Saturday, October 29, 2011

Melon Delight

Ingredients:
Watermelon juice       4 cups
Musk Melon               2 cups
Lemon juice                1 tsp
Pepper  powder          to taste
Salt                             as required

Method:
Puree the musk melon and pass it through a sieve.
Take a bowl
Add water melon juice,musk melon juice and lemon juice.
Blend in a mixer.
Add salt pepper powder to taste.
Mix well and serve chilled.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Spinach and Cheese......

Ingredients:

Spinach                  2 cups (chopped)
Channa Dal            1/2 cup
Potato                   1 (peeeled and diced)
Onion                   1 (chopped)
Pumpkin cubes      1 cup (peeled & chopped)
Tomato                 2 (chopped)
ginger garlic paste   1 tsp
Chilli powder          1 tsp
Coriander powder   1 tsp
Cumin powder         1 tsp
Green chillies            2 (chopped)

Method:

Soak the channa dal in water for 30 minutes.
Chop all the vegetables.
Take a vessel.
Add soaked channa dal,chopped veetables,ginger garlic paste,coriander powder,cumin powder and green chillies.
Place it in a cooker with salt and little water.
Allow 3 whistles..
Remove and allow to cool.
Blend well.
In a separate kadai heat oil and fry the cottage cubes.
Add salt and chilli powder.
Mix it it with the spinach mixture.
Serve with plain rice.

    

Friday, October 7, 2011

Brinjal and Peas Masala

Ingredients:
Large brinjal          1
Peas                      1 cup
Onion                    1 (chopped)
 RawMango paste  1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste    1 tsp
Red chilli powder   1 tsp
Coriander powder  1 tsp
Mint leaves             few
oil  and salt             as required

Method:
Roast the brinjal on fire till the skin is fully charred.
Remove the skin and mash the brinjal pulp into a paste.
Heat oil in a pan and fry onion till brown.
Add ginger garlic paste and fry for another minute.
Mix the brinjal pulp with red chilli powder  coriander powder, and raw mango paste.
  Add little and allow to cook for sometime.
Add the boiled peas and chopped mint  leaves
.Stir well.Serve with roti and chappati.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Potato Bread Roll

Ingredients:

Potatoes                4
Ground peanut      1 tblsp
Green chillies        2
Red chilli powder  1 tsp
Corn flour             2 tblsp
Coriander leaf       few
chopped ginger     1 tsp
Bread slices           as required
salt and oil             as required

Method:
Boil potatoes.
Peel and mash them.
Add salt,ground penut,chopped ginger,coriander leaves and crushed green chillies.
Mix the mixture well.
Heat a pan.Add little oil and fry the mixture.Keep aside.
Soak the bread slices in water.
Squeeze out the excess water.
Add little water in the corn flour and make a paste.
Spread the potato mixture on the slices.
Roll it.
Press the open edges with the corn flour paste.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the rolls till golden brown.


Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Apple Malpuas

Ingredients:
Apple                      2 (peeled and cut into small pieces)
Maida                     1/2 cup
Milk                       1 cup
Sugar                     1 cup
Grated nutmeg        1/2 tsp
Cinnammon powder   1 tsp
Ghee                        as required
Method:
Take a bowl and mix the maida with milk.
The batter should be of a smooth flowing consistency.Keep aside.

Take a pan.Mix sugar with one cup water and keep on  a medium flame.
The syrup should be of one sting consistency.

Dip the  apple pieces in the maida milk batter and fry in hot ghee till brown.
After that dip the same in the sugar syrup.
Sprinkle nutmeg and cinnammon powder over it.
Serve topped with icecream.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Mango Rabdi

Ingredients:

Milk                      4 cups
Sugar                    1/4 cup
Mangoes               2
Mango Puree         2 tblsp
Cardamom powder 1 tsp

Method:
Take a heavy bottomed pan and boil milk.
Cook on a low flame until reduced to half the quantity.
Add sugar and allow to cook for sometime.
Add the mango puree and mix well.
Cut the mangoes into small cubes and add it to the mixture.
Sprinkle cardamom poweder.
Mix well
Serve chilled.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Couscous (Poppy seeds) Laddoo

Ingredients:
Poppy seeds           2 cups
Powdered sugar     1 cup
Ghee                      1 cup
Broken cashewnuts 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Method:
Heat one tblsp ghee in a kadai.
Fry poppy seeds till golden colour.
Grind it along with powdered sugar to make a fine powder.
Take a bowl
Add the ground powder and the remaining ghee,cardamom powder and the broken cashews.Mix well.
While still warm make small small balls out of it.
Couscous laddoo is ready.