Su's lil bag of goodness

I am always hungry at work and it's hard to snack healthy all the time. I try. Most times I end up at the PRET A MANGER's store below my office and pick up their chocolate trail mix. It's a lil bag of goodness, as they like to call it - that contains black raisins, raw almonds, cashews & sunflower seeds and some semi sweet chocolate for some good measure. Since I snack on these very often - I decided to make them on my own and carry it in my handbag. So now, I always have something to munch when am on the go plus these nuts are extremely healthy - packed with the "good" fats, omega 3 fatty acids & fiber to name a few.

Here's what you need to create your own lil bag of goodness.

Recipe

Prep Time: Absolutely negligible!

Cooking Time: Nada

Ingredients

Dried fruits of your choice (raw almonds, cashews, walnuts, raisins, cranberries, pistachio, etc.) - 1 to 2 handfuls each

Choc chips (semi sweet or dark, I used Ghirardelli's semi sweet choc chips) - 1 handful

Method

Mix all the ingredients together and pack them in snack or quart sized ziplock bags and you are all done! 

On a separate note - we got a brand new DSLR camera. A Canon Rebel T5i with a 18 - 135mm lens. (I actually know what that means now!) Hubby and I are pretty excited about the new gadget and have been taking turns to get familiar with it. Here's one of our first attempts. Hoping to use it to take more pictures for this blog. :)

Paneer Bread Rolls

I am not sure how I came across this recipe from Edible Garden, but I am so glad I did! This snack is super easy, quick to make and quite tasty! Hubby liked it so much the first time I tried it, that he requested for it the next week and I gladly obliged! :)

Here's a look at the delicious evening snack!

Apologies for the half bitten roll, couldn't resist having a bite before taking the pic! :D

Recipe

Prep Time: 20 mins (including the 10 mins resting time for the rolls)
Cooking Time: Under 10 mins

Ingredients

Bread slices - 4
Paneer, crumbled - 1 cup
Half an onion, finely chopped

For seasoning (adjust as per taste)

chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
coriander-cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Few strands of coriander, finely chopped
Tomato Ketchup - 1 to 2 tsp
Salt as per taste

Butter for toasting

Method

- Take the crumbled paneer, onion along with the ingredients listed under seasoning in a bowl and mix well with your fingers.

- You can taste the mixture and adjust the seasoning like I mentioned earlier. Keep aside.
- Take your bread slices and cut off the edges.
- Flatten them out with a rolling pin.

- Place about 2 tsps of the paneer mixture into each bread slice and roll it nicely. Make sure to place the folding at the bottom, so the bread roll doesn't open out.

- Cover the bread rolls in a moist paper towel for about 10 mins. This helps in getting the bread rolls a bit moist and binds everything together.

- Now for the best part! Butter up the bread rolls on all sides and toast it on your pan. Toast it on a medium flame, so the bread rolls can spend time on the pan. This will warm up the paneer mixture in the rolls as well.
- Serve with ketchup or with Sriracha sauce if you need to add a lil spice kick to your paneer bread roll!