CREAMY PASTA

CREAMY PASTA

INGREDIENTS:

1. Penne Pasta: 1 cup boiled
2. Milk: 4-5 cups
3. All Purpose Flour: 1/2 cup
4. Butter: 1/2 cup melted
5. Oil: 2 Tbsp
6. Ginger: 1 Tsp chopped
7. Spring Onions: 1/2 cup
8. Bell Peppers: 1 cup chopped
9. Black Olives: 4-5 sliced
10. Seasoning: 1.5 Tbsp
11. Salt as per taste

METHOD:

1. Heat some oil in a pan and toss the boiled pasta in it. Add salt and mix well.
2. Now take another pan and boil milk till it becomes thick.
3. Slightly cook the All-Purpose flour in butter in another pan. Make sure it stays white only.
4. Now slowly add the boiled milk to it. Keep stirring so that no lumps are formed. Let the mixture boil so that it thickens.
5. Take one more pan and heat some oil.
6. Add Ginger, Spring Onions, Bell Peppers, Olives and other veggies of your choice and saute.
7. Add salt as per your taste.
8. Once the veggies the half cooked, add the boiled pasta to it and mix well.
9. Now slowly add the thickened milk to it.
10. Cook on medium flame for 4-5 minutes more.
11. Serve hot!!

FLAXSEED BALLS

FLAXSEED BALLS

INGREDIENTS:

1. Rice Flour-  1 Cup
2. Warm Water- 3/4th Cup
3. Flax Seeds- 1/2 Cup
4. Ghee - 4-5 Tsp
5. Dry Fruits- (Chopped) 1/2 Cup
6. Sugar- 1 Cup
7. Milk- 1/2 Ltr
8. Condensed Milk- 1/2 Cup
9. Cardamom Powder- 1/2 Tsp
10. Saffron Strands- A Pinch

METHOD:

1. Add 2 Tsp Ghee into the warm water and mix rice flour in it to make a soft dough.
2. Next, dry roast the flax seeds lightly.
3. Now, take a grinder and put the flax seed, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 of the chopped dry fruits in it. Grind them into a grainy powder.
4. Shift the contents to a bowl. Add cardamom powder and 2 tsp of ghee and mix well.
5. Divide the dough into 10 equal portions. Then take each portion and stuff the flax seed mixture into it. (Note to do it with light hands as the rice flour dough is very delicate and the stuffed balls may break if not handled carefully. you may grease your hands with ghee.)
6. Heat a pan and add milk to it. Keep boiling it till it gets reduced to half of its original quantity.
7. Now add the flax seed balls into it and bring it to a boil again.
8. Add sugar, saffron and condensed milk and keep heating it on medium flame to get a thick creamy sauce (rabri).
9. The flaxseed balls are ready. Garnish them with chopped dry friuts, saffron and relish.

KHEER (RICE PUDDING)

KHEER-RICE PUDDING

INGREDIENTS:

1.    Full Cream Milk-       1 ltr

2.    Basmati Rice-            60-70 grams

3.    Sugar-                        100 grams

4.    Cardamom Powder-  1 tsp

5.    Dry Fruits

6.    Rose Petals and Saffron

METHOD:

1.    Firstly, wash rice thoroughly and keep them soaked in water for 15-20 minutes.

2.    Boil milk in a pan for around 10 minutes.

3.    Add rice to it and mix well.

4.    Let it cook on low flame for 20-25 minutes (or till the rice is fully cooked).

5.    Add sugar to the milk and mix well.

6.    Now add cardamom powder and dry fruits. Mix again.

7.    Let it cool and then garnish it with saffron, rose petals, dry fruits or pomegranate.

8.    Serve chilled.