Saboot Masala Subz Pulao

Serves 4
Ingredients
Basmati Rice 1 cup washed & soaked
Oil 5 tbsp
Ginger paste 1 tsp
Garlic paste 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli powder 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Potato 1 cut into 1/2″ pieces
Cauliflower small 1/2 of it cut into florets
Carrots 2 cut into 1/2″ pieces
Green peas 1 cup
Tomato 1 cut into 8 pieces
Green chillies 1-3 cut into thin [...]

Eggless Cake with Mocha icing

Microwave chocolate cake topped with yummy mocha icing.
Serves 6
Ingredients
Sweetened condensed milk 1/2 tin
Milk 1/2 cup
Butter 1/2 cup (75 gms)
Powdered sugar 1 1/2 tbsp
Plain flour 1 cup (100 gms)
Cocoa powder 1/4 cup
Soda bicard 3/4 level tsp
Baking powder 3/4 level tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Mocha glaze icing
Cocoa powder 4 tbsp
Butter 2 tbsp softened
Instant coffee 1tsp
Icing sugar 1 cup [...]

Bean Casserole

Red kidney beans & cauliflower baked in creamy cheese sauce.
Serves 6
Ingredients
Rajmah 1 ¼ cups boiled
Onion 1 chopped
Cauliflower 4 cups finely chopped
Tomatoes 3
Tomato Ketchup 2 ½ tbsp
Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp (this is what I replaced )
Cheese 1 ½ cups (150 gms) grated
Cream ½ cup
Oil 2 tbsp
Salt & Pepper to taste
Get Baking!
1.Put the tomatoes on a plate [...]

Péla Pindi

A quick and nutritious snack.

Ingredients
Wheat flour
Sugar
Milk
Get Cooking!
1. Dry roast the wheat flour till you get a nice aroma. Switch heat off.
2. Add sugar to the bowl.
3. Sprinkle some milk such that it wets the roasted flour…take care not to add too much milk and make it watery. The consistency should be such that it is [...]

Dakshini Crisps

Serves 4
Ingredients
Bread Slices 4
Potato 1
Rava 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Onion ½ finely chopped
Tomato ½ deseeded & finely chopped
Curry leaves 2 tbsp finely chopped
Mustard seeds ½ tsp
Get Cooking!
1. Wash the potato, cook, peel and mash well.
2. To the potato, add onion, tomato, curry leaves, salt, pepper. Mix well.
3. Add the rava and mix lightly.
4. Spread [...]

Pai Podi

Ingredients
Fenugreek seeds ½ tsp
Coriander seeds 3 tsp
Chenna dal 1 tsp
Urad dal ½ tsp
Black pepper seeds ½ tsp
Red chillies 3-4
Asafoetida ¼ tsp
Get Grinding!
1. Dry roast the fenugreek seeds till they turn brown. Set aside.
2. Then dry roast all the ingredients except asafoetida separately.
3. Mix all the ingredients together and finally add the asafoetida, twirl it [...]

Tomato Gojju for tomato rice

Ingredients
Tomatoes (pureed or finely chopped)
Oil
Salt
Chilli Powder
turmeric powder
Mustard Seeds
Red Chillies
Green Chillies
Ginger grated or finely chopped
Curry leaves
Chenna Dal
Broken or whole skinned urad dal
Asafoetida
Peanuts and/or Cashew nuts (optional)
 
Get Cooking!
1. In a kadai, take some oil, sauté the mustard seeds, red chillies, green chillies, ginger, asafoetida, curry leaves, chenna dal, urad dal and peanuts till the dals are golden [...]

Khandvi

This is a Gujarati dish.  A friend of mine calls this with a very unappetising but kinda apt name “toilet paper rolls”
Ingredients
Besan ¾ cup
Yogurt ¾ cup
Green chilli- ginger paste 1 tsp
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Asafoetida
Salt to taste
Mustard seeds 1 tsp
White sesame seeds 1tsp
Red chillies 2
Curry leaves
Oil
Get Cooking!
1. Whisk the yogurt with a cup of [...]

Phirni

Serves 4
Ingredients
Milk -3½ cups
Rice - ¼cup
Powdered sugar - ¼ cup or to taste
Rose water - 1 tsp (optional)
Cardamom - 2 or 3
Pistas - 5 or 6 sliced thinly
Almonds - 2 sliced into long thin pieces
Get Cooking!
1. Soak the rice in a little water for 2-3 hours. Grind this into a very fine paste.
2. Mix in [...]