mix the water & masala properly.
• Let it heat for 30 seconds. Then add butter/ghee on the pan.
• Add all the rice. Mix it properly with the masala water.
• Add the rest of the masala.
• Mix properly.
• Serve hot.

P.S.: Chopped vegetables can be added while the rice is on the heat.

Cold Chocolate Milk

Ingredients:

• 200 ml milk (cold)
• 1 small packet of drinking chocolate powder

Method:

• Put the milk in a bottle (which is leak proof)
• Heat ½ cup water (do not boil), add the drinking chocolate to it. (If it is bitter chocolate, add a spoon of sugar too)
• Add the chocolate water mix to the milk and close the lid tightly.
• Shake shake shake.
• Serve cold.

P.S.: If it isn’t cold, put the bottle in a big bowl of cooler water.

HAPPY COOKING!

BY:

ISHA  MODY

BPT 2nd year