Tres Leches

      I couldn't believe myself that this is my 100th post. Looks like that's a long travel of learning, cooking and it feels great to look back. Tres Leches : Tres Leches, I would say is Queen of cakes. One of the yummy cake I have had. Very simple to make too. Ingredients : Eggs - 4 All purpose flour - 2 and 1/4 cup Sugar - 1.5 cup Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Baking powder - 1.5 tsp Salt - 3/4 tsp Cold water - 3/4 cup For...

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Prawn fry

Ingredients : Prawn - 1 lb Onion - 1 medium size Tomato - 2 small Ginger garlic paste - 4 tsp Chili powder - 2 tsp Coriander powder - 2 tsp Salt to taste Oil - 2 Tbsp Curry leaves - few To marinate :  Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Chilli powder - 1 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Salt to marinate Method : 1. Clean  and de-vein the prawn. 2. Marinate with the ingredients under marinate section and let it sit for few hours. 3. In...

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Watermelon mint juice

Watermelon mint juice Refreshing drink that's best for this summer. Ingredients Watermelon - 3 cup Ginger - 1 inch Mint leaves - leaves from 3 stemsSalt to tasteBlack pepper powder - 1/2 tspHoney - 3 tsp or to taste Method : 1. Cut watermelon into pieces. 2. Blend ginger, mint, honey, pepper in a blender. 3. Add water melon and blend well. 4. Strain it and add some ice cubes. 5. Chill it in fridge and it's ready to have. It is such...

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Veg kurma

Ingredients : Chilli - 3 Garlic - 5 pods Ginger - a thumb size Onion - 1 medium Tomato - 1 big Cloves - 3 Cinnamon - 1 inch Fennel seeds -1/4 tsp Carrot - 1 big Peas 1/2 cup( if dried peas, soak and cook it ) Potato - 2 Beans - 10 Cocunut - 3/4 cup Poppy seeds - 1 tsp Step 1 To fry and grind : Onion -  little less than 1/2 Tomato - little less than half 1.  In a pan, add oil and when it is hot, add fennel seeds, cloves, cinnamon, green...

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Veg biryani

Ingredients : Onion - 1 medium Tomato - 1 big Garlic - 5 Ginger 2 inch Green chilli - 2 Cloves - 3 Cinnamon - 1 inch Bay leaves - 3 Fennel seeds - 1 tsp Vegetables- 2 cup Mint - 15 Springs Corainder 15 springs Rice - 1.5 cup Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp Corainder powder - 2 tsp Biryani powder - 1 tsp Lemon juice - from half lemon Salt to taste Oil - 5 Tbsp Ghee - 2 Tbsp To grind : Onion - 1/4 Tomato - 1/4 Garlic - 5 Ginger 2 inch Green chilli - 2 Cloves...

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Pani in pani puri

Pani puri : Keep yourself cool this summer. Flavored mint water is great to keep yourself cool. One of my favorite snack in recent times. Ingredients : Mint leaves - 1.5 cup Corainder leaves - 1/2 cup Roasted cumin powder - 1 tsp Hing - 1/8 tsp Black salt - 1/2 tsp Ginger powder - 1/4 tsp Sugar - 5 tsp Lemon - juice from half lemon Green chilli - 3 Tamarind - lemon size ball Salt to taste Water 8 cup Method : 1. Grind mint, corainder leaves,...

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Tamarind chutney

Ingredients : Tamarind - 3 lemon size Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Jaggery - 1/2 cup Chilli powder -1 tsp Dry ginger powder -1/2 tsp Salt to taste Method : 1.  Soak tamarind in hot water and take juice from it. 2. Dry fry fennel  and cumin seeds and grind it to a fine powder. 3. In a pan add tamarind juice and bring it to boil. 4. When the juice starts boiling, add jaggery. 5. Let it boil. When the mixture is reduced...

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Date Nut Balls

Date Nut Balls I have been surfing for healthy snack and I loved this recipe. Dates and nuts are so essential that it needs to be consumed everyday. Putting together to make a snack was a great idea. Definitely a healthy snack. Ingredients : Almonds - 1 cup Cashews - 1 cup Walnuts - 2/3 cup Dates - 15 ( I used medjool dates ) Ghee - 1 tsp ( optional , I didn't use it ) Method : 1. Dry roast all the nuts separetly . 2. Take out the seeds...

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Coriander chicken

Ingredients:                                1. chicken - 1 lb 2. coriander leaves - leaves from around 25 stems 3. Few curry leaves  - (about 15) 4. green chillies -  4 or to taste 5.  poppy seeds - 2 tsp 6. cashew nuts  - 15 whole cashews 7. coriander powder - 2 tsp 8....

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Strawberry icecream

Ingredients : Strawberry - 3/4 cup purée Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp Heavy whipping cream - 1 and 1/2 cup Condensed milk - 14 oz Red color as required Method : 1. Purée strawberry  and add condensed milk. 2. Add vanilla extract and red color and mix and put it in fridge for an hour. 3. Put the bowl and whisk attachment in the freezer. 4. Have heavy whipping cream in fridge. 5. After few hours, mix whipping cream and mixture from step...

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Methi paratha

There are two ways to do this paratha. One with stuffing and another is mixing it in the flour.      I prefer mixing it with the flour as you saute the leaves, the mixture reduces in size so much.      You would need lot of filling for on paratha and it will be too strong in taste.      So Iam mixing it in the flour and making parathas. Ingredients : Methi - 1 cup Wheat flour - 1.5 cup Ginger garlic...

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Strawberry lassi

Strawberry lassi : Let's beat the heat ....Summer is almost here and we need something to keep ourselves cool. Planning to post more summer friendly food. Ingredients : Strawberry - 4 or to taste Yogurt - 1/2 cup Milk 1/2 cup Sugar - 2 tsp or to taste Salt a pinch Method : 1. Blend strawberry, yogurt, milk, sugar and salt. Keep it in the refrigerator for few hours and serve chilli  Thats it ... A healthy Lassi is ready. Enjoy the joy of...

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Schezwan Veg fried rice

Ingredients : Rice - 1 cup Cabbage - 1 cup Carrot - 1/2 cup Capsicum / beans - 1/2 cup Spring onion - 5 stalk Schezwan sauce - 4 Tbsp or to taste Ginger - 1 inch finely chopped Garlic - 3 pods finely chopped Salt to taste Oil - 2 Tbsp Method : 1. Cook rice . I used basmati rice. Let it cool. It should be cooked and rice should be separate. 2. Chop all the vegetables. 3. In a wide pan or wok add oil. When it is hot, add ginger, garlic...

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Beetroot halwa

I can't believe that today (May 2 nd) is my 10th wedding anniversary. I am very very glad that I have supporting husband  to accompany my life. Even though there were lots of ups and down to begin with our life, after 10 years I am glad that I have a right person with me.  Even though we have lots of differences we have learnt how to respect each other views.  To make our life even more meaningful we have two great gifts, our kids....

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