Coconut Pancake

Ingredients

4-5 tbsp refined flour
½ cup milk
1 tbsp honey
4-5 tbsp grained sugar
3 tbsp powder sugar
4-5 tbsp grated fresh coconut
Pinch of baking soda

Recipe

In the refined flour add grained sugar, milk, honey and mix well
Now to this mixture add baking soda
Pour oil on non stick pan and make pancakes of this mixture
When pancake is made, put grated coconut and powder sugar over it
Your coconut pancake is ready

Boondi ki Sabzi

Ingredients½ cup Boondi

1 onion
1 tomato
1 piece ginger
1-2 green chilly
1 tsp coriander powder
½ tsp cumin seeds or zeera
½ tsp turmeric powder or haldi
½ tsp salt
½ tsp garam masala
1 cup water

Recipe

Grind onions, tomato, ginger and green chilly and form a paste
Pour 2 tbsp oil in pan and sauté it till it leaves oil at it ends
Now add all the spices to it
Pour 1 cup water and boil it until it forms gravy like consistency
Now turn off the gas and add Boondi to it
Serve boondi ki subzi hot with chapatti

Green Pea Tikki

Ingredients

1 cup boiled peas
2 tbsp roasted gram flour powder
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp chopped ginger
1 tbsp coriander and mint leaves
1 tbsp corn flour
1 tbsp cumin seeds or jeera
1 tbsp oil
½ tsp chat masala
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder to taste

Recipe

Take oil in pan and add ginger garlic paste and cumin seeds
Now add boiled peas, coriander-mint leaves, salt, chilly powder
and chat masala to it
Allow it to cool and make a paste of it in the grinder
Now add gram flour and corn flour to the paste and make small patties from it
Shallow fry them and serve with chutney or sauce of your choice

Rice Flour Halwa

Ingredients

3 tbsp rice flour
2 tbsp clarified butter or ghee
3 tbsp sugar
Dry fruits of your choice
½ cup milk
½ cup cream

Recipe

Take a pan and cook rice flour in it till golden brown
Now put milk, sugar, cream and mix well
When it thickens, put dry fruits in it and serve hot

Bread Pizza

Ingredients

2 pc White or Brown Bread
1 chopped onion
1 chopped capsicum
1 chopped tomato deseeded
1 tsp salted butter
½ tsp black pepper
3-4 tbsp grated mozzarella cheese
Salt to taste

Recipe

Take butter in pan, add onion and capsicum and sauté
Now add tomato to it and add salt and black pepper to it
Spread butter on the bread and put the mixture prepared over it
Now generously sprinkle cheese on top and grill it in an oven

Bhelpuri

Ingredients
1/2 cup murmure or roasted rice puffs
4 tbsp roasted peanuts
4 tbsp sev
4 tbsp papri
4 tbsp potato chips
1 tsp chaat masala
Salt to taste
1-2 chopped green chilly
1 chopped onion
1 chopped boiled potato
Mint chutney
Tamarind or imli chutney

Recipe

First saute rice puffs in a heated pan with ghee and turmeric powder so that it becomes crisp
Take out the rice puffs and allow it to cool
Now add all the above ingredients to the rice puff and mix well
Put mint and tamarind chutney as per your taste
Put the mixture in a plate and sprinkle it with chat masala, sev and coriander leaves
Your Mumbaiya Bhelpuri is ready to be eaten

Gostava Potato

Ingredients

½ cup boiled potato
1 cup thick buttermilk
1 tbsp oil
2 dried red chillies
1 pc bay leaf
3-4 laung or clove
1 pc cinnamon
1 tsp dhania powder
1 tsp garam masala
½ tsp zeera or cumin seeds
½ tsp white pepper
½ tsp whole coriander
Salt to taste

Recipe

Take oil in a pan and shallow fry red chilly in it
Now add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon and cumin seeds to it
Now add thick buttermilk to it
Stir it well and add coriander powder, white pepper, whole coriander and salt to it
Now add chopped potatoes to it and cook it till the mixture thickens
Garnish it with dried red chillies

Chocolate Coffee Shake

Ingredients

1 cup milk
2 tbsp grated chocolate
1 tbsp coffee powder
2 tbsp fresh cream

Recipe

Melt chocolate in an oven and add it to the milk
Now add coffee powder to it and shake in a mixer
Pour the mixture in a glass and put fresh cream and grated chocolate over it

Banana Split

Ingredients

2 sliced bananas
2 tbsp roasted almond and cashewnut
4 tbsp chocolate sauce
5 tbsp vanilla ice cream
4 tbsp fresh cream

Recipe

Put the sliced bananas in a plate
Pour fresh cream over it
Now its turn to pour chocolate sauce over it
Now put roasted nuts over it
Now add ice cream on the top
Again put cream over it
Now again put nuts over it
Sprinkle it with some grated chocolate and serve it

Gulabjamun

Ingredients

200 gm Mawa or Khoya
50 gm Paneer or cottage cheese
4 tbsp Maida or refined flour
Pinch of Soda Bicarbonate
Sugar Syrup
Dryfruits for filling
Oil or Desi Ghee for frying

Recipe

Mix cottage cheese and Mawa together
Now put soda bicarbonate in refined flour and sieve it
Add this to the mixture of Mawa and Cottage Cheese ensuring no lumps remain
Make equal balls of them and fill them with dryfruits of your choice
Now heat ghee in a pan and ensure gas is on sim
Now fry these balls until golden brown
Take them out of the pan on a plate and dip them in the sugar syrup
Serve them hot

Badami Paneer or Almond Cottage Cheese in Gravy

Ingredients

200 gm Paneer or Cottage Cheese
½ cup cashewnut, almond and melon seeds paste
½ cup milk, curd and cream mixture
2 tbsp white or salted butter
2 tsp ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
Black Pepper to taste

Recipe

Take butter in pan, add ginger garlic paste to it
Saute it and add the cashewnut paste to it
Put some water and cook it for a while
Now add cottage cheese cubes and mixture of milk
Further add salt and black pepper to it
Serve hot with parantha or naan

Phirni

This is a famous sweet dish of Jammu and Kashmir

Ingredients

1 cup milk
½ cup water
4 tsp rice powder
1 tsp cardamom powder
4 tsp sugar
1-2 threads kesar or saffron
Dryfruits

Recipe

Take a pan, add ½ cup water and 1 cup milk and boil it
When it boils, add rice powder to it and mix it well
Now add cardamom powder, dry fruit, saffron and sugar to it
Allow it to thicken and pour in bowls. You can even put them in mitti kulhars.
Garnish it with dryfruits and allow it to cool in refrigerator for an hour

Beetroot Halwa or Chakunder Halwa

Ingredients

1 cup grated beetroot (peel beetroot and then grate it)
1 tsp cardamom powder
4 tsp sugar
½ cup Mawa or Khoya or Indian milk food
2 cup milk
Dryfruits

Recipe

Take a pan, add milk to it and boil it
Now add grated beetroot to it and cook it
To it add cardamom powder and sugar and cook it
After it cooks, add mawa and mix it well
Now garnish it with dryfruits and serve hot

Sweet Coconut Puri or Meethi Narial Puri

Ingredients

1 cup flour or atta
¼ cup fresh grated coconut or narial
½ cup sugar grinded with 2 small green cardamoms
¼ cup Coconut powder
Oil for frying

Recipe

Take the flour, add 4 tsp sugar and 2 tsp oil to it, bit of water to create a dough
Now create equal balls of this dough, flatten it and spread grounded sugar and fresh grated coconut over it
Now fold it and flatten it again giving it a round shape
Now apply ghee to it and also apply coconut powder on both sides
Deep fry it
Soak out the oil out of it and serve hot

Cucumber Soup with Cottage Cheese Balls

Ingredients

For Cucumber Soup

1 cup cucumber juice
1 tsp chopped onion
½ tsp black pepper powder
1/1/2 cornflour
Salt to taste

For Cottage Cheese Balls

½ cup cottage cheese or paneer
¼ tsp black pepper
1/1/2 tsp corn flour
Salt to taste

Recipe

For Cheese Balls

Mix all the ingredients together, make small balls of equal sizes and deep fry them


For Cucumber Soup

Take a pan and put 1 tsp ghee or clarified butter in it
Now add 1 tsp chopped onion and sauté it
Now its turn to add cucumber juice, salt and pepper to it
When it starts to boil add 1 tsp cornflour to it
Place it in a soup bowl, add cheese balls to it and serve hot

Paneer Pudina Kebab

This is a vegetarian kebab recipe

Ingredients

1 cup Paneer or cottage cheese
¼ cup chopped pudina or mint leaves
2-3 tsp dry fruit
1 tsp white pepper
½ tsp chat masala
2 tsp corn flour
Salt to taste
Oil for shallow frying

Recipe

Take a bowl and mash cottage cheese in it
Add chopped mint leaves to it, salt, white pepper powder and cornflour
Now make equal balls of the mixture, stuff it with dry fruit, flatten it to make patty out of it and shallow fry
Serve hot with pudina or mint chutney

Shahajani Pulao

This is a popular rice recipe of India

Ingredients

1 cup raw rice
½ cup curd
2 cup water
1 chopped onion
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp zeera or cumin seeds
3-4 nos laung or cloves
1 pc dalchini or cinnamon
2 nos small green cardamom
Dryfruits for garnishing
Salt to taste
2 tsp Ghee or clarified butter

Recipe

Take ghee in a pan, add zeera, cashew nut, walnut and onion until golden brown
Now add rice, curd, salt, turmeric, water and cook it
When rice cooks take an empty round bowl and place it in it
Now take it out of the bowl after it takes it shape and garnish with dry fruit and fried onion pieces

Malabari Chutney

Ingredients
½ cup Chana Daal
½ cup green coconut
½ cup roasted peanuts
1 green chilly
rock salt as per taste
1 tsp rai
1 pc adrak or ginger
4 tsp tamarind water

Recipe
Soak chana daal for 2-3 hours in water and then roast it
Take a jar ad add to it roasted chana daal, roasted peanut, coconut,
chilly, ginger and rock salt
Also add tamarind water along with normal water and churn it to form a paste
Now take a pan, add mustard oil, heat it and add rai until it crackles
Now pour it over the paste
Garnish it with pieces of coconut and serve it with any Malabari
cuisine or food of your choice

Karele ka Parantha or Bitter Gourd Flatbread

Ingredients
½ cup deseeded karela or bitter gourd
1/4 cup makki ka atta or flour of corn
¼ cup wheat flour
¼ cup besan or gram flour
1 tsp saunf or fennel seeds
¼ tsp kasuri methi
3-4 tsp curd
3-4 tsp chopped onions
Milk
Salt to taste
¼ tsp red chilly powder
Ghee

Recipe
Add curd and salt to the karela and keep aside for an hour so that the
bitterness goes away
After an hour wash the karela and add atta, besan, makki ka atta,
saunf, kasuri methi, chopped onions, salt, 1 tsp ghee and add few tsp
of milk to create a dough
Flatten it into round shape and shallow fry in ghee
Serve hot with curd or pickle of your choice

Masala Arbi or Spicy Colocasia

Ingredients
250 gm arbi or colocasia
1 tsp ajwain or carom seeds
2 tsp ginger julians
1-2 red chillies
1 tsp dhania or coriander seeds
1 tsp garam masala
2 tsp besan or gram flour
Oil for frying

Recipe
Boil arbi, peel it and deep fry in oil
Roast besan in pan
Now take another pan, add 2 tsp oil, add ajwain, garam
masala, salt, besan and ginger julians
Now add arbi to it, mix it well and sprinkle it with amchur
Serve hot with chapatti