Navratan korma

Ingredients

french beans 100 grams
carrots 100 grams
potatoes 100 grams
capsicum 100 grams
paneer 100 grams
cashew nuts 100 grams
raisins 100 grams
Green peas 100 grams
tomatoes 4
curd 1 cup
ghee 4 tbsp
oil for frying
sugar.


Masala paste:

green chilli 2
deggi mirch
ginger 1 inch
dhaniya seeds 2 teaspoon
jeera 1 teaspoon
badi elaichi 1
salt to taste
crush all this in a mixer and make a fine paste.

Method:

• cut all the vegetables in very small cubes 
• boil beans carrot and peas
• deep fry potatoes (cut into cubes) in ghee. Put some salt into ghee while deep frying 
• cut paneer into cubes and deep fry.
• mix all the boiled vegetables with paneer and potatoes 
• heat in a pan and fry paste for a while
• add tomatoes and curd and fry for few minutes
• add vegetables cashew nuts raisins paneer salt and sugar
• cook for sometime 
• garnish with varak and pineapple pieces and cherries.

Chocolate cake using milk powder

My sister used to make this cake and I was always fond of it!

Ingredients

malai 1/2 cup
sugar 3/4 cup
milk 1/2 cup
maida 1 cup
milk powder 1/2 cup
baking soda 1/2 teaspoon
baking powder 1/4 teaspoon
cocoa powder 2 teaspoon

छुहारे किशमिश की चटनी || Dates and raisin Chutney

छुहारे किशमिश की चटनी

भीगे हुए छुहारे 5
किशमिश एक मुट्ठी
2 टेबलस्पून घी
एक चुटकी हींग
जीरा आधा चम्मच
पानी आधा ग्लास
नमक पौना चम्मच
मिर्च आधा चम्मच
एक चुटकी हल्दी
सॉन्फ एक चम्मच
धनिया एक चम्मच
खटाई दो चम्मच
चीनी आधा चम्मच

विधि

• छुआरे रात को पानी में भिगोकर छोड़ दें 
• सुबह गुठली अलग करके इसके छल्ले काट लें 
• अब कढ़ाई में घी गर्म करें 
• इसमें हींग -जीरा डालकर भूनें 
• फिर छुहारे और किशमिश डालकर सिम गैस पर तब तक भूने जब तक किशमिश फूल जाए 
• पानी डालकर सारे मसाले डाले 
•  खटाई पानी में घोलकर डालें 
• इसे अच्छे से उबाले और गाढ़ी चटनी तैयार करें।

Black Forest Cake

Sonal didi gave me this recipe. Having this cake on diwali night at her place was always a sheer delight.

Maida - 210 gm (2.5 measuring cup)

Drinking Chocolate - 3 tsp

Milkmaid - 1 tin

soft butter - 130 gm

Soda bottle - 200 ml

Baking powder - 1.25 tsp

Soda bicarb - 1 tsp

Apple Malpua

Inspired from Chef Neeta Mehta

1 large apple - Peeled, cored and cut into thin rounds (approx 10 rounds)
2 tbsp maida
2 tbsp atta
1/4 cup and 1-2 tbsp milk
nutmeg powder
cinnamon powder
1/2 cup sugar
Oil for deep frying

Garnish - Nutmeg and Cinnamon powder
                2-3 almonds sliced
                a little chilled rabri for topping.

• Make a thick batter of atta, maida and milk. 
• Heat oil. Dip apple rounds in batter and fry on high flame to crisp golden brown color.
• Make Sugar syrup by boiling 1/2 cup sugar with slightly less than 1/2 cup water. After sugar dissolves, keep on low flame for 2-3 min only. Remove syrup fron heat. Dont make syrup very thick.
• Dip fried apple rounds in sugar syrup one by one. Leave in the syrup for a few seconds. Place in a serving plate.
• To serve, top malpuas with some chilled rabdi or serve warm malpuas sprinkled with nutmeg or cinnamon powder, along with cold rabri or ice-cream served seperately.
• Garnish with blanched almonds.

Cake sponge (using curd)

Maida : 1 1/2 cup (140 gm)
Curd (thick, fresh, chilled) - 1 cup (150gm)
Powder Sugar 3/4 cup (100 gm)
Refined Oil 1/2 cup (65 gm)
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Biscuit Pudding

Step 1: Vanilla custard
1.25 cup milk + 2 serving spoon sugar. Boil.
Mix 2 serving spoon custard powder in half cup cold milk.
Let it cool.

Step 2 : Strawberry custard.
Procedure same as above.

Step 3: Mix 1.5 tsp coffee powder in a cup of water.

Take a square dish. Spread a layer of parle-g biscuits dipped in the coffee water in the bottom of dish. then create a layer of strawberry custard over it. Again create a layer of parle-g biscuits dipped in the coffee water and the cover it with vanilla custard. Put int in the fridge. Serve Chilled.
Gatnish with Tutty-fruity.

Apple Crumble

Its a french dish inspired from tarla dalal.

Apple (peeled n diced)  1
Powder sugar - 6 tbsp
Cinnamon pd - a pinch\
Maida - 1 cip
Soft butter - 2 tbsp
Milk

Mix everything and bake it for 20-25 min at 175 degree.

Serve it along with custard or vanilla ice-cream.

Dosa batter

Rice 3 times the quantity of Urad dal. Same for Uttapam.

For Idli rice is twice the quantity of Urad dal.

Black and White Khichdi (Urad dal Khichdi) for winters

Rice needs to be twice as much as the quantity of dal.

Water double the quantity of rice+dal.

ghee, salt, red chilli powder.

After a whistle, simmer the flame for 10 min.