Ganthiya

GanthiyaIngredients:

4 cups Besan
1 cup oil
1 cup water
Salt to taste
Hing(Asafoetida)
Ajwain(Carom Powder)

Method:

Mix water and oil, knead it properly till it thickens well. Add Besan(Gram Flour), Ajwain, hing and prepare a soft batter. Put the mix in Sev and fry Ganthiya in heated oil on fast flame.

Jalebi

Ingredients:

1 cup Maida
1 tablespoon Ghee
1 tablespoon fresh curd
1 tablespoon Besan(Gram Flour).
For Syrup: 2 Cups Sugar, 1 cup Water, Lemon yellow colour, Rose water

JalebiMethod:

Mix Maida, ghee, curd and warm water together. Prepare a paste and keep it for around 12 hours. Before frying the Jalebi, add besan and yellow color to it. Alongside, prepare sugar syrup and cool it. Also add color and rose water to it.

Put the Jalebi mixture in to sauce bottle, press them in heated refined oil or ghee in to deep fry on medium gas, post which dip them in the syrup. Serve hot & delicious Jalebi’s with ganthias.

Khoya Mutter

Ingredients:

1 Special Ghee
1 Spoon oil
2 Onion Paste
250 grams green peas
100 grams Mawa
1/2 spoon Punjabi Garam Masala
1/2 spoon Amchur (Dried Mango powder)
1/2 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/2 Spoon dhaniya-jeera powder(Coriander-Cumin Seeds)
1/2 spoon turmeric
2 tomatoes
1 spoon ginger-green chilli paste

Method:

Heat ghee and oil in a vessel, add Cumin seeds, onion paste and fry till it turns golden brown. Now add tomatoes, mawa, ginger-green chilli paste, punjabi garam masala, amchur, turmeric red chilli powder and salt to taste. Now add the boiled green peas and mix well.

Tasty and delicious Khoya Mutter is ready to eat.

Handvo

Ingredients:

1 cup toor dal
1 cup chana dal
2 cups rice soaked in water for 5 hours with 1/2 cup curd and mixed well. Add a little water also and keep it for 5-6 hours.

Handvo
Handvo

Other Ingredients:

1/2 cup cabbage
1/2 cup carrot
1/2 cup grated bottle-gourd(Dudhi)
Green peas
1/2 cup coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Chillies garlic and ginger paste
1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda.

For seasoning: 1/2 cup oil, 1 tsp cumin seeds(Rai), few curry leaves, 2 tbs Sesame Seeds(Till). Add cumin seeds and curry leaves. When heated, add Sesame Seeds and immediately add this to the Handvo batter.

Method:

Add vegetables and seasoning in the Handvo batter. Mix well and prepare Handvo in oven 180 degree or cooker which will take 45-50 minutes. You can also prepare Handvo in a non stick pan. Take a little batter, spread it in the pan and bake it on the gas. When roasted on one side, Invert on other side and roast.

Your Gujarati style Handvo is ready to eat 🙂

Khaman Dhokla

Ingredients:

2 cups
2 tablespoon Semolina(Rava)
1/4 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon oil
Salt to taste
1 tablespoon citric acid
Green chilies
Ginger paste
Lemon yellow food color

Preparation:

Mix all the above ingredients except soda, add  enough water and prepare dough. Mix it properly, keep it idle for approximately 30 minutes. On the other side, heat water in a container to boil and dissolve the soda in the batter. Stir the batter well till soft fluffy. pour it in a dish till half of its capacity and steam for 10-12 minutes and let it cool.

Delicious Khaman Dhokla
Delicious Khaman Dhokla

Seasoning: 4 tbs oil, rai, curry leaves, 4 chopped chillies, 1/4 cup water

Method: Heat oil and add the above seasoning ingredients. When the tadka is ready, add 1/4 cup water. Add the prepared dhokla pieces as soon as the water boils. You may garnish it by sprinkling grated coconut and coriander leaves on the top.

Your tasty and mouth watering dhokla is ready to eat 🙂

Instant Rabri

Ingredients:

1 Litre Milk
8 Tea-Spoon Sugar
2 Tea-Spoon Cornflour
1 Tea-Spoon Milk Cream
Cashewnuts, Almonds, Pista, Saffron (Kesar) and Cardamom

 

instant rabri

Preparation:

Firstly boil the milk. Take half cup milk aside, mix the required dry fruits in it and keep it for 30 minutes. Grind it in a mixer. In the remaining milk, mix Corn Flour and keep stirring for 5 minutes. Then put the dry-fruits paste and keep stirring for 5 minutes. Put sugar and Cream and stir for another minute. Let it cool down, your Rabri is ready in 10 minutes. Enjoy! Keep sharing and commenting 🙂

Rasgulla

Ingredients:

1 Litre Cows Milk (enough for preparing 10 Rasgulla)
3 Cups of Water
1 Cup Sugar

Preparation:

Prepare Paneer Separately from Cow’s Milk as explained here. Boil the Water and Sugar to make sugar in a Pressure Cooker.

How to prepare Rasgulla

Once the sugar syrup is ready, put the Paneer balls in it. Now, close the cooker lid and let it whistle once. Take the Rasgulla out of the Cooker into a serving ball and let it cool down. Your tasty and mouth-watering Rasgulla are ready to eat 🙂

One helpful tip – Two Rasgulla’s a day is a very helpful diet for patients suffering from jaundice.

 

How to prepare paneer?

Ingredients:

1 litre milk (preferrably Cow milk)
1/4 th Teaspoon Citric Acid (Mixed with little water)

Method:

Boil the milk in a container. Once it is medium hot, add 1/4th teaspoon of Citric acid. Slowly the color of milk would start turning Green. You may now turn the flame off. Leave the container for 40 minutes, post which you may remove the water content from it.

Now tie the white matter in a cotton cloth for 10 minutes and let the excess water drain off.

how to prepare paneer

Your Paneer is ready to be used in your favorite recipes. Enjoy and leave your comments for feedback.

Paneer Coconut Ladoo

Ingredients:

2 cups cocunut powder
1 cup sugar
Half cup fat milk
1 cup paneer
A pinch of Saffron(Kesar)

Method:

In a vessel, first mix the coconut powder, sugar and milk. Stir the mixture on medium flame for 10-15 minutes. Keep it aside for cooling. On the other side, take Paneer and smash it with little sugar.

Now, take small balls of Paneer and insert them inside medium sized balls of coconut mix already prepared and cooled. Dip the Ladoo in small amounts of coconut powder for garnishing.

Your Paneer Coconut Ladoo is ready to eat 🙂

Mawa Cake – Eggless

Ingredients:

100 grams Wheat Flour(Maida)
100 grams Semolina(Rava)
125 grams Powdered Sugar
50 grams Butter/Ghee
1 tea-spoon soda-bi-carbonate
1 tea-spoon baking powder
100 grams Powdered Milk(Mawa).

Mawa Cake

Preparation:

Take butter/ghee in a bowl and Mix sugar along with all the mentioned ingredients sequentially. You may add dry fruits or vanilla essence or lemon yellow color depending on your choice. Put the mixed batter in an Aluminium Container/Moulds as shown in the picture and bake it in a Pre-heated cooker for 30 minutes until it turns Red.

Your delicious Mawa Cake is ready to eat. Enjoy and leave your comments for any queries.

 

Sandesh – Bengali Sweets

So you have sudden guests at home? And you don’t know what to start with? Here’s a simplest of all sweets which can be prepared in just 10 minutes. This one is called “Sandesh” which originates from Bengal, India. For all geeks who want to know all in detail, click here

Ingredients:

Cardamom (Elaichi)
Saffron (Kesar)
Paneer prepared from half litre Milk
Sugar equal to half of Paneer

sandesh

Preparation:

Mix all the listed ingredients and steam in a double boiler for 5 mins. Your sweet and quick “Sandesh” is now ready to eat.

Try it once and give us your valuable feedback.