Fast food recipes: Crispy food to cook on your cheat days

Fast food is the one food item that is a guilty pleasure no matter how much you want to stay fit and eat healthy. Here are two recipes that you can prepare during your cheat days. One recipe is an Indian favourite evening snack and another is the popular American comfort food. 

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Mac 'n' Cheese sticks

Try this upgraded recipe of the American favorite fast food mac 'n' cheese variation which could be used as a appetizer or even replace your soup sticks with this recipe. For this recipe, boil your elbow pasta, drain and keep it aside. In a saucepan, start with the butter, add little flour and whisk it to create a roux. Add milk, salt, pepper and whisk continuously. Once you find the sauce thickening then add grated or any cheese of your preference. Stir well and lastly add the prepared pasta. Now, remove the mac 'n' cheese from the bowl and spread it evenly on a baking sheet and freeze it. Once you remove your frozen mac 'n' cheese, cut it longitudinally into cylindrical long sticks. Take the sticks one by one and roll it into the flour, then egg and lastly bread crumbs. Fry these sticks to get a perfectly golden brown mac 'n' cheese sticks. (Recipe Inspiration - Tasty)

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Bread Pakoda

Bread Pakoda is one of the popular  Indian fast food items. For the stuffing in the recipe, boil mashed potatoes, peas, mix them and keep it aside for later use. In a pan, heat oil, add the mustard seeds, then saute ginger, green chillies and curry leaves,  chilli, garam masala and turmeric powder. Cook it well, then add the stuffing you prepared into the pan along with salt. 
Now for the bread, start with one sandwich bread slice, add the stuffiing over it and cover it up with another bread slice. Cut this into traingle pieces, so that one peparation gives you two bread pakoda pieces. Now prepare the oil for deep frying. Till the oil heats up, prepare the dipping batter by mixing gram flour, ajwain, chilli powder, salt, rice flour and turmeric powder. Dip the bread in this batter and then deep fry it until the sides are golden brown. Take it out once done and serve it up with green chutney, tomato ketchup or even plain curd.

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