Bread Bhel Puri

Ingredients:

• 8 Bread Slices   • ½ cup Potatoes (boiled & chopped)   • ½ cup Cucumber (chopped)  • ½ cup Onion (chopped)   • ¼ cup Tomato (chopped)  • ¼ cup Peanuts (roasted)   • 4 Green Chili (chopped)  • ¼ cup Fresh Coriander (chopped)  • ½ cup Sev  • ½ cup Gol Gappas   • 6 tbsp Sweet Tamarind Chutney  • 6 tbsp Mint or Coriander Chutney  • 2 tbsp Lime Juice   • Oil to shallow fry   • Salt to taste

How to make Bread Bhel Puri:

• Take the bread slices and cut them into small pieces. • Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the bread pieces till they turn crispy brown. • Take out the bread pieces and drain the excess oil on an absorbent paper. • Put the fried bread pieces in a bowl. Add potatoes, cucumber, onions, tomato, green chili, peanut, and salt to it. Mix them well. • Now, lightly crush the gol gappas and add them to the above. Also add tamarind chutney, green chutney and lime juice. Mix them well. • Sprinkle sev on the top of the mixture. Garnish it with coriander leaves. • Bread Bhel Puri is ready to serve.

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Badam Katli Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg Almonds   • 900 gm Sugar   • 1/4 cup Boiled Milk

How to make Badam Katli:

• Soak almonds in water for 12 hours. • Drain and change the water of almonds. • Peel them and keep aside. • Add little milk and grind it finely. • Mix ground badam and sugar in a large skillet. • Cook this mixture, stirring constantly. • Make a thick paste. • Make a roti of the thick mixture when cool. • Now cut it into pieces. • Almond Katli is ready to serve.

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Badam Halwa Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Almonds  • 2-1/2 Cups Sugar  • 3 Cup Water   • 2 Cups Ghee   • 1 Pinch Saffron

How to make Badam Halwa:

• Soak almonds in a bowl with boiling water. • Remove the skin of almonds and make fine paste by grinding them in a grinder. • Boil sugar with one cup of water in a pan, till it turns into syrup. • Add almond paste to the boiling syrup and mix it well. • Dilute saffron in a little water and add to the syrup. • Instantly mix one-cup ghee. • As the above mixture turns paste-like, pour the remaining ghee gradually. • A batter like mixture will be formed after sometime. Now remove it from the flame. • Badam Halwa is ready to serve.

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Apple Halwa Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 Apples (grated)   • ¼ cup Condensed Milk  • 2 tbsp Sugar   • ¼ tsp Cinnamon Powder   • A pinch of Clove Powder  • ¼ tsp Cardamom Powder   • 2 tbsp Raisins   • Ghee (as required)

How to make Apple Halwa:

• Grease a pan with ghee and fry the raisins. Remove and keep to the side. • Combine apples, cinnamon powder, clove powder, and cardamom powder in the same pan. Cook, stirring continuously, on low flame. • Add sugar and condensed milk. Stir on low flame until it thickens. • Smear a plate with ghee and transfer the cooked halwa into it. • Flatten it gently and top up with fried raisins. Let it cool. • Slice into preferred shapes. • Serve thereafter.

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Almond Til Chikki Recipe

Ingredients:
• 1/3 cup grated Gur (jaggery)   • 1/2 cup thinly-sliced Badam (almond)  • 1/4 cup Til (sesame seeds)   • 1½ tsp Ghee
How to make Almond Til Chikki:
• Take a tawa and heat it. • Put the sesame seeds and roast them till they turn brown. Keep them aside and allow them to cool. • Now put the sliced almonds in the tawa and roast them. Keep them separately. • Take a separate pan or kadhai and heat the ghee in it. • Add jaggery to the melted ghee and keep stirring till it melts and caramelizes. • Now remove the melted jaggery from the flame and immediately add the roasted almonds and sesame seeds. • Keep stirring so that the almond and sesame seeds properly get mixed with the jaggery. • Now take a thali(plate) and grease it with ½ teaspoon ghee. • Put the already prepared jaggery and til mixture on the thali and spread it evenly. • Allow the mixture to cool and then cut it into square shapes. • Store the yummy Almond Til Chikkis in an airtight jar.

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Petha Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg Ash Gourd (Petha) (peeled and cut) • 1 tsp Alum Powder (Phitkari) • 750 g Sugar • 1 tbsp Lemon Juice

How to make Petha:

• Take the ash gourd pieces and prick it with a fork. • Place the pieces in a large pan filled with water and add alum powder to it. Boil it for fifteen minutes and take off from heat. Drain and wash it thoroughly under cold water. • In a pan, take one cup of water and add sugar to it and cook it till the sugar is dissolved. • Add lemon juice to the sugar syrup and lower the flame and add the cooked ash gourd to it. • Cook till the ash gourd is completely cooked and the sugar syrup is thread like consistency. • Take off from heat and arrange the pethas in a tray, so that they do not stick to each other. • Allow it to cool completely. • Serve.

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Aloo Ki Puri Recipe

 Ingredients:

 
• 2 cups Plain Flour
• 1 tsp Salt
• Water as required
For Filling:
• 4 Boiled Potatoes (medium size)
• 3 Green chilies (finely chopped)
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
• Red Chilli Powder to taste
• Vegetable oil as needed
• Salt to taste
  
How to make Aloo Ki Puri:
•    Sieve flour and add salt to it.
•    Add water and knead it properly to make soft dough.
•    Cover it with a wet cloth and keep it aside for half an hour.
•    Peel and mash the potatoes.
•    Add green chillies to it and mix well.
•    Combine the remaining ingredients with it & again mix well.
•    Divide the dough into small balls and roll one ball at a time in the form of a small puri.
•    Put a small quantity of potato mixture over it and close it properly from all the sides.
•    Roll it gently into a puri.
•    Place it into hot oil for deep-frying till they blow up.
•    Puris are ready to serve.

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Aloo Capsicum Recipe

Ingredients:
• 4 Capsicums • 2 Potatoes   • 1 Large chopped onion   • 1 Large chopped tomato  • 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder  • 1/2 tsp Red chilli powder   • 1 tsp Ground coriander   • 2 tbsp Oil • Salt to taste   • Coriander leaves
How to make Aloo Capsicum:
• Wash capsicum and potatoes and cut into pieces. • Heat the oil and fry chopped onion till it turns brown. • Add capsicum and potato and fry it for few minutes. • Add chopped tomato, turmeric powder,red chili powder,ground coriander and salt. • Mix it well and cook it till it turns tender. • Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves. • Serve hot with rotis.

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