Diwali-2012 - Jalebi

Ingredients:-

For Batter:-
All purpose Flour - 1/2 cups
Corn Flour - 1/2 tbsp
Curd - 1 tbsp
Hot Oil - 1 tsp
Food Color (Optional) - a pinch
Water
For Sugar Syrup:-
Sugar - 3/4 Cups
Water - 1 Cup
Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:-

- Mix all the ingredients to make the batter.
- Beat this well so that no lumps are formed.
- Keep this in room temperature for 24 Hrs.

- Prepare the Sugar Syrup mixing the ingredients other than Lemon Juice in medium heat.
- Once boiled and in one-string consistency, add lemon juice and cardamom to the mixture.
- Keep this in low flame and make sure to dip the fried jalebis in warm syrup.

- In a Frying Pan, add oil and bring it to medium heat.
- Pour the batter in a zip lock bag and make a small hole in one corner.
- Pour the batter using the zip lock into the hot oil in the shape of Jalebis.
- Once fried, take this and dip in warm sugar syrup.
- Serve Hot.

H A P P Y    D I W A L I   ! ! !

Coconut Rice

Ingredients:-

Rice - 1 Cup
Grated Coconut - 1 Cup
Chopped Green Chillies - 2 Nos
Chopped Ginger
Curry Leaves
Chopped Shallots
Mustard
Dried Red Chilli
Urad Dal
Salt
Oil

Method: - 

1. Cook the rice with enough water and keep this aside.
2. In a pan, pour oil and add Mustard, Dried Red Chilli and Urad Dal.
3. Once spluttered, add Chopped Green Chillies, Ginger and Shallots to this and saute.
4. Add the grated coconut to this and saute this mixture for a minute.
5. Add salt to taste and mix the Cooked Rice and mix well.
6. Coconut Rice is ready to be served hot.

Appam

Ingredients:-

1. Rice(Long Grain Rice) - 2 Cups
2. Grated Coconut - 1 nos
3. Boiled Rice - 1/2 cup
4. Yeast - 1 tsp
5. Sugar
6. Salt

Method:- 

- Soak the rice in water for about 6 - 8 Hrs.
- Add yeast to a small bowl and add some warm water and sugar and leave it to ferment.
- Grind the soaked rice along with the water, Grated Coconut and Boiled Rice.
- Grind this well to make a loose Batter (Consistency of Dosa Batter).
- Pour this on to a Bowl and add the fermented yeast to this mixture and mix well.
- Keep this mixture in a warm place and let this mixture ferment.
- Once fermented, mix this well with salt and sugar.
- Place Appam pan on to the flame and pour a spoon of batter.
- Spread this by rotating the pan.
- Cover it and cook for 1 to  2 minutes.

Puli Inji

Ingredients:-

1. Tamarind - 250 gm
2. Chopped Ginger - 100 gm
3. Green Chilly - 10 nos
4. Jaggery - 100 gm
5. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
6. Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
7. Mustard, Dried Red Chilly and Curry Leaves
8. Water
9. Salt


Method:-

- Mix tamarind in 4 Cups of Water and boil this mixture.
- Strain the pulp adding 2 more Cups of Water to the boiled mixture
- Add 2 tbsp of Oil in a pan.
- Add Assafoetida Powder, Turmeric Powder, Curry leaves and saute well.
- Once its sauteed well, add chopped Ginger and Chopped Green Chillies and mix well.
- Add the pulp to this mixture and stir well. Add salt to taste to this mixture.
- Boil this well and reduce this mixture to a thick consistency.
- Add crushed Jaggery to this mixture and stir well until Jaggery melts into this.
- In a small pan, add some oil, mustard, dried red chilli and curry leaves.
- Once the mustard stops splattering, add this mixture to the dish.

Spinach - Dal Curry

Ingredients:-

Chopped Spinach - 2 Bunches
Moong Dal - 1/2 Cup
Copped Onion - 1/2 Cup
Chopped Tomato - 1/2 Cup
Chilli Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Mustard
Dried Red Chilli
Curry Leaves
Chopped Coriander Leaves
Salt

Method:-

1. Cook the Dal in a Pressure Cooker adding water, turmeric and salt.
2. In a deep frying pan, add oil and once heated, add Mustard, Dried Red Chilli, Curry Leaves and stir well.
3. Once the mustard splutters, add Chopped Onion and saute well.
4. Once Onion turns translucent, add Chilli Powder and saute well.
5. Add Chopped Spinach and cook this for some time.
6. Once the Spinach is cooked in low flame, add the cooked Dal and mix this well.
7. Garnish this with chopped Coriander Leaves and the Curry is ready.

Ulli Thandu(Spring Onion) Thoran

Ingredients:-

Chopped Spring Onion - 2 bunch
Grated Coconut - 3/4 Cup
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Curry Leaves
Mustard
Dried Red Chilli
Salt

Method:-

1. In a bowl, add the Chopped Spring Onion, Grated Coconut, Chilli Powder, Turmeric Powder, Salt and mix well.
2. In a frying pan, add some oil and add Mustard, Dried Red Chilli and Curry Leaves.
3. Once splattered, add the mixture made in First Step to this and mix well.
4. Cook this for few minutes with lid in low flame.
5. Once cooked, saute this well until its dry.
6. The Thoran is ready to be served.

Mathi(Sardine) Mulaku Curry

Ingredients:-

Mathi (Sardines) - 8 nos cleaned well.
Sliced Ginger - 1 tbsp
Sliced Garlic - 1 tbsp
Sliced Green Chilli  - 2 nos
Sliced Shallots (small onion) - 8 nos
Kudam Puli - 2 pieces
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 6 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Water
Curry Leaves
Coconut Oil
Salt

Method:-

1. Clean the fish and make slits on the sides.
2. In a small bowl soak the Kudampuli in water.
3. Heat oil in a frying pan and add sliced Ginger, Garlic, Green Chilli, Shallots and saute this well.
4. Add 1/4 tsp of Turmeric Powder and Salt to taste to this and mix well.
5. In a small bowl, add the Kashmiri Chilli Powder and make this a paste by adding water to this.
6. Add this Chilli paste to the frying pan and stir well.
7. Add water to this, so that the fish could be submerged in the gravy.
8. Add the already soaked Kudampuli into this mixture and mix well.
9. Once boiled, add the fish and cook this for about 10 minutes in low flame.
10. Please do not use the spoon to stir this once fish is added.
11. Once fish is cooked, add the curry leaves and Coconut Oil and Mathi Mulaku Curry is ready to be served.

(Note:- This Fish Curry is good with Naadan Kappa puzhuku.)

Steamed Fish in Coriander Paste

Ingredients:-

Fish Fillet - 3 nos (preferably Thilapia)
Lime Juice - 1 Lemon
Garlic - 2-3 Cloves
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Grated Coconut - 3 tbsp
Green Chilli - 4 nos
Coriander Leaves - 1 Cup
Curd - 2-3 tbsp
Salt - to taste

Method:-

- Grind all the ingredients other than Fish Fillets with no water to make a thick paste.
- Clean the fish and make few slits so that the masala goes in well.
- Marinate the fish with the ground ingredients and keep this aside for 30 mins.
- Take a frying pan and place the fish in it and heat this with a lid and cook for 8 - 10 mins until the water evaporates fully.
- Serve this with Roti or Rice...

(Note:- If you have Banana Leaf readily available, you can wrap the fish in banana leaf and cook this in a pressure cooker for about 15 mins.)

Tiramisu - Italian Dessert...

Ingredients:-

Mascarpone Cheese - 1 tin
Vanilla Essence-
Sugar
Rum
Instant Coffee
Italian Biscuit (Lady's Finger)
Cocoa Powder
Whipped Cream - 1 1/2 cup

Method:-

- Add Rum to the Coffee and mix well.
- Take a big bowl and add the Mascarpone Cheese into it.
- Add a teaspoon of Vanilla Essence and 1/2 cup of sugar and mix it well.
- Add some whipped cream to this mixture and mix it well.
- Add the rest of the cream and fold it in the mixture.
- Take the long tray which can accommodate the lady fingers to be a layer.
- Take the lady fingers and  dip in the coffee-rum mixture and make a layer in the tray.
- Spread half of the Mascarpone Cheese-Cream mixture on top of this and spread this evenly.
- Pour some Cocoa powder through a strainer to spread the powder evenly across the cream.
- Make another layer of ladyfingers dipped in coffee-rum mixture.
- Spread the remaining cream mixture evenly.
- Finish it with the Cocoa Powder spread evenly across.
- Refrigerate this for about 4-6 hours and leave it to set.
- Cut them and serve it.
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American Chopsuey...

Ingredients:-

 

Hakka Noodles - 1 Pkt
Boneless Chicken - 200 gm
Onion - 1 Big (Cut in Julian)
Carrot - 1 (Cut in Julian)

French Beans - 100 gm (Cut in Julienne)
Cabbage - 50 gm (Finely shredded)
Spring Onion - Few
Green Pepper - (Cut in Julienne)
Garlic - 3 cloves chopped
Ginger - 1 inch chopped
Egg - 1
Chicken Stock - 1 Cup
Corn Flour - 1 tbsp - For thickening
Soy Sauce - 1 tsp
Tomato Sauce - 2 tsp
Salt - For taste
Pepper powder
Sugar - a pinch

Method:-

- Heat oil in a frying pan. And prepare fried egg.
- In a deep frying pan, heat oil and fry the boiled noodles to bring it to a nest like shape.
- Take a frying pan for preparing the gravy.
- Pour some oil in the pan. Add chopped garlic and chopped ginger on to it. Saute it well.
- Add sliced onion on to this and saute until translucent.
- Add the Julienne cut boneless chicken to the mixture.
- Once the chicken turns crispy and cooked, add the vegetables and keep sauteing and leave the crispy texture of the vegetables.
- Add salt to taste, pepper powder and a pinch of sugar.
- Pour in generous amount of Tomato sauce and Soy sauce.
- Once the mixture is evenly stirred, add 1 Cup of Chicken Stock.
- Once the stock starts to boil, add the Corn starch mixed in water to the mixture.
- Once the gravy thickens, keep it aside.

Setting the plate:-

 - On a serving dish, place the fried noodles as the base.
- On top of this, pour in the gravy
- And over this place the fried egg.
- Serve Hot...
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Strawberry Spread...

Ingredients:-

Strawberry - 16 Oz (20 nos)
Sugar - 1/2 Cup
Lime Juice - 1 tbsp



Method:-

-  Grind the cleaned strawberries in a blender.
- Pour this into a saucepan.
- Add the sugar to this.
- Add the lime juice to this.
- Boil the mixture in medium to low flame until this reduces to a thick paste.
- Let the mixture cool down a bit and then transfer to a dry container.

Pressure Cooker Palada

Ingredients:-

Packet Ada (Cooked) - 1 Cup
Milk -  2 1/2  - 3 Cup
Condensed Milk - to taste
Sugar
Butter
Boiled Water -

Method :- 

- In a saucepan, boil some water.
- Turn off the flame and keep this aside.
- Add heaped cup of raw Ada on to the boiled water.
- Once cooked, drain the water and add cold water to the ada (This is to avoid ada from sticking to one another.)
- Drain the water and keep the cooked ada aside.

Cooking Step to turn the payasam pink in color.
- In a pressure cooker, add Milk, cooked Ada, Sugar and cook in low flame until the cooker is ready to blow the first whistle.(Should put on Weight)
- Open the cooker once cooled. And stir the mixture well.
- Repeat this process 3-4 times until the payasam turns pink and thick.

- Once its done, add the mixture of condensed milk and warm water to this.
- Finish this off with a spoon of butter.
- Pressure Cooker Palada is ready to be served HOT !!!

Green Apple Pickle...

Ingredients:-

Green Apple - 3 nos
Sliced Garlic - 3 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 5 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - a pinch
Fenugreek powder - 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds -
Curry Leaves -
Vinegar - 1/2 cup
Coconut Oil

Method:-

- In a pan, pour some oil and fry Mustard Seed, and dried red chilli.
- Add sliced garlic to the pan. Add a pinch of turmeric powder.
- Once the garlic turns light brown in color, add chilli powder and saute well
- Add vinegar and salt to taste.
- Once the mixture thickens, add 1/2 cup of water
- Once the mixture starts to boil, add sliced green apple and stir well.
- Add Fenugreek Powder, Asafoetida Powder and Curry Leaves to this and stir well.
- Keep this in a dry container.

Besan Laddu...

Ingredients:-

Ghee - 100gm
Besan Powder - 250 gm
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
Powdered Sugar - 250 gm


Method:-

- In a pan, add the ghee and heat it to smoking point. Bring down the flame to low.
- Wait for 30 seconds and add the Besan Powder to this and cook until you get a good aroma.
- Switch off the fire when the raw smell of besan goes.
- Add powdered sugar with cardamom powder to the hot Besan mixture after a minute.
- Once slightly cool, make balls of this mixture.
- Besan Laddu is ready to serve.

Chinese Egg Chilly...

Ingredients:-

Egg - 5 nos
Salt
Black PepperPowder - 1 tsp

For Batter:

Corn Flour - 3 tbsp
Maida (All Purpose Flour) - 2 tbsp
Black Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - to taste
Ginger Paste - 1/4 tsp
Garlic Paste - 1/4 tsp
Soy Sauce - 1/4 tsp
Water

For Saute:

Refined Oil - 2 tbsp
Onion - 3 (Sliced in Julianne)
Chopped Garlic - 1 tbsp
Chopped Green Chilly - 3 nos
Soy Sauce - 1 tbsp
Tomato Sauce - 2 tsp
Black Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Sugar - 1/4 tsp
Chopped Spring Onion - 1/2 cup

Method:-

- Take the eggs and beat it well. Add salt and pepper powder to this.
- Place a pan and pour half the beaten eggs and make an omlette.
- Pour the remaining beaten eggs and make the second omlette.
- Cut the omlette into thin strips.
- To prepare the batter, take a bowl and add the ingredients given above and mix well adding water to make the batter.
- Keep a deep frying pan and pour some oil for frying the eggs.
- Dip the strips of eggs in the batter and fry this in the heated oil. Let this be crisp in nature. Keep them aside.
- Keep another pan and pour some oil for sauteing.
- Add chopped garlic and saute well. Add chopped green chilli to this and saute it well.
- To this add the sliced onion and saute until it turns translucent.
- Add the fried egg to this and mix it well.
- Pour Soy Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Black Pepper Powder, Sugar and salt to this and mix this well.
- Add chopped spring onion and mix this well.
- Chinese Egg Chilly is ready to be served hot...
(Courtsey: Lakshmi Nair - Magic Oven)

Gujia - Holi Delicacy...

(Recipe for 10 Gujias)

Ingredients:-

All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Condensed Milk - 1 tbsp
Clarified Butter - 3 tbsp
Ghee/Oil - for frying
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
OR
Crushed Jaggery - 4 tbsp
Mixed Dry Fruits - 3 tbsp
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
Dedicated Coconut - 1 tbsp
Roasted Sooji - 1 tbsp

Method:-

- Mix flour with ghee/oil.
- Add sugar and pinch of salt and mix this well using your hands
- Make soft dough and knead it lightly
- Add water if needed.
- Cover with a damp cloth and leave aside for half hour.
- In a frying pan, Fry the dry fruits and turn the flame OFF.
- Add Sooji, Jaggery/Sugar, Cardamom Powder and mix well and make small balls.
- Roll this in Condensed Milk.
- Now keep it aside to cool down.
- Prepare equal amount of small and thick chapathi from the kneaded dough.
- Stuff the chapathi with our sweet balls, then keep it in the middle, Fold it to side and seal the edge with water.
- Roll the edges using your fingers and press the edges with a fork.
- On medium flame, fry this Gujia till golden brown.
- Drain the excess Oil and leave it to cool.

Home Made Vegetable Wheat Pizza.....

Ingredients:-

Maida (All Purpose Flour) - 1 Cup
Wheat Flour - 1 1/2 Cup
Warm Water - 3/4 Cup
Yeast - 1 pkt
Sugar - 1 tsp
Olive Oil - 3 tbsp

For Topping:

Pasta Sauce - 2 tbsp
Mozzarella Cheese -
Mushroom, Bell Peppers, Tomato, Olives, Onion

Method:-

- In a small bowl, add yeast to warm water for fermentation.
- Cut all the vegetables and mix it with a pinch of salt.
- In a bowl, add Maida, Wheat Flour, Sugar, Olive Oil and fermented yeast.
- Mix this well and make a thick dough.
- Cover this with a neat cloth and keep this for 3-4 hrs.
- In a frying pan, pour 1 tbsp of Olive Oil.
- Add chopped Garlic and saute well. take this out of flame.
- Add italian spices to this and mix well.
- In a pizza pan, spread the dough in a circular shape like a pizza base.
- Spread the flavored Olive Oil over the base.
- On top of this spread the pasta sauce all over the base.
- Arrange the vegetables over this. And finish it by adding grated cheese.
- Place this in pre-heated oven at 450 degree F and cook for 10-15 mins until the crust turns light brown.

Honey Glazed Chicken...

Ingredients:-

Chicken - 200 gm Cut in small pieces

For Batter:
Beaten Egg - 1 tbsp
All Purpose Flour - 1 1/2 tbsp
Corn Flour - 
Salt
White Pepper Powder
Black Pepper Powder
Chilli Paste
Ginger-Garlic Paste

For Sauce:
Vegetable Oil
Chopped Ginger - 1 tsp
Chopped Garlic - 1 tsp
Chopped Celery - 1 tbsp
Cubes of Green Pepper -
Chlli Paste - 1 tsp
Soy Sauce - 1 tbsp
Crushed Black Pepper - 3/4 tsp
Chicken Stock - 1/2 Cup

Corn Flour
Honey
Spring Onion

Method:-

- Make a batter from the ingredients given above.
- Dip the Chicken pieces and deep fry this in Oil. Keep the fried chicken aside
- On to a Kadai, pour Oil and add Ginger, Garlic, Celery and then saute well.
- Add cubes of Green Pepper, Chilli Paste, Soy Sauce, Crushed Black Pepper and White Pepper Powder and saute well.
- Add the chicken stock and bring that to boil.
- Add Corn Flour mixed with some water to this mixture for thickening.
- Add honey and fried chicken to this.
- Saute well and garnish with Spring Onion.

Fish Mappas...

Ingredients:-

Fish - 750 gm
Oil - 3 tbsp
Mustard - 1 tsp
Fenugreek - 1 tsp
Small Onion - 15 nos - Sliced
Chopped Ginger - 1 inch piece
Chopped Garlic - 8 cloves
Chopped Green Chilli - 6 nos
Curry Leaves -
Coriander Powder - 1 tbsp
Chilli Powder - 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder- 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
Coconut Milk - 2 Cups
Salt
Vinegar/Sliced Mango/Kudampuli

Method:-

- Cut and clean the fish
- In a pan, heat oil and fry mustard and fenugreek.
- Add sliced small onion, Chopped Ginger, Garlic, Green Chillies and Curry leaves. Saute well.
- Once the onion turns translucent, add Coriander, Chilli, Turmeric and Black Pepper Powder and saute for 5-6 mins.
- Reduce the flame to low and add half the Coconut milk along with salt.
- Once this starts boiling, add fish and cook for 10 mins.
- Add the remaining Coconut milk and cook for 5 more minutes.
- Add Vinegar to the curry and serve hot.

(NB:- In place of vinegar, if planning to add either mango or kudampuli, this needs to be added before adding the fish pieces)

(Courtsey: Vanitha)

Coffee Pudding...

Ingredients:-

Instant Coffee Powder - 2 tsp
Fresh Cream - 1 cup
Gelatin - 2  tbsp
Cold Water - 2 cup
Condensed Milk - 1/2 tin
Sugar - 4 levelled tbsp
Water -

Method:-

- Mix the gelatin in 1/2 cup of cold water.
- In a sauce pan, boil 1 1/2 cup water.
- Once boiled, add 4 tbsp of Sugar to the water and stir well.
- Remove the pan from flame and add Instant Coffee to this mixture.
- Add the Gelatin mixture to the prepared coffee and stir well.
-  Add condensed milk to the mixture.
-  Beat fresh cream to make it loose and add this to the Coffee mixture.
- Pour this on to a mould and refrigerate this for setting.

Traditional Fruit Cake - X'Mas Special...

Ingredients:-

All Purpose Flour - 300 gm
Powdered Sugar - 300gm
Unsalted Butter - 300 gm
Egg - 6 nos
Orange Juice - 1 Cup
Tuti-Fruity
Cashewnut
Raisins
Rum - 3 tbsp

Lemon juice 1 Tbsp
Powder of 1" stick cinnamon
Grated nutmeg 1
Powder of 12 cloves
Orange zest
Vanilla Essence
Baking Powder

For the caramel:

    Granulated sugar 1½ cup
    Hot water ¾ cup

Put granulated sugar into a heavy bottomed pan and heat it in medium to high flame untill it reaches black in colour. At this point, switch off the flame and slowly pour the hot water little by little into the caramalised sugar. Keep it aside.

Method:-

- Soak Raisins, Tuti- Fruity and all the dry fruits overnight in 3 tbsp of Rum.
- Take a bowl and add Butter along with Sugar and mix this well.
- Separate Egg Yolk and white. Beat the egg white to be fluffy.
- Add the beaten egg whites to the mixture.
- Add 1 tsp of Baking powder to the flour and strain this one or two times.
- Add the flour to the above mixture and keep stirring.
- Add the beaten egg yolks to the mixture and mix well.
- Add 5 tbsp of Caramelized Sugar to the mixture and mix well.
- Add 3 tbsp of Orange Juice and 1 tsp of Lemon Juice to the mixture and mix well.
- To this mixture add 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence and orange zest powder.
- Add 1 1/2 tsp of whole spices powder to this and mix well.
- To the soaked fruits, dust it with all purpose flour and add this to the above mixture. (to make this dry)
- In a baking tray, spread a bit of butter and dust it with all purpose flour.
- Pour the mixture on to the tray and place this in pre-heated oven at 370 degree F.

Cook this for 30 mins.Have this cake with Wine and enjoy a wonderful X'Mas

Ilayada...

Ingredients:-

Rice flour - 1 cup
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Grated jaggery - 1 cup
Salt to taste
Water
Banana leaf

Method:-

- Combine grated coconut and jaggery using hand and keep it aside.
- Mix rice flour and salt and pour required amount of boiling water into it and mix well.
- After cooling down, knead it into a soft dough (like idiyappam).
- Take one rectangular shaped banana leaf and flatten a small portion of the dough thinly into it using fingers. - Then fill 1/2 portion of the dough with the coconut mixture and fold it with the other part. This is called ada.
- Fold this in the Banana Leaf and steam this in pressure cooker or a steamer until cooked.

Palak Poori With Raita...

Ingredients:-

Wheat Flour - 1 1/2 Cup
Maida - 1/2 Cup
Palak - 1 Bunch
Salt - to taste

Method:-

- Boil some water in a Saucepan and take this out of the flame.
- Add cleaned Palak into the water and leave it for 5 minutes.
- Take out the Palak from the water and grind this well.
- Add salt to the Flours and mix this with grinded Palak until it becomes a dough of Poori consistency.
- Make small circles out of this and fry in deep frying pan.

Chicken Ra Ra...

1st Stage Ingredients:-

Onion - 3 nos
Green Chilly - 3 nos
Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
Chopped Garlic - 1 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp
Tomato - 1 nos
Water -1  1/2 cup

2nd Stage Ingredients:-

Chicken - 24 small size pieces.
Water - 1 cup
Salt - to taste

3rd Stage Ingredients:-
Oil - To deep fry
Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
Chopped Garlic - 2 tbsp
Green Chilly - 3 nos
Onion - 1
Kashmiri Chilly Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Kasuri Methi - 3/4 tssp
Cumin Powder - 3/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Tomato - 1
Coriander Leaves -
Cashew Nut Paste - 2 tbsp

Method:-

- Cook the ingredients of Stage 1 in a pan.
- Once cooked, let it cool down and then grind this to make it a fine paste.
- In a pan add the chicken pieces and the finely ground paste and 1 cup of water along with salt.
- Cook this for 20 mins with lid on.
- Take oil in a pan for deep frying, and heat it.
- Once the oil is hot enough, add chopped ginger, chopped garlic and chopped green chillies
- Fry until golden brown. Drain the excess oil and keep this aside.
- Add chopped onion to the same oil and fry until it becomes golden brown in color.
- Once fried, keep the fried onion aside.
- Take 1 1/2 tbsp of this hot oil on to another pan and keep this in low flame.
- Add Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Kasuri Methi, Cumin Powder, Garam Masala and sliced Tomato to the oil.
- Saute this until the tomato is cooked.
- Add the cooked Chicken to the same pan and saute.
- Add the deep fried ingredients to the same pan and mix well.
- On to this add cashew paste and mix well.
- Add chopped Coriander Leaves to this and serve hot.

(Courtsey: - Lakshmi Nair in Magic Oven)

Soy-Chunk Roast...

Ingredients:-

Soy Chunks - 200 gm
Onion- 2 Big
Tomato - 2 nos
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
Coconut slices - 8-10 pieces
Coriander Powder - 2 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt
Curry Leaves

Method:-

- Boil Soy Chunks adding salt and turmeric powder.
- Squeeze the excess water from Soy Chunks once its cold.
- In a frying pan, add some oil and add sliced onion and saute well until the onion turns translucent.
- Add ginger - garlic paste and saute well.
- Once the onion turns light brown in color, add Coriander powder, Chilli Powder, Turmeric Powder and saute well.
- Add chopped tomatoes to this mixture and mix well.
- Once the tomatoes lose its texture, add the cooked Soy Chunks along with sliced coconut.
- Once this turns dry enough, add a pinch of Garam Masala to finish this off.

Caramel Pudding...

Ingredients:-

Sugar- 1/4 cup - For caramelizing

Eggs: 3 nos
Sugar - 50 gms
Vanilla Essense
Milk - 500 ml

Method:-

- Take a pan and add the sugar for caramelizing. Can add some water to this.
- Once the caramel turns light brown in color, switch off the flame ad pour the caramel to the pudding bowl and spread this evenly.
- In a bowl, add the eggs and beat it well. To this, add few drops of Vanilla Essence, sugar and milk.
- Whisk this well and strain the mixture to remove the egg white strands.
- Pour this to the pudding bowl and double boil this until cooked.
- Refrigerate this and serve chilled.

Chicken Chilli Fry...

Ingredients:-

Chicken (Cut into cubes) - 1 1/2 Kilogram

For Marination:
Black Pepper Powder - 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

For Ground Masala:
Green Chillies - 10 nos
Ginger - 1 inch piece
small Onion - 8 nos
Garlic - 20 small cloves

Others:
Refined Oil - for frying
Sliced Onion - 2 big
Sliced Tomato - 4 nos
Soy Sauce - 1 1/2 tbsp
Coriander Leaves - 1/2 cup
Curry Leaves - as needed
Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp

Method:-

- Marinate Chicken cubes with the ingredients given above. And keep this aside for 30 -45 mins
- Grind all the ingredients to make the masala.
- Keep a deep frying pan on to the flame and add Oil for frying.
- Add sliced Onion and fry until golden brown. Take this out from oil and keep this aside.
- Fry the marinated chicken cubes in the oil to golden brown.
- In the same frying pan, after removing the excess oil, add the ground masala and saute well.
- Add Curry Leaves and chopped tomatoes to this.
- Saute well until the oil separates.
- Add the fried chicken cubes to this and mix well.
- To this mixture, add the fried Onion and mix well.
- Add 1 1/2 tbsp of Soy sauce and mix well.
- Add a tsp of black pepper powder.
- Garnish this with Coriander leaves and serve hot.

Payasam - Split Moong Dal

Ingredients:-

Splitted moong Dal (Cherupayar parippu) -  1 cup
Jaggery (Melted) - 1 1 /2 cup
Coconut milk thick (Onnam pal) - 1/2 cup
Coconut milk semi thick (Randam pal) - 1 cup
Coconut milk thin (Moonnam pal) - 1 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 2 pinch
Cumin powder - 2 pinch
Coconut pieces - 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts  - few
Ghee
Water
Salt a pinch.

Method:- 

- Roast the split moong dal in a kadai for some time.
- After cooling this, wash and add this to pressure cooker, add some water and cook this.
- Heat ghee in a vessel which has a thick bottom and add the cooked dal and stir it well.
- Add melted Jaggery to the dal and mix it until it gets mixed up well. Keep stirring until this becomes really think without sticking on the bottom of the vessel.
- Add thin coconut milk (Moonnam Pal) and boil it well.
- Now add the semi think coconut milk (Randam pal) and boil this in low flame.
- Finally add the thick coconut milk (Onnam Pal) along with cardamom powder and Cumin Powder
- Mix this and bring this out of the flame.
- Fry the split Cashew nuts in 1 tbsp of ghee and pour this into the payasam.
- Fry the Coconut slices in ghee until it turns golden brown and add this to the payasam.
- YUMMY!!! Payasam is ready to be served HOT!!!

Easy Chicken Biriyani...

Ingredients:-


For Marination

Curd - 3 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

For Cooking

Chicken - 1 kg
Basmati Rice- 2 Cups
Onion - 2 Big
Tomato - 2 nos
Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
Coriander Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chicken Masala - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste
Coriander Leaves - 1 Cup
Mint Leaves - 1/2 Cup
Cashew Nuts
Raisins
Whole Spices (Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cloves, Anistar, )
Ghee -

Method:-

- Marinate chicken pieces with the above said ingredients and keep this for 30 mins.
- Wash Basmati Rice and drain the excess water.
- In a pan, add some ghee and fry Cashew Nuts and Raisins and keep them aside.
- Add whole Spices in the same ghee and roast them
- Add water into this pan.
- Once the water starts boiling, add chopped Mint Leaves.
- Add the rice and let it cook to almost 80%.
- Remove all the spices and mint leaves.
- Strain the excess water.
- To a frying pan, add oil
- Once the oil is heated up, add sliced onion and saute well till translucent
- Add ginger-garlic paste and saute well.
- Add coriander powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder and chicken masala and saute well.
- Add copped tomato to this and mix it well.
- Add chicken to this mixture and stir well.
- Add some water and cook this with lid closed.
- Once chicken is cooked, keep this aside.
- To a big bowl, first add some rice, on top of this, add some chicken along with gravy and spread this.
- On top of it, add some chopped coriander leaves and roasted nuts & raisins.
- Continue the layering process.
- Cover this with a Foil paper and place this on low flame until it gets steamed up.
- Yummy Chicken Biriyani is ready to be served.

Orange Cake - Valentine's Day Special

Ingredients:-

All Purpose Flour - 2 Cups
Butter - 1 Cup
Zest of one orange
Fresh Orange Juice - 1/4 Cup
Granulated Sugar - 1 Cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Eggs - 4 nos

Method:-

- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Grease one 9 inch cake tin and keep it aside.
- Beat butter and sugar till it turns creamy and fluffy.
- Pour the vanilla extract and mix it.
- Add egg one bye one into it and beat well after each addition.
- Sieve the dry ingredients twice and put the Orange zest into this.
- Add the flour and Orange juice alternatively and mix well.
- Pour it into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake it for 40 to 50 mins.
- Cool it.

(Courtsey: Recipe from one of my close friend.)

Banana Curd Curry (Pazham Pulissery)

Ingredients:-

Ripe Plantain - 1 nos
Curd - 1 cup
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Green chillies - 4 nos
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Mustard
Dried Red Chilli
Curry Leaves
Fenugreek

Method:-

- In a bowl, add cut Ripe Plantains along with Sliced Green Chillies, Water, Turmeric Powder and Salt.
- Boil this for some time.
- Grind Grated Coconut and Cumin Seeds and keep it aside.
- Once the plantain is cooked, add the ground mixture to this and boil well.
- Losen the curd using a fork and add this to the boiling mixture.
- Keep the flame low.
- Turn OFF the flame once the mixture boils.
- In a small frying pan, add a bit of oil and add Mustard, Dried Chillies, Fenugreek and Curry Leaves.
- Once the mustard finishes splattering, turn off the flame and put a pinch of red chilli powder to this.
- Add this to the already prepared curry. (If you need more sweetness, add a pinch of Sugar.)
- Serve hot with steaming rice.

Nankatai... Sugar Cookie

Ingredients:-

To prepare 12-15 Nankatais

Unsalted Butter - 1/2 cup (1 Stick)
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Nutmeg Powder - 1/4 tsp
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
All purpose Flour - 1 cup
Baking Powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:-

- Strain All Purpose Flour, Baking Powder and salt.
- In a bowl, add Unsalted butter and mix with sugar. Beat this well.
- Add 1/4 tsp Nutmeg Powder along with 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder.
- Add the strained mixture of All Purpose flour, Baking Powder and Salt to this mixture.
- Knead this well and keep this aside for 20 mins.
- Pre-heat the oven to 300 F (150 Celcius).
- Arrange the mixture as small balls in the baking tray.
- Keep this tray in the oven and cook for 20 - 25 mins.

Vegetable Cutlet

Ingredients:-

Potato - 1/2 Kg
Beetroot - 1 Small
Carrot - 1/4 Kg
Green Peas - 100 gm
Onion - 1/2 Kg
Green Chilli - 4 to 5
Ginger Paste - 2 tsp
Garlic Paste - 2 tsp
Curry Leaves
Pepper Powder - 2 tsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder -  2 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Bread Crumbs
Eggs - 2
Oil
Salt

Method:-

- Clean and cut the vegetables into small pieces.
- Boil the vegetables along with some salt and keep them aside.
- Cook potatoes, peel the skin, mash them and keep this aside.
-  Chop Onion, Curry Leaves and Chilli well.
- Heat Oil in a Frying Pan.
- Add the chopped Onion, Curry Leaves and Chilli and saute well until Onion turns translucent.
- Add Ginger Garlic Paste and saute well.
- Add salt, Turmeric Powder, Chilli Powder, Coriander Powder, Garam Masala and Pepper Powder, saute well for few minutes and keep it aside.
- After cooling down, add mashed Potatoes into this mixture and mix well.
- Make small balls of this mixture and press them to the shape of Cutlet.
- Beat 2 eggs and keep this in a bowl.
- Keep the Bread Crumbs in a plate.
- Heat Oil in a Deep Frying Pan
- Dip the cutlets in beaten eggs, then dust them in Bread Crumbs and then fry this in heated Oil.
- Serve this hot with Tomato Ketchup.

Sweet Pongal...

Ingredients:- 

Rice - 1 Cup
Splitted Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
Water - 3 Cups
Sliced Coconut -
Jaggery - 1 Cup
Milk - 1 1/2 Cups
Cardamom Powder -  1/2 tsp
Dry Nuts & Raisins
Ghee

Method:-

- Wash Rice and Moong Dal and add water to this in a bowl.
- Bring it to a boil and then cook this covering with a lid.
- Let the rice and dal be a bit overcooked.
- Once rice is cooked, add the milk and let it cook.
- Meanwhile, in a small frying pan saute Dry nits and Raising in Ghee and keep them aside.
- Add this to the boiling rice and dal.
- To the mixture add Jaggery and let is cook for a while.
- We can add sliced coconut and stir well.
- Add cardamom powder to this and cook well.
- Cook this until its thick enough.
- Garnish this with sliced almonds and the pongal is ready to be served HOT!!!

Choco Biscuit Burfee...

Ingredients:-

Marie Biscuit - 100gm
Powdered sugar - 100 g
Nuts(chopped) - 100g
Butter - 100 gm
Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp
Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp

Method:-

- Add butter into powdered sugar and mix well till it turns soft. 

- Then add biscuit(powdered), nuts, cocoa pdr and vanilla essence into it and mix well. 

- Transfer this mix into an aluminium foil and roll it well into a log shape. 

- Keep it in freezer for 2 hrs. Cut into pieces.

(Courtsey:- www.kaipunyam.com)

Strawberry Pudding...

Black Forest - Kunju's First X'Mas Cake

Ingredients:-

For Cake
All Purpose Flour - 1/2 Cup
Cocoa Powder - 1/2 Cup
Butter - 100 gm
Powdered Sugar - 1 Cup
Eggs - 6 nos
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Filling & Decoration
Whipping Powder/Cream - 1 1/2 Cup
Chocolate Curls
Strawberries/Cherries (dipped in Sugar Syrup)

Syrup
Water - 1 Cup
Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Method:-

- Beat 6 eggs and beat this fluffy.
- Add powdered sugar to this and mix it well.
- Add flour to this and mix well.
- Add cocoa powder to this along with Vanilla Essence and fold this.
- Bake the mixture in a greased pan until this becomes a soft cake.
- To make the syrup boil water and add sugar to this. Make a syrup and keep this aside.
- Beat the whipped cream and make it fluffy.
- Slice the cake to 1/2 inch thickness and make three layers.
- Place the first layer and sprinkle some sugar syrup.
- Spread the whipped cream and place some cut strawberries dipped in sugar syrup into this.
- Place the second layer and continue the process.
- Place the third layer, sprinkle the syrup and spread the cream evenly.
- Spread this more thcker than the inner layers.
- Also do spread the cream on the sides of the cake.
- Finish this off by decorating this with some Chocolate Curls and Cherries/Strawberries.
- Black Forest Cake is ready to be served.

Puttu (Steamed Cake) with Chicken Roast- X'Mas Special

Chicken Roast

Ingredients:-

Chicken - 1/2 kg
Onion- 2 big
Ginger-Garlic Paste- 2 tbsp
Tomato - 3 nos
Coriander Powder- 2 tsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder- 2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Black Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Salt
Curry Leaves

Method:-

- In a pan, heat some oil and saute the chopped onion until it turns translucent.
- Add chopped tomato to this and saute well.
- Once the mixture turns light pink in color, add the chicken pieces along with salt and mix well.
- Cook this for approximately 15 minutes.
- Once cooked, add Ginger- Garlic Paste and mix well.
- Add Coriander Powder, Chilli Powder, Pepper Powder and Turmeric Powder to this and saute well.
- The mixture should be in a thick consistency.
- Once the dish is reduced, add a teaspoon of ghee to this and garnish with curry leaves.
- Serve hot.

Puttu

Ingredients:- 

Rice Flour
Salt
Water
Grated Coonut

Method:-

- Mix together salt and required amount of water.
- Sprinkle this water slowly over the rice flour and mix well.
- Continue this till the flour turns soft and smooth.
- Do not use too much water. (The perfect stage to stop the process is to take a handful of wet flour in the hand, just press it and open the fist. If the flour remains as a solid chunk without breaking or splitting apart, you can stop the process).
- Add the flour into the puttu maker by adding grated coconut in top and bottom.
- Place this on top of the puttu maker or pressure cooker. Cook this on steam.
- Serve hot.

Marble Cake...

Ingredients:-

All purpose flour - 1¼ cup
Vanilla Essence - 2 Tsp
Milk - ½ cup & 2 Tsp
Cocoa powder - 2 Tbsp
Baking powder - 2 Tsp
Butter - 1/3 cup
Salt - ½ Tsp
Sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 2

Method:- 

- Preheat the oven at 180° C.
- Seive together the flour, baking powder and pinch of salt at least twice and keep this aside.
- Beat butter and sugar together till the mixture becomes creamy in nature.
-  Now add the eggs one by one to the mixture and beat it well using a whisk.
- Add the flour to this mixture and keep on whisking so that the flour gets mixed evenly.
- Pour milk and vanilla essence to this mixture and mix it well.
- Add cocoa powder to 2 tsp of milk and add this to 1/4 of the cake batter.
- Pour half the plain cake mix to the greased pan.
- Over this pour chocolate mix . Over this pour in the remaining plain mix.
- Now using a fork or knife, swirl in the mix to bring in the marble effect.
- Bake the mix for 35 to 40 minutes.

Baked Pasta...

Ingredients:-

Pasta - 250 gm
Carrot - 1
French Beans - 5 to 6
Green Peas - 100 gm
Garlic - 3 to 4 cloves
Bread Crumbs
Grated Mozzarella Cheese
Refined Oil
All Purpose Flour - 2 to 3 tbsp
Milk
Pepper Powder
Butter - 1/2 tbsp
Salt

Method:-

- Boil water in a pan and cook the Pasta. Add a pinch of salt.
- Drain excess water and keep this aside.
- In a sauce pan, add Butter and once it starts to melt, add chopped Garlic and saute well.
- Add Pepper Powder and a pinch of salt to this and mix well.
- Add flour to this and mix well in low flame.
- Stir continuously and add the milk until this becomes thick in consistency. Keep this aside.
- In a frying pan, heat some Oil and add the cut vegetables and saute well.
- Add Salt and Pepper to taste to this and mix well. Keep this aside.
- In a Baking Dish, make a layer of cooked Pasta, on top of this, a layer of vegetables.
- Pour the white sauce on top of vegetables. Add layer of Bread Crumbs.
- Add some Grated Mozzarella Cheese.
- Repeat this process to make the second layer.
- Bake this in Oven until the cheese on the top layer melts and changes the color a bit.

Gobi Manchurian...

Mutter Paneer Masala...

Ingredients:-

Paneer - 100 gm
Green Peas - 100 gm
Onion - 1 Big
Tomato - 2 Big
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 1/2 tsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 tsp
Kasuri Methi - 1 tbsp
Fresh Cream- 1 tbsp
Cashew Nut Paste
Salt

Method:-

- In a Sauce pan, cook whole Onion and Tomatoes.
- Once cooked, take out the Onion and Tomatoes out of the water.
- Turn OFF the flame and add the cut Paneer (in cubes) to this hot water.
- Grind the Onion and make it a thick puree. Keep this aside.
- Peel the skin off boiled tomatoes and grind this to a thick puree. Keep this aside.
- In a frying pan, add some Oil and add the ground Onion and saute well.
- Once the Onion turns light brown in color, add Ginger Garlic Paste and saute well.
- Add Coriander Powder and Kashmiri Chilli Powder and mix well.
- Add ground Tomatoes and mix well.
- Once the oil separates, add some water and mix well.
- Once the mixture starts to boil, add boiled Green Peas and Paneer.
- Once this mixture reduces well, add some Cashew Nut Paste and a pinch of Garam Masala and a pinch of Sugar.
- Once this becomes thick, add Fresh Cream and Kasuri Methi.
- Mutter Paneer is ready to be served HOT!!!

Tomato Rice

Ingredients:-

Sona Masuri Rice - 1/4 Kg
Tomato - 4 Big
Onion - 2
Sambar Powder - 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds -
Dried Red Chilli
Curry Leaves
Oil
Salt

Method:-

- Cook the rice and keep it aside. 
- Boil the Tomatoes in water, peel off the skin and grind it to a thick puree. Keep this aside.
- Heat Oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, Dried Red Chilli and Curry Leaves.
- Leave until Mustard seeds splutter.
- Add Onion and saute well.
- Add Sambar Powder and saute well.
- Pour Tomato Puree into this and mix well.
- Once the mixture boils and reduces, add the cooked rice and mix well.
- Garnish this with fresh chopped Coriander leaves.

Chicken Sausage Roast

Ingredients:-

Cooked Chicken Sausage - 4 Small
Onion - 1 Big
Tomato -1
Ginger - Garlic Paste - 1 1/2 tsp
Bell Peppers - 1 nos
CorianderPowder - 1 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Tomato Sauce - 1 tbsp
Soy Sauce - 1/4 tsp
Salt

Method:-

- Heat some Oil in a Frying Pan.
- Add Onion (cut as cubes) and saute well.
- Add Ginger-Garlic Paste to this and saute well.
- Add the masalas and saute well.
- Add sliced Tomatoes (as cubes) along with Bell Peppers and mix well.
- Once the mixture gets cooked, add the sliced sausage and saute well.
- Add tomato sauce and soy sauce and mix it well until this turns dry.
- Serve this hot!!!

Mushroom Pepper Fry

Ingredients:-

Mushroom - 200 Gm
Onion - 2 nos
Tomato - 2 nos
Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Pepper Powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - a pinch
Garam Masala Powder - 1/4 tsp
Coconut Milk - 1/4 cup
Salt - to taste
Curry Leaves
Coriander Leaves

Method:-

- Boil cleaned and sliced Mushrooms with turmeric and salt. Drain the water.
- Saute finely chopped Onion in a Pan.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and stir continuously.
- Once this is cooked, add chopped tomatoes and saute.
- To this mixture, add Pepper powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and a pinch of garam masala powder and saute well.
- Add mushroom to this mixture and cook until the gravy becomes thick.
- Lower the flame and add 1/4 cups of coconut milk and cook well until this gravy becomes thick.
- Serve Hot with Coriander Leaves.

3-Tier Cheesecake[biscuit,cheese cream & jelly]

Ingredients for Cheesecake base :-

 

Biscuit - 30[any]
Butter - 100 gm

Ingredients for middle layer:-

Paneer - 350gm
Condensed milk -1 tin
Honey - 6 tbs
Sugar - 2 tbs
Egg yolk - 2
Lime juice -1
Gelatin - 1tbs
Cold water -Half Cup

Topping:-

Cranberry juice - 1 1/2 cup
Gelatin - 1 1/2 tbs
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cold water - 1/4 cup
Hot water - 1/2 cup

Method:-

- Dissolve 1tbs gelatin in 1/4 cup cold water.
- Take another bowl and dissolve 1 1/2tbs gelatin[for topping] in 1/4 cup cold water.
- Powder the biscuit well.
- Melt 100gm butter and remove from fire.
- Add the biscuit powder with melted butter and mix well.
- Transfer it into a butter coated cake bowl and press well.
- Keep it in refrigerator.
- Grind paneer,condensed milk,honey,sugar,egg yolk and lime juice together.
- Double boil dissolved [1tbs] gelatin .
- Add melted gelatin to the grinded mixture and stir well.
- Pour this mixture slowly over the biscuit layer.
- Keep it in the freezer for 20 to 30 mins.
- Place a pan on the stove,heat half cup water,add half cup sugar & mix well until the sugar dissolves.
- Turn off the stove, add 1 1/2 tbs dissolved gelatin in this hot water,add 1 1/2 cup juice.
- Keep it for cooling[ room temperature].
- Pour this slowly on the cream cheese layer.
- Keep it in the freezer.Once it is set refrigerate it.

Vanilla custard pudding

Ingredients :-

Milk-1/2 ltr
Sugar-6 to 7 tbs
Gelatin-1 tbs
Vanilla Custard Powder-2 tbs
Vanilla Essence-1tsp
Fresh cream/Whipping cream-1 Cup

Method:-

- Take 1/4th cup cold water;add 1tbs gelatin and keep it aside.
- Take half cup milk in a bowl; add 2 tbs[heaped] vanilla custard powder;mix well and keep it aside.
- Add sugar to remaining milk and boil it well.Once boiled add the milk with custard powder kept aside.In low flame,stir continuously until it becomes thicker as sauce.
- Switch off the stove top and add gelatin;sir it well.Keep this for cooling in room temperature.
- Add one cup of fresh cream/beaten whipping cream to the custard.
- Add 1 tsp vanilla essence into the mixture.
- Refrigerate this .

Paneer Biriyani

Ingredients:-

Biriyani rice - 2 cups
Ghee
Chopped carrot - 1 cup
Onion -1
Paneer - 300gm
Coriander seeds - 1tsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Chopped Tomato -3
Garlic paste - 1tbs
Green chilly- 2 [chopped]
Ginger chopped- 1tb
Kashmiri chilly powder-2tsp
Coriander powder-1 1/2 tsp
Crushed pepper- 1/2tsp
Garam masala powder -1tsp
Kasurimethi - 1tsp

Salt - To taste
Coriander leaves - Pinch

Method:-

- Wash the rice,drain it .Then cooked the rice. When it becomes 3/4th cook, add chopped carrots & salt.Once cooked drain the rice.
- Heat oil[refined oil] in a pan,and shallow fry paneer pieces.Keep it aside.
- Place a pan on the stove.Pour 2-3 tbs of ghee,add garlic paste and saute well.
- Then add chopped ginger & chopped green chillies.Keep it in low flame,add kashmiri chilli powder,coriander powder ,saute well.
- Add ripe tomatoes and salt,stir continuously until this becomes a thick paste.
- Add pepper powder& dried kasuri methi.
- Heat 3 tbs ghee in a pan,add cumin seeds & coriander seeds ,let the seeds splutter.
- Add chopped onion. When onion turns light brown in color add boiled rice,
mix it well.
- Then add fried paneer and mix well.
- Add masala kept aside,mix it.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.

Chocolate Brownie.........

Ingredients :-

All purpose flour - 1 cup
Butter - 200 gm
Sugar - 1 1/4 cup
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Cashew nuts - 75 gm
Egg - 3
Cocoa Powder - 70 gm

Method :-

- Melt the butter and add cocoa powder to this. And cook in low flame.
- Keep this aside. Strain maida and baking powder into a bowl.
- Beat 3 eggs , add sugar and vanilla essence beat it well.
- Add cocoa and butter mixture to this. Mix it well.
- Add maida mixture and fold it slowly.
- Add chopped cashew nuts.

- Preheat the oven at 180 degree ,place baking tray in the oven for 30
minutes.