Potato Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

2 potatoes
2 tsp onion paste
1 turnip
1 tomato
2 glass of water
1/4 tsp garlic paste
1/2 tsp ginger paste
4 tsp butter
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp coriander leaves chopped
salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp sugar

How to make potato soup:

• Boil potato, turnip and tomato till they are tender. Blend and pass through a sieve.
• Melt butter, add cumin seeds, onion, ginger and garlic paste. Fry till it is golden in colour.
• Add soup, coriander leaves, salt, pepper and sugar and boil well.

Mutton Rogan Josh

Ingredients:

1 Kg mutton
6 tbsp oil
1 cup curd
2 onion chopped
2 tbsp ginger/garlic paste
1 1/2 tsp kashmiri red chilly powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
1 tsp ginger powder
2 tbsp Coriender powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1tsp cumin powder
1tsp black pepper corns
12 cloves
8 green cardamom
5 stickds of cinnamon
few threads of mace
2 tbsp white cream
Salt
Chopped coriender to garnish

Directions:

1. In a bowl mix mutton with curd and little salt, and keep aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan and put whole garam masala, when they start to crackle, put chopped onions anf fry till golden brown.
3. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry again for two minutes.
4. Add all the masala powder and fry till oil comes up.
5. Now add marrinated mutton and stir fry on a high flame for 2 minutes.
6. Now add water and  lttle salt and cook with closed lid till meat is tender and gravy is medium thick in consistancy.
7. Now add cream and stir well and cook for another 3 minutes.
8. Garnish with chopped coriender.
9. Serve with Rice.

Badam Phirni

Ingredients:
Almonds - 12 nos
4 tsp Rice flour
2 cups Milk
5 tsp Sugar
8 strands Saffron
1 tsp Cardamom powder

Method:

1. Blanch and grind the almonds to a fine paste with 1/2 cup milk.
2. Mix the ground almond paste and rice flour and keep aside.
3. Bring the  remaining milk to a boil. Add the sugar and stir well. Keep aside a tablespoon of hot milk and dissolve the saffron in it. 
4. Add the almond-rice mixture into the boiling milk along with the saffron.
5. Stir continuously for a few mintues till the milk thickens and attains a custard-like consistency.
6. Sprinkle in the cardamom powder. 
7. Take off fire and cool to room temperature.
8. Finally,garnish with almonds and pistachios and refrigerate.

Paneer Pakora

Ingredients:
200 gms Paneer
1 cup Chickpea Flour
2 tsp Oil
Salt as required
1/2 tsp Red chili powder
1-2 Chopped Green Chillies
1/2 cup Water

Method:

1. In a bowl add all the ingredients well
2. Beat in a blender for 4-5 minutes
3. Keep the batter rest 1/2 hour in a warm place
4. Cut the paneer into thick cubes.
5. Sprinkle little salt, chili powder on the cubes
6. Deep fry in oil
7. Serve the paneer pakora with coriander or mint chutney.

Cucumber Soup

Ingredients:
1 kg fresh cucumber
1/2 ltr curds
3/4 cup milk
1 tbsp chopped capsicum
2 tsp butter
salt to taste
a few mint leaves

Method:

• Cut the cucumbers into big pieces.
• Add 3 cups of water and cook until soft.
• When soft, blend in a mixer. make it  Cool.
• Add the curds, milk and salt and beat well.
• Heat the butter and fry the capsicum for 1/ 2 minute, Add to the soup.

Wheat Flour Ladoo

Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Powdered sugar - 1 cup
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Mixed dry fruits - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Heat the ghee fry the dry fruits & keep it aside , now add wheat flour and fry on a very low flame for 15 mins.

2. Now add sugar and fry for 5 more minutes.

3. Add cardamom powder, dry fruits & cool it a bit do not cool completely, laddu has to be made when the mixture is still hot. Add more ghee, if you find its difficult to bind into ladoo.

4. Store in air tight container after cooling the ladoo.

Chilly Soya Chunks

Ingredients:
1 cup Soya Chunks
1 cup tomatoes Chopped
1/4 cup Onions Chopped
1 tbsp Ginger/Garlic Paste
1/2 tsp Garam masala
1/2 tsp Red chilli powder
1/2 tsp Cumin and Coriander powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tbsp Oil
Salt as required
Cilantro chopped

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan, add ginger garlic paste. Saute for 1 min, and then add chopped onion.

2. Fry onion till it colour changes. Add chopped tomatoes, add pinch of salt.

3. When the tomatoes are cooked smash them in the pan it self to make a gravy kind.

4. Now, add all the masalas, required water and cook it for few minutes to make it a thick gravy.

5. Now add the soaked soya chunks and cook it for 2-3 minutes.

6. Garnish with cilantro.