Healthy Frankie

Frankies - a yummy scrumptious dish! The taste buds for this dish has increased many fold in recent times. Here, is a healthy version of this tasty dish - fit for health conscious, kids and everyone!





Ingredients: 

·         All-purpose flour: 1 cup

·         Chopped Capsicum (red, yellow, green): 1 cup

·         Grated carrot: half cup

·         Boiled and mashed potatoes: half cup

·         Diced cucumber: as required

·         Boiled and crushed Kidney beans: half cup

·         Onion: 1

·         Salt: as per taste

·         Red chili powder: 1 teaspoon

·         Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon

·         Vinegar: 1 teaspoon

·         Soya sauce : 1 teaspoon

·         Tomato ketchup: 1 teaspoon

·         Chilly sauce: 1 teaspoon

·         Dried mango powder: 1 teaspoon

·         Chaat masala: 1 teaspoon

·         Garam masala: one teaspoon

·         Oil: as required

·         Lukewarm water: one cup

Method:

For dough:

·         Take all purpose flour in a bowl.

·         Add 1 teaspoon oil and salt as per taste.

·         With lukewarm water bind it into a soft dough and let it rest for atleast one houre.

For Filling:

·         Heat oil in a saucepan. 

·         Add mustard seeds and let them crackle.

·         Throw in chopped red capsicum, grated carrot, mashed potatoes, and crushed kidney beans (rajma), yellow capsicum (optional) diced cucumber (optional).

·         Add salt as per taste, red chili powder, turmeric powder, pinch of garam masala and cook it on low flame for few minutes.

·        After the spices have blended perfectly with ingredients, then add pinch of sour dried mango powder and chaat masala and turn off the flame.

For topping:

·         Cut the onion into rings.

·         In a pan, heat one teaspoon oil.

·         Add onion ring and let it get cooked/soft.

·         Fill in one teaspoon of vinegar, tomato ketchup, green chilly ketchup and soya sauce.

·         Keep it aside to cool.

For Frankies:

·         Take the dough and gently bind it again to get proper texture.

·         Make small doughs out of it.

·         Flatten the small dough into a thin circle like rotis.

·         Heat another non stick pan.

·         Put the flattened dough in pan and let get get cooked from one side.

·         Once done, turn it upside down, while the other side is being cooked, add the ready filling at the center.

·         Fold it from both sides, to give Frankie shape.

·         Top it with onions and sauce.

·         Serve hot!!!

-Nikita Dudani