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(31) Tomato Soup.

Serves 4, 150 ml each

Ingredients:

  • 3 medium size tomatoes.
  • 4 Drumsticks 3 inches each.
  • 1 Carrot 6 inches long.
  • 500 ml Water.
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. black pepper powder.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp.Butter or Ghee.
  • 1 tsp. Jeera.
  • ½ inch cinnamon stick.
  • 2 Cloves

Method:

  1. Pressure cook all vegetables in 200 ml water. Add salt, sugar and black pepper. Cook upto 3 whistles.
  2. After pressure release, open the cooker and cool the things completely.
  3. Scrape pulp from drumstick with the help of spoon and discard skins.
  4. Blend all the vegetables in blender and strain with the help of strainer. Add water to to make required quantity.
  5. Boil soup for 5 mins. Side by side heat tempering vessel on slow flame and add butter . Once butter melt add cumin. After crackling sound add cinnamon and clove. Pour this tempered mixture in soup and boil for 1 more min. Serves hot.
  6. Serve your soup with handavo,khichadi biryani or as you want. Serve with love and smile
  7. You can also have during sickness .As drumsticks contains all nine essential amino acids, tomatoes are rich in fibers, lycopene, minerals and vitamins B and C and carrots are rich in minerals and vitamins A, D, E and K.

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(30) Handavo

Spicy cake

Ingredients:

Batter

500 gms handava batter{ 100 gms rice (chawal),50 gms. white urad(udad dal),50 gms. lentil( tur dal), 50 gms chickpeas (channa dal) soak and make coarse batter}.

Keep aside this batter upto 6-8 hrs. for fermentation

or

In market you will get ready made Idli-dosa batter .Same you can use to make handavo. Only after adding ½ cup suji.which will give crispiness to upper and lower layer of handava.

Masala:

4 tb sp. sugar,2 tsp chilli pd,3tsp.cumincoriander pd. 1/2 tsp haldi,4 tbsp.curd ½ inch grated ginger,2 green chilli paste.1 tsp soda ,3 tsp. salt.

Tempering ingredients for mixing with batter:

1/2 tsp rai ( mustard seeds),2 pinch of hing (Asafoetida),one tbsp.oil.

Tempering ingredients for pouring batter in pan.

2 tbsp.oil, ¼ tsp.mustard(rai) seeds, ½ tsp.sesame seeds and ½ tsp.sesame seeds for sprinkling over batter

Method

(1) In fermented handva batter add all masalas. Mix thoroughly. Sprinkle soda powder on batter

(2) Preheat tempering vessel ,add oil and rai and wait for crackling sound then add hing.

(3) Pour mixture over handwa batter and then mix thoroughly.

(4) Heat kadhai(pan) with oil and add mustard seeds . After crackling sound add sesame seeds and half of the batter.

(5) Cover the pan with lid .Cook the handavo until the upper surface look cooked or pierce knife which comes out clean and bottom surface turns light brown.

(6) Flip gently and again cook on slow flame upto 4-5 mins. or turns light brown.

Remaining half batter, repeat same process for making handvo.

7) Enjoy your handavo with sweet chutney,green chutney and vegetables soup.

8) You can also add boiled vegetables like green peas and sweet corns and / or grated vegetables like bottle guard zucchini , carrots .It will enhance the taste as well as nutrition.

Handavo in kadhai
Handavo in frying pan

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Sweets

(29) Sevaiya kheer

Vermicelli Kheer

Ingredients:

  • 150 gms. Vermicelli
  • 1 tbsp.ghee.
  • 1 lit. Milk.
  • 5 tbsp. Sugar.
  • Chopped dry fruits.
  • Pinch of Cardamom powder.

Method:

1)soute vermicelli in ghee to light brown and keep aside.

2)Boil 1 lit.milk to its half in thick sauce pan .

3) Mix vermicelli in boiled milk ,add sugar ,chopped dry fruits and cardamom powder. Boil for 1 min.and kheer is ready.

4) Enjoy kheer with puri, paratha, thepla or as you like.

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(28) Rotli na ladoo

Leftover roti ladoo

Ingredients

5 leftover roti,2 tbsp .desi gud (organic jeggary) 2 tsp ghee (almond powder and elaichi powder-optional).

Method:

1) Take leftover rotis tear it roughly.Transfer to a dry mixer jar.

2) Add jaggery, grind to a coarse mixture.Transfer to a mixing bowl.

3) Add ghee (chopped almonds and cardamom powder – optional) .Mix it well.

4) Take the mixture, press, hold tight and shape them as ladoos.Repeat to finish the mixture.Store in a clean dry container.

You can also use leftover paratha or bhakhri or fresh roti.

Rotli na ladoo

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(27) Bepadi Rotli

Double layered roti

Ingredients:

  • 250 gms Wheat flour
  • 1 tbsp.oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 130 ml water
  • Ghee for applying on roti
  • oil for applying on dough balls

Method:

1)In one mixing bowl mix all ingredients and knead a soft dough and rest it for 30 mins.

2) Knead more and make soft no sticky dough. If require take 1 tsp ghee for soft and smooth dough.

3) Divide dough into 20 equal parts and make a 10 pairs. Prepare all pairs by applying oil on one side of the dough disc and dry flour on other dough disc.

4) Heat tawa and start rolling each paired dough disc gently into 9 inches roti.

5) Roast roti on tawa( not on flame)

6)Hot roasted roti tapped by two hand for 2-3 times so it will seperate into two layers.

7) Apply ghee on each layer and enjoy bepadi rotali with Aam ras.

Making of bepadi rotli

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(26) Masala Tea

serves 2 person 150 ml each

Ingredients:

  • 150 ml water.
  • 200 ml milk.
  • 5-6 Phudina leaves.
  • 9-10 three inches long lemongrass leaves.
  • One pinch of cardamom powder.
  • One inch grated ginger.
  • 2 tsp. tea powder.
  • 4 tsp. sugar.

Method:

1) In sauce pan take water and all ingredients except tea pd. and milk and boil for 3-4 mins on slow flame

2) Boil on slow flame for 1 min. after adding tea powder

3) Add milk and again boil till colour changes from light brown to brown.

4) Strain tea in 2 cups and serve steaming hot refreshing tea in the morning, afternoon or evening with love and smile .

Masala tea

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(24) Chakli

Indian snacks

Ingredients:

1kg Rice( chawal) flour

9 tbsp melted butter or ghee

5 tsp.red chilli pd.

4 tsp. salt

1 tbsp.white sesame seeds( til)

1 tbsp.cumin(jeera)

600 ml water

Oil for frying.

Method:

1) In one big mixing bowl add all ingredients and knead medium hard dough ,cover it with a damp cloth and rest the dough for 1 hr.

2)After 1 hr.again knead the dough .

3 ) Place a portion of the dough in the chakli maker

4) Tighten the lid and move in rounds to get a spiral shape.

5)Fry the chakli till it is golden.

6)Drain chakli on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

7)Once the chakli are cooled at the room temperature store in an air tight container for 1 month.

8) Enjoy chakli with tea,Herbal tea, milk ,coffee or as you want.It is the best option to carry ready to eat food while tracking,hiking or on a picnic.

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(25) Sweet Shakarpare

Indian snacks

Ingredients:

300 gms. All purpose flour( maida)

4 tb.sp rawa(suji)

75 ml.melted ghee

5 tbsp.sugar

75 ml. water

½ tsp. salt

Oil for frying

Method:

1) In one mixing bowl heat water ,add sugar to melt and set aside to cool.

2) Add all the ingredients and knead a dough and set aside for 30 mins.

3) Make 2 equal parts of dough and roll to thick roti and cut into 1 inch square.

4)Heat oil to deep fry and drop a batch of shakarpare and deep fry till golden ( remove 1 shade lighter from the oil )

5) cool down completely and store in air tight container for 1 month

6) Enjoy with tea,herbal tea,milk, during traveling or as you want.

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(23) Fajeto

Mango Soup

Serves 4 person 175 ml each

Ingredients

  • 400 ml water.
  • 6 mango’s seeds and skins remaining after extraction of pulp ( Aam ras )
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tbsp.Sugar.
  • 1/2 inch grated ginger.
  • 2 green chillies halved lengthwise and reseeded.

Tempering ingredients:

  • 1/2 tsp. Cumin (jeera).
  • 2 Cloves (lavang).
  • 1/2 inch Cinnamon ( dalchini).
  • 8-10 curry leaves.
  • 1 tbsp. Freshly chopped coriander leaves.
  • 1 tbsp.ghee.

Method:

(1) In one big bowl take 400 ml. Water

(2) Squeeze and wash thoroughly skins and seeds of Mangoes in this water and drain it. Let 2 of the seeds remain inside for enhancing the sour taste.( Skins can be put to good use by transferring it to compost bin. And seeds can be Sun dried for further use in the making mouth freshner.

(3) Add to this salt, sugar, grated ginger and green chilli.

(4) Boil on slow flame for 5 mins.

(5) Side by side put tadka pan after adding ghee. as soon as ghee melts add jeera wait for crackling sound . Cloves, Cinnamon and curry leaves and finely chopped coriander leaves in it.Boil for 5 more mins. and mango soup is ready.

(6) Enjoy this soup with rice, chillas, biryani, pulao or as you want. you will like both type hot as well as cold. Cold mango soup is a refreshing drink in hot summer days.

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(22) Aam Ras

Mango pulp

serves:4 175 ml/ bowl

Ingredients

6 ripe Kesar Mangoes. 1.5 kg. (approx)

Generally Kesar variety is best for making Mango pulp but you can also use Alphanso or any other variety. As we get 105 different varieties of Mangoes in India.

Method:

1) Wash and wipe ripe mangoes

2) On the clean kitchen platform roll each mango gently but firmly so that pulp inside  becomes soft squeezable and lump free.

3) After rolling all the mangoes on a flat surface, pinch stalk of fruit and squeeze out all the pulp throughly . Squeeze and clean the pulp from the seed and under surface of the skin throughly. Keep these seeds and skins of the squeezed mangoes in clean bowl for making mango soup.

4) Strain the pulp with the help of soup strainer.

5) Enjoy chilled mango pulp with bepadi rotli, fulka roti, puri, paratha ,kulcha,bhakhri,chilla or as you want.

6) For making mango pulp more healthier add 1/2 tsp. hot ghee,1/2tsp.ginger pd. Ghee helps in assimilation of fat soluble vitamins A,D,E,K and ginger pd help in digestion. You can also add salt to taste.

7) Many other recipes you can make from Mango pulp like Aam ras Bundi,Aam ras Mohanthal, Aam ras papads, Aam ras icecreams, Milkshakes and smoothy ,Jams and Jellies and many more.

Aam ras

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