FUN COOKING

In winter  generally palak and btathua lassies are made.  Today I have prepared boiled carrot lassi.  Here below is its full recipe:
Ingredients 
1 medium sized carrot
3 cups of curd
black salt to taste
1/4 tsp of black pepper powder
pinch of soanth powder (dried ginger powder)
1/2 tsp of roasted cumin powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala
Method
1. First of all, wash, peel and boil the carrot. For this, take carrot with one cup of water in pressure cooker and keep on gas stove.  When first whistle comes, lower the heat at lowest and cook it for 6 minutes. Switch off the stove. 
2. Let the pressure cooker cool off completely.  After that Take out the carrot and grate it with a greater having big holes.
3.  Next take boiled,and grated carrot, curd, salt and all the remaining ingredients in a big container of mixer blender.
4. Blend it for few seconds not too much. 
5.Carrot lassi is ready and transfer into glasses and serve.
Enjoy Healthy cooking!!!
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Jobstears Sattu drink        
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Lychee Juice   
Lemon Sharbat or squash          
Orange Sharbat        
Paan Lemonade  Kanji    
Lychee Squash or Sharbat  
Kacchi Lassi    
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LOquat Drink  
Passion fruit Juice
Kale Patra 
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Mooli/radish salsa dip or coarse textured chutney is a tasty and very healthy which requires no cooking and no oil at all.  Here below is its full recipe:
Ingredients
1 medium sized mooli
2 ripe tomatoes
1 tbsp of grated ginger
handful of cilantro
2 fresh green chilies
1 tbsp of lemon juice/white vinegar(optional)
1 tsp of garam masala
salt to taste
Method
1. Wash the cilantro, ginger, green chilies and radish.
2. Peel and cut the radish and onion roughly. Chop the green chilies and cilantro too. Grate the ginger or it can be finely chopped too.
3. Take radish,green chilies and ginger in vegetable chopper and chop it first. After that add cilantro, coriander powder, lime juice, salt and tomatoes. Blend it into the vegetable chopper till coarse chutney. 
4.  Chatpati radish chutney is ready to serve.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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Marua ( Sweet Basil) chutney      
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Cabbage & Papaya Seeds chutney      
Cucumber Peels Chutney      
Leftover Lemon Zest Jam or chutney      
Instant Pineapple Dip      
Tori Peels Chutney      
Hummus     
chatpate Orange Peels      
Ripe Banana Chutney  
Kairi chutney  
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Coconut Malai chutney  
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Podina Payaji chutney 
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Bolani is a flat bread from Afganistan baked or fried with a vegetable filling. Here I have made baked mooli bolani. It is  very healthy and delicious.  Here after is given its full recipe: 
Ingredients
2 cups of wheat flour
1 cup of water
Stuffing
2 grated radish
1 tbsp of finely chopped ginger
2 tbsp of finely chopped onion
1/4 cups of finely chopped cilantro
2-3 tender leaves of radish (finely chopped)
salt to taste
1 finely chopped green chili
1 tbsp of coriander powder
1 tsp of garam masala
Method
1.  Wash, peel and grate the radish. Squeeze the grated radish with hand or  take this grated radish in a cloth and squeeze it both hands just like we squeeze clothes.  There should not be left any water. Save this water in a bowl and use for kneading the dough.
2.  Take the wheat flour in a bowl and knead a soft dough with water+the squeezed water.  Keep if for rest for 10 minutes.
3.  Now add all the ingredients except salt to the grated and squeezed radish. Mix well.
4. Knead the dough again for few minutes till smooth.
5. Preheat the OTG for 10 minutes on 250 degree C. Upper and lower rods should be turned on.
6.  Make balls out of the dough and roll it in dry flour.
7.  Now take dough ball on a wooden board (chakla).  Press the ball with palm to flatten it.  Now roll it with rolling pin (belan) in circular motion.  This should be thin from the edges and should be thick in the middle.  While rolling, roll it towards the edges.
8.  Now add salt to the stuffing mixture and mix well.
9.  Put the stuffing mixture on the half part of rolled roti.
10.  Fold the it from the edges of all sides in semi circle as shown in the picture.  Little bit flatten it with belan.
11.  Now place two rolled and stuffed semi circle roti on the tray of preheated oven for 10 minutes. Keep the tray on lower rack.
12.  When one side is done ( in 5 minutes may be little bit less), turn it to the other side.
13.  Approximately after 4 to 5 minutes it will be ready.  Time may be vary. Therefore, keep a close eye on it.
14.  Delicious baked mooli bolani is ready to serve.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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Kuttu &sweet Potato Roti      
Ajvaini Lacha Parantha      
Boiled Rice Parantha    
Bread Loaf    
Mooli Wali Makki roti   
Plain Makki Ki Roti   
sweet Bread (Tutti Frutti) 
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Tortilla Tandoori roti  
Chili Parantha
Gobhi Parantha
Stale Roti Chaat
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Moringa/drum stick leaves are very healthy. Yesterday I made its dry sabzi with potatoes. Here below is how we can make it:
Ingredients 
4 cups of chopped moringa leaves
2 potatoes
1 medium sized finely chopped onion
1 tbsp grated ginger
2 tomatoes
Pinch of asafetida
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp turmeric
1 green chili (finely chopped)
pinch of red chili powder
Salt to taste
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp coriander powder
Oil
Method 
1.  Remove the leaves from its stem. Wash and chop it very finely.
2.  Peel the potatoes, and cut into small dices. 
3. Heat oil in a pan.  Add asafetida and cumin seeds and let it splutter till it stops itself.
4. Add onion and ginger and saute until it turns light brown. Add peeled and chopped tomatoes, salt, turmeric, coriander powder and green chili. Mix well and cook it till oil separates from it.
5. Now add moringa leaves and potatoes, stir well and add little(1 tbsp) water.
6.Cover it with a plate and cook on a very low flame till potatoes  gets soft.
7. Add garam masala and and give a good stir.
8. Potatoes with  drum stick leaves is ready. Transfer it to a serving bowl and serve it hot with roti etc.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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Lacche wali mathri is a delicious mathri with very little sweetness,  Though its making is little tickey, but taking some cautions, it can be prepared.  We start loosing patience when its saata starts coming out. Here below is its full recipe:
Ingredients
1 cup of maida
1 tsp of oil for moyan
For Satta
1/4 cup of boora
1/4 cup of rice flour
2 tsp of pure ghee
oil for frying
Method
1. Take the maida/all purpose flour in a big bowl.  Add oil for moyan and rub with hands.
2. Now with 1/4  cup of water knead the dough which should be niether hard nor too soft. Keep the dough for rest for 15 minutes.
3. for preparing saatta take the pure ghee in  a bowl and add boora and rice flour to it.  Mix well.  It should not be too loose.
4.  Now divide the dough into two parts.  Make balls out of it.
5.  Roll each ball into a big roti by applying oil to the chakle and rolling pin.  Instead of chakla it can be rolled on any hard surface.
6.  Now apply saata to the rolled roti with fingers.  It should be very thin layer.  If apply too much it will come out while we again roll it.
7.  Now make tight roll of it.  Prepare the second roll from the other dough boll like wise.
8.  Now cut each roll into 3 pieces.  Don't cut too thin.
9.  Now grease your hand and place one piece on the palm in the way cutting place should be above and down and press gently with other hand's palm to flatten it.  Make it flatten it again very gently.  Now keep it on the hard surface and make two cuts in  middle of this mathri.  Prepare all the mathris like it.
10.Heat the oil in a frying pan.  Put a small piece of dough to check whether oil is hot or not. If it come out above immedialty, it means it is how.  Now lower the heat to medium.
11.  Now it is the time to fry all the mathris.  Fry only two or three at a time depending on the quantity of oil in which you are frying it.
12. On medium heat it will be crispy.  It needs patience.  When it gets crispy take out from the frying pan with any slotted spoon.
13.  Sweet multi layered mathri is ready.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
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