Apple Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
> 2 cups Maida
> 2 tsp Baking Powder
> ½ cup powdered Sugar
> ¼ tsp Nutmeg Powder
> ¼ tsp Cinnamon Powder
> ¼ tsp Salt
> 1 cup Milk
> 1 Egg
> ¼ cup Butter (melted)
> 1 Apple (cored, peeled & chopped)
How to make:
Preheat oven to 400 °F.
Butter 12 muffin cups.
Sift maida, baking powder, sugar, nutmeg powder, Continue reading
Balushahi Recipe
Ingredients:
6 cups Maida
8 cups Sugar
3 cups Water
1 tsp Soda (bicarbonate)
1/2 cup Pistachios
Ghee for frying
2/3 cup Ghee (for adding in maida to make dough)
Procedure:
Mix maida, soda, and 2/3 cup ghee to make stiff dough.
Roll out small balls from this dough.
Heat ghee and fry these balls till it turns brown.
Prepare sugar syrup of two thread consistency.
Dip fried balls in sugar syrup.
Drain the excess syrup.
Adorn with pistachios.
Balushahi is ready to be served!
Banana French Toast Recipe
Ingredients
8 Bread Slices
2 ripe Bananas
1 cup Flour
2 tsp Vanilla
2 tbsp Sugar
½ cup Milk
½ stick of Butter
Powdered Sugar (to taste)
How to make Banana French Toast
Combine flour, bananas, sugar, and vanilla in a blender. Blend until the mixture turns smooth.
Mix in sufficient milk to attain a mixture of a good consistency.
Heat butter in a pan. Dip a bread slice into the mixture and fry in butter on both sides until brown.
Remove the cooked bread slice from the pan and place on tissue paper to absorb excess fat.
Sprinkle powdered sugar on the bread slice.
Repeat the process with the other bread slices and banana mixture.
Brown Bread Recipe
Ingredients
250 g Whole Wheat Flour
10 g Fresh Yeast
3/4 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Butter
3/4 tsp Salt
Warm Water
How to make Brown Bread
Take the flour and sieve it.
Add sugar, yeast and a little warm water to the flour and wait for 5 minutes.
When bubbles start erupting, add butter and salt to the mix and make a soft dough by adding some warm water. Knead it for 2 minutes and keep it aside for approximately 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, work on the dough again, for a few minutes and give it the shape of a loaf.
Press it in the greased loaf tin.
Wait for 25 minutes and then bake the bread in oven for 10 minutes, at a temperature of 200 degrees C.
Reduce the temperature to 150 degrees C and further bake it for 15 minutes.
Your brown bread is ready.
Gujiya Recipe
Ingredients
1 kg Khoya
500 gms Sugar
500 gms Maida
200 gms Almonds, chopped
6 tbsp Cooking oil
3 tbsp Raisins
200 ml Water
Green Cardamom seeds (mashed)
How to make Gujia
Combine maida with 6 tbsp of oil using your fingers.
Make soft dough and knead it lightly. Add water if needed.
Cover with a wet cloth and leave aside.
In a frying pan, deep-fry the khoya till it gets light brown.
Add chopped almonds, cardamom powder, sugar and raisins and mix well.
Fry again for few minutes. Allow the mixture to cool.
Prepare a small chapati from the kneaded dough. Make sure the dough is not rolled to make too thin or too thick chapattis.
Stuff half of the chapati with the khoya mixture.
Fold and draw the edges of chapati inwards to close.
On slow fire, deep-fry the gujia till it turns golden brown.
Take out them out of the frying pan using a sieve and drain the oil properly.
Store them in an airtight container.
Repeat the procedure with the remaining dough.
Kesar Peda Recipe
Ingredients:
500g Soft white milk fudge (khoya)
300gms sugar powdered
Half tsp cardamom powder
1 tsp cardamom seeds semi crushed
1tbsp slivered or crushed pistachios
A few strands of saffron
1tbsp warm milk
2 drops saffron colour (optional)
Procedure:
Dahi Gujiya Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup husked black gram lentil (urad dal without skin)
1 tsp Salt
Half tsp baking powder
Oil for deep frying
2 cups thick fresh yoghurt
2 tbsp Sugar
Dahi wada masala
1/2 tsp Red chili powder to taste
2 tbsps cumin seeds
2 tbsp Coriander seeds
One-fourth tsp black salt
1tbsps Chat masala
For the stuffing:
2 piece of ginger
2-3 green chilies
Chopped coriander leaves
2 tbsp raisins
1tbsp Cudpahnut (Chironji/ Chiroli)
2 tbsp grated coconut
To serve:
Sweet Tamarind chutney
Procedure:
Wash and soak the lentils (dal) for 3 hours and grind to a fine paste adding very little water. The batter should be like a cake batter.
Beat the batter very well till light and fluffy. Add the salt and the baking powder and beat well again. To test whether the batter is ready or not, slowly drop a drop of the batter in a glassful of still water. If the batter floats on the top, it is ready, if not you need to beat it more.
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Puran Poli Recipe
Ingredients
> 1/2 kg Maida (All purpose flour)
>1/2 kg Lentil (Gram dal)
> 1 tsp Cardamom powder
> 1 tsp Ghee
> 1/2 kg Jaggery
> 100 ml Oil
> Salt to taste
How to make
Wash and boil the lentil with water and 1/2 tsp salt till it becomes soft.
Cool slightly and strain the dal using a strainer.
Add cardamom powder and jaggery and grind to make fine paste.
If the paste is sticky, keep it on fire to dry up completely. This is puran.
Knead 1/2 kg maida with water and 1/2 tsp salt. Do not make it hard.
Add oil and knead the maida again till oil gets absorbed.
Prepare equal number of balls from maida and puran.
Roll out maida balls to make small pooris.
Stuff these pooris with puran ball.
Roll them again into balls.
Roll out to make chapatis. It is called poli.
Heat a griddle and roast each poli.
Apply ghee on both sides when done.
Serve with hot cup of tea.
Cheese Buns
Ingredients
For Dough:
3 cups Bread Flour
1 cup Water
1¼ tsp Salt
1 tsp Sugar
2½ tsp active dry Yeast
For Filling
1/3 cup Feta Cheese (grated)
1/3 cup Parmesan and Romano Cheese (grated)
Preparation Directions:
Prepare the filling by combining all types of cheese together, reserving some of the parmesan separately.
Knead smooth dough by combining all the dough ingredients.
Divide the dough into 12 balls and place on an oiled baking pan.
Roll-out each of them into circles of 3-inch radius.
Place a generous strip of the cheese mixture and roll on one side tightly.
Shape each of them like a coil and seal the ends with a little water.
Sprinkle some reserved cheese on the top and bake until it turns light brown for about 35-40 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Ginger Biscuits Recipe
Ingredients
115 gms (4 oz) Butter
200 gms (7 oz) White Sugar
1 tbsp Golden Syrup
1 Egg
225 gms (8 oz) Flour (Maida)
1 tsp Baking Powder
3 tsp Ginger Powder
2 tsp Mixed Spice
½ tsp Baking Soda
Preparation Directions:
Preheat oven to 180°C, 350°F or Continue reading
Saboodana Khichdi Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups saboodana (sago) granules
1/2 cup roasted groundnut
6 green chillies
1/4 cup oil
Finely chopped coriander
Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Directions of Preparation:
Step 1:
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Spicy Pasta Arrabiata
Ingredients:
300 gms Penne Pasta
1 Medium Onion
400 gms Tomatoes
450 ml Tomato juice
175 gms Cheese (grated)
2-3 cloves Garlic
Red chilli flakes
1 Green Pepper
1 tsp Basil
1 tsp Oregano
Dash of Red Grape Juice
Olive oil
Salt
Procedure:
Boil and strain the Continue reading
