Vegetarian Food

Ingredients - Imli - 1 cup Oil - 2 tbsp Salt - 1 tbsp Sugar - 1 cup Fenugreek seeds- Methi dana - 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds - Jeera - 1/2 tsp Coriander seeds - Dhaniya beej - 1 tsp Fennel seeds - Saunf - 1 tsp Dried ginger powder - 1/4 tsp Black pepper powder - 1/2 tsp Process - Wash and soak Imli in hot water for 30 minutes. Make a paste of soaked Imli in a blender. Now sieve the Imli paste in a saucepan, add 1/2 cup water in the paste to make this process quick and easy. Boil this paste on simmer for 5 minutes. Add all the ingredients and mix well.  Bring it to boil on high flame once. Add some more water if you do not want the consistency to be very thick. Let it simmer for 15 minutes on low flame. Imli chutney is ready to serve. You can keep it refrigerated for 6-7 weeks. 

Ingredients- Tuvar daal - 1 cup Imli Paste (tamarind paste) - 2 tbsp if making fresh from raw imli- 1tsp of ready-made pulp Onion - finely chopped - 1/3 cup Curry leaves - 4-5 leaves Red whole chilies - 2 Asafoetida - Hing - 1/4 tsp Mustard  seeds - 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Oil - 2 tbsp Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 tsp, or according to your taste Process- Put 2 tsp oil in a pressure cooker and turn on the stove. We will make tadka before boiling the daal. Once the oil is hot enough, put mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida, ginger-garlic paste, whole chilies, and curry leaves in hot oil. Now add chopped onion and let it cook for a minute. Add turmeric powder and red chili powder and mix well. Once the spices and onions are cooked well, add imli paste. Add some water and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Now add washed daal in the pressure cooker with 2 cups of water. Add salt and mix all the ingredien...

Ingredients for two pizzas (6" ) Tomatoes - 4 med size Garlic Cloves - 10-12 cloves ( approx finely chopped 4 tsp) Fresh Basil Leaves - 10-12 leaves Onion - 1 small finely chopped Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Sugar - 1 tsp Salt to taste Olive oil - 4 tsp Process - Rub some olive oil on all the washed tomatoes. Now make a small cut on one side of tomatoes and hold the tomatoes with the help of a fork and fire roast tomatoes on stove flame directly for 2-3 minutes. Roast all the tomatoes and let them cool for 3-4 minutes. In a cooking pan, put some olive oil to heat and add finely chopped onions. Remove the skin of tomatoes and cut them roughly in small pieces. Add these chopped tomatoes and chopped garlic together in frying onions. Add some salt and cover the pan. Let it simmer for 5-7 minutes. Now you try and crush the tomatoes while cooking it. Add sugar and chili powder, mix well. When you see oil is separated and tomatoes are mashed and cooked, turn off the stove and ...

Ingredients - All-purpose flour - 2 cups Dry Active Yeast - 1 tsp Sugar - 2 tsp Milk - 1/4 cup Oil/ Butter - 3 tbsp Dried Oregano - 1/ tsp (optional) Dried Basil Leaves - 1/2 tsp (optional) Pizza Seasoning / Mixed Herbs - 1 tsp Salt - 1 tsp Process - Put lukewarm milk in a kneading bowl. Add active dry yeast and sugar in the milk and mix well. Cover the bowl and keep it aside for 10 minutes, this will activate the yeast, and you can see bubbles formed in the milk after 10 minutes. Add all-purpose flour, salt, and all the seasoning in the bowl. Knead a very soft dough with the help of water or milk. The dough will be very soft and sticky at the beginning, but as you continue to knead it, it will slowly become manageable. The dough should be very soft. Now put oil on the dough's surface and cover the bowl with a wet towel or airtight lid. Let it ferment for an hour. After an hour, the dough will be almost double in size. Knead it once again and then divide it into 2 piec...

Ingredients - All-purpose flour - Maida - 1 cup Corn flour - 1 tbsp Gram flour - Besan - 1 tbsp Semolina - Suji - 1 tbsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp Melted Ghee - Approx - 1/2 cup Sugar powder - 4 tbsp Cumin - Jeera - 1/2 tbsp Carom seeds - Ajwain - 1/4 tbsp Milk - 1 tbsp Process - Mix all the ingredients in a kneading bowl. Add 1/4 cup of melted Ghee and mix all the ingredients very well so that sugar and salt are mixed properly. Now put 1 tbsp of milk and start making a dough. Keep adding melted ghee until you are able to make a very soft dough. Remember, we need to make this dough with ghee. Now take out a lemon sized dough ball and flatten it a bit. Place all these cookies in a lined baking tray. Bake these cookies in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 15-18 mins. You can smell the goodness and check if the color is perfectly golden brown, turn off the oven. Tools I Recommend 💖 1. Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls Set – Perfect for combining all your...

Ingredients - Oil - 2 tbsp Butter- 2 tbsp Cabbage - roughly chopped - 1/2 cup Lauki - Bootle Gaurd - roughly chopped - 1/2 cup Eggplant - remove skin and chop roughly - 1/2 cup Capsicum - finely chopped - 1/4 cup Fresh Peas - optional - 1/4 cup Corn - 1/4 cup Potato - remove skin and chop roughly - 1 cup Spring onion - finely chopped - 1/2 cup onion - finely chopped - 1/4 cup Tomato - finely chopped - 1/2 cup Green chilies, ginger, and garlic - paste 1/2 tsp each or finely chopped 1/2 tsp each Salt to taste Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp Pav Bhaji Masala - 2 tsp Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp Lemon juice- 1 tsp Process - Put oil in a pressure cooker and turn on the stove flame. Add green chili, ginger and garlic paste. Let it cook on a slow flame for 1 minute. Now add chopped onion and cook it for another 1 minute. Add red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and pav bhaji masala with tomatoes, saute ...

Ingredients- Tomatoes - 4 medium size Garlic - 7-8 cloves or 2 tsp garlic paste Sesame seeds - 2 tsp Red whole chilies- 2 or red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Oil for tempering Curry leaves- 5-6 leaves Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 tsp Process - Take a frying pan and heat up 1tbsp oil in it. Once the oil is hot enough for tempering, add some mustard seeds and chili, then add whole garlic cloves and roughly chopped tomatoes. Cover the frying pan and let it cook until it becomes dry, keep stirring every 2-3 minutes to make sure it doesn't get burnt. Add some salt. Once the water is evaporated and tomatoes are cooked, turn off the stove and let it cool down completely. Meanwhile, dry roast sesame seed and grind into dry powder with the help of a mixer grinder. Now in the same jar, add cooked tomato and garlic mix. Make a smooth paste. chutney is ready now we have to make tempering for the same. Taste once, and if you need to add salt, add some at this stage. Now for tempering, ...

Ingredients Muthiya - Semolina 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Whole wheat flour 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Besan 1/2 Cup (8 tbs) Salt To Taste Turmeric powder 1/4 Teaspoon Cumin and Coriander seed powder - Dhaniya jeera powder 1/2 Teaspoon each Baking soda 1 Pinch Cabbage 2 Cup finely chopped Ginger paste 1/2 tsp Garlic paste 1/2 tsp Green chili paste To Taste Curd - Dahi - 3 Tablespoon Lemon juice 1 Tablespoon Tempering - Oil 6 Tablespoon Mustard seeds 1/2 Teaspoon Sesame seeds 1 Teaspoon Lemon juice - 1 tsp Coriander 1 Teaspoon, finely chopped Process - Mix all the ingredients listed under Muthiya except the soda and leave it aside for about 10 minutes. The cabbage releases some water, which should be good enough to bind it all together. You can add more water if needed. Add the baking soda. Conversely, If the mixture becomes too watery, you can add more flour till it all comes together as a soft dough. You should be able to give it a log shape when you grip the mixture between your h...

Ingredients DOUGH- All-purpose flour - Maida - 1 cup Powdered sugar - 1 tsp Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp (optional) Melted Ghee - 2 tsp Baking powder - a pinch STUFFING - Semolina - 1/2 cup Ghee - 3 tbsp Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup Grated dried coconut - 1/4 cup Milk powder - 2 tbsp (optional) Cashew nut - finely chopped - 1 tbsp Almonds - finely diced - 1 tbsp Raisins - 1 tbsp Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Process - Mix all-purpose flour, powdered sugar, cardamom powder, baking powder with Ghee. Mix these very well and now start binding them together with the help of putting in little water. Do not put too much water at once, try and do it slowly and make a dough. It should not be very soft, and it should not be very stiff also. Try to make it of medium consistency. Now, for stuffing, take a frying pan and roast semolina with Ghee on slow to med flame until it turns golden brown, now keep the flame on low heat. Add milk powder and powdered sugar together. Add grated coconu...

Ingredients - FOR DOUGH 1½ cup maida / all purpose flour ½ tsp salt water for kneading oil for greasing FOR STUFFING: 3 tsp oil 2 finely chopped chili, 4 tbsp spring onion 1 cup carrot 2 cup cabbage finely chopped 1/2 cup Capsicum ½ tsp pepper ½ tsp salt Process - Firstly, prepare stuffing by heating 3 tsp oil and saute 2 chilies add 2 tbsp spring onion and saute on high flame. Further, add 1 cup carrot and 2 cup cabbage, 1/2 cup Capsicum stir fry on high flame. Now add ½ tsp pepper and ½ tsp salt. The stuffing mixture is ready. Now take out a small ball sized momos dough and flatten, dust with some maida and start to roll using a rolling pin. Roll to an almost medium thin circle, Around 4 – 5 inches in diameter. Make sure you roll from sides and keep the center slightly thick. Now place a tbsp of prepared stuffing in the center. Start pleating the edges slowly and gather everything. Press in the middle and seal the momos forming a bundle. Heat a steamer a...

Ingredients - Wheat flour - 2 cup Jaggery ( GUD) - finely choped or crushed - 1 cup Ghee - 1 cup Dry fruits - chopped cashew nuts, sliced almonds, raisins - 2 tbsp each Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp Process - Start roasting aata and ghee in a cooking pan, on slow to medium flame. Keep mixing and cooking the flour until it turns brown. Take another pan, put just a tbsp of ghee in it. Put jaggery and let it melt on a slow flame for 2-4 mins. Now immediately mix this with roasted flour. Mix all the ingredients well, put all the dried fruits and cardamom powder. Turn off the flame. Make sure Jaggery is mixed well with flour. Wait till this mixture cools down a bit and you can handle it, immediately start making ladus. Do not let it cool down completely if the jaggery is processed, it might get difficult to make ladus once it completely cools down. If you find it difficult to make ladus, you can spread the mix on a greased tray evenly and when the mixture is still a little warm, make s...

Ingredients - Plain Flour - 1 cup Corn Flour (optional) - 1 tbsp Ghee - 4 tbsp Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup Lemon zest - 1 tsp Lemon juice - 1 tsp Baking powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp Sprite or any other lemon fizzy soda drink - 1/2 cup 6" cake tin or 6 cupcake molds Process- Take a mixing bowl and add all the wet ingredients other than soda- Ghee, condensed milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla essence and mix all these together until forms a smooth paste. Now sieve plain flour, corn flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl. Start putting this dry ingredient mix into your wet ingredients and keep whisking the batter. Add soda drink to make this batter of pouring consistency. Don't whisk it too much, just make sure all the ingredients are mixed well and there are no lumps in the batter. Now pour this in a greased cake tin and bake it in a preheated oven at 170 degree Celsius for 25-30 minutes. Tip- You can add yellow food ...

Ingredients for Kadhi - Gram Flour (besan) - 1 tbsp Curd - 1/2 cup Curry leaves - 5-6 leaves Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp Roughly sliced green chilies - 2 Ginger paste - 1/2 tsp Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Dried red chili whole (optional) - 2 Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt -1 tsp ( As per taste ) Ghee - 1 tbsp Ingredients For Pakoda - Gram flour - 1 cup Salt - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Baking soda - 1/4 tsp Oil to fry Process For Kadhi - Put gram flour, curd in a mixing bowl and make a thin paste using water. Add a glass full of water in this paste and now add ginger- garlic paste and turmeric powder in this batter. Now heat up ghee in a cooking pan, once the ghee is hot enough for tadka, add curry leaves, mustard seeds, Fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida and dried red chili in ghee and saute it for 10-15 seconds. Now add chopped green chilies in this and slowly pour gram flour and curd mix...

Ingredients- Onion - Thin sliced - 2 cups Gingers Paste - 1/3 tsp Chili - Finely chopped - 1 tsp Gram Flour - 1 cup Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 1/2 tsp - as per taste Oil to fry Process- Drain all the extra water from sliced onions, let it dry for a while. Take a deep bowl, mix sliced onions, ginger paste, chopped chilies, cumin powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder and salt together, Now slowly start adding gram flour in this. Make sure you bind gram flour and onion mix together very well. We need not add any water as onions will become moist after adding salt and this will work as binder. Keep adding gram flour until you get dropping consistency. Now heat up oil in a deep frying pan. When the oil is hot put small-small balls of this mix in the oil. Fry until golden brown. Tip- Serve them hot with tea and mint chutney. Don't keep the batter for resting otherwise it'll become thinner and you might not g...

Ingredients- Basmati Rice - 1 cup Onion - Thin long slices - 1 1/2 cup Desi Ghee - 3 tbsp Black pepper - Freshly grounded - 1 tsp Cumin seed - 1 tsp Salt - 1 tsp (according to your taste) Process- Soak rice in water for one hour after washing it well. Heat a pan and put ghee in it. Put cumin seeds in hot ghee and add onion slices now. Cook onion on slow to med heat until the color changes and onion becomes brown and dried. Once the onions are properly cooked add 2 cups of water and bring it to boil. Now add soaked rice, salt and pepper in boiling water. Let it cook on med flame until you see rice is cooked properly. Tip- You can add handful of fresh corn in this recipe.

Ingredients- Mint leaves - 1 cup Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup Green whole chilies - 3 Ginger - 1 inch piece Lemon juice - 1 tsp Sugar - 1 tsp Roasted gram (roasted chana daal ) - 2 tbsp Salt to taste Process - Wash mint leaves and coriander leaves and put it in a mixing jar. Put all the remaining ingredients in the jar and add 2-3 tbsp water. Now make a very smooth paste and your chutney is ready to eat. You can preserve it in an airtight container in the fridge for 4-5 days. Tip - During summer time you can add 1/2 tsp of this paste in fresh lemonade or fresh buttermilk to give it a minty twist :)

Ingredients- Suji (semolina) - 1 cup Sugar - 1/2 cup Ghee (Purified Butter) - 3 tbsp Dried fruits-   chopped cashew nuts/ chopped almonds/ raisin - optional Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp Boiling water - 2 cups Process - Put suji and ghee in a pan and roast it on slow to medium flame until it changes color and turns brown. Now turn off the stove and add sugar and boiling water. Quickly mix it all well and turn on the stove again, keep it on medium flame. Keep mixing until it starts to come together and becomes non sticky. Turn off the flame, add all the dried fruits and cardamom powder and give it a mix.

Ingredients:- Peeled Garlic cloves - 1/2 cup Curd - 1 tbsp Red chili powder - 2 tsp Cumin seeds -1/2 tsp Ghee(Purified Butter) or Oil - 3 tbsp Salt - 3/4 tsp ( according to your taste ) Process - After washing and cleaning garlic, put it in a mixing jar. Add curd, cumin seeds, salt and chili. Add 1 tsp of oil or ghee and 2-3 tsp of water. Make a coarse paste. Now heat up a pan and add remaining oil into it. Put this paste in the oil, add 2-3 tbsp water and mix well. Cover the pan and let it cook on simmer flame for 5-7 mins. Keep checking and mixing the chutney. Let it stay covered for 5 mins after turning off the flame. Tips- Put ghee and chutney paste together in the pan and cover it before turning on the stove, this makes it less messy and the aroma also will not be too strong in the kitchen. The consistency will change once this chutney cools down, It gets little dried if enough moisture is not there. It will not affect the taste though. I like to make this in desi ghe...

Ingredients:- Plain Flour - 1 cup Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsp Baking Powder - 1/3 tsp Baking Soda - 1/3 tsp Powdered Sugar - 3 tsp Condensed Milk - 4 tbsp Milk - To make the batter Any Milk chocolate/ Dark chocolate - 20 gm Ghee (Purified butter) - 3 tbsp Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp Process :- Put Ghee and chocolate in a microwavable bowl and microwave theses two for 30 sec., mix these two and if you see any chocolate lumps, you can microwave it again for 30 seconds. Once these two are mixed well, add condensed milk, vanilla essence and sugar into this and mix well. Now we take another bowl and sieve plain flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder together. Add these dry ingredients into wet ingredients and add milk to make batter. Batter should be little thicker than pouring consistency. Meanwhile you keep your oven on preheating setting. Now you can pour this mixture into a greased baking tray and bake it at 170 degree Celsius for 20-25 mins. Tips- You can add chocol...