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.

Aalu Baigan (Brinjal Potato)

                                                 
Ingredients:
Brinjal  – ½ kg, 3-4 nos, cut into medium pieces
Potatoes – 2 medium size, peeled and cubed
Onion – 1 medium size, finely chopped
Tomato – 1 medium size, finely chopped
Ginger – 1 inch piece, peeled and crushed
Garlic – 2-3 cloves, peeled and crushed
Green chilli – 1-2, small, slit into halves
Chilli powder – 1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon
Cummin powder – 1 teaspoon
Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as desired
Oil – 1 tablespoon
Coriander leaves – for garnishing

Method:

Dice the Brinjal and potato into a bowl with cold water (to avoid it turning brown). Pop the mustard seeds up heating the oil in a large pot. Add garlic, ginger, and green chilli and stir for one minute. Add onions and saute until tender. Add tomatoes and fry until oil starts to separate. Add all the spices and fry for 2-3 minutes. Add potatoes and fry for 4-5 minutes. If required add a little water at this time. Add Brinjal and fry for 3-4 minutes. Add in 2 cups of water and simmer for approximately 25-30 minutes. When potatoes and Brinjal are fully cooked, garnish with coriander leaves. Enjoy! Good side dish for roti, rice, paratha, etc.

Gulab Jamun

Ingredients:

1 cup instant nonfat dry milk
1/4 cup all.purpose flour
2 pinches baking soda
3 tablespoons melted ghee
3 to 4 tablespoons milk
1 cup light brown sugar
3 cup water
7 cardamom pods
2 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla essence


Method:
In a large bowl, mix dry milk powder, flour, baking soda
and ghee; using both hands, rub the mixture. Add the
milk to the ingredients. Knead for another 5 minutes.
Roll dough into small balls.

To prepare syrup, boil the brown sugar and 3 cups water
in a pot for half an hour over low medium temperature.
Add 2 cups oil to a small pot and fry the small balls until
they are brown. After all balls are fried, reheat the sugar
water. Add cardamom seed. As soon as it begins to boil,
add the balls and simmer for 15 minutes.

When the balls absorb the syrup, turn off the heat.
Remove the balls with slotted spoon. Stir the essence into
the syrup and pour the mixture over the balls.
Serve hot or cold.

Gajar Halwa or Carrot Halwa

Ingredients:

    * Carrots - 6 (grated finely)
    * Milk - 3 cups
    * Sugar - 1 cup
    * Mawa - 1/2 cup (powdered milk)
    * Khoya - 3 tsp (ricotta cheese)
    * Almonds - 1/8 cup (chopped)
    * Cardamoms - 5 (skinned and crushed fine)
    * Pistachios - 2-3 (powdered)
    * Ghee - 1/4 cup (clarified butter)
    * Raisins - 1 tsp

Method:

    * Boil the carrots in the milk in an open pan maintaining a low flame. Constantly stir.
    * When carrots are cooked, take them out and drain any excess milk.
    * Pour milk powder (mava), the ricotta cheese and the sugar to the cooked carrots.
    * In a frying pan heat the ghee, now add the carrot mixture and keep high flame until the carrot paste loses the milky texture and later turns into golden brown color.Make sure sugar has totally dissolved.
    * Add the raisins, cardamoms, powdered pistas and the almonds.
    * Heat through and serve either hot or cold with cream on the side.