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Mango filled crumbled cake

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups ripe mangoes (small chunks) 2-3 mangoes
3-5 tbsp granulated sugar
1/2 tbsp corn starch
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup cold unsalted butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Method
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cut mangoes into small chunks. In a bowl, combine mango chunks, sugar (use more if mango is not ripened) and corn starch. Mix well and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
Cut cold (important: make sure it is cold!) unsalted butter into chunks and add to flour mixture.
If using a food processor, pulse until small crumbs are formed. If using a pastry cutter, cut butter into flour mixture until small crumbs are formed.
Mix together wet ingredients – brown sugar, and vanilla extract
Then add wet ingredients into buttery dry mixture. Mix well – mixture should be slightly crumbly.
Bring ~2/3 of crumbly mixture to the bottom of a 8″ x 8″ baking pan lined with parchment paper. Press mixture onto pan to form a layer of crumb pastry.
Add mango mixture, and spread it out evenly.
Then sprinkle the top with the rest of the crumbles.
Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes.

Chocolate fudge Top-up with dessicated coconut

 

If we want something quick this  this fudge is the solution.

This fudge has an extremely simple with few ingredients, procedure and all it requires is a little bit of patience.

Coconut top makes it divine.

Ingredients

Dark chocolate-1cup

Unsalted butter-2tbls

Condensed milk-175mg

Dry milk-1tbls

Top

2-3tblsCondensed milk-

1/2cup desiccated coconut

1/4cup dried walnut crused

1/4 cups almond crushed

Instructions

Grease your pan with butter and line it with parchment paper with handles on two sides. Set this aside.

Set a double boiler and melt your chocolate while stirring it occasionally. Once all chunks are melted, take it off the heat.

In the same bowl add in condensed milk and melted butter. Combine everything really well. You will soon have a thick mixture.

Pour in all the fudge mixture into your prepared pan. 

Coconut top

Combine remaining condensed milk, almond,,walnuts and coconut in a bowl.

Spread over chocolate base and then sprinkle with extra coconut. 

Refrigerate this for 3-4 hour or until completely set.

Cut into desired shape and enjoy

 

Cheese Chilli Suji Dhokla

Ingredients

2 cups  rawa

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Sugar

1 tbsp of Oil

2 cups Yogurt

1 cup Water

3 tsps 10 gms Eno fruit salt

1 cup grated Cheddar

1 tbsp chopped green Chilli

Tadka

2 tbsps Mustard oil

4 regular dried red chillies

1/2 tsp black Mustard seeds

1/2 tsp Cumin seeds

10 – 15 Curry leaves

Add the salt, sugar and oil to the  MTR idli rawa 

Follow with the yogurt and mix it well

Add half the water and get your instant pot and baking pan prepped and ready, add the rest of the water, mix 

Add half the batter to the cake pan and spread quickly and evenly

Cover the surface with cheese and green chilli

Add the second half of the batter and cover

Add a cup of water to the Instant Pot and place the pan on top of the jali

Cover the pot and set to sealing

Alloo Zarda

Ingredients

Alloo zarda

Ingredients..

-1potatoes-2

2-sugar2tbsp

3-caradomn powder-1/8tsp

-4dry fruits almond raisins kaju-1tbsp

Vark optional

Desi ghee-1tsp

Method

Peel potatoes and grate it in water. Wash again.

Take bowl with water add pinch of yellow color in it.

Microwave for 3minutes.drain the water spread on muslin cloth so absorbed all water

Heat pan add ghee and sugar .caramalised the sugar but not brown it.add boiled grated potoes to it.add cardamon powder

Dry the watering any

Add dry fruits

Garnish with almond and vark

Tofu curry

Tofu Curry

 Ingredients

Tofh-200gm

Onion-2

Almond-6-7

Garlic-3-4cloves

Ginger grated-1/2tsp

Tomato puree-1/2cup

Red chilli powder-1/2tsp

Tejpata1

Haldi1tsp 

Garam masala-1/2tsp

Varhadi masala2tsp

Kasuri methi-1tbls

Cream-1tbls

Salt to taste

Oil

Method

Cut onion in big size.add onion,garlic and peeled almond in water and boiled on slow fire till onion is soft.

Grind to smooth paste.

Heat oil in a pan add tejpatta.add onion paste and grated ginger.fry for a minute.add all dry masalas and fry again.

Add tomato puree fry till oil leaves sides.

Add tofu pieces.add water.add cream also.

Boil then add kasoori methi.and cook for 10 minutes with cover.

Strawberry katori filled with amu butter a d contense milk

Strawberry  Breadcrumbs katori Filled with strawberry  Amul Butter  Cream

Prep time-20 minutes
Cooking time-15 minutes
Ingredients

For katori:)

1 cup Strawberry puree

2tbls cup Sugar

3tbls Amul condense milk

1 cup Bread crumbs

3 tablespoon Kaju crushed

2 tbsp Coconut powder

For Strawberry Condensed Milk Butter Cream:)
3 tblsButter
4tbls Amul condense  milk
1 tbls strawberry  sauce

Steps

Heat pan add strawberry puree boil for 2-3minuges.
Add sugar and boil till get thick
Add condensed milk.
Add kaju and coconut
Add breadcrumbs and mix bell
Cook till all are gathered.cool it
Take muffin mould and fill with this batter
and make like katori empty in middle.
Condensed milk butter cream:)
butter  needed soft but still cold .and
Whip till light and fluffy.
Add chilled condensed milk and strawberry  sauce whip for 2 minutes till combined.
Now fill the strawberry  katori with this whipped  butter condensed milk cream
Serve at room temperature.
Condense milk and burter cream is yummy  in taste.

URD DAL STUFFED SAVORY MODAK

 

Ingredients
For outer layer
Rice Flour - 1/2 cup
Salt per taste
Water as needed
Oil - 1.5 teaspoon

For Stuffing

Urad dhal - 3/4 cup ( I have used White one)
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
Asafoetida - A pinch

Salt to taste

Green Chillies - 3

Ginger-1""

Oil - 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds - 1/4 cup

Urad dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
For stuffing
Soak urad dhal for 1 hour. Drain the water. And grind it to coarse paste with green chillies,
Asafoetida , cumin seeds and salt. Steam cook it till not sticky (when you touch with your hand it shouldn't stick.
Let it cool down and run in food processor / mixie / blender to make a nice crumble.
Heat the pan with a teaspoon of oil. Add mustard seeds and urad dhal. fry till
urad dhal is brown in color. Add coconut and fry till moisture is absorbed
Add urad dhal crumble and fry till mixture is dry. Switch it off and leave it aside.
For Outer layer
Combine the rice flour and salt in a wide bowl. Boil water.




Add rice flour in boiling  water and whisk until all gether and nake like dough.
When it is cool down slightly and can handle knead it for few mins and make a smooth pliable dough. Apply oil and close it with wet cloth till you need it
Make small balls grease  mold with oil.
Put ball in mold and make whole in centre.
Fill the stuffing and seal it properly.arrange modak in seive or steaner plate.
Boil water and put the modak plate on it cover and steamed  for 5-8minutes.as flour is already cooked.
Serve itwhen it is cooled.

INSTANT CHOCO LAVA STUFFED MODAK

INGREDIENTS:

100gm Digestive Marie Biscuits(or as per your choice)

1/2tbls Condensed Milk(0ptional)

1/4 tbls Butter

1/4 cup Milk

1/2cup Fresh malai

1/4cup Sweetened Chocolate

2tblsFresh cream



METHOD:

 Make a powder of biscuits in a mixer jar.

 - Add butter, condensed milk , milk in it.



 - Mix well and make a smooth dough.



 - Heat cream in a pan and add it to grated chocolate.



Mix it and your chocolate ganache is ready.



- Fill it in a piping bag .Keep it aside.



 - Now take a greased modak mould. Start filling it from the bottom but keep the space for filling chocolate ganache in it.


- Pipe chocolate lava in each modak.


Seal the bottom with some biscuit mixture.

 - Remove the modak gently from the mould.

 - Repeat the same and prepare all the modak. Remove from mould and keep them gently on a plate.

 - Serve Choco lava modak 

Mango Malai Sweet Khandvi

Mango Malai Sweet Khandvi
Ingredients

Khandvi
Chickpea flour - ½ cup
Mango pulp - ½ cup
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Mango milk
Condensed milk - 2 tbsp or malai
Milk-2tbsp
Coconut mixture
Desiccated coconut - 4 tbs
Cardamom powder - ½ tsp
Sugar-1tbsp
Almond-2-4tbsp crushed
Method
Mango milk
Take 2 to 3 tbsp of mango pulp, add 2 tbsp of condensed milk and some sugar to it.
Coconut mixture
Mix sugar elaichi powder to dessicated coconut
Khandvi
Add a ¼ cup of mango pulp to a ½ cup of chickpea flour.
Grind it along with 1.25 cups of water to dissolve its lumps.
Add the paste in a pan and cook while continuously stirring it on medium flame.
Add 3 tsp of sugar to it and cook while stirring . Stir and cook until it starts boiling.
Spread the mixture on the plates and spread desiccated coconut over them along with cardamom, sugar powder. Set and roll the Khandvis likewise.
 Keep the plates aside for 10 minutes to set.
After setting it, chop it into pieces of 1.5 to 2 inches.

Separate the pieces using a knife and roll to fold them.

Serving

Spread some mango milk over them and garnish it with some finely chopped almond.

Baked broccoli and Oats Tots

Prep time-15 minutes
Cooking time-15-20 minutes

Baked Broccoli &oats  Tots.....fat free healthy one bite  snack.
It is very healthy snack with few masalas.baked with  very little butter used for greasing and in the dish.
INGREDIENTS
2 medium heads broccoli, cut into florets
1/4 cup small diced onion
1/4 cup ground oats/breadcrumbs
1  green chilli
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2tspBlack pepper
Butter-1tbls
Salt to taste
Method
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a nonstick baking sheet with butter.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the broccoli florets to the water and cook them just until fork tender, about 5 minutes.
 Drain the florets and transfer them to a food processor. Pulse the broccoli for a few seconds just until the it breaks down into small pieces.
Add broccoli to a large bowl. Add the diced onion, oats,  and Parmesan cheese butter,greenchilli ,pepper and mix until thoroughly combined.

Using your hands, portion out about 2 tablespoons of the mixture and mold it into a tater tot shape.
Coat the tots with oats powder(optional)
 Arrange the tots on the prepared baking sheet, spacing them about 1 inch apart.

Bake the tots for about 20 minutes then flip them once and bake them an additional 10 to 15 minutes until crisped.
Remove the tots from the oven and serve them with ketchup or green chutney
U can fry it or shallow fry......
Use bradrumbs instead of oats.

Authentic Peshwari Paneer with Kulcha

Prep time 10minutes
Cooking time25minutes
Authentic  Peshawari Paneer........with Kulcha,fried rice achar ,raita and salad
It is very mild taste as we used few masalas in it but it is healthy as i used almond and magaj for gravey.       
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup paneer cut into 2" pieces
1 TspCoriander Seeds
1Whole Dry Kashmiri Red Chili,
1 TbspOil
SaltTo Taste

For The White gravy

1 CupRoughly Chopped Onion
10-15 almond
1 TbspMelon Seeds (Charmagaz)1 TbspRoughly Chopped Garlic
1/2 TspChopped Ginger
2 TbspOil
3Cardamoms
2Cloves
1Bay Leaf (Tej Patta)
1 1/2 TspFinely Chopped Green Chilies
5 TbspFresh Curd
1 1/2 TbspFresh Cream
SaltTo Taste
For The Garnish
Almond (Badam) Slivers
A FewSaffron (Kesar) Strands
Masala
Combine the coriander seeds and red chilies and pound them coarsely in a mortar-pestle or grinder and keep it asid
For white gravy
In a deep pan, heat oil and add onions, cashew nuts, melon seeds, ginger, garlic and ¾ cup of water mix it well and cook on a medium flame for 8 minutes and keep it aside to cool.
After it gets cool and blend to a smooth paste and keep it aside.
Heat the oil or butter in a kadhai, add the cardamom, cloves and bay leaf and fry on a medium flame for a few seconds.
Add  green chilies and fry on a medium flame for 3 minutes
Add the pounded coriander- chili powder and ¼ cup of water  cook on medium flame  for 2 minutes
.Add the curd, mix it well and cook on a low flame for a few seconds and stir continuously.
Switch off the flame, add the fresh cream and salt and mix it well
Add the paneer and salt, mix it gently and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on a low flame and stir once in between.
Switch off the flame, add the cream and mix it gently.
garnish with almond slivers and saffron and serve hot with nan kulcha.
Instan Mini Tawa Kulcha
Ingredients
Suji-1cup
Maida-1/2cup
Curd1cup
Baking soda-1/4tsp
Dhaniya leaves and onionseeds for garnishing.
Butter -2tbls
Haldi (optional)
Method
Mix curd suji and maida in a bowl and keep aside for 15 minutes.
Add haldi and soda and mix well
Make bog chapati and cut round with cutter.
Heat non stick tawa and cook kulcha apply dhaniya and onion seeds on one side.
Apply butter roast both sides.

Cheesy puchka chat

Videshi Tadka in Desi Dish
Ingredients
10Golgappa
1tsp butter
1tomota chopped
1Onion chopped
1 potato boiled and diced in small pieces
1Capsicum-1 chopped very thinly
Sweet Corn-1 cup
Amul cheese cube-2
Mozerrela cheese/-1/4 cup
Tomato sauce-1 tbsp
Peri peri sauce-1 tbsp
Oregano -1 tspChilli flakes-1 tsp
Salt to taste
Pani poori Masala-1/4
METHOD
Heat butter in a pan
Add onion
Fry till translucent
Add boiled ,capsicum,tomato,corn
Mix well
Cook for few minutes
Add chilli flakes,oregano
Remove from heat
Mix both sauce  green chutney and mozerella cheese
Add salt
Let it cool
Now arrange pani poori in plate
Fill 1 tbsp mixture in each
Cover these pooris with grated amul cheese and mozerella cheese and micro for 40 seconds
Garnish pani poori masala  and sev and enjoy.
If using peri peri sauce we do not need another masala or khatai bec it is ta gy a d spicy both

Zarda.....yellow sweet rice

Zarda(sweet yellow rice
Ingredients:
basmati rice-1cup
ghee-2tbsp
sugar1cup
Saffron or yellow colour -1/2 tsp
dry fruits-raisins,almond,cashunut.coconut
cardomeseedsbig and small-1tsp
Method:
Soak rice for 1 hour.boil the rice in more water and colour.
When it is 1/3 done separate the water and spread on clean cloth so that not stick to each other.
Heat ghee in a pan and put seeds of cardom fry for 1-2 minutes /.Add sugar and 2tsp water boil it till sugar dissolve.
Now add rice first it leave the water so put on high flame.When water evaporate cover it for 5 minutes on slow fire .
Add dry fruits and again cover it for 2-3 minutes or till the cooked.
Garnish with dry fruits

Suji Dahl Bhalla

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Small Rasgulla With Milk Rabri

 1---small rasgulla 10
 2milk-1kg
cornflakes-50gm'
sugar-50gm
method
i1boil the milk and reduce  into 1/2 .Mix the cornflakes in the milk and boil for some time so that cornflakes dissolve in the milk .Now cool the milk and put the rasogolla in it and freez it .
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Ouinoa Kheer

Quinoa kheer is so delicious I have not   tasted till date,. Today I tried it ,with few ingredients very easy to cook  this kheer is low calorie Indian festival dessert,full of fibre and nutrition.

Ingredients

• Quinoa – 1/2cup
•  Coconut Milk – 1 ½ cup
• Dry milk powder-2tbsp
• Sugar – ¼ cup
• Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
• Ghee – 1 tsp
• Chopped almonds- 1 tbsp
• Chopped cashewnut – 1 tbsp
• Rasinis-1/2tbs

Wash quinoa thoughrolly.

Soak quinoa for 15 minutes.drain the water.

Boil the quinoa in cooker 5 mins. With l Drain and rinse the quinoa well.

In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, place the drained quinoa, coconut milk,  sugar and dry powder milk.

Add powdered cardamom powder

Bring gently to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer gently for 20-30 minutes, stirring every few minutes, until the kheer has thickened 

Heat ghee in pan fry cashewnut.

Add Crush and toast the nuts in kheer.

Serve topped with crushed nuts .

Eggless Pumpkin Oats Muffins......iron chief diet

Ingredients

Pumpkin purée-1cup
Oats-1cup
Wheat flour-1/2cup
Sugar-3/4cup
Oil or butter-1/2cup
Vannila essence1/2tsp
Baking powder-1tsp
Baking soda-1/2tsp
Milk-2tbls
Method
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.add milk if needed.
Pour the batter in muffins mould.
Microwave for 1-2minutes.
Ready to eat yummy muffins
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Baked Cheesy Brocoili......iron rich diet

Ingredients

broccoili-200gm

amul cheese-75 gm

white sauce-2tablespoon

pinch of nutmug

garlic-2cloves finely chopped

green chilli-1finely chopped

olive oil-1sp

black pepper-1/2 tsp

salt to taste

Method

pre heat the oven.

boil the floreted in salted water till tender.

mix white sauce garlic,chilli.nutmeg in a bowl.

add 1/2 cheese in it and mix well/

place broccoiili in oven proof dish.pour over cheese sauce mixturealong with remaining cheese,salt and pepperand pour litt;e olive oil.

then bake or grill for 10-15 minutes.

serve hot

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