Monday, October 1, 2012

Mullangi Pachadi

Ingredients
Mullangi (Radish) - 1/4 kg
Onion - 1/4 cup
Toor dal - 1/4 cup
Red chilli powder - 1tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves - Little

To Make Mullangi pachadi
  • Half cook the toor daal 
  • Heat the kadai and fry the radish 
  • Add Salt, redchili powder, mullangi, toor daal in pressure cooker
  • Leave it for 1 sound and switch it off immediately
  • Heat the oil in kadai add mustard, urad daal and mix it in the pressure cooker
  • And garnish it with coriander leaves 
  • Serve it hot with Rotis, Rice

Rasamalai

Ingredients
Rasgullas
Thick Milk - 2 cups
Vinegar or lime juice - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 2 1/2 cups

To make Rasgulla
  • Boil the milk in thick bottom pan
  • Keep the flame in medium to high 
  • Once start coming up add vinegar or lime juice
  • Allow the milk to curdle and stir gently
  • When milk is curdled completely 
  • Strain it with thick cotton cloth 
  • Squeeze out the water completely from the curdle mixture
  • And place heavy weight vessel on it to remove all moisture 
  • Or can hang it in one place for 1/2 hour
  • After 1/2hr  cheese will be ready to make balls
  • In the pressure cooker add sugar and water 
  • Keep the flame in medium
  • Mix it well 
  • After 1/2 hr cheese will be smooth
  • Smash the cheese with your hand for 5 minutes and make it as dough (use your palm to smash it and make it as dough)
  • After become a dough with out crack 
  • Make it as small flat shape with out crack(once the balls ready should add it immediately in to the sugar syrup)
  • Once sugar syrup start boiling add the cheese balls and close it with lid
  • After 1 whistle Switch it off 
  • After 5 minutes show the pressure cooker in water  (to release the pressure)
  • To cool down 
To Make Milk Rasam for Ras malai's
Ingredients
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 2 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Badam, Pistas - 2 tsp sliced
  • Boil the milk in thick bottom pan 
  •  In medium high flame
  • Milk should be reduced as 1 cup
  • It will take 20 minutes
  • Make sure milk should not get burn in bottom of the pan
  • Squeeze the Rasgullas from sugar water  lightly
  • Once milk has reduced add sugar and cardamom powder
  • Mix it well
  • Now add the rasgulla's in milk
  • Boil the rasgullas for 3 minutes and switch it off 
  • Rasgulla's will absorb the milk
  • And transfer it to bowl
  • Keep this Ras malai in refrigerator to chill it and then serve
Note: Can make 6 ras malai's in 2 cups of milk

Friday, August 31, 2012

Bhakarwadi North Indian Recipe

Ingredients
Dough
Besan Flour - 1/2 cup
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Oil - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 2 pinch
Asafitida - pinch

Filling
Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
Garam masala powder -1/2 tsp
Dry shredded coconut - 1 tsp
Kasa kasa - 2 tsp
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Sugar -  2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Lemon juice - 2 tsp
Asafetida - Pinch
Curry leaves - little

To Make Bhakarwadi
  • First make dough with besan flour, wheat flour, oil, turmeric, asafetida powder 
  • Mix all together with water and make dough  (not like chapatti dough)
  • Should be little hard, and keep it aside until to make filling
  • For filling roast every thing for 2 minutes in medium flame
  • Add the sugar, salt, lime juice later after switched off
  • And make it as powder (not fine powder)
  • Make the dough as chapatti with chapatti maker
  • Flat the chapatti little thick
  • Spread the filling in chapatti (don't add too much, it will come out )
  • And slowly have to roll it
  • And apply water to the end to seal the edges
  • And cut this as small pieces
  • Heat the oil
  • And deep fry the bhakarwadi's
  • Fry them until becomes golden brown
  • Serve it hot 
Note : can store the bhakarwadi's for 20 days in air tight container

Black Magic cake with Icecream

Ingredients
All Purpose Flour - 1 3/4 cup
Sugar - 2 cup
Cocoa Powder - 3/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Eggs - 2
Butter milk or sour milk - 1 cup
1 cup Strong black coffee  or Instant coffee powder -  2 tsp with 1 cup boiling water
Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

To Make Black Magic cake
  • PreHeat oven 350 degree F with greased baking pan
  • Take one bowl add eggs, buttermilk, coffee, oil and vanilla extract beat on medium speed of mixer
  • Stir together Sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in large bowl
  • Add the flour mixer slowly to the liquid mixer and mix it properly with out lumps
  • Batter will be thin
  • Pour batter evenly in to preheated baking pan
  • Bake it 35 to 40 minutes for rectangular pan 30 to 35 minutes for round pan
  • Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean
  • Cool 10 minutes, serve it with Vanilla Ice cream on top 
Notes : In this measurement can serve 10 to 12 pieces,
To make sour milk use 1tsp white vinegar in 1 cup milk 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Palak Paneer

Ingredients
Spinach - 1 bunch
Paneer - 250gms
Jeera - 1 tsp
Ginger - 1 tsp
Garlic - 4 pods
Onion - medium size full chopped
Green chili - 2
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 2tsp
Garam masala Powder - 1/2 tsp
Tomato - 1
Methi seeds - 1 tsp
Butter -1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Milk - 1/4 cup
Sugar -1/4tsp

To Make Palak Paneer
  • Heat the oil in kadai add jeera, garlic, ginger, onion  fry it for 2minutes
  • Add green chili, coriander powder, garam masala fry it 
  • And add tomato, methi seeds fry it 
  • Wash the spinach and add it with the onion tomato mixture
  • Fry it until spinach has cooked
  • Add butter, red chili powder
  • Mix it well and add crushed paneer or 
  • Cut the paneer as small cubes and add
  • Add Salt, sugar, milk and 1/4 cup water 
  • Mix it well and close with lid and cook it for 5 minutes
  • Serve it hot with Roti's

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Fried Rice

Ingredients
Basmatirice - 1 cup
Water - 2
Capsicum  - cut it as straight
Cabbage - cut it as straight
Onion 1/2 big onion cut it as straight
Frozen Peas -1/4 cup
Green chili - 2

To Make Fried Rice
  • Heat the oil in kadai add crambu, bay leaves, cordamom, green chili
  • Add rice and fry it for 3 to 4 minutes 
  • Add salt and Cook it in the rice cooker with 2 cups of water
  • Again heat 1tsp oil in kadai add onion fry it 2seconds
  • Add cabbage, and add capsicum fry it 2 to 3 seconds
  • Add 3 pinch of salt
  • Color should not change, close it with lid and cook it
  • And Mix the vegetables with rice
  • Close it with lid with heat
  • Serve it hot with cauliflower kurma
Note - if you are cooking in pressure cooker leave it for 3vessels and switch it off and 
for green peas, soak it and cook it with rice

Chicken Keema(Podimas)

Ingredients
Grounded Chicken - 1/2 kg
Chana dal (kadala paruppu) - 1/4 cup
Onion - 3/4 big onion (chopped)
Green chilli - 6
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Egg - 1
Shreded Coconut - 1/4 cup

To Make Chicken Podimas
  • Soak the chana dal for 1hr
  • Heat the oil in kadai add Jeera, Urud dal
  • Add Onion, Green chilli fry it for 3 to 4 minutes
  • Add grounded chicken fry it,  add salt
  • Close it with lid and cook it for 5 minutes 
  • Add chana dal mix it and close it with lid 
  • Mix the egg and keep it ready in bowl
  • After chicken and chana dal has cooked 
  • Add egg in chicken mix it well
  • And add shreded coconut and switch it off 
  • Serve it hot with Rice