Egg Potato Bruschetta with 2 cheese

Bruschetta is originally an Italian recipe usually cooked with tomatoes, basil and garlic. It is pronounced as “brusketta”. You can do Bruschetta with various ingredients whichever is available in your fridge or pantry. It is a summer dish but can be cooked throughout the year.

As per Wiki, it origin dates to 15th century which consists of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with olive oil, salt and pepper with variations in toppings. Bruschetta is usually served as a snack or appetizer

"In Italy, bruschetta is often prepared using a brustolina grill. In the Abruzzo region of Italy a variation of bruschetta made with a salami called ventricina is served. Raw pork products and spices encased in pig bladder are aged and the paste spread on open slices of bread which are sometimes grilled. This was a way of salvaging bread that was going stale. In Tuscany it is called fettunta and it is usually served without toppings, especially in November, to taste the very first oil of the season"

Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruschetta

Egg Potato Bruschetta with cheese

You can absolutely use anything as topping with tomatoes and cheese.
The dish here is a simple one with potatoes, tomatoes, 2 different kind of cheese.

Ingerdients:

1 Baguette  or ciabatta.
2 tbsp of olive oil
1 potates, cut into small cubes
1 tomatoes, roughly chopped
1 tsp of couscous
1 tsp of cumin powder
Sugar, salt n pepper
handful of mint leaves, you can use baby spinach or any other greens
1 egg beaten
mozarella & mexican cheese
1 tbsp of veg or olive oil

Preparing the topping.

In a small pan, heat the veg or olive oil. Put the chopped potatoes in it, some salt, Fry the potatoes for a minute or till it gets tender. Add half of chopped tomatoes and fry. Add the greens and mix well. Sprinkle the cumin powder, pepper, couscous and sugar to the mixture. Move the mixture to the end of the pan. Pour in the beaten egg and let it settle for a minute. Break the mould and mix with the potatoes and tomatoes. Th egg omelette broken in tiny pieces and mixed well with the potatoes, tomatoes and the green. Adjust the seasoning.

Method
Preheat the oven.
Slice the baguette into about a inch thick. Brush one side with olive oil and put in the oil side up in the grill for a 4-5 minute. Remove and let it cool.

Once cool, lay the grilled side up on a lined baking tray. Scoop the prepared topping generously on each slide. Add tomatoes on top of it. Put the broken mozzarella slices on top and two or three pieces of Mexican cheese.
Put it back in oven for 8-10 minutes till the cheese becomes crispy.

Bruschetta in Oven

Bruschetta

Serve with Soup or can be nibbled just like that.

Happy Cooking!

Kingfish Curry...Surmai

Surmai Jhol

Ingredients:

4-5 Kingfish pieces, nicely cleaned, scaled and cut into flat pieces. You can request the Fish seller to cut it into big Indian pieces. Believe me they know the difference between Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani pieces.
2 small onions, finely chopped
1 big tomato chopped
2 green chillies, split across
handful of chopped coriander leaves
1 big heapful tbsp of Ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp mustard paste. I use dijon mustard, it works wonder.
1 tbsp tamarind paste
1 tsp of Paanchphoron (mix of five spices- cumin, fenugreek, brown mustard seeds, fennel and nigella seeds)
Generous pinch of Jeera (Cumin) seeds, Mustard seeds, a bay leaf, 2 dried red chillies
1 tsp each of Cumin Powder, Coriander powder, Amchoor(Dried Mango) powder & sugar
1 tbsp of Garam masala
2 tbsp of veg oil
2 tbsp of mustard oil for frying
2 tbsp of turmeric powder
salt & water

Method

In a flat big pan, put the mustard oil to heat up. Nice hot.
Rub some turmeric and salt to the fish pieces and fry the fish for more than a minute on each side and keep aside.
Put the wok on gas and dry roast the mustard and cumin seeds and red chillies for a minute till you get the aroma. Remove from the wok.
In the same wok, pour in the veg oil(you can used mustard oil too), add the bay leaf and roasted cumin and mustard seeds with red chillies and paanchphoron. When they split, add the onions and fry it till it is soft. You can sprinkle some salt to fasten the process.
Add the tomatoes and keep frying, stirring regularly.
While our onion and tomatoes are frying in the pan, you can start with the mustard paste mixture.
In a bowl, add the mustard paste, remaining turmeric powder and tamarind paste. Pour in hot water and give it a whisk. this will also reduce the bitterness of the mustard paste.
Back to the wok, add the green chillies, ginger garlic paste and fry for another minute or two.
Add the cumin, coriander powder, salt, sugar and amchoor powder and mix well with the onion and tomato mixture. Add the garam masala and fry the mixture till it leaves oil.
Add the mustard, tamarind paste we earlier made to the mixture and stir. Pour in water as required for the gravy. Check the seasoning and adjust.



Now slowly add the fried fish to the wok and let it simmer for good 10 minutes for the fish to absorb all the flavour. once done, transfer it to the serving dish and sprinkle some coriander leaves. You can serve steam rice, pulao or plain chappati/roti.

Happy Cooking!




Tips:
1.  For frying fish, heat up the oil to a very hot temp to avoid the fish from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
2. Don't overcrowd the pan while frying fish pieces.
3. While frying the onions for curry, to fasten the process, sprinkle some salt.
4, While using mustard for any fish recipe, if the mustard paste is dissolved in water, it reduces the bitterness of the mustard.