Tomato Soup

Ingredients

5-6 tomatoes
1 tsp butter
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp corn flour
½ tsp ginger garlic paste
½ tsp back pepper powder
Salt to taste

Recipe

Boil tomatoes and form a puree of it
In a pan take butter, add ginger garlic paste to it and then add tomato puree to it
Now add sugar, salt, black pepper and corn flour mixed in water
Mix well till it achieves soup like consistency
Now serve in a soup bowl and top it with cream

Onion Pickle

Ingredients

250 gm small onion
1 ½ tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp powdered rai
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp onion seeds or kalaunji
2 tsp crushed saunf or fennel seeds
½ cup vinegar
1 cup oil

Recipe

First peel off the onions and make four cuts on it without cutting it into four pieces
In a bowl take the onions, add salt, turmeric, red chilli powder, rai and mix well
Now add 1 tsp sugar, kalaunji, saunf and ½ cup vinegar
Now heat oil in a pan and then allow it to cool
Now add this oil to the onion mixture
Now put the onion pickle in jar and keep it in sunlight for 2-3 days
Your onion pickle is ready to eat
Keep in mind that it would last for just 3-4 months

Nariyal Besan Burfi

Ingredients

½ cup grated coconut
½ cup milk
½ cup besan or gram flour
½ cup ghee or clarified butter
½ cup sugar

Recipe

In a bowl take grated coconut, add milk to it, followed by gram flour, ghee and sugar
Mix them well
Take a pan and pour the mixture in it
Now cook it on low flame for 20-25 minutes stirring it all the time
When the mixture starts leaving ghee on the sides, take a greased plate and pour the mixture in it
Allow it to cool and sprinkle it with cardamom powder and dry fruit of your choice
Cut it into pieces of your choice
Nariyal Besan Burfi is ready

Hara Bhara Paushtik Parantha

Ingredients

½ cup flour
1 tsp besan or gram flour
3-4 tsp boiled and mashed potatoes
2 tsp chopped palak or spinach
½ tsp dhania or coriander
¼ tsp garam masala
¼ tsp red chilli powder
½ tsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp oil
Salt to taste

Recipe

In a bowl take flour, gram flour and then put chopped spinach, spices, ginger garlic paste and oil and then sieve it with lukewarm water.
Make dough out of it
Now make equal balls
Flatten it and cook on a heavy tawa
Use oil to shallow fry it
Your Hara Bhara Paushtik Parantha is ready
Serve it with curd and pickles

Gajar Ka Halwa

Ingredients

1 kg carrots
250 gm khoya or mawa
3-4 tbsp desi ghee or clarified butter
Sugar as per your taste
Chopped dry fruits including cashew nut, pistachio, almonds, raisins etc

Recipe

Wash and grate carrots
In a heavy pan put grated carrots and sugar and cook it without a lid
When cooked, add clarified butter to it and cook for some more time
Now add mawa to it
Mix well and add dry fruits to it
Serve hot

Shahenshahi Aloo

Ingredients

2 nos boiled and finely chopped potatoes
2 nos laung or cloves
2 tbsp curd
1/ 2 cup Phool Makhana
2 tsp chopped mint leaves
2 tsp finely chopped onions
2 tsp chopped tomatoes
1 tsp green coriander
1 tsp cashenut
1 tsp red chilli powder
½ tsp garam masala
1 tbsp cream
Salt to taste

Recipe

In a pan take one tbsp ghee or oil
Add cloves to it and then add potatoes
Now add rest of the ingredients to it
Add ½ cup water and cook on low flame for 5 to 7 minutes
Serve it hot with chapatti or bread of your choice

Veg Munchow Soup

Ingredients

2 tsbp chopped capsicum
2 tbsp chopped cabbage
2 tbsp beans
2 tbsp chopped carrots
½ tsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp oil
½ tsp black pepper powder
¼ tsp chilli sauce
1 tsp soya sauce
11/2 tbsp corn flour
1 cup fried noodles
1 tbsp vinegar
Salt to taste

Recipe

In a pan take some oil and sauté chopped garlic in it
Now add all the vegetables to it
Add 11/2 cup water to it and then add salt, pepper, chilli sauce, soya sauce and vinegar to it and cook it
Now take corn flour soaked in water and add to it
Again cook for some time
Now add fried noodles to it and serve piping hot