Coconut Mysore Pak

Namastey Doston :)

Today, I am here with a new sweet dish called Coconut Mysore Pak. This sweet dish is very tasty and healthy. I used to make it on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan festival every year.

Not wasting more of your time, let's talk about the recipe ingredients and making process.

INGREDIENTS:

Fresh coconut - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Fresh cream (Malai) - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Almonds (finely chopped) - 1 tbsp
Pistachios (finely chopped) - 1 tbsp

PROCESS OF MAKING:

We will need a heavy bottom pan for this.

First, we will prepare all the ingredients for the recipe.
Start by crushing the sugar to fine powder form in a mixer.

For this dish, we will take a fresh coconut. Break the coconut and get it out of the shell.
Now, peel the coconut with a peeler to remove its brown skin.
Then, grate it and make a paste in a mixer without adding anything in it.

Heat a heavy bottom pan or a nonstick pan.
Add powdered sugar, grated coconut and fresh cream (malai) into the pan.
Mix them well. Continue to stir the mixture on the medium flame.
While stirring it, keep your hands covered with gloves or any cloth.
After some time you will see the color of the mixture changing.
When the color gets light brown (Badami), switch off the flame and add cardamom powder to the mixture.
Now, grease a tray with ghee and pour the mixture into it.
Spread it evenly throughout the tray.
Garnish with chopped pistachios and almonds.
Now, mark rectangular pieces with a knife and let it cool.

Enjoy this healthy and tasty coconut sweet dish on this auspicious occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

Try this recipe and let me know about your experiences in the comment section.

Oats chilla (Oats Pancakes)

Hello doston !!!
Today I am here to help you learn about a breakfast recipe which is very tasty as well as less time consuming. It is very healthy and rich in protein.

So let's learn to cook OATS CHILLA (OATS PANCAKES).

INGREDIENTS:

1. Oats - 2 Cups
2. Onion - 1 no. Or 1/4 cup
3. Green chilli - 2 no. Or 1 tsp
4. Coriander - 1/2 cup
5. Salt - 1/4 teaspoon or according to taste
6. Red chilli powder - 1/4 teaspoon
7. Dry mango powder - 1/4 teaspoon
8. Cumin powder - 1/4 teaspoon
9. Asafoetida (heeng) powder - a pinch
10. Water
11. Oil - 1 cup

12. Carom Seeds (Ajwain) - 1/2 teaspoon

13. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

HOW TO COOK:

First, we will chop onion and chillies into small pieces.
Roast oats in a pan for 3/4 minutes and then grind them into powder form.

Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients in it, except for water.
Now, slowly add water in it and stir to make a paste.
Paste should be loose so that we can spread it well on the pan.

Let's start cooking chillas.

Heat the pan and add 2 teaspoon oil and spread it all over the pan.

Take one tablespoon chilla batter and spread it over the pain with the help of spatula to make it thin otherwise batter will be stuck at one place only.

On the medium flame roast it till it gets light brown in color. Then, turn it upside down and add 1 teaspoon oil on the sides and cook until it gets light brown on the other side as well.

Do not overcook otherwise the chilla will get stiff. Keep it soft.

Enjoy your healthy chilla breakfast with chutney or ketchup.

Try this and let me know about your experience and feel free to ask any question regarding this recipe in the comment section below.

Lauki Ka Halwa (Bottle Gourd Halwa)

Hello friends!!! Today I will tell you how to make a tasty sweet dish out of a very common vegetable, that is LAUKI (BOTTLE GOURD). It is very tasty and easy to make recipe. It can also be eaten during fast (vrat).

So let's discuss the recipe ingredients and cooking process of LAUKI KA HALWA or BOTTLE GOURD HALWA.

Key Ingredients:

1. Lauki - 350 grams
2. Milk (full cream) - 300 grams
3. Sugar - 1 cup or about 150 grams
4. Cardamom - 5 no. or one teaspoon
5. Almonds - 1 tablespoon (finely chopped)
6. Desi ghee - 1 table spoon

How to cook:

For making Lauki halwa, we will need to have a non-stick pan so that the halwa doesn't stick to the pan.

First, we will peel and grate Lauki or bottle gourd with the help of a grater. If there are seeds in the lauki then deseed it. 

Now, we will add ghee in the pan and let it heat for about one minute.

After this, we'll add grated lauki into the pan and saute it with the help of spatula until the lauki gets softer.

Then, add milk to it and let it boil until milk is soaked completely.

In between, keep stirring it so that it doesn't stick.

When the milk is almost gone, add sugar and cardamom powder to this and mix it well.

Now, our Lauki Ka Halwa (Bottle Gourd Halwa) is ready to serve.

Garnish it with a pinch of cardamom powder and some chopped almonds.

Serve it hot to your guests or enjoy this delicious halwa with your family.

Aaloo Ki Tikiya (Potato Cutlets) Recipe

Hello friends!!!  Today I will tell you how to make Aaloo ki tikiya or Aaloo chaat. It is a famous North Indian snack and one of the most loving street foods. It is very easy to make and takes no time to cook. So Let's learn how to make Aaloo ki tikiya/ potato cutlets.

Ingredients:

 

1. Potatoes- half kilograms
2. Water
3. Salt - According to taste
4. Black pepper powder - 1/4 teaspoon
5. Black salt -1/2 teaspoon
6. Coriander leaves - handful finely chopped
7. Green chilli- one or two finely chopped
8. Red chilli powder- 1/2 teaspoon
9. Oil

Garnishing Ingredients:

1. Onion- 1 finely chopped
2. Pomegranate seeds - for garnishing
3. Sev - one bowl
4. Coriander leaves

Recipe

Boil potatoes
Wash potatoes. Cut them into two pieces and boil the potatoes in cooker upto 3/4 whistels. Then peel them.

Making a dough
Mash the boiled potatoes and mix above mentioned spices , green chillies, coriander and make tikiyas/cutlets in the round shape or square shape as you like.

Frying cutlets or tikki
Take a non stick pan and add two spoon oil.

Heat the pan and shallow fry the tikkis from both sides untill they get crispy.
Fry all the tikkis like this.
Serve these aaloo ki tikiya / potato cutlets with green chutney, red cutney, namkeen, curd, finely chopped onion.