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Healthy food

(198)Tomato ketchup

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Red Tomatoes.
  • 1 tbsp. Oil.
  • ½ inch Cinnamon stick.
  • 6 whole Clove.
  • 6 whole Black pepper.
  • 1 Onion( optional).
  • 3 Garlic pods (optional).
  • 1½ tsp. Salt.
  • 3 tbsp. Sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. Red chilli powder.

Method

  1. Wash and cut each tomatoes into roughly 8 parts.
  2. Peel onion, wash and cut into roughly 8 parts.
  3. Cut Garlic pods into 2-4 parts.
  4. Heat oil in nonstick sauce pan.
  5. Soute Clove, Cinnamon stick and pepper corns for 30 seconds and add onion pieces, garlic and tomato pieces.
  6. Cook for 15 minutes on slow flame.
  7. Switch off the flame and once whole content has cooled down, grind into fine puree.
  8. Strain the puree and again heat to reduce water to get saucy consistency .Stir continuously otherwise it will stick to bottom of the pan.
  9. Store into air tight jar for 3-4 weeks in refrigerator.
  10. And if you want to store more, make cubes and store these cubes in deep freezer for 3-4 months.
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Quick Cooking Tips

(146) Mixed Herbs Butter.

Ingredients

  • 100 gms. Amul butter.
  • 1tbsp.finely chopped fresh Parsley.
  • 1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh Basil.
  • ¼ tsp. Oregano powder.
  • ½ tsp. Chilli flakes ( optional)
  • 4 Garlic pods or 1 tbsp. green garlic paste.

Method

  1. Pluck leaves of Parsely from stalks.
  2. Wash leaves and finely chop. Keep aside.
  3. With the help of rolling pin crush Garlic pods into smooth paste. Keep aside.
  4. Bring butter to room temperature .
  5. In mixing bowl, mix all ingredients- butter, Parsely leaves, Oregano powder, Chilli flakes and Garlic paste.
  6. Mix well and refrigerate.
  7. It remains fresh for 6 months in freezer.
  8. Apply this butter on bread, bhakhri, roti, paratha, kulcha, chila, Idli, Dosa or as you wish.
Mixed Herbs Butter
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Healthy food

(133)Amla Pickle

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Amla.
  • ½ kg sugar.
  • 1 tbsp. salt.
  • 1 tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 1 tbsp. chili powder.
  • ½ tsp. Asafoetida powder.

Method

  1. Wash, wipe and pressure cook amla, keeping it in a strainer, upto two whistles.
  2. When cooker cool down, take out strainer from the cooker and remove seed from each amla and cut it into small pieces.
  3. In big thick bottom sauce pan or in pressure cooker itself( must be steel cooker) mix amla pieces with sugar.
  4. Stir continuously on fast flame for 10 minutes and after that add salt, asafoetida powder, chili powder and turmeric powder and again cook for 1 more minute.
  5. Amla pickle is ready. Switch off the flame and keep aside.
  6. Bottle it in a glass jar once it cool down completely.
  7. Enjoy amla pickle with roti, bhakri, khakhra, paratha, bread, handavo, muthia, dhokla, patra pakoda, vada, chila or as you wish.

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Fried Foods monsoon food snacks

(128) Batata Vada

Ingredients

  • 1Kg Potatoes.
  • 1 cup finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • 4 Green chili finely chopped or paste.
  • 2 inch size Ginger paste.
  • 2 tbsp. Lemon juice.
  • Oil for frying.
  • 1 cup besan for making batter.
  • Salt.
  • 1 tsp. red chili powder for batter.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder for batter.

Method

  1. Wash and pressure cook Potatoes upto 3 whistles.
  2. When pressure gets released open the lid .
  3. Peel each potato and mash immediately when it is hot otherwise pulp will remain granular.
  4. Make a fine paste of green chilies and ginger. Add this paste to potato pulp.
  5. Add coriander leaves and lemon juice and mix lightly and make table tennis size balls.
  6. For making batter take gram flour ( besan) in one sauce pan .
  7. Add salt, red chili powder, asafoetida and oil .
  8. Mix all ingredients and make thick flowing consistency batter.
  9. Pick one ball of batata vada , dip in batter and fry in hot oil.
  10. Fry till golden brown and serve hot vada with green chutney, red sweet chutney , garlic chutney and bread
Batata vada
Vada batter.
Consistency of vada batter
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chutney Fried Foods monsoon food Roti snacks traveling Winter Foods

(111) Garlic chutney

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Garlic pods.
  • 1 cup Desiccated coconut powder
  • ½ cup Sesame seeds
  • 2 tsp. Salt.
  • 2 tsp. Red chili powder.

Method

  1. Peel garlic pods.
  2. Dry roast Sesame seeds.Keep aside to cool down.
  3. when completely cool , grind sesame seeds into coarse powder. keep aside.
  4. Grind garlic pods, salt and red chili powder into fine paste.
  5. In big plate , mix garlic paste, sesame seeds coarse powder and coconut powder with hand.
  6. Garlic dry chutney is ready.
  7. Enjoy with your food .
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cheese dips Quick Cooking Tips

(102) Cheese Dips

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp. Butter.
  • 1 tbsp. All purpose flour.
  • 1 cup Milk.
  • ¼ tsp. Turmeric powder.
  • 1 cup grated cheese.
  • ¼ tsp. Salt.
  • ¼ tsp. Black pepper powder.

Method

  1. In medium sized sauce pan heat butter.
  2. Add flour and cook for 2 minutes to remove rawness of flour,
  3. Add milk and stir continuously until you will get thick sauce like batter.
  4. Add grated cheese and stir continuously.
  5. Switch off the flame when you will get nice shiny cheese sauce.
  6. Enjoy cheese dip with French fries, Garlic bread, Nachos or as you desire.

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Baking Breads My recipes

(02) White Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Nowadays there is a revolution in the culinary industry that people bake bread not only with wheat but with other grains also. We get many different types of bread in the market .

Bread with yeast ,without oven,in kadhai

Ingredients

  • 100 ml luke warm milk
  • 2 tsp. Sugar.
  • 2½ tsp.dry yeast.
  • 200 gms. All purpose flour (Maida).
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp. Mix herbs.
  • 2 tsp. Milk powder.

Method

1) 1 bowl(100 ml.) luke warm milk+ 2 tsp sugar+ 2 ½ tsp dry yeast keep aside for 10 mins.

2) After 10 mins take 2 bowl tightly filled maida( 200gms)+1 tsp. salt+ 1 tsp mix herbs + 2 tsp milk powder and add active yeast mixture and knead dough.

3) Add water if require and develop gluten by continue kneading and prepare loose  (chipchipa) dough . 

4) After 10 mins dough becomes very soft and won’t stick to your hand 

5) Add 1 tsp ghee or butter and again knead for 5 mins.

6) Cover it with damp cloth and rest the dough for 1 hr.

7) After one hr. remove cloth .Your dough is doubles in size ,punch lightly for 5 mins .

8) After smoothing dough keep it in greased baking vessel for one more hr. and prepare 3 sp .sweet milk and keep aside.

9) After 50 mins.put kadhai for pre heating.

10) After 1 hr. dough again doubles  in size .now apply very lightly sweet milk with brush. Sprinkle white sesame (til) seeds

11) Put this baking vessel in pre heated kadhai for 30 mins.on slow flame.

12) After 30 mins . first check the baked bread with knife and if done then apply butter or ghee with brush and keep for 5 more mins.

13) Switch off gas .unmould bread and cover with damp turkish nepkin for 5 mins.

14) Serve your bread with masoor ,misal or with milk, kandabhaji, batata Vada. Serve with love and smile.

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(01) Wheat Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Nowadays there is a revolution in the culinary industry that people bake bread not only with wheat but with other grains also. We get many different types of bread in the market .

Bread without yeast, without oven,in kadhai

Ingredients:

  • 200 gms Wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp.Sugar.
  • 1 tsp. Oregano.
  • 1½ tsp. Baking powder.
  • ½ tsp. Baking soda.
  • ¾ cup Butter milk( 5 tsp.curd+¾ cup water).
  • 1 tsp. Sesame seeds.
  • 2 tsp.oil
  • Oil for greasing bread vessel.

Method

Start pre heating kadhai

1 In one big mixing bowl mix all dry ingredients.

2 Slowly slowly add buttermilk and mix flour.

3 Add oil and mix it.

4 No hard mixing ,mix with fingers.

5 Pour mixture in greased bread vessel.

6 Pat mixture with greased fingers.

7 Sprinkle Sesame seeds.

8 Place bread vessel on stand in preheated kadhai.

9 Bake bread for 30 mins on slow flame and check by piercing knife .If clean knife then bread is cooked otherwise 5-10 mins.more on flame .

10 Turn off flame , apply ghee or butter on bread with brush or spoon .

11 Unmould bread after it cools.

12 Serve  your yummy healthy bread with milk or cutlets or batata vada or Kandabhaji. Serve with love and smile.

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