Sunday, September 23, 2012

POMEGRANATE AND BANANA RAITA (CURD)


Pomegranate and Banana Raita:-

Ingredients:

500 gms Refrigerated Curd (Dahi)
One Banana cut into small pieces
½ cup Pomegranate (Peeled) seeds
Four tsp Sugar
½ tsp Black Salt

Directions:-

Take cold thick curd and blend it well with blender, add sugar, black salt in it and mix well,do not add water or milk to thinner it.

Then add pomegranate seeds and banana pieces to it and mix it with light hand.

Keep refrigerated for ½ an hour and serve it on lunch or dinner table.

Optional: Add green grapes cut into half into the curd

Serve chilled this unique taste curd & enjoy it.

BEANS TOAST WITH CHEESE TOPPING

RECIPE :-
Beans Toast with Cheese Topping:-

Ingredients:-

  • Three slice Brown Bread
  • 200 gms Baked Beans (Tinned)
  • Three cheese cubes
  • Butter (Optional)

Directions:-

  • Take bread,toast it in a toaster for 1 to 2 min. till light brown.

  • On the toasted bread put some butter and spread it evenly.

  • In a pan put the baked beans and cook it for 3-4 min., until it thickens.

  • Then on the toasted buttered bread slices, spread the beans evenly and grate the cheese all over it properly.

  • In a preheated oven ,place these bread slices and bake till the cheese turns light brown.

Serve Hot with Tomato Ketchup on the breakfast table.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

CHEESE CHILLY WITH FRIED RICE

RECIPE :-
Fried Rice with cheese (Paneer) chilly:

Ingredients:
For Fried Rice:

  1. Three cups boiled rice
  2. Two chopped onions(Medium size pieces)
  3. ½ cup farm fresh beans(Chopped)
  4. ½ cup chopped carrot
  5. ½ cup chopped capsicum
  6. ½ tsp Soya Sauce
  7. ½ tsp Tomato Sauce
  8. Pepper, Salt to taste
  9. Three tsp oil

a). Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add chopped onions, cook till light brown, add rest of the vegetables i.e. carrot, beans & capsicum, Sauté well till half cooked.

b). Add salt, pepper, Soya & tomato sauce. Mix well, till cooked.

c). Then add the boiled rice to the pan slowly, & keep on mixing the vegetables, till the vegetables are mixed with rice nicely & evenly.

Switch of the flame. Serve Hot.

Ingredients:
For Cheese(Paneer) Chilly:

  1. 250 gms Cheese(paneer) cut into cubes
  2. Two small Capsicum
  3. 7-8 cloves of chopped Garlic
  4. ½ tsp Soya sauce
  5. ½ tsp Tomato Sauce
  6. One chopped Onion
  7. Two chopped Spring Onions
  8. 1½ tsp Corn flour
  9. Oil for frying
  10. 2 tsp Maida(All purpose flour)
  11. 2 tsp Besan(Gram flour)

For Cheese (Paneer):

    • Take maida and besan , mix well & add 5-6 drops of soya sauce. Add salt, pepper to taste and then add water to make a thick batter paste.
    • Take the cheese cubes and dip in the batter and deep fry them one by one, cook till golden brown.

For Gravy:

  • Heat 1 tsp of oil in pan, add chopped garlic and then chopped onions ,cook till light brown.
  • Add salt, pepper, Soya sauce, Tomato sauce, Capsicum & Spring onions .Mix well, cook till the vegetables become tender.
  • Add 2 cups of water and let it boil for 1-2 min.
  • In another bowl take 1½ tsp Corn flour to 1 cup of water, mix it well evenly and add this mixture to the boiling water mixture of vegetables.
  • Let it boil till the gravy thickens.
  • Then switch off the flame and add the fried paneer to it. Do not over cook after putting paneer.

Serve Hot.


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

WHEAT FLOUR (AATTA) HALWA WITH ALMONDS TOPPING

Ingredients:-
  1. 1 cup wheat flour
  2. 1 cup sugar
  3. 1 cup desi ghee(clarified butter)
  4. 1 cup water
  5. ½ cup almonds (finely chopped)
Directions:-
  1. Heat the ghee in a non-stick pan on medium flame.
  2. Add wheat flour (Atta) to the heated ghee and stir quickly so that the lumps are not formed.
  3. On the other side mix water and sugar together & let it boil for 1-2 minutes.
  4. Stir the atta till golden brown, do not overcook the atta.
  5. As soon as the atta is ready simmer the flame and add the water and sugar mixture to it. Be careful the bubbles may come up, keep stirring so that lumps do not formed.
  6. Stir it till the halwa leaves the side of the pan. Switch off the flame.
  7. Pour the halwa in a halwa bowl & decorate it with small cut pieces of almonds in the center and whole almonds to be kept on the sides of halwa.
SERVE HOT & enjoy it.