Saturday, 9 January 2016

Sweet Samosa

Sweet Samosa is a traditional sweet recipe in India. This recipe is prepared with all-purpose flour, dry coconut, sugar, rava, cardamom powder. Okay, now let's enter into the process.

Sweet Samosa


Ingredients: Serve - 4
  • All-purpose flour – 2 cups
  • Rava - 1cup
  • Dry coconut powder – 1cup
  • Sugar – 5tspn
  • Cashews – 6
  • Cardamom powder – 1/2tspn
  • Ghee – 3tspn
  • Salt – 1/2tspn (adjust to taste)
  • Water – as required
  • Oil – as required
  • Samosa Mold
The following picture shows the step by step process for Sweet Samosa:
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Method:
  1. Take a mixing bowl, add all-purpose flour, salt, 1 tspn oil, required water and make dough. (figure 1)
  2. Heat 1tspn ghee in a pan add rava and roast for 10minutes in low flame. Keep it aside.(figure 2)
  3. Again heat 2tspn ghee add cashews, roast until its color changes to golden brown and transfer into roasted rava mixture.(figure 3)
  4. In roasted rava mixture add dry coconut powder, sugar, cardamom powder and mix well. (figure 4 & 5)
  5. Take all purpose dough and make equal balls.(figure 6)
  6. Now take one dough ball and make a puri. (figure 7)
  7. Take samosa mold, apply 1 drop of oil on each side and spreed evenly with hand. (figure 8) 
  8. Place puri in center and add 1tspn of mixture which is prepared in step 4 above. (figure 9)
  9. Now close both the sides slowly, press tightly and remove the dough which falls outside the samosa mold. Then transfer into plate. (figure 10)
  10. Heat oil in a medium flame, add samosa and roast until its color changes to golden brown.(figure 11)
  11. Continue same process for remaining samosa's and transfer into paper towel to remove excess oil.
  12. Serve in a plate. (figure 12)
Yap, yummy sweet samosa is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-
  • In step 1, make dough as tight not soft.
  • In step 10, while roasting samosa please be careful, sometimes it will break in oil.




Mint Chutney


Mint leaves has many healthy benefits such as cooling the digestive system,boosting immunity, help to overcome cough and many more. So guys please ensure you take mint leaves atleast once a week. Today we are going to see how to prepare mint chutney. 

 
Mint Chutney

Ingredients: Serve 4
  • Mint leaf - 1/2 bunch
  • Coriander leaves - few (optional)
  • Onion- 1 (big size)
  • Red chilli - 3
  • Urad dhal - 2spn
  • Oil - 3spn
  • tamarind - 1small piece
  • Salt- 1spn (adjust to taste)
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 spn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Mint Chutney:
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Method:

  1. Take a pan, heat oil, add red chili, urad dhal and saute until color changes to slightly brownish, transfer into the plate.(figure 1)
  2. Roast onion, tamarind for 5mins in a medium flame and transfer into the plate(figure 2)
  3. Roast mint leaf, coriander leaf for 5mins and transfer into the plate. (figure 3 & 4)
  4. In a mixy jar add red chilli make powder (figure 5)
  5. Add onion, tamarind and make a paste (figure 6)
  6. Add mint leaf, coriander leaf and make a paste by adding little water.(figure 7)
  7. Add salt, urad dhal, asafoetida, make a paste and transfer into serving bowl. (figure 8 & 9)
Mint chutney is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-
  • In step 6 add sufficient water to make a smooth paste.
  • In step 7 make a light smooth paste ensure that urad dhal should be lightly broken.