Friday, November 13, 2009

Badaam ka halwa (Almond sweets)

Ingredients:

2 cup almonds

4 cups hot milk

250 gram desi ghee

1/2 cup sugar

Method:

To make this, dip almonds in plain water for one night or minimum 6 hours. Now peel all almonds and make paste in grinder .Now take a pan and add ghee, almond paste in it. Cook on minimum flame. Stir slowly till it gets golden brown. After that you can add milk and when it becomes thick add sugar in it. And stir it dissolve in it. You will see ghee separated from paste. Garnish with chopped almonds.

Mint (podina) chutney

Ingredients

1 bunch fresh mint leaves

2 fresh green chillies

1 inch ginger

Salt according to taste

1 small onion

1 fresh lemon juice

Method:


Grind mint, onion, ginger, chillies in a grinder to make thin paste .Use little water if require.Finally add Salt and lemon juice in paste.

Kaju ki barfi (cashew nuts sweets)

Ingredients:

100 gm cashew nuts (kaju)

300 gm sugar

elaichi powdered

400 gm khoya

Method:

First grind cashew in grinder to make powder and take a pan and heat khoya

in it now add sugar to dissolve in it.

Once sugar has been dissolved add kaju and elaichi powder in it.Stir continiously till it formed in a bunch.

Now take a flat plate, spread this mixture in it and cut in pieces to make barfi.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Bread chilla recepie

Ingredients:
1 large size bread slices.
4 Tbsp of beasn (gram flour).
Water.
2 tbs of fine chopped green capsicum.
1 tbs of fine chopped onions.
Salt according to taste.
¼ tbs of red chilly powder.


Method:
Take beasan in one bowl and add onion, capsicum, salt, red chilly powder and water in it to make thin paste. Now heat pan, spread some oil on it and put bred slice in pan and drop besan mixture on bread and turn on another side. Again repeat previous step to apply besan on plain side. You will see bread is completely wrapped with besan mixture.
Cook it from both side and serve with tomato ketchup.

Aaloo/Potato chaat recepie

Ingredients:
2 boiled and chopped potatoes.
½ Tbsp of chaat masala.
2 Tbsp sev

1 Tbsp of any vegetable oil.
Salt according to taste.
¼ tbs of mango powder.
1 Tbsp of fine chopped tomato.
1 Tbsp of fine chopped onion.
1 Tbsp of fine chopped coriander leaves.
½ Tbsp of fresh lemon juice.


Method:
Take 1 tbsp of vegetable oil in a pan and fry boiled-chopped potatoes to golden brown.
Now add these fried potatoes in one bowl and sprinkle chaat masala, salt, mango powder and lemon juice on it. Finally garnish with onion, tomato, sev and coriander leaves.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Veggie chilla

Ingredients:

1 cup gram flour(Besan)
2 Tbs wheat flour(aata)
1/4 Tbs chopped onion
1/4 Tbs chopped chillies
salt according to taste
1/2 Tbs chopped tomato
1/2 Tbs chopped capsicum
1/2 Tbs chopped coriander

Method :

Take gram flour and wheat flour in one bowl and and all ingredients in it and add water to make thin paste.Now add i Tbs of oil in a pan and spread oil all over on pan and spred mixture in circular motion cook it for 30 scoend and turn this on another side and again polish it with 1 tbs of oil and turn on another side.Server this veggie chilla with coriander chutney...

Medu vada(South indian recepie)

Ingredients:

1 cup split black gram Dal (urad dal)
Salt according to taste
water
1 Tbs. of chopped ginger

1/2 Tbs of green chillies
1/2 tbs black pepper
1/4 tbs hing
Oil to fry



Method:

dip dal in water for 4-5 hours and make thick paste of this in a grinder. Add less amount of water while making paste.Now keep it for whole night or for minimum 6 to 7 hours.
But if you think the paste is very thin then take this paste in some neat thin cloth and hang it some where to extract water for this paste to make it a thick paste.
After that take this thick paste in 1 bowl and add salt, green chillies, black pepper, ginger and mix it well.Dip you hand in water and one by one make balls with this mixture and make thumb in balls to make hole and put in to hot oil to fry.

Repeat with the remaining mixtures fry till all balls get golden brown. Serve with sambhar and coconut chutney.