Monsoon is the Best Time to Relish Snacks. Discover Lip-Smacking Healthy Monsoon Snack Recipes to Try at Home and Why Snacking is Important for Your Family (2020)

Ingredients:

• Moong dal – 1 cup
• Onion – 1, finely chopped
• Garam masala – 1 tsp
• Cumin – 1 tsp
• Ginger – 1 tbsp, finely grated
• Coriander – 1 tsp, finely chopped
• Asafoetida (Hing) – as needed
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp (optional)
• Green chilli – 1, chopped (optional)

How to Make:

• Wash the dal and soak it in a bowl of water for around 3 hours.
• Grind the dal with the rest of the ingredients like ginger paste, onion, hing, chilli powder, green chilli, cumin and garam masala.
• Add chopped coriander to the batter and mix it. Make the batter light and soft and add water if needed.
• Heat the oil in the frying pan. When it is hot, take a spoon of the batter and fry it in the oil till it turns golden brown.
• Fry the pakodas and ensure that they are crispy on the outside but soft inside.

Ingredients:

• Corn kernels – 1½ cup
• Papdi – 5
• Sev – 2½ cups
• Chaat masala – 1 tsp
• Cucumber – 1, finely chopped
• Coriander leaves – ½ cup
• Potato – 1½, finely chopped
• Tomato – 1½, finely chopped
• Onion – 3, finely chopped
• Sweet tamarind sauce – 2 tsp
• Green chutney – 2 tsp

How to Make:

• Boil the potatoes, peel them, cut them into small pieces and keep them aside.
• Boil the corn kernels along with some water for around 10 minutes. Check if the corn is soft and then drain the water and keep the corn aside.
• Chop the cucumber, onion and tomatoes and keep them aside. Chop the coriander leaves too.
• Crush the papdi and place it in a bowl. Mix the chopped vegetables in the bowl. Take the corn and add it too along with the sweet tamarind sauce, green chutney and chaat masala.
• Mix the ingredients well and serve.

Ingredients:

• Broccoli florets – 1 cup
• Milk – 2 cups
• Fresh cream – 2 tbsp
• Butter – 3 tbsp
• Flour – 2 tbsp
• Onions – ¼ cup, finely chopped
• Nutmeg (jaiphal) powder – as needed

How to Make:

• Heat 1 tbsp butter in a pan and add the chopped onions. Saute on a medium flame for a few minutes.
• Next, add the broccoli florets and saute again for 2 minutes.
• Add around 2 cups of water and cook well on a medium flame while ensuring the broccoli is cooked well.
• Keep it aside to cool. Once cooled, pour it into a mixer and blend well.
• Take some more butter along with the flour and whisk for some time. Ensure that the flour does not get discoloured.
• Add the broccoli puree, nutmeg powder, pepper and some salt as needed and mix well. Let it simmer for a few minutes.
• Add the fresh cream and mix well.

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat bread – 6-7 slices
• Ginger – ½ tsp, grated
• Green chilli – 1, finely chopped
• Grated cheese – ½ cup
• Salted butter – as required
• Black pepper – as required
• Salt – if required

How to Make:

• Grate the cheese and add the ginger and chopped chillies. Then add the salt and pepper.
• Slice the edges of the bread and cut into triangular slices.
• Bake the bread in a preheated oven to around 200°C for 5 minutes. It must be slightly toasted.
• Then remove the bread from the oven and spread the butter over it.
• Next spread the cheese mixture evenly over it.
• Bake it again for around 10 minutes till the cheese melts, and the bread is crispy. Ensure that the bread is not burnt.
• Serve with some sauces of your choice.

Ingredients:

• Green peas – 1 cup, boiled and coarsely ground
• Besan – 2 tbsp
• Green cardamom powder – ½ tsp
• Khoya – ½ cup, grated
• Green pea shells (tender) – 7-8
• Cashew nuts – 1 tbsp, finely broken
• Almonds – 1 tbsp, finely broken
• Pistachios – 1 tbsp, finely broken
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Ghee – 1 tbsp

How to Make:

• Take a non-stick pan and make a sugar syrup with a cup of water.
• Remove the pea shells, grind them and add to the sugar syrup.
• Heat the ghee in another pan and add the nuts to it. Saute the pan for 1-2 minutes.
• Add the besan to it and saute for another minute.
• Next, add the green peas and saute for around 5 minutes.
• Add the cardamom powder and mix. Finally, add the grated khoya and saute for a minute.
• Add the sugar syrup and the pea shells while mixing well and then cook for around 3 minutes.
• Transfer into a bowl and serve.

Ingredients:

• Chana Dal – 1 bowl
• Potatoes – 2
• Eno – 1 tsp
• Green chilli – 1 (or, as needed)
• Ginger – 1 small piece, grated

How to Make:

• Soak the chana dal in water for around 2-3 hours.
• Remove the water and put the dal along with the ginger and green chilli in a mixer to blend well.
• Grate the potatoes and add it to the blended dal along with salt for taste.
• Add the Eno to this batter and mix well.
• Heat water in a big vessel that will be used for steaming.
• Grease a wide vessel and transfer the batter to this vessel.
• Steam it for around 20 minutes on a medium flame.
• Cool it and cut into pieces before serving.

Ingredients:

• Sweet potatoes – 4, peeled and cut into wedges
• Corn flour – 1½ tbsp
• Rock salt – as needed
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp (or, as needed)
• Garlic – 5 cloves, grated or finely minced
• Olive Oil – 3 tbsp

How to Make:

• First, preheat the oven to 230°C.
• Grease 2 baking sheets with butter.
• Take a bowl and mix the garlic, oil, salt and chilli powder.
• Pour some of the oil and the mixture over the sweet potato wedges.
• Coat the wedges with some cornflour.
• Place the coated potato wedges on the baking sheets and bake for around 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 250 grams
• Urad dal powder – 50 grams
• Sugar – 2 tsp
• Fennel powder – 4 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 3 tsp
• Hing – ¼ tsp
• Dhaniya powder – 6 tsp
• Yeast – 1 tsp

How to Make:

• Soak the urad dal in water and let it stand for half an hour.
• To it, add the red chilli powder, dhania powder, fennel powder, hing and salt and make it soft.
• Put the flour in a bowl and add the sugar and yeast along with some water. Knead it well and leave it aside for an hour.
• Add oil to the dough and make patties with the urad dal filling inside.
• Roll it to appropriate size with a rolling pin.
• Bake them in a preheated oven at 160°C till they have a golden brown colour.

Ingredients:

• Poha – 1¼ cup
• Mashed potatoes – ½ cup
• Chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
• Green chillies – 1 tsp, finely chopped
• Coriander – 2 tbsp, chopped
• Sugar – ½ tsp
• Lemon juice – ½ tsp

How to Make:

• Clean and wash the poha in water and sieve it off.
• Take the poha in a bowl and mix with all the ingredients.
• Make balls out of the mixture.
• Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry the pakodas till they turn golden brown.
• Use an absorbent paper to drain the oil.
• Serve with a variety of chutneys.