Rasgulla

Ingredients:
Milk  1litre
lemon 1
sugar 2cups
water 4cups
Preparation:
1.Take a pan and boil milk.
2.Switch off the gas and slowly add lemon juice.
3.Take this milk in a wetcloth and drain the water,squeeze the cloth properly.
4.Take this chenna from cloth and knead the chenna in a plain surface with hand like a chapatidough.
5.Prepare small balls from chenna dough(make small balls because rasgullas becomes double size when boiled.)
6.Bring water to boil in a pressure cooker and add sugar.When sugar syrup starts boiling add chenna balls and pressure cook for 1whistle.(takes 8-10 minutes)
7.Now take the rasgullas with the spatula carefully in a bowl and pour sugar syrup on top of them.
8.Refridgerate the rasgullas for 4hours and serve it cool.

Note:
1.Do not over cook rasgullas for longtime because rasgullas will become hard.

Chana dal parata

Ingredients:
Chana dal 1cup
wheat flour 2cups
oil few tsps
salt to taste
ajwain 1/4tsp
small onion 1
ginger 1/2inch
turmeric a pinch
greenchillies 4to5
amchoorpowder 1/2tsp
garam masala powder 1/2tsp


Preparation:
1.Soak chana dal for about 1hour and cook dal with turmeric,water in a vessel for 30minutes.(dal should not be mushy)
2.Drain off excess water and cool it completely.(you can use this water for gravies or rasam or sambar)
3.Mix dal,salt,onion,greenchillies,ginger,garam masala,amchoorpowder,ajwain using blender and blend it like a fine powder.
4.Mix wheatflour,oil 2tsp,salt 1/2tsp,water and make a soft dough.
5.Divide the dough into equal parts and fill chana dal mixture into each ball.
6.Now roll each filled ball like a parata and heat on a tawa with oil.
7.Do the same with remainind balls and serve with curd or any pickle.

Dhokla

Ingredients:
Gram flour or Besan 1cup
curd  1/2cup
salt to taste
green chillies 3
baking soda 1/2tsp
lemon juice 2tsp
Ginger paste 1tsp
turmeric 1/4tsp
corinader leaves 1/4bunch
jeera 1tsp
mustard seeds 1tsp
urad dal 1tsp
oil 2tsp
grated coconut 2tsp

Procedure:
1.Mix salt,soda,sugar,lemon juice in 1/4cup of water.
2.Add soda mix,curd,ginger paste,chopped greenchillies,turmeric,coriander to the besan and mix well.
3.Take a small bowl and grease with one tsp of oil and pour the batter into this bowl.
4.Steam cook this batter in pressurecooker for 12 to 15min like we do for idlis.
5.Switch off the stove and cool it for 5 minutes.
6.Take one plate and invert the bowl into the plate, dhokla should easily fall on to the plate.
7.Now heat a pan with one tsp of oil and prepare tadka with jeera,mustard seeds,uraddal.
8.Now cut the dhokla into small squares and pour this tadka over it.
9.Garnish with grated coconut and serve it.

Strawberries,Apple in choclate sauce

Ingredients:
Fresh strawberries 5
Dark choclate bar 1
Milk few drops
butter 1tsp
Nuts powder 1tsp
Procedure:
1.Heat a pan with 1tsp of butter,add  choclate pieces,milk and whisk for 2mintues.
2.Dip the strawberries in choclate sauce.
3.Now put the strawberries in fridge for 2hours and decorate as u like.

4.Serve chilled Strawberries.

Apples in choclate sauce with almond powder

Cheesy palak bites

I  saw this recpie in kavya's blog,it came out very tasty.
To bake the patties it took for me about 45to 50 min.
Click here for recipe

Penne Pasta in white sauce

Ingredients:
Pasta 1cup
Red or green bell pepper 1
2tsp Maida
2tsp cheese
1tsp oregano
Boiled Sweetcorn 2tsp
Salt to taste
Olives green or black 2 to 3(optional)
Pepper
Brocolli 4florets
1tsp butter
3tsp chopped garlic
1cup milk
3tsp cream
Preparation:
1.Pour water in a big vessel,while boiling water add one tsp of oil,salt,pasta to it and cook pasta as per instruction in packet.
2.Strain water in pasta and cool it.
3.Heat butter in another pan,add garlic and fry for a minute.
4.Add maida and fry for few seconds and add milk,cream and stir continously so that no lumps to be formed.
5.Add salt,pepper,oregano,grated cheese,redchilly flakes.
6.Now add boiled vegetables(capsicum,brocolli,corn) and boiled pasta.
7.Garnish with grated cheese,olives and serve it hot.

Kerala Paratha

Ingredients:
Maida 1cup
milk /2cup
water
oil
salt 1tsp
sugar 1tsp
Preparation:
Check the video to learn malabar parata