Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Badam Milk

Badam Milk
 
Ingredients
  • Badam- 200gms
  • Fresh Milk- 2 cups
  • sugar-4 table spoons
Procedure
  1. Soak Badam over night in water.
  2. Peal the skin off and grind them into fine paste.
  3. Add the badam paste to the boiling milk.
  4. Add sugar. Stir it well. Remove from the flame. Let it cool. (Can add badam essence.)
  5. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours. And serve cold.

Chocolate Milk

Chocolate Milk 
 
Ingredients
  • 4 Cups Milk
  • 21/2 tbsp Cornflour
  • 3 tbspCocoa Powder
  • 7 tbsp Sugar
  • 300 gms Cream
  • 4 tsp Gelatin
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
Procedure
  1. Mix cocoa and cornflour in ½ cup milk.
  2. Boil the remaining milk with sugar.
  3. Add dissolved cocoa & cornflour to the milk stirring it continuously.
  4. Cook on low heat for 3-4 minutes and keep aside.
  5. Beat the thickened fruity and add cream and yellow colour.Freeze till partially set.
  6. Beat once again and freeze till firm. Keep in the fridge till serving time.
  7. 15 minutes before serving, return to the freezer to chill it properly.Serve chilled.

Carrot Juice

Carrot Juice
Ingredients
  • Carrots (Medium size) : 4
  • Milk : 3 cups
  • Sugar : As required
  • Cardamom : 4
Procedure
  1. Peel off carrots and Cook them with out chopping them (I usually keep them on top of a plate in the pressure cooker while I cook rice, etc.).
  2. Add Milk, Sugar and cardamom to the carrots and grind them well.
  3. Keep it in the refrigerator and serve chilled. Add ice cubes if you need.

Sweet Lassi

Sweet Lassi
 
Ingredients
  • 2 Cups of Curd
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 Cup Crushed Ice
  • 1 tsp chopped almonds
Procedure
  1. Take Curd in a bowl add sugar and mix with a spoon,
  2. Add some crushed ice.
  3. Mix well and pour into in glasses,sprinkle some almonds on top.
  4. Serve chilled.

Banana Milk Shake

Banana Milk Shake
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Milk
  • 2 tsp Sugar
  • 2 medium Bananas
  • Ice cubes as needed
Procedure
  1. Mix milk and peeled Banana and little water Beat it together.
  2. Then add ice cubes and sugar. Serve chill. Its very simple and good to taste.
Chaaj (Majjiga)
 
Ingredients
  • 250gms Curd (Cold)
  • pinch of Black salt
  • 2 green chillies
  • Salt to taste
Procedure
  1. Beat the curd till it becomes smooth.(like butter milk) add upto 1 cup of water as required to do so.
  2. Add the salt and black salt.
  3. Chop green chillies into small pices and garnish chaaj with green chillies.
  4. Serve chilled.

Mango Shake

Mango Shake
 
Ingredients
  • 2 Mangos (Juicy and ripped)
  • 1 Cup Milk (cold)
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 3 tsp Sugar
Procedure
  1. Takeout pulp from other mango. (a well ripped mango is suitable for this).
  2. Blend mango pulp throughly.
  3. Add Milk, Sugar to mango pulp and blend for 1 minute.
  4. And Serve chilled.

Strawberries Soda

Strawberries Soda
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 10 Strawberries
  • 4scoops Vanilla ice cream
  • Soda
Procedure
  1. Take ripped starwberries and clean them.
  2. Blend the milk, strawberries and ice cream in a blender till it becomes smooth paste.
  3. Add soda to it and serve chilled.

Lemon Soda

Lemon Soda
 
Ingredients
  • 2 limes (Extract juce from lemons)
  • sugar to taste
  • small bunch of Mint leaves
  • Soda As required
Procedure
  1. Extract juce from lemons. Don't let seeds be in juce.
  2. Add sugar to the lime juice. Add soda to it. Garnish with mint leaves.
  3. Lemon soda is ready to serve.

Chocolate Milk Shake

Chocolate Milk Shake
 
Ingredients
  • 4 cups Cold Milk
  • 2 tbsp Sweet cocoa powder
  • 2 cups Chocolate ice cream
Procedure
  1. Mix and Blend the milk and cocoa powder in a blender for 30 seconds.
  2. Add the chocolate ice cream and whip for 30 seconds. Serve chilled.

Vanilla orange juice

Vanilla orange juice
 
Ingredients
  • 6 cups Flavoured fatfree (vanilla)frozen yogurt
  • 4 cups 2% milk
  • 11/2 cups concentrat Orange Juice(Frozen)
  • Fresh straw berry few
  • Cherris few
  • Dry fruits few
Procedure
  1. Mix all the ingredients in a blender and process till smooth.
  2. Add chopped cherries straw berry and dry fruits. serve cold.

Butter scotch Ice-cream

Butter scotch Ice-cream 
 
Ingredients
  • Milk - 1litre
  • Fresh cream - 3tablespoons
  • Milk maid - 3table spoons
  • Butter scotch ice cream powder - 3 tablespoons
  • sugar - 1cup
  • Dry fruits - 1/2 cup
  • Brown sugar - 2 spoons
Procedure
  1. Take one litre of milk and boil till it reduces to half its quantity.
  2. Now add sugar and ice cream powder mixed with little milk and pour it in the boiling milk.
  3. Stir for 5 more minutes and add milkmaid to it.
  4. Let it cool and add fresh cream and dry fruits.
  5. Before putting it in the freezer sprinkle brown sugar and pour in a airtight bowl so that it sets properly.
  6. Tupper ware bowl is ideal for icecreams.
  7. After freezing for about 2-3 hours take it and serve it.

Kulfi

Kulfi 
 
Ingredients
  • Milk 5cups
  • Milkmaid 1tin
  • Cornflour 2tsp
  • Chopped almonds 2tsp
  • Ground cardamom ½ tsp
  • Saffron essence ½ sp
Procedure
  1. Mix milkmaid & milk and bring to a boiling, keep stirring .
  2. Make a paste of cornflour with 2tsp of water & add to the boling mixture till thick.
  3. Remove from the fire and add flavouring cardamom powder and chopped nuts and cool.
  4. Fill in the kulfi moulds and freeze overnight.
  5. While taking out kulfis from the moulds,dip the moulds in the water so that they come out easily without breaking.

Chocolate Chip Icecream

Chocolate Chip Icecream
Ingredients
  • Milk 1 ½ lts
  • Cocoa powder 3tsp
  • Drinking chocolate 3tsp
  • Custard powder 3tsp
  • Sugar 1 ¼ cup
  • Cream 200gms
  • Gelatine 1tsp
  • Vanilla essence 1tsp
  • Milk chocolate ½ cup
Procedure
  1. Boil milk for 20mts and dissolve cocoa powder , drinking chocolate and custard powder in little cold milk.
  2. Add to the boiling milk and stir for 5 mts then add sugar and boil for sometime.
  3. Remove from the fire and cool , now mix the gelatine in little water and add it to the milk, then add fresh cream , chocolate pieces and vanilla essence.
  4. Keep it in the refrigerator.
  5. Geletine is a powder which makes the ice cream softer and smoothier It should be dissolved only before mixing in the milk.
  6. It is available any super markets.

Vanilla Icecream

Vanilla Icecream
 
Ingredients
  • 1 litre fullcream milk
  • 1 tsp gelatine
  • 3/4 Cup Sugar
  • 2 1/2 tsp. cornflour
  • 1 cup fresh cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla essence
  • 1/2cup cold milk
Procedure
  1. Bring milk to a boil. Boil for 15 minutes on low, stirring occasionally.
  2. Mix cornflour in 1/2 cup cold milk, keep aside.
  3. Add sugar to milk, stir. Add cornflour paste, stirring continuously, till boil resumes.
  4. Boil for 4-5 minutes and remove from the fire.
  5. Sprinkle gelatine over 3 tbsp. water in a small pan.
  6. Allow to soak for 5 minutes. Warm over gentle heat, till dissolved.(dissolve only not boiling)
  7. When boiled milk cools a little, add gelatine solution and mix well.
  8. Cool to room temperature, freeze in covered tray, till set but not hard.
  9. Break into pieces, beat with an egg beater till soft.
  10. Add cream and essence, mix well.It hsould be light and creamy,then reset in the freezer till frozen.

Kesar Pista Kulfi

Kesar Pista Kulfi
 
Ingredients
  1. Take two cans of evaporated milk.
  2. One can of condensed milk
  3. One 16 Oz wipped cream
  4. 1\4 cup pista
  5. 1 pinch safron
Method
  1. Take a pot and mix evaporated milk, condensed milk and wipped cream with the hand grinder (mixer grinder).
  2. Now mix pis ta and saforn in it.
  3. Put into a air sealed container and put in the freezer for 4 hours.
Note: It will taste authentic with falooda.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Pepper Rasam

Pepper Rasam
 
Ingredients
  • 1 small tomato, chopped into small cubes
  • 1 1/2 tsp peppercorns (Miriyalu)
  • 2 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (Jeera or Jilakara)
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds (Aavalu)
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • 2 tsp thick tamarind juice
  • 1/2 tsp sugar or jaggery water
  • 1 tsp chopped coriander leaves
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tsp Oil
  • 6 cups of water.
Procedure
  1. Powder the peppercorns and Jeera in Mixie
  2. Grind to get a very coarse powder.
  3. Mix together the water, tomato, salt, sugar(jaggery) and tamarind juice.
  4. Bring it to a boil on a low flame.
  5. Season with mustard, jeera, garlic and curry leaves
  6. Add pepper and Jeera powder and boil for 3 minutes 
  7. Garnish with chopped coriander.
  8. Eat when hot with plain rice.
Tips
     You can use the ready made rasam powder also for the same recipe

Sambar

Sambar
 
Ingredients
  • Tuvar dhal - 3/4 cup
  • Vegetables - 3 cups (like sambar onions, white
  • pumpkin, chow-chow)
  • Tamarind - lemon size
  • Coriander leaves - 2 tablespoons
  • Curry leaves - 1 tablespoon
  • Rasam powder - 2 teaspoon
  • Salt - 1-3/4 teaspoon - 2 teaspoons
  • Sugar - 1-1/2 teaspoon (optional)
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
  • Green chillies - 2-4.
  • Seasoning
  • Oil - 1 tablespoon
  • Red chilli - 1
  • Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
  • Black gram dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Hing powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Procedure
  1. Pressure cook dhal with one and a half cups of waterfor ten minutes.
  2. When cold mash well.
  3. Soak tamarind in one cup of water, for five minutes, squeeze well and strain out juice.
  4. Cook vegetables in one and a half cups of water.
  5. When Threequarter cooked add slit green chillies, salt and sugar.
  6. Add tamarind water and simmer till raw smell disappears.
  7. Add mashed p73 dhal, rasam powder and curry leaves.
  8. Simmer tillthick, add coriander leaves.
  9. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, black gram dhal and red chilli.
  10. When mustard seeds splutter, add hing powder and
  11. pour the seasoning over the sambar.
  12. Serve sambar hot with rice and chips.

Sambar Masala

Sambar Masala
 
Ingredients
  • Methi (Fenugreek) 1 tsp.
  • Chana Daal seeds 2 tbsp.
  • Coriander Seeds 4 tbsp.
  • Red Chillies 4-5
  • Asafoetida(optional) 1 tsp.
  • Coconut (grated) 3 tbsp.
  • Oil 3 tbsp.
Procedure
  1. Roast methi, chana daal, and asafoetida.
  2. Add chillies when daal starts getting red.
  3. If using dry coconut, soak it in a little water and blend the daal mixture and coconut until the paste is fine.
  4. Keep aside.

Rawa Kichadi

Rawa Kichadi
 
Ingredients
  • Vegetables - Beans, carrots, onions
Procedure
  1. Cut the vegetables into fine pieces.
  2. Take 1 cup of rawa and lightly roast without oil to make it crisp.
  3. Pour 3 teaspoons of oil in a fry pan and add mustard seeds.
  4. When it splatters, add 1 tsp urud dal, 1 teaspoon gram dal, and roast lightly.
  5. Add a pinch of asafoetida.
  6. Now add 3 cups of water and when it begins to boil add rawa and keep stirring till all the water is absorbed and it becomes thick (fully cooked).