Besan ke Ladoo

Besan Ke Ladoo (made of gram flour) - Is an all time favourite sweet for Indians.

Ingredients for Besan Ke Ladoo:

• Besan (gram flour) - 2 cups
• Sugar, powdered - 1 to 1.5 cup
• Ghee - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
• Almonds, sliced - 5 to 6

Let's follow the steps:

• Roast Besan/gram flour in a pan at low flame for around 10 minutes. Stir it continuously, to avoid it sticking to the pan.
• You will start getting a nutty fragrance.
• Once the colour changes to golden brown, add ghee - 1/4th cup and roast for 5 to 8 minutes. Add sliced almonds too.
• You can add cashew nuts and raisins too. 
• Remember to continuously stir the Besan. Else, Besan can get burnt.
• Take out the Besan in a plate and let it cool down.
• Once it's cooled down, add cardamom powder, and mix well.
• Now add powdered sugar and mix well. You can increase or decrease the quantity of sugar, as per your taste.
• Now the mixture will look dry.
• Add the rest ghee to the mixture and with the help of hands, mix well till you get the right texture.
• You will know the right texture, when you will be able to make small balls (ladoos) by taking small portions of mixture. At that moment, don't add any more ghee.
• Now repeat it, take small portions of mixture and make small balls.

Enjoy the sweet..

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Jeera-Cheesy Crisps

Tea Time is the best time of a day, when you sit, relax and gossip about many things. And if its weekend then this time should be more special with quick and flavoured snacks.
Tea time snacks should be light and crisps.

So my dear friends, I am here with a healthy and the same time tasty crisps which you can cook in less than 1 hour.

Ingredients for Jeera-Cheesy Crisps:

• Flour - 1.5 cups
• Egg- 1 / Curd - 1/2 cup
• Butter - 30 gm
• Cumin seeds, crushed - 1 tsp
• Black peppercorns, crushed - 1.5 tsp
• Cheese, grated - 1 cup
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt, as per taste (1 tsp)

Let's follow the steps:

• Sift flour with baking powder. Add salt and mix well. Keep it aside.
• Take cumin seeds and fry it in a pan without oil. After 1 minute, take the fried cumin seeds and with the help of pestle crush the cumin seeds lightly. 
• Crush black peppercorns with pestle the same way.
• Melt butter in a bowl. Add flour, cheese, crushed black peppercorns and cumin seeds. Mix all the ingredients.
• Add egg and start kneading the dough. 
• Though you will not need water to knead the dough, but if you feel dough is dry, add cold water a bit.
• Dough should not be much sticky and wet. Cover the dough with wet cloth.
• Now take small portions of dough, make round balls and with the help of a roller pin flatten them into round shapes. Or you can cut it with a cookie cutter to make small shapes.
• Prick these crisps with a fork.
• You can fry these or also bake them.
• Grease the oven pan with butter and place the jeera-cheesy crisps on the pan.
• Preheat oven at 220°C for 10 minutes and then bake crisps at 200°C for 20 to 25 minutes till they are brown and crisped.
• Serve Jeera-Cheesy Crisps with hot tea and you can also have these with your favourite pickle or chutney.

Serve Crisps with Hot Tea!! Enjoy..

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Soya Chunks Pattie

Happy Republic to all my lovely friends!

We all love something light, tasty, healthy and crispy snacks. So, here I am with a new dish.
Lets follow the steps:

Ingredients for Soya Chunks Pattie:

• Soya chunks - 1 bowl, finely chopped
• Carrot - 1, grated
• Green Peas - 1 bowl
• Tomato - 1
• Onion - 1
• Green Chilli -1
• Garlic - 3 to 4 cloves
• Ginger - 1/2 inch
• Chilli powder 
• Butter
• Fresh Cream - 1 tsp
• Tomato and chilli sauce - 1 tsp
• Meat masala - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder, a pinch
• Salt, as per taste

For Green Chutney:

• Coriander leaves - 1 small bowl
• Green Chilli - 1
• Onion - 1/2
• Ginger - 1/2 inch
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Salt, as per taste

For Sheets:

• Flour - 2 cup
• Egg - 1
• Water, to knead dough
• Salt, as per taste - 1 tsp

Let's follow the steps:

• Sift flour with salt in a bowl and add egg. Mix it nicely.
• Start adding water to knead the dough.
• Knead it till its soft and elastic.
• Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside.

• For green chutney, take fresh coriander leaves, green chilli, ginger, garlic and onion.
• Put these all ingredients in grinder and make a smooth paste.
• Once paste is done, add salt and mix well.

• For the filling, soak the soya chunks in hot water for 20 to 25 minutes till soft.
• Once the soya chunks are soft, finely chop them.
• Boil tomatoes, and green peas.
• Peel off the tomato skin. 
• Put the tomatoes, green peas, onion, garlic, green chilli and ginger in a grinder.
• Make a paste of all the ingredients. Don't make a smooth paste.
• Heat butter in a pan, add soya chunks and fry till light brown. Then add grated carrots and cook for 2 minutes.
• Add the paste and cook for 2 minutes.
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, meat masala and salt. Mix well.
• Add tomato chilli sauce (hot and sweet sauce) and mix.
• Lastly, add fresh cream. Mix the filling and turn off the flame.

• Take the dough and cut it into small portions. Make balls of the small portions.
• Roll the ball into flat sheets. Roll it till it gets very thinner.
• Remember, we have to make thin sheets.
• Now make 5 to 6 sheets of same shape.

• Now we will start the layering. Take melted butter in a cup.
• Brush butter on both sides of the sheets.
• Keep the first sheet and spread green chutney on it.
• Layer it with another sheet, spread the soya chunks filling on it.
• Repeat the same layering pattern.
• Preheat microwave at convection mode at 220°Celsius for 10 minutes.
• Bake the Pattie for 20 minutes at 200°Celsius, till it turns light brown and crispy.

Take a bite and enjoy!!!

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Fruit Cream with Cake Slice

Good Evening to All!

Today I bought lots of fresh fruits. So, I gonna make something fruity. What can be more refreshing and healthier than Fruit Cream!!!

A healthy and quick & easy to make recipe for all the age groups. One can serve it as dessert in your next home party. So lets start.

Ingredients for Fruit Cream with Cake Slice -

• Variety of fruits (Apple, Grapes, Strawberries, Pomegranate, Orange, Banana, etc) - chopped
• Almonds - finely chopped
• Walnuts - finely chopped
• Amul Fresh Cream - 150 gm
• Sugar powder - 5 tbsp
• Cake - 1 slice 

Let's follow the steps:

• Pour fresh cream into a bowl.
• Add Sugar powder and start whisking it. 
• Once the cream is fluffy and whipped, add all the fruits.
• Mix them well.
• You can use Britannia cake slice, if fresh cake is not available.
• Take a small glass, put the cake slice and from top pour the fruit cream. 
• Garnish it with chopped dry fruits.
• Refrigerate it for 30 minutes.

Yummy Dessert!! 

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Meat Balls in Cheesy Tomato Sauce

Chicken Meat Balls in a Cheesy Tomato Sauce!! What else is needed in a winter night with some Pulao or Hakka Noodles..

So, lets start the preparation.

Ingredients for Meat Balls with Cheesy Tomato Sauce -

• Chicken - 200 gm (minced)
• Garlic - 6 cloves
• Ginger - 1/2 inch
• Green chilli - 1
• Onion - 1
• Onion -1, chopped
• Coriander leaves - 1 cup
• Tomato - 3
• Chilli powder
• Tomato Sauce
• Spring onions - 1/2 cup
• Cheese - 1/2 cup, grated
• Flour (Maida)- 3 to 4 tsp
• Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
• Almond paste - 2 tsp
• Oil
• Salt

For Meat balls - 

• Take the minced chicken, wash it and keep it in a bowl.
• Make a paste of onion -1, green chilli, garlic and ginger.
• Marinate the minced chicken with the paste, salt, chilli powder and chopped coriander for 30 minutes at least.
• Once the chicken is marinated, add flour and mix.
• Put some drops of oil in your hands, and take small portions of chicken to make small balls.
• Take a pan and heat oil, deep fry the meat balls. 
• Take out the meat balls once fried and keep it aside.

For Sauce - 

• Boil tomatoes as whole. Once boiled, peel off the skin.
• Make a smooth paste of tomatoes and coriander.
• Take a pan and heat oil. Put 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste. Following that add chopped onions.
• Fry till soft and pink. 
• Add the tomato coriander paste and almond paste and cook for 2 minutes. 
• Add spring onions and stir it.
• Put chilli powder, salt, tomato sauce and cinnamon powder. Mix it well.
• Add the cheese and stir till it gets melt.
• Cook it for 2 minutes and put the meat balls.
• Mix it in the sauce and your saucy meat balls are ready.

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Choco Creamy Cake

Hey friends!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Advance! 

Today is Christmas and I have baked lovely chocolate Cake... Do try it and enjoy with your loved ones.

Ingredients for Cake -

• Eggs - 4
• Powdered Sugar - 1.5 cups
• Butter - 50 gm
• Flour (maida) - 2 cups
• Baking powder - 1.5 tsp  
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Vanilla Essence - 1-2 tsp
• Hershey's Cocoa powder - 3 tsp

Baking method - Pressure Cooker

Let's follow the steps:

• Firstly, take eggs and butter out from fridge to bring it to room temperature.
• Sift flour and baking soda together, so that it gets mixed properly.
• In a bowl, take butter and keep the bowl in top of a sauce pan with boiling water in it. Once the butter melts, add Hershey's Cocoa powder and mix it properly till it looks like chocolate sauce.
• Next whisk eggs till they are light and fluffy. You will see bubbles forming, and that's when you ll know its been done properly.
• Now add this whisked egg into the butter, and add sugar mix simultaneously. You need to mix all nicely.
• Once its done, start adding flour to the mixture and keep folding the batter. 
• Don't add all flour at once. You need to add small portions and fold the batter to avoid forming lumps.
• Now add vanilla essence.
• Take pressure cooker without whistle, grease it with butter or oil and preheat it for 5 minutes.
• Pour the batter into the pressure cooker.
• To avoid direct heat to the cooker and bottom layer of cake, place the cooker above a flat pan and keep it at low flame. 
• Bake it for 20 minutes. Take a toothpick and insert it. If the toothpick comes out clean then the cake is ready.
• To bake in convection mode in microwave, preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes and then bake the cake for 35 to 40 minutes at 180°C.

For Whipping Cream:

Ingredients:

• Amul Cream - 100ml 
• Sugar Powdered - 3 table spoon
• Hand mixer

Steps:

• Take Amul Cream out of fridge. Pour half of the cream in a bowl.
• Add powder sugar
• In a big bowl, put cold water in it and place the bowl of cream on it.
• Take the hand mixer, and start beating the cream for 15 to 20 minutes.
• You can pause after some time while beating.
• When you see peaks forming when the beater is taken out, then cream is ready.

Now for chocolate whipped cream, take half of the whipped cream. Add Hershey's Cocoa powder with 2 spoons of milk and add this mix into half of the whipped cream. Mix it for 1 minute.

Decorating:

• Cut the cake in a round shape.
• Put Chocolate whipped cream on the cake and spread it evenly.
• Now with a icing cone, make designs with white whipped cream.

Enjoy your Christmas Cake! Stay Blessed my Friends!

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Rajma Kebabs

Red kidney beans, know as Rajma is very popular among Indians.

Normally, we cook Rajma as curry with different spices. But today, I am going to make kebabs with Rajma.

Let's begin preparing the yummy snack.

Ingredients for Rajma Kebabs -

• Rajma - 1 bowl
• Onion - 1/2, finely chopped
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Ginger - 1/2 inch
• Cumin powder - 1 tsp
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Butter - 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves - finely chopped
• Corn flour - 2 table spoon
• Bread Crumbs - 3 tsp
• Salt, as per taste
• Oil, to fry

Let's follow the steps:

• Soak the Rajma in water for overnight.
• Boil the Rajma till soft.
• Now, take Rajma, garlic and ginger in a grinder and make a thick paste.
• If needed, add 1 tsp of water in the grinder and mix.
• Now take out the paste in a bowl, put onions, coriander leaves, chilli powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, butter, corn flour, bread crumbs and salt.
• Mix all the ingredients properly.
• Take small portions, and make round balls.
• Flat the balls to make small kebabs and fry it in a pan.
• Fry the kebabs from both side till brown and crisped.
• Serve it with coriander chutney or tomato sauce.

Delicious Kebabs specially for Vegetarians! Eat and enjoy!

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