5 Easy Dips with Chips

While we’d all surely agree that potato chips are wholesome and delicious by themselves, there comes a time when we need to whip up a few dips to go with the chips. Whether it’s a party, a small dinner get-together or what have you –chips with dips are a sure-shot success! Read on for some amazing dip recipes that go perfectly with any kind of potato chips.

1.    Caramelised Onion Dip
 

•    In a large skillet, melt 2 tbsp unsalted butter over medium heat.
•    Add 2 chopped onions and sliced kosher salt. Cook for half an hour and then let it cool.
•    Grab a bowl, mix the onion mix, along with black pepper a bar of cream cheese, 1 cup sour cream and 2 tbsp chopped chives.
•    Serve with kettle chips India for best flavours!

2.    Guacamole

 
•    In a bowl, add 1/2 chopped onion, 1 chopped jalapeno, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, some kosher salt and black pepper to taste.
•    Then, mash in the veggies till they start to release juicies.
•    Then add 2 diced avocados, 2 tbsp fresh lime juice and serve up with potato chips!

3.    Hummus

 
•    Puree 1 can chickpeas, 1 clove garlic, 1⁄4 cup olive oil, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp sesame seed paste, 1 tsp ground cumin, and some salt until desired level of smoothness.
•    Put the mixture in a bowl, add 1/4 teaspoon paprika and sprinkle some olive oil and serve alongside a few packs of kettle chips India!

4.    Salsa

 

•    In a bowl, mix 2 diced plum tomatoes, 1 diced yellow bell pepper, 1 diced cucumber, 1/2 diced red onion, 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil along with some kosher salt and black pepper. Mix well, and serve with chips and dippers!

5.    Spinach and Parmesan Dip

 

•    Grab a bowl and mix 1 package chopped spinach, 1 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan, 1 clove garlic, some kosher salt and black pepper to taste. Easy as can be!

How to Make Pizza At Home

Home delivery is quite common these days. This option is available in a number of restaurants, bars and other fast food outlets, but let’s strict our discussion to the fast food industry.

Food services in India are more than blessings. How much we enjoy the surprised faces of our beloved ones when they see their birthday cakes delivered! And how much we love those pizza guys smiling at us when we open the doors for them!

Talking about pizza, I believe it’s not just the home delivery pizzas that fill us with delight. Homemade pizzas are fun too, and here we’re not talking about one of those easy and healthy breakfast recipes, which are quite easy to make. So making a pizza is going to take time, but it is going to be worth it. Check this out.

1.First of all, preheat the oven to over 200 degree Celsius. The oven should be blazing hot before you start. Don’t use your hand to test the temperature.

2.Get the crust from store. Remove the unbaked crust from the packet and spread olive oil all over it.

3.We are Indians and we love tomato sauce! Spread the tomato sauce mixed with spices on the crust. You can alter the spices according to your taste.

4.Time for toppings- Put your favorite toppings like onions, chicken pieces, spinach leaves and other peppers and load them as much as you want.

5.Sprinkle cheese all over the toppings. The rule remains same- thin layer of cheese for light pizza and thick layer for heavy pizza.

6.Remember the hot shot oven we talked about in the beginning? Place the pizza in the oven for about 20 minutes, and then allow it to cool.

If you succeeded in making a delicious pizza through this recipe, enjoy it with the people around. If you didn’t, well that pizza guy is just a phone call away!

Why You Should Never Skip Breakfast

So, I definitely agree that living in a fast paced world like ours, it is very common to put breakfast on the lowest spot on our priority list, because come on we have a meeting scheduled, we need to take a bath, iron our clothes, get ready prim and proper and rehearse a little on our way to office, so siting down for breakfast seems like a luxury. But, in reality it takes only some minutes to eat a little something which would help you function throughout the day. Let’s study why you should never skip breakfast:

•Break-the-fast:

That’s exactly what break-fast is supposed to mean, because you sleep 8 hours at night so you need to fill your body and brain with fuel after an overnight fast, hence having a proper breakfast is necessary to get you going. Fruit and vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals, and surprisingly Breakfast can be good for waistline too, research shows those who eat breakfast are less likely to be overweight and more likely to be within their ideal weight range compared with breakfast skippers.

•Cognitive functions:

Breakfast restores glucose levels and energy, which is an important requisite for our brain to function properly. It improves memory and concentration levels and also improve mood and lower stress levels. Studies amongst children prove breakfast can improve attainment, behaviour and has been linked to improved grades.

•Long Term Benefits:

A Regular breakfast and lessen the chances of Obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease in the long run.

Moreover, people who thought breakfast are all cereal and boring, are completely wrong, because the breakfast products from Bector food are enough to break the myth. These ketchup suppliers in India, have clients like Macdonalds who swear by their sauces and dips, freshly baked bread and their home-made Indian tomato sauce have found a fan in many, including me. Learn the importance of breakfast, try Bector food and improve your health now!

Top 4 Ways to Eat Tomatoes

When it comes to salad, my sole interest is devoted toward the tomatoes! Yes, every time I see a ripe and juicy tomato, it sends down a feeling of euphoria in my entire system. No, I am not the only one obsessed with tomatoes; there are other tomato lovers out there as well who can go about picking out tomatoes out of any dish prepared for them! For all those who are smitten by tomatoes, here is a list of ways you can eat this heavenly vegetable.

Raw is real

When nothing else works out, eat it raw! Forget salad just eat it raw. Cut it into slices and sprinkle a bit of salt and bite! You will taste heaven at its real best. I often try this at home. This is healthy with volumes of vitamin C going in your body and for tomato lovers like me, it is the best and the simplest way to enjoy one!

Sauce it up!

Most Indian tomato sauce has this sweet flavour to it, which true tomato lovers do not like. So how about making tomato sauce at home?  It is a fabulous thing to try this scorching summer! All you need is olive oil and basil. Smash it, mix with olive oil and make a sauce out of it! Add basil and bruschetta as a topping! You are now ready to give tough competition to the ketchup suppliers in India with your own tomato sauce!

The salad saga

How about an all tomato salad or, a salad with predominantly tomatoes in it? Saves you the pain of picking out the tomatoes from salads, right? Just add a cup of fresh mozzarella balls. Top it up with the juice of a lemon, 2 tablespoons decent olive oil, and fresh and sliced basil to go with it. Mix salt and pepper to taste. You are ready for a lip smacking salad!

Wrap it up

Make your own tomato wrap. Toast two of the biggest slice of sourdough bread. In one slice, spread prepared hummus, then comes the best part: add big, fat slices of the best, ripest tomato you can lay your hands on and top it with the other slice of the bread. Now you are ready to relish!

Best Holiday Dips

With holiday season down the corner, you sure must be looking forward to a lot of relaxing and munching. In the midst of all that action and inaction, family time is also imperative. 

What better than food to bond on?!

While you can have food from the best food service in India or you can just hit the kitchen and prepare dips to enjoy throughout the holiday season. After all any excuse to indulge into snacks is most welcomed!

Here are some amazing dips you can comfortably prepare while sitting back at home:

-Caramelized Onion Dip

This one is truly a classic while comforting your sweet tooth simultaneously. All you need to do is cut onions into half and slice them. Then heat the pan with some butter and oil into it. Follow the rest by adding onions, salt, cayenne, sugar, garlic and onion powder while stirring and sautéing it simultaneously. While the mixture is cooling down add cream cheese, sour cheese and mayonnaise as prepared from the mayonnaise sauce recipe to it. Mix these well and serve them with chips.

-Spinach and Cheese Dip

The dip guarantees clean plate says a restaurant with best food service in India. Prepare the oven by preheating it to some 350 degrees F. Cut the bread loaf on inside such that it forms a bowl and cube the top slice and centre to make croutons. Now fry the pancetta until it is golden brown, now add croutons to it layer it with pancetta fat. Add salt and pepper to it. Oven-cook it for 5 minutes.

For the dip- Mix well the cheese and flour and add pepper for seasoning. Take a saucepan and heat beer and garlic. Add cheese to it, stir till the cheese melts. Stir these in spinach and sambal. Fill the bread bowl with it and place it in an oven for 15 minutes and enjoy this offbeat dip

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Potatoes for Skin Care

Talk about a relaxed afternoon at home and there are high chances that you imagine yourself on a couch, gorging on to your favourite homemade potato chips. Potatoes in Indian culture and around the globe are an imperative part of diet. This is one of the most widely and commonly found vegetable in any kitchen. 

Apart from being used as an eatable in form of homemade potato chips or in any other eating variety, potato plays an important role in the skin care routine. Being rich in Vitamin C it is a wonder in maintain a healthy skin. These are the associated skin care benefits of this starchy vegetable:

-Removing Dark Circles

Potatoes naturally help you to brighten under the eye. Therefore applying potato juice or the slice of it directly helps in getting rid of dark circles.

Start by peeling and slicing a potato into large pieces. Place them in a cloth or handkerchief and put it on your eyes for the following 15-20 minutes. Wash it using warm water. Practising the method regularly shows a visible lightening under the eyes.

-Wrinkle Treatment

Potato is known to be an anti-ageing organic ingredient. Routine application of potato slice or juice to the skin helps in flaunting a natural glow. While softening the skin it keeps wrinkles at bay.

-Treating Dark Spots

This starchy vegetable helps in curing dark circles in the most natural way. For dark spots blend the peeled potatoes and apply those directly on your face. Give a gentle massage. Let them stay for 5 minutes and clean it with clear water.

So instead of munching on fried potatoes with pizza pasta sauce it is better to give quality time to your skin care.

-Keeping Sunburn at Bay

Being an organic remedy for treating sun burn, the treatment procedure is also simple. Begin by placing cold potato slices on the affected area or apply potato juice on the affected area using cotton. Giving a cooling sensation it diminishes the suntan.