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Kheer Kadam

5/22/2013 | Labels: , ,

This is an amazing sweet - Rasgulla stuffed inside khoya... Tastes yummy.
Not sure how the name Kheer Kadam has been associated with this....
Here we go on how I prepared it :)

You need 16 rasgullas of medium size.

Refer to my recipe of Rasgulla

Outer Layer of Khoya

1.5 cups of khoya (mava)
2 Tbsp of sugar

Method

  1. Mix sugar and khoya. Make balls similar to a pingpong ball's size (almost the size of a lemon)
  2. Press it to form small plate shape.
  3. Now place the rasgulla in this and close it evenly from all sides till rasgulla is hidden inside :)
  4. Follow the step 3 process for rest of rosagulla 
  5. Serve chilled/immediately.

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Rasgulla

5/22/2013 |

I followed this recipe from "Manjula's Kitchen"

Ingredients

6 Cups of Full fat Milk
2 TBSP of Lemon Juice
1 TBSP of water
For Sugar Syrup
1 Cup of Sugar
2.5 cups of water
For Outer Layer of Khoya
1.5 cups of khoya (mava)
2 TBSP of sugar

Here we go

  1. Boil Milk in a thick bottom pan
  2. Once it starts boiling add lemon juice mixed with 1 tbsp water
  3. Filter out all the water and retain the paneer. Wash well in cold water till the lemon smell goes.
  4. Drain all water from paneer and knead well. To check if the consistency is correct, take a small ball, keep it on your palm and rub using thumb. If you are able to make a ball without crack then the paneer is done
  5. Now make small balls.
  6. Simultaneously, boil sugar and water in a wide mouthed vessel till sugar dissolves. 
  7. Now add paneer balls.
  8. Cover the vessel and cook for 10-15 minutes. Ensure there is enough space inside as these rasgullas would become almost 2.5 times the original size. 
  9. Serve chilled

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Stuffed Potatoes

5/21/2013 | Labels: ,

Ok, Back with a bang :)

Though delayed by 3 weeks, I kept my promise to self to update the blog with this new amazing recipe.
As usual, Saturday night dinner plans…
What are u cooking for dinner? Anything special?
OMG! these are enough to think what’s for dinner…

Though, a lazy person who cannot spend more than 1 hour in kitchen, I decided to cook something different this week. More over my niece was around and was pestering to cook potatoes. Bingo… why not make stuffed and baked potatoes..... Niece bhi kush and main bhi kush (Both me and my niece are happy).
Now where do I get the recipe? Like any other religious IT professional of my generation, I googled out.
Got loads of recipes (most were with non-veg stuffing:().  Finally decided to make my version of healthy and veg stuffing.
Though I had enough of potatoes, what are the veggies which could be stuffed? Starting browsing (;) software lingo) my refrigerator for all the veggies. Finally comes out few broccoli florets and a couple of zucchini. That was good enough.  Started my elaborate cooking drama.
Ok enough of purana around let me come straight to the recipe.

Ingredients

8-10 medium sized potatoes – OK I know this recipe‘s main ingredient is potatoes :)
1 medium sized head of broccoli (approximately 250 gms)
1 zucchini (I mixed both half yellow and half of green to make this look colorful)
2 tbsp. of butter
Oregano
Salt
Pepper
Fresh rosemary and parsley
¼ cup of Cheese
2-3 tbsp. of milk

How do I proceed?

1.       Cook the potatoes with the skin for about one whistle.,If using cooker else boil it in water  until half cooked.
2.       Let it cool. In meantime chop all the vegetables finely
3.       Heat a pan, take some butter, add the chopped veggies and cook till 50% done.
4.       Take the potatoes out if still hot, run this below cold water to cool. Cut it in to half.
5.       You can marinate the potatoes a bit -  In a bowl add 1-2 tsp. of oil, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning(Secret recipe ;)) and mix the potato cup in this and keep aside
6.        Scoop out the inner part and keep aside. Once u have scooped out enough of flesh, this should look like the cup
7.       Now add the cooked veggies, salt, pepper, oregano to the scooped out potato and mix well. I added bit of milk to get soft consistency.
8.       U can also add 1-2 tbsp. spoon of grated cheese to this
9.       Now fill the veggies mix into the potatoes and top it up with the grated cheese
10.     Keep this in oven safe plate and bake at 180 deg C for about 15-20 minutes. You can increase the time if the potatoes are still raw (trial and error).
11.   Once done(hopefully after 20 minutes) you can relish this with garlic bread :)


Trust me this was sooper hit. Not sure about my niece. So far no feedback from that 3 year old. But rest enjoyed :)
Happy baking for now!!!
C u
:)

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Party Tonight with Aloo tikki chat :)

10/07/2012 |


Yet another bandh, (this time a Karnataka bandh) yet another day of house arrest. Not that I did not go out, ignoring all the good advice from my aunt. Had been around Malleswaram for a walk. Bangalore hasn’t been like this in a while, heaven!! Empty roads, no vehicles, enjoyed seeing the kids play galli cricket..haven't seen this in ages! This was how the bandh had been for me, another field day in the kitchen. After a quick stock-check, decided to make aloo tikki chat, minor variations for ingredients that weren’t at home.


Ingredients

Chole

250 gms Chole (soaked for 6-8 hours)
3 – 4 medium sized Onions 
4 Medium sized tomatoes
½ spoon jeera powder
1 spoon of coriander powder
1 spoon red chili powder
1 inch ginger
1 tsp chole masala powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
Pinch of hing
Salt to taste

Aloo Patties

500 gm potatoes
½ tsp jeera powder
1 tbsp coriander powder
¼ cup coriander leaves, finely chopped
½ cup bread crumbs
2 nos. green chilies, finely chopped
Salt to taste
½ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp red chili powder

Chutneys

Mint Chutney

1 bunch mint leaves
½ bunch coriander leaves
2-3 nos green chilies
½ tsp jeera powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Bengal gram

Sweet chutney

1 lemon sized ball of tamarind
4 dates, de-seeded
2 tsp sugar
Salt, a pinch
½ tsp red chili powder
½ tsp jeera

Garnishing

Onion, finely chopped
Coriander leaves, finely chopped
Chat masala

Method

Chole

Finely chop the onions & tomatoes.
Pressure-cook the chole, about 4 whistles should do.
Heat oil in a kadhai, sauté the onions until they are slightly brown in colour
Add grated ginger, tomatoes. Cook for a minute.
Add turmeric powder, coriander powder, jeera powder, red chili powder & salt. Cook until it comes to the consistency of a fine paste.
Add the cooked chole & chole masala. Boil for 15-20 mins.
Garnish with coriander leaves.

Patties

Boil the potatoes. Mash well.
Add all ingredients, except for the bread crumbs, & mix well.
Make small balls of these, press until they are roughly of 2 inch width & ½ inch thick patty.
Coat it with bread crumbs (I used rava today as there was no bread at home).
Shallow fry the patties till both sides turn golden brown in colour.

Mint Chutney

Grind all the ingredients with little water.

Sweet Chutney

Microwave the tamarind & dates in ½ cup water.
Once cooled, grind it along with the rest of the ingredients of the chutney.

Serving

Place the patty in a bowl
Add chole, a spoon of the mint & sweet chutney.
Garnish with onions & coriander leaves.
Top it with a pinch of chat masala.

Enjoy the chat. Though the post looks really long, you'll love making & eating the chat.
Happy cooking until the next post :)

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