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White Cheese Pasta This recipe i must say , a very tasty delicious and weekend lunch or dinner whatever the timings you prefer. Pasta and all veggies/Chicken and tossed in white sause with red wine....So complete recipe is as follows: Preparation Time: 40 Mins Ingredients: choose vegetables of your choise 1/4th cup ( brocolli, aloo, mushrooms, beans, carrot) and if you are non veg eater you can choose 2 of any vegetables and chicken slices small (1/4 cup). Paste any kind (prefer buckwheat paste) Milk 2 cups Cheese any good quality cheese (feta cheese, amul cheese) Maida 2 tsp (mixed in 1/4 cup milk) Salt as per taste red wine (optional), usually prepare at home. Garlic 1 full tsp finely chopped Some Italian herbs (Oregano, parsley, thyme) Olive Oil 2 tsp/Butter 2 tsp Non stick Pan White Sauce Preparation: Heat 2 tsp oil/Butter in an pan (nonstick),add garlic saute till brawn and simmer the gas, Now add milk let it come to boil, add maida milk mixture slowly an...

CUCUMBER - CARROT THALIPAT Are you in hurry to cook? ok.... try this yummy simple 10 mins recipes to save your precious time. these are simple and healthy......  Cooking Time: 15 mins, Serves - 3  Ingredients Rice Flour - 2 cups Ragi Flour - 1 tbsp Wheat Flour - 1 tbsp Juicy Cucumber - 2 grated Carrot - 1 grated  Onion - 1 medium chopped finely Ginger- Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp Coriander - 1 tbsp Curry leaves - 4-5 leaves Cumin - 1/2 tsp Dhania powder - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Green Chili paste - 1 tsp (as per taste) Oil - 2 tsp. PREPARATION: Grate the cucumber, carrot squeeze the excess water in a small bowl and keep aside. Dry roast the onions for a minute till it is translucent. In a bowl add rice flour, ragi flour and wheat flour. Add 1 tsp oil and mix well. Add roasted onions, carrot, cucumber, dhania powder, salt, coriander, curry leaves, Green chilli paste and mix well. Add little squeezed carrot and cucumber water to...

JEERA COOKIES These are sweet and salty cookies, nice to have at a tea time... the taste of jeera is mouth watering... try it and taste it... Ingredients Maida - 200gms Cumin - 1tbsp crushed Egg - 1 egg yolk ( for eggless replace egg yolk with 15 ml of milk) salt - 1 tsp Sugar - 80 gms powdered Butter - 100 gms Green Chilli - 1 finely chopped Procedure Preheat Oven to 180 C and bake for 12-14 mins In a bowl mix butter, sugar, salt, egg/milk, crushed cumin seeds, green chilli and mix well. Now add maida to the above mixture. Knead to a soft dough. Roll out into a circle, give the shape as you like and bake in the oven. Store the cookies in air tight containers.

CHEESY PASTA Everyone loves cheese... Mouth watering....Enjoy delicious and cheesy pasta... anytime anywhere.... This is the simple cheesy pasta I have made, in this olives or any italian herbs can also be added... Serves - 2 Cooking Time - 20 mins Ingredients Pasta - Macoroni/ Fusilli/ Penne - 200 gms Carrot - 1/4 chopped Beans - 1/4 chopped White sauce - 1 1/2 cups Garlic - 2 cloves chopped Olive Oil - 2 tsp salt as per taste Preparation Of White sauce Milk - 2 cups Parmesan Cheese - 1/2 cup grated Any Processed cheese - 1 cube grated (I used Amul cheese) Red chilli flakes Procedure For White sauce,Heat milk in a pan bring to boil, now add both the cheeses, red chilli flakes mix well until mixture thickens.  Boil Pasta as per instructions given on the packet. Heat Olive oil, and add garlic saute. Now add carrot and beans saute for a minute. Now add white sauce and pasta, mix well, saute for a minute and serve immediately. Follow us on :...

NOODLES SALAD Cooking time: 15 minutes Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Chinese Noodles -2 cups boilled, chilled for 20 minutes Corn - 1 cup Carrot - 2 chopped Tomato - 2 medium sliced Paneer - 1 cup cut into small cubes Egg - 2 scrumbled (optional) Coriander - 1 tbsp chopped Mint - 2 tbsp chopped Italian Herbs - Oregano, Chilli flakes, Parsley Salt to taste Salad dressing Olive oil - 1 tsp + 1/2 tsp for fry Plain Vinegar - 3 tsp Garlic - 2 tsp chopped finely Procedure Bring the noodles for room temperature. In a sauce pan add 1/2 tsp oil, add chopped garlic, carrot, corn and paneer stir fry for a minute on high flame and keep aside to cool. In a bowl, add boiled noodles,raw tomato, above mixture, scrumbled egg, salt and mix well. In another bowl add 1 tsp olive oil 3 tsp vinager, garlic and whisk well and pour this mixture on the noodles. Sprinkle mint and coriander, mix well serve chilled.  

DRY FRUIT VANILLA COOKIES Cooking Time - 30 minutes Ingredients Maida - 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar - 3/4 th cup Butter - 2 tbsp Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Egg - 1 Dry fruits coarse mixture - 1 cup  Raisins - 2 tbsp Procedure Prehaet oven to 180 degrees In a bowl add butter mix well. Add powdered sugar and mix well. Now add egg and vanilla essence mix well. Add maida, and make a soft dough. Make small round balls and coat with dry fruits mixture. Press and make a small hole with raisins, so that raisins will sit in the dough... Bake for 13 - 15 minutes in a preheated oven. cool and serve  Note:  Butter and eggs should be at room temperature. Store the cookies in air tight container.  

PUDINA EGG MASALA Cooking Time: 30 minutes Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Boiled Eggs - 3 Pudina - 1 cup Onion - 1 large for paste and few sliced Green Chilli - 2-3 Tomato - 2 small chopped Ginger - 1 inch piece Coconut - 3 tbsp Oil/Butter - 2 tbsp Jeera - 1/2 tsp Coriander powder - 1tsp Garam masala - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Coriander for garnish Jaggary/ Sugar - 1/2 tsp Fresh Cream - 2 tbsp For the paste Grind coconut, onion, pudina, chilli and ginger with 1 cup water to a paste and keep aside. Procedure Heat oil/butter in a kadai. Add jeera, onion and saute for a minute. Now add the above paste and cook for 3-4 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook for a minute.  Now add all the masalas, salt and jaggary mix well. Now add fresh cream mix well, add boiled eggs garnish with coriander and serve hot.  

MAKKAI METHI THALIPEET This is one of my favourite breakfast recipe, from North Karnataka(my home town). Its really tasty, lightly sweet... Cooking time: 15 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients Makkai flour: 2 cups Whole wheat flour: 2 tbsp Rice flour(optional): 2 tbsp Methi leaves: 1 1/2 cup chopped Onions: 2 small chopped finely Ajwain: 1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Green chilli: 4-5 chopped finely Tomato: 1 small chopped(Optional) Salt to taste Oil for drizzle Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl to a hard dough and keep aside for 10 minutes Other things : Muslin cloth/ or any thin cloth Preparation Take a muslin cloth, wet it in water and spread it. Take lemon size dough, keep on a muslin cloth and pat it into a thin roti with the help of water. Heat the tawa and drizzle oil on it. Now take the muslin cloth with the roti and put it upside down, slowly remove the cloth and immediately drizzle oil at all the sides. Turn it over and cook again. Serve hot with cu...

HOME MADE VEGETABLE PIZZA I always use to wonder, how to make pizza at home. Then one fine day i experimented it just to see, but fortunately it came out very well, I and husband enjoyed....  So its your turn now... cook the pizza in just 10 minutes and serve..... Cooking time: 10 minutes Serves: 4 Ingredients 8" Pizza base: 2 bases Pizza sauce (I used Fransesco Mutti): 2 tbsp for each pizza base Any vegetables (carrot, corn, beans, cauliflower, paneer etc): 2 cups Mozerella/ any Processed cheese salt as per taste For Seasoning Italian Herbs: Red chilli flakes, Oregano, parsley and tulsi. Preparation Preheat wide pan on a high heat for 3 minutes  Spread 2 tbsp of pizza sauce on each base. Grate some cheese on the bases. Now cover each base with vegetables. Sprinkle some Italian herbs for taste  Finally grate more cheese on all the vegetables If required again sprinkle Italian herbs. Simmer the flame, Place one pizza in that pan and close the...

TUTTY- FRUITY CAKE (Baked in Pressure Cooker) Total Cooking time: 1 hr. Serves: 2-3 Ingredients Unsalted Butter: 1/2 cup Milk maid (condensed milk): 1 1/2 cups Egg Whites: 2 Maida: 1 cup Vanilla essence: 1 tsp Warm milk: 1/4 cup Baking powder: 1/2 tsp Tutty- Fruity: 3/4th  cup Equipments Cake tin, Egg beater/ blender, Pressure cooker without whistle and safety valve and 2 inch thick metal ring. Preparation Sift maida and baking powder for 4-5 times, Mix tutty fruitys well with the flour and keep aside. In a large bowl add butter and condensed milk, whisk well. Add egg whites one by one and whisk again. Add vanilla essence and mix. Now start adding flour mixture slowly little by little and mix softly. In between add little milk also and mix well, continue till all the flour is added and make the cake batter ready. Heat the pressure cooker on high flame for 3-4 minutes with closed lid. after that simmer the flame. Grease the cake baking tin with butter a...

MUSHROOM IN GREENS Cooking time: 30 mins Serves: 3-4 Ingredients Palak bunch: 1 big washed and chopped roughly Mushrooms: 250 gms washed and chopped into big pieces Spring Onions (white and green): 2 medium chopped roughly Tomato: 1 small chopped Green chilli: 3-4 chopped Dhania powder: 1 tsp Salt as per taste Sugar: 1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Hing: 1/4 tsp Garlic: 3-4 cloves chopped finely Oil: 2 tbsp Fresh Cream: 2 tbsp for mixing and for garnish. Coriander leaves (optional) Preparation Roast onion and tomato in a pan for 2 minutes, cool it and grind to a smooth paste keep aside. Put palak in a boiling water, boil for a minute, drain and add cold to it, drain water immediately and grind to a smooth paste to retain green colour. Heat oil in kadai, add jeera, hing, garlic cloves and chilli saute well. Put spring onion -tomato gravy and palak gravy saute for 4-5 minutes on medium heat, till its cooked. Now add raw mushrooms, dhania powder, salt, sugar ...

SPECIAL BRINJAL RICE (VAANGI BAATH) Cooking time - 20 mins, Total preparation time: 1 hr, 30 mins Serves - 3- 4 Ingredients Brinjal: 1/2 kg, cut into 2" strips Basmati rice: 2 cups soaked for 1 hr and drain it.  Onions: 2 medium sliced Green chilli (optional) Coriander: 2 tbsp  Oil: 3 tbsp Turmeric: 1/2 tsp Salt as per taste For the Masala Channa dal : 2 tsp urad dal: 2 tsp hing: 1/2 tsp Coconut: grated 1/2 cup Dhania seeds: 2 tbsp Sesame seeds: 1/2 tsp Red chilies: 2-3  Roast all the above ingredients in 1/2 tsp of oil and grind to a paste. For Seasoning Mustard:1/2 tsp Jeera: 1/2 tsp Hing a pinch Procedure Mix 1/2 tsp of turmeric to brinjals and keep aside. Heat oil in a Pressure cooker, add mustard, jeera and hing. Add onions saute for a minute Add the ground masala, saute for minute until it is cooked. Add turmeric coated brinjals and mix well. Now add rice, 2 cups of water, salt and red chilli powder as per taste and sp...

KESAR SRIKHAND T his is a extremely popular Indian desert where plain yogurt is transformed into melt in the mouth delicacy...In south India this dish is served as a desert after the end of the meal..Srikhand has creamy, semi-soft consistency and is slightly yellowish in colour... Ingredients 1. Hung curd - 1 cup 2. Powdered sugar - 1 1/2 cups 3. Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp 4. Saffron : 6-7 strands mixed with 4-5 tb sp of milk. Preparation 1. Take hung curd in a bowl, add cardomom and mix well. 2. Now go on adding powdered sugar little by little and mix well. No lumps should be formed. 3. Now add little kesar milk and mix well. See the consistency, if its very thick, you can add little more kesar milk. 4. Serve chilled.

URAD DAL VADA Ingredients 1. Urad Dal -1 Cup Soak urad dal for 8 - 10 hrs in water then drain the water completely and immediately grind it to a smooth paste without adding water, I think it will take 4-5 minutes to gring the urad dal to smooth paste.  2. Green chilli -3-4 finely chopped 3. Jeera - 1/2 tsp 4. Coriander -1 tbsp finely chopped 5. Coconut - 2 tsp grated 6. Hing - 1/2 tsp 7. Salt as per taste 8. Oil for deep frying Preparation: 1. Take a bowl add ground urad dal paste, green chilli, Jeera, Coriander, Coconut, Hing and salt as per taste and mix well. Just go on mixing the paste with the hands in the circular motion so that the paste will be fluffy enough.  How to test the paste is fluffy? Take a bowl of water and drop 1/2 tsp of the above paste in the water so that it should come up as soon as you drop it. Then its done and ready to deep fry. 2. Heat Oil in a kadai on medium flame. 3. Add one one scoop of mixed paste in the hot oil and d...

Vegetable Rava-Idly Upma Servings - 4 Cooking time - 20 minutes Ingredients Idly : 8-10 nos mash the idly with hands like grains Onion: 2 medium chopped Chilli: 3-4 chopped finely Tomato: 1 large chopped Potato: 1 medium chopped Beans: 5-6 Carrot- 1 medium chopped Paneer- 1/2 cup chopped (Optional) Channa dal: 1 tsp Urad dal: 1 tsp Ground nuts - 2 tsp Ginger - garlic paste - 1 tsp Mustard and jeera: 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Sugar - 1/4 tsp Oil: 2 tbsp Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Procedure 1. Heat oil in pan, add channa dal, urad dal, mustard, jeera. 2. Now add ginger garlic paste, turmeric and saute. 3. Now add onions, all vegetables and saute for a minute. 4. Add salt, sugar mix well. 5. Add mashed idly, mix well and serve hot...

Mushroom-Pudina ke paratha.. This is protein rich recipe.... tasty bhi and healthy bhi.... I have added mild masala to get the flavour of pudina and taste of mushroom... Serves - 2-3 Cooking Time - 20 minutes Ingredients Wheat flour - 2 cups Salt - 1/2 tsp Oil 1/2 tsp Knead to a smooth dough with water and keep aside for 10 mintes.. Filling Fresh Pudina : 1 cup wash and drain water completely. Mushroom ( Button mushrooms) : 7- 8 buttons finely chopped Green Chilli: 2-3 finely chopped (as per spicy) Mustard: little Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp Jeera powder: 1/4 tsp Ginger garlic paste - 1/4 tsp Onion : 1 medium finely chopped Salt to taste Oil for drizzling. Procedure For filling, 1. In a pan add oil, jeera powder, turmeric, ginger garlic paste and oinons saute for two minutes and keep aside to cool down. once the mixture is cooled completely, add fresh pudina and raw chopped mushroom to the pan and mix well. Now the filling is rea...

MODAK - A special sweet dish prepared on Ganesh Chathurthi`s festival... Ingredients Maida - 1 cup Sooji - 2 tsp a pinch salt Oil - 2 tsp Oil - for deep frying Mix all the above ingredients, heat oil and pour on the floor and mix well. Knead into a soft dough and keep aside for 30 minutes. For Filling Coconut - 2 Cups grated Poppy seeds (Khus-khus) - 1tsp White Til (sesame) - 2 tsp Jaggary (gud) - 1 cup grated Cardomum powder - 1/2 tsp Cashew nuts - 2 tb sp Preparation Dry roast poppy seeds, white til, cashew nuts til golden colour and keep aside. Take a bowl, add grated coconut, jaggary and all all other ingredients, mix well. Now drizzle 1 tsp of oil on the dough knead well. Take marble sized dough and roll out into 2 inch puri. Now fill the filling in the dough and give a modak shape. Now deep fry all the modaks..

SPIRALI TOMATO PASTA SOUP  A delicious tomato pasta soup topped with cilantro and some Italian herbs. Cooking time - 15 minutes                 No of Servings - 2 Total Time - 30 minutes Ingredients Cooked Spirali pasta - 1 cup  Small Onion - 1 roughly chopped Carrot - 1 chopped roughly Small potato - 1 chopped roughly Red ripe Tomatoes - 4 chopped roughly Cinnamon (dalchini) - 1"  Cloves (laung) - 2  Peppercorns - 4-5 Butter - 1 tbsp Tomato ketchup - 1 tsp salt as per taste pepper powder  Italian herbs  Ground to paste Add Coriander, Pudina, garlic, little salt into a grinder and ground into smooth paste. This is for garnishing. Preparation Heat 1 tbsp butter in a cooker, add cinnamon, peppercorns and cloves saute for few seconds. Add chopped onion saute for minute until the onions turn brown. Now add carrot, potato and tomato and saute for 2 minutes. Now add 2 cups of wate...

Cooking time: 15 mins      No of servings: 04 Over all time : 30 mins Ingredients Any sprouts - 1 cup Carrot - 2 medium chopped Potato - 1 medium chopped Peas - 1/2 cup Capsicum - 1 medium chopped Tomato - 1 medium chopped Onion - 1 sliced Beans - 1 cup chopped Cauliflower - 1 cup florets mustard and jeera - 1/2 tsp Ginger - garlic paste - 1 tsp Garam Masala - 1 tsp Kasuri methi - 1/2 tsp Turmeric - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Oil - 1 tb sp Coriander - for garnishing Preparation Method Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard, jeera, ginger garlic paste, onions and saute for a minute till the onions are brown.  Now add all the vegetables, sprouts and stir till cooked. Now add masalas, turmeric, salt and stir well. Add little water and bring to boil. Garnish with coriander. serve hot. Tips: Roasted paneer can also be added.

CARROT GARLIC MASALA RICE wow.... this was a special simple rice that I prepared for my husband today morning... It came out well .....Try it and taste it Cooking time - 10 minutes No of servings - 2 Ingredients Cooked Rice - 1 medium bowl Fresh Carrot - 1 sliced Peas - 2 tbsp Onion - 1 medium chopped Garlic - 6-7 cloves chopped finely Tomato - 1 medium finely chopped Salt as per taste Oil - 1 tsp Butter - 1 tsp Cumin/Jeera - 1/2 tb sp Garam masala - 1 tsp Pepper powder - as per spicy Turmeric - 1/2 tsp Coriander - 1 tb sp Preparation Method Heat the oil and ghee in a pan Add jeera when it splutters add hing and garlic saute for few seconds, add onions and carrot saute for minute till soft. Add peas and tomatoes mix well. Add turmeric, garam masala, pepper powder, salt as per taste and mix well. keep aside for 2 minutes. Now add cooked rice garnish with coriander serve hot .