Indian Food Express

Pasta in white sauce

1. Butter
2. 8 to 10 garlic
3. 1 to 2 green chillies
4. 100 grams fresh cream
5. 1 to 2 tumblers boiled milk
6. 3 to 4 cheese cubes.
7. White pepper powder as required
8. Salt as needed.
9. Any Pasta(boiled with salt) 3 to 4 cups
10. Veggies(capsicum, onion, corn, etc...) fried in olive oil(should not loose its crunchiness)

Method.
Fry the garlic and chilli in butter and make it to cool
Grind that in mixie.
In a Kadai add butter.
Add the paste. Fry or a min or two.
Add the cream. Mix It well and stir for 2 to 4 min.
Now add the milk and stir well for few min.
Add the cheese cubes. Let it get dissolve in that.
Add salt and pepper powder.
Add the fried veggies and keep it for few min. The sauce becomes little thick.
Now add the pasta and mix well. Decorate with oregano and parsley....

Watermelon Rind kheer

watermelon rind 1cup(shredded)
milk 2cups
sugar 1/2 cup
cashew,raisins and saffron(for kids only i add this.for me i dont add this)
Heat a strong bottomed pan.add ghee fry cashew and raisins.keep aside
now add shredded WM rind saute until the raw smell leaves.add milk and allow it boil for few mts.stir in between and check the rinds are cooked well.if the kheer is slightly thick than add sugar,roasted nuts ,elachi powder and saffron.give a quick boil till the sugar dissolves.

Beetroot salad

Beetroot salad...tastes yummy with steamed rice and ghee...

I sauted for just few mins...tempered with kaduku, urad dal, green chillies , pepper , curry leaves and coriander leaves. Then squeezed lemon.

Chakka chips

kothumai peda

WHEAT 1.5 CUPS
SUGAR 1 CUP(powder it)
MILK 1/2 CUP
GHEE 4-5 TBSP
CARDAMOM

METHOD
1)In a kadai,add 2 tbsp ghee and fry the wheat flour till it gives out a nice smell.
2)Then add powdered sugar,milk,cardamom powder,remaining ghee and mix well it leaves the sides of the kadai and doesnt stick to finger.
3)Make small pedas out of it.If you want you can garnish it with pista or almond.
4)Serve when cool..

gojju

Chakkota fruit (citrus fruit very big in size with saffron colored pulp, sour & bitter in taste).

2cups of fruit pulp (separated as strands)
Urad dal, channa dal, sesame each 1spoon
Methi 1/2 spoon, jeera 2 spoons, chillies 5 all these dry fried separately & grinded with 1cup of grated coconut into a paste.
Jaggery 1cup, salt, oil 1/4 cup, mustard & curry leaves.

Procedure :
In a Kaadai heat oil add mustard & curry leaves.
Add the fruit strands fry, immediately add the grided mixture, saute well.
Add jaggery & salt boil for 10min untill it becomes like a gravy.
Used as a side dish with capathis n dosas also with hot rice.
As this fruit is sour in taste no need of adding tamarind pulp, procedure remains same with other vegetables like cucumber, bitter gourd, onion-tomato, ladies finger, pineapple, both dry & fresh grapes.

Milk shake ready paneer flavour really yummy

Paneer rose petals-10
Two carrots
Milk one cup
Sugar to taste
Grind well fillter the pulp
Milk shake ready paneer flavour really yummy try this

peda

1. Khoya - 2 cups
2. Sugar - 1/2 cup
3. Milk - 2 or 3 tspn
4. Saffron strands - a pinch
5. Sliced almonds - to granish
6. Ghee - to grease
7. Cardamom powder

Procedure:
1. Soak saffron in warm milk till it dissolves.
2. Take khoya and sugar in a pan. Mix well in medium flame till it becomes gooey.
3. Add soaked saffron +milk, cardamom powder to the pan. Keep mixing for around 10 mins or till it binds together.
4. Grease a plate/ pan and transfer the mixture to it. Level it. When it is still warm make peda and garnish with sliced almonds and allow it to cool completely. Store in a refregirator.

Note: Can also use a greased parchment paper/ butter paper instead of a greased pan.

ragi dosa

Ragi mavu 1 cup, rice mavu 1/2 cup nd wheat mavu 1/2 cup jeeragam, curry leaves, Ginger nd green chilli together.. Mix all with water like rava Dosai consistency.. Leave it for 10 mts... Now it's get ready for ragi Dosai..

Brown rice bunny and tiger cub dosai & steamed green beans

my 28 kids love this dosa............................