Delicious Pongal Made of Barley

Try this delicious pongal made of Barley. Barley along with yellow moongdal when cooked in condensed milk, omg watt a tasty and healthy sweet pongal, the result was extremely.

Ingredients:

1/2cup Whole barley
1/2cup Yellow moongdal
1/2cup Sweetened condensed milk
1/2tsp Cardamom powder
1tbsp Ghee
Roasted cashew nuts

Procedure:

Pressure cooks both barley and moongdal together with 3cups of water unto 3 whistles. Once the pressure released, add the sweetened condensed milk to the cooked barley-dal mixture along with the cooked water, cook everything in a vessel until the sweet pongal get thickens, finally add the cardamom powder, ghee and roasted cashew nuts to the pongal...

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Spicy Paneer made of Chillies

Ingredients:

1. Paneer -10 cubes

2. Red Pepper -3

3. Spring onions- 1 bunch (optional)

4. Onion – 1 (Big size)

5. Corn flour – 1/4 cup

6. Soya sauce – 1tsp

7. Salt – as required

8. Garlic – 2 pods

9. Green chillies -2

10. Ginger garlic paste -1/4tsp

11. Sweet and hot Tomato paste - 1tsp

12. Oil – 2 tsp

13. Chopped Coriander leaves for garnish

Method:

• To corn flour include salt, ginger garlic paste and roll the paneer cubes in this mix up.
• Stir fry the paneer cubes rolled in the flour in a pan by adding up 1 tsp of oil.
• Fry the cubes till they are light brown in colour on all sides and keep aside.
• In a deep fry saucepan, add 2 tsp of oil. To this add chopped onions and fry till they are transparent.
• Later add chopped garlic, peppers, spring onions, and green chillies, salt and fry them till they are just cooked correct.
• To this add tomato paste, Soya sauce and mix up well.
• Lastly add the paneer pieces, adjust salt, mix well and serve hot.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
• This can be had like an starter or a snack.

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Tasty Tawa Chicken Recipe

Tawa Chicken

Check the shortest & easiest way to prepare Tawa Chicken.

Ingredients:

• 10 Chicken drumsticks (skinless drumsticks)
• 8 cloves Garlic
• 2 table spoons. Lime juice
• 3 table spoons. Red Chili Powder
• 2 table spoons. Coriander powder
• 4 table spoons. Spice mix for Tandoori
• 4 table spoons. All spice powder
• 2 table spoons. Butter
• Cilantro for garnishing
• Salt to taste

Method:

Wash chicken and trim all fat.

Make small incision in the chicken pieces.

Now take all the spices except butter and coriander leaves and combine them with chicken.

Keep it aside for 2 to 3 hours for marinating.

Heat some butter in a non stick pan and fry 2 to 3 chicken pieces at a time.

Keep stirring occasionally till the chicken is tender.

After all the chicken is done, take coriander leaves and fry them slightly in very little butter.

Decorate the chicken pieces with this sauce and serve as a side dish or starter.

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Recipe for Halwa Made of Badam

Recipe of a Delicious Sweet Especially for winter

Winter is not always about tearing from beginning to end the non-vegetarian delights or peppery food. In fact, there are no alternatives for some hot sugary dishes in winter. They are appealingly tasty and healthy too. Let us try our hands to prepare such dishes through the recipe specified below.

Halwa Made of Badam

This sweet dish has rich ingredients and you need to take a restricted quantity else it becomes too hot to handle for your stomach. Regularly, people in North Indian cities consume it on regular basis. Consuming it in the morning keeps you warm all through the day. Cooking this dish merely takes 15 -20 minutes but the taste can leave you satisfied for hours.

Ingredients

• Almonds soaked overnight (2 Cups)
• Milk (1 ½ Cups)
• Sugar (16 table spoons)
• Cardamom (Elaichi) powder (1 tea spoon)
• Ghee (12 table spoons)

For Garnishing

Peeled and sliced almonds (8-12 pcs)

Cooking procedure

• Take out the soaked almonds and pour 1-2 cups of boiling water. Leave the mix for 5-8 minutes.
• Take out the water (drain the almonds) and peel the outer skins.
• Add 5 tbsp milk and make a purée viz. smooth paste by grinding the mixture.
• Heat ghee in a non-stick cookware on slow flame and add the purée. Regularly stir the mixture for 15 minutes or till the mixture appears golden-brownish.
• Pour the remaining milk (it should be boiled) in the mix and cook for 5 minutes on slow flame.
• You can now add sugar and the cardamom powder and keep on stirring till the crystals of sugar are completely dissolved.
• Serve it hot with the complete garnishes.

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Delicious Potato Kesari Recipe

On an auspicious festive day of Vijayadashami the sweet dish that we make is Potato Kesari. It is easy to prepare and has tasty, rich, delicious like taste.

Ingredients :-

• • 1 Cup - Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons - Butter or Ghee
  • 5-6 Cardamom pods - finely powdered
  • 2 tablespoons Golden Raisins
  • 2 tablespoons Almonds - coarsely ground
  • 2 Pinches - Saffron
  • 2 Cups heaped - boiled and finely mashed Potato.

Preparation method for Potato Kesari :-

1. Boil 2 small size potatoes. Remove skin and grate them on cheese grater to get finely mashed fluffy, lump free texture. Measure two heaped cups of mashed potato and keep it sideways.
2. Heat heavy bottom pot. Melt 3 tablespoons of butter - add mashed potatoes and two pinches of saffron. Stir with wooden spoon to combine with butter. Maintain medium heat temperature and roast by stirring frequently for about 7-8 minutes.
3. Now add cardamom powder, coarsely ground almond, raisins for another 2-3 minutes. At this stage you will notice little excess glaze of Ghee over potato and as you stir with wooden spoon ...raisins get fried to golden yellow color in the excess ghee. Keep stirring to avoid raisins from burning.
4. Add one cup sugar and mix well. Kesari consistency will turn runny. Keep stirring with wooden spoon for about 3-4 minutes or until Kesari consistency sets thicker.
5. Reduce heat to low and let Kesari cook for another 4-5 minutes. Keep stirring..you will notice shiny golden glaze and nice soft texture. Shut off the heat and let it rest on stove uncovered for 7-8 minutes. Enjoy this Kesari warm.
6. 

Note: - Next day potato Kesari turns little dry and forms thick texture. Add little water and reheat to get soft texture.

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