Beetroot Halwa

Beetroot Halwa is an delicious Indian sweet recipe. It is very nutritious and healthy. Now a days, beetroot or carrot halwa has become trend in almost all birthday parties and family events.  Beetroot halwa is not as popular as carrot halwa but many people like it. I am sure people who doesn't like to eat beetroot much will definitely like this beetroot halwa. Just try it once and see.

Beetroot Halwa

Ingredients: Serve - 4

• Fresh beetroots- shredded- 2cups
• Milk- 1 & ½ cup
• Sugar- 1cup
• Ghee- 8tbspn
• Cashew nuts - 10
• Kishmish - 10
• Cardamom powder – 1/2tspn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Beetroot Halwa:

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Method:

1. First Wash, peel and grate the beetroots.
2. Take a wide-mouthed vessel, heat 4tbspn ghee in medium flame. 
3. Add grated beetroots and stir continuously until raw smell leaves. That means we will find a kind of sweet smell from beetroots. This process takes around 10 minutes.(figure 1 & 2)
4. Add milk; mix well and boil them for 5 minutes.(figure 3)
5. Now close with lid and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. On frequent intervals open the lid & stir the mixture well so that scorching can be prevented. (figure 4)
6. Open the lid and continue stir until milk is completely evaporated in beetroot. (figure 5)
7. Once the milk is completely evaporated then reduce the flame to low. Add sugar and mix well.(figure 6 )
8. Once sugar is added, the mixture tends to liquefy. Stir well until mixture gets thick. This will take around 10 minutes.
9. Mean while take a pan, heat 4tspn ghee add cashews, khismish, roast until its color changes to golden and switch off the flame. (figure 7)
10. After the beetroot mixture in step 8 gets thick add roasted cashews, kishmish along with ghee. Add cardamom powder and mix them well.(figure 8)
11. Serve the Beetroot Halwa with hot/ cold.(figure 9)

Delicious Beetroot Halwa is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step2, taking of wide-mouthed vessel the beetroots get cooked fast and uniform. This way you can save gas, time and energy.

Drumstick Mango Dal

Drumstick Mango Dal is a very simple and tasty curry which goes well with hot rice. This curry is made with raw mango & drumstick. Today let's see how to make this simple recipe.

Drumstick Mango Dal

Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Moong dhal – 1 cup
• Drumsticks – 2 (medium size)
• Mango – 1 (small)
• Onion – 2 (medium size)
• Tomato – 1 (medium size)
• Cumin seeds – 1/4tspn
• Garlic – 4 pieces
• Turmeric powder – 1/4tspn
• Red chilly powder – 1tspn
• Coriander powder – 1/2tspn
• Salt – 1 & ½tspn (adjust to taste)
• Water – 1 & 1/2 glass
• Oil – 3tspn
• Mustard seeds – 1/2tspn
• Urad dhal – 1/2tspn
• Curry Leaves – as required
• Coriander leaves – as required
• Asafoetida - inch

The following picture shows the step by step process for Drumstick Mango Dal:

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Method:

1. Wash & cut the drumstick, mango as small pieces. Keep a side.
2. Wash and soak 1 cup of moong dhal with 1& 1/2 glass of water in cooker for 1/2 an hour.(figure 1)
3. Add 1 onion, tomato, garlic pieces, cumin seeds, turmeric powder. (figure 2)
4. Keep the cooker in medium flame and cook until moong dhal gets half cooked. (figure 3 & 4)
5. Now add drumstick, mango pieces, red chilly powder, salt, coriander powder and mix well. (figure 5)
6. Close the cooker with lid by putting whistle and cook for 1 whistle.(figure 6)
7. Take a pan, heat 3tspn oil in medium flame. Add mustard seeds wait for crackle and then add urad dhal, curry leaves, vadium prepared at home or 1 chopped onion saute for 2 minutes. (figure 7)
8. Now transfer roasted items into dhal. Add asafoetida and cook for 1 more minute.(figure 8)
9. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve in bowl. (figure 9)

Drumstick Mango Dal is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• Collect best mango it should be very sour.

Mushroom Omelet

This recipe is an extremely delicious, simple and healthy omelet using mushrooms. Mushrooms are good source of vitamin B, including riboflavin, niacin and pantothenic acid, which helps to provide energy by breaking down proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Pantothenic acid helps with the production of hormones, riboflavin helps to maintain healthy red blood cells, niacin promotes healthy skin. 

Okey, now lets see the preparation process

Mushroom Omelet

 Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Mushrooms – 8
• Eggs – 6
• Onion – 2 (medium)
• Green Chilly – 2 (big)
• Oil – 5tspn
• Salt – 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Red chili powder -  1tspn
• Pepper Powder – 1tspn
• Coriander powder – 1tspn
• Cumin powder – 1tspn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Mushroom Omelet:

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Method:

1. Clean and cut the mushrooms as small pieces. Boil them in a bowl for 5 minutes in low flame by adding 1/2 tspn salt. 
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2. Remove the mushrooms from bowl and drain the water completely.  
3. Beat the eggs in bowl and keep it aside.
4. Take Red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, Pepper powder in a plate. (figure 2)
5. Take a pan, heat 1tspn oil in medium flame; add onion, green chilly slices and saute for 2 minutes. (figure 3)
6. Add mushrooms and continue sauteing for 2 more minutes. (figure 4)
7. Add half percent of beaten eggs. Sprinkle required amount of red chili powder, pepper powder, cumin powder, salt, coriander powder, oil and cook until egg get boiled. (figure 5,6,7 & 8)
8. After one side is cooked then turn other side and cook for few more minutes. (figure 9)

Spicy & Healthy Mushroom Omelet is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• If you would like to eat egg as half boiled then cook omelet only for one side and serve it.

Apple Juice

I am sure everyone like apples and some of them prefer to have apple juice rather than eating them raw. Today lets see how to prepare apple juice.  

Apple Juice

Ingredients: Serve- 3

• Apple -2
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Water – 1 & ½ glass

The following picture shows the step by step process for Apple Juice:

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Method:

1. Clean and cut the apples as thin slices. (figure 1& 2)
2. Take a pan, heat water in medium flame. Add apples, close with lid and cook for 5 minutes.(figure 3, 4 & 5)
3. Remove apples from water and let it cool down.
4. In a mixer, add apples grind softly by adding little water and transfer into a big bowl.(figure 6 & 7)
5. Add sugar, water and mix well. (figure 8)
6. Keep in refrigerator and serve as cool. (figure 9)

Apple juice is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• Collect the best apples it should be nice color.
• In step 5 instead of normal water we can use water used for cooking apple in 2nd step.

Peanuts chutney

Peanuts Chutney is very simple recipe which can be prepared just in 10 minutes. Peanuts chutney makes good combo with idly and dosa.

Peanuts Chutney

Ingredients: Serve- 2 

• Peanuts- take hand full
• Green chili - 2
• Bengal gram - 3tspn
• Tamarind - 1 small piece
• Salt - 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
• Oil - 3tspn
• Mustard seeds - 1/2tspn
• Urad dhal- 1/2tspn
• Curry leaf -  few
• Water - as required

The following picture shows the step by step process for Peanuts Chutney:

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Method: 

1. Take a pan, roast the peanuts and remove the skin.(figure 1)
2. In a mixer, add green chilli and make it as a powder. Then add roasted peanuts, tamarind, bengal gram, salt and make a paste with little water. Serve in a bowl. (figure 2, 3 & 4)
3. Take a pan, heat oil in medium flame, add mustard seeds wait for crackle. Then add urad dhal, curry leaf, saute for few seconds & transfer into the peanuts chutney.( figure 5 & 6)

Peanuts Chutney is ready to serve !

Additional tips:-

• Roast the peanuts in a medium flame without burning them.

Onion Rava Dosa

Onion Rava dosa is one of the most popular south Indian dosa variety. It also happens to be one of the most ordered recipe at any hotels for breakfast as they serve it thin and crisp like paper roast with chutney and sambar. The best part of making onion rava dosa is that it does not require any fermentation and can be prepared in just 15 minutes. Today we will learn crispy south Indian style onion rava dasa.

Onion Rava Dosa

Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Oil/ ghee  - for making dosa
• Rava / semolina - 1 cup
• Rice flour - 1cup
• Maida - 1/2 cup
• Water - as required
• Cumin seeds - 1/2tspn
• Pepper corns - 2tspn(crashed)
• Ginger - small piece
• Green chili - 2
• Onion - 2(big)
• Curry leaves - as required
• Coriander leaves - as required
• Salt - 1tspn (adjust to taste)

The following picture shows the step by step process for Onion Rava Dosa:

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 Method:

1. First cut the onions, green chillies, ginger as very  thin small pieces and crash the pepper corn. keep as side.
2. Take a bowl add rava, rice flour, maida, salt, cumin seeds, pepper corns, green chilies, ginger and mix well. (figure 1,2 & 3)
3. Add required water to make a batter thinner than normal dosa batter. (figure 4)
4. Let the batter rest for 5 minutes. (figure 5)
5. Heat a non stick dosa pan on medium flame, spread onions on pan and take hand full of batter and spread the batter in round shape. Else you can take 1 ladle batter and spread the batter from outer side of the pan to the center. (unlike normal dosa which you will spread from the center to outer) (figure 6 & 7)
6. Pour few drops of oil on top and cook in medium flame until dosa becomes golden brown. Flip the dosa cook and until it gets cooked. (figure 8)
7. Remove dosa from the pan and serve in plate with chutney or sambar.

Onion Rava Dosa is ready to serve ! 

Additional tips:-

• Dosa batter should be very thin then only dosa will come thin or else dosa become very thick & do not cook well.