Bombay Sandwiches and pasta

 will upload recipe soon....

Gulabjamun

My personal favourite and I guess most of us like to have them for sure. One of the most popular dessert in India.There are various types of gulab jamun and every variety has a distinct taste and appearance. I like my gulabjamun's too be mild sweet but very soft and without any filling. In northern India you find them with a little filling of pistachios or cardamom. I like them without all of these. 
I have tried the recipe of Vahchef couple of times and every time they turn out perfect.






Ingredients
For making 10 Gulabjamuns


For gulabjamuns -
1 cup Milk powder
2 1/2 tsp Maida
2 1/2 tsp Rava/sooji
1/2 tsp Baking powder
2 tsp Fat like shoetening,ghee,dalda


For syrup-
2cup Water
2 cup Sugar

Syrup :- 
Mix water and sugar in a boiler and boil them upto 1 string consistency.For julab jamun made with milk powder little thinner syrup is required. I used a already sweet milkpowder so used less sugar in the 
 syrup.Add few drops of lemon juice to it so that there are crystals formed.
You can add cardamom powder ,rose water or saffron whatever you want, to the syrup to give it a fragrance.


For Gulabjamuns
Soak sooji in warm water for 5 mins and keep it aside.Mix milk powder and ghee and crumble {Mix without adding any liquid} it.Then add maida,baking powder and soaked sooji {make sure you remove all the water from sooji and then add} to it.Crumble all the mix.Sprinkle just a little bit of milk and mix it.In cloth keep this dough for around 10 mins. 


For smooth balls firstly press the ball and then make round. Make small size balls beacuse they will expand once they are fried and in the syrup.Heat oil {not very hot} Deep fry all the balls for atleast 7 mins on a slow flame
Now add balls to syrup. 

Kidney beans Tikka(rajma tikka)

Ingredients:

-1 cup boiled and mashed kidney beans.
-one boiled potato,mashed
- Chaaat masala.
- Finely chopped onions.
- green chillies chopped(as per your taste)
-Ginger garlic paste
- Finely chopped coriander leaves.
- 1 tbsp butter
- oil for shallow frying.

In a pan add 1 tbsp of oil and fry onions, ginger garlic paste and green chillies. Add mashed potatoes once onions turns translucent. Later add chaat masala,salt and kidney beans. mash them nicely till they turn into a dough like consistency on a slow flame for 5-10 min. Switch off the gas and then add butter and mix again so that butter dissolves into the mixture.
Make them small ball size tikka and flatten them in the proper shape. Coat them in cornflour and then shallow fry them in a non-stick pan. once they turn light golden and cooked properly serve them with a dipping of your choice

I served them with one of my favorite yogurt dip. For recipe follow my other post here

Crispy Honey chilli Potatoes

Popular Indo Chinese recipe and a must order dish in any Chinese restaurant for my husband. He truly loves this and so does my entire family. We visit YO china specially to eat honey chilli potatoes and trust me I have not eaten them anywhere the way they make it.I decided to make them at home on a Friday evening as a starter and they truly loved it. Sharing my version of recipe with you all.

Ingredients:

2 big potatoes (peeled and cut into French fries or in square cubes)

salt to taste

1/4 tsp crushed garlic

5-6 tsp maida or cornflour

Friend onion rings

oil for frying

2tsp oil

1/2 tsp crushed garlic

1/2 tsp red chilli powder

2 tsp vineger

3 tsp red chilli sauce(make it 2 tsp if want it less spicy)

tomato ketchup

3 tsp honey

Mix potatoes, salt, red chili powder,crushed garlic,2 tsp tomato ketchup and then add cornflour to it.Keep them in the refrigerator for 20-25 min.

later fry the potatoes till golden brown in hot oil. keep the fried potatoes aside.Heat 2 tsp oil  and on slow flame add garlic and stir it.

Add vinegar ,red chili sauce, tomato ketchup, and cook on high flame for a min.

Add honey and cook for a min. Add potatoes  and fried onion rings, salt and cook till sauces are thoroughly coated on potatoes and it is almost dry. then turn off the flame..

You can also garnish them while serving with some dry roasted sesame seeds over it.

Fruit Punch with Masala papad..

Watching cricket with friends and having snacks is my husband's favorite hangout.
Last Saturday was one of the greatest evening of my husband. India won the world cup and for a huge fan of cricket like Rahul, couldn't have asked for more.

I decided to make fruit punch( non alcoholic) with masala papad for the boys gang and they Truely enjoyed it.