Rava Laadoo (For Indian Cooking Challenge for June)

Srivalli has started a event called 'Indian Cooking challenge', where she will give us the recipe and we have to try it out with in the deadline and post in our blogs. It is an exiting event and challenging though. Also we get to do many new dishes. This is the trial round and started with a sweet- Rava Laddoo.
Here goes the recipe for the dish as per Srivalli's measurements and ingredients.
Ingredients:
Rava 1 cup
Sugar 1 cup
Ghee 3-4 table spoons
Cashew nuts 10 nos
Raisins 10 nos

Method:

• Dry roast Rava till light golden brown till the aroma starts coming out.
• Grind the Rava into a smooth powder.
• Powder the sugar and mix with the Rava.
• In a pan heat the ghee, add all the nuts and raisins and fry till golden brown.
• Mix the ghee with the powdered mixture and make small balls.

This recipe goes to Srivalli's -Indian Cooking Challenge trial round,

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Vegetable Samosa

Ingredients:

For the filling:
2 tsp oil
1 tsp Jeera
1 boiled and mashed potatoes
1/2 cup green peas
1/2 tsp Chilli powder
salt to taste

For the pastry
1 cup Maida
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp Jeera
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp oil
water to make the dough

Method:
For the Filling:

• In a pan add oil and Jeera, allow it to splutter.
• Add peas,mashed potatoes, chilli powder and salt.
• Cook for a while and filling is ready.

For outer covering(pastry):

• Sift the maida, salt and baking powder together.
• Add jeera and mix well with the mixed flour.
• Slowly add water till the dough is thick like chapathi dough.
• Knead the dough for atleast 3-4 minutes to make it soft.
  
• close the dough for 1/2hour with a wet cloth.
  

Method to make the Samosa:

• Make small balls with the dough.
• Roll the balls like Roti's.
  
• Cut each flattened rolls into half.
• Fill each half with the stuffing and brush all the edges with water and press with thumb and cover all the edges.
• Deep Fry in oil till golden brown.
• Serve hot with tomato sauce or chutney.

This can be served as a tea time snack.

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Butter Biscuit

I tried Asha's Butter biscuit for the first time and it turned out really well. For a long time i wanted to try eggless biscuit the indian style. Finally got a chance to make.

Ingredients:
1 cup of All purpose flour
1/4 cup of butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp Jeera (optional)

Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder,salt and set aside.
Add Jeera to the flour and mix well.
Soften the butter and sugar together and mix well.
Add the Flour mixture to the butter cream.
Turn on the oven to 350F
Make balls and flat them with your palm and keep it in the fridge for sometime.
Keep in the fridge till the oven gets pre-heated.
Place the biscuits in a baking sheet and bake them for 10-15 minutes.
Bake them till the biscuits turns light brown.

You can also visit Asha's blog for more details.
Asha's Butter Biscuit Recipe

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Home Remedy for Gastric trouble

A quick recipe to get a relief from gastric trouble ,

3 table spoons of Dhania (Coriander seeds)
few pieces of Ginger
2 tsp lemon
2 tsp sugar (optional)
2 cups of water

In a mixer add 1 cup of water and all the above ingredients and grind together.
Squeeze the juice out into a glass.
Once again add 1 more cup of water with the same mixture and grind well.
Squeeze out the juice again into a glass. The juice is ready.
We can drink 1 cup of juice, once a day.

It helps to release the gastric trouble and it does not have any other side effects.
I tried and it really helps.

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