Spongy Rasgulla

Rasgulla  Preparation Time : 30 minutes  Cooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients :  Milk - 2 liters  Sugar - 1 cup  Vinegar or lemon juice - 2 table spoon  Method : Boil milk in a pan switch off the gas, put vinegar and stir paneer will separate out. Put paneer in a muslin cloth or sieve, let water drain out. Blend paneer in a blender and take out the blended paneer in a bowl. Put 3 cups of water and 1 cup sugar in a cooker and put the cooker on the gas stove, let the sugar dissolve. Now make small balls using your palm and put paneer balls in the syrup. Pressure cook the paneer...

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Sabudana Khichadi

Preparation Time : 20 minutes Cooking time : 20 minutes  Ingredients :sabudana (sago) - 1 cup  potato - 2 medium size  peanut - 1/2 cup  ghee - 1 tea spoon  green chilly - 2 coriender leaves - chopped (2 tea spoon)  cumin seed - 1/4 tea spoon  lemon juice - 1 tea spoon  Method : Soak sabudana in water rinse twice and put water so that sabudana is covered with water . Leave for at least 4 hours . Slit chillies, boil potatoes , peel and cut into small pieces and keep aside. Roast peanut, grind it coarsely and mix in soaked sabudana . Slit chillies , heat ghee in a kadai put cumin seeds and slit...

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Preparing Kitchen Without Compromising Home Made Taste :Tips For Working Ladies

                  It is very difficult to cook food while both man and woman of the family are working. This often make people to go for fast foods or other ready made options. In other words people have to compromise fresh foods' taste as well as healthy options. I have some tips to prepare your kitchen in the weekend so that you will have easy cooking in week days. Quantity may vary according to your cooking style and family size. I am giving for  two adults family. 1) Onion paste: Peel and cut 2-3 onions , add 10-12 cloves of pealed garlic and 1" of peeled and chopped ginger. If you like add some green or red chillies as well. Grind them to a smooth paste and put it in an air tight box and keep refrigerated....

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Stuffed Capsicum

Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients : Capsicum - 12 medium size  Potatoes - 3 medium size  Green chillies - 2  Onion - 2 medium size  Ginger - 1 inch piece  Cottage Cheese(paneer) - 200 gms Grated cheese - 1/2 cup   Cashews - 10-12 Raisins - 12 - 14 Cumin powder - 1 tea spoon Dry Mango powder - 2 tea spoon  Fresh coriander leaves - few springs Garam Masala powder - 1 table spoon  Oil - 2 table spoon salt - to taste    Method : Wash capsicums , slice it thinly from top and bottom . Remove seeds to make hollow. Wash potatoes and boil it . Peel and mash potatoes...

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Methi Matar Malai

Preparation Time : 15 minutes Cooking Time : 20 minutes Ingredients : makhana - 1 cup  matar (peas) - 1/2 cup  paneer (cottage cheese)- 200 gms. kasuri methi - 2 table spoon khus khus (poppy seeds)-2 table spoon  kaju (cashews) - 50 gms. elaichi (cardamom) - 5-6  lavang (cloves) - 5-6 dalchini (cinamon) - 1 inch bay leafe - 1 tomato puree - 1 table spoon  tomato ketchup - 1 tea spoon  ginger paste - 1/2 tea spoon  green chilly paste - 1/2 tea spoon malai (fresh cream) - 2 table spoon  cooking oil - 1 table spoon sugar - 1/4 spoon  salt to taste  Method : Cut paneer in small pieces and...

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Cole Slaw Greek style

Ingredient Salads 1 head of shredded cabbage or 6cups 1 cup of shredded carrot1/2 cup of sliced radishes1/4 cup chopped pickled hot red peppers1/4 cup chopped sweet dill pickleDressing 1/4 cup mayonnaise 4 tablespoons white vinegar1/4 cup lemon juice3 tablespoons Greek honey Salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste Mix everything together in a large bowl and refrigerate for at least one hour before using. Ad feta cheese at the end .It can be use as delicious salad and can be stored for a week ...

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Pizza Dip

Ingredients Cream cheese - 8ozSour cream - 1/2 cupchopped onion - 1/2 cupGreen pepper - 1/2 cupOregano leaves dry-1tea spMozzerella Chesse - 1/2 cupPizza sauce - 1/2 cupMix all top six ingredients together except Mozerrella cheese and pizza sauce and put it in 9" Pie plate , preferably glass , and bake it for 20 minutes on 350 F . Take out pizza sauce and mozzerella cheese and mix well and bake for few minutes or till cheese is melted .Serve dip with baked crispy bread or crackers !!!Can be used as good snacks...

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Burnt Ginger Rice

Preparation Time : 15 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutesIngredients :rice - 1 cuponion - 1 medium sizefresh coriander leaves - few springs (chopped )spring onion leaves - 1 table spoon (chopped )ginger - 4 one inches pieceoil - 3 table spoontomato sauce - 1/2 table spoonlight soy sauce - 1 table spoonajinomoto - 1/4 tea spoonsalt - to tastevinegar - 1 table spoon Preparation :Clean wash rice and soak it in 5-6 cups of water for an hour . Cook rice in boiling water drain and keep aside .Peel and finely chop onion . Peel wash and thinly slice ginger . Wash coriander leaves and spring onion leaves and chop .Heat oil in a pan or kadai stir fry ginger...

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Lauki(Bottle Gourd) Ka Kheer

Preparation Time : 5 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutesIngredients :bottle gourd - 500 gms.milk - 1 1/2 literssugar - 3 table spoonraisins - 1 table spooncashews - 10 to 15almond - 5 to 10 cardamom powder - 1/4 tea spoonPreparation :Chop cashews and almond . Peel bottle gourd wash and grate it . Put grated bottle gourd in a pan on low flame . Put milk in a sauce pan or pan to boil till it is 1/4 . Mix the bottle gourd sugar and cardamom powder in the milk and cook on low heat for another 10 minutes . Transfer the kheer in serving bowl garnish with raisins , almond , cashews and serve hot or cold as per taste...

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Baked Cauliflower (Whole)

Preparation Time : 3o minutesCooking Time : 30 minutesIngredients :cauliflower - 1 medium size cumin seed powder - 1 tea spoonturmeric powder - 1/2 tea spoononion - 100 gms. ( chopped)tomato - 100 gms.(finely chopped)ginger paste - 1/2 tea spoongarlic paste - 1/2 tea spoongreen chilly paste - 1/2 tea spoongaram masala powder - 1/2 tea spoonbay leaves - 2cooking oil - 2 table spoonsalt - to tastecheese cube -1Preparation :Grate cheese and put aside . Heat 1 liter water in a pan and mix 1/2 tea spoon salt in it . Take only flower portion of the cauliflower and boil it in the water for 5 minutes drain water and keep cauliflower aside . Heat 1 table...

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