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COOKING TIPS & QUICK RECIPES

Mango Pickle

Green Chilli Pickle

Mixed Pickle

AWADHI DAHI ALOO

Ingredients- (Mix Together) -

500 gm Potatoes Boiled, Peeled and Cut

1 cup Dahi, Beaten till Smooth

1 tbsp Nita Mehta Besan

2 Onions- Sliced thinly and fried golden brown (Biryani wale brown onions)

1 tbsp Mustard Oil

1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste

½ tsp each – Nita Mehta Haldi, Salt, Lal Mirch, Coriander Powder

¼ cup each - Fresh Mint and Coriander

METHOD -

1. Mix aloo with dahi and keep aside for 30 min.

2. ?Heat 2 tbsp oil. Add khade masala and then 2 onions sliced. Cook till light golden.

3. Add marinated aloo and sauté for 15 min till oil separates.

4. Add enough water to make masala gravy. Add some garam masala and cover simmered for 10 min or till oil separates.

CHATAPATE MIRCH KAJU

CHATAPATE MIRCH KAJU..

Ingredients -

1 cup Cashews

½ tsp Nita Mehta Red Chili Powder

¼ tsp Nita Mehta Black Salt

¼ tsp Amchur

1 tsp Oil

Method: -

1. Sprinkle oil on cashews and add all masalas. Rub well to coat.

2. Air fry at 160°C for about 12-15 min or till golden and roasted.

3. Transfer to a plate to cool and become crisp.

Shortcut to Elaborate Gatte ki Subzi

No need to boil Gatta separately and then add to curry. Make Gatta and flatten pieces slightly and put in boiling curry . Cook them covered in the curry for 10-15 min and they are ready to be on table.

For Gatta Ingredients

1 cup Besan

1 tbsp Oil

1/2 tsp Salt, Nita Mehta Red Chili Powder & Haldi

2 tbsp Dahi

1/4 tsp Mitha Soda

Pinch Ajwain

1 tbsp Nita Mehta Kasoori Methi

Mix all and make a soft dough with 2 -3 tbsp warm water. Keep aside.

Curry Ingredients...

3 tbsp Oil

Pinch Nita Mehta Super Strong Hing

1/2 tsp Nita Mehta Jeera

2 Onions finely chopped

1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste

Paste of 2 tomatoes

Mix Together..

1 cup Dahi

1 tsp Besan

2 tsp Coriander Powder

1/2 tsp Nita Mehta Red Chili Powder & Haldi

Beetroot Spinach Chillah Dosa

Delicious breakfast with the goodness of beetroot and spinach

PANOFFEE KHEER

A WESTERN TWIST TO OUR TRADITIONAL KHEER

Recipe....

1 tin (condensed milk) - put tin in a pressure cooker and cover with water. Pressure cook to give one whistle and then keep on low heat for 30 min. Remove carefully from hot water.

2 kg full cream milk

300 gm paneer - grated

1 tbsp cornflour - dissolved in 1/4 cup milk

Almonds pista to decorate

Method.....

1. Cook milk on low medium heat for 20 min to thicken

2. Remove from fire. Add caramelised condensed milk and paneer. Cook for 5 min.

3. Add cornflour and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

4. Pour in mitti ke kasoore and decorate with nuts. Chill.

Tarbooz ki Sabzi

1. Cut tarbooz into slices. Grind upper red part with a little ginger and green chilli and strain to remove seeds.
2. Peel white part with a little red and cut into flat pieces. Sauté in some oil with salt and jeera powder.
3. For gravy, heat oil and add jeera. Add 1 tbsp vrat ka atta and sauté for a minute.
4. Add juice of tarbooz and cook for 5 min.
5. Add salt jeera pd and sautéed tarbooz pieces and cook covered for 5 min

A delicious twist to Jeera Aloo - ALOO ANARDANA

Aloo Anardana … Oh so tempting!! Anardana Imparts a khatta meetha taste and is also very good for digestion…remember the Anardana goli churan. ??

Aloo Anardana
4 potatoes - peeled and diced
2 tbso oil
1/2 tsp jeera
2 pinch hung
Switch off flame
1/4 tsp haldi
1/2 tsp red chilli pd
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp coriander pd
Add potatoes and return to medium heat . Bhuno for 5 min
Add some mint or coriander leaves. Cover and cook till tender
Remove from fire and add 2 tbsp Anardana powder and 1/2 tsp garam masala. Put a sprinkle of water. Mix well. serve

Dates & Jalapeno Paneer Tikka

Recipe -

200 GM paneer
MARINADE
11/2 cup hung yogurt
1 tbsp sarson ka tel with 1/2 tsp Kashmiri mirch pd
1 tbsp kasoori methi
1 tbsp lightly roasted besan
1 tbsp grated processed cheese (cheddar cheese)
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
Black salt & garam masala to taste
FILLING
4 soft dates - fine chop
4 slices jalapeño- fine chop
1 tbsp cheese
Salt pepper to taste

Cut paneer into pieces and slit for filling or you can separate the pice into two thin pieces

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When short of time and u want a change from dal makhani … make this dal tadka
Wash 1 katori Arhar and 1/2 katori dhuli masoor 2 or 3 times and put in a pressure cooker with 5 katori water .
2. Add 1 tomato chopped, 1 tbsp ginger chopped, 6 garlic flakes, few curry leaves and coriander leaves.
3. Add 1/4 tsp haldi and salt to taste.
4. Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Remove from fire.
5. For Tadka , heat 3 tbsp oil and add 1/2 tsp jeera . Add 2 tbsp kasoori methi and reduce heat. Stir for a minute.
6. Add 1/2 tsp dhaniya powder, 1 tsp kutti lal mirch and give it a stir and pour over cooked dal .
7.Add some garam masala and a pinch of amchoor. Mash hot dal slightly. Enjoy

MOUTH MELTING DAHI KEBABS

3 cups (500 gm) Dahi- Hang for at least 4 hours and squeeze well
200 gm paneer- finely grated and mashed
1/2 cup milk powder
MIX WELL.
2 tbsp each- fine chopped coriander and yellow capsicum and fried kaju
1 tbsp kishmish chopped
1 tsp finely chopped ginger
1/2 tsp chat masala
1/2 tsp jeera powder
1/4 tsp Elaichi powder
Salt to taste
ADD ALL. MIX. REFRIGERATE MIXTURE FOR 1 HOUR TO BECOME FIRM.
Make kebabs and roll over dry bread crumbs.
Refrigerate again for sometime before frying.
Pan fry in a 4 or 5 tbsp oil till golden.

Smoked Cinnamon Ice Tea!!!!

Smoked cinnamon ice tea
1. Boil 3 cups water with 2 slices ginger and a few lemon grass leaves tied into a knot
2. Boil for 3 min.
3.Add 1 tea bag and switch off the flame.
4. Put juice of 1 lemon, 2 tbsp honey.
4.Add a pinch of kala namak to balance flavours.
5. For that smoky flavour burn a dalachini stick holding in a chimta on flame till it it catches fire.
6. Put the burning dalchini in the tea and cover for 5 min.
7. Strain over ice and enjoy!!

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