Tortilla Roll Ups - Easy and Quick Mexican Appetizer

Tortilla Roll ups is an easy party appetizer filled with cream cheese, cheese, veggies or chicken. It can be perfect for any party. The best alternative for cream cheese in this dish can be hung curd. So I found it’s wise to use hung curd when cream cheese was not available with me.

Every bite of torilla roll ups just melts into your mouth.  The best part of this dish is it can be prepared a day ahead and refrigerate it until serving.  I tried these roll ups with two types of tortillas- regular tortillas and tomato garlic tortillas. Both flavors were amazing and in future posts will showcase these amazing roll ups with different flavors of tortillas

    

  To make Plain Tortilla

• All-purpose flour – 1&1/2 cups
• Yogurt – 1/4 cup
• Baking powder -1&1/2 tsp
• Salt – 1/2tsp
• Water –as needed to make soft dough
• Extra flour for dusting

 Method

• Combine all the ingredients into a bowl.
• Knead everything well until you get soft and smooth dough. Use water as needed.
• Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
• Divide the dough into small balls and roll out each ball into round thin disc. 
• Heat skillet or tava on medium flame and place tortilla on the skillet.
• Roast the tortillas until you see brown spots on it.
• Store the roasted tortillas wrapped in the cotton cloth, so that they remain soft for longer time.

 To Make Tomato Garlic Tortillas

• All-purpose flour – 1&1/2 cups
• Yogurt – 1/4 cup
• Baking powder -1&1/2 tsp
• Salt – 1/2tsp
• Water –as needed to make soft dough.
• Tomato puree – ½ cup
• Garlic powder – ½ tsp

Method

• Cook tomato puree until it becomes a thick kind of paste.
• Then add garlic powder into it. Mix everything well.
• Let the mixture cool down before we add it into the flour mixture.
• Combine all the ingredients into a bowl. 
• Add tomato garlic paste into the flour mixture.
• Knead everything well until you get soft and smooth dough. Use water as needed
• Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
• Divide the dough into small balls and roll out each ball into round thin disc.
• Heat skillet or tava on medium flame and place tortilla on the skillet.
• Roast the tortillas until you see brown spots on it.
• Store the roasted tortillas wrapped in the cotton cloth, so that they remain soft for longer time.

 To Make Filling

• Hung curd – 1 cup
• Green olives or Black olives – 6 no’s , finely chopped
• Red bell pepper (chopped) – 2 tbsp
• Green bell pepper (chopped) – 2 tbsp
• Garlic powder – ½ tsp
• Cumin powder – ½ tsp
• Red chilly powder – ¼ tsp
• Shredded cheese – ½ cup
• Salt – a pinch

 Method

• Into a bowl, combine hung curd, chopped olives, chopped red and green bell peppers, garlic powder, cumin powder, red chilly powder, salt and shredded cheese.
• Mix everything well and filling is ready.

To Assemble the roll ups

• Spread even amount of the filling mixture onto the tortillas.
• Roll tortillas and chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
• To serve, slice the chilled, rolled tortillas into 3/4 inch slices and arrange on a large serving platter.

Look at these scrumptious bites.. They are awesome in all ways..Do try and leave me your feedback or suggestions in the comments section right below .

 

 

Steamed Walnut and Banana Pudding With Mango Cremeux

Walnut Banana Pudding is a dessert which can be prepared in one step. I also like to call this dessert as one bowl dessert as it is very quick to make with less hassles. Just grind all the ingredients, pour it in the moulds and  leave it for steaming. Yes, you heard it right. I like steamed version of the pudding not the baked one. The pudding is prepared with walnuts, banana, almond flour, wheat flour, milk and oats. Walnut banana pudding is a perfect pudding that can be made for family gatherings or home parties.

I like to serve this pudding with mango cremeux or banana cremeux. Cremeux is the French word which means “cream”. Its texture is somewhere between sauce and mousse in terms of lightness. The cremeux are flavored custard based cream, thick but soft. Mango cremeux is the best match with walnut banana pudding.

 INGREDIENTS

To Make Pudding

•  Ripe Banana – 4 nos, small (If bananas are big, use 2 nos)
• Almond powder – 2 tbsp
• Oat powder – 2 tbsp
• Walnuts – ¼ cup (coarsely grinded)
• Whole wheat flour – ¾ cup
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Honey – 1 tbsp
• Baking powder – 1tsp
• Baking soda – 1  tsp
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp
• Milk – ¾ cup
  

To Make Mango Cremeux

• Mango puree – ½ cup (use mangoes of good variety)
• Sugar – 3tbsp
• Custard powder – 1&1/2 tbsp (if not available, it can be replaced with 1 tbsp cornflour and 2 tsp of milk powder)
• Milk – 1 cup
• Whipped cream – ½ cup (readymade whipped cream can also be used)

 To Decorate

• Walnuts- few
• Cherries – few
• Crushed mix nuts - optional

METHOD

• Into a blender, add whole wheat flour, oats flour, almond flour, coarsely grounded walnuts, baking powder, baking soda, honey, sugar and oil. Grind everything for few seconds.
• You will see that mixture forming into dough. Then add milk and grind it again.
• Now the mixture will turn to semi thick paste. This should be the right consistency of pudding mixture.
• If you think the mixture is too thick, then you can add another ¼ cup of milk to the pudding mixture.
• Transfer the pudding into glass bowl. Place the pudding filled glass bowl into the steamer and steam the pudding until it is done.
• To check the pudding, simply insert the knife at the middle of the pudding. If the knife comes out clean, the pudding is done.
• Combine mango puree and sugar into a saucepan.  Stir well and cook till the mango puree thickens.
• Turn off the flame and keep it aside for later use.
• Pour ¾ cup of milk into a saucepan and bring it to boil.
• In another ¼ cup of milk, add in custard powder. Mix well such that there should be no lumps in the custard mixture.
• Once the milk comes to boil, lower the flame and mix in custard powder.
• Stir continuously till the custard milk thickens.
• Turn off the flame and let the custard milk cool down.
• Until the cooked mango puree and custard milk cools down. Beat the whipped cream to semi soft peaks.
• Then mix in cooked mango puree and custard milk into the whipped cream.
• Gently fold it together.
• Here we go Mango cremeux is ready to serve on walnut banana pudding.
• Walnut banana Pudding with Mango cremeux is ready.