Khaja

Ingredients:  
• 250 gm All Purpose Flour
• 100 gm Ghee
• 100 gm Sugar
• A pinch on salt

Method:
Prepare the dough hard by adding 2 tsp oil and a pinch of salt in all purpose flour.
After your Dough is ready, prepare small Roti with the dough.
Take three roti made out of this dough and apply ghee on all three roti and keep these roti together.
Role all these roti’s together and prepare a roll of it.
Cut this role in small peaces as shown in figure, and deep fry it until golden brown.
Keep this aside.
Now prepare sugar syrup with 100 gm sugar, and dip these cut peaces of small roll in the syrup and after removing them from this syrup keep them aside for get into the room temperature.
Your Khaja are ready to serve.

Happy Diwali

Toor Daal

Ingredients:

1 cup Tuvar (Toor) Daal
1 Pinch Turmeric Powder
Salt To Taste
Lemons
1/2 tsp Jaggery
1 Pinch Asafoetida
1 tbsp Ghee
2 Dry Red Chillies
1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds
3 Garlic Cloves

Method:
Pressure cook tuvar dal with sufficient water and turmeric powder.
Mash the dal, after it has been cooked.
Chop the garlic cloves finely.
Heat the ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds, dry red chillies and garlic cloves. Fry till they pop up.
Add the dal with 2 cups of water and salt.
Cook until the toor daal boils, then add jaggery. Cook for 4-5 minutes more.
When the tuvar dal is cooled add lemon juice and serve.

Aloo Matar (Potato Green Pease)

Ingredients:

3 Potatoes
1/2 cup Peas
Salt To Taste
3 Green chilies
1 Onion
3 Tomatoes, chopped finely
1 inch Ginger
1/2 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Red chili powder
1/2 tsp Garam masala
2 tbsp Oil
1 tea spoon Turmeric powder
Handful Pinch Coriander leaves

Method:
• Boil the potatoes and peas. Cut half the potatoes into big pieces and mash the other half.
• Grind onions, chilies, ginger with little water to fine paste.
• Heat oil, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and fry till they pop up.
• Add the ground paste and fry until it is done.
• Add tomatoes, salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Add the boiled potatoes, peas, one cup of water. Cover and cook for few minutes.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with parathas.