Zucchini Fry

A very nice side dish, different from normal recipes and very tasty. and simple. Needless to say about its nutrients. It just needs a zucchini and 10 minutes of your time.

Ingredients:

1. Zucchini - 1/2 

2. Salt to taste

3. Oil - 1 tsp

To Temper:

1. Hing - a pinch

2. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp

3. Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

4. Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

5. Dry red chillies - 2

Preparation:
Slit the zucchini into half and slice thinly

Method:
1. In a kadai, heat oil and add all ingredients under 'To Temper'
2. Once chillies and urad dal are brownish, add zucchini  and fry till its tender and soft. Keep stirring in between.

Enjoy!

Instant Gram Flour Dosa

An instant dosa that does not require any soaking or grinding. All this requires is gram flour. Its easy, do not stick to pan and healthy.

Ingredients:

Gram Flour - 1/2 cup

Rice Flour - 2 tbsp

Onion - 1/2 (finely chopped)

Tomato - 1/2 (finely chopped)

Green Chilly - 1 (finely chopped)

Curry leaves - 3 or 4 finely chopped

Salt to taste

Water

Oil to roast dosa

Method:
1. Mix onion, tomato in a bowl
2. Mix gram flour, rice flour and salt in a separate bowl. Then add 1/4 th of mixture from step 1 except water and mix well. Then add water and prepare batter. It should not be too thick like normal dosa batter nor too thin
3. Heat pan and sprinkle oil, pour the batter, sprinkle oil and add the mixture from step 1 on top of dosa and press lightly. Roast both sides and enjoy!

Rajma Masala

A punjabi recipe that goes well with rotis, parathas, naan and rice with goodness of kidney beans :)

Ingredients:

1. Rajma - 1/2 cup

2. Tomato - 1

3. Salt as per taste

4. oil for frying - 1 1/2 tbsp

5. Butter - 1/2 tbsp

6. Water - 1 to 1 1/2 cup

Spices:

1. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

2. Chilli powder - 1 1/2 tsp

3. Coriander powder - 1 tsp

4. Jeera powder - 1tsp

5. Garam Masala powder - 1/2 tsp

Seasoning:

1. Onion - 1

2. Ginger - garlic paste - 1tsp

Preparation:

1. Soak rajma/kidney beans overnight and pressure cook for 5 whistles with little salt and water. Water should be enough to soak the beans. Rajma should be soft and not mushy

2. Finely chop onions 

Method:

1. Heat oil and butter and fry onion till golden brown and then add ginger garlic paste and fry for few seconds

2. Now add tomatoes and all spices and salt and cook till tomatoes becomes mushy and oil leaves the masala mixture 

3. Add the strained rajma beans to the masala mixture and mix well and cook for couple of minutes

4. Now add the stock of rajma and remaining water as required to get proper consistency and cook for 10 mins

5. Mash few rajma with spatula, add salt and again mix well and cook for 5 mins

6. Simmer till the gravy is thickens. The proper consistency is neither too thick and thin

Enjoy with rotis/rice :)

Note:

1. Can garnish with coriander leaves

2. After 5th step, can add kasoori methi and cook 

Ven Pongal / Khara Pongal

Its the most easy and simple recipe. Its just 2 steps, one is to cook dal and rice and another is seasoning. Have a look and try :)

Ingredients:
1. Rice - 1/2 cup
2. Split yellow moong dal - 1/4 cup
3. Salt needed
4. Turmeric powder - a pinch
5. Water - 2 1/2 cups

For seasoning:
1. Oil - 1 1/2 tsp
2. Ghee - 1 1/2 tsp
3. Ginger - 1tsp finely chopped
4. Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
5. Whole black pepper - 1 tsp
6. Curry leaves - few

Preparation:
1. Dry roast moong dal and rice separately until it is hot to touch

Method:
1. Mix both rice and dal, wash them and pressure cook adding salt, turmeric powder and water to 4 whistle
2. It should be mushy, once pressure subsides, mash the contents
3. While the rice and dal is cooked, prepare the seasoning.
4. Heat oil and ghee in a pan, add finely chopped ginger and sauté for 3 4 seconds
5. Now add jeera, whole black pepper (you can add these both a bit more to enhance the flavour) and curry leaves and heat till the curry leaves are roasted
6. Pour this over the rice and dal mix
7. Mix everything well or you can add the rice dal mix to pan and mix well on low flame for 2 minutes
8. Switch off and serve hot! It makes good breakfast/lunch

Note:
1. Can add thinly sliced 1/2 onion to temper/seasoning, this is optional
2. Can add a bit more jeera and whole black pepper for flavour
3. Can have it with coconut chutney or as it it!
4. Can add ghee fried cashews

Ellu Bella and Sakkare acchu

Once new year begins, our first festival sankranti begins. So this year I wanted to try ellu bella(mixture of sesame and jaggery) and sakkare acchu(sugar dolls). Initially I thought doing sakkare acchu is difficult but its not that difficult but requires proper proportions and patience. Since I do not have mould to do sakkare acchu I had to relay on cookie maker/cups to try. The same can be done with wooden mould. 

Ellu Bella

Ingredients:

1. Peanuts - 1 cup

2. Dry coconut/Kopra - 1/2 (1 cup grated/cut into small cubes)

3. Jaggery - 1 or 1 1/2

4. White sesame seeds - 3/4 cup

5. Kadle pappu/Split dal - 2 cups

6. Dish cloth

Method:

1. Heat a pan/kadai on high heat for few minutes. When its hot but not smoky add half cup peanuts and keep stirring untill they crackle. Then transfer it to a plate and allow it to cool. Repeat with another half cup of peanuts. Do not do altogether.

2. Now add sesame seeds and repeat till they swell up but not browned. Transfer to a plate and allow it to cool

3. When peanuts are completely cooled, pour them on flat surface or plate and place cloth on peanuts and rub until the skin is loosen. Blow away the husk and clean the peanuts and transfer the cleaned peanuts in to a bowl (this is bit tedious job)

4. Cut whole copra into halves and grate the half the copra and pour into the same bowl OR

grate the upper brown part and slice the copra and cut them into pieces the size of peanut (I used the grated dry coconut/copra)

5. Cut the jaggery into small pieces to the size of the copra/peanut and add to the same bowl

6. Add the kadle pappu/split dal to the bowl and mix well

Sakkare Acchu

Ingredients:

1. Sugar - 1 cup

2. Water - 1/2 cup

3. Milk - 1/4 cup

4. Curd - 1/4 cup

5. Soft cotton cloth

6. Moulds (i used cups/cookie maker)

7. Lemon juice (optional)

Preparation:

1. Dissolve sugar in water, add as little water as possible only to dissolve the sugar and keep for an hour or two

2. If using wooden moulds, wash and soak the wooden moulds overnight and dry completely before using and assemble them securely and tightly using rubber bands

3. Spread the cloth on another pan/bowl to ready it for straining the sugar solution

4. Use thick bottomed pan/kadai 

Method:

1. Heat sugar solution and bring it to boil over medium heat. Once it starts boiling add the milk and curd and allow it to boil for a minute

2. Now strain the sugar solution. Do not throw the residue it tastes good and edible to eat

3. Now transfer the filtered solution and heat to bring it to a gentle bubble over low heat.

4. Take the kadai out and stir well with the ladle for 5-6 times

5. Return to stove and repeat the process. Do not increase the heat, this should be done on low heat

6. Repeat the process of heating and stirring for about atleast 8 to 9 times or until it begins to thicken and appear creamy

7. You can also check by dripping a sugar drop on water. It should not dissolve and stays in same place

8. This is the proper time and optionally now add few drops of lemon juice

9. Beating it again, pour the liquid to moulds/cookie maker

10. If the liquid thickens while filling, heat again and beat it with few drops of water and begin filling again

11. To remove the acchu, use sharp knife to trim the extras. Do not waste the extras or spilled pieces or broken pieces

That is it! Enjoy melt-in-your-mouth sakkare acchu! :)

Tomato Rice/Tomato Bath/Tomato pulao

Whenever I am running out of vegetables or tired to cook anything this recipe comes to my mind.
All it needs is tomatoes !

Ingredients:

1. Tomatoes - 6 (chopped)

2. Peas - fistful (optional)

3. Garam masala powder - 1 tsp

4. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

5. Onion - 2 (cut lengthwise)

6. Rice - 1 cup

7. Water - 2 cups

8. Oil for frying onion

9. Salt 

For tempering:

1. Cloves - 4

2. Cardamom - 1 

3. Bay leaf - 1

4. Cinnamon stick - 1 inch

5. Curry leaves - 5-6 (optional)

Method:
1. Heat oil in a cooker directly
2. Once heated,  add all items under 'For Tempering' and fry till curry leaves are fried
3. Add onion and fry till light brown
4. Then add tomatoes and cook till mushy and then add turmeric powder, garam masala powder and salt according to your taste and mix well
5. Wash and drain rice and add and mix well
6. Add water, and adjust the taste now and pressure cook for 2/3 whistles

Have it hot with raita or just as it is :)

Note:
When you are in hurry, just grind the tomatoes and skip items for tempering and adjust garam masala powder. Still it tastes yum :)

Green Salad

This is simple and healthy salad you can munch on any time with goodness of leafs and veggies.

Ingredients:

1. Mixture of lolla lettuce, bativa lettuce and spinach - 2 cups

2. Tomato - 1 chopped roughly

3. Onion - 1/4 cut lengthwise

4. Carrot - 1 small cut lengthwise

5. Olives - 8

6. Cucumber - 1/2 cup cut lengthwise

For dressing

1. Croutons - 1 tblspn

2. Salad herbs and spicy dressing - 1 tblspn (or according to your taste)

3. Any yoghurt dressing

4. Pepper

Method:

1. Wash the leaves and chop them roughly

2. Add all ingredients and also add salad herbs and spicy dressing and mix 

3. Place the mixture on plate and add croutons and yoghurt dressing and sprinkle pepper

Enjoy your salad!

Note:

You can add any 3 mixture of greens

Try to add spinach for its goodness

Chocolate Cake

So here its time to celebrate !!! Yes its new year... Here I am wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2015. So here I am treating you all with chocolate cake with banana flavour and cranberry, my first baking this year. Starting this new year with all new energy.

Ingredients:

(Dry )
1. All purpose floor/Maida -1.5 cups
2. Butter - 1.5 cups(113 grams)
3. Baking powder - 2 tblsp(7 grams)
4. Baking Soda - 1.5 tsp
5. Sugar - 1 cup (200 grams)
6. Coco powder - 75 grams or melt chocolate and use
7. Raisins fistful (Cranberry/Dry grapes)

(Wet)
1. Banana - 1/2
2. Vanilla Essence - 1.5 tsp
3. Oil - 1/4 cup
4. Milk - 1/2 cup (120 ml)
5.Vinegar - 1 tblspn

(For decoration)
1. Cherries
2. Almond Splits
3. Piping tube

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 180 C
Butter and dust the pan with all purpose flour

Method:
1. Beat butter till light and fluffy
2. Add sugar and beat till mixed well
3. Add vanilla extract, vinegar and beat till it mix
4. Add oil and beat till it mix
5. Mash bananas and add to the mixture and add coco powder/melted chocolate and beat till it mix
6. In separate bowl, add all purpose flour/maida, baking powder, baking soda and whisk
7. Add half of this mixture of flour(from step 6) to beat until it mixes
8. Add half the milk and beat then add half the flour and beat
9. Add half the milk and beat.
10. Add the cranberries/dry grapes and fold them with spatula to mix ,do not beat
11. Pour the batter to the pan and bake for 45 mins

Mine got baked at 45 mins. Just insert a tooth pick or fork and check if it comes clean its baked.

Once the cake is baked and cooled ,decorate your cake, place cherries and just place almond splits on top of it. And write your msgs.


Note:
Flour and milk should be added half and beat. Do not add full and beat

Akki Rotti/ Rice Flour Roti

Akki rotti is famous in Karnataka and prepared generally in houses. All it requires is rice flour. It does requires a bit of patience and practice to prepare without sticking the dough to hands  or plastic paper as its flatten using hands on plastic paper. But nevertheless its god-damn good with chutney and ghee and I cant resist  having it with ghee!

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup

2. Salt - for taste

3. Boiling water to prepare dough

4. Oil (optional, especially for beginners to roll out)

Method:
1. Take a cup of rice flour in a bowl, add salt and mix well
2. To this add boiling water and cover for few minutes say 2 to 3 mins and knead carefully when it is still warm to prepare a dough

Best with coconut chutney and ghee :)

Tomato Pasta

Ingredients:

For Pasta Sauce:
1. Onion - 1 big size
2. Tomato - 3 medium size
3. Green Chillies - 2
4. Ginger-Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp (optional)
5. Salt
6. Water
7. Extra virgin olive oil

For Garnish:
1. Cheese (grated)

And pasta of your choice:
Penne/Fusili/Spaghetti/Elbow

Procedure:
1. Cool the pasta with little salt and olive oil in water. The pasta should not be cooked too soft. Once it is cooked, drain the water and keep aside
2. Now heat olive oil in a pan, and add green chillies cut lengthwise and ginger garlic paste and sauté for few seconds
3. Now add onions chopped finely and sauté till translucent
4. Now add tomatoes chopped finely/roughly and cook till its mushy
5. If required add little water (1/2 cup) and simmer till tomatoes turns to thick paste, you can also mash the tomatoes with spatula, keep stirring so that it wont stick to the bottom of pan
6. The consistency should not be too thick or too water, add salt according to the taste, mix well and once cooked keep it aside
7. Now mix the cooked pasta to the sauce prepared and garnish with grated cheese and enjoy your pasta !

Note:
1. I have used mixture of penne rigate and fusili pasta
2. You can also garnish with basil leaves
Can enjoy it as breakfast or dinner :)

Kaju Katti

One of the most common sweets in India. Be it festivals, special occasions kaju sweets are usual! So I wanted to try it at home, and believe me its not difficult and tastes good !!!

Ingredients:

1. Cashews - 1cup

2. Sugar - 1/2 cup/as required

3. Water - 5 tbspn

4. Ghee/oil - 1 tbspn

5. Rose petals - 1tsp / Rose water- 9-9 drops (optional)

6. Saffron strands - few

Method:

1. Powder cashew in dry grinder. Cashew powder Should be dry and not oily

2. Heat sugar with water in low flame in a kadai

3. Grease a plate/tray and keep aside

4. When sugar dissolves add cashew powder

5. Keep stirring on low flame

6. Cashew mix starts thickening.

7. Cook cashew mix for 7-9 mins till whole mixture starts to come together

8. Remove whole lumps of mixture from pan and place it on surface/bowl

9. Add rose petals and ghee/oil to mixture

10. When its still hot enough to handle, knead the mixture

11. Flatten the dough and place on greased tray. Place the butter paper on top and roll gently from all sides

Allow it to cool and using sharp knife cut and remove using knife

12. Or take a lemon sized dough and make a ball. Place a pista on top to decor and allow it to cool completely

Note:

1. Knead the mixture lightly, do not overdo else  oil is released

2. If too dry or dense, add milk

3. If too soft, add milk powder

Taali Pattu/Masala Rotti

Bored of rice items??? Conscious about weight??? Want something healthy??? Then here is the recipe...
Its from my mom's kitchen. It goes well with coconut chutney.

Ingredients:

1. Rice Flour - 1 cup

2. Onion - 2

3. Sappige soppu/Dill leaves - 2 cups chopped finely

3. Coriander - fistful, chopped finely

4. Curry leaves - fistful, chopped

5. Kadle bele - 1tsp

6. Oil or butter to grease

To Grind:

1. Chilli - 4/ as required

2. Coconut - 1/2 grated

3. Sambar powder - 1 tbspn

4. Kadle bele - 1tsp

5. Salt

Method:

1. Grind the items to paste with all ingredients given under 'To Grind'.

2. Mix all (wet and dry ingredients) with rice flour using boiling water to for a dough

3. Make big lemon sized balls from dough 

3. Take butter paper/plastic paper, apply oil on it. Roll out the dough ball by putting another plastic paper greased with oil/butter or can roll out dry using rice flour

4. Heat the tawa on high flame, once its hot enough cook the rolled out dough on medium high flame on both sides

Enjoy as it is/with chutney and ghee :)

Palak Dal

Wonderful combination of palak and dal that goes well with rotis and rice. Its also good for health with palak used in this dish. It can be prepared in many ways, either by just using toor dal or moong dal or mixture of both. I have used mixture of both to prepare. With aroma of garlic and ghee it adds to the taste and cant resist it!

Ingredients:

• 1. Toor dal - 1/2 cup
• 2. Moong dal - 1/2 cup
• 3. Spinach - 2 cups 
• 4. Red Chilli - 1
• 5. Ginger - 1 inch
• 6. Green Chilli - 2-3
• 7. Garlic - 5 pods
• 8. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• 9. Onion - 2
• 10. Tomato - 1
• 11. Salt as needed
• 12. Lemon - 1/2
• 13. Ghee - 1tsp

Seasoning:

• 1. Oil - 1 1/2 tblspn
• 2. Mustard seeds - 1tsp
• 3. Cumin seeds - 1tsp
• 4. Hing - a pinch

Method:

• 1. Pressure cook dal with turmeric for 3 whistles. Mash and keep aside
• 2. Pressure cook spinach for 1 whistle, mash and keep aside
• 3. Heat oil in pan, add ingredients under 'Seasoning', once mustard seeds splutters add garlic, ginger, onion(slit lengthwise), red chilli and green chilli and saute till onions are translucent
• 4. Add tomato and cook till its mushy
• 5. Then add cooked palak and dal, needed salt and mix well and bring everything to boil
• 6. Add lemon juice from half lemon and mix well

Add a teaspoon of ghee and serve hot with rotis or rice!!!

Naan

One of the long waited recipe to be tried, and one of the items in a list when in party or in hotels. Finally got a recipe and when tried it was light, fluffy :) The ingredients are very simple but the trick is the way its prepared... Check out these steps!!!

Ingredients:

1. Maida/All purpose flour - 2 cups

2. Yeast - 1tsp

3. Sugar - 1tsp

4. Salt - 1tsp

5. Ghee/Butter - 4 tblspn

6. Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

7. Yougurt - 2tblspn

8. Luke warm water - 2/3 rd cup

Toppings:

1. Sesame seeds

2. Coriander leaves/dry methi leaves

Method:

1. Take luke warm water in a cup, dissolve yeast ad sugar and keep aside

2. Allow it to rise, which normally takes 5-10 mins

3. Sift flour and salt in a bowl and add yeat-sugar solution, yogurt and half the ghee

4. Mix to form smooth dough, knead on flat surface to make it smoother

5. Keep in greased covered bowl, in warm place and allow to stand for atleast 1 hour (good to keep for 2 or 3 hours). It will double in size

6. Knead the dough for 5 more minutes by punching it down

7. Divide into lemon sized balls. Flatten each ball using hand and add toppings

8. Now heat a pan and grease it with oil and wipe it off with kitchen tissue/towel

9. Place flattened dough and cook in a medium heat

10. Few minutes it will puff up as in pic below

11. Then add ghee/melted butter on 2-3 spots and turn it on

12. Cook for few more minutes and remove

13. Immediately wrap it in a kitchen tissue and Serve hot with your favorite side dish !!!

Note:

1. If not able to form a dough with step 2 and 3, use milk enough to form a dough. Do not use water

2. Check for the side dish in my post 'Palak Paneer' that goes well with this!

Kalakand

One of the popular dessert made in India. Its a milk sweet enriched with dry fruits. A treat for your taste buds :) Try it and let me know!

Ingredients:

1. Condensed milk - 1 cup
2. Paneer - (with 2 cups milk + 1 lemon)
3. Elachi - 2/3
4. Ghee - 2 tblspn or more as required to saute paneer
5. Sugar - 1 cup (or as you need the sweetness)
6. Almonds and pista coarsely grinded to garnish

Method:

1. First prepare paneer. Look into my post 'Home Made Paneer' to prepare paneer
2. Melt ghee and add paneer and saute for 2 minutes
3. Add sugar and condensed milk and heat for 5 minutes
5. Add elachi and mix and switch off
6. Grease a plate with ghee and pour the kalakand on it and pat using spatuala so that it sets on it.
7. Garnish with almonds and pista and pat using spatula so that it sets
8. Allow it to cool. But cut into pieces when its still warm

Serve once cool :) Enjoy

Hesarubele/Moong dal Payasa

One of the favorite sweets of mine :) I just feel like gulping it even now when am blogging about it... With the goodness of moongdal and jaggery its just delicius and yummmmm yummyyyyy :) 

Ingredients:

1. Moong Dal - 1cup

2. Jaggery - 1 or 1 1/2 (dal:jaggery = 1:1 or 1:1 1/2)

3. Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

4. Coconut - 1/2 cup

5. Milk - 1 or 1 1/2 cups

6. Ghee to fry dry fruits

Method:

1. Fry/ Dry roast dal till golden brown

2. Once cool, wash and pressure cook the dal with 1.5 cups of water (1 cup dal:1.5 cups of water)

3. Grind coconut and cardamom to paste and add it to cooked dal

4. In a kadai, add jaggery and water just to melt the jaggery, and heat it jaggery melts

5. Add this melted jaggery by filtering it to the cooked dal

6. Add milk to cooked dal, mix well and boil for 2-3 mins

7. Keep stirring in between to avoid it get sticking to bottom

8. Garnish with fried raisins and cashews and serve

Note:

1. Can add more water/milk to make it watery. The payasam should not be too thick

2. Dry roast the dal before cooking properly else it sticks

Onion Tomato Chutney

One who likes onions and tomatoes would definitely likes this chutney and goes well with idli, dosa, chapati. Best with idlis n dosas n can be stored for longer time since coconut is not used. Lets get into the recipe without wasting much tym!

Ingredients:

1. Onion - 1

2. Tomato - 1

3. Red Chillie - 2/3

4. Hing - a pinch

5. Oil/Ghee - 2 tsp

6. Channa Dal - 1 tblspn

7. Salt as needed

To Temper:

1. Oil - 1tsp

2. Mustard - 3/4 tsp

3. Urad dal - 1tsp

4. Curry leaves - 1 spring

Method:

1. Heat a tsp of oil and fry red chillies and channa dal untill dal turns golden brown and keep aside

2. Cut onions and tomatoes in chunks and fry in oil till transparent, then add tomatoes and fry till it is soft and keep aside

3. Once ingredients are cool, transfer to mixer, add salt and grind to smooth paste

4. Temper it using items given under 'To Temper'

5. Mix well and serve

Rave Unde/Laddoo

This one doesn't need any introduction!!! Everyone would have some memories attached to it! Its such a delicious one which is prepared at home even without any occasions :) Till I gave a try for this I never knew it is simple and easy to prepare. Ok so now lets not waste time and look into the recipe :)

Ingredients:
Rave/Semolina - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Dry Coconut - 2 tblspn
Ghee - use generously (1/4 cup,melted)
Saffron - few soaked in warm milk
Raisins and cashew - few
Cloves - 7-8
Warm milk - 5-6 tblspn(just for binding)

Method:
1. In a vessel/pan, heat 1 tblspn of ghee and fry raisins and cashews until cashews are brown and raisins are plump and keep in a plate aside
2. Fry rave in same till it turns its color to golden brown. Keep in same plate
3. Warm the coconut in same pan and transfer it to same plate
4. Measure sugar and warm ghee and add to this plate and add saffron
5. Mix all ingredients and sprinkle warm milk and mix and make laddoos of desirable size

I got 15 yum yummy laddoos :) !!!

Note:
1. Use more ghee than milk so that it melts in your mouth
2. Use warm ghee to pour on rava
3. Try using dry coconut as it helps in preserving for longer time

Peanut Butter Cookies

Mouth watering and melting cookies ! I was desperate to try this one after i tasted it prepared by one of my friend in Hildesheim, Germany :) And believe me, its not difficult to prepare and you would love it :) So here is this weekend recipe :)

Ingredients:

Butter - 3/4 cup (unsalted)
Peanut Butter - 3/4 cup (crunchy/smooth)
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
All Purpose Flour/Maida - 2 cups
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt - little
Chopped peanuts - optional

Method:

1. Beat unsalted butter, and add sugar and brown sugar
2. Beat till light and fluffy (2-3 mins)
3. Add peanut butter and beat
4. Add vanilla extract and beat to combine and keep aside
5. To this, add Maida, baking soda and salt and whisk together
6. Can add choco chips/chopped peanuts, this is optional

7. Cover and chill for half an hour
8. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and line baking sheets at middle
9. Make balls out of dough and place on baking sheets
10. In a bowl, take sugar, dip fork and press down on balls done
11. Bake for 5-10 mins or till edges are brown

Note:

1. After 5 mins keep checking till edges are brown
2. Allow it to cool completely before serving

Enjoy!!!

Palak Paneer

One of the most popular Indian dish, basically punjabi dish with goodness of palak. Its basically paneer cubes cooked in spinach/palak curry. And no wonder highly nutritious!!!

Preparation time : 15 min
Cooking time: 30 min

Ingredients:

Palak - 3 cups
Green Chillli - 1-2
Paneer - 15 pieces
Onion - 3/4 cup very finely chopped
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Tomatoes - 1 cup
Salt to taste

Spice powders:

Cumin powder - 3/4 - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Red  Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala powder - 3/4 tsp

Seasoning:

Oil - 21/2 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Cloves - 2

Granish:

Butter - 2tbsp

Preparation:

1. Prepare paneer at home or can even buy. Can check my recipe to prepare Home Made Paneer
2. Fry paneer in very less oil and keep aside
3. Grind the palak to smooth paste with chilli and keep aside

Method:

1. Heat oil in a kadai and add items under 'Seasoning'
2. When cumin seeds sizzles, add onion, garlic and saute till onions are brown
3. Add little salt, continuous stir is required
4. Add Ginger-Garlic paste and saute
5. Add tomatoes and all spice powder and turmeric powder and salt needed
6. Cook till tomatoes are mushy. Do not add water till tomatoes are cooked
7. Add palak puree and cook in medium flame for 5-6 min
8. Once palak is cooked add paneer and cook for 2-3 mins
9. Add some water and simmer
10. Ig gravy is too thick add water and adjust consistency and also the taste accordingly
11. Garnish with butter and serve