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For home-cooked food, try Holachef and order food online

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: Do you like home-cooked meals? Do you like food that is not only easy on pocket, but also great to taste? Do you prefer healthy food over spicy, heavy and oily food? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions then you should definitely give Holachef a try.

Holachef was started by IIT-Bombay alumnus Saurabh Saxena in September 2014. Holachef is a delivery only model that promises to offer nutritious, home-cooked, light on pocket meals prepared by a team of professional chefs.

The biggest plus point of Holachef is its ever-changing menu. Every day a new menu specially curated by professional chefs that includes their signature dishes for breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner is uploaded on Holachef’s website/ app.

Holachef is an extension of one’s personal kitchen. It serves home-quality food with daily new menus of breakfast, lunch, evening snacks and dinner; along with packaged edibles under the Flavours section. Holachef is a perfect blend of freshest ingredients, authentic recipes, wide variety of cuisines and the expertise of select chefs. Simple everyday meals to exotic indulgence – find them all at Holachef.

Here are the methods of the recipes - Veggie Twist Oats Palak Paneer & Paneer Tikka Masala from Saffola Fit Foodie available at Holachef.

Veggie Twist Oats Palak Paneer

Ingredients:

•             3/4 cup low-fat paneer

•             2 1/4 cups chopped spinach

•             1 cup Saffola Masala Oats Vegie Twist soaked

•             3/4 cup fenugreek leaves

•             1 piece ginger, finely chopped

•             1/2 cup chopped onions

•             1 tsp finely chopped green chillies

•             ½ cup baby corn blanched

•             ½ cup carrot diced & blanched

•             1/3 cup green peas blanched

•             2 tsp Saffola oil

•             Salt to taste

How to make Veggie Twist Oats Palak Paneer

•             In a deep pan, cook the spinach and fenugreek along with water and cook on a slow flame until soft

•             When cooked, drain out the water and blend the leaves along with Saffola Masala Oats Veggie Twist in a mixer to a smooth puree

•             Heat the Saffola oil in non-stick pan, add the onions, carrot, baby corn, green peas and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute

•             Add the green chillies and ginger and saute again for a few seconds

•             Add the pureed leaves, paneer and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes

•             Serve hot

Paneer Tikka Masala Recipe

Ingredients For Tikka:

•             200 grams paneer, cut into 1-inch cubes

•             1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste

•             1/4 cup low-fat yogurt

•             1/2 teaspoon tandoori masala powder, optional

•             1/2 tablespoon cumin-coriander powder

•             1 teaspoon red chili powder

•             1/2 teaspoon kasurimethi

•             1/2 teaspoon chat masala powder

•             1 teaspoon lime juice

•             2 tablespoons Saffola Oil

•             salt to taste

For Gravy:

•             1 Black cardamom

•             1 tablespoon whole dry coriander seeds

•             1-inch long small piece of cinnamon

•             1 dry red Kashmiri chili

•             8-10 cashew-nuts

•             2 large onion, finely chopped

•             2 small tomatoes, finely chopped

•             1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

•             1 packet Saffola masala oats classic masala

•             1½ tablespoons Saffola oil

•             salt to taste

•             1 cup water

•             2 tablespoons coriander leaves, finely chopped for garnishing

How to make Paneer Tikka Masala

For Marination:

In a bowl add low-fat yogurt, cumin powder, coriander powder, chat masala powder, red chilli powder, tandoori masala powder, garlic & ginger paste, kasoorimethi, salt and lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients

Add low-fat Paneer cubes, chopped capsicum, chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, in the marination and mix it well

Then in 180 degrees pre-heated oven, place the marinated paneer and let it cook for some time

For Sauce:

In a pan, add Saffola oil, black cardamom, cinnamon, chopped onion, dry Kashmiri chilli, dry coriander and turmeric powder.  Mix all the ingredients and let it cook for some time

Then add chopped tomatoes 1 packet of Saffola masala oats classic masala, water and cashew nuts. Cook for sometime till the ingredients soften

Then put all the ingredients of the sauce into a mixer and puree it

Garnish hot Paneer Tikka with chat masala and coriander leaves and serve it with sauce.