Sunday, December 25, 2011

Sweet Potato Basundi

Ingredients
Sweet Potato - 1/4 KG
Milk - 6 Cups
Elachi Powder
Sugar - 1 Cup
Cashew Pieces - 3 Spoons
Badam Powder - 2 Spoons


Method

Remove the skin of the sweet potato and grate them. Boil the milk till it becomes 4 cups. Add grated sweet potato, sugar, elachi powder, badam powder and boil it till it becomes thick. Add cashew pieces.


Source - Sudha Magazine




Thursday, November 11, 2010

Thepla (Gujarathi Special)

Ingredients
Wheat Flour - 3/4
CupBesan - 1/4
CupMethi leaves - 1 bunch(medium sized bunch)
Grated Jaggery - 3 Spoons
Tamarind Juice - 3 Spoons
Green Chilli - 4
Garlic - 3 cloves
Aniseed(Somp) - 1 Spoon
Jeera - 1 Spoon
Oil - 5 Spoons
Salt to taste
Method
Grind green chillies and garlic into paste. Chop and grind the methi leaves. Mix wheat floor, besan, grinded chilly-garlic paste, grinded methi leaves, jaggery, tamarind juice,aniseed, jeera and salt. Mix well and prepare dough(similar to Chapati). Add 2-3 spoons oil and mix well again.
Now take the dough and prepare like chapathi and cook on tawa with oil. Yummy thepla is ready.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Ladies Finger Paldya

Ingredients
Ladies finger - 1/2 KG
Methi - 2 spoons
Red chillies - 10
Grated coconut - 1/2 Cup
Tamarind syrup - 2 spoons
Salt and Jaggry to taste
Curd/butter milk - 1/2 cup
Method
Cook the ladies finger along with water, salt and tamarind for about 20 mins. Fry redchillies and Methi with little oil. Grind fried red chillies, methi and coconut in a mixer. Add this mix to the cooked ladies finger and boil it for 5 mins. Now add curd and boil it for another 2 mins. It tastes excellent. Easy to prepre and tastes different from regular sambar.