Shrikhand (Yogurt sweet dish) Mango flavour

Indian sweet dish made of strained yogurt. It is one of the main desserts in Gujarati cuisine and Maharashtrian cuisine.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup thick yogurt (curd)
• 3/4 cup mango pulp
• 150 - 200 gms powdered sugar (if mango is very sweet use less sugar)
• A few stand of safforn
• 1tbsp warm milk
• 2tsp cardamom poweder
• pistachios and almonds

Method:

1. Put the yogurt in muslin cloth and tie it for 4 - 5 hours.
2. Dissolve the saffron in warm milk.
3. Transfer the yogurt into a bowl. Mix the saffron mixture curd, sugar, mango pulp and cardamom powder.
4. Blend the mixture using a hand blender.
5. Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with silver of almonds, pistachios and small mango cut pieces.
6. Chill for an 1 or 2 before serving.
   

Masala (spiced) Tea

Ingredients:

• 3 cup water
• 2 sticks cinnamon (or powder)


• 15 cardamom pods
• 15 whole cloves
• 1 tbsp. chopped fresh ginger
• 3 tbsp. black tea leaf (or any tea powder)
• 1 cup milk
• 3 tbsp. sugar

Method:

1. In Tea pan add water, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and ginger, bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
2. Add tea leaf or powder and cover the pan. Let stand for 2 minutes.
3. Then add milk and sugar. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
4. Strain the liquid and pour into cups. Serve immediately.

Preparation time: 7 - 10 minutes
Serves 3 to 4

Honey Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

• 3/4 stick of butter
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp of cardamom
• 1/4 cup of almonds
• 1/4 cup of cashews
• 3 tbsp of Honey
• 1/4 tbsp of baking powder

Method:

1. Add butter, honey, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and blend it very well.
2. To the mixture add powdered cardamom and add flour little by little so that it blends properly.
3. To this add powdered almonds and cashews and mix it again.
4. Take a tblspn of dough and flatten it like a cookie.
5. Bake it in an ungreased cookie sheet for 350o about 15 mins or till it is golden brown.
   

Indian Sweet Corn Chaat

One of the Indian famous chaat from Movie Theater Hall.

Ingredients:

• Sweet Corn - 200 gms (Boiled)
• Potato - 1 (Boiled)
• Onions - 1 medium (fine chopped)
• Tomato - 1 medium (fine chopped)
• Coriander - 2 tbsp (fine chopped)
• Chaat Masala - 1 tsp
• Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Sev - 3 tbsp
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Lemon Juice- 1/2 tbsp
• Water - 1 cup

Method:

1. Heat pan on gas.
2. Add a tspful of oil.
3. Fry chopped onion still it turn golden brown.
4. Add chooped tomatoes cook for 2 minutes.
5. Add Diced boiled potato and cook for another 2minutes.
6. Add boiled corn kernels, cook for 1minutes.
7. Add red chilli powder, chaat masala and salt to taste.
8. Add lemon juice and 1 cup of water in pan and cook lid closed for another 5 minutes.

Serve in bowls and garnish with chopped coriander and sev.

Tomato & Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

• Tomato 3 number
• Button Mushroom 3 or 4 number medium size chopped (small cubs)
• Onion 1 number (sliced)
• Potato 1 number (grated)
• Red Chilli powder 1 tablespoon
• Black pepper powder 2 tablespoon
• Salt (for taste)
• Lemon juice 2 tablespoon
• Ginger paste 1 tablespoon
• Garlic paste 1 tablespoon
• Oil for fry

Methods:

1. Grind Tomato, Red chili powder & lemon juice and make a puree.
2. Deep fry onion sliced and keeps a side.
3. Take Fry Pan, add 1 or 2 drops of oil and add Ginger and Garlic paste, cook for 45 seconds in medium flame.
4. Add Tomato puree in the pan for 2minutes, add grated potato and salt and cook for another 2minutes.
5. Add sliced mushroom in pan. Cook it with lid closed for 3minutes.
6. Now add black pepper and mix it well. And cook for another 1minutes.
7. Taste it, if salt and pepper is ok.

Serve Hot with Backed Papad.

Sweet Recipe

People found of sweet will love this recipe, easy to make at home from basic ingredient like bread, most importantly its cheap also.

Bread Jamoon

Ingredients

• bread - 5 loaves (soft bread)
• sugar - 1 cup (powered)
  
• cardamom 2 (powered)
• milk - quarter cup
  
• oil to fry

Method

1. Remove the outer brown part from the breads.
   
2. Mash the breads in vessel.
3. Mix milk in mash bread and make a smooth dough.
   
4. Make small balls of dough.
   
5. Make syrup out of the sugar.
6. Add cardamom powder to the syrup.
7. Fry bread dough balls in low flame still golden brown in oil.
8. Put the fried balls in sugar syrup.
9. Tasty Bread Jamoons Ready.

You can serve Bread Jamoons hot or cold.

Different Types of Biryani

Indian Biryani's

Across India we can find different types of biryani's veg or nonveg. Just trying to explore biryani.

Tomato Biryani

Ingredients

• basmati rice - 1 cup
• tomato (ripe) - 4 nos
• garlic - 4 small pieces
• green chilli - 4 big nos.
• cinnamon - 2 nos
• cloves - 2nos
• cummin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• cardamom - 2 nos
• onion (big) - 2 nos (chopped)
• turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• cooking oil - 4 tabs
• salt - to taste
• curry leaves - to taste and coriander leaves - for garnishing.

Method

1. Grind green chilli and garlic separately and keep aside and grind tomato separately.
2. In a kadai heat oil and put cummin seeds, cardamom , cloves, cinnamon and add garlic -chilli paste and stir for a minute until it becomes golden colour.
3. And then add chopped onion fry it until it becomes brown.
4. Then put curry leaves and tomato paste then add turmeric powder and salt.
5. Let it cook until the oil is seen on the top in simmer flame and keep separately.
6. Cook rice in pressure cooker as you cook for biryani.
7. Mix the rice in the tomato masala above and garnish it with coriander leaves.