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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Nankhatai Recipe


Nankhatai Recipe

 

 A savory and all time favorite sweet snack with a cup of tea.

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ingredients:-
All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Unsalted Butter/Ghee - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Pistachios/Raisins/Cashews/Almond - for garnish

 

How to make Nankhatai:-
·         Take a mixing bowl with the room temperature butter in it.  Add the powdered sugar to it and cream together till the mixture becomes light and fluffy.

·         Sift all the dry ingredients (flour, cardamom powder, baking powder and salt) into a separate bowl.

·         Add this to the creamed butter mixture little at a time and keep mixing. Knead it to form a soft dough. Cover the dough and let it rest in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes.

·         Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 C). Make small gooseberry sized balls of the dough.

·         Smoothen the balls by rolling in between your palm. You can also use a cookie cutter to shape the cookies.

·         Place each ball in a cookie sheet. Leave some space in between as the cookies will expand when it bakes.

·         If you want to make it richer, press a pistachio or raisin or cashew or almond on top of the balls gently.

·         Bake at 300 degrees for 12-15 minutes until the bottom of the cookies turn light golden brown.

·         Remove from the oven and gently transfer the cookies to a cooling rack. The cookies will be very soft at this stage.

·         After it cools completely, store in an air tight container for up to a month.

·         Serve as a snack with a cup of tea.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Sweet Potato Rabdi Recipe


Sweet Potato Rabdi

 

 An extremely delicious sweet dish to make your special moments more special.
 
Ingredients:-
3/4 cup peeled and grated sweet potatoes (shakarkand)
2.5 cups full-fat milk
5.5 tbsp sugar
2 pinches of saffron (kesar) strands dissolved in 2 tsp of milk
1/4 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder


For The Garnish
1 tsp almond  
1 tsp pistachio


How to make sweet potato Rabdi:-
·         Put the milk to boil in a broad non-stick pan.

·         Add the sweet potatoes and cook on a slow flame for 15 minutes or till the potatoes are tender, while stirring occasionally.

·         Add the sugar, mix well and cook on a slow flame 2 minutes, while stirring occasionally.

·         Add the saffron-milk mixture and cardamom powder and mix well.

·         Cool slightly and then refrigerate for 1 hour.

·         Serve chilled garnished with almond and pistachio.

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Chinese Potato Recipe





Chinese Potato Recipe

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ingredient:-  
3 Potatoes Boiled But Firm
Spring Onion Chopped Into 1" Pieces
Ginger Finely Chopped
Garlic Finely Chopped
½tsp. Red Chili Finely Chopped      
½ tsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Soya Sauce
1 tsp. Tomato Sauce
1 tbsp. Corn flour
¼ cup Water
2 tbsp. Oil
Salt to taste

How to make Chinese potato:-

·         Mix the corn flour and water. Keep aside.

·         Peel and chop the potatoes into long thick chunks.

·         Heat oil in a pan; add some potatoes at a time.

·         Fry till light golden brown. Finish all potatoes similarly.

·         Keep aside. Remove half the oil.

·         In the remaining oil, add the chilies, ginger and garlic.

·         Fry for a minute. Add the potatoes.

·         Add sauces, salt and sugar. Stir well and add the corn flour solution.

·         Cook till the wateriness is gone.

·         Add spring onions and stir. Serve hot.