Mix Fruit Halwa

Most of us like Fruits & fruit juices, but how about making a mix fruit halwa.. Apple, Banana & Carrot Halwa.

It tastes really good.. do try it once!

Ingredients:

Carrots (Grated) – 1 cup
Apples (Grated) without skin – 1 cup
Banana (Smashed) -1 cup
Milk - 1 cup / Milkmaid – ½ cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Almonds -few (sliced)
Dry grapes - a few
Cashew nuts -4-5 (sliced)
Ghee - 2 tsp
Cardamom Powder -1 tsp

Procedure:

1. Add 1 tsp ghee to a heated pan, roast cashew and almonds until golden brown. Then remove them from the pan.

2. Add grated carrots with milk and mix until cooked (approx 8-10 mins) in medium flame.
3. Add grated apple and smashed banana and cook for few minutes (approx 10 mins).
4. Add sugar and stir well until the mixture dries out.

5. Then Add cardamom powder .
6. Stir vigorously to avoid burning.
7. Add ghee to the mixture.
8. Remove from heat and garnish with roasted almonds ,cashew nuts and dry grapes.
9.  Enjoy your Mix Fruit Halwa !!!!

The Yummy Mix Fruit Halwa

You can also serve halwa with chilled Vanilla ice cream :)

Plz do comment if you like it and Keep coming back for many more...................... :)

Aaloo Paratha

The tasty, healthy and easy to make Aaloo Paratha..

No one can deny that Aaloo (Potato) being one of the favorite veggi for most of us, the Aaloo paratha definatley will be a favorite one!

Here's an easy way to make Potato parathas..

Ingredients:

4-5 medium sized Potatoes - Boiled

3-4 small green chillies - finely chopped

1 medium sized Onion - finely chopped

1/4 tsp ginger - garlic paste

1/4 tsp garam masala

2 pinches of black pepper powder

2 pinches of turmeric powder

Finely chopped  green coriander leaves.

Salt to taste

Edible Oil

Wheat floor kneaded to a fine soft dough, to make parathas.

 

 Procedure:

1. Smash the boiled potatoes in a bowl or you can also grate it.

2. Mix chopped Onion, ginger-garlic paste, chopped chillies, garam masala, salt, turmeric powder, black pepper powder and chopped coriander with the smashed/grated Potato in the bowl.

3. Mix them well.

4. Now make small balls out of the wheat dough and give it a bowl shape.

5. Fill in the Potato stuffing in the  wheat dough and close it to make it a ball again.

6. Now roll the dough in to medium thick paratha.

7. Heat tawa while you are rolling the paratha.

8. Roast the paratha well from both the sides and you can use either oil, ghee or butter to roast it.

9. Serve Hot with any of your favorite chutney or pickle. 

 

The tasty, healthy potato paratha is ready to be served now!

Tasty Potato parathas!

 

Paneer Paratha

The delicious, yummy "Paneer Paratha".. I tried it this weekend & it came out so well that we just could not resist eating it even though our stomach was full :)

You guys do try this too...

Ingredients:

100 gms Paneer - Grated

3-4 small green chillies - finely chopped

1 medium sized Onion - finely chopped

Finely grated ginger - 2 pinches

1/4 tsp Ajwain (Carom)

1/4 tsp garam masala

2 pinches of turmeric powder

1 pinch Aamchur powder (dry mango)

Salt to taste

Edible Oil

Wheat floor kneaded to a fine soft dough, to make parathas.

Procedure:

1. Take the grated Paneer in a bowl.

2. Mix chopped Onion, grated ginger, chopped chillies, garam masala, salt, turmeric powder, aamchur powder and ajwain with the grated Paneer in the bowl.

3. Mix well with light hand.

Paneer stuffing

4. Now make small balls out of the wheat dough and give it a bowl shape.

5. Fill in the Paneer stuffing in the  wheat dough and close it to make it a ball again.

 6. Now roll the dough in to medium thick paratha.

7. Heat tawa while you are rolling the paratha.

8. Roast the paratha well from both the sides and you can use either oil, ghee or butter to roast it.

9. Serve Hot with any of your favorite chutney or Tomato sause!

The Yummy Paneer Paratha!

I enjoyed it, hope you will enjoy it too....

Chaulai ki Bhaaji (Red Spinach)

This sabzi is voted to be one of the healthiest food for human body.

Which is very easy to cook and tasty to eat as well.

Red Spinach [Courtesy: Tasty Appetite]

Ingredients:
Half kg Red Spinach.
1 medium sized Onion - sliced.
3-4 garlic buds
1/4 tsp Cumin (Jira) seeds
3-4 Green Chillies.
2 small Potatoes, cut into small pieces.
2 pinches of turmeric powder
oil for cooking
Salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Remove thick stalks and use only fine stems & leaves.
2. Chop them and Wash Red Spinach (Chaulai) thoroughly and drain.
3. Heat oil in a large open pan, add garlic, Cumin seeds and green chillies.
4. After few seconds add chopped onion and fry till they turn golden brown.
5. Add potato pieces and cook for 5-7 mins until half cooked.
6. Add washed red spinach and simmer for 10 mins.
7. Add salt to taste & stir the vegetable well and cook without lid for 5-7 more mins.
8. Once all the water is evaporated, the Red Spinach sabzi (Chaulai ki bhaaji) is ready to be served with hot Chapattis.

Chaulai ki bhaji

Wheat Rawa Upma

Wheat Rava Upma made using less oil is very healthy and ideal for people on diet. Wheat Rava Upma also fills your stomach very well. Try this for your breakfast. Am sure you will like it!

Ingredients:
2 cups - Wheat rava (dalia)
1 Onion, sliced
3-4 Green chillies, slit across the length
1 sprig - Curry leaves
4 tbl spn cooking Oil
1 tsp - Mustard seeds
Some Groundnuts
1 tsp - Channa Dal
1 tsp - cumin seeds
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves for garnish

Procedure:
1. In a pan heat the oil, and let the mustard seeds & Groundnuts splutter, then add the cumin seeds ,channa dal, chillies, curry leaves and onions. Saute till the onions turn transparent.
2. Add 4 cups of water (rawa-water ratio is 1:2).
3. As the water begins to boil, add the salt and then slowly stir in the Rawa, avoiding any lumps.
4. Steam cook the upma for 8-10 mins if using the cooker or cover the pan with a lid and cook for the same amount of time.
5. Garnish with coriander and serve hot.

I just love it with tomato pickle! :)

Wheat rawa upma with Potato

Note :-You can add vegetables to upma to make it healthier. Eg: peas, tomato, potato, carrot.

Cabbage sabzi

A very simple Cabbage dry curry... fast to cook and yumm to eat!

Ingredients:

250 gms of chopped Cabbage.

3-4 chopped Green Chillies
1 finely chopped medium sized Onion (optional).

1/4 tsp Jira (Cumin) seeds

2 pinches of turmeric powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala

Salt to taste

1 tbl spn oil

Procedure:
1. Heat some oil in the pan.
2. Add Cumin seeds, turmeric powder and chopped green chillies (and chopped onion if you wish to).
3. Fry it till golden brown.
4. Then add the chopped and washed cabbage to the pan.
5. Close the lid and cook it for 5-7 mins.
6. Add salt to taste and cook without lid for 10-12 mins.
The cabbage dry curry is ready to serve hot with Chapattis. 

Cabbage dry sabzi

Crispy Aaloo Bread Cutlets..

Hi ppl, I just tried this recipe for a shallow fried snacks. And felt it is better than a deep fried snack at tea time :)

Try this, you will like it for sure..

Crispy Aaloo Bread Cutlets..

Ingredients:

4 medium sized Potatoes

4 Fresh Bread slices

1 finely chopped medium sized Onion

3-4 finely chopped green chillies

2 tsp thick curd

A pinch of Jira (Cumin) powder

A pinch of Black pepper powder

2 pinches of turmeric powder

2 pinches of red chilly powder.

Salt to taste

Oil to shallow fry

Procedure:

Boil Potatoes till it cooks well. And peel them off. 

Smash the peeled Potatoes.

Dip each bread slice in fresh water and take it off immediately. So as to make them wet.

Squeeze the bread slices and smash them with the Potatoes.

Add Curd, pepper powder, turmeric powder, jira powder, salt, red chilly powder, chopped Onion and green chillies.

Mix them well to make a nice dough. Do not knead.

Heat a Pan and pour a tbl spn of oil.

Make small balls out of the mixture and give them cutlet shapes using your palm.

Shallow fry the cutlets until golden brown.

Serve HOT with tomato sauce!!

Crispy Cutlets with Hot & Sweet Tomato sauce!

The yummy Cutlets are ready to eat :)