Carrot Beetroot and Tomato Soup

Carrot 🥕 Beetroot and Tomato 🍅 soup

Does it sound too healthy and tasteless??

Healthy it is for sure but very tasty too..Trust me

Ingredients:

1. Carrot - medium sized- 2nos

2. Tomato - 2 nos

3. Beetroot - 1 nos

4. Black pepper - 10-12 -freshly crush

5. Salt - 1/2 tspn

6. Black salt - 1/2 tspn or to taste 

7. Lemon juice - 2 tspn

Method:

1. Coarsely cut Carrots, tomatoes n Beetroot. Just cut them in bigger pcs

2. In a pressure cooker add these Coarsely cut veggies.

3. Add 700 ml or 2.5 glass of water.

4. Add salt and close the vessel and cook on full flame till one whistle.

5. Once the steam evaporates open the cooker and strain it in a steel vessel or patila.

6. Grind the veggies once they r a bit cool down.

7. Add the mixture back to the strained water. And bring it to boil.

8. Add freshly crushed Black pepper and black salt. Add lemon.

Serve piping hot. 🔥 

Dum Biryani

Ingredients:

1. Chicken- 750gms

2. Rics - 250 gas

3. Curd - 1 cup

4. Big Onion - 3 nos (cut long)

5. Ginger garlic - 1 1/2 Tbsn

6. Green chillies - 3 ( slice in half)

7. Curry patta - 12-15

8. Green Elaichi - 10 nos

9. Laung - 8 nos.

10. Dalchini- 2 inch

11. Black Cardamom - 5 nos

12. Javitri - 2 nos

13. Ghee - 4 Tbsn

14. Oil - to fry onions

15. Biryani Masala - 3 TBsn

16. Chicken Masala - 1 tspn

17. Turmeric - 1/2 tspn

18. Red Chilli powder - 1 tspn

19. Salt - to taste

---》Marinade -

Chicken + Dahi + Ginger Garlic + Red Chilli + Turmeric + Chicken Masala + Biryani Masala + Salt + Green Chilli + Curry patta + Black Cardamom + Green elaichi + laung + Dalchini + javitri 

Mix n put in fridge for 1 hour.

--》Fry onions Till Golden Brown

--》 Boil Rice - Till 50% done

--》 Layering -

Add Marinated chicken in a large heavy bottom pan. Add 1 Tbsn ghee. Add fried onion half quantity. Add half quantity of rice. Fried onion half quantity. 2 Tbsn ghee. Rice layer and add 1 Tbsn ghee.

--》cover lid and seal with dough or keep some heavy weight on lid to keep the lid tight

--》cooking time

Low medium flame - 20 mins

Low flame - 15 mins

Medium flame ( keep the pan on tawa) - 7 mins

Low flame ( on tawa) - 8 mins

Switch off flame and let it rest for 5 mins.

Open lid carefully and mix the layers.

Serve with onion tomato raita.

Pav Bhaji

Winters are incomplete without pav-bhaji 😊😊😊😊😊

Ingredients:

1. Carrot - 2

2. Cauliflower- 1/4

3. Beans - 1 cup

4. Capsicum - 1

5. Boiled Potato - 5 medium sized

6. Onion - diced - 1 nos

7. Tomato - diced - 5-6 nos

8. Oil - 2 Tbsn

6. Pav bhaji Masala - 3 Tbsn

7. Salt - To taste

8. Garam Masala - 1/2 tspn

9. Deghi Mirch - 1 tspn

10. Pav

Method-

1. Roughly cut beans, Cauliflower, carrots and Capsicum and boil

2. Side by side take a kadahi add oil and add onion. Once they become transparent add tomato and saute 

3. Add spices and cook till it leaves oil

4. Add boiled vegetables and boil peas in the vegetable stock

5. Mash. 

6. Add boiled peas and vegetable stock to adjust the consistency.

7. Let it cook until oil separate.

8. Serve with butter pav

Let's bake some cake!

Let's bake some cake!!

Ingredients:

Maida - 250 g

Butter - 250 g

Powdered Sugar - 250 g

Eggs - 4 nos.

Baking Powder - 1 tspn

Baking Soda - 1/4 tspn

Salt - 1/8 tspn

Cashews/nuts/berries/tutti fruity - as desired

Method :

1. Sift maida with baking powder, soda, salt in a bowl.

2. Whip Butter 🧈, sugar, eggs to homogenous consistency in a separate glass 🥣 bowl.

3. Add maida in whipped mixture.

4. Whip till you see air bubbles forming. Add nuts as desired.

5. Smear Baking dish with dry maida and add the whipped mixture to the baking dish.

6. Pre-heat oven at 180°C for 5 minutes.

7. Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes.

8. Poke a toothpick in the center of the cake. If the toothpick comes out clean, your cake is ready to be served. 

Prawn Fried Rice

Prawn Fried Rice

Ingredients:

1. Boiled rice - 60% cooked - 3 cups 

2. Prawns - 200 GM's

3. Capsicum - 1 diced

4. Onion - 1 sliced

5. Green onion leaves - diced

6. Garlic - 7-8 cloves - sliced

7. Soya sauce - 2 tspn

8. Oil - 3 Tbsn

9. Salt - to taste

10. Black pepper - crushed - 5-6 nos.

Method-

1. Boil rice till 60%done. Then strain and keep aside.

2. Clean veins of prawns n break the back tissues of prawns so that they don't curl much on frying. Fry them till light golden.

3. Add the same oil which was used for frying prawns to a kadahi. Add garlic. Saute and add onion. Keep on high flame and saute. Add capsicum and soya sauce and salt. 

4. Add boiled rice and fry for 4-5 mins. 

5. Add prawns and mix. Switch off the flame and add black pepper freshly crushed.

6. Garnish with green onion leaves. 

Golden Fried Prawns

The easiest recipe I can bet!

Ingredients:

1. Deveined prawns - 400 gms ( I have used ITC Large Prawns)

2. All purpose flour / maida - 1 cup

3. Corn flour - 2 TBsn

4. Salt - to taste

5. Pepper powder - 1 tspn

6. Sparkling Water / Soda - 250 ml

Process -

1. Add Maida, corn flour, salt and pepper powder to a bowl and mix. 

2. Add sparkling water slowly and keep stirring. Batter should be flowy but not watery.

3. Take a little amount of dry maida in a plate and add 1/2 tspn of salt and 1/2 tspn pepper. We need this dry mixture to quote the prawns.

4. Make small slits on prawns horizontally. This will keep prevent the prawns to curl and keep them elongated while frying.

5. Then coat the prawns in the dry maida mixture.

6. Heat the oil for frying.

7. Dust the extra mixture and put the prawns in batter and fry for 3-4 mins turning sides. Crispy prawns will be ready.

8. Serve them hot with momo chutney and Garlic Mayonnaise.

Pizza

Veg Pizza + Chicken Tandoori Pizza

Ingredients -

1. Pizza Base 

2. Pizza Sauce

3. Mozzarella cheese

4. Godrej Yummies Chicken Tikka for chicken pizza

Or

Chopped Capsicum, onion and tomato for veg Pizza

Process-

1. Spread Pizza Sauce on Pizza Base

2. Add veges or Chicken topping 

3. Add grated cheese

4. Pre heat microwave at 200° for 2 mins

5. Put the Pizza on grill tray inside the microwave and cook for 13 mins at 170°

6. You can cook for a min extra if the cheese isn't turned brown yet. It depends upon the microwave and quality of cheese sometimes.

Cut the Pizza in 4 pcs with a pizza cutter and serve hot.

Enjoy😊