Month: October 2017

Corn Bhel /Chaat (2 मिनट्स कॉर्न चाट )-Popular Indian Street food- Healthy Snacks For Kids

Ingredients –

  • Boiled corn – 2 cups
  • Black salt – 1/2 tsp(as per your taste)
  • A pinch of Black paper
  • Red chilly flakes (as per your taste)
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
  • Roasted peanuts – 1 tbsp.
  • Finely chopped Veggies (onions, capsicum and tomato) as per your choice
  • Chat masala – 1/2 tsp
  • Tamarind chutney (as per your taste)
  • Sev / spicy mixture – 1/2 cup
  • Boiled and chopped potato (optional)
  • Chopped coriander leaves (optional)

Method –

  1. Take a bowl add all ingredients and mix well.
  2. Taste the chat before serving and adjust the
    salt and spice according to your taste.
  3. Corn chaat is ready, serve immediately.

Chom Chom Recipe(बड़ी आसानी से बनाये मार्केट जैसा चम् चम् मिठाई) –Bengali sweet Recipe

Ingredients –

  1. Whole milk – 1-2 liter
  2. Lemon (you can also use vinegar)
  3. Sugar – (as per your taste)
  4. Few Whole Cardamom
  5. Food color (Red, Yellow) – as per your choice
  6. For coating – Dry coconut powder

Method –

For chena (paneer) –

  • Boil whole milk in a  pan on medium heat.
  • Keep stirring once a while.
  • When milk is boiled switch off the heat and start adding lemon juice, as the milk starts to ferment stop adding lemon juice.
  • Place a muslin/cotton cloth in a strainer and put the fermented milk in it, to separate remaining water from chena.
  • Add 1/2 cup water into the chena and squash.
  • Place the chena on the plate and mix well until its becomes smooth.
  • Divide the chena into three portions and add 2 drops of  food color in one portion and mix well.
  • You can add different colors for other portions if you want.
  • Take small portion of chena in your hand and shape it into small ball or cylinder shape.
  • Roll the chena balls between your palms and keep them on a plate.
  • Add 3 cups of water into the pan, cardamom powder, sugar and let it boil.
  • Now put all the chena balls in boiling sugar syrup and close the lid, Cook for 15-20 minutes on high heat.
  • After 15- 20 minutes open the lid and cook for other 5 -10 minutes.
  • Turn off the stove and let it cool down completely.
  • Now take them out in a strainer for 15-20 minutes to drain extra sugar syrup.
  • Coat with coconut powder or khoya .
  • Chom chom sweets are ready to serve..

Note –

  • You can also use readymade unsalted Paneer from market.

Kaju Apple (Cashew Apple)-बस १० मिनट्स में बनाये करवा चौथ के लिए स्पेशल मिठाई –Karwa Chouth Special

Ingredients –

  • Cashew nuts (kaaju) – 2 cups
  • Sugar – 1 cup (as per your taste)

For decoration-

  • Food color Red and Yellow for decoration.
  • Few cardamom skins
  • Cloves (long)
  • Clarified butter/ghee

Method –

  • Add cashew nuts in the grinder and prepare fine powder.
  • Heat the kadhai/non-stick pan and add ghee( 1 tsp), sugar and 1/4 cup water.
  • Mix well and let the water boil.
  • Add a pinch of yellow color.
  • Prepare sugar syrup and check with your fingers it should be 1 string.
  • Once sugar syrup is ready add cashew powder and keep stirring it and cook it on medium to low flame.
  • Keep cooking it for some more time until it becomes thick paste.
  • Switch off the heat and let it cool down.
  • Grease your palms with ghee and make small balls from the dough, roll it between your palms.
  • Press with your thumb in the center of it.
  • Repeat the same for rest of the dough.
  • Garnish the Kaju apple with cloves and cardamom skin.
  • With the help of brush and red food color, decorate the kaju apple.
  • Repeat the same for rest of the Kaju Apple
  • Kaju Apple is ready, refrigerate to keep it fresh up to 1 week.

Kaju Apple (Cashew Apple)-बस १० मिनट्स में बनाये करवा चौथ के लिए स्पेशल मिठाई –Karwa Chouth Special

Ingredients –

  • Cashew nuts (kaaju) – 2 cups
  • Sugar – 1 cup (as per your taste)

For decoration-

  • Food color Red and Yellow for decoration.
  • Few cardamom skins
  • Cloves (long)
  • Clarified butter/ghee

Method –

  • Add cashew nuts in the grinder and prepare fine powder.
  • Heat the kadhai/non-stick pan and add ghee( 1 tsp), sugar and 1/4 cup water.
  • Mix well and let the water boil.
  • Add a pinch of yellow color.
  • Prepare sugar syrup and check with your fingers it should be 1 string.
  • Once sugar syrup is ready add cashew powder and keep stirring it and cook it on medium to low flame.
  • Keep cooking it for some more time until it becomes thick paste.
  • Switch off the heat and let it cool down.
  • Grease your palms with ghee and make small balls from the dough, roll it between your palms.
  • Press with your thumb in the center of it.
  • Repeat the same for rest of the dough.
  • Garnish the Kaju apple with cloves and cardamom skin.
  • With the help of brush and red food color, decorate the kaju apple.
  • Repeat the same for rest of the Kaju Apple
  • Kaju Apple is ready, refrigerate to keep it fresh up to 1 week.

Sheera Recipe-Suji/Semolina Halwa(सूजी का हलवा)–Suji Ki Barfi

Ingredients –

  • Suji/ Semolina – 1 cup
  • Sugar(as per your taste)
  • Ghee/ Butter – 2 tsps. (if required you can add more)
  • A pinch of Cardamom Powder

For garnishing –

  • Fine chopped Pistachio, Almonds
  • Saffron (Optional)
  • Food color (yellow) Optional

Method –

  1. Heat a pan, add suji and fry on a low heat.
  2. Until it begins to smell good and turn to light golden color.
  3. When it fried completely turn off the heat.
  4. Add 2 cups water, sugar, ghee and cardamom powder to another pan and boil on medium heat.
  5. Once water is boiled, pour it slowly to the suji.
  6. Cover and cook on a low to medium heat.
  7. Keep stirring for 3-4 minutes so it doesn’t burn..
  8. Cook until all the water is absorbed.
  9. Add chopped dry fruits, mix well.
  10. Once mixture is ready, turn off the heat.
  11. Apply ghee / butter on the plate.
  12. Pour the mixture and then spread it evenly.
  13. Press it gently with a spoon.
  14. Sprinkle some pista and almonds.
  15. Let it cool down for sometime, so it can settle down.
  16. Once Suji ka halwa settled, cut it into pieces as per shape of your choice.
  17. Suji ka barfi (Halwa) is ready to serve…

Sheera Recipe-Suji/Semolina Halwa(सूजी का हलवा)–Suji Ki Barfi

Ingredients –

  • Suji/ Semolina – 1 cup
  • Sugar(as per your taste)
  • Ghee/ Butter – 2 tsps. (if required you can add more)
  • A pinch of Cardamom Powder

For garnishing –

  • Fine chopped Pistachio, Almonds
  • Saffron (Optional)
  • Food color (yellow) Optional

Method –

  1. Heat a pan, add suji and fry on a low heat.
  2. Until it begins to smell good and turn to light golden color.
  3. When it fried completely turn off the heat.
  4. Add 2 cups water, sugar, ghee and cardamom powder to another pan and boil on medium heat.
  5. Once water is boiled, pour it slowly to the suji.
  6. Cover and cook on a low to medium heat.
  7. Keep stirring for 3-4 minutes so it doesn’t burn..
  8. Cook until all the water is absorbed.
  9. Add chopped dry fruits, mix well.
  10. Once mixture is ready, turn off the heat.
  11. Apply ghee / butter on the plate.
  12. Pour the mixture and then spread it evenly.
  13. Press it gently with a spoon.
  14. Sprinkle some pista and almonds.
  15. Let it cool down for sometime, so it can settle down.
  16. Once Suji ka halwa settled, cut it into pieces as per shape of your choice.
  17. Suji ka barfi (Halwa) is ready to serve…