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Aaloo Kadhi can be eaten while observing fast.  During navratris fast, generally we get fed up eating fried stuffs every day.  This kadhi can be enjoyed with samo/samak/samkiye/sanwa rice pulav or with kuttu roti.  Some people eat turmeric during fast.  So if you are the one who doesn't take turmeric, kashmiri red chili can be used to give it a little color.  It is very easy and simple to make.  Moreover, it needs very few ingredients.  Here is the whole process how we can make it:
 Ingredients
3 medium sized boiled potato
1.5 cups sour curd
salt to paste
1 tsp of turmeric powder (optional)
1/2 tsp of red chili powder
1/2 tsp of garam masala
1 tsp of coriander seeds
few curry leaves
2 tsp of pure ghee/ oil
1 finely chopped green chili
few dried red chili chunks
handful of finely chopped cilantro
Method
1.  Boil and peel the potato.  Now mash it very smooth.
2.  Take curd in a big bowl. Add salt, turmeric, and red chili powder and whisk it for a minute.
3.  After that add mashed potatoes and 1 cup of water and whisk it for a moment.
4.  Heat the oil in a pan.  Now add the hand crushed coriander seeds, curry leaves and red chili chunks. Let it be slightly brown.
5.  Now add curd and potato batter constantly stirring.  
6.  When it starts boiling, it is time to stop stirring.  
7.  Now lower the heat to the minimum and cover the pan with a cover.
8.  Stir occasionally.  Let it cook till thick like kadhi.
9.  Potato kadhi is ready.  Remove from heat.
10.  Add garam masala and cilantro and stir.
Tip
Before boiling point, stirring is very essential.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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 Ingredients
2 liters of milk
3/4 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of basmati rice
10 almonds
7 cashewnuts
1 tbsp of chirongi
2 tbsp of kishmish
Method
1. Clean and wash rice.  Soak it for 1/2 an hour.
2.  Take a deep and heavy bottomed pan. First wash it and put 2 tbsp of water.  Now pour milk in it.
3.  As it starts boiling, add soaked rice to it and lower the heat to medium.
4.  Cook till it becomes very thick, occasionally stirring. 
5.  Add sugar and let it dissolve.
6.  Cook it for few more minutes and remove from the heat. It will take approximately 1.5 hour.
7.  Add sliced dry fruits and stir.
8.  Delicious rice kheer is ready to serve.  Enjoy it chilled or warm as desired.
 
Tips
1. Soaking rice gives better effects.
2. Don't add too much rice.
3.  Adding  few drops of pure ghee protects from spilling out.
4.  Add kishmish/raisins after soaking  in water for few minutes to the lukewarm kheer.  Never add to the hot kheer.
5. Wash the pan before starting cooking. In fact there should be 2-3 tbsp of water in it before putting milk in it.  It protects the milk from sticking to bottom.
6.  Keep the steel spatula all the times in it while cooking kheer, it protects too from burning to the bottom.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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Tandoori roti  made from tortilla is quite easy and can be prepared in a very less time.  It hardly takes 2 minutes in whole.  Here is the whole process how we can make tandoori roti in OTG from wheat flour totilla:
Ingredient
wheat flour tortillas
Method
1. Preheat the OTG for 10 mintutes with upper and lower grill on, on the maximum temperature.  Here I have set on 250 degree C.  Tray should be inside the oven.
2.  Now place the tortilla on the heated tray and place it in the oven just near the lower grill.  Be ensure upper and lower grills should be on.
3.  Immediately it starts puffing up.  Check it after few seconds whether it has done. If done, turn it with a tong.  Cook for few seconds more on the other side.
4.  Totillla tandoori roti is ready and take out from the oven. It got ready in less than one minute.
Tips
1.  To make the perfect tandoori roti, oven should be heated properly.  Otherwise , you will get hard roti.
2. Some times tortillas sides open, in that case, reseal its sides with the back of the bowl.  Press it on the edges of raw tortilla before placing in the oven, in circular motion.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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Raitas are made with various fruits and vegetables.  Today I am writing about the fruit raita which I have made with melon. It is very delicious and healthy.  Here I have made it completely oil free.  Here comes the recipe:
 Ingredients
1 cup of curd
handful of grated melon
1/4 tsp of finely chopped green chili
2 tbsp of finely chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp of crushed black pepper
1/4 tsp of roasted cumin powder
1/4 tso of garam masala
1 tsp of sugar
salt to taste
Method
1.  Wash, peel and grate the melon.
2.  Beat the curd to smooth with spoon.
3.  Add sugar, salt, cilantro, green chili, garam masala, and grated melon.  Mix it well.
4.  Now add roasted cumin seeds powder, black pepper and mix.
5.  Delicious and healthy melon raita is ready to serve. Chill it in the refrigerator and serve.
Enjoy Healthy cooking!!!
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Besan chakri/chakli is delicious and crunchy snack.  Though it is not too much crunchyhard just like rice flour chakris but still crunchy.  I have eaten rice flour chaklis in some get togethers, but always found very difficult to eat it. So I thought of making besan chaklis .  I tried it and it came out very well. Here is the whole process how I prepared it:
 Ingredients
3 cups of besan/gram flour/chickpea flour
1/2 cup (2 tbsp less) of rice flour
salt to taste
1 tsp of red chili powder 
1/2 tsp of turmeric powder
1 tsp of mint leaves powder
1/4 tsp of black pepper
pinch of heeng/asafetida
1/4 tsp of baking soda
1/4 cup of sesame seeds
tbsp of dry coconut powder
3 tbsp of oil
1&3/4 cup(quarter to two) of water
oil for frying
Method
1.  Dry roast besan for 3 to 4 minutes or until its color little darkens. Remove from heat.
2. Sieve the roasted besan.
3.  Take the roasted besan, rice flour, salt, turmeric, red chili powder, pepper powder, mint powder, heeng, baking soda, sesame seeds, and coconut powder and mix thoroughly.
4.  Now add 3 tbsp of oil to the mixture and rub between the palms till like coarse bread crumbs.

5.  Add water and make a soft dough. Divide into 4 to 5 rolls. Though the dough in above photo seems hard but it is very soft . If it is too hard, it can not be pressed through the savai machine.
6.  Grease the sevai machine and put one portion of dough and close the lid. 
7. Line a tray with aluminum foil/ butter paper.  Some use the newspaper but it is not advisable. 
8.  Now prepare all the chaklis with sevai  machine .
9.  Heat the oil and fry all the chaklis on medium heat.  Put the fingers on the back of foil or butter paper and transfer on other hand fingers carefully and drop in the medium hot oil.  As we put it in the oil, bubbles can be seen in the oil but when it is done all bubbles disappear.
10. Take out the chakris/chaklis from the oil.
11.  Delicious chaklis are ready to serve.  When it gets cool, store it in an airtight container.
Tips
1.  Roasting of besan is must. 
2.  Here I have used mint leaves powder. Dry coriander leaves powder/dry sweet basil/fenugreek leaves powder/curry patta powder, any one can be added too.
3. To check the oil, put little piece of dough into it, if it comes above slowly, it means it is ready to fry chakris.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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