Paneer with Jalapeño & Tomato

Ingredients

• Paneer
• Tomatoes
• Onions
• Jalapeños
• Haldi (tumeric powder)
• Chili
• Salt

Preparation

Thaw a block of paneer for a few minutes.

Use your hands to crumple into small pieces.

Cut tomatoes, onions and jalapeños (fajita style).

Sautee onions first. Then add the cut tomatoes.

Add salt, haldi, and chilly powder. Let it simmer until pureed.

Add jalapeño peppers.

Add the crumpled paneer pieces.

Let it simmer and crush paneer pieces evenly so it absorbs all the flavors.

Enjoy with naan or roti (Indian breads)!

Aloo Jalapeno

Ingredients:

• Red potatoes
• Jalapeno peppers
• Red onion
• Cumin seeds
• Haldi (tummeric powder)
• Salt

Preparation:

Wash Potatoes. Leave skin on.
Cook some red potatoes in the microwave-until they are soft, but not over cooked.

Chop Onion and Jalapenos fajita style (long ways).

Chop potatoes in squares.

Add oil to a pan.

Saute onion.

Until brown.

Add Jalapeno peppers.

Add in the potatoes. Let them brown with the Jalapenos and Onbion.
And the masalas (cumin seeds, haldi, salt).

Let the colors blend together.

Enjoy with naan or roti!

Cabbage Salsa (for Tamales)

Chop some cabbage and spin dry, tomatoes and jalapenos. Mix and add salt and lemon juice. Must have for tamales (coming soon!)

Falafels

Trader Joe's has good frozen ones and all the other ingredients too - tortilla, tahini sauce, humus, jalapenos and cucumbers.

Heat the falafels in your toaster oven. Add the crisp falafels and everything else into a wrap and ready to eat!