Wheat Flour Dosa

Ingredients:
Wheat flour 1 cup
Rice flour 1 tblsp
Cumin seeds 1 tsp
Green chillies 2 (chopped)
Mustard seeds 1 tsp
Red chillies 2 (make it into 4 pieces)
Curry leaves few
oil and salt as required
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Method:
Take a bowl.
Mix wheat  flour,rice flour,salt and water.
Make it quite watery.
In a tblsp of oil tamper mustard seeds.
When it starts popping add cumin seeds,chopped green chillies,red chillies and curry leaves.
Add this to the batter
Heat a pan in a medium flame.
Pour the flour.Apply oil and cover the pan.
After a moment turn the dosa to other side to get cooked.

Serve hot with peanut chutney or with coconut chutney.

Fruity Muffins

Ingredients:
Maida 1cup
Butter 1/2 cup
Pine-apple squash 1 tblsp
Sugar 1/2 cup
Condensed milk 1/2 cup
Raisins 15
Cream 1/4 cup
Soda bicarbonate little

Method:
Sieve the maida flour.Add soda bicarbonate. Mix well.Keep aside.
Take a kadai.Cream the butter.
Add pine apple squash and sugar.Stir well.
Add the condensed milk,raisins,cream and maida.Mix well.
Fill the mixture in 10 muffin moulds.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degree C for 15 minutes.
Cool slightly and remove from mould.

Black Beans soup

Ingredients:
Black Beans 2 cups
Vegetable broth 6 cups
Onion 1 (chopped)
Bell pepper 1 (chopped)
Tomato paste 1 tblsp
Garlic 3 flakes (chopped)
Chilli powder 1/2 tsp
Ground cumin 1 tsp
Ground pepper 1 tsp
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Method:
Pressure cook black beans with water.
Allow four whistles.
Puree half of the cooked black beans with vegetable broth in a blender.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add chopped onion,bell pepper,garlic and cook until tender.
Add black bean puree.
Add tomato paste,chilli powder,ground cumin and ground pepper.
Add salt.
Add the remaining whole beans.
Bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat,cover the pan and simmer,stirring frequently until the flavours are melded to form a soup.

Radish with Moong Dal

Ingredients:
Radish         3 (finely chopped)
Moongdal    1/2 cup
Powdered pepper 1 tsp
Grated coconut   2 tblsp
Oil  and salt    as required          
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For seasoning:
Mustard seeds 1 tsp
Cumin seeds    1 tsp
Red chillies      2 (broken into bits)
Asafoetida powder 1/2 tsp
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Method:

Take a medium sized pan.
Add enough water with moongdal.
Allow to boil for ten minutes.

In a Kadai heat oil and add mustard seeds.
When they pop add cumin seeds,broken red chillies,asafoetida powder.
Add chopped radish.
Cover and cook on medium flame for five minutes.
Add the boiled moong dal with enough salt and mix well.
Add the grated coconut and the ground pepper.Mix well.
Serve hot with rotis or rice.

Strawberry delight

Ingredients:
Strawberry jelly 1 packet
Water 2 cups
Strawberry sliced 2 cups
Vanilla ice cream 2 cups
Sugar 3 tblsp
Fresh cream 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar 2 tblsp
Ice cubes as required
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Method:
Mix the sliced strawberries with sugar.Keep aside.
Dissolve the jelly in water and boil until the crystals dissolve.

Take a deep  bottomed vessel full of ice.
Mix the icecream and the jelly and blend  using an electric beater.
The mixture should be of a smooth texture.

Drain the excess water from the strawberry pieces and add it to the above mixture.
Mix well. Mix the fresh cream and powdered sugar.Whip it until stiff.
Decorate the pudding with whipped cream and strawberry
Serve chilled.

Melon Fantasy

Ingredients:
Water melon juice     3 cups
Musk melon              1 cup
Lemon juice               1 tsp
Pepper                      1/2 tsp
Salt to taste

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

Mango Kulfi

Ingredients:

Milk    5 cups
Sugar  1 cup
Mango 1 (finely chopped)
Mango Puree 1/2 cup
Fresh cream  1 cup
Cardamom powder 1 tsp

Method:
Take a deep bottomed pan.
Pour the milk.
Allow to boil till it reduces to half the quantity.
Add sugar and boil for another 5 minutes.
Allow it to cool.
Add the mango puree,fresh cream  chopped mangoes and cardamom powder in this.
Mix well.
Fill this mixture in Kulfi moulds.
Leave it to set in a freezer.