Shahi Kheer

This is an Indian sweet recipe

Ingredients

½ cup moong dhuli daal
½ cup cottage cheese or paneer
2 cup milk
4 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp clarified butter or Desi Ghee
Dry fruits for garnishing

Recipe

Soak Daal in water for 3-4 hours
Now make a paste of the daal in the mixer
Take ghee in a pan and cook the paste until golden brown
Now add milk to it and stir it for a while
Add mashed cottage cheese to it
Add sugar and mix well until it thickens
Garnish it with dry fruits and serve it either hot or cold

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Palak Paneer Parantha

This is a nutritious Punjabi breakfast

Ingredients

½ cup chopped spinach
½ cup cottage cheese or paneer
1-2 green chillies
1 cup flour or atta
½ tsp coriander powder
½ tsp red chilly powder
¼ tsp pomegranate powder or anardana
Oil for frying

Recipe

Take a bowl and add spinach, cottage cheese, flour, chopped green chillies, spices and make dough out of it
Now make small patties of it and flatten it into round shape
Fry it on a tawa or heavy bottom pan
When it gets crispy and brown from both sides take it off the pan and place on a plate
Pour generous quantities of butter over and serve it hot with curd

Mango Dessert

This is a mango dessert prepared from Mango fruit found in abundance in Asia

Ingredients

1 cup full cream milk
½ cup cream
½ cup chopped alphonso mango
¼ tbsp cinnamon powder
2 tbsp sugar

Recipe

Take a pan, pour milk in it and boil until it thickens
Add cream and sugar and mix it well
Now add chopped mangoes
Its turn to add cinnamon powder
Now add mint leaves to it
Take serving glass, pour the mixture and keep it in the freezer
Serve cold

Bengali Asla

This is a Bengali sweet dish

Ingredients

1 cup milk
2 tbsp custard powder
4 pieces Rasgulla (Bengali sweet)
Yellow food grade color
Sugar to taste
Dry fruit of your choice for garnishing

Recipe

Boil milk in a pan and add sugar to it
Take 2 tbsp boiled milk, add custard powder to it and yellow food grade color and stir well
Add this mixture to boiled milk and make custard
Squeeze the sugary syrup from the rasagulla, cut it into two pieces and place them in a serving dish
Pour custard over it, garnish it with dry fruits and allow it to refrigerate
Serve cold

Fried Rice

This is a Chinese dish which is quite popular worldwide

Ingredients

1 cup parboiled rice
½ cup capsicum chopped
½ cup carrot chopped
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp soya sauce
½ tsp chilli sauce
½ tsp vinegar
2 tsp oil
Salt to taste
Red Chilli powder as per taste

Recipe

Take oil in pan and add ginger garlic paste to it
Add chopped vegetables to it and sauté it
Now add salt, red chilly powder, chilli sauce, soya sauce and stir for a while
Add parboiled rice to it and cook for a while
Serve hot with chilly chicken or chilly paneer

This is a Punjabi recipe prepared in a different manner from the usual Saag eaten in Punjab and other parts of North India

Ingredients

1 Cup Palak or Spinach puree
½ cup tomato puree
2 tbsp roasted peanuts
2 tbsp chopped onion
2 tbsp Achaar or pickle masala (pickle of your choice)
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
½ tsp Garam Masala
½ tsp Dhania powder
½ tsp red chilly powder
Salt to taste

Recipe

Wash spinach, blanch in water and grind to make a fine paste
Take oil in pan, saute onion in it, add ginger garlic paste and other spices to it
Add tomato puree to it and stir for a while
Now add spinach paste to it and again stir for a while
Add roasted peanuts to it
Now it’s the turn for adding pickle masala to it
Garnish it with cream and serve with bread of your choice