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AATE KA HALWA INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup Ghee - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1/2 cup Water - 1 cup Cashew - as desired Cardamom powder - 1 pinch. METHOD: In a saucepan or kadai take 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup water. Stir & boil till the sugar is completely dissolved. There is no need to get thread consistency sugar syrup. Keep this aside. In another kadai heat 1/2 cup ghee.  To it add in 1/2 cup wheat flour and mix well without forming any lumps. Roast on low to medium flame stirring continuously for 15 mins.  After 15, the mixture will starts to turn golden in colour and you will smell the aroma of roasted wheat flour. Continue to stir for 5 more minutes. This will ensure that the mixture does not burn. Now i.e after 20 minutes, the mixture will turn dark golden brown in colour which means that the wheat flour has cooked completely.  Pour the sugar syrup over wheat mixture stirring continuously. Be careful as the mixture splutters. ...

Nariyal Vadi / Naralachi Vadi / Cococnut Barfi • Freshly grated  coconut – 3 cups  • Green cardamom – 5 to 6 • Sugar –1 & 1/2 cups • Pinch of salt • Clarified butter / ghee – 1 tsp Method: In a mixer, add freshly grated coconut and cardamom. Blend them to a fine mixture. 1. Heat a teaspoon full of ghee in a pan. Add fresh grated coconut & cardamom mixture. 2. Add sugar & mix.  3. Slowly cook this mixture in a very slow to medium flame till the sugar dissolves in the mixture.  4. Add a pinch of salt 7 mix. After about 10 to 15 minutes of cooking when the mixture is slightly getting solidified i.e. forming dough like consistency, the mixture is ready. 5. Pour this mixture in a parchment lined tray/  greased plate and spread evenly. 5. Keep aside and allow to cool for 1 to 2 hours. Cut them into desired shapes and Nariyal Vadi is ready to be served.

INGREDIENTS:  rava/रवा दोसा - 1 cup rice flour/चावल का आटा - 2 tbsp salt/नमक - 1/2 tsp green chilli/हरी मिर्च - 1 (as required) black pepper/काली मिर्च - pinch/as required ginger/अद्रक - 1 tsp chopped cumin/जीरा - 1 tsp cashew/काजू - as required water/पानी - 3 cups. METHOD: 1.   in a bowl, add 1 cup of rava & 2 tbsp of rice flour 2. add salt, green chilli, black pepper, ginger, cumin and cashew, 3. add 3 cups of water and mix well to make a batter, 4. for 1 cup of rava the water will be 3 cups, 5. heat the tawa and apply oil/ghee to grease the tawa, 6. once the tawa is heated, take spoonful of batter and pour it on the tawa, 7. remember - mix the batter well before pouring on the tawa so that the rava does not settles down in the bowl, 8. cook for 2/3 mins, 9. when the dosa is half cooked, sprinkle some oil/ghee. 10. when the dosa turns light brown in the centre the dosa is ready to serve.

Ingredients: I) Dry ingredients: - All Purpose flour (Maida) - 1 cup - Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 tsp (optional) - Salt - 2 pinch - Baking Powder – 1 tsp - Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp - Walnuts - 1/4 cup (chopped) II) Wet ingredients: - Brown sugar - 1/4 cup (if you don't have brown sugar, you can use white granulated sugar). - White granulated (powdered) sugar - 2 tbsp (add sugar as per you taste and considering the sweetness of the bananas) - Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup - Yogurt - 1/4 cup - Vanilla Essence – 1/4 tsp (optional) - Banana (ripe) - 2 Method : -Preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes. -Line the cake mould/ baking tin with parchment /butter paper (or you can also grease & flour the baking tin). -In a bowl mix sugar, oil and yogurt till the sugar dissolves. -Then add the vanilla essence and mashed bananas and mix to combine. - Sieve the all-purpose flour (maida) and mix/ fold in gently with the wet mixture. -Now add the flour coated walnu...

Ingredients we need to make soft and puffy wheat puri are: 1. Wheat flour - 1 cup, 2. Salt - 1/4th tsp 3. Water - 3/4th cup 4. Oil - 1 tbsp. Method to prepare dough: 1. Take 1 cup of wheat flour and 1/4th tsp salt, 2. combine the salt into the flour well, 3. now, add water into the flour as per required and knead the dough well, 4. once the dough is well kneaded, add oil into the dough and knead for another minute until well incorporated, 5. Now let the dough rest for a few mins (5/10 mins) 6, after 5/10 mins, take small portions of the dough and make puris, 7. Heat oil in a pan to deep fry the puri, 8. Keep the flame on medium/high flame, 9. once the oil is hot enough, slowly put the puri into the oil to deep fry, 10. press the top of the puri to make it puffy, 11. Our soft and puffy puris are ready to serve,

INGREDIENTS : MAIDA - 1 & 1/2 cup BAKING POWDER - 1 tsp SALT - a pinch CURD - 1/2 cup OIL - 1/2 cup SUGAR - 1 cup VANILLA ESSENCE - 1/4th tsp METHOD: In a bowl, take desired amount of tutti frutti and coat the tutti frutti with 2 tbsp of maida and keep it aside, in another bowl, add maida, baking powder and salt and combine everything well together, in a separate bowl, add curd, oil and sugar and combine everything well together, now add  the wet ingredient mixture to the dry ingredients and add vanilla essence and combine until it forms into a thick batter, now add the maida coated tutti frutti into the cake batter and combine the tutti frutti with the batter, grease the cake mould well and add the cake batter in the cake mould, tap the cake mould to release air bubbles, preheat the cooker for 10 mins  place the cooker plate inside the cooker, remove the ring from the cooker lid and cooker whistle too, now place the cake mould in the press...

Delicious and moist, flavoured with orange, this cake recipe is decadent and simple to make! INGREDIENTS: MAIDA - 1 cup CORN FLOUR - 3 tbsp BROWN SUGAR - 1/2 cup SALT - a pinch BA;KING SODA - 1 tsp  BAKING POWDER - 1/2 tsp ORANGE JUICE - 1 & 1/2 cup OIL - 1/3rd cup VINEGAR - 1 tbsp VANILLA ESSENCE - 1/4th cup ORANGE ZEST - 1 tbsp FOR ORANGE SYRUP : ORANGE SYRUP - 1 tbsp ORANGE ZEST - 1 tsp SUGAR - 3 tbsp METHOD: In a bowl add all the dry ingresients; maida, corn flour, brown sugar, a pinch of salt, baking soda and baking powder, mix all the dry ingredients well together, now in another bowl, mix all the wet ingredients: orange juice, oil, vinegar, vanilla essence and orange zest, mix wet ingredients well together and then add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, add the cake batter to a greased baking mould bake the cake for 25/30 mins at 180 degree, or you can also bake the cake in pressure cooker for 35/40 mins on medium to...