Cup o salad

When baked cups are filled with choicest seasonal vegetables or fruits, it becomes a meal in itself. Summer times are times for eating more salads. However, salads alone are not a good meal as it lacks carbohydrates. Hence, I have made small cups made of all purpose flour to go with the raw vegetables. It will also enhance the palatability of such servings that sans creamy dressings. 

Ingredients:
All purpose flour -2cups
Salted butter -1tsp
Finely chopped mixed vegetables -1cup
Boiled potato -1

Method:
Knead the flour and butter well. Next, add about 1/2 cup of water and make stiff dough out of it. Rest it for 20 minutes.    Flatten the dough as thin as possible using a rolling pin. Cut out small rounds out of it using a round cutter. Place each round firmly in cookie cups. Bake them at 180°C in a pre-heated oven for 10 minutes. Make small strips like bread sticks with the left over dough. Bake them also like the cups.

                                            Baked cups and strips
Presentation:
Arrange the cups and sticks in a round plate. Fill each cup with different vegetables. Slice the potatoes and place them over the baked strips. Serve it along with tomato sauce or red chutney or any dip of your choice.

Note:
Fresh fruits can also be cut and arranged in the similar way and served along with honey.