Unveil the flavours

I will never go wrong with this burfi not only because its so easy but also for the fact that its yummy, delicious and a sweet with richness. Ingredients: 1. Unsalted Cashews - 400 grams 2. Sugar  - 200 grams 3. Strawberry - About 6 or 7 4. Badam milk powder - 2 tbsp Optional : Pistachios, Walnuts. Method. Grind the cashew into fine powder and pour it into a bowl. Cut strawberries and add 2 tbsp of sugar. Make a puree of it and keep it aside.[Do not add water to make the puree] Mix the remaining sugar to the powdered cashew. On a double boiler system place this bowl with the cashew sugar mixture. Slowly the sugar melts and mixes with the cashew making a fine paste. When the mixtures leaves the sides of the bowl thats when you make three equal portions of the mixture. For the first part of the mixture add the strawberry puree. Keep stirring till this gels well with the cashew-sugar dough. To another part add badam powder and a little of kesar color to make it attr...

A chocolate lover ME never get an aversion to chocolates. I love them in all forms. But yeah nothing can beat the Dairy milk versions in the market. Of late the silk with a touch of Orange --- Yummmyyyy!!! I had been planning to make some chocolates at home from a very very long time. Had surfed the net which resulted a lot of versions of making simple dark chocolate right from scratch. Of all the recepies I found, the simplest one below is what I chose to start my trial with. Ingredients: 1. Sugar - 1 Cup 2. Milk Powder - 1 Cup 3. Butter - 3/4 Cup 4. Cocoa Powder - 3/4 Cup Method: Firstly sieve the Cocoa Powder and Milk powder into a container/bowl in order to have a smooth textured chocolate finesse. Now make a sugar syrup - to a single string consistency. Make sure it is a strong string which does not break easily.[I used fine white sugar , maybe you could give a try with icing sugar.] Remove this syrup from the direct flame. Next on a double boiler system add b...

I love rotis and I love to experiment flavors for its complimenting side dish. In this trial I have found this simple dish prepared with easily available ingredients very tasty that goes perfect with Indian bread. Here is how I prepare my Paneer Curry. Ingredients: 1. Paneer - 75 grams 2. Red Chilli - 1 to 2 3. Jeera - 1 tsp 4. Mustard - 1/2 tsp 5. Tomato - 1 diced into small cubes 6. Onion - 1 chopped fine 7. Garlic - 6 to 7 cloves 8. Yogurt/Curd - 2 tsp 9. Tamarind powder - 1 tsp 10.Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp 11.Olive oil - 2 tbsp 12.Turmeric - a pinch 13.Salt - to taste 14.Jaggery - small piece 15.Carrot - 1 small  Method: 1. Boil the diced carrot with a pinch of salt. 2. In a kadai heat a tbsp of oil. 3. Add jeera/cumin seeds, methi(mustard), red chilli and garlic pods and fry until the flavours fill the room. 4. Add the chopped onions, garam masala, turmeric and tamarind powder and fry till onions turn transperant. 5. Add the diced tomato and cook for anothe...

Summer and season of Mangoes calls for some exotic yet easy cold dessert. It was labor's day. I had plans of making a pudding sometime this summer ,so had bought a packet of agar-agar[china grass] when I found it in a local market store. I'd never known making a dessert which tastes so wonderful and yummy takes just about 15 minutes of  time in all. Here is how I made them. Ingredients: 1. Coconut milk - 1 cup[Fresh cream - 2 cups] 2. Yogurt - 1 cup 3. Milk - 1/4 cup 3. Mangoes - 3 small ones. [pulp equate to 1.5 cups] 4. Sugar - 1/4 cup 5. Agar-Agar - 2 tsp Method: 1. Boil Milk in a saucepan. Combine coconut milk,sugar and agar agar into this milk. Let stand for 5 minutes. Bring to simmer and reduce heat to low. 2. Simmer ucovered for another 6 to 8 minutes or until the agar agar is completely dissolved. 3. Remove from heat. 4. Sieve the mixture and whisk in yogurt and mango pulp until the mixture is smooth. 5. Transfer to custard cups and keep it refreigerate...