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Normally, when you hear of sheikh kebabs,
    you think and visualize hot tempting mutton                           Niru Gupta
    kebabs. However, No matter what your
    tastes or food preferences (for the various                 Niru Gupta, an author of 9 cookery books,
    meats or  veggies), there is a kebab to                     graduated with Economics Honours from
    delight your taste buds! That's how many                    Bombay University. Cooking evolved as a

    there are. Vegetables are always the most                   passion after marriage, and led to various
    exciting part of the kebab since there are                  related activities like catering and classes.
    so many that can be used and they really                    From there on to hosting Khaana Khazana
    make the kebab with their color and variety  on Zee TV for 6 months, and Meri Saheli
    of taste. You can chop onions, all varieties                on Star Plus, judging and demonstrating
    of peppers, mushrooms, peas, cherry                         cookery programmes in Ladies’ clubs in
    tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and                          Delhi and Kanpur. Niru wrote a monthly
    eggplant. Just about any vegetables you                     column in ‘Sakhi’ a Hindi magazine by the
    choose can turn into kebab.                                 Dainik Jagran group for two years and
                                                                wrote occasionally for New Woman,

    Ingredients:-                                               published from Bombay. She has also
                                                                written articles for other magazines like
    ¯ Spinach, blanched and squeezed 500 g                      Upper Crust, Femina and Savvy. Niru
    ¯ Peas, boiled 500 g                                        Gupta has been on the panel of ndtv.com,
    ¯ Green chilies, chopped 2 or to taste                      handling their cookery section and was the
    ¯ Ginger, chopped 1 tbsp                                    cookery consultant on ndtvcooks.com.
    ¯ Salt 1 tsp or to taste                                    Besides this she has hosted cookery
    ¯ Powdered black pepper ¼ tsp                               episodes for NDTV off and on.
    ¯ Bread slices, grated 2
    ¯ Chick pea flour to dust kebabs                             Cooking is definitely a passion for this self
    ¯ Oil to pan fry                                            taught author, who believes in trying out
                                                                recipes 4-5 times before putting them in
    Preparation:-                                               print, knowing how disappointing it is to not
    ¯ Place the peas, spinach, ginger, green                    get the desired result after much effort!
        chilies and bread in the blender and                    Enjoys getting her grandsons into the
        puree.                                                  kitchen just to see their delight at
    ¯ Mix in the salt and black pepper.                         something they have produced.
    ¯ Shape the mixture into rounds and dust

        with the chickpea flour.
    ¯ Heat a thin layer of oil in a frying pan
        and brown the kebabs on both sides.
    ¯ Serve garnished with onion rings.












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