Coconut Burfi

Coconut is highly nutritious and rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The coconut provides a nutritious source of meat, juice, milk, and oil that has fed and nourished populations around the world for generations. Coconut is used for cooking various dishes. Here I prefer Coconut Burfi, a very simple and less expensive dish, it does not require much ghee as the coconut is already rich in fats. This sweet dish is very popular among the Indians.


Ingredients:
Coconut - 2 cups(grated)
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup;
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp;
Water - 2 cups;
Milk - 1 tbsp;
Ghee - 3 tbsp.

Preparation:

• Fry the grated coconut gently in a dry pan over medium heat till the coconut milk moisture is somewhat lessened.
• Boil the water in a wide-pan in a medium flame.
• When the water boils, add the sugar and keep on stirring
• Add the milk to the boiling sugar syrup to remove the dirt if any and remove them when they come to the surface.
• When the sugar syrup reaches a thick syrupy stage, add the fried coconut to it.
• Stir constantly till the mixture are blended together.
• Now add the ghee and cardamom seeds powder.
• When the mixture is done, remove from the heat and pour into a ghee-smeared plate.
• Flatten the surface evenly.
• When cold, cut into your desired shapes.

Spanish Omelette

Ingredients:
Eggs - 6;
Potatoes - 250 gm(cut into cubes);
Onion - 2 big;
Green Chillies - 3(finely chopped);
Pepper powder - 1 tsp;
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp;
Cheese slices - 2;
Coriander - 1 tbsp(finely chopped);
Salt to taste;
Oil.

Preparation:

• Cut the onions into thin slices and saute them with enough oil and salt till it is dark brown in colour.

• Then shallow fry the potatoes separately with enough oil till becomes soft and tender.

• Take a big bowl, whip the eggs and then add the cooked potatoes and onions.
• Then add green chillies, grated cheese, turmeric powder, coriander, pepper powder and enough salt. Mix them well.

• Heat oil in pan. Pour the mixture and spread. Cover the pan with a lid.
• Cook for about 7 to 8 min in medium flame or till the underside is brown in colour.
• Turn over the omelette in a plate and then again into the pan, so that the otherside can be cooked well.

• Serve hot with a bread toast and orange juice.

An excellent dish for all.

Rice- Vegetables Cookies

Ingredients:
Cooked rice - 1 cup;
Onion - 1 big;
Grated carrot - 1 cup;
Chopped cabbage -1 cup;
Potato - 1 big(boiled and smashed);
Paneer of Cottage Cheese - 50 gm;
Capsicum - 1 big(cut into small pieces);
Cashews - 10;
Almonds - 10;
Green chillies - 2(finely chopped);
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp;
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp(optional);
Coriander - 1 tbsp(finely chopped);
Cornflour - 1 tbsp:
Salt to taste;
Oil for shallow frying.

Preparation:

• First, take the cashews and almonds and run them in a mixer to make a coarse powder.
• Take the cooked rice and smash it well with your hands.
• Add the grated carrots, finely chopped cabbage, capsicum, onion, green chillies and smashed potato and mix them well.
• Then scramble the paneer with your hands and add it to the rice mixture.
• Add the chilli powder, garam masala, the cashew and almonds powder, corn flour, coriander and enough salt.
• Mix the contents well like a chappatti dough.
• Make small balls out of them and bring out your desired shape.
• Heat a pan and shallow fry the cookies with enough oil(If you prefer to deep fry, just go for it).
• The tongue tickling rice cookies are ready.

• Serve them hot with tomato sauce or pudina chutney.

Pudina Rice

The Pudina leaves have a pleasant warm, fresh, aromatic, sweet flavor with a cool aftertaste. Mint leaves are used in teas, beverages, jellies, syrups, candies, and ice creams. Mint was originally used as a medicinal herb to treat stomach ache and chest pains. To cure stomach aches, put dried mint leaves in boiling water, then, when it cools drink it. This tea is called monstranzo. During the Middle Ages, powdered mint leaves were used to whiten teeth. Mint tea is a strong diuretic. Mint also aids digestion.


Pudina is used in variety of dishes such as vegetable curries, chutneys, desserts, soups and juices. Here, I have tried out the pudina rice. Though this recipe is familiar, I have done this recipe with varying ingredients to make it much more tastier and as well to attract the kids.

Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 1 cup;
Potatoes - 2 (boiled and cut into cubes);
Peas(boiled) - 1/4 cup;
Onion - 2;
Tomato - 2(optional);
Ginger - 1/2 inch;
Grated coconut - 2 tbsp;
Cashew - 10;
Green Chillies;
Pudina - 1 bunch;
Coriander leaves - 1 small bunch;
Cardamom, cloves and briyani leaves - a few;
Lemon - 1/2;
Ghee or oil;
Salt to taste.

Preparation:

• Boil the rice with 2 cups of water and keep it separately.
• Heat a little oil in the kadai and saute the pudina leaves and ginger.
• Then grind the pudina with green chillies, cashews, coconut and a pinch of turmeric powder.
• Heat the ghee in a kadai and add all the garam masala items to it, then add the onion and saute it well.
• To it, add the grounded paste, with the boiled potatoes, peas and the tomatoes.
• Cook till the raw smell goes out and then add enough salt and the rice to it.
• Saute out the rice well till it gets well heated.
• Squeeze the lemon on top of it, mix well.
• Serve it hot with onion raida.

Enjoy kids. It's Cauliflower Chips

Ingredients:
Cauliflower - 1(big);
Wheat flour - 2 tbsp;
Corn flour - 1 tbsp;
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp;
Salt to Taste;
Oil - to deep fry.

Preparation:
Cut cauliflower into big flowerettees and boil for 2 min in water to which salt and turmeric powder is added.
Drain the water.
Mix the wheat flour, cornflour , chillipowder and salt with the cauliflower. Sprinkle a little water into it. Mix well.




Then deep fry thm till golden brown in hot oil.

The colourful and tasty cauliflower chips is ready. Try out this recipe at your home and make your kids happy.

Apple-Bread Halwa

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peeled and finely chopped apples;
• 3/4 cup sugar;
• 1/2 cup ghee;
• 1 tbsp of black raisins;
• 3 slices of bread;
• a few drops of vanilla essence.

Preparation:

• Add sugar, apples and the black grapes in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave covered at 100% power for 5 min.

• Blend softened apple mixture and bread slices(soak it in water and then squeeze of the extra water) in a blender.

• Microwave (covered) this mixture at 60% power for 7-8 min.Stir in between.
• Add the ghee and the essence and microwave it for about 2 min.
• Your apple-bread halwa is ready.

Go for Greens: Beans Porial

Ingredients:
Beans (finely chopped) - 250 gms;


Coconut (scraped) - 1 tbsp;
Green Chillies - 2;
Oil - 1 tsp;
Salt to taste.

Preparation:
Smash the coconut with the green chillies and salt coarsely and keep it separately.


Put the beans in a microsafe bowl, sprinkle two tablespoons of water, cover it and place the bowl at 100% power for about 7 min.(Stir it one or two times)
Then add the coconut mixture with a teaspoon of oil and mix it well. Place the bowl in the oven uncovered at 100% power for about two min.
The greenish beans porial is ready.
Serve them after 2 min.