PuriLaddu

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 kg

Sugar - 3 cups

Ghee - 2 cups

Cardamom - 6 or 7

Cashewnuts - handful

Preparation:
1.Make puri dough with water and wheat flour.
2.Prepare very thin puris or else it will not be crispy
3.Fry these puris in oil till golden brown and crispy.
4.Crush these puris with hand as far as possible.
5.Grind the crushed puris in a blender into very fine powder.
6.Grind sugar into fine powder along with cardamom.
7.In a large pan add ghee and fry cashew nuts till golden brown.
8.Now mix very well puri powder, sugar and ghee with cashew nuts and proceed making laddus.
9.Stays fresh for a week or so when refrigerated

Carrot Halwa

Ingredients:

Carrot grated – 2 cups

Ghee - 2-3 tbs

Sugar – 1-1/2 cups

Cardamom – 2 no.s
Milk – 2 cups

Cashewnuts – 10 no.s

Raisins – 8 no.s

Preparation:

1.Heat ghee in a pan. Add sugar, cardamom. Keep stirring it until sugar melts.

2.Once sugar gets melted , add grated carrot.

3.Stir well for about 5 min then add Milk.

4.Let it cook for 20 min on low flame.

6.Garnish with fried (in ghee) cashew nuts, raisins.

7.Serve this hot or cold.

Spicy Chicken Biryani

Ingredients:

Chicken - 4 to 6 Leg Pieces

Basmati Rice - 2 Cups

Onion - 1

Green Chillies - 6

Ginger Garlic Paste - 3 tbl spoons

Garam Masala - 1 tbl spoon

Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tbl spoon

Turmeric Powder - Pinch

Salt - to taste

Curd - 1 cup

Cinnamonstick - 2

Cloves - 4

Cardamon - 3

Biryani Leaves (Bay Leaves) - 3

Water - 3 Cups

Oil - 5 to 7 tbl spoons

Corinader for garnishing

To Marinate Chicken :

1.Clean and wash chicken leg pieces.

2.Now add red chilli powder, salt - 1/4 tbl spoon, turmeric powder - pinch, garam masala - 1/2 tbl spoon, ginger garlic paste - 1 tbl spoon, curd mix them well and marinate for 30 to 45mins.

Preparation:

1.Take Pan and add 5 to 7 tbl spoons oil and heat it. Now add Cinnamon, Cloves,Cardamon biryani leaves, slicely cut onion, green chillies fry it.

2.Now add ginger garlic paste, garam masala, biryani powder fry it.

3.Add chicken pieces in that fry it until it fried well.

4.Then add basmati rice and mix it well

5.Now add water in rice cooker (for 1 glass of rice add 1 1/2 glass water) and add in that already fried chicken pieces and rice.
(Otherwise Pressure Cook for 1 whistle)

Garnish with coriander leaves..

******Yummy Yummy Chicken Biryani is Ready!!!*****

Mango Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup mango cubes
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped tomato
few mint leaves finely chopped
1/2 tsp olive oil
few drops of lemon juice
salt a pinch

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients together and serve.

Pineapple Juice

Ingredients:
Pineapple peeled and coarsely chopped
Few drops lemon juice
Black pepper little
Salt little
Few mint leaves
Cold water as per requirement

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients together into puree strain and serve immediately.

Vangi Baath (Brinjal Rice)

Ingredients:

Brinjal/egg plant - 200gms

Onion - 2 no.s

Basmati / Long Grain rice - 1 cup

Oil - 100 gms

Channa dal - 2 tsp

Urad dal - 1 tbsp

Curryleaves - 2 Leaves

Asafoetida - 1 tsp

Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp

Redchillies - 4 (dried)

Cooked green peas - 1/4 cup

Garam masala powder

Grated dry coconut - 3tblsp

Whole spices:

Green cardamom - 4

Cloves - 3

Cinnamonstick - 1" piece

Garnishing:

Corianderleaves - 2 tbsp

Peanut - 100gms

Cashewnuts - 1 tblsp

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Lemon - 1 or 2

Preparation:
1. Heat ghee in a kadai and fry both the dals & red chillies till the dal turns light brown.

2. Mix this with dry coconut after removing from stove

3. Powder the spices after cooling it down

4. Dice the brinjals lengthwise into 1 inch pieces & soak it in water

5. Cook rice and allow it to cook. Separate the grains and add a little ghee to it.

6. Chop onions into small pieces & keep it aside

7. Heat oil in a deep frying pan and fry brinjal and onion separately with little salt , drain and keep aside

8. Grind the cardamom,cloves & cinnamon into fine powder

9. Heat oil & fry the seasonings and then add Asafoetida & brinjals & onions

10. Reduce the heat, add cooked rice and fry for sometime and add cooked peas, powdered spices.

11.Remove from fire, add garam masala powder and garnish with fried peanut and cashewnuts and chopped fresh corianderleaves.

12. Squeeze juice of lemon & mix well.

*****For Combination: Yogurt is Excellent for this Recipe*****