Sambar Recipe

Sambar Recipe

Preparation Time: 40-45 Minutes

Serves: 3-4 Persons

Ingredients:-

• Tuvar dal – 1 cup
• Brinjal – 1 small (optional)
• Potato – 1
• Onion – 1
• Tomato – 1
• Drumstick – 2
• Sambar masala powder – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Oil – for tempering
• Red chilies – 1 to 2 (whole dry)
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp (optional)
• Curry leaves – a few
• Tamarind – 1 tbsp (soaked in warm water)
• Salt to taste

Rice Noodles Recipe

Rice Noodles Recipe

Ingredients:-

For Seasoning:

• peanuts - 1 tbsp
• chana daal - 1 tbsp
• urad daal - 1/2 tbsp
• mustard - 1/2 tbsp
• turmeric - a pinch
• oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
• salt to taste
• rice noodles - 1 packet
• lime - 2(big)
• green chillies
• curry leaves

Cauliflower And Brinjal Curry

Cauliflower And Brinjal Curry

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 5-6 Persons

Ingredients:-

• Cauliflower, cut into small florets – 1 large
  
• Brinjal (Eggplant), sliced - 3
  
• Peas with pods - cut into 1 inch pieces - 1 cup
  
• Tomato, chopped – 1
• Chopped coriander - 1 ½ cup
  
• Cumin seeds - ½ tbsp
  
• Green chilies - 3
  
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Coconut Burfi Recipe

Coconut Burfi Recipe

Ingredients:-

• Grated coconut - 1 cup
• Sugar - 3/4 cup + 1 tbsp
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Cabbage Kofta Curry

Cabbage Kofta Curry

Ingredients:- For Koftas:

• 1/2 medium size Cabbage Shredded
  
• 2 tbsp Besan or all Purpose flour
  
• Oil for frying

For Gravy:

• 1 medium sized onion
  
• a Piece of ginger
• 1 Cardamon
• 1 cinanamon stick small
• 1 clove
• 1 spoon jeera
• 1 spoon dania
• 2 medium sizes Tomatoes

Surti Undhiyu Recipe

Surti Undhiyu Recipe

Serves: 6-7 Persons

Ingredients:-

• Surti Papdi (small one) - 300 grams
• Pink Yam-cut into chunks - 100 grams
• Raw Banana-cut into chunks - 2
• Medium potatoes-cut into chunks - 2
• Small Brinjal-slit - 4-5
• Small sweet potato-cut into chunks - 1
• Green Tuver(Pigion Peas)-frozen - 50 grams
• Green Peas-frozen - 50 grams
• Small Beetroot-cut into chunks
• Small Tomatoes – 2

Naan Recipe

Naan Recipe

Ingredients:-

• 3 cups self-raising flour (maida)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup curds fresh
• salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp baking soda (soda - bicarb)
• warm milk for kneading.

Kesar Badam Pista Kulfi

Kesar Badam Pista Kulfi

Preparation Time: 50 Minutes
Serves: 6 Persons

Ingredients:-

• Creamy milk – 8 cups
• Green Cardamom – 12
• Granulated sugar – 1 cup
• Blanched almonds – ¼ cup (chopped)
• Saffron – a few threads
• Chopped pistachio – ¼ cup
• Toasted flaked almonds and
• cardamom to decorate

Sweet Khaja Recipe

Sweet Khaja Recipe

Serves: 6-7 Persons


Ingredients:-

• Maida/All purpose flour - 1.5 cups
• Ghee - ¼ cup
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - ½ tsp
• Curd - 1.5 tsp
• Eno /fruit salt - ½ tsp (OR any leavening agent like 2 pinches soda bicarbonate or ¼ teaspoon baking powder.)
• Water - ¼ cup
• Oil for deep frying

Home made Paneer Recipe

Home Made Paneer Recipe

Ingredients:-

• 6 litres milk
• 1 small cup vinegar
• 1 cheese cloth (or similar)

Indian Veg Puffs Recipe

Indian Veg Puffs

Preparation Time: 50 Minutes
Serves: 4 people

Ingredients:-

• 1 pack of Frozen Malaysian Paratha
• 1 Potato boiled
• 1/4 cup chopped Green Pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped Red Pepper
• 4 tsp chopped Carrot
• 1 cup chopped Spinach
• 1/4 cup frozen Green Peas
• 2 tsp oil
• 1/2 cup chopped Onion
• 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
• 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
• 1 tsp Garam Masala
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp Chat masala
• 1 tsp Lemon juice
  

Dahi Vada Recipe

Dahi Vada

Serves: 4-5 Persons


Ingredients:-  For Vada:

• Green grams dhal (moong dhal split) - 200 gms
• Plain yogurt - 250 gms
• Red chili powder - 1 tsp
• Green chili paste - 2-3
• Cumin seeds powder - 2 tbsp
• Salt - as required
• Cilantro leaves - ¼ cup
• Oil for frying

Aloo Palak Recipe

Aloo Palak

Aloo Palak Ingredients:-

• 3 cups chopped spinach
• 2 large onions chopped fine
• 2 large potatoes boiled and peeled
• 1 tomato grated
• 2 green chillies
• 1" piece ginger
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. wheat or other flour
• 1 tsp. red chilli powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon-clove powder
• 1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 pinches asafoetida
• 1/2 tsp. garam masala
• 1/2 tbsp. butter
• 4 tbsp. ghee
• salt to taste

Macaroni Cheese Bake Recipe

Macaroni Cheese Bake

Preparation Time: 10 - 15 

Cooking Time: 20 - 25 minutes

Ingredients:-

• Water - 1 litre
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Macaroni – 1 cup
• For the cheese sauce:
• Reserved oiling liquid – 1 cup
• Milk - ½ cup
• Refined flour – 3 tbsp
• Salt – 1 tbsp
• Grated cheese – 4 tbsp or
• Cheese spread – 3 tbsp
• Mixed herbs - ½ tsp
• Ground pepper - ¼ tsp
• Grated cheese – 3 tbsp
• Chilled grated butter – 1 tbsp

Apple Pie Recipe

Apple Pie

Ingredients:-

Pastry

• 2¼ C all purpose flour
• ¼ Tsp salt
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• ½ C cold unsalted butter
• 2 Tbsp cold yogurt
• 6-7 Tbsp cold water

Filling

• 6-7 medium apples, peeled, cored and coarsely grated
• ½ C brown sugar
• ½ Tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 Tbsp cornstarch (cornflour)
• ¼ C water
• ½ Tsp vanilla essence
• 1 Tsp lemon juice

Hot Lime Pickle Recipe

Hot Lime Pickle

Lime Pickle Ingredients:

• 12 limes
• 4 cups boiling-hot water
• 3 tbsp. spice 'n flavor pickle masala
• 1/2 cup distilled or cider vinegar
• 3 tbsp. vegetable or corn oil
• 3 tbsp. julienne ginger
• 3 tbsp. julienne garlic
• 2 fresh green cayenne or serrano chilies, quartered (optional)
• 2 tsp. salt

Beetroot Halwa Recipe

Beetroot Halwa

Serves: 4-5 Persons

Ingredients:-

• Beetroot (grated) - 1(big)
• Milk - 1.5 cups
• Condensed Milk - 05.cup
• Sugar - as required
• Ghee - ¼ cup
• Cardamom - 5 to 6 (crushed)
• Chopped roasted cashew nuts and almonds - 10
• Raisins - 10
  

Indian Kadhai paneer Recipe

Kadhai paneer

Ingredients:-

• 1 tbsp ghee or corn oil
• 1/2 tsp crushed dried chilies
• 2 red or yellow peppers, seeded and cut into strips, 1/2 x 11/4 in (1 x 3 cm)
• 1 red onion, sliced 1/2 in (1 cm) thick
• 1 lb 5 oz (600 g) paneer, cut into batons, 1/2 x 11/4 in (1 x 3 cm)
• 2 tbsp finely chopped cilantro leaves
• 1/2 tsp dried fenugreek leaves, crumbled juice of 1 lemon
• 2-in (5-cm) piece fresh ginger root, peeled and cut into julienne