Unveil the flavours

Ingredients: 1. Dates - deseeded about 5 to 6 2. Milk - 2 cups 3. Raisins - about 10 Nuts(optional - if you like it creamier). 4. Choco powder - 1 tsp 5. Sugar - 3 tsp (or less if you want it mild in sweetness) 6. Salt - a pinch 7. Vanilla cream/ice cream - 1 small scoop Method: Immerse Dates and Raisin in half a cup of warm water for about 15 min. Boil Milk and reduce it by half. Keep it aside to cool. In a blender add the reduced milk, dates, raisins with the water, and all other ingredients. Blend it untill all the dates are mixed well and the drink is creamy. Serve it as a whole energy drink. Note: With the addition of nuts you may need to blend for a longer time until it is finely blend. If you like the smoothie to be a little nutty then ensure you place a spoon to scoop it out.

Ingredients: 1. Potato - 2 medium sized 2. Tomato - 1 3. Onion - 1 4. Ground nuts - 3 tsp 5. Garlic - 4 cloves 6. Salt to taste 7. Chilli powder - 1 tsp 8. Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp 9. olive oil - 2 tsp 10. Jeera - 1/2 tsp 11. Green chilli - 1 12. Green Coriander for garnishing 13. Tamarind powder - 1 tsp to 11/2 teaspoon - as per your taste. Method: Dice up Potato and tomato into small cubes Cut onions into long stripes Chop garlic cloves and chilli. Boil the potato and ground nuts until half tender. Take care that it does not become mushy. Heat olive oil in a pan and add the jeera , chopped garlic and chilli. After a minute add Onion and stir unitl its transperant. Next add the garam masala, red chilli powder. Upon mixing this , drop the tomato cubes to the pan. Let it cook for 2-3 minites. Next add the boiled potatoes,ground nuts and mix well. Add the tamarind powder to this mixture. Close lid and cook in low flame for another 2 minutes. Garnish with fres...

I'd like to be honest here before I go ahead with the recepie. This one's from a lazy sunday afternoon where I had to spend the afternoon all by myself. Here is something interesting I came up for a quick lunch. Plunged into the deep fridge compartments only to come out with a few baby carrots and green chilli.  Well the Kitchen store had the onions, garlic , soya sauce and vinegar. Well that was pretty much I needed for a simple meal. Here you go for the instructions to get my style fried rice ready in quick 15 min(Only if you have the rice cooked and ready to use - else you'd easily add up an extra 15 min). Ingredients: 1. Olive oil - 1 tbsp 2. Cooked rice - 1 bowl. 3. Carrot chopped into small cubes - That's what I prefer. You can have them cut into thin strands as well. - about 1 medium sized carrots should do. 4. Jeera - half a tsp. 5. Garlic - 2 cloves - diced up. 6. Chilli - 1 slit open. 7. Onions - 1 medium sized - chopped fine 8. Salt - to tas...