Category: Recipe

Paneer Curry Recipe

Paneer is nothing but Cottage Cheese. A Paneer curry is just another curry where curry means sauce in Tamil, a language in South India. Combination of masalas with other ingredients is a curry. Paneer curry is very popular in North India.

Ingredients:

• Paneer – 200 gms.
• Tomato puree – 2 nos.
• Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp.
• Garlic- Ginger paste -1 tsp.
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp.
• Chilli powder- ½ tsp.
• Cumin Powder- ½ tsp.
• Garam masala powder – ½ tsp.
• Coriander powder – ½ tsp.
• Cashew nuts: 10-12 nos (ground to a paste).
• Salt as required.

Methodology:

• Cut paneer into small cubes and keep aside.
• Add oil in a heavy bottomed pot, when hot enough add cumin seeds.
• Once they splutter add the ginger garlic paste.
• Do not let it stick to the bottom of the vessel. Keep adding little water.
• Now take little water add all the masalas in it and mix well.
• Add this to the pot and fry the masalas well till oil separates.
• Add tomato puree and sauté till oil separate.
• Add the cashew nut paste and then the cubed pieces of Paneer.
• In case the gravy is too dry add little water accordingly.
• Let the gravy boil a little and then serve hot.

Gulab Jamun Recipe

Gulab Jamun is a popular Indian sweet dish that can be served on ethnic festivals or events. In India, there are millions of people who love eating them. They can be best served with Ice-cream or simply served hot.

Ingredients required:-

• 6 cups Water.
• 2.5 cups sugar.
• ¼ Cup Thickened milk.
• 1 tsp. semolina.
• Oil.
• 3 cups Milk Powder.

Method:-

• In a medium sized container, mix semolina, flour, milk powder and then knead them with the thickened cream to make it soft.
• Make balls in the size that you want.
• Dry fry the balls on low heat.
• In other container, prepare sugar syrup and then add the cooked balls.
• Serve hot (plain) or top it up with vanilla ice-cream.

 Moong Daal Recipe

Lentils and grams are a very integral part of Indian cuisine. The daal is made in different ways from different areas and regions in India. One can make split green gram, Pigeon peas, green gram, Black gram and the list is vast. It’s not just delicious and but also very good for health.

 Ingredients:

• ½ cup split green gram (soaked for ½ an hour).
• Tomato – 1 no.
• ½ tsp. turmeric powder.
• ½ tsp. chilli powder.
• Coriander leaves.
• Green chilly -1 no.
• Salt as required.

For the seasoning

• Garlic flakes – 3 .
• Oil as required.
• Cumin seeds – ½ tsp.
• Curry leaves – 6-7 leaves.

Methodology:-

• Add the soaked dal with 2 glasses of water in a pressure cooker.
• Add one tomato, green chili, coriander leaves.
• Now add the masalas and salt.
• Pressure cook for 2-3 whistles.
• After the pressure has gone from the cooker take a heavy bottomed pot and add the ingredients for seasoning.
• When the cumin seeds start sputtering add it to the dal
• Serve with white rice and rotis.

Kheer Recipe

Kheer is a famous dessert in the Indian cuisine. Kheer essentially means milk in Sanskrit. This mouth watering dessert is made from broken wheat, vermicelli or rice. You can choose as per your taste. You can add nuts and raisins to make it crunchier and add some saffron to it to get that beautiful color. Initially Kheer was originated in South India but later on it became famous all across India.

Items required for preparing Kheer:

• 1 cup of milk

• Rice half cup or broken wheat or vermicelli (soaked and washed for 20 minutes)

• Soaked 20 strands of saffron in 2-3 tablespoon of hot milk.

• Green cardamoms – 8 – peeled and powdered.

• Sugar – 6-7 tablespoon.

• 14 almonds and 12 pistachios.

How to prepare:

• Simmer the milk once it is boiled thoroughly.

• Grind rice or broken wheat coarsely so that it easily dissolves in the milk.

• Add milk to coarsely ground rice or wheat.

• Stir the milk thoroughly nonstop so that it does not stick to the pan.

• Boil till the milk thickens and the rice or wheat is boiled.

• Now remove the pan and add almonds and pistachios

• Serve it hot or cold.

Spinach (Paalak) Gravy

When we are looking for some nutritious ingredient then spinach can be used in every type of dish including soup, parantha and rice too. Some people love to have it in a spicy flavor. This green vegetable is a store of vitamins and proteins which is very healthy.

Contents of the dish:

• Spinach, 1.5 cups.
• Toor dal, ½ cup.
• Cumin seeds, 1.5 tsp.
• Dry red chillies.
• Grated coconut, 3 tsps.
• Garlic flakes.
• Tamarind.
• Tomato puree, 4 tsps.
• Salt as per taste.

Methodology:

• To settle the toor dal and tamarind, soak them in water for few minutes.
• Clean the spinach and boil it in water.
• Make a fine paste of the toor dal, cumin seeds, coconut and red chillies.
• Now add this paste into the spinach with salt, tamarind water and garlic tomato puree.
• Season the dish with some gram dal, curry leaves and spinach and serve hot.

Kheer Recipe

 Kheer is a milk pudding. This includes vermicelli, rice or broken wheat along with nuts and raisins that give it a crunchy taste and with saffron it gets its color. It’s typically a South Indian dish but very famous with its different versions all over India. It is essentially served as a dessert

Ingredients:

• 1 cup – milk.
• ½ cup –rice (washed and soaked for 20 mins).
• 8 green cardamoms peeled and powdered.
• 20 strands of saffron (soaked in 2 to 3 tbsp. of hot milk).
• 6-7 tbsp. sugar.
• 14 almonds.
• 12 pistachios.

Methodology:

• Let the milk simmer for some time after boiling it.
• Coarsely grind the rice after draining out the water
• Add rice to the milk stirring nonstop so that rice doesn’t stick to the vessel.
• Add saffron and powdered cardamoms.
• Till the milk thickens let it boil.
• Add sugar and till it dissolves keep it on the flame.
• Remove and garnish with Almonds and pistachios.
• Serve hot or cold.