Carrot Halwa

As I couldnot go to india for this pongal, I decided to make carrot halwa for this pongal as per my mother-in-law's instructions.Here is the easy way to make.
Carrot Halwa (Ingredients):Carrot(grated) - 3 cups
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup(or if you want it to be less sweet you can reduce the sugar)
Ghee/butter - 1 tablespoon
Cashews/Raisins - 1 tablespoon

Method:Put milk and grated carrot in the pressure cooker and cover the lid and keep it in high mode for one whistle and then in the simmer mode for two minutes. Then open the lid. The carrot will be well cooked. Then cook in simmer mode for another ten minutes without covering the lid.Then add sugar and cook until the sugar get dissolved in the milk.Then add butter,cashwes or raisins. If you want you can fry the cashews separately in ghee and add it.

Rice Kheer - Easy dessert

1litre milk

1cup Rice

6 tbsp almonds /cashews

5 tbsp skinned pistachio nuts (chopped)(optional)

5 tbsp raisins (optional)

Sugar around 1 cup and then u can taste and add more.

Keep milk in a thick bottom pan. When it boils put the rice which is cleaned and soaked for 30 mins.Simmer gently till the rice is soft and milk thickens and stirring in between so that it doesn’t sticks to bottom.Add the almonds, pistachios and raisins and sugar and stir till the sugar completely dissolves.Serve hot or chilled.

Veg. Rice – Pressure Cooker method

Hi ladies , Getting tired of making veg.rice. Here is the easy way to make that. It will take just 10 minutes. Ofcourse excluding vegetable’s “cutting” time . You can give that job to your husband :) . Try it out and leave your comments.

Ingredients (for 2 persons):

Carrot – 1
Beans- few bunch(10-15 pieces)
Green Peas – 1cup(or as per your requirement)
Onion – ½
Garlic – 2 cloves
Oil/ghee – 1 tablespoon
Corriander – optional
Sambar Powder – ½ table spoon
Five Spice powder-1/2 table spoon
Uncooked Rice – 1 cup
Salt – as per your requirement

Method:

In the pressure cooker add little oil and fry onion and garlic. Then add carrot,beans,green peas and fry until it turns brown.Then add sambar and five spice powder. Wash the rice and add that to the vegetables and pour 2 cups of water and salt.You can add little ghee to make it non-sticky. Add coriander leaves and cover the pressure cooker with lid. Keep it in high mode for one whistle and simmer mode for 8 minutes. Veg rice is ready. You can make cucumber or onion raitha and have it with veg rice. Tastes delicious

Easy Chutney

This chutney is fast and easy to make.This is my own recipie.Try this everyone and please leave your comments.

Peanut chutney:

Ingredients :

Peanut – 1 cup
Yogurt – 1/4cup
Red chilli- ½(Based on you spice level)
Salt,asafetida powder
Corriander - optional

Method:
Fry peanuts in tawa until it turns brown. Grind peanut,corrainder,yogurt and salt together and add asafetida powder. Chutney is ready. You can have it dosa or u can also use it as bread spread.

Simple Breakfast

Hi guys, I found this recipie in internet and was very useful for me . Please try this in your home and leave your comments on my blog
Oats Dosa :
Ingredients: 250gm Quaker Oats(old fashioned)
50gm upma sooji(Rava) 1-2 green chillis
small piece of ginger
Method:
　Soak Quaker oats for 30 mins. Drain all the water. Grind it with 1-2 green chillis and a little bit of ginger, without adding much water. Dough should be around the idli-dough consistency. Add around 50gm upma sooji to the grinded dough, and add salt to taste. Thats it! You will have a ready-to-use dough... no need to ferment. Make thick dosas with the oats dough. Serve hot, with mint or coconut chutney.