Rawa Ladoo -Teej Special

Today is the festival of Teej. Hindus all over the world celebrate it. Today the women observe fast and tribute their worship to lord Shiva and goddess Parvati. It is celebrated for the well being of spouse, childeren, purification of body and soul as well as harmony in Married Life.

Rosogulla,sponge rasgulla recipe

Happy Rakshabandhan to all....
I have already sent my Rakhi gifts to my brother back in India. I have received my gift too. I miss his presence here at the moment. To celebrate this special occasion i prepared the Rosgullas. This sweet which is prepared from curdled milk is extremely tasty and is a perfect way to treat yourself.
There is no rocket science in preparing this rosgullas. Once you follow this simple steps you will end up making perfect spongy rosgullas.

so lets get started
Serves- 10 small size Rosgullas
Preparation time- 15 minutes
Cooking time- 15 minutes.
Level of difficulty- medium

Ingredients:

• Milk- 1 Ltr (3.5% fat)
• Vinegar or lime juice or citic acid solution- 1 Tbsp
• Sugar- 3 Tbsp
• Water- 250ml
• Cardamom powder or crushed cardamom

Other required instruments

• 1 large flour shifting sieve 
• 1 muslin cloth or cotton cloth that can be placed over the Sieve(size should be big, such that you can fully cover the sieve)
• 1 Tray
• Food processor or mixer grinder(optional)

Direction:

• Boil milk in a sauce pan. Once it comes to boil add the vinegar or citric acid. Stir well and let it curdle until the curdled milk and water gets separated fully.
• place the cotton cloth over the sieve. Now pour the curdled milk over the cotton cloth placed on the sieve. Wash the accumulated curdled milk with 1 liter of cold water. you can do this by simply placing the sieve beneath the running water from the tap. 
• Now carefully remove the cotton cloth squeezing out water from the curdled milk. you can twist the cloth to squeeze out water from the milk.
• Once the milk is dry place it in a mixer grinder jar. Give a little jerk, mix well and then jerk again....until all the nodules turn into smooth batter . Do not churn it too much.
• Now place the milk batter out of the mixer jar and spread it on the plate. Touch it if its too sticky place it inside the freezer for 5 to 10 minutes. Take out , now knead this with your hand for 5 minutes. Next make small balls out of it. Remember once you place them in sugar syrup their size will become double.
• To prepare a sugar syrup we add the water and sugar in a pressure cooker or in a vessel in which we can entrap steam once we close its Lid.
• Now we place the vessel on heat until sugar dissolves and water comes to boil.
• Next place the balls inside the sugar syrup, cover the cookers lid and remove the whistle. Let this cook in low heat for 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes, turn off the heat. Let this sit for 10 to 20 minutes.
• Once cool check out your super spongy , mouth watering rosgullas. Add the cardamom powder and serve.

Happy Rakshabandhan .....enjoy your Rosgullas....

By- Sushmita Pandit.

Nariyal k ladoo(Coconut ladoo)- 2 Min recipe

Nariyal k ladoo are favourite ladoos of so many people. What if i let you know a quick Nariyal ladoo recipe. I found this recipe on food food by Rakesh Sethi. The way he explained this recipe and with so much humor. I am really impressed with his presentation.
Without wasting any time, let me take you straight to the recipe.

Yields- 10 medium size ladoos
Preparation time- 10 minutes
No cooking required

Ingredients:

• Dry Grated coconut or - 1 cup
• Milk powder- 3/4 cup
• Sugar- 3 Tbsp or as per taste
• Milk- 1/2 cup Luke warm
• Cardamom powder- 1/2 Tsp or crushed green cardamom- 5 to 6 pods
• Pistachios crushed for garnishing
• Saffron for Garnishing

Direction:

• Bring together coconut, Milk powder, sugar and cardamom powder. Mix well.
• Now add milk little by little just to make the mixture moist such that it can be combined together in a 1/2 inch ball.
• Prepare 1/2 inch ball out of the mixture.
• Garnish your ladoos with saffron and pistachios.

And your ladoos are ready to be served. Serve them immediately and the leftovers can be stored in refrigerator . Enjoy and happy cooking :-)

By- Sushmita pandit.

Kheer(Milk rice ) Milch reis

Kheer is the most loved dish in India. It is often prepared during celebrations, poojas, wedding and any other special occasion. On birthdays Preparation of kheer is compulasory in my family.
However since my husband and my son love it i like preparing it often.
I was in supermarket and found a packet of rice called as milch reis. I got that this rice is special and can be used with milk. This was small flat broad rice unlike the usual one that we use for preparing the rice. To my surprise this rice tasted awesome in milk.
I am sure you will love this kheer recipe.

Gajar Ka Halwa(Carrot sweet delight) - Mothers Day special

Happy Mothers Day to everyone. This is my mother and mother-in-laws favorite sweet dish. I dedicate this recipe to both my mother. Its a very famous sweet dish of India. Enjoy .

Whole Wheat Banana & Raisin's Pancake - Healthy Breakfast Recipe Series

Pancakes are said to be healthy when they are prepared with whole wheat flour. This is a quick ,filling and healthy breakfast dish. You can prepare it in the go. Raisin and banana add lots of flavor to this pan cake. Wheat provides iron and calcium to your body whereas banana and raisins provides with vitamin C. Let 's take a look at this recipe.

Oat meal Porridge-Healthy Breakfast Recipe Series

Oats are full of high energy, carbohydrates and fiber. It has low fat content and high protein content. Here we see that oats are highly nutritious cereal . It would be wonderful if we start our day with it. Here i have come up with a oat porridge recipe that is very simple yet delicious in taste. 

Milk,fruits and corn flakes -Healthy Breakfast Recipe Series

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day as the body receives the first dose of food and water after 8 hours. It has a great impact on your day since the kind of breakfast you take decides the kind of meal you are going to have for the whole day. People taking regular breakfast tends to be less obese

and less diabetic as compared to people who skip their breakfast. In addition it keeps your stomach full and doesn't often makes you hungry, thus boosting your concentration and health.

Am on a mission to bring some extremely healthy and nutritious breakfast recipe, so that you can start your day with some quality food. To accomplish this mission i will be posting a series of breakfast recipe in this month. I have come up with this task for myself as i know many of my friends at present are skipping their breakfast and running for their work without chewing a single bit of food in the morning. I want to present this recipes to all of you with a hope to save you all from skipping your daily breakfast "The essential meal of the day".

Morning cake, The Tutti Fruitti Cake

At times am extremely lazy in the morning and often end up skipping my breakfast. Sometimes i even do not fill like boiling milk or egg , these are times when i just want to relax and would not leave my couch at any cost. For such occasion i crave for a slice of cake. Oh gosh! i love cake and nothing can give a better start to a lazy morning than a fruit cake. Further, this cake always has a better chance to switch your lazy overly relaxed morning into so called Yactive Day!!!.

In India i always used to have the Packed cake, like Britania Marie Cake which came into variety of flavors. Since the time i left India i have been missing my type of Cake :-( Until recently when i discovered that i can bake one myself. :-) Tidddinggg . 

I have baked a large cake to keep a check on my breakfast.I just do not want it to go void any more. Here's sharing you the recipe of the Tutty fruity cake.

Yield - Cake of 2 Pound or more
Preparation- 30 minutes
Cooking time- 20 to 25 minutes.
Level of difficulty- Medium

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour- 225 gms
• Sugar- 250 gms
• Butter- 250 gms
• Eggs- 5
• Vanilla essence- 2 Tsp
• Baking powder- 1 Tsp
• Baking soda- 1 Tsp
• Salt- 1/2 tsp
• Tutty fruity- 1/2 cup

Preparation:

• Sieve flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• In a mixing bowl, bring together butter and sugar, whip until a smooth paste appears.
• Add eggs one by one and whip the mixture with each addition.
• Add the vanilla essence and salt.
• Now incorporate the flour little by little in the batter and blend until a smooth dough is formed.
• If you find your dough to be too tight loosen it by adding 1 to 2 tablespoon of milk in it.
• Add half the amount of tuty fruity in the batter. Give it a fold once.

Preheat your oven  at 180 Degree

Line your baking tray with parchment paper or butter paper

Fill the baking tray only to 2/3rd of its height. You can transfer the rest of the batter into another baking tray. On the top of the Batter sprinkle the remaining tutty fruity.

Now bake your cake at 160 degree C for 20 to 25 minutes. After 20 minutes of Baking you can check your cake if it is done by inserting a tooth pick, if it comes out clean, your cake is ready. Take out and let it cool on the wire racks.

Slice and enjoy the tuty fruity Cake. :-)

Inspired from the Recipe of Sanjeev Kapoor khana khazana cook books.

By- Sushmita Pandit

Mango Lassi

Waiting for Summer, No worries its almost approaching. You might have several plans to quench your thirst. Well, i had planned for having Mango Lassi , since summer is the season of fresh ripen mango, it would be an amazing Beverage to overcome high temperature. In India summer is the time when the Mango trees are all cladded with mouth watering mangoes. So people have found out several ways to Kill heat using Mangoes. they simply BBQ the raw mango and then make a hot drink with it which to ,much of our surprise keeps the body hydrated and cool. In my next post i will share with you the raw mango drink.
Well Mango lassi is quite easy in preparation and it also helps in digestion. Here's my Recipe of Mango Lassi. Hope u like it.

Serves: 4
Preparation Time :10-15 Minutes

Ingredients:

• Mango Pulp- 500 gram
• Yogurt/Curd- 500 gram
• Sugar- As per taste
• Milk(cold)- 200ml
• Dry fruits- For garnishing

Preparation:

• Bring together Milk and yogurt into a jar, Blend it with a blender, or if you don't have a blender you can churn it into a mixer grinder, or in a food processor .
• Once Milk and yogurt are churned well, add the mango pulp and churn again until you achieve a consistent liquid(Lassi).
• At this point of time , taste the Lassi, if you want it to be more sweet add sugar as per required and churn again until sugar gets dissolve in the Lassi.
• Your lassi is almost done, you can refrigerate it if you want it to be cold.
• Once done pour the lassi in a glass.
• Garnish the lassi with some dry fruits and enjoy!!!!

Your Mango Lassi is now ready to be served, Serve it cold...Enjoy

and happy cooking :-)

By -Sushmita pandit

Shrikhand Delight, The 2 Minute Recipe

Shrikhand delight, a delicacy of Maharastra(India) is an eye soothing and mouth watering Dish. This sweet dish is prepared by incorporating so many dry fruits. Its my husband's favorite dessert. The recipe that am demonstrating here is a very simple one. You can always customize this recipe the way you wish.

Preparation- 5 minutes

Serves- 2

Shrikhand

Ingredients:

                                    

• Hung Curd/ Strained yogurt- 250 gms . The one i used is the Ready made hung curd called as speise quark (Readily available in Germany).

• Cardamom- 1 Tsp, Crushed
• Sugar- 2 Tbsp
• Saffron strings- 1/2 Tsp
• Water- 1 Tbsp 
• Cashewnuts - 8 nuts, chopped.

Preparation:

• Hung curd or strained yogurt are easily available in the market these days. In case you wish to prepare it at home, you can simply strain the curd over a muslin curd, and leave it overnight to thicken under refrigeration .
• To the hung curd, add the sugar , crushed Cardamom and give it a gentle blend with a spoon.

• Now add the saffron string to the water, and you can gently crush this in a mortar.

• Add the crushed saffron along with the water to the curd. Mix well .

• For garnishing you can add cashew nuts to this or any dry fruit of your choice.

The Shrikhand delight is ready to be served, serve it cold or mild cold, it tastes awesome anyways.

Enjoy and keep cooking :)

By- Sushmita Pandit

Til K Ladoo (Sesame Sweet savory)

Wishing everyone a very Happy and prosperous Makarsankranti and Happy Lohri. 14th of January in India is a day where whole India celebrates sankranti in inumerable ways. In Punjab people celebrate Lohri, in east India as makar sankranti , in south India as pongal and in Gujrat the whole sky is filled with kites :-).
On this very day people do eat varity of dishes made with the Sesame seed. One of the most popular dish is the Til k ladoo. In this post i will be detailing the recipe. Its sweet and mouth watering dish.

Ingredients:

• Sesame seed - 200gms
• Jaggery - 125gms
• Water- 90 ml

Preparation:

• Roast the sesame seed until they turn crispy and light brown in color.
• Once roasted cool them off.
• Heat one kadai, switch to medium flame, add water and jaggery.

• Keep on stirring until the jaggery melts and a syrup kind of solution appears.
• To check weather right consistency of syrup is achieved or not , we can do a water test. Take water in a bowl. To this add one drop of syrup with the help of spatula. if it spreads in water we have to wait for little more. Once the drops settles at the bottom, rub it between your fingers if u find it sticky and also string like ....that's it ... u have reached to the right consistency of syrup.

•  Immediately turn off the heat or take the kadai off the heat. Add the roasted sesame seed. mix well.
• Now grease your palms with water and make small rolls while the mixture is still warm or little more than warm. Be careful dont burn your hand.

voila! Ladoo is ready to be served :-)

Let the balls cool off. store them in an airtight jar or box. This will last for atleast a month.

Happy cooking and wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous Makarsankranti :-)

Lukin forward to take a dip in the Rhine...only if it is not Frozen :D

By: Sushmita Pandit

Jalebi

Happy Deepawali to all.
Make jalebis today and celebrate this Deepawali .
Such is the power of Jalebi. watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8Z0WbSWV0&feature=colike just love it. Finger Licking, Mouth Watering Garma Garam Jalebiyaan....Whola. As soon as i hear the name jalebi , i start Craving for it.

So i prepared the batter and have kept in refrigerator ,Next time whenever i feel like having it i can prepare it in no time.

For perfect shape, Try preparing jalebi often :-)

Ingredients: Batter

• 1/2 cup of all Purpose flour
• oil- 1 tsp
• Sugar- 1 tsp
• 1 Tbsp yeast , activated in 2 Tbsp of lukewarm water
• luke warm water

Sugar syrup:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water

Frying and shaping:

• plastic cone bottle or any cone
• Oil for frying

Preparation:

Batter preparation-

mix all the ingredients by adding little amount of luke warm water unless paste kind of consistency is reached.

Let the mixture rise for atleast 30 min to 1 hour

Syrup preparation:

mix the sugar and water , heat until it becomes little thick, keep the heat at low

jalebi Preparation:

once the batter is ready, put the batter in the cone and adjust the nozzle size.

Heat oil in a skillet for deep frying, keep the heat at medium.

make swirling round shapes and fry until golden brown in color

Take out jalebis and put them in warm syrup for like 10 seconds and take them out.

Jalebi is ready to be served : serve it hot and enjoy Deepawali, it tastes awesome :-)

Enjoy and Happy cooking .
By: Sushmita Pandit

Coconut Ladoo (Nariyal K Ladoo)

Coconut ladoo ,one was never enough for me. People in my area are too good in the preparation of this sweet dish. Sweetness and the taste of coconut that melts in your mouth with each bite, its a mouth watering dish. One of my Bengoli neighbor always made it awesome. I know many of you like me like this sweet , you can sometimes try it out by yourself. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
Coconut(grated) - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1cup
Cardamom - 3 pieces (seeds only)
Saffron - Pinch of
Pistachios - 3 to 4 crushed

Method:

• Heat one pan and add the crushed coconut to the pan
• Fry it for while
• Now add the milk to the grated coconut
• Keep on stirring in low flame
• Now add the sugar to it
• Keep on stirring unless the mixture becomes thick enough so that you can bind it into small balls.
• Once the mixture becomes dry and milk seems to disappear turn off the heat
• Allow this to cool for next 5 to 10 min
• Now add the cardamom
• Now make out small balls with the help of your palms
• Garnish each with saffron and pistachios

Your dish is ready to be Served

Enjoy

Happy Cooking :-)

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By: Sushmita Pandit

Gulab Jamun

Hii, in this post we will learn how to make gulab jamun. This is a sweet dish and people in india love it like anything.

Ingredients:

• Milk powder- 100 gm
• Backing soda - (pinch of )  
• Paneer  (fresh paneer preferably made up of cow milk ) - 125 gms
• All purpose floor (maida) - 2 1/2 tsp
• Cardamom 

Sugar syrup:

• Two cups of sugar
• Two cups of water

• oil for frying

Method:

• Take all the ingredients in one bowl and mix them well such that the dough is neither too tight nor too soft.Leave the dough for 15mins. 
• Now make balls out of this dough.
• Deep fry them until they turn golden in colour maintain medium to low heat.
• Now make sugar syrup by adding sugar to boiling water. Add the crushed cardmom seeds into the syrup. once the mixture thickens add the balls into the syrup. 
• Your gulab jamun is ready to serve.

Enjoy

Happy cooking :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit

Apple Halwa

Hii,
in this post we will learn how to make apple halwa. Its a sweet dish and can be served as desert.

Ingredients:
Apple - 2 medium size
Milk - 3 cups
Sugar - 3 tsp
Dry fruits - 1/2 cup

Methods:

• grate the apple.
• Boil the milk
• In the boiling milk add the grated apple.
• keep on stirring the mixture unless the milk thickens
• once the milk thickens and apple gets cooked add the sugar
• Now add all the dry fruits
• Turn off the heat
• Allow it to cool Or u can also serve it Hot. Choice is Yours.

Happy cooking

Enjoy :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit