Strawberry Banana Milkshake
Ingredients:
- Strawberries - 7 to 8
- Banana - 1
- Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
- Milk (cold) - 3 cups
- Sugar - 1/4 cup
- Ice cream - few scoops (vanilla or strawberry flavour)
How to make it:
Blend all the above ingredients in a blender with some ice cream. Pour onto a glass and top with more ice cream. Serve!
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Mixed Fruit JamThis can be made with those fruits available for the season. Its not a must to use all of them. Choose at least 3 types of fruits for better taste.
Ingredients:
- Banana -1
- Fruits - grapes, apple, strawberry, pineapple etc.,
- Sugar - as required
- Citric powder - a pinch (preservative)
How to make it:
Mash bananas. Grind each fruit separately in a blender. For every cup of ground mixture, add 3/4 cup of sugar. Cook on medium heat in a heavy bottom pan until it becomes thick (Dip a scissor inside and when released, it should form a thin line). Add a pinch of citric if making in large quantities.
Ingredients:
- Basmati Rice -2 cups
- Vegetables - 2 cups, chopped (carrot, beans, peas, potato)
- Onion - 1 big, chopped
- Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tbsp
- Yogurt - 1 cup
- Cilantro leaves - 1/2 cup
- Curry leaves - few
- Mint leaves - 1/2 cup
- Milk - 1/4 cup
- Saffron - few strands
- Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 +1/2 tsp
- Bay leaf - 1
- Cloves - 3 or 4, crushed
- Cardamom - 3 or 4, crushed
- Cinnamon - 1/2 inch stick
- Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin - 1/2 tsp
- Cashew nuts - few
- Raisins - few
- Almonds - few, sliced
- Salt - as required
- Oil - 4 tbsp
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
How to make it:
Cook rice and spread it on a plate. Add few drops of oil/ghee and mix well so that the grains do not stick together. Let it cool. Heat few drops of ghee in a pan, add turmeric powder and pour this over the rice and mix it lightly (should be like a mixture of yellow and white colour). Steam cook vegetables until just done. To a cup of yogurt, add chopped cilantro leaves, curry leaves and mint leaves. Warm milk in a separate bowl and add saffron. Heat little ghee in a pan, add the cashews, almonds and raisins and fry until light brown. Take it out and set aside. In the same pan, add remaining ghee and oil. Add bay leaf, fennel, cumin, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon and fry for a while. Add the chopped onions and ginger garlic paste and fry until onion turns light brown. Add chilli powder and turmeric powder and saute until raw smell leaves. Add the steamed vegetables, salt and mix well. Add the yogurt mix and little water and cook until it starts to thicken. Now, in a baking tray, layer vegetables and rice alternatively, starting with vegetables and ending with rice. On the top layer of the rice, pour the saffron soaked in milk. Cover with a lid or foil and seal tightly. Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit in a pre-heated oven for about 15 minutes. Take it out. Let it cool a bit. Transfer to a serving bowl (if necessary, this is just to mix it lightly) add the fried nuts and raisins. Serve hot with chips and Raita!
Raita:
Ingredients:
- Yogurt - 1 1/2 cups
- Onion - 1, finely chopped
- Tomato - 1, finely chopped
- Cilantro leaves - few, chopped
- Chilli powder - a pinch
- Jal jeera powder - a pinch (if preferred)
- Salt - as required
How to make it:
Mix onion with a pinch a salt and let it stand for few minutes. Add tomato, cilantro, salt and yogurt and mix well. Sprinkle chilli powder and jal jeera powder on top.
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